The author fills us in on important history lessons that we likely did not receive in our schools: the postwar history of the methods employed by the CIA to suppress and destroy popular left wing efforts that might interfere with capitalist agendas for post-war Europe.
This third posting of the Gladio-USA six-part essay recalls the horrors the Syndicate [=international bankers] visited on Europe in the 1960s through the 1980s. These horrors, now conveniently subsumed under the Gladio rubric, involved killing hundreds of civilians (“women, children, unknown people far from any political game”), the overthrow of democratically-elected governments, and assassinations of heads of state and other high-profile friends of the people. Gladio’s shock and awe strategy, its reliance on propaganda, bribes, blackmail, fascists, and agents provocateurs, sought “to discredit left-wing groups and politicians,” confuse and enfeeble the people, and cause mayhem. It thereby induced people to look to the very entity that terrorized them so—the state—for their security.