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  • Foreign Correspondent
    Italian politics haunted by the ghosts of its past
    By Eric Margolis
    May 21, 2000

    SINALUNGA, ITALY - Italy's never-ending mysteries continue to haunt its present. Last week, the Vatican finally unveiled the so-called "Third Secret of Fatima," one of a trio of prophecies revealed to three Portuguese children in 1917. Long held secret, and the subject of fevered speculation, the third prophecy warned of impending persecution of Catholics by an evil totalitarian force and an assassination attempt against a pope.

    Some 10 million Catholics in Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, and Poland were slaughtered from 1920-1950 by the Soviet communists. In 1981, a Turkish gunman attempted to murder Pope John Paul II. While Soviet involvement could not be proven in court, the chief Italian prosecutor in the case still insists the evidence led directly to Moscow. My own research fully supports his accusation.

    This week, Italian police revealed the Red Brigades, a violent marxist terrorist organization believed defunct, was behind the 1999 assassination of a government official. The Brigades, which murdered prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978 and imposed a region of terror on Italy from the 1970-1980's "years of lead" has reactivated with younger members.

    Interwoven with these bizarre affairs is a third intrigue that remains one of the most fascinating Cold War mysteries - Operation "Stay Behind," or "Gladio (sword)" as it is known in Italy.

    According to still fragmentary evidence, CIA chief Allen Dulles, Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), and a number of European leaders, created a top secret organization from 1947-1952 called "Stay Behind" as the nucleus of a guerrilla army in the event of a Soviet invasion. "Stay Behind" personnel were recruited in all major European nations from anti-communist groups. Some, inevitably, such as Germany's Gehlen organization, had former Nazi ties. The cadres were covertly trained in sabotage and guerrilla warfare in Britain and at US bases in Germany. "Stay Behind" forces generally numbered from 5,000 to 15,000 per nation and included formations in neutral Sweden, Austria,

    Finland, and Switzerland, as well as Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Norway, the Netherlands, Greece and Turkey. Secret caches of arms and explosives were secreted across western Europe. Many remain to this day - as do arms caches set up by the Soviet KGB and GRU.

    At the time, Stalin was threatening to invade Europe with 120 divisions. The danger was so great that France began refurbishing and upgunning the forts of its Maginot Line to resist an expected Soviet offensive. NATO estimated the Red Army's tanks could reach the Channel in eleven days.

    Powerful communist and socialist parties in Italy, France, Belgium, and Germany, deeply penetrated and often guided by Soviet agents, were a dangerous fifth column. One of "Stay Behind's" prime missions was to assassinate leftwing leaders, particularly in Italy, West Germany, and France, who would aid a Soviet invasion and form Quisling communist regimes.

    In Britain, a secret group named "Clockwork Orange" purportedly planned to eliminate pro-Soviet Labour Party leaders. CIA poured $200 million into the coffers of Italy's anti-communist Christian Democrats and coordinated efforts with the Vatican and the Mafia to prevent the communists from gaining control of Italy's impoverished south. In the 1980's, CIA and the Vatican again collaborated to covertly fund the Solidarity anti-communist uprising in Poland through financial networks in Latin America set up by the Vatican's banker, Roberto Calvi, and his ally, Licio Gelli, grand master of the highly influential P2 Freemason lodge that, it's claimed, included current opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi.

    As the Soviet threat subsided, "Stay Behind" faded away by the 1980's, but not in Italy. There, some of the 15,000 members of "Gladio," including senior officers of the army, paramilitary police and intelligence services, were involved in a series of murky intrigues aimed at destabilizing the Italian state and two abortive military coups in 1970 and 1974. Explosives from "Gladio" caches and "Gladio" members were implicated in a wave of terrorist attacks, including the 1980 Bologna's train station bombing that killed 85 people.

    Roberto Calvi was murdered in 1982. His body was found hanging under London's Blackfriar's Bridge, an obvious reference to the P2 Masonic Lodge, of which he was a senior member. Calvi's body was exhumed in 1998, but the case is still unsolved, though a Mafia boss has been indicted. Licio Gelli remains at large.

    Sources here maintain "Gladio's" elderly veterans have been succeeded by a younger generation of shadow warriors dedicated to combating the still powerful communist influence in Italy. Rome's last coalition government was headed by the 'reformed' Communist Party, and is now led by the Socialists. Charges are flying that "Gladio" may somehow be behind the resurgence of the Red Brigades in a baroque plot to destabilize Italy's current leftwing governments.

    From afar, such melodramas and truly strange bedfellows may sound preposterous, but Italy thrives on sinister and serpentine intrigues. Many Italians believe that deep in the shadows behind the official government in Rome operates what is known as the "secret government," a Dantesque cabal of industrialists and bankers, Mafia, the Vatican, assorted security services, "Gladio," Freemasons and who knows who else.

    Italy is the nation of Giotto and DaVinci, but it remains just as much the land of Borgia poisons and assassins in dark alleyways.


    Further Reading


In the next set of articles the index is from the first earliest article - 1. at the bottom of the list to the latest and last 16. at the top. The articles are shown below the list beginning with the first down to the last 1 - 16 in the original French. Below that is an English translation 1 - 16.


1. Gladio: la guerre secrète des Etats-Unis pour subvertir la démocratie italienne (présentation)


L'enquête du journaliste Arthur Rowse,Gladio : la guerre secrète des Etats-Unis pour subvertir la démocratie italienne, publiée en 1994, a fait date. Il s'agissait de la première description détaillée de Gladio, le réseau italien des stay-behind, la structure clandestine de l'OTAN, dans une publication américaine. Cet article de fond n'a jamais été traduit en français. Il nous semblait intéressant de combler cette lacune. Le point de vue de Rowse est celui du progressisme libéral américain. S'il comprend que Gladio a finalement détruit les partis du centre au lieu de les renforcer et renforcé ceux de la gauche au lieu de les détruire, il sous-estime son succès plus profond. La stratégie de la tension a permis, à travers le spectacle du terrorisme manipulé, d'extrême gauche ou d'extrême droite, de mettre un coup d'arrêt au lent glissement de l'Italie vers une révolution sociale, portée par le courant de tous ceux qui échappaient et s'opposaient à l'encadrement bureaucratique, syndical et politique. Toutefois, Rowse, qui possède une bonne connaissance des dessous inavouables de la politique étrangère américaine, a mis en lumière la dimensioninternationale des années de plomb en Italie, aspect généralement négligé par la critique sociale la plus avancée. Et quand certains auteurs ont évoqué cette dimension, ils se sont parfois égarés sur la fausse piste d'une fantasmatique manipulation de la politique italienne par les services secrets de divers régimes staliniens. Dès 1980, Gianfranco Sanguinetti avait réfuté ce leurre : 

« [Certains] penseurs salariés, de Scalfari à Bocca, raisonnent (...) frauduleusement lorsque, tout en admettant comme je l'ai démontré que la stratégie des B.R. vise entre autres à empêcher l'arrivée du P.C.I. au pouvoir, ils font résulter ceci non pas de l'aversion que ce parti suscite dans certains secteurs du capitalisme italien et des services secrets, mais de l'aversion des staliniens soviétiques pour leurs homologues italiens. Nos penseurs à la petite semaine concluent donc que Moro a été enlevé avec l'appui du KGB et des services secrets tchécoslovaques. Les capitalistes italiens, les militaires et les agents du SISDE, du SISMI, du CESIS, de la DIGOS et de l'UCIGOS [Sigles de quelques services secrets officiels d'Italie], ainsi que Carter, seraient heureux de voir le P.C.I. au gouvernement en Italie, mais cela n'est malheureusement pas possible parce que les Russes et le KGB ne le veulent pas : quelle déveine ! Si derrière l'affaire Moro il y a le KGB, qui est donc derrière les couillonnades de Bocca et Scalfari ? Est-il possible qu'ils se soient hissés à de tels sommets par leurs seules forces ?

Quoi qu'il en soit, cette curieuse et stupide théorie, que l'intempestif Pertini [septième président de la République italienne de 1978 à 1985] s'est hâté de faire sienne après coup, sert clairement à rassurer la mauvaise conscience de tous ceux qui veulent croire que cet Etat, puisqu'il est en guerre avec le terrorisme, ne peut le diriger » (Du Terrorisme et de l'Etat).

D'aucuns continuent à soutenir cette « curieuse et stupide théorie » (développée par exemple dans Brigades rouges : L'histoire secrète des BR racontée par leur fondateur, ouvrage apportant par ailleurs d'intéressantes informations). Rowse, au contraire, montre comment le terrorisme manipulé résulte de l'aversion de certains secteurs du capitalisme italien et des services secrets italiens et américains, et plus encore, comment les Etats-Unis et l'Italie ont agi de concert dès la fin de l'après-guerre, pour conjurer un péril rouge obsessionnel. De ce point de vue, les années de plomb sont l'aboutissement d'un long processus contre-insurrectionnel mis en oeuvre avec une constance machiavélique.

[Pour des facilités de lecture, nous diviserons cette enquête en quinze parties. Remerciements à NOT BORED! qui nous a transmis la version originale de l'article de Rowse complète de ses notes.]

1. Gladio: The secret war of the United States to subvert Italian democracy (presentation)


The investigation of journalist Arthur Rowse, Gladio: The secret war of the United States to subvert Italian democracy , published in 1994, was a landmark. It was the first detailed description of Gladio, the Italian network of  stay-behind , the clandestine structure of NATO in an American publication. This feature article has not been translated into French. It seemed interesting to fill this gap. The point of view of Rowse is the American liberal progressivism. He understands that Gladio was eventually destroyed the center parties instead of strengthening reinforced and those on the left instead of destroying it underestimates its success deeper. The strategy of tension has, through the spectacle of terrorism manipulated, extreme left or extreme right, to put a halt to the slow shift from Italy to a social revolution, driven by the current those who escaped and were opposed to the bureaucratic management, labor and politics.However, Rowse, who has a good knowledge of the unspeakable below U.S. foreign policy, highlighted the dimension international  years of lead in Italy, aspect generally neglected by the most advanced social criticism. And when some authors have referred to this dimension, they are sometimes lost on the wrong track a fantasy manipulation of Italian politics by the secret services of various Stalinist regimes. In 1980, Gianfranco Sanguinetti had refuted this lure: 

"[Some] scholars employees, Scalfari to Bocca, reason (...) fraudulently when, while accepting as I have demonstrated that the BR strategy aims inter alia to prevent the arrival of PCI in power, they This result not of dislike that party raises in some sectors of Italian capitalism and intelligence, but the Stalinist Soviet aversion to their Italian counterparts. Our small-time thinkers therefore conclude that Moro was kidnapped with the support of the KGB and Czechoslovak secret services. Italian capitalists, the military and officials SISDE, SISMI, the CESIS, the DIGOS and UCIGOS [ Acronyms some intelligence officials in Italy ] and Carter would be pleased to see the government PCI in Italy, but it is unfortunately not possible because the Russians and the KGB did not want: what bad luck! If behind the Moro case there is the KGB, which is behind the couillonnades Bocca and Scalfari? Is it possible they are hoisted to such heights by their own strength?

Anyway, this strange and stupid theory that the untimely Pertini [ seventh President of the Italian Republic from 1978 to 1985 ] hastened to endorse afterwards, clearly serves to reassure the bad conscience of all those who want to believe that State, since it is at war with terrorism, can not lead "( From Terrorism and the State ).

Some continue to support this "strange and stupid theory" (developed for example in  the Red Brigades: The Secret History of BR told by their founder , the work also providing interesting information). Rowse, however, shows how terrorism manipulated results from the aversion of some sectors of Italian capitalism and the Italian secret services  and the U.S. , and more importantly, how the United States and Italy have acted together at the end of after the war, to avert a danger red obsessive. From this point of view, the years of lead are the culmination of a long process against COIN implemented with consistency Machiavellian.

[For ease of reading, we divide the survey into five parts. Thanks to  NOT BORED!  who sent us the original version of the article Rowse complete notes.]













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