{"id":13015,"date":"2012-09-28T09:58:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T16:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13015"},"modified":"2012-09-28T09:58:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T16:58:54","slug":"systemic-destabilization-as-a-strategy-of-tension-false-flag-events-and-agitating-state-implosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=13015","title":{"rendered":"Systemic Destabilization as \u201cA Strategy of Tension\u201d – false flag events and agitating state implosion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Systemic Destabilization as \u201cA Strategy of Tension\u201d: 9\/11, the JFK Assassination, and the Oklahoma City Bombing<\/strong>
\nBy Prof Peter Dale Scott – Global Research – 24 September, 2012<\/p>\n

Introduction: Structural Deep Events and the Strategy of Tension in Italy<\/p>\n

From an American standpoint, it is easy to see clearly how Italian history was systematically destabilized in the second half of the 20th century, by a series of what I call structural deep events. I have defined these as \u201cevents, like the JFK assassination, the Watergate break-in, or 9\/11, which violate the \u2026 social structure, have a major impact on \u2026 society, repeatedly involve law-breaking or violence, and in many cases proceed from an unknown dark force.\u201d2<\/p>\n

The examples in Italy, well known to Italians, include the Piazza Fontana bombing of 1969, the Piazza della Loggia bombing of 1974, and the Bologna railway bombing of 1980.<\/p>\n

These bombings, in which over one hundred civilians were killed and many more wounded, were attributed at the time to marginal left-wing elements of society. However, thanks chiefly to a series of investigations and judicial proceedings, it is now clearly established that the bombings were the work of right-wing elements in collusion with Italian military intelligence, as part of an on-going \u201cstrategy of tension\u201d to discredit the Italian left, encourage support for a corrupt status quo, and perhaps move beyond democracy altogether.3 As one of the conspirators, Vincenzo Vinciguerra, later stated, \u201cThe December 1969 explosion was supposed to be the detonator which would have convinced the political and military authorities to declare a state of emergency.\u201d4<\/p>\n

Vinciguerra also revealed that he and others had also been members of a paramilitary \u201cstay-behind\u201d network originally organized at the end of World War II by the CIA and NATO as \u201cOperation Gladio.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1984, questioned by judges about the 1980 Bologna station bombing, Vinciguerra said: \u201cWith the massacre of Peteano, and with all those that have followed, the knowledge should by now be clear that there existed a real live structure, occult and hidden, with the capacity of giving a strategic direction to the outrages\u2026[it] lies within the state itself\u2026There exists in Italy a secret force parallel to the armed forces, composed of civilians and military men, in an anti-Soviet capacity that is, to organise a resistance on Italian soil against a Russian army\u2026A secret organisation, a super-organisation with a network of communications, arms and explosives, and men trained to use them\u2026A super-organisation which, lacking a Soviet military invasion which might not happen, took up the task, on Nato\u2019s behalf, of preventing a slip to the left in the political balance of the country. This they did, with the assistance of the official secret services and the political and military forces.5
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\nGladio connections to sustained false-flag violence, again involving NATO and the CIA, were subsequently revealed in other countries, notably Belgium and Turkey.6<\/p>\n

The original purpose of Gladio was to consolidate resistance in the event of a Soviet takeover. But many of the senior Italians involved in the bombings implicated the CIA and NATO in them as well:
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\n General Vito Miceli, the Italian head of military intelligence, after his arrest in 1974 on a charge of conspiring to overthrow the government, testified \u201cthat the incriminated organization, \u2026 was formed under a secret agreement with the United States and within the framework of NATO.\u201d Former Italian defense minister Paulo Taviani told Magistrate Casson during a 1990 investigation \u201cthat during his time in office (1955-58), the Italian secret services were bossed and financed by \u2018the boys in Via Veneto\u2019\u2014i.e. the CIA agents in the U.S. Embassy in the heart of Rome.\u201d In 2000 \u201can Italian secret service general [Giandelio Maletti] said . . . that the CIA gave its tacit approval to a series of bombings in Italy in the 1970s to sow instability and keep communists from taking power. . . . \u2018The CIA wanted, through the birth of an extreme nationalism and the contribution of the far right, particularly Ordine Nuovo, to stop (Italy) sliding to the left,\u2019 he said.\u201d7
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\nAnother conspirator, Carlo Digilio, \u201cdescribed how he passed on details of planned bomb attacks to his CIA contact, Captain David Carret, who had told him that the bombing campaign was part of a US plan to create a state of emergency.\u201d8 Daniele Ganser, in his important book Nato\u2019s Secret Armies, has endorsed a Spanish report that in 1990 NATO Secretary General Manfred W\u00f6rner (a German politician and diplomat) secretly confirmed that NATO\u2019s headquarters, SHAPE, was indeed responsible:<\/p>\n

The Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), directing organ of NATO\u2019s military apparatus, coordinated the actions of Gladio, according to the revelations of Gladio Secretary-General Manfred W\u00f6rner during a reunion with the NATO ambassadors of the 16 allied nations.9<\/p>\n

Extrapolating from such testimony, Ola Tunander has compared the strategy of tension in Italy, with its false-flag bombing attacks, to \u201cwhat the Turkish military elite might describe as the correction of the course of democracy by the \u2018deep state\u2019 [a Turkish term].\u201d10 …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Systemic Destabilization as \u201cA Strategy of Tension\u201d: 9\/11, the JFK Assassination, and the Oklahoma City Bombing By Prof Peter Dale Scott – Global Research – 24 September, 2012 Introduction: Structural Deep Events and the Strategy of Tension in Italy From an American standpoint, it is easy to see clearly how Italian history was systematically destabilized more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1469],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13017,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13015\/revisions\/13017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}