Gladio, NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe: The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis [Paperback]

Richard Cottrell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 5, 2012

In this "non-fiction corollary to Larsson s Millenium Trilogy," wet works and false flags keep Europe a colony of the US. Leaders are murdered, movements are subverted. Under the surface, the empire rules by death squads, as it always has south of the border. The attack on Libya laid bare the iron fist within the velvet glove of slogans such as "humanitarian intervention." Like the destruction of Yugoslavia and the rape of Afghanistan, the reduction of Libya to a virtual slave colony was performed under the banner of NATO. And what exactly is NATO? Richard Cottrell tells the story of mayhem and murder behind the "alliance for peace," and predicts an emerging military colossus fighting to seize control of strategic resources such as oil, gas, minerals and water anywhere on the planet.

Masquerading as a rear guard against Soviet invaders, NATO's covert forces warped into psychological and physical terrorism. These were the years of lead, in which hundreds perished in a synthetic war in the streets of Europe. NATO commander General Lyman Lemnitzer ordered serial attacks on French president Charles de Gaulle. Sacked from the Pentagon by John F. Kennedy for rank insubordination, then exiled to Europe, Lemnitzer reaped revenge in Dallas.

The secret armies forged bonds with organized crime and neo-fascists. NATO-backed coups struck down governments in Greece and Turkey; the island state of Cyprus was sundered amid bitter genocide. Urban guerrillas like the Red Brigades and the Baader-Meinhof Gang were cunningly manipulated. Italy gained a deep-state government, the ultra-secret P2 pseudo-Masonic lodge, founded by former Blackshirts.

Swedish premier Olof Palme and Italian ex-PM Aldo Moro were assassinated. Pope John Paul II was shot by Turkish gangsters who had regular work as Gladio guns for hire. In 2009, a Gladio copy-cat outfit codenamed Ergenekon came to light in Turkey. The shootings in Norway in July 2011, and in Belgium, France and Italy in 2012, all bore the classic stripe of Gladio false-flag operations.

Editorial Reviews

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"Richard Cottrell s Gladio is a tour de force: explosive, original, topical, up to the minute. Cottrell presents a wealth of insight and factual knowledge that is unmatched. Gladio is a must-have for anyone who values the truth." --Madison Ruppert, EndTheLie.com

Richard Cottrell's Gladio is a tour de force. Explosive, topical, and up to the minute, it takes the reader into realms of research usually reserved to those who spend years digging deep into history. Cottrell presents a wealth of insight and factual knowledge that is unmatched. Gladio is a must have for anyone who values the truth. --Madison Ruppert, End the Lie

About the Author

Richard Cottrell enjoyed a long career in the British print and broadcast media. As a television journalist specialising in politics and economics he contributed regularly to the national ITV network. In 1979 he was elected as a Conservative in the first direct elections to the European Parliament. Over the next ten years he sat on the parliament s important committees and published two books, one a polemical attack on the EU's farming policy (The Sacred Cow) and another (Blood on Their Hands) which extended the inquiry he performed on behalf of the parliament into the murder of British journalist Ann Chapman under the military junta in Greece. His inquiry cleared an innocent man. He wrote the highly praised landmark Cottrell Report into the activities of pseudo religious cults such as the Moonies and their harmful influences on families and society. Richard entered politics as an enthusiastic European but turned agnostic "as a result of experience of the inner workings of a profoundly anti-democratic system."

Product Details

• Paperback: 484 pages
• Publisher: Progressive Press; 1 edition (May 5, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1615776877
• ISBN-13: 978-1615776870
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 1 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The authoritative work on the history of Gladio and the modern "Strategy of Tension" May 19, 2012

By Madison Ruppert

Format:Paperback

Richard Cottrell truly hit one out of the park with his work on Gladio.

For the uninitiated, there is no better way to become well versed in both the history of the shadowy secret army's activities in Europe but also how these types of activities continue to this very day.

When one delves into this quite dense (and I mean that in a good way as it is bursting at the seams with facts and avenues of research) tome, one quickly gets up to speed with what we see going on in Europe this very moment.

From the events in Greece, Italy and Spain to the popular backlash against the austerity policy and dictatorial nature of the European Union's political system, Cottrell's work ties it all together with the past in stunning clarity.

Suffice it to say, I have yet to find a work on the subject which can begin to hold a candle to Cottrell's Gladio in terms of breadth, research, and almost seer-like prescience.

However, it is far from prophecy or speculation, indeed one can see what is in store simply by noticing the trends and history at play today. For anyone even remotely interested in international affairs and current events, this is a must-have work.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Shedding a new light May 10, 2012

By Giulio Piovesan

Format:Paperback

Having had the fortunate chance to read parts of the text before publication, and being Italian, I must say that this book makes me feel less lonely. Although in a peculiar, sad way. I realized that my country is not the only one that has been torn apart by means of a secret war waged against the people by governments aided by far-right, military-backed terrorist groups. Anybody in this peninsula who has read just a little bit of 20th century history is aware that the country's most merciless terrorists, both of communist and fascist ideology, had some connections with secret services that were in turn connected to Nato forces dwelling in camps and bases peppered all over Italy. But what Richard Cottrell's book manages to reveal is that this situation, far from being solely Italian, was part of a bigger plan that covered all Europe. Although definitive proofs are always hard to get in a age when information is continuously written and re-written, the many doubts posed by this book are sufficient to make one think about all the attacks, bombings, clumsy military and police operations that the men and women living in Europe had to suffer during the past century (and perhaps more are to come in the future...). Now it is clear that it's too easy to blame amateurish terrorist cells or UNO's incompetence for what happened in Italy in the 60's or in Bosnia in the 90's. If the world is but a stage, then somewhere there must be a director mastering the puppets who kill innocent people in the name of any principle that can come handy. Richard Cottrell gives his own interpretation of recent history, providing the tiles of a mosaic that is unfinished but whose picture becomes quite intelligible. And, above all, once again we come to see that the cowboys in the white hat might not be so good.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Maddening. September 30, 2012

By Jay Trout

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An encyclopedic history of this shadowy fascist terrorist group. I knew some of this history, but the detail and true extent of this cancer is astonishing. This is the story of the real terrorists. Read it and weep. And weep.