Article 20981 of alt.conspiracy: Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo) Subject: Part 2, Did the CIA Bomb the World Trade Center? Message-ID: <1993Mar2.223821.29114@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Keywords: Did the CIA Bomb the World Trade Center? Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 22:38:21 GMT Lines: 147 The following transcript is of a tape-recorded broadcast by NO-commercials, NO-corporate-influences, listener-funded, beacon-of-truth Pacifica Radio Network station WBAI-FM (99.5) 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (continuation) MARTIN LEE: Well, in the case of Italy, where it seems to have gotten much farther than in most of the other countries, the notion that it was simply a contingency in case of a Soviet invasion was debunked by Felige Cassone and other investigators in Italy who noted the connection between a lot of "gladiators" and terrorist activity. United States policy makers were concerned most of all about a slide to the left in Italy. After the War, the Communist Party, the Socialist Party were very strong. There was a concern, particularly in the early `60s, with the Vatican too, and the liberalization of the Catholic Church, and that this would impact the Italian electorate in a way that would help the Left, help the Communist Party which was a very strong party -- the second largest. And a great fear among U.S. policy makers and the CIA was that the Communist Party might emerge some day as the biggest party in Italy. It was very close to doing that. At the time, in the early `60s, General Vernon Walters was the military attache`. He later became Deputy Director of the CIA. And he urged the Italian Military to undertake a coup d'etat if the communists were to take over, or if it looked like the communists were about to gain power through an election. As a result of that, something was drawn up called "Plan Solo" which was a plan, in the mid-1960s, for a coup. And they drew up a list of Italian politicians who would be rounded up and assassinated after the coup took place. And high on that list was Aldo Moro, the former Prime Minister of Italy who later was abducted and assassinated by the "Red Brigade", an organization which, it was learned through hearings by the Italian Parliament, was also linked to the GLADIO program. LAURA FLANDERS: Martin, Israel's secret services acquired much of their expertise working precisely in the behind-the-lines fashion that you describe, in their case, within the Eastern European countries and within the Soviet Union. Is there any link-up between the programs that you're discussing and what later became the Mossad in Israel? MARTIN LEE: I don't know of an explicit link-up in terms of personnel, but their principles are similar. The Mossad and other aspects of Israeli intelligence function oftentimes as a cut-out for the CIA in that when the CIA does not want to be directly involved in certain kinds of activities, they will subcontract, as it were, the Israelis to do that. And we see similar kinds of things happening in Western and Northern Europe through this "stay-behind" program where the CIA didn't want to be directly linked to the program. So, to ensure plausible deniability, they would work in Italy with Free Masonic groups and, in other countries, the CIA would work with neo-Nazi and neo-fascist organizations. The CIA used NATO as a cover for this. They worked through the bureaucracy of NATO so that these activities would not be directly linked to the CIA. But this information has now come out in Italy and in other countries. And it has provoked major headlines throughout Europe. And yet, there is very little information presented in the United States Press about this. And to the extent that any coverage was given at all, the Press seemed to buy, hook, line and sinker, the notion that it was just simply a plan in case of a Soviet invasion and that it was never actually used. And they quoted a few CIA officials. And that was that. [JD: This gives us insight into how thoroughly the CIA has subverted our U.S. Mass Media. The numerous conflicting reports we are getting about the bombing of the World Trade Center, on TV and in the Print Press, are mostly concocted by CIA operatives employed subversively within NBC, ABC, CBS, TIME Magazine, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, The New York Times, etc.] ROBERT KNIGHT: Is there any reason to believe that the [terrorist] activities of this [CIA-sponsored] stay-behind network have abated? MARTIN LEE: Well, the network was exposed in the wake of the so-called ending of the Cold War. And that is significant. But these stay-behind units were active until recently. In Belgium in 1985, for example, there was a series of BIZARRE killings. They were called the "Supermarket Massacres" where hooded gunmen just walked into crowded supermarkets and just started shooting people. And these massacres have since been linked to the GLADIO unit in Belgium. And the Belgian Parliament that investigated this felt that, at the time, the reason for this was .... It was during the period when the United States Government was trying to foist the Euro-Missiles (Cruise missiles and so forth) upon various European countries -- to base them in these countries. And there were HUGE demonstrations in Europe against the Euro-Missiles. And certain European countries threatened to break ranks and not go along with this [missile distribution]. This would be unprecedented that NATO would split along these lines. And Belgium was one of these countries. So, it was thought by certain members of the Belgian Parliament that the Supermarket Massacres were an attempt to sow confusion and fear among the populace, through terrorism, which would then provoke [public outcries for] a law-and-order government, a strong-man government that would then proceed to seize power and install law-and-order through extra-parliamentary means. [JD: This heinous strategy, used by powerful Establishment fascists, is a very old one which was successfully employed by the Nazis to seize power in Germany. We'll soon see if our TV-hypnotized American citizenry is stupid enough to fall for it, despite the numerous historical precedents. Most Americans ARE probably stupid enough to hand over our freedom to those drooling, would-be dictators who are now waiting in the wings.] (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The American Public is evidently in dire need of the truth, for when the plutocracy feeds us sweet lies instead of the bitter truth that would evoke remedial action by the People, then we are in peril of sinking inextricably into despotism. So, please post the episodes of this ongoing series to computer bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. The need for concerned people, alerting their neighbors to overshadowing dangers, still exists, as it did in the era of Paul Revere. That need is as enduring as society itself. John DiNardo The episodes of this and other series can be retrieved via anonymous ftp from the site: red.css.itd.umich.edu Log in with name "anonymous" or "ftp" and supply your e-mail address as the password. The files are kept in the directory /pub/Politics/Essays/Conspiracy Instructions for ftp retrieval are dependent upon what sort of system the user is on. On a UNIX machine, at the command prompt, type the following: ftp red.css.itd.umich.edu This may be different on IBMs and Vax systems. Archivist: Paul Southworth, pauls@css.itd.umich.edu