Oktoberfest Bombing München 1980, Operation Gladio
from time to time in german media: the police stopped investigating Neonazi involvement.
I read this mostly in Sueddeutsche Zeitung
> Some of the newly released documents show that between 1949 and 1955, the CIA organized "stay-behind" networks of German agents to provide intelligence from behind enemy lines, should the Soviet Union invade western Germany.
> One network included at least two former Nazi SS members -- Staff Sgt. Heinrich Hoffman and Lt. Col. Hans Rues -- and one was run by Lt. Col. Walter Kopp, a former German army officer referred to by the CIA as an "unreconstructed Nazi." The network was disbanded in 1953 amid political concerns that some members' neo-Nazi sympathies would be exposed in the West German press.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/0...
The CIA has an uncanny talent for arming and training future and former enemies of the US and most of the world.
If you think it's shocking that the US works with fascists, it can only because you know nothing at all about US foreign policy and how it works.
The idea that it's "off the rails" rather than something that repeats so ofte it's not even interesting is _buck wild_ :)
did Nazis claim pre-existing enlisted officers (that pre-date the Nazis) as their own?
I mean Erwin Rommel predates the Nazis and was just a professional soldier, but they claimed him as their own, even though he himself always thought them nutjobs, it seems.
Rommel was not a SS member. You can learn more about them here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel
The CIA? More like the USA…
They saved the Soviets from collapse via Lend-Lease. They made communist China a global superpower with decades of outsourced manufacturing.
Policies of Deng Xiaoping in 1980s and 1990s looked much softer and promising than the current regime under Xi Jinping. The Tiananmen Square massacre should have been a warning, though. The Chinese played their growing economy card expertly, even more powerfully than the Japanese in 1960-70s.
I believe we should fight to win or lose and give up. Fighting a guerilla war when you country's occupied will not make any difference in the end.
Worse still, these so-called paramilitaries often branched out into crime and human rights abuses. They might even turn against the government that created them.
Oh and maybe manage to keep it secret from the enemy, Germany. JFC sometimes I wonder if there is anything German security services don’t fuck up, the distrust from NATO allies is and was certainly well earned.
Big domino tile: Silvio Berlusconi becomes prime minister of Italy in 1994
Usually one doesn't have to go very deep into secret societies and political ties before landing on the actual and often-memed-about Freemasons. This variant of the story ties nicely with Gladio, Italian intelligence and secret services, politics, far right groups and mysterious deaths in the 70s and 80s. Oh, and of course Silvio Berlusconi.
P2 is the Italian version of the 9/11 conspiracy theories. Not saying it's bollocks, just wanting to point out how widespread it is in Italy, but I don't think it's very well known outside of it.
I don't see how anyone who laughed and cheered watching the movie Inglourious Basterds (which was undeniably fun) could really object to any similar operation against the vanguard of their communist equivalents. The countries that failed to stop the expansion of that movement are remembered for their killing fields, their famines, their mass executions of people trying to leave, their national bankruptcies, and their meth dealing god emperors.
