President Kennedy's Assassination & No-thingness

[Jan Klimkowski]

Certainly I agree with Fensterwald's assertion that a well-conceived intel op has multiple objectives, which may very well include the fostering of generalized confusion and a sense of impotence (please excuse the gendered metaphor).

Speaking of state-sponsored panic and confusion, I just got done watching that 3-part BBC piece from 1992 on Gladio. "La strategia della tensione" (the strategy of tension) is a phrase I remember hearing repeated quite often on Italian TV and in the press during the 1990s. Interesting that my wife (who missed the bomb in the Bologna station in 1980 by one day -- she had taken that same train the day before) says none of her acquaintances thought the Brigate Rosse responsible for Moro's assassination: it didn't make sense for the Left to kill their strongest advocate inside the DC. Sounds familiar. And of course, the BR didn't have the expertise or wherewithal to pull off an operation like that without help from infiltrators.

For those who can't find it, Alan Francovich's essential Gladio documentaries are linked at DPF here.

The films were broadcast under the radar and then suppressed. I touch upon that in the thread:

Luxembourg trial into 1980s terror bombings reveals involvement of German police, intelligence agent

David Guyatt and I met some of the circle around Francovich, which in part dissolved into other intriguing circles:

One Who Knew A Lot And Told A Little More Than Most...... Chip Tatum

Gunther Russbacher, who may have been Lebensborn-Gehlen prodigy.

And Oswald LeWinter, who is interviewed in the Gladio trilogy.

Finally, there's some interesting material from DPF member Ralf Anders here.