La storia come mai vi è stata raccontata. Gli eserciti segreti della Nato

Just finished reading 'NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe.' Authored by Dr. Daniele Ganser, a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, it was published in 2005. Some of the key findings of G Leggi tutto

Definitely the best of the books I've read on Operation Gladio, the various stay-behind armies setup by the US in Europe during the Cold War, and their links to various acts of terrorism. Both Paul Williams Operation Gladio and Philip Wilan's Puppetmasters have a lot of good information but indulge

It’s great to have compiled in one spot a brief overview of Gladio operations in each NATO member state (less the US & UK themselves) along with sources, but I couldn’t help but walk away from this a little disappointed in the end. First, it should be mentioned that the editing and English translati Leggi tutto

It is unusual for a book to be both dull and horrifying, but it is excused its dullness by being the only academic text on the NATO Gladio operations after WWII in Western Europe. The horrifying part is harder to excuse. It became known when the then Italian prime minister Andreotti confirmed the ex Leggi tutto

While the topic is very interesting and author seemed to do decent ammount of research the main flaw of the book is that it doesn't rely on primary sources. Instead it uses secondary sources like testemonies of people involved and various reports. While author freely admits this and explains primary Leggi tutto

Mr. Chomsky said it best: “important, urgent reading.”

In a nutshell, it is a book with much truthful and important information (very little from primary sources), mixed together with many "maybes" of hearsay and speculation, and some critical research failures (it says for one that the Portuguese New State dictatorship was overthrown in May 1st, 1974,