Permindex and (dis)information

[Paul Brancato]

Interesting thread - thanks Geo. Have you read Italian journalist Michele Metta’s much more recent look at Permindex membership and connections? 

[John Kowalski]

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[James DiEugenio]

Michele Metta's books, the 2018 edition, and especially the 2021 version, have revolutionized our knowledge of Permindex and the CMC.

Mitrokhin has turned out to be something of a joke. A clear attempt at giving his new keepers--MI 6 and CIA-- what they wanted e.g. BS about Mark Lane and the Hunt letter.

Permindex was for real with Shaw on the board of directors.  There were definite CIA and Mossad connections and also to P-2 which was one of the most powerful and lethal secret societies in all of Italy.

What Metta's work does is to connect Permindex in a real way with Gladio.   Philip Willan, one of the best writers on Gladio--The Last Supper and Puppetmasters--has noted the importance of Metta's work in that regard.

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[James DiEugenio]

This article, profusely illustrated, was one of the best pieces we ran in recent years.

Rob Couteau talked to Willan, and he almost talked to Ganser, who delayed it until after the article ran.

Its a really powerful piece that shows just how crazy the Cold War got in Italy and what the lethal results were.

And it shows how Gladio was using the so called Red Brigades as a likely False Flag operation to install the strategy of tension, keep it in place  and isolate the left.

Kennedy, with advice from Schlesinger, was trying to change that.  But let us not forget that Lemnitzer was now NATO commander in 1963 and Gladio fell under his auspices.

 

https://www.kennedysandking.com/articles/nato-s-secret-armies-operation-gladio-and-jfk

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[James DiEugenio]

Kennedy's attempt to include the left in Italy was called apertura, Italian for opening.

This was anathema to the CIA since one of their early operations was to rig the 1948 Italian elections.  And Angleton was a big part of that.  Angleton was. so angry about this move on Kennedy's part that he started spreading rumors that Schlesinger was a commie.  Clare Booth Luce, who was a former ambassador to Italy, also was angry with it. She wrote JFK a strident letter about it.

Kennedy ignored this and became really interested in helping shift Italy from center-right to center-left.  He even had the Reuther brothers help fund the socialist  campaign. (Talbot, The Devil's Chessboard, pp. 465-457)

But recall, Harvey had been shifted to Italy by Helms in order to save him from being fired by RFK.  So he was station chief in Rome in 1963.  So you had both Harvey, and Permindex there.  Plus Lemnitzer was chief of NATO supervising  Gladio. Harvey attended GLADIO meetings at a secret base in Sardinia.

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[Robert Morrow]

5 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

This article, profusely illustrated, was one of the best pieces we ran in recent years.

Rob Couteau talked to Willan, and he almost talked to Ganser, who delayed it until after the article ran.

Its a really powerful piece that shows just how crazy the Cold War got in Italy and what the lethal results were.

And it shows how Gladio was using the so called Red Brigades as a likely False Flag operation to install the strategy of tension, keep it in place  and isolate the left.

Kennedy, with advice from Schlesinger, was trying to change that.  But let us not forget that Lemnitzer was now NATO commander in 1963 and Gladio fell under his auspices.

 

https://www.kennedysandking.com/articles/nato-s-secret-armies-operation-gladio-and-jfk

False Flag Operations under Lyndon Johnson just to name a few: 1) the JFK assassination where the goal was to frame a patsy Lee Harvey Oswald, a phony pro-Castro Marxist and then blame Fidel Castro for the JFK assassination. One could say the JFK assassination was the enactment of Operation Northwoods, except that there was no public appetite for an invasion of Cuba, especially after Oswald was murdered on Sunday, November 24th, 1963.

2) Another MASSIVE and completely diabolical and wicked false flag attack was Lyndon Johnson's and Israel attempt to sink the USS Liberty, murder all 294 men on board and then blame the heinous crime on Egypt. I suggest Joan Mellen's book Blood in the Water Blood in the Water: How the US and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty: Mellen, Joan: 9781633884649: Amazon.com: Books and also Phil Nelson's book on the USS Liberty: Remember the Liberty!: Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas: Remember the Liberty!: Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas: Nelson, Phillip F., Kukal, Ronald G., Gallo, Ernest A., Tourney, Phillip F., McGovern, Raymond: 9781634241083: Amazon.com: Books

Peter Hounam's Operation Cyanide is excellent as well: Operation Cyanide: How the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War Three: Hounam, Peter: 9781904132196: Amazon.com: Books

Ronald Blier has a good one: Amazon.com: On the Brink of Armageddon: LBJ, the Six-Day War, and the Attack on the U.S.S. Liberty eBook : Bleier, Ronald: Kindle Store

And there is a 4 part documentary call Sacrificing the Liberty  www.sacrificingliberty.com that has much very important information and interviews with the survivors.