Mencken
2007-12-05 05:22:48 UTC
Inside Job
Man who set up Operation Gladio tells Italy's largest
newspaper attacks were run by CIA, Mossad
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Former Italian President and the man who revealed the
existence of Operation Gladio Francesco Cossiga has
gone public on 9/11, telling Italy's most respected
newspaper that the attacks were run by the CIA and
Mossad and that this was common knowledge amongst
global intelligence agencies.
Cossiga was elected President of the Italian Senate in
July 1983 before winning a landslide 1985 election to
become President of the country in 1985.
Cossiga gained respect from opposition parties as one
of a rare breed - an honest politician - and led the
country for seven years until April 1992.
Cossiga's tendency to be outspoken upset the Italian
political establishment and he was forced to resign
after revealing the existence of, and his part in
setting up, Operation Gladio - a rogue intelligence
network under NATO auspices that carried out bombings
across Europe in the 60's, 70's and 80's. Gladio's
specialty was to carry out what they coined "false
flag operations," terror attacks that were blamed on
their domestic and geopolitical opposition.
Cossiga's revelations contributed to an Italian
parliamentary investigation of Gladio in 2000, during
which evidence was unearthed that the attacks were
being overseen by the U.S. intelligence apparatus.
In March 2001, Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra
stated, in sworn testimony, "You had to attack
civilians, the people, women, children, innocent
people, unknown people far removed from any political
game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the
public to turn to the state to ask for greater
security."
Cossiga's new revelations appeared last week in
Italy's oldest and most widely read newspaper,
Corriere della Sera. Below appears a rough
translation.
"[Bin Laden supposedly confessed] to the Qaeda
September [attack] to the two towers in New York
[claiming to be] the author of the attack of the 11,
while all the [intelligence services] of America and
Europe ... now know well that the disastrous attack
has been planned and realized from the CIA American
and the Mossad with the aid of the Zionist world in
order to put under accusation the Arabic Countries and
in order to induce the western powers to take part ...
in Iraq [and] Afghanistan."
Cossiga first expressed his doubts about 9/11 in 2001,
and is quoted in Webster Tarpley's book as stating
that "The mastermind of the attack must have been a
“sophisticated mind, provided with ample means not
only to recruit fanatic kamikazes, but also highly
specialized personnel. I add one thing: it could not
be accomplished without infiltrations in the radar and
flight security personnel.”
Coming from a widely respected former head of state,
Cossiga's assertion that the 9/11 attacks were an
inside job and that this is common knowledge amongst
global intelligence agencies is highly unlikely to be
mentioned by any establishment media outlets, because
like the hundreds of other sober ex-government,
military, air force professionals, allied to hundreds
more professors and intellectuals - he can't be
sidelined as a crackpot conspiracy theorist.