The Gray Zone: The Fascistic Dream World In Which Ideologies Are Dead by Gaither Stewart

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by Gaither Stewart
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rome, Italy
September 5, 2017
Revised Nov. 13, 2018

Yet: a world in which Pinochet Is Better Than Communists!

Premise: Reporting on the still unresolved abduction and murder of statesman, Aldo Moro, by the Red Brigades back in 1978—or in their name—the Rome sometimes left-wing investigative magazine, Espresso, reported that the USA and many European leaders considered Premier Moro’s project to bring the Italian Communist Party (PCI) into the Rome government destabilizing and of the utmost danger to European security. On both sides of the Atlantic, Premier Moro was considered an obstacle to be removed at all costs.

Operation Gladio: CIA Network of “Stay Behind” Secret Armies, by Andrew G. Marshall

by Andrew G. Marshall
featured writer
Dandelion Salad
July 18, 2008

The “Sacrifice” of Aldo Moro

Through NATO, working with various Western European intelligence agencies, the CIA set up a network of stay behind “secret armies” which were responsible for dozens of terrorist atrocities across Western Europe over decades. This report will focus on the stay behind army in Italy, as it is the most documented. Its codename was Operation Gladio, the ‘Sword’.