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- Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.
- James Corbett here, CorbettReport.com,
- with a special video presentation
- for you today:
- a book report of sorts. but not like the
- Film Literature, and the New World Order
- podcast series I do on a monthly basis,
- where we examine books and movies
- for the various messages and propaganda
- they may or may not contain.
- But in this particular video,
- we're going to be reviewing a book
- that I wholeheartedly and
- unreservedly recommend
- to the readers, viewers, and listeners
- in The Corbett Report audience;
- and that book is The Lone Gladio
- by Sibel Edmonds.
- And please forgive me the disservice
- of not having a physical copy to
- display to you here.
- I only have an electronic review copy
- at the moment;
- my physical copy is still on the way.
- But, with that disadvantage aside,
- I will do my best to present to you
- some of the reasons why I think
- it will be in your best interests to get
- and read this book.
- I think it's an extremely important
- and extremely courageous and brave thing
- that Sibel has done in putting this
- book in print.
- So I think we need to support that
- act of bravery
- with the intestinal fortitude
- -- and every other type of fortitude --
- that's required
- to stomach our way through
- what really is, I think,
- the belly of the beast
- that we often talk about
- and try to delineate here
- on The Corbett Report.
- So, to get to the meat and potatoes:
- The Lone Gladio.
- Obviously, to understand what this
- novel is about,
- it would be good to have at least a
- general familiarity
- with the idea of Operation Gladio
- -- which I'm sure much of my
- audience already does
- from some of the video presentations,
- the podcasts, the other things
- that I've done on the subject of Gladio.
- I'll include some links
- in the show notes for this video
- in case you haven't seen those
- presentations in the past.
- But the long story short is,
- according to the mainstream version
- of events
- -- which has now been the
- mainstream version of events
- for nearly two-and-a-half decades --
- that back in the wake of the
- Second World War,
- going into the Cold War era,
- the NATO powers coalesced
- -- in the late 1940s --
- to try to form stay-behind
- paramilitary units
- that would survive in the event
- of some Soviet occupation of
- Eastern Europe,
- or of Europe as a whole,
- and that would be able to stay behind
- and fight against the Soviet occupation.
- And so,
- that was the idea for this operation
- that became much, much more complex
- and much more nuanced than that
- from the outset.
- And I think, obviously,
- as part of the design,
- it became much more than that.
- This, in the mainstream framing of it,
- was a NATO operation;
- and it was
- -- again, in the mainstream way
- that it's framed --
- it's generally a European operation
- that's most closely associated with Italy.
- And this is, perhaps,
- because the name "Gladio" itself
- derives from the name
- for the specifically Italian branch
- of this stay-behind operation,
- which was Gladio.
- And then the entire program
- just gets known as Operation Gladio;
- and there you have it.
- So, most people associate this with Italy
- and with some of the acts of terrorism
- that took place
- in the "Years of Lead" in Italy
- from the mid-1960s up until the 1980s;
- and, of course, culminating in the
- Bologna Massacre:
- the killing of 85 and wounding of over 200
- at the Bologna Railway Station in 1980.
- So, that atrocious event and others
- have been linked to the stay-behind units
- that were started as a result of this
- NATO operation.
- It was a huge scandal
- and, I suppose, continues to be so.
- It continues to be investigated
- by various parliamentary investigations,
- and what have you.
- But I think that the big revelations
- that we saw, for example, in 1990
- when the Italian Prime Minister got up
- and announced it in front of the entire
- House there in Italy:
- it is probably behind us.
- I don't think those types of revelations
- are going to be happening,
- as a result of those types of political
- confessions,
- anytime in the near future
- -- unless, of course, it were to be
- spurred.
- But as I say,
- that's the mainstream understanding
- of Gladio,
- and it's very much in the past tense:
- it was something that happened during
- the Cold War,
- it was specifically aimed at the Soviet
- Union, et cetera.
- And if there's anything that we've
- learned in recent years
- -- and I hope there is --
- it would be from my very important
- interview series with Sibel Edmonds
- that I conducted last year on Gladio B.
- I'll direct you to the playlist
- for all five videos in that series:
- an exceptionally important few hours
- of your time
- that I guarantee will be absolutely
- mind-blowing
- if you haven't seen it before.
- And if you can stick with it
- to put together the pieces of a puzzle
- that you have never been shown before
- -- and many of the pieces of that
- puzzle you've never been shown before;
- so it can be quite confusing at first --
- but I guarantee you it is worth
- your investment of time
- to look at that interview series, where...
- I call it an interview series:
- really, it was a monologue by
- Sibel Edmonds;
- I just pressed the record button.
- And she spilled all sorts of
- information out
- on an unsuspecting public.
- And that information included details
- of how Ayman al-Zawahiri
- -- of course, Osama Bin Laden's
- right-hand man
- and now the nominal leader of al-Qaeda --
- was meeting with US State
- Department representatives
- and Gladio operatives in Azerbaijan
- in the late-1990s;
- how they were coordinating various acts
- in Central Asia and the Caucasus
- region together;
- how...
- That's just the tip of the iceberg
- in terms of the collusion that goes on
- with this Operation Gladio in its
- new-found form:
- to acts of terrorism across that region;
- to drug-running and money
- laundering operations,
- to Turkish paramilitary units
- that are now shifting over into Gladio B,
- Plan B of Gladio
- -- which is now less focused on
- paramilitary
- and right-wing nationalist groups
- and now focused on building up
- Islamic radicalist groups.
- And, of course, the Islamic terrorist
- and Islamic radical threat
- that we now face
- is, according to the testimony
- of Sibel Edmonds
- and others who have examined Gladio,
- the work of the Gladio operatives.
- So, an exceptionally, exceptionally
- important interview series.
- So much information: please go there.
- But if you haven't seen that,
- and just to get a grip on what's going on,
- let's just take a short extract
- from a very informative interview
- that Sibel recently gave Lew Rockwell
- on the Lew Rockwell podcast
- talking about The Lone Gladio,
- in which she explained a little bit
- about how Gladio functions today,
- in a very, very excellently-titled
- interview:
- "The Government Gagged Her,
- But it Didn't Work."
- (Sibel Edmonds [recorded]):
- Now, at the fall of the Soviet Union,
- after 1991, we had the same situation,
- this time over former Soviet Union states:
- Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan;
- and also the entire region
- including Georgia:
- who was going to control this?
- Well, we had the Chinese
- with their billions of people
- and their dependence on energy;
- we had the semi-weakened Russians;
- and we had us.
- So between these three actors
- in the global chess game,
- each one had to do his or her own,
- its own best
- to take over and have the dominance
- of this region.
- The United States was in this
- position with NATO,
- saying, "How can we utilize the
- language that is on our side"
- -- the Turkic language and the
- Turkic heritage, and Islam --
- "to sway them,"
- "and get them further from Russia,
- and on our side:"
- "so that we can turn them into
- NATO members,"
- "put our military base there;"
- "and also, to dominate their energy,"
- "the rich energy resources sector?"
- Well, the plan that was conceived
- and put in place,
- which was a continuation of
- Operation Gladio
- -- original Operation Gladio --
- was that we would use Islam;
- and we would use language;
- and we'd continue the previous
- Operation Gladio tactics
- in order to sway these countries,
- bring them to our side,
- put them in our camp:
- put our military bases, et cetera
- -- which we started doing.
- We started in 1996.
- With the help of the United States
- -- under United States' direction --
- we helped open over 350 mosques
- in Azerbaijan and other countries
- in the region.
- We started putting together
- some of these NGOs for the
- supposed development,
- or education,
- or human rights,
- or feminism -
- - whatever you want to call it --
- and we started putting our operatives
- on the ground,
- in place, in those countries.
- So, as you see, the Gladio of old
- is no longer the Gladio of today.
- The current Gladio is very much focused
- on Central Asia and the Caucasus region:
- a very strategic and resource-rich area
- that is very much in play
- now that, of course, we are in the wake
- of the fall of the Soviet Union.
- And that part of the chessboard
- is still up for grabs;
- and obviously, there is a very concerted
- effort going on
- to make sure that that falls into the
- NATO side.
- And of course, that's what Gladio B i
- s all about.
- So, that is where we derive
- the name of this novel, The Lone Gladio.
- And that is not incidental to what
- this book is about:
- it really is the heart about what
- this book is about.
- Now, to say what this book is
- as plainly as I can:
- I suppose, if we had to categorize it,
- it would be a spy thriller.
- But if you read my written review
- of this book,
- you would know that that isn't exactly
- the best way to categorize it,
- ecause it goes above and beyond
- any spy-thriller that you've read
- from Ludlum, or Clancy, or le Carre,
- or any of those types of writers.
- This is a spy thriller that goes
- right into the heart of real
- geopolitical reality
- that is really taking place
- in the real world today:
- and it really does connect.
- And, as I say,
- it connects that Gladio B plan
- that's taking place right now
- with the real world
- in a very visceral way.
- I won't belittle the audience
- by actually giving a plot summary
- of the book.
- I think that that's always a bit tawdry
- for a book review:
- you can read the book yourself
- and follow along with the plot.
- But, I guess, to give the basics
- of the plot:
- the initiating event is a Congressman
- -- a high-ranking Congressman --
- caught in child sex tourism in Cambodia,
- where he is being bugged and wiretapped:
- not only by an intrepid American reporter,
- but also by a CIA team
- which is blackmailing and
- surveilling members of Congress.
- And so that sets in motion a series
- of events
- that culminates in a Gladio operative
- being stung in a way that they
- weren't expecting,
- and he kind of goes rogue
- and starts acting against the system --
- and ends up cooperating with Elsie Simon,
- a plucky five-foot-three, 105-pound
- FBI translator
- in the Washington Field Office of the FBI.
- And this is a book written by a plucky
- -- five-foot-three-ish, I guess? --
- translator -- former translator --
- in the Washington Field Office of the FBI.
- Dunno: make of that what you will,
- but... so, that's what this plot
- revolves around.
- But as I say, again: what this book
- is doing
- -- and what it is clearly doing --
- is putting into a fictional form
- -- I mean, there are fictional elements
- that take place here, obviously --
- but putting into a fictional form
- some very real events that are going on
- and trying to explain this Gladio B
- narrative
- to a lay audience
- -- a point that I think Sibel laid out
- quite well in her recent interview
- with Guillermo Jimenez on
- Traces of Reality
- about this book.
- (Guillermo Jimenez [recorded]):
- The perhaps obvious
- -- but a very significant --
- benefit to writing a fictional novel,
- or working through fictional mediums,
- is exactly that:
- I think a whole new audience
- that has never heard of
- -- let alone Gladio B, that never heard
- of Operation Gladio period --
- are going to be introduced to it
- for the very first time.
- And that, I think...
- I mean, you can answer this better,
- obviously, than I could;
- because you wrote it, after all!
- -- but to me, [laughs] as a reader who
- is at least somewhat familiar with these
- ideas and concepts,
- that felt, to me, like
- this was the true purpose of this book:
- was to introduce Gladio B to a larger
- audience
- that really needs to hear about
- this stuff.
- I mean, you can answer this yourself;
- but that, to me, is what it felt like
- reading through this.
- (Sibel Edmonds [recorded]):
- Absolutely, it is.
- And getting people's minds
- -- when the minds are far more
- open to ideas such as --
- and the notions:
- these are the real-life notions
- politically, geopolitically
- -- of things, practices such as
- synthetic wars
- and the synthetic terrorism,
- false-flag operations.
- (Guillermo [recorded]): Yeah.
- (Sibel [recorded]): These extremely
- important factual realities;
- these things that are happening
- before our eyes
- but, for one reason or another,
- people are just looking the other way.
- Or, they still resist accepting it:
- no matter what the evidence,
- or no matter what the facts.
- And again, that was another thing
- that I was hoping,
- and I'm still hoping, that would achieve.
- We still don't really have a real answer
- to this Malaysian flight, MH17.
- And the same thing with Syria
- and those supposed chemical
- attacks that took place,
- and who really did it.
- It became a context, the pretext:
- it provided that,
- what we were publicly speaking...
- (Guillermo [recorded]): So, the
- red line, whatever... yeah, yeah...
- (Sibel [recorded)]: Yeah! The
- feasible grounds,
- so that you get some support
- and you go and declare another war.
- And as we know, for the past few years,
- the synthetic wars have been
- created around this non-stop.
- I mean, whether you're looking at Libya,
- or Syria,
- or what's gonna happen with Iran;
- and what's happening in the Ukraine;
- and what we're gonna see happen
- in Georgia very soon
- -- in Abkhazia and Georgia area.
- Well, again: makes it very current,
- and hopefully gets people to think
- about some of these events,
- current events...
- (Guillermo [recorded]): Absolutely...
- (Sibel [recorded]): ...as they read it.
- All right: so, this really does
- connect very well with current events,
- and things that are going on right now,
- and things that will continue to go on,
- unless and until we choose
- to wake up from our slumber
- and realize that these events
- are being crafted and puppeteered
- by these Gladio-type operations
- that are going on all the time.
- And let me tell you this,
- from my perspective from reading
- this book:
- I know a lot of the information
- that this book is trying to convey
- -- not all of it, I would say,
- but a lot of the information that it's
- trying to convey --
- from having, obviously, conducted
- those interviews with Sibel last year.
- But having said that,
- it is another thing entirely
- to read a narrative in narrative form,
- a story that puts these pieces together
- in a way that makes it hit home
- -- in a way that it hasn't for me in a
- very long time --
- just how real this is;
- how this is not a game
- and this is not, really, anything to do
- with the types of arguments
- that I'm sure you, and I, and everyone
- else has
- with the people around us in
- regular everyday life,
- where you're just trying to get people
- to listen to any of this evidence:
- "Oh, that's just conspiracy theory."
- "No, it's not conspiracy..."
- -- we've all had that type of argument.
- But beyond that, you know that there
- are people
- at levels much, much higher than
- the mere "President of the United States"
- who are aware of the various things
- that are being done and puppeteered
- and engineered
- to bring about geopolitical realities
- that are much grander in scale
- than any minor foreign policy agenda
- that the State Department publicly
- declares;
- that are looking at those types of
- debates happily
- and rubbing their hands:
- because as long as we're caught
- up arguing like that...
- I mean, to think about the reality
- of what's going on underneath this is...
- again, it's very interesting
- to read it in narrative form.
- So allow me, if you will,
- to just read a couple of passages
- that I think are important,
- just to illustrate some of the things
- and topics and ideas
- that are being talked about here.
- First of all, we have this one,
- which is an observation from the Gladio,
- the rogue Gladio operative's perspective
- in this novel.
- He's reminiscing or pontificating
- to himself.
- And he thinks to himself,
- "People believed... well, the ignorant
- masses believed, in fairy tales."
- "Like reformed and restricted
- intelligence agencies."
- "The supposed restrictions, FISA laws..
- . these are dog and pony shows."
- "Illusions are created to shield
- the system."
- "Otherwise things could get sticky."
- "The CIA never for an instant ceased
- or restricted"
- "their operations within the
- United States."
- "All they did was to implement
- new measures"
- "and procedures to decrease
- their chances of being exposed."
- "Greg was well aware that despite
- the official policy"
- "that twisted and abused the public
- trust,"
- "the Agency had operatives
- at the topmost levels"
- "of decision-making within the news
- agencies and media organizations,"
- "including print, digital, TV, and radio."
- "These folks made sure that the
- elected players were under their control."
- All right: that's just one passage:
- from the perspective, again,
- of one of these operatives who works
- at a very high level of this system,
- who knows of which he speaks.
- And that's part of the perspective
- that you get from this novel;
- that... again, when you see it
- narrativized like that
- and put into a series of events
- that flow realistically, logically,
- naturally
- from the way that the story is set up:
- it, again, is quite chilling.
- Especially because this ultimately
- culminates
- in a confession extracted
- -- through torture, actually,
- and interestingly enough --
- from one of the perpetrators
- of the September 11th attacks.
- Not the September 11th attacks
- as in the 19 men with box-cutters,
- but the September 11th attacks
- as in the real false-flag reality
- behind those attacks,
- which are
- -- again, according to this book and the
- logic of this book in the narrative --
- it wasn't hijackers;
- it was people who had been told
- that they were going to be...
- they were in a drill,
- that they were going to be rewarded
- for their work afterwards, et cetera:
- something very much like has
- been posited many times
- by those "conspiracy theorists"
- in the alternative media.
- And so, again, these types of things
- put into this narrative form
- really do help to, I think,
- encapsulate these ideas in a way that...
- just talking about facts and evidence,
- for most people, probably won't
- reach them;
- a novel form reaches people
- in a completely different way.
- And again, I wanted to share a
- different passage,
- if I can find it at the moment
- -- which I probably can't --
- Ah, yes:
- another, I think, key aspect of this
- is that it's not sentimental in any way,
- and it doesn't paint a rosy-eyed
- picture of the world.
- It does end with the...
- basically, the dismantling of Gladio B
- from the outside in
- -- the Gladio B is exposed,
- and it's going to have to fold --
- but the implication is, it's going
- to continue;
- it's just going to have to go underground
- in a different way,
- and it's maybe going to...
- some of the rats are gonna be exposed
- and gonna be captured as they flee
- the sinking ship,
- but others will undoubtedly cling
- to some piece of shrapnel for safety
- and float off to their next adventure.
- And I think the best summary of how
- these operations work
- is contained on page 258 of the book:
- "What he'd told her about the
- company operation was true:"
- "highly compartmentalized, distinct
- pockets,"
- "separated from one another by design."
- "It was brilliant, and the key to their
- enduring success."
- "No matter how savvy or skilled,"
- "no one Gladio could ever unearth Gladio
- as a whole."
- "It would be impossible."
- There are too many different pieces
- of this puzzle
- scattered in too many different places,
- and too many people are guarding
- those secrets individually,
- for them ever to all combine
- and expose the whole big picture.
- The best you can do is expose bits
- and pieces here
- and make sure you get the worst
- bits out
- before they have a chance to
- re-metastasize
- like the cancer in the body politic
- that they are.
- And that is, perhaps,
- the sober reality behind this book,
- but one that's exceptionally important
- to understand.
- Again, I won't go through...
- it is a spy thriller.
- This may sound all philosophical
- and geopolitical;
- it is a spy thriller.
- There are...
- there is action, there is violence,
- and a love story, and everything
- you could ask for in a spy thriller here.
- But the underlying reality of what's
- going on
- is so important to get out to other
- people.
- And if boring conversations of,
- dry presentations of facts don't do it,
- then perhaps a book like this will.
- So, please: I really do think
- it would be worth your time
- to order a copy.
- Maybe order a couple;
- give one out as a loaner copy
- that you can loan out to friends
- to introduce them to this information.
- Truly, some of the most important
- information we have
- -- and from an inside source:
- someone who was there in the
- Washington Field Office of the FBI
- with her hands on some of the documents
- that reveal some of the truths that
- are being hinted at in this book.
- And if you go in with that knowledge,
- then you will understand the types
- of things that are being hinted at.
- So there will be more to say about
- this book;
- we will talk about it in more detail later.
- I'm leaving out the detail of the book now
- because I'm going to give you a
- chance to read it first.
- Please go to TheLoneGladio.com
- or BoilingFrogsPost.com
- in order to secure your purchase
- -- your copy of the book --
- or find out more information
- about the book in general.
- And once you've done so,
- join us back here on The Corbett Report,
- where we will be talking more
- about this book in the future.
- That's it from me for today.
- Thank you, again, for tuning in.
- I'm looking forward to talking to you
- again in the near future.
- [Subtitled by "Adjuvant"]
- [CC-BY 4.0]
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