VINCENZO VINCIGUERRA, GLADIO OPERATIVE: “You were supposed to attack civilians, women, children, innocent people from outside the political arena. The reason was simple, force the public to turn to the state and ask for greater security…People would willingly trade their freedom for the security of being able to walk the streets, go on trains, or enter a bank.

This is clearly still going on. The stakes were nothing then compared to where they are now for the people who make these decisions. https://t.co/nrbtdmaOTV

— Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch) (@TFL1728) July 9, 2024

“You (NATO) were supposed to attack civilians, women, children, innocent people from outside the political arena."

'Declassified files expose British role in NATO’s Gladio terror armies'. "Newly declassified British files shed disturbing light on the origins and internal workings of Operation Gladio, a covert NATO plot."

"The covert operation was uncovered in 1990 when the public learned that the CIA, MI6, and NATO trained and directed an underground army of fascist paramilitary units across Europe... As Vincenzo Vinciguerra, a Gladio operative jailed for life in 1984 for a car bombing in Italy that killed three police officers and injured two, explained: “You were supposed to attack civilians, women, children, innocent people from outside the political arena. The reason was simple, force the public to turn to the state and ask for greater security…People would willingly trade their freedom for the security of being able to walk the streets, go on trains, or enter a bank. This was the political logic behind the bombings. They remain unpunished because the state cannot condemn itself.” It was not until 1993 that the public learned how the US and British gifted munitions to Gladio operatives to foment bloody acts of terror across Italy. As Francesco Fulci told his NATO friends at the “super-restricted” meeting, Washington and London supplied the perpetrators of mass casualty attacks including the 1980 bombing of Bologna Centrale railway station, which killed 85 people and wounded over 200.

The extensive experience British intelligence obtained in Operation Gladio raises questions about the lessons the MI6 has applied to current covert operations in theaters of conflict." 

Vincenzo Vinciguerra, a Gladio operative jailed for life in 1984, is interviewed here in 1992.