The tag 'NATO' is associated with 51 posts.

FTR #148 “Truth Dashed to Earth . . . .”

CNN pro­ducer April Oliver dis­cusses her dis­missal and offi­cial dis­cred­it­ing fol­low­ing her inves­tiga­tive work on “Oper­a­tion Tail­wind” code-name for alleged use of nerve gas by Amer­i­can com­man­dos in Viet­nam War.

FTR #147 Background to the Conflict in Kosovo

Eth­nic and polit­i­cal divi­sions in Yugoslavia dur­ing World War II, Kosovo’s eth­nic Alba­ni­ans’ sup­port for Nazi inva­sion of Yugoslavia, pro­gram of exter­mi­na­tion of the Serbs.

The Most Dangerous Mobster in the World

Accord­ing to the FBI and Israeli Intel­li­gence, Semion Mogile­vich Rules Over an Arms-Trafficking, Money-Laundering, Drug-Running, and Art-Smuggling ‘Red Mafia’ by Robert I. Fried­manTHE VILLAGE VOICEIn two posh vil­las out­side the small town of Ricany, near Prague, one of the most dreaded mob fam­i­lies in the world sav­agely mur­ders its ter­ri­fied vic­tims. The mob’s young enforcers, trained [...]

FTR #81 Interview IV with Martin Lee

Rein­stated Nazi ele­ments in the Ger­man Army after WW II, resur­gence of fas­cism in the Bundeswehr.

FTR #59 The Turkish “Stay Behind”

NATO oper­a­tion code-named “Stay Behind” had a Turk­ish com­po­nent uti­liz­ing the National Action Party and its youth wing, the Gray Wolves.

FTR #58 “Operation Gladio” Update

“Oper­a­tion Gladio,” Ital­ian com­po­nent of a NATO oper­a­tion code-named “Stay Behind,” osten­si­ble guer­rilla groups to resist a Soviet invasion.

FTR #53 The Terror Connection (Pt. 2)

The Strat­egy of Ten­sion, intended to desta­bi­lize Italy, drive it to the right and restore fas­cism, grew out of “Oper­a­tion Gladio.”

FTR #43 The Pope Shooting: Stibam

Lis­ten now: One Seg­ment The Stibam arms-for-drugs ring was one of the most impor­tant and least pub­li­cized ele­ments of U.S. and NATO covert oper­a­tions in the 1970s and 1980s. This pro­gram dis­cusses con­nec­tions between this operation’s drug busi­ness and the milieu of the fas­cist Grey Wolves, some of whose mem­bers shot the pope in May [...]

FTR #25 OTRAG

Lis­ten now: Side 1 | Side 2 These seg­ments dis­cuss a remark­able Ger­man com­pany which leased thou­sands of square miles in Zaire in the 1970s. This com­pany, an exten­sion of the (then) West Ger­man aero­space indus­try, had com­plete auton­omy and func­tioned as, in effect, a state-within-a-state. The prin­ci­pal fig­ures involved with OTRAG were vet­er­ans of [...]

FTR #3 Update on the P-2 Lodge

Lis­ten now: One Seg­ment This broad­cast updates some of the numer­ous scan­dals sur­round­ing the P-2 Lodge in Italy, dis­cussed in numer­ous pre­vi­ous pro­grams. The P-2 Lodge was a Masonic lodge com­prised of pow­er­ful Ital­ian polit­i­cal lead­ers, mil­i­tary offi­cers, intel­li­gence offi­cials, busi­ness per­son­ages, jour­nal­ists and Mafiosi. Headed and founded by Licio Gelli (a for­mer Mus­solini supporter [...]