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AFA 22: The Terror Connection, Pt.1

Otto Sko­rzeny

Part 1a 42:37 | Part 1b 43:31 | Part 1c 43:33 | Part 1d 43:33
Part 1e 42:20 | Part 1f 32:20 | Part 1g 36:04 | Part 1h 14:36
(Record­ed July 8, 1986)

Although much has been writ­ten and said about “inter­na­tion­al ter­ror­ism” dur­ing the past sev­er­al decades, rel­a­tive­ly lit­tle has been said about one of the most promi­nent fig­ures in the devel­op­ment of the method­ol­o­gy and orga­ni­za­tion­al onto­ge­n­e­sis of ter­ror­ism. For­mer SS offi­cer Otto Sko­rzeny had much to do with orig­i­nat­ing the key strate­gic fea­tures of ter­ror­ism, as prac­ticed by many post-war ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions, and also had oper­a­tional con­nec­tions to many of them.

In charge of com­man­do oper­a­tions for the Third Reich and one of Hitler’s per­son­al favorites, Sko­rzeny under­stood that high­ly vis­i­ble and psy­cho­log­i­cal­ly sig­nif­i­cant oper­a­tions by rel­a­tive­ly small units could (under cer­tain cir­cum­stances) achieve the same strate­gic goals as large-scale mil­i­tary under­tak­ings. AFA-22 dis­cuss­es Skorzeny’s World War II oper­a­tions and his post-war career. As one of the lead­ers of ODESSA (the post-war SS orga­ni­za­tion), Sko­rzeny not only worked for the Rein­hard Gehlen spy out­fit, but the CIA as well.

His work for intel­li­gence ser­vices placed him in a posi­tion to work with, and spon­sor, some of the sem­i­nal ter­ror­ist ele­ments of the cen­tu­ry. A sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of the pro­gram deals with the Olympics mas­sacre of 1972 and the involve­ment of ele­ments of West­ern intel­li­gence ser­vices with the per­pe­tra­tors of that crime.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: Skorzeny’s kid­nap­ping of the son of Hun­gar­i­an dic­ta­tor Hor­thy dur­ing World War II; the role of the Hor­thy kid­nap­ping in main­tain­ing Hun­gar­i­an alle­giance to Nazi Ger­many; the oper­a­tions of Haj Amin Al-Hus­sei­ni on behalf of the Third Reich (Hus­sei­ni was a major in the SS and the first leader of the Pales­tin­ian Nation­al Move­ment); Husseini’s rela­tion­ship to Has­san Salameh (the father of Olympics mas­sacre mas­ter­mind Ali Has­san Salameh); Has­san Salameh’s oper­a­tions on behalf of Nazi Ger­many; Ali Has­sam Salameh’s con­nec­tions to the CIA; the con­nec­tions of Salameh and Car­los the Jack­al to the post-war Skorzeny/ODESSA milieu; the BND/Gehlen affil­i­a­tion of Olympics Secu­ri­ty Chief Hans Lange­mann; Langemann’s work spon­sor­ing “left­ist” ter­ror­ist groups in the Fed­er­al Repub­lic of Ger­many (under­tak­en in com­bi­na­tion with Hans Koll­mar, the head of the BKA, Germany’s equiv­a­lent of the FBI); Skorzeny’s train­ing of the first Pales­tin­ian ter­ror­ist cadre while work­ing in Egypt for the CIA and Gehlen orga­ni­za­tion; Skorzeny’s con­nec­tions to PLO leader Yass­er Arafat; Skorzeny’s involve­ment with the Borgh­ese coup attempt of 1970 in Italy (see RFA-19); Skorzeny’s con­nec­tions to the P‑2 milieu and its involve­ment with the “Rose of the Winds” coup plot of 1973 (see RFA-19); Skorzeny’s World War II work with Prince Borgh­ese in the devel­op­ment of sui­cide com­man­dos; Khadafy’s appar­ent spon­sor­ship of sui­cide ter­ror­ist units; Skorzeny’s role in help­ing to devel­op the Libyan secret ser­vice uti­lized by Khadafy.

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2 comments for “AFA 22: The Terror Connection, Pt.1”

  1. http://www.timesofisrael.com/hungarian-jews-ask-government-not-to-honor-nazi-ally/

    Hun­gar­i­an Jews ask gov­ern­ment not to hon­or Nazi ally

    Request fol­lows grow­ing list of pub­lic trib­utes to Holo­caust-era ruler Mik­los Hor­thy
    Feb­ru­ary 22, 2013, 2:51 pm 2

    BUDAPEST, Hun­gary (JTA) — Hungary’s main Jew­ish orga­ni­za­tion urged the gov­ern­ment and par­lia­ment to pre­vent the hon­or­ing of Mik­los Hor­thy, the country’s Holo­caust-era ruler.

    Hor­thy had “direct respon­si­bil­i­ty for the killing and destruc­tion of sev­er­al hun­dred thou­sand Hun­gar­i­an Jews,” the Fed­er­a­tion of Hun­gar­i­an Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ties, or Mazsi­hisz, said in a state­ment Wednes­day.

    The state­ment was in reac­tion to the recent deci­sion by the may­or of Kun­h­egyes in east­ern Hun­gary to rename a street for Hor­thy.

    Hor­thy, who ruled from 1920 to 1944, was an ally of Adolf Hitler, but the Nazi leader deposed Hor­thy, fear­ing he might sign a peace treaty with the Allies. Hor­thy passed sev­er­al anti-Jew­ish laws before his ouster and was in charge when 500,000 Jews under Hun­gar­i­an con­trol began to be deport­ed to Nazi death camps.

    Last year, a stat­ue of Hor­thy was erect­ed in Kere­ki in south­west­ern Hun­gary and in Csokako, a vil­lage in the country’s north, and a plaque in his hon­or was unveiled in Debre­cen, Hungary’s sec­ond-largest city. Last April, a square was named for Hor­thy in Gyomro, a town near Budapest.

    Many in Hun­gary, where the nation­al­ist Job­bik par­ty is the third largest in par­lia­ment, admire Horthy’s con­sis­tent anti-com­mu­nist stance in the face of Sovi­et pres­sure in the 1920s and 1930s.

    Mazsi­hisz Pres­i­dent Peter Feld­ma­jer said last year in the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment that at a time when “streets and squares are named after Hor­thy, who stands as a hero for the peo­ple, the Hun­gar­i­an Jew­ish peo­ple feel increas­ing dan­ger.”

    Posted by Vanfield | February 23, 2013, 8:50 pm
  2. Hitler’s Lega­cy: The Sko­rzeny Syn­drome
    By Peter Lev­en­da on Novem­ber 7, 2014
    http://disinfo.com/2014/11/hitlers-legacy-skorzeny-syndrome/

    I would post the entire arti­cle but saw this on the disinfo.com page:

    Reprint­ed with per­mis­sion from Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC. and Nico­las-Hays/Ibis Press, The Hitler Lega­cy: The Nazi Cult in Dias­po­ra: How it was Orga­nized, How it was Fund­ed, and Why it Remains a Threat to Glob­al Secu­ri­ty in the Age of Ter­ror­ism by Peter Lev­en­da is avail­able wher­ev­er books or ebooks are sold or direct­ly from the pub­lish­er at 1–800-423‑7087 or http://www.redwheelweiser.com.

    Posted by Henry | November 7, 2014, 4:12 pm

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