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Nato, that brutal military alliance has become the most treacherous instrument of repression known in the history of mankind. Fidel Castro
Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: Why does NATO exist? Noam Chomsky
NATO’s essentially run by the United States. Noam Chomsky
Some of the worst ethnic cleansing of the 1990s was within Nato … thanks to the Clinton administration. Noam Chomsky, Dorothy lecture September 1999, ‘Sovereignty and World Order’
Right now at the Russian border the US-run Nato alliance is rapidly building up its offensive forces; in fact they’re planning to quadruple them. Noam Chomsky, lecture 2016, ‘After the Electoral Extravaganza’
The background to the ‘Russian harassment’ on the Russian border, as the State Department sees it, is the very rapid Nato expansion that took place as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed. ibid.
The Obama administration is planning a huge what’s called ‘improvement’ of the nuclear posture – trillion dollar expenditures to build up much more lethal and threatening nuclear weapons, including small weapons with a small yield which are particularly dangerous because they’ll be a temptation to use them. ibid.
In the case of Yugoslavia v NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The US appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States. Noam Chomsky
During the Cold War NATO along with intelligence agencies armed and funded stay-behind armies to act as resistance in the event of a Soviet invasion. Inquires carried out by the Belgium and Italian parliaments established that Operation Gladio was behind several atrocities across Western Europe in the 1970s and ’80s. Gladio teams carried out terrorist operations as part of a strategy of tension. The resulting fear was used to manipulate public perception, while the blame was put on political dissidents. Adrian Connock and David Shayler, 9/11 and the BBC, 2007
Next to the CPC, a second secret army command center, labeled Allied Clandestine Committee (ACC), was set up in 1957 on the orders of NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (SACEUR). This military structure provided for significant US leverage over the secret stay-behind networks in Western Europe as the SACEUR, throughout NATO’s history, has traditionally been a US General who reports to the Pentagon in Washington and is based in NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium. The ACC’s duties included elaborating on the directives of the network, developing its clandestine capability, and organizing bases in Britain and the United States. In wartime, it was to plan stay-behind operations in conjunction with SHAPE. According to former CIA director William Colby, it was ‘a major program’.
Coordinated by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), {the secret armies} were run by the European military secret services in close cooperation with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the British foreign secret service Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, also MI6). Trained together with US Green Berets and British Special Air Service (SAS), these clandestine NATO soldiers, armed with underground arms-caches, prepared against a potential Soviet invasion and occupation of Western Europe, as well as the coming to power of communist parties. The clandestine international network covered the European NATO membership, including Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey, as well as the neutral European countries of Austria, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland. Daniele Ganser, Terrorism in Western Europe: An Approach to NATO’s Stay Behind Armies
‘Prudent Precaution or Source of Terror?’ the international press pointedly asked when the secret stay-behind armies of NATO were discovered across Western Europe in late 1990. After more than ten years of research, the answer is now clear: both. The overview above shows that based on the experiences of World War II, all countries of Western Europe, with the support of NATO, the CIA, and MI6, had set up stay-behind armies as precaution against a potential Soviet invasion. While the safety networks and the integrity of the majority of the secret soldiers should not be criticized in hindsight after the collapse of the Soviet Union, very disturbing questions do arise with respect to reported links to terrorism.
There exist large differences among the European countries, and each case must be analyzed individually in further detail. As of now, the evidence suggests the secret armies in the seven countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, and the Netherlands, focused exclusively on their stay-behind function and were not linked to any acts of terrorism. However, links to terrorism have been either confirmed or claimed in the eight countries, Italy, Turkey, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Sweden, demanding further investigation. ibid.
General Walker had allowed the cameras to film how NATO prepared for war. The Lost World of the Seventies: A Report by Michael Cockerell, BBC 2012
Agent Topaz’ intelligence was unique. And the Soviets were hungry for more. He responded by gaining access to the most secret document in NATO: it was called MC161. 1983: The Brink of Apocalypse, Channel 4 2008
If the protest got to the point where there was actually insurrection or actual violence between the NATO military forces and the local population then clearly American military commanders have the authority to use deadly force in the protection of their military assets. Bill Arkin, former US Army captain
The US military and NATO are now nothing more than the mercenary army of the global corporatists. Ian R Crane, interview On the Edge with AlexG: Iran
It’s more than 20 years since NATO planners decided that any future conflict could not be an all or nothing nuclear war over in a few hours. So the new NATO strategy has made extensive use of civil resources, vital to military mobilisation. Duncan Campbell, Secret Society: In Time of Crisis
If we could create NATO to face down the Soviet Union, we can join in a new and global partnership to dismantle the networks that have struck in Madrid and Oman, London and Bali, Washington and New York. Barack Obama, Berlin New World Order speech
NATO was formed from the international brigades of the SS. Ubersturmfuhrer Paul Hausser
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. Pierre Trudeau
We have a firm commitment to NATO. We are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe. Dan Quayle
I think that NATO is itself a war criminal. Harold Pinter
NATO has been a thread throughout my life. Madeleine Albright
In 1964, the year Strangelove was made, ‘the missile gap’ was the false flag. In order to build more and bigger nuclear weapons and pursue an undeclared policy of domination, President John Kennedy approved the CIA’s propaganda that the Soviet Union was well ahead of the US in the production of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. This filled front pages as the ‘Russian threat’. In fact, the Americans were so far ahead in the production of ICBMs, the Russians never approached them. The cold war was based largely on this lie.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US has ringed Russia with military bases, nuclear warplanes and missiles as part of its ‘Nato Enlargement Project’ taken over eastern Europe. In the former Soviet Caucuses, Nato’s military build-up is the most extensive since the second world war.
In February, the United States mounted one of its proxy ‘colour’ coups against the elected government of Ukraine; the shock troops were fascists. For the first time since 1945, a pro-Nazi, openly anti-Semitic party controls key areas of state power in a European capital. No Western European leader has condemned this revival of fascism on the border of Russia. Some 30 million Russians died in the invasion of their country by Hitler’s Nazis, who were supported by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the UPA, responsible for numerous Jewish and Polish massacres. The UPA was the military wing, inspiring today’s Svoboda party.