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    Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
    Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
    Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
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    Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia

    Written by Paul L. Williams

    Narrated by Michael Prichard

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    In this disturbing expose, journalist Paul L. Williams describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and U.S. mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Europe. Williams presents evidence suggesting the existence, in many European countries, of "stay-behind" units consisting of five thousand to fifteen thousand military operatives. The initial funding for these guerrilla armies came from bogus British bank notes and the sale of large stocks of SS morphine that had been smuggled out of Germany and Italy. As the Cold War intensified, the units were used not only to ward off possible invaders but also to thwart the rise of left-wing movements in South America and NATO-based countries by terror attacks.

    Williams argues that Operation Gladio soon gave rise to the toppling of governments, wholesale genocide, the formation of death squads, financial scandals on a grand scale, the creation of the mujahideen, an international narcotics network, and, most recently, the ascendancy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a Jesuit cleric with strong ties to Operation Condor (an outgrowth of Gladio in Argentina) as Pope Francis I.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 21, 2015
    ISBN9781494581541
    Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia

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    • 5/5
      This book is substance heavy and a bit hard to follow, but it's a gold mine of information
    • 5/5
      Enthralling. Did you know Islam has now passed Catholicism in number of worshipers? We peasants, who go about our daily lives have had NO IDEA of the coordinated machinations of the CIA, the Vatican, the mafia, and Nazis who disappeared after WW2 for the last 80 or so years--and still running their special ops. Dr. Williams presents the facts very clearly and concisely. So many moving parts, money laundering scemes, shell companies, mobsters, agents, presidents, priests, popes. The truth far and away astonishes any fiction. Frankly, I think a lot of fiction thriller writers get their ideas from this book.
    • 5/5
      Great information about the largest black ops organization in world history. If the material sounds new to you, I recommend going back to a book called "Outlaw Bank" by SC Gwynne and "Prelude to Terror" by Joseph Trento.
      I wish it went into more information about Pinay's Circle (aka Le Cercle) but I guess it wasn't close enough to the Gladio network to fall under the author's research.

      The gist of the book is exactly what the summary describes. Following WWII there was a "stay-behind" network of spies that waged off-the-books warfare against the Soviet Union and any perceived communist threats throughout the world. This book is primarily about the Catholic Church's contribution to that effort.
    • 5/5
      A very interesting and revealing book. Very useful for those who want to understand how international politics, the Vatican and corruption work.
    • 5/5
      Everyone and their dog needs to read this. Then get mad and let's do something about this. Holy moly
    • 5/5
      Required reading for anyone who wants to understand who rules the world.
    • 5/5
      Eye opening, jaw dropping connecting of dottes. Hard to put down.