Daniele Ganser

Daniele Ganser    (author, academic, historian)
Born	29 August 1972
Member of	9/11 Consensus Panel
Interests	• Operation Gladio • Resource wars • Intelligence agencies
Interest of	'Feliks'

Daniele Ganser is a historian who has focused on Operation Gladio.

Daniele Ganser on 9/11

Research Interests:

• International History since 1945
• Secret Warfare and Geostrategy
• Intelligence Agencies and Special Forces
• Peak Oil and Resource Wars
• Globalization and Human Rights

 

Documents by Daniele Ganser

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Secret Warfare - Gladio	webpage	17 December 2004	Operation Gladio
File:The CIA in Western Europe and the Abuse of Human Rights.pdf	paper	October 2006	CIA Operation Gladio Human rights	A paper addressing assertions from the US State Department that US Field Manual FM30-31B was a Soviet forgery.

 

Quotes by Daniele Ganser

Page	Quote	Date	Source
Peteano bombing	“Casson's investigation revealed that the right-wing organization Ordine Nuovo had collaborated very closely with the Italian Military Secret Service, SID (Servizio Informazioni Difesa). Together, they had engineered the Peteano terror and then wrongly blamed the militant extreme Italian left, the Red Brigades. Judge Casson identified Ordine Nuovo member Vincenzo Vinciguerra as the man who had planted the Peteano bomb... He confessed and testified that he had been covered by an entire network of sympathizers in Italy and abroad who had ensured that after the attack he could escape. 'A whole mechanism came into action', Vinciguerra recalled, 'that is, the Carabinieri, the Minister of the Interior, the customs services and the military and civilian intelligence services accepted the ideological reasoning behind the attack.'<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-Strage-2">[2]</a>”	11 February 1998
Piazza della Loggia bombing	“Major attacks came in 1974, a couple years after the Peteano tragedy. On May 28, a bomb exploded at an anti-fascist rally for which 3,000 had gathered in the Italian city of Brescia, killing 8 and injuring and maiming 102 people. To cover the traces of the right- wing bombers, the square was cleaned with water hoses before the investigating magistrates could reach the scene of the crime to secure the evidence. An Italian Senate commission later observed that “the investigations immediately after the massacre were characterized by such incredible mistakes that one is left speechless.”<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>”	May 2014	Journal of 9/11 Studies
Strategy of tension	“It is probably fair to say that of the roughly seven billion people who live on our planet today, far less than one percent has ever heard of the "strategy of tension." And only a very few of these could illustrate the strategy with specific historical examples. It is indeed a strategy of a shadow world, known only to a few military and intelligence officers (and some criminals) who have carried it out, a few police officers and judges who fought against it, and a handful of journalists and academics who have written about it. In its essence, the strategy of tension targets the emotions of human beings and aims to spread maximum fear among the target group. “Tension” refers to emotional distress and psychological fear, whereas “strategy” refers to the technique of bringing about such distress and fear. A terrorist attack in a public place, such as a railway station, a market place, or a school bus, is the typical technique through which the strategy of tension is implemented. After the attack — and this is a crucial element — the secret agents who carried out the crime blame it on a political opponent by removing and planting evidence. It must be noted that the targets of the strategy of tension are not the dead and the wounded of the terrorist attacks, as many might assume. The targets are the political opponents, who are discredited through the attack, and those who remain unharmed but learn of the attack, thereby coming to fear for their lives and those of their loved ones. Since the aims of the strategy are to discredit opponents and to create fear, the real targets are not the people who were killed, whether they number in the dozens or even thousands, but the millions of people who survive physically unharmed but emotionally distressed.”	May 2014	Journal of 9/11 Studies

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