Gladio, NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe: The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis - Softcover

Masquerading as a rear guard against a possible Communist takeover, NATO's covert special forces are in reality a hideous cancer poisoning European democracy. NATO's dirty war projects have included the Italian Strategy of Tension, the Red Brigades and Baader Meinhof/Red Army Faction, the Banco Ambrosiano scandal, the deaths of Italian ex-PM Aldo Moro, banker Roberto Calvi, media magnate Robert Maxwell, Swedish PM Olaf Palme, and "The Umbrella Murder;" also the attempt on Pope John Paul II's life; the sex snare set for British PM Harold Wilson, and the Cyprus partition and genocide. Gladio architect Lyman Lemnitzer is implicated in the 1944 reintroduction of the Mafia into Sicily and the murder of the Kennedy brothers. Covert NATO operations were behind Solidarnosc, the fall of the Soviet Union, the color revolutions of Eastern Europe and North Africa, and the massacres of August 2011 in Norway and Libya.

Richard Cottrell is a British journalist, politician and writer. He contributed regularly on politics and economics to the ITV network.In 1979 he was elected as a Conservative to the European Parliament. Over the next ten years he sat on the parliament's important committees and published two books -- The Sacred Cow, a polemical attack on the EU's farm policy, and Blood on Their Hands, which extended his parliamentary inquiry into the murder of British journalist Ann Chapman under the Greek military junta. His findings cleared an innocent man.He wrote the highly praised landmark Cottrell Report on the activities of pseudo-religious cults such as the Moonies and their harmful influence.Richard entered politics as an enthusiastic European but became disillusioned with "the inner workings of a profoundly anti-democratic system." After Europe he was a political advisor to investors in Eastern Europe, especially Poland.He is married to Diana, who is Polish. They have two daughters.