#948b – Rob Couteau

 

  • Rob Couteau is a visual artist and literary author from Brooklyn
  • His current research is focused on Operation Gladio and JFK’s numerous foreign policy innovations
  • Couteau’s new article at Kennedys and King: NATO’s Secret Armies, Operation Gladio, and JFK
  • Rob started researching the JFK case following Oliver Stone’s movie JFK
  • Book: On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison: HardcoverPaperbackKindleAudiobook
  • Book: Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs: HardcoverPaperbackKindleAudiobook
  • Book: Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case by Jim DiEugenio: PaperbackKindleAudiobook
  • Operation Gladio
  • In 1969, there were 398 terrorist attacks in Italy orchestrated by Gladio
  • By 1979, the number of terrorist attacks increased to over 2500
  • As the popularity of the Left wing increased, so did the terror attacks
  • The Eisenhower administration let the CIA run wild
  • The CIA had become an autonomous organization in many ways
  • Aldo Moro, Prime Minister of Italy was murdered after being kidnapped and held for 55 days
  • Book: NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western EuropeHardcoverPaperbackKindle
  • Permindex was funded and supported by the CIA
  • Book: CMC – The Italian Undercover CIA and Mossad Station and the Assassination of JFK by Michelle Metta
  • The financial backing for Permindex was provided by J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation (JHSBC)
  • JHSBC was very closely associated with Allen Dulles through the law firm Sullivan and Cromwell
  • Dulles eventually became the bank’s general counsel
  • The bank’s founder Kurt Baron von Schroder was associated with the Third Reich and Heinrich Himmler
  • Hjalmar Schact, the economic wizard behind the Third Reich, was a friend of Clay Shaw
  • The renegade officers of the secret army organization OAS attempted to overthrow Charles DeGaulle in 1961
  • It was only because of John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev that World War III was avoided
  • Bill Harvey was incharge of running important operations like Task Force W (part of Operation Mongoose)
  • And ZR/RIFLE, the CIA’s assassination program to eliminate foreign leaders
  • During the Cuban missile crisis, Harvey launched THREE boat missions against Cuba without informing JFK/RFK
  • After the incident, Harvey was made the Rome station chief by his CIA superiors like Richard Helms
  • Book: The Devil’s Chessboard by David Talbot: HardcoverPaperbackKindleAudiobook
  • Under the Dulles brothers, countries had to choose between the US or the USSR
  • They couldn’t remain non-aligned
  • The leaders who did not oppose the communists were on the hit list
  • Patrice Lumumba of Congo was eliminated
  • JFK wasn’t informed about Lumumba’s killing for 24 days
  • Propaganda Due or P2
  • P2 was headed by Licio Gelli
  • Operation Condor, US-backed state terror in Latin America
  • Lemnitzer served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1960 to 1962
  • He was relieved of his position by JFK shortly after Lemnitzer approved of Operation Northwoods
  • Operation Northwoods: Read OnlineScanned PDFSearchable PDF
  • Video: Doug Horne on Operation Northwoods (watch for about 4mins)
  • FREE DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeven Days in May by Charles W. Bailey II and Fletcher Knebel
  • June 10 1963, JFK’s American University commencement address titled ‘A Strategy of Peace’AudioVideoText
  • Book: American Values: Lessons I Learned from My FamilyHardcoverPaperbackKindle
  • “THAT OPERATION NORTHWOODS MEMO SHOULD SERVE AS A WARNING the American
    people about the dangers of allowing the military to set goals or standards for our country”
  • The gladio-connected assassination/overthrow attempt of Charles de Gaulle and the assassination of Aldo Moro
  • Why wouldn’t the same people go after Kennedy?
  • Gladio-connected terror attacks in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Turkey and Greece
  • Article: The Intra-Administration War in Vietnam by Arthur Krock, Oct 3, 1963 in the NYT
  • When a European country agreed to join NATO, secret protocols which
    effectively annuled the sovereignty of the nation had to be signed
  • NATO probably felt that President Kennedy was not trustworthy enough to be informed about Gladio
  • Henry Kissinger threatens Aldo Moro
  • Jean-René Souètre, a member of the dissident OAS that tried to kill de Gaulle
  • He was in Fort Worth on the 22nd of Nov, 1963; so was JFK
  • Cointelpro and Operation Chaos
  • An excellent documentary on Operation Gladio; watch here for free