US Special Forces Parachute into Belgium, attack barracks, steal weapons, throw grenades, wound a guard...




Bonus scene! Watch Ledeen and Colby lie to your face.

Do you ever have the feeling that the only game in town is the one between fascists and communists? Boring ain't it.

Part 3 of a 1992 BBC documentary shows some remarkable events, most importantly those surrounding the supposed "terrorism" that visited Europe from the 60's to the 80's. I'm sure it's still going on. American special forces PARACHUTE into Belgium, not in WWII, but in 1984, they attack a barracks, (a barracks they had attacked before), steal weapons, wound a guard, and throw a grenade at the Attorney General's office.... the Oesling Exercise.

This is mistaken for Red Brigades, Communists, the Left, Liberalism etc etc etc, or I suppose, whatever you like.

According to the film and John Prados' NATO's Secret Armies (pdf-->>Nato's Secret ) , for months this was blamed on criminals and terrorists. Vielsalm barracks was only one of several "exercises"committed in Belgium; an attack on a military fuel depot, an attack on a police station.

The arms stolen during the Vielsalm attack were planted among a "leftist" group in order to blame Communists. The object was to mobilize the Belgian police and to fool the population that poor Belgium was on the verge of a Communist revolution.

The group among whom the weapons were planted, the alleged Communist group, the CCC (Cellules Communistes Combatantes) was actually set up by right wing forces. The CCC was responsible for 27 attacks, attacks on NATO, Banks, and American installations.

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=16921



Dr. John Prados directs the Archive’s Vietnam Documentation Project and is Research Fellow on national security affairs, including foreign affairs, intelligence, and military subjects. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Columbia University and has authored many books and articles on the subjects of the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Vietnam war. His book on the National Security Council and another on intelligence in the Pacific in World War II were both nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent are Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006), Hoodwinked: The Documents that Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War (New York: The New Press, 2004), and Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). His articles have appeared in Diplomatic History, Intelligence and National Security, Scientific American, Military History Quarterly, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Survival, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The VVA Veteran.


Posted: Thu - June 7, 2007 at 08:13 PM            

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