"The Lone Gladio" Reviewed

Today James reviews "The Lone Gladio," the new novel by FBI whistleblower and BoilingFrogsPost.com founder Sibel Edmonds. To learn more about the book or to purchase a copy, please visit the book's website:

http://www.thelonegladio.com/

To view the Gladio B interview series, please visit:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN6xa7kD9dZ_qXHAmm4dx-Bqqy10mSVDZ

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.
James Corbett here, CorbettReport.com,

with a special video presentation
for you today:

a book report of sorts. but not like the
Film Literature, and the New World Order

podcast series I do on a monthly basis,

where we examine books and movies

for the various messages and propaganda

they may or may not contain.

But in this particular video,

we're going to be reviewing a book

that I wholeheartedly and
unreservedly recommend

to the readers, viewers, and listeners

in The Corbett Report audience;

and that book is The Lone Gladio
by Sibel Edmonds.

And please forgive me the disservice

of not having a physical copy to
display to you here.

I only have an electronic review copy
at the moment;

my physical copy is still on the way.

But, with that disadvantage aside,

I will do my best to present to you

some of the reasons why I think

it will be in your best interests to get
and read this book.

I think it's an extremely important

and extremely courageous and brave thing

that Sibel has done in putting this
book in print.

So I think we need to support that
act of bravery

with the intestinal fortitude

-- and every other type of fortitude --

that's required

to stomach our way through

what really is, I think,

the belly of the beast

that we often talk about

and try to delineate here

on The Corbett Report.

So, to get to the meat and potatoes:

The Lone Gladio.

Obviously, to understand what this
novel is about,

it would be good to have at least a
general familiarity

with the idea of Operation Gladio

-- which I'm sure much of my
audience already does

from some of the video presentations,

the podcasts, the other things

that I've done on the subject of Gladio.

I'll include some links

in the show notes for this video

in case you haven't seen those
presentations in the past.

But the long story short is,

according to the mainstream version
of events

-- which has now been the
mainstream version of events

for nearly two-and-a-half decades --

that back in the wake of the
Second World War,

going into the Cold War era,

the NATO powers coalesced

-- in the late 1940s --

to try to form stay-behind
paramilitary units

that would survive in the event

of some Soviet occupation of
Eastern Europe,

or of Europe as a whole,

and that would be able to stay behind

and fight against the Soviet occupation.

And so,

that was the idea for this operation

that became much, much more complex

and much more nuanced than that

from the outset.

And I think, obviously,

as part of the design,

it became much more than that.

This, in the mainstream framing of it,

was a NATO operation;

and it was

-- again, in the mainstream way
that it's framed --

it's generally a European operation

that's most closely associated with Italy.

And this is, perhaps,

because the name "Gladio" itself

derives from the name

for the specifically Italian branch

of this stay-behind operation,

which was Gladio.

And then the entire program

just gets known as Operation Gladio;

and there you have it.

So, most people associate this with Italy

and with some of the acts of terrorism
that took place

in the "Years of Lead" in Italy

from the mid-1960s up until the 1980s;

and, of course, culminating in the
Bologna Massacre:

the killing of 85 and wounding of over 200

at the Bologna Railway Station in 1980.

So, that atrocious event and others

have been linked to the stay-behind units

that were started as a result of this
NATO operation.

It was a huge scandal

and, I suppose, continues to be so.

It continues to be investigated

by various parliamentary investigations,
and what have you.

But I think that the big revelations

that we saw, for example, in 1990

when the Italian Prime Minister got up

and announced it in front of the entire
House there in Italy:

it is probably behind us.

I don't think those types of revelations

are going to be happening,

as a result of those types of political
confessions,

anytime in the near future

-- unless, of course, it were to be
spurred.

But as I say,

that's the mainstream understanding
of Gladio,

and it's very much in the past tense:

it was something that happened during
the Cold War,

it was specifically aimed at the Soviet
Union, et cetera.

And if there's anything that we've
learned in recent years

-- and I hope there is --

it would be from my very important
interview series with Sibel Edmonds

that I conducted last year on Gladio B.

I'll direct you to the playlist

for all five videos in that series:

an exceptionally important few hours
of your time

that I guarantee will be absolutely
mind-blowing

if you haven't seen it before.

And if you can stick with it

to put together the pieces of a puzzle

that you have never been shown before

-- and many of the pieces of that
puzzle you've never been shown before;

so it can be quite confusing at first --

but I guarantee you it is worth
your investment of time

to look at that interview series, where...

I call it an interview series:

really, it was a monologue by
Sibel Edmonds;

I just pressed the record button.

And she spilled all sorts of
information out

on an unsuspecting public.

And that information included details

of how Ayman al-Zawahiri

-- of course, Osama Bin Laden's
right-hand man

and now the nominal leader of al-Qaeda --

was meeting with US State
Department representatives

and Gladio operatives in Azerbaijan

in the late-1990s;

how they were coordinating various acts

in Central Asia and the Caucasus
region together;

how...

That's just the tip of the iceberg

in terms of the collusion that goes on

with this Operation Gladio in its
new-found form:

to acts of terrorism across that region;

to drug-running and money
laundering operations,

to Turkish paramilitary units

that are now shifting over into Gladio B,

Plan B of Gladio

-- which is now less focused on
paramilitary

and right-wing nationalist groups

and now focused on building up
Islamic radicalist groups.

And, of course, the Islamic terrorist

and Islamic radical threat
that we now face

is, according to the testimony
of Sibel Edmonds

and others who have examined Gladio,

the work of the Gladio operatives.

So, an exceptionally, exceptionally
important interview series.

So much information: please go there.

But if you haven't seen that,

and just to get a grip on what's going on,

let's just take a short extract

from a very informative interview

that Sibel recently gave Lew Rockwell

on the Lew Rockwell podcast

talking about The Lone Gladio,

in which she explained a little bit

about how Gladio functions today,

in a very, very excellently-titled
interview:

"The Government Gagged Her,
But it Didn't Work."

(Sibel Edmonds [recorded]):
Now, at the fall of the Soviet Union,

after 1991, we had the same situation,

this time over former Soviet Union states:

Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan;

and also the entire region
including Georgia:

who was going to control this?

Well, we had the Chinese

with their billions of people
and their dependence on energy;

we had the semi-weakened Russians;

and we had us.

So between these three actors
in the global chess game,

each one had to do his or her own,
its own best

to take over and have the dominance
of this region.

The United States was in this
position with NATO,

saying, "How can we utilize the
language that is on our side"

-- the Turkic language and the
Turkic heritage, and Islam --

"to sway them,"

"and get them further from Russia,
and on our side:"

"so that we can turn them into
NATO members,"

"put our military base there;"

"and also, to dominate their energy,"

"the rich energy resources sector?"

Well, the plan that was conceived
and put in place,

which was a continuation of
Operation Gladio

-- original Operation Gladio --

was that we would use Islam;

and we would use language;

and we'd continue the previous
Operation Gladio tactics

in order to sway these countries,

bring them to our side,

put them in our camp:

put our military bases, et cetera

-- which we started doing.

We started in 1996.

With the help of the United States

-- under United States' direction --

we helped open over 350 mosques

in Azerbaijan and other countries
in the region.

We started putting together

some of these NGOs for the
supposed development,

or education,

or human rights,

or feminism -

- whatever you want to call it --

and we started putting our operatives
on the ground,

in place, in those countries.

So, as you see, the Gladio of old

is no longer the Gladio of today.

The current Gladio is very much focused

on Central Asia and the Caucasus region:

a very strategic and resource-rich area

that is very much in play

now that, of course, we are in the wake

of the fall of the Soviet Union.

And that part of the chessboard

is still up for grabs;

and obviously, there is a very concerted
effort going on

to make sure that that falls into the
NATO side.

And of course, that's what Gladio B i
s all about.

So, that is where we derive

the name of this novel, The Lone Gladio.

And that is not incidental to what
this book is about:

it really is the heart about what
this book is about.

Now, to say what this book is
as plainly as I can:

I suppose, if we had to categorize it,

it would be a spy thriller.

But if you read my written review
of this book,

you would know that that isn't exactly

the best way to categorize it,

ecause it goes above and beyond

any spy-thriller that you've read

from Ludlum, or Clancy, or le Carre,

or any of those types of writers.

This is a spy thriller that goes

right into the heart of real
geopolitical reality

that is really taking place

in the real world today:

and it really does connect.

And, as I say,

it connects that Gladio B plan

that's taking place right now

with the real world

in a very visceral way.

I won't belittle the audience

by actually giving a plot summary
of the book.

I think that that's always a bit tawdry
for a book review:

you can read the book yourself
and follow along with the plot.

But, I guess, to give the basics
of the plot:

the initiating event is a Congressman

-- a high-ranking Congressman --

caught in child sex tourism in Cambodia,

where he is being bugged and wiretapped:

not only by an intrepid American reporter,

but also by a CIA team

which is blackmailing and
surveilling members of Congress.

And so that sets in motion a series
of events

that culminates in a Gladio operative

being stung in a way that they
weren't expecting,

and he kind of goes rogue

and starts acting against the system --

and ends up cooperating with Elsie Simon,

a plucky five-foot-three, 105-pound
FBI translator

in the Washington Field Office of the FBI.

And this is a book written by a plucky

-- five-foot-three-ish, I guess? --

translator -- former translator --

in the Washington Field Office of the FBI.

Dunno: make of that what you will,

but... so, that's what this plot
revolves around.

But as I say, again: what this book
is doing

-- and what it is clearly doing --

is putting into a fictional form

-- I mean, there are fictional elements
that take place here, obviously --

but putting into a fictional form

some very real events that are going on

and trying to explain this Gladio B
narrative

to a lay audience

-- a point that I think Sibel laid out
quite well in her recent interview

with Guillermo Jimenez on
Traces of Reality

about this book.

(Guillermo Jimenez [recorded]):
The perhaps obvious

-- but a very significant --

benefit to writing a fictional novel,

or working through fictional mediums,

is exactly that:

I think a whole new audience

that has never heard of

-- let alone Gladio B, that never heard
of Operation Gladio period --

are going to be introduced to it

for the very first time.

And that, I think...

I mean, you can answer this better,
obviously, than I could;

because you wrote it, after all!

-- but to me, [laughs] as a reader who

is at least somewhat familiar with these
ideas and concepts,

that felt, to me, like

this was the true purpose of this book:

was to introduce Gladio B to a larger
audience

that really needs to hear about
this stuff.

I mean, you can answer this yourself;

but that, to me, is what it felt like
reading through this.

(Sibel Edmonds [recorded]):
Absolutely, it is.

And getting people's minds

-- when the minds are far more
open to ideas such as --

and the notions:

these are the real-life notions
politically, geopolitically

-- of things, practices such as
synthetic wars

and the synthetic terrorism,
false-flag operations.

(Guillermo [recorded]): Yeah.

(Sibel [recorded]): These extremely
important factual realities;

these things that are happening
before our eyes

but, for one reason or another,

people are just looking the other way.

Or, they still resist accepting it:

no matter what the evidence,

or no matter what the facts.

And again, that was another thing
that I was hoping,

and I'm still hoping, that would achieve.

We still don't really have a real answer

to this Malaysian flight, MH17.

And the same thing with Syria

and those supposed chemical
attacks that took place,

and who really did it.

It became a context, the pretext:

it provided that,

what we were publicly speaking...

(Guillermo [recorded]): So, the
red line, whatever... yeah, yeah...

(Sibel [recorded)]: Yeah! The
feasible grounds,

so that you get some support

and you go and declare another war.

And as we know, for the past few years,

the synthetic wars have been
created around this non-stop.

I mean, whether you're looking at Libya,

or Syria,

or what's gonna happen with Iran;

and what's happening in the Ukraine;

and what we're gonna see happen
in Georgia very soon

-- in Abkhazia and Georgia area.

Well, again: makes it very current,

and hopefully gets people to think

about some of these events,
current events...

(Guillermo [recorded]): Absolutely...

(Sibel [recorded]): ...as they read it.

All right: so, this really does

connect very well with current events,

and things that are going on right now,

and things that will continue to go on,

unless and until we choose

to wake up from our slumber

and realize that these events

are being crafted and puppeteered

by these Gladio-type operations

that are going on all the time.

And let me tell you this,

from my perspective from reading
this book:

I know a lot of the information

that this book is trying to convey

-- not all of it, I would say,

but a lot of the information that it's
trying to convey --

from having, obviously, conducted

those interviews with Sibel last year.

But having said that,

it is another thing entirely

to read a narrative in narrative form,

a story that puts these pieces together

in a way that makes it hit home

-- in a way that it hasn't for me in a
very long time --

just how real this is;

how this is not a game

and this is not, really, anything to do

with the types of arguments

that I'm sure you, and I, and everyone
else has

with the people around us in
regular everyday life,

where you're just trying to get people

to listen to any of this evidence:

"Oh, that's just conspiracy theory."

"No, it's not conspiracy..."

-- we've all had that type of argument.

But beyond that, you know that there
are people

at levels much, much higher than
the mere "President of the United States"

who are aware of the various things

that are being done and puppeteered
and engineered

to bring about geopolitical realities

that are much grander in scale

than any minor foreign policy agenda

that the State Department publicly
declares;

that are looking at those types of
debates happily

and rubbing their hands:

because as long as we're caught
up arguing like that...

I mean, to think about the reality

of what's going on underneath this is...

again, it's very interesting

to read it in narrative form.

So allow me, if you will,

to just read a couple of passages
that I think are important,

just to illustrate some of the things

and topics and ideas

that are being talked about here.

First of all, we have this one,

which is an observation from the Gladio,

the rogue Gladio operative's perspective
in this novel.

He's reminiscing or pontificating
to himself.

And he thinks to himself,

"People believed... well, the ignorant
masses believed, in fairy tales."

"Like reformed and restricted
intelligence agencies."

"The supposed restrictions, FISA laws..
. these are dog and pony shows."

"Illusions are created to shield
the system."

"Otherwise things could get sticky."

"The CIA never for an instant ceased
or restricted"

"their operations within the
United States."

"All they did was to implement
new measures"

"and procedures to decrease
their chances of being exposed."

"Greg was well aware that despite
the official policy"

"that twisted and abused the public
trust,"

"the Agency had operatives
at the topmost levels"

"of decision-making within the news
agencies and media organizations,"

"including print, digital, TV, and radio."

"These folks made sure that the
elected players were under their control."

All right: that's just one passage:

from the perspective, again,

of one of these operatives who works

at a very high level of this system,

who knows of which he speaks.

And that's part of the perspective
that you get from this novel;

that... again, when you see it
narrativized like that

and put into a series of events

that flow realistically, logically,
naturally

from the way that the story is set up:

it, again, is quite chilling.

Especially because this ultimately
culminates

in a confession extracted

-- through torture, actually,
and interestingly enough --

from one of the perpetrators

of the September 11th attacks.

Not the September 11th attacks

as in the 19 men with box-cutters,

but the September 11th attacks

as in the real false-flag reality
behind those attacks,

which are

-- again, according to this book and the
logic of this book in the narrative --

it wasn't hijackers;

it was people who had been told
that they were going to be...

they were in a drill,

that they were going to be rewarded

for their work afterwards, et cetera:

something very much like has
been posited many times

by those "conspiracy theorists"
in the alternative media.

And so, again, these types of things

put into this narrative form

really do help to, I think,

encapsulate these ideas in a way that...

just talking about facts and evidence,

for most people, probably won't
reach them;

a novel form reaches people

in a completely different way.

And again, I wanted to share a
different passage,

if I can find it at the moment

-- which I probably can't --

Ah, yes:

another, I think, key aspect of this

is that it's not sentimental in any way,

and it doesn't paint a rosy-eyed
picture of the world.

It does end with the...

basically, the dismantling of Gladio B
from the outside in

-- the Gladio B is exposed,
and it's going to have to fold --

but the implication is, it's going
to continue;

it's just going to have to go underground
in a different way,

and it's maybe going to...

some of the rats are gonna be exposed

and gonna be captured as they flee
the sinking ship,

but others will undoubtedly cling

to some piece of shrapnel for safety

and float off to their next adventure.

And I think the best summary of how
these operations work

is contained on page 258 of the book:

"What he'd told her about the
company operation was true:"

"highly compartmentalized, distinct
pockets,"

"separated from one another by design."

"It was brilliant, and the key to their
enduring success."

"No matter how savvy or skilled,"

"no one Gladio could ever unearth Gladio
as a whole."

"It would be impossible."

There are too many different pieces
of this puzzle

scattered in too many different places,

and too many people are guarding
those secrets individually,

for them ever to all combine

and expose the whole big picture.

The best you can do is expose bits
and pieces here

and make sure you get the worst
bits out

before they have a chance to
re-metastasize

like the cancer in the body politic
that they are.

And that is, perhaps,

the sober reality behind this book,

but one that's exceptionally important
to understand.

Again, I won't go through...

it is a spy thriller.

This may sound all philosophical
and geopolitical;

it is a spy thriller.

There are...

there is action, there is violence,

and a love story, and everything
you could ask for in a spy thriller here.

But the underlying reality of what's
going on

is so important to get out to other
people.

And if boring conversations of,

dry presentations of facts don't do it,

then perhaps a book like this will.

So, please: I really do think

it would be worth your time
to order a copy.

Maybe order a couple;

give one out as a loaner copy

that you can loan out to friends
to introduce them to this information.

Truly, some of the most important
information we have

-- and from an inside source:

someone who was there in the
Washington Field Office of the FBI

with her hands on some of the documents

that reveal some of the truths that
are being hinted at in this book.

And if you go in with that knowledge,

then you will understand the types
of things that are being hinted at.

So there will be more to say about
this book;

we will talk about it in more detail later.

I'm leaving out the detail of the book now

because I'm going to give you a
chance to read it first.

Please go to TheLoneGladio.com
or BoilingFrogsPost.com

in order to secure your purchase

-- your copy of the book --

or find out more information

about the book in general.

And once you've done so,

join us back here on The Corbett Report,

where we will be talking more

about this book in the future.

That's it from me for today.

Thank you, again, for tuning in.

I'm looking forward to talking to you

again in the near future.

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