--- title: "Poland: Strategy of Tension Terror in Krakow?" type: "post" post_id: "14936" slug: "poland-strategy-of-tension-terror-in-krakow" canonical: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2026/11/07/poland-strategy-of-tension-terror-in-krakow/" markdown_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2026/11/07/poland-strategy-of-tension-terror-in-krakow.md" json_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2026/11/07/poland-strategy-of-tension-terror-in-krakow.json" txt_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2026/11/07/poland-strategy-of-tension-terror-in-krakow.txt" published: "2026-11-07T19:12:19+00:00" modified: "2026-11-07T19:22:38+00:00" author: "penny2" categories: - "Uncategorized" tags: - "EU" - "forgotten history" - "Poland" - "Russia" - "US" site_name: "PFYT2" publisher: "" language: "en-US" generator: "easyPress Markdown" generator_version: "1.0.6" --- **Looks like Poland is getting a taste of NATO’s Strategy of Tension- Haven’t written about this for quite some time. So, I’m going to link an interview after posting the latest news out of Poland. Keeping in mind that Donald Tusk led an attempted a coup in Poland** > [Polish president turns plane around, police deployed outside top court during coup attempt](https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2026/10/30/polish-president-turns-plane-around-police-deployed-outside-top-court-during-coup-attempt/) [**And today a terror attack in Krakow**](https://www.npr.org/2026/11/07/g-s1-152532/gunman-opens-fire-in-polish-city-of-krakow-killing-6-people-and-injuring-15) > KRAKOW, Poland (AP) — **Six people were killed and 15 wounded after a gunman opened fire Saturday afternoon in a busy market square in Krakow, [Poland](https://apnews.com/hub/poland), authorities said.** > > **The gunman, a `24-year-old Polish citizen`, aimed at random people as he drove into the Main Square, a major tourist destination in [the center of the city](https://apnews.com/hub/krakow), Krakow police said. Four women and two men were killed. Two police officers were wounded, one seriously, Poland’s interior minister said on X.** > > The perpetrator was shot and wounded during a gunfight with officers a short distance away from the initial violence, police said, and was taken to the hospital for surgery. The death toll earlier stood at five, but police updated it to six in a post on X. > > Katarzyna Cisło, a spokesperson for the Krakow police, said**` the perpetrator was wearing military-style fatigues and a bulletproof vest and used a military-type long gun in the attack.`** Police found many other weapons, as well as ammunition, in his car. He kept firing at the police even after being shot himself, she said. ##### [NATO’s Secret Armies. Operation GLADIO and the Strategy of Tension- Interview with Dr. Daniele Ganser](https://stateofthenation.info/?p=35697) **Excerpts from an extensive interview;** **JC:** It is interesting. We’re brought up to have faith in our governments. I think that’s understandable, but along with that goes this kind of assumption: “Well, they would never lie to us.” **DG:** That’s right. Whilst researching the CIA’s secret Bay of Pigs operation, the invasion of Cuba in April 1961 aimed at toppling the Government of Fidel Castro, I read the UN Security Council documents covering that period and found the content actually quite surreal. These official transcripts revealed a conversation between the Cuban representative and representatives of the five member countries of the UN Security Council: France, England, the US, Russia and China. The Cuban representative tells them: “Cuba is being attacked by the CIA who are trying to overthrow the Government”, to which the American Ambassador responds: “This is all nonsense! This is probably false information.” Then the Cuban representative says: “No, no! We are being bombed right now; it’s not fake.” Then the American Ambassador says: “Ah yes, you are being bombed, but according to my sources that’s probably disaffected pilots from the Cuban Air Force dropping bombs on their own country before leaving in protest against Fidel Castro’s dictatorship.” It’s hilarious, but that’s actually in the records. Then to add to the hilarity, the British and French Ambassadors in the UN say: “If my colleague from the US says this, then we believe him, totally.” And the Chinese and the Soviets go mad: “It’s all nonsense!” So that really was the start of my interest in secret warfare. **JC:** And that led to your research into Gladio itself. How easy did you find that research? Did you find that governments were open in revealing their information? **DG:** It was really my *interest* that guided my steps. I tried first to establish whether it was a fact that NATO had secret armies. So I went back to the records and looked at the [November 22nd 1990 Resolution of the European Parliament](http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/European_Parliament_resolution_on_Gladio), which I have here, and which states: ***“The European Union Parliament protests vigorously at the assumption by certain US military personnel at SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) and in NATO of the right to encourage the establishment in Europe of a clandestine intelligence and operations network.” By this I understood there was a secret network in Europe against which the European Union was protesting, and NATO was declining to respond. So it was like a fight between the big guys: the European Union on the one hand and NATO on the other.*** I found this very interesting, so I looked further into the details and discovered that the ***Italian Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, had confirmed the existence of a secret army in Italy. And it was very funny, because the French President at the time, FranÇois Mitterand, said: “No, we didn’t have a secret army.” Then Andreotti said: “Oh yes, very much so, there was a meeting in 1990 and the French were part of it.” So, Paris was really embarrassed, because they had to retract their denial and admit that they had a stay-behind army.*** It was a scandal with countries contradicting each other. Suffice to say that in the end I had enough solid data to confirm absolutely and beyond any doubt that NATO had secret armies, called Gladio in Italy and stay-behind in other countries. **JC:** I can imagine that it must have been difficult to pick through all the claims, counter-claims and propaganda, and decide what’s the truth in this. Anyway, I want to ask you to explain what Gladio is. I suspect many people will know what it was, but there will be some people who will have never heard of it before. So, could you give as an idea of what Gladio basically was? **DG:** Yes, *gladio* is the word for a short double-edged sword, a weapon used by gladiators in ancient Rome. During the Cold War the Italian military secret service,*Servizio Informazione Sicurezza Militare*, had a branch called Gladio, a top-secret part of the Italian Secret Service. It was preparing to fight for two things, and that’s where it all becomes rather delicate. One: In the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe – so we’re talking about Italy, France, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, etc. – this secret network of soldiers would have fought as a guerrilla army behind enemy lines with explosives, weapons, ammunition, communication gear, and so forth. For example, in the case of a NATO pilot being shot down above, say, Soviet-occupied France, the secret network would inform Governments of unoccupied territories – probably the UK or US, – about the shot-down pilot. So, it was very much along this idea of *resistance*. That was one branch. **JC:** Absolutely. How many countries had these stay-behind armies? **DG:** Oh, many countries. **The scandal broke in Italy and was initially treated as yet another Italian mess,** because there’s always a scandal in Italy! But then it went further: the Belgian Defence Minister happened to be in Italy, and he found out from a newspaper that **Belgium also had a secret army.** Naturally, as Defence Minister, he was dismayed. So, upon his return to Belgium he called in the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – the highest Officer of the Belgian Military – and asked him if what he had read was true. And the Chairman said, “Yes, that’s right”, to which the Defence Minister responded, “That’s strange; I’m the Defence Minister, and yet I know nothing about it!” The Chairman’s answer to that was: “We are military officers who dedicate our whole lives to military service; you are merely a temporary Defence Minister, and a socialist to boot. Governments come and go, and we are not going to tell every Defence Minister about our secret operations.” Subsequently, the Belgian Parliament conducted an investigation, and found that it had a secret army under the aegis of its secret service. But this structure was n**ot limited to Italy and Belgium: secret stay-behind armies also existed in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, and also in neutral countries like Finland, Austria and Sweden**. So, basically**, you could say that all of Western Europe was covered with a network of NATO stay-behind armies, designed to become operative in the case of a Soviet invasion**. Obviously we now know that this Soviet invasion never came, but at the time when these networks were set up in the late ’40s and early ’50s, people weren’t so sure. **JC:** Is it right that the British Special Operations Executive and the Office of Strategic Services (the forerunner to the CIA) were hand-in-hand organising this? **DG:** That is correct, **because during WWII (1939 – 1945) the Special Operations Executive (the British branch of this secret effort) was operating behind enemy lines and trying to fight the Germans with unorthodox warfare, while the Office of Strategic Services (the OSS, the American branch)** was pretty much doing the same thing. For instance, in Italy they were co-operating with the communists because they wanted them to grow stronger so as to defeat Mussolini (the WWII Italian dictator). But as the war came to an end, the OSS realised that if they continued to support the Italian communist resistance, then Italian communists would end up in power at the end of the war, and they didn’t want that at all. So they had to do two things. First, the SOE and OSS stopped arming and co-operating with this resistance network. Second, the CIA rigged the 1948 Italian elections. (That was the very first thing the CIA did. Today we talk about CIA torture and other issues, but people forget about the past.) Their job was to make sure that no communist gained a dominant position in the Italian Parliament, otherwise Italy could not have become a member of NATO in 1949. So, first there was the vote, and then it was rigged, manipulated. And it worked! In ’49, Italy was brought into NATO, but the CIA and MI6 made sure that through this network of stay-behind soldiers they maintained secret control of all NATO countries. **JC:** This anticommunist impetus was a major reason why this organisation morphed into something much more sinister, with substantial links to terrorism in some cases. What was that shift? And why did it take place? **DG:** Yes, that is the very difficult part of my research. You have to keep in mind that this stay-behind network was not discovered by accident; it was discovered by an Italian magistrate, a judge, who was investigating a 1972 terrorist attack in Peteano, a small village in Northern Italy. An anonymous telephone call summoned the police to investigate an abandoned car in the village, and when they opened the door the car exploded killing three police officers. Right after that, someone telephoned claiming that the Red Brigades (an Italian terrorist group of the extreme left) were responsible. This was later supported by a police explosives ‘expert’, who told the investigators that the explosive was very clearly one used by the Red Brigades. This official story stood for a long time, until an Italian judge, Felice Casson, looked again at the attack, and found that the facts must have been falsified and manipulated; it was a sea of lies. Subsequently he discovered that the attack had not been carried out by the extreme Left, but by the extreme Right, and that a terrorist named Vincente Vinciguerra had carried it out, an extreme right-wing member of Ordine Nuovo, a neo-Fascist group in Italy. Vinciguerra openly admitted this, saying: “Yes, it’s true, but I’m being protected by a network of secret services. Furthermore, there’s a secret network all over Europe coordinated by NATO.” That’s what he said. Remember, that was in the 1980s. Many people in Italy simply thought, “This man is mad; a secret NATO army is just impossible!” But this Italian judge was determined to discover the truth, so he pressed Italian Prime Minister Guilio Andreotti to give him access to the Italian Military Secret Service’s archives. Strange to say – and I admit I can’t explain this – he obtained access. Imagine that! Suppose I, an historian, were given access to the archives of the CIA, MI6, Mossad, or the Italian Secret Service: needless to say, I would discover most revealing things too! So, this Italian judge gets access to the archives, and there – only there – he finds the documents which state very clearly that Operation Gladio was designed to fight two enemies. **First, a Soviet invasion (that never happened); and Second, a domestic enemy. The second idea goes like this: first, you carry out a terrorist attack – (usually terrorist attacks shock everybody and make them fearful) – and then you blame it on your enemy. During the Cold War it would have been the communists; today it is the Muslims.** Thus, your enemy is totally discredited, even if they didn’t do it, and that is called a false-flag Strategy of Tension. The judge, Felice Casson, came to realise that **the Strategy of Tension was actually used to shock Italy into a very strong fear of communist terrorism**. So, really, it was fabricated. Today, when we try to put the pieces together, **NATO declines to comment, as do the CIA and MI6; it’s all a bit tricky. But what we know today is that these terrorist attacks were carried out, and many of them were false-flag strategies of tension. We were being lied to.** [**Tusk and Sikorsky and been working overtime to blame Russia for everything and anything…As a distraction from their own nefarious behaviours**](https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/poland-accuses-russia-of-stoking-instability-amid-constitutional-crisis-border-alert/4110222) > **Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Tuesday accused Russia and pro-Russian actors of trying to fuel instability in Poland by exploiting the country’s escalating constitutional crisis,** as authorities also reported thwarting a suspected provocation on the border with Russia’s Kaliningrad region. > > Speaking at a Cabinet meeting, Tusk said Moscow was seeking to amplify the confrontation surrounding Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, where a struggle over the court’s leadership has developed into an open conflict between his government and President Karol Nawrocki. > > “We see the activity of Russia and pro-Russian politicians – in the world and in the country – **around the defense of the Constitutional Tribunal,”** Tusk said. > > He said **Poland was facing tensions “provoked by the Russians,”** linking the activity both to the dispute in Poland and alleged Russian interference surrounding the US midterm elections. > > Tusk said Russia had a well-established method of exploiting existing political divisions rather than necessarily creating them from scratch, with the aim of increasing instability. **Tusk instigated the crisis in Poland- And points the finger at Russia??** **And today a very definite strategy of tension type attack in Poland..**