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Joe Rogan left stunned by wild CIA plot that killed civilians and framed communists in propaganda campaign
Joe Rogan was left speechless after learning of a shocking CIA plot that intentionally killed over 100 civilians, all in an effort to smear communism.
Host of The Why Files, AJ Gentile, revealed during a May 27 episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that US intelligence agents worked to frame the Soviet Union for a series of deadly car bomb attacks after World War II.
The information, which Gentile said he feared to make public, was all part of a plot called Operation Gladio.
Gladio is believed to have begun shortly after the end of the war in 1947 or 1948, but the operation allegedly kept going until at least 1990, when the Italian government revealed its existence to the world.
According to Gentile, approximately 110 civilians throughout Italy were killed between the 1960s and 1980s in a scheme designed to create opposition against communist Russia in case they ever invaded Europe.
'Operation Gladio was a crazy one,' Gentile said. 'They trained a secret army, a civilian army in Italy to bomb civilians and then blame it on the communists.'
Gentile noted that the Communist Party was already the most popular political group in Italy, which US spies were attempting to sabotage as Cold War tensions escalated.
Ironically, however, the podcast host then revealed that the US intelligence community was training these guerrilla fighters with the help of a Nazi general.
These bombings included at least two confirmed car explosions in 1969 and 1972. Those attacks killed 20 people and injured nearly 100.
Two more car bombings were set off in 1974 and 1980, including an attack at the Bologna Centrale Railway Station which killed 85 people and wounded 200.
Although investigations into the later bombings could not find definitive proof that they were a part of the CIA plot, Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti declared both attacks to be the work of right-wing terrorists with ties to Operation Gladio in 1990.
'Civilians were killed in bombings by the CIA-trained guerrilla army, and they were trained by a Nazi general who was tight with Allen Dulles,' Gentile explained.
According to declassified CIA documents, the Nazi general he referenced was Reinhard Gehlen, a German spy who served as the head of Nazi military intelligence during World War II.
Gehlen was recruited by the US Army and the CIA to form his own spy organization in Europe that ended up being the precursor to West Germany's intelligence agency during the Cold War.
This organization employed former Nazis and anti-communists to conduct spy operations against the Soviet Union.
Meanwhile, Gehlen's ally Allen Dulles was a pivotal US intelligence official who served as the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1953 to 1961.
He was also the first civilian head of the CIA and was closely tied to Operation Gladio.
According to Gentile, the two men coordinated with NATO and European intelligence services to establish 'stay-behind' networks across Western Europe after the war.
These groups would work to undermine communist influence following World War II, keeping the Soviet Union from spreading further into Europe.
Gentile noted that the plan to work with former Nazis actually began during World War II, not after.
'This was planned during the war - you know, while American GIs were being killed fighting the Nazis, they were already planning for this next phase,' Gentile added.
However, when Rogan asked the podcast host which secret CIA schemes 'freaked you out,' Gentile specifically mentioned the US government's decision to kill civilians as part of a propaganda campaign.
Rogan then asked if the Why Files host ever hesitates to talk about government cover-up on his show.
Without even pausing, Gentile replied: 'Yes. Yes.'
Rogan followed up by suggesting: 'Because they're dangerous?' which Gentile confirmed: 'They are.'
In the case of Operation Gladio, the details are truly shocking, with Gentile calling the secret mission in Italy 'a massacre.'
Dulles endorsed a so-called 'strategy of tension,' a controversial tactic his operatives carried out false-flag attacks, bombings on allied targets that are made to look like an enemy nation was responsible.
Operation Gladio wasn't the only sinister CIA plan devised during the Cold War. Rogan and his guest also discussed an infamous plot to invade Cuba using the faked sinking of a US Navy vessel as the justification.
Code-named Operation Northwoods, this top-secret plot also proposed enacting terrorism attacks on US cities before blaming Cuba in order to fool the American public into supporting war efforts to oust communist leader Fidel Castro.
Gentile then ominously noted that President John F Kennedy's decision to stop Operation Northwoods was 'the beginning of the end' for his presidency.
'That was where Kennedy says we need to start again,' Gentile said, referring to the belief that JFK wanted to dismantle the CIA before his assassination in 1963.
The podcast also mentioned that JFK had received clear warnings from his predecessor, President Eisenhower, who famously cautioned the public to 'beware of the military-industrial complex.'
'He talked to Eisenhower a lot, and Eisenhower gave him advice and said, watch out for the CIA. Keep an eye on them,' Gentile revealed.
