Daniele Ganser

" “conspiracy theorist”"  Daniele Ganser      ( author,  academic,  historian,  Statecraft/Analyst)
Born	29 August 1972
Alma mater	•  University of Basel •  University of Amsterdam •  London School of Economics
Member of	9/11 Consensus Panel
Interests	•  Operation Gladio •  Resource wars •  Intelligence agencies •  Propaganda/Research
Interest of	'Feliks'
Swiss historian who has focused on Operation Gladio, as well as on the false flag attacks of September 11, 2001. Ganser came under pressure in 2006 after a public intervention by the American ambassador and eventually had to give up his all university posts.

Daniele Ganser is a historian who has focused on Operation Gladio, as well as on the false flag attacks of September 11, 2001. Ganser came under pressure in 2006 after a public intervention by the American ambassador and eventually had to give up his all university posts.

Daniele Ganser on 9/11 (video archive)

Education

Ganser studied at the University of Basel, the University of Amsterdam and the London School of Economics, where he studied ancient and modern history, philosophy and English with a specialization in international relations. In 2000-2001 at the University of Basel he prepared and defended his doctoral thesis on Operation Gladio.

Career

He became known for his thesis NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe, published as a book in 2004.

From 2001 to 2003, Ganser was responsible for international relations and policy analysis at the Zurich-based think tank Avenir Suisse. He led their campaign for the Popular Initiative on Switzerland's accession to the UN. In 2003, he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs for Civil Peacebuilding and Human Rights. From 2003 to 2006 he was a senior researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich.

From 2005, Ganser started publicly questioning the official narrative around 911. At the center of his analysis was WTC 7 (Building 7 of the World Trade Center), a building that collapsed although it was not hit by any aircraft. For this, the then US Ambassador, Carol J. Urban criticized Ganser in Swiss newspapers.

He was forced to leave ETH Zurich in 2006, and also had to leave the Universities of Zurich and Basel because of his research subjects. The dismissal from ETH was due to a direct intervention of the US ambassador in Bern, he said

Albert Stahel, the emeritus ETH professor who investigated the 911 attacks together with Ganser, confirmed in an interview: "I was even told personally that there are questions that should not be asked in connection with 9/11. It was almost a kind of defamation campaign. They started defaming both of us on a broad front."

Since Ganser's public appearance as a NATO critic in neutral Switzerland, negative reports in corporate media about him also increased.

Swiss Policy Research described how:

The campaign against the uncomfortable historian reached its preliminary climax in February 2017, when Swiss television SRF tried to discredit Ganser by inserting a private and abridged e-mail in the political program "Arena". However, this led to a record high number of spectator complaints and a complaint by the ombudsman's office.

Nevertheless, the University of St. Gallen – where Ganser taught on the "History and future of Energy Systems" – was then put under pressure by several media and persuaded to end his teaching assignment. As a result, Ganser was removed from all Swiss universities.

Meanwhile, the editorial director of the SRF Tagesschau confirmed in a remarkable letter that the SRF had to adhere to the "official view of things" regarding 9/11 despite "many inconsistencies".

Since 2017, Ganser has had success as a public lecturer and author.

 

Documents by Daniele Ganser

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Secret Warfare - Gladio	webpage	17 December 2004	Operation Gladio
File:The CIA in Western Europe and the Abuse of Human Rights.pdf	paper	October 2006	CIA Operation Gladio Human right Field Manual 30-31b/Authenticity	A paper addressing assertions from the US State Department that US Field Manual FM30-31B was a Soviet forgery.

 

Quotes by Daniele Ganser

Page	Quote	Date	Source
Operation Gladio	“As the Gladio scandal erupted in 1990 the British press observed that 'it is now clear that the elite Special Air Service regiment (SAS) was up to its neck in the NATO scheme, and functioned, with MI6, as a training arm for guerrilla warfare and sabotage'. Specifically the British press confirmed that 'an Italian stay-behind unit trained in Britain. The evidence now suggests that it lasted well into the 1980s', adding 'it has been proved that the SAS constructed the secret hides where arms were stockpiled in the British sector of West Germany'. Some of the best data on the secret British hand came from the Swiss parliamentary investigation into the secret Swiss stay-behind army P26. 'British secret services collaborated closely with an armed, undercover Swiss organisation [P26] through a series of covert agreements which formed part of a west European network of "resistance" groups', the press informed a stunned public in neutral Switzerland. Swiss judge Cornu was given the task to investigate the matter and in his report 'describes the group's [P26] collaboration with British secret services as "intense", with Britain providing valuable know-how. P26 cadres participated regularly in training exercises in Britain, the report says. British advisers - possibly from the SAS - visited secret training establishments in Switzerland.' Ironically the British knew more about the secret Swiss army than the Swiss government, for 'The activities of P26, its codes, and the name of the leader of the group, Efrem Cattelan, were known to British intelligence, but the Swiss government was kept in the dark, according to the report. It says that documents giving details about the secret agreements between the British and P26 have never been found.' Swiss Gladiators during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s trained in Great Britain under British Special Forces instructors. Training, according to Swiss military instructor and alleged Gladio member Alois Hurlimann, also included non-simulated real action operations against IRA activists, probably in Northern Ireland. This Hurlimann carelessly revealed in Switzerland during an English language course conversation hour when in poor English he reported that in May 1984 he had taken part in secret trainings in England which had also included a real, non-simulated assault on an IRA arms depot, in which Hurlimann, fully dressed in battle fatigues, had participated, and in which at least one IRA activist had been killed.”
Peteano bombing	“Casson's investigation revealed that the right-wing organization Ordine Nuovo had collaborated very closely with the Italian Military Secret Service, SID (Servizio Informazioni Difesa). Together, they had engineered the Peteano terror and then wrongly blamed the militant extreme Italian left, the Red Brigades. Judge Casson identified Ordine Nuovo member Vincenzo Vinciguerra as the man who had planted the Peteano bomb... He confessed and testified that he had been covered by an entire network of sympathizers in Italy and abroad who had ensured that after the attack he could escape. 'A whole mechanism came into action', Vinciguerra recalled, 'that is, the Carabinieri, the Minister of the Interior, the customs services and the military and civilian intelligence services accepted the ideological reasoning behind the attack.'<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-Strage-2">[2]</a>”	11 February 1998
Piazza della Loggia bombing	“Major attacks came in 1974, a couple years after the Peteano tragedy. On May 28, a bomb exploded at an anti-fascist rally for which 3,000 had gathered in the Italian city of Brescia, killing 8 and injuring and maiming 102 people. To cover the traces of the right- wing bombers, the square was cleaned with water hoses before the investigating magistrates could reach the scene of the crime to secure the evidence. An Italian Senate commission later observed that “the investigations immediately after the massacre were characterized by such incredible mistakes that one is left speechless.”<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>”	May 2014	Journal of 9/11 Studies
Strategy of tension	“It is probably fair to say that of the roughly seven billion people who live on our planet today, far less than one percent has ever heard of the "strategy of tension." And only a very few of these could illustrate the strategy with specific historical examples. It is indeed a strategy of a shadow world, known only to a few military and intelligence officers (and some criminals) who have carried it out, a few police officers and judges who fought against it, and a handful of journalists and academics who have written about it. In its essence, the strategy of tension targets the emotions of human beings and aims to spread maximum fear among the target group. “Tension” refers to emotional distress and psychological fear, whereas “strategy” refers to the technique of bringing about such distress and fear. A terrorist attack in a public place, such as a railway station, a market place, or a school bus, is the typical technique through which the strategy of tension is implemented. After the attack — and this is a crucial element — the secret agents who carried out the crime blame it on a political opponent by removing and planting evidence. It must be noted that the targets of the strategy of tension are not the dead and the wounded of the terrorist attacks, as many might assume. The targets are the political opponents, who are discredited through the attack, and those who remain unharmed but learn of the attack, thereby coming to fear for their lives and those of their loved ones. Since the aims of the strategy are to discredit opponents and to create fear, the real targets are not the people who were killed, whether they number in the dozens or even thousands, but the millions of people who survive physically unharmed but emotionally distressed.”	May 2014	Journal of 9/11 Studies

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