Dr. Daniele Ganser

Dr. Daniele Ganser is a Swiss historian specialising in Contemporary History Since 1945 and International Politics, whose research centres in Peace Research, Geo-strategy, Covert Warfare, Resource Wars and Economic Policy. In addtion to teaching at both the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and the University of Basel, Dr. Ganser is also the founder and Director of the Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research (SIPER) in Basel, an institute dedicated to research into the ways in which a peaceful transition might be made to the state of 100% renewable energy.

• Daniele Ganser's website (http://www.danieleganser.ch/home.html?lang=en)
• Swiss Institure for Peace and Energy Research (SIPER) (http://www.siper.ch/en/)
• Panel Member at Consensus911.org (http://www.consensus911.org/panel-members/)

Books

• Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies : Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Routledge (February 5, 2005)
• Daniele Ganser, Europa im Erdölrausch : Die Folgen einer gefährlichen Abhängigkeit, German Kindle edn., Orell Füssli Verlag (29 Nov. 2013)

Items mentioned in (or otherwise relevant to) the interview

• Daniele Ganser, "The Strategy of Tension in the Cold War Period", The Journal of 9/11 Studies (May 2014) [external PDF]
• Allan Francovich, Gladio, (1992); documentary included in BBC Timewatch series (https://archive.org/details/operationgladio)
• Operation Northwoods
• James Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable : Why He Died and Why It Matters, Touchstone; First Touchstone Edition edition (October 19, 2010)
• Paul Craig Roberts, "Charlie Hebdo", PaulCraigRoberts.org (13 January 2015)
• Gladio documents compiled by Tom Secker (http://www.investigatingtheterror.com/documents/Operation_Gladio_Document_Collection.htm)
• Philip Willan, "Terrorists 'helped by CIA' to stop rise of left in Italy", The Guardian (26 March 2001)

Updates

• On the death of Licio Gelli: Eric Margolis, "Italy's Puppet-Master", EricMargolis.com (19 December 2015)
• A listener drew my attention to The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf at the CIA Library, which in 2007 published a review of Dr. Ganser's book. (Scroll down the page to read it: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol49no3/html_files/Bookshelf_11.htm)

Acknowledgements

Theme music: Chillout Me, kindly provided by Antony Raijekov, from his Jazz U compilation (CC BY-NC 2.5)