that not all Reagan administration people were convicted of crimes. After all, there's no law against being stupid.

He is a regular with his crackpot theories.

His analysis is nonsense, but his audience probably lapped it up.

Involvement into Gladio

In an Interview with Le Monde at the height of the Gladio scandal in Europe in November 1990 Melnik stated, that when he started his service in 1952, he had heard of such an organisation.5 He was officially informed about the network when becoming new security adviser for the de Gaulle government in 1959 and was asked to disband it. Melnik, who had just worked six years in France for the RAND Corporation, says de Gaulle's intelligence chief, Paul Grossin, told him the French government felt threatened by the network, some of whose members supported a group of generals who were resisting, sometimes violently, de Gaulle's attempts to negotiate Algerian independence and end the war there. "Any group with radios and training would be very dangerous for the security of France," Melnik said in an interview with the Nation6. According to Melnik, he disbanded the network, yet according to Remy Calandra, Defense Ministry spokesman for the Mitterrand administration, the program continued until the early ninenties, when Gladio became knewn throughout Europe. Calandra denies any misconduct by the secret army in France though. And also Giulio Andreotti dismantled the lie saying with amusement on November 10, 1990, that France had also participated in the most recent meeting of the Gladio command in Mons, Belgium, on October 23, 1990

http://operation-gladio.net/constantin-melnik

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/10/119640.pdf

What an odd photo!

I chose it because of the prominent cuckoo.

You know the expression that a stopped clock is right twice a day? A cuckoo clock is cuckoo all day long.

But pine cones as the weights seems to be a common theme for cuckoo clocks if the image search results are any indication.

I like it!