Allude even for a moment to one history which is repeated would be crazy, but the strange statements spread by the foreign information service of the Russian Federation, the direct descendant of the Kgb As regards the espionage outside the Russian territory, together with the omnipresent crane, they cannot fail to bring to mind an event of the past, not very well known but extremely relevant, which took place in a irrelevant radio station from the Slesia.
THE’Gleiwitz accidentso it went to history, It is considered as one of the main “covered operations” that preceded the invasion of Poland, which took place on September 1, 1939 and universally recognized as the beginning of the Second World War.
Operation entrusted to a commando of German soldiers managed byAbwehr, The secret service of the Admiral Wilhelm Canaris who had formed the first sub-units of the “Brandenburg”, that of Gleiwitz was an action under a false flag that combined the skills of the intelligence of the SS, the Sicherheitsdienstwith those of a command of the chosen soldiers of the Reich who spoke perfectly the Polish they would be “infiltrated“In the radio station of the city of the border wearing uniforms of the Polish army to take control on the night of August 31, 1939. From there they would send a short anti-German message After simulating a gunfight, which would have left the bodies of men taken from the concentration camps and clothes with the uniforms suitable for staging.
The objective of this complex undercover operation was that of “Provide the German and international public opinion the impression of aggression from Poland“. In short, a Casus Belli to be used for internal and external propaganda purposes.
Entrusted to Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Gestapo who will become known as the Boia of Prague, The staging of Gleiwitz was sealed by an announcement of Adolf Hitler in person who was transmitted to the radio to prepare public opinion for events: “This night Polish regular troops opened fire on our territory. Our armed forces have passed to the counterattack from 4.45 today”.
At dawn, while the armored and mechanized units of the Wehrmacht started the Fall Weiss operation, theInvasion of Polandin Germany all the newspapers would have reported the news of the “Focus“That had been consumed along the border line that was already the subject of reconnaissance and other sabotage actions conducted by the Germans who had long planned every detail of the invasion.
Took the necessary distances from this historical event and from devastating consequences of the conflict of which the prelude was, and given that this information was considered “founding”, what the Russian secret services declared this week about a “possible operation under false flag“which would involve a unit of sabotitioners of a Filraine legion, previously previously in the military intelligence of Kiev for”lead an attack under false flag against Polish critical infrastructures to incriminate Russia and Belarusia“, finds non -negligible affinities.
According to the Russians, experts in sidetracking with a long story of successes in the field of espionage, the goal of Kiev’s intelligence would be precisely that of “capture“The sabotitioners to accuse them of being”Russian and Belarusian Spesnaz raids“In order to raise the level of Tension in Europealready grappling with the “drones” psychosis that are appearing in the skies of Denmark, Germany, Belgium and in different parts of Poland.
This intense script, probable the result of a fervent fantasy But in any case published in one of the last reports of theInstitute for the study of war of Washington, can do nothing but remind us of the lessons of history; the scope of sabotage operations e
deceptions carried out under false flag that dotted the hybrid war before it even assumed this technical definition; And their strong influence on public opinion, which plays an essential role in modern conflicts.