1. Daniele Ganser is best known for his 2005 book NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe.
19 Facts About Daniele Ganser
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Daniele Ganser's father Gottfried Ganser-Bosshart, whose parents were Germans, was a Protestant pastor of the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches.
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Daniele Ganser was a senior researcher at the ETH Zurich, Center for Security Studies.
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Daniele Ganser was president of the Swiss branch of the "Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas", and taught a course titled History and Future of Energy Systems at the University of St Gallen.
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In 2004, Ganser published NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe.
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Security analyst John Prados observed that Daniele Ganser presented evidence that Gladio networks amounted to anti-democratic elements across many nations.
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The political scientist Markus Linden said that Daniele Ganser fostered anti-Americanism under the label of Peace Research, while he unilaterally presented Russia positively.
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Davies argued that Daniele Ganser did not perform the most basic necessary research to be able to discuss them effectively.
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Daniele Ganser was shown as expert in the German TV documentary film Stay Behind: Die Schattenkrieger der NATO by Ulrich Stoll about stay-behind armies which was broadcast on ZDFinfo in 2014.
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Daniele Ganser stated that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is illegal.
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Daniele Ganser stated that the United States is responsible for the invasion, that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is a pawn of the United States and that Crimea and Eastern Ukraine wanted to separate from the rest of the country.
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Daniele Ganser believes the United States instigated the Euromaidan revolution in Ukraine in 2014 and that following the removal of pro-Russian president Yanukovych: "The US installed Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the new prime minister and Petro Poroshenko as the new president".
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In 2020, Daniele Ganser published Imperium USA: Die Skrupellose Weltmacht in German, a book which was republished in English in 2023 as USA: The Ruthless Empire.
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Kullik states that Daniele Ganser ignores counter-evidence and utilizes historical revisionism and conspiracy theories to support his criticism of the US.
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Kullik criticizes Daniele Ganser for blaming the US for almost all the world's ills while ignoring other actors such as Russia or China.
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Daniele Ganser concludes that his book falls short of even popular science standards and that Ganser does not engage critically with his sources.
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In 2023, Daniele Ganser's presentations are considered to contain anti-Americanism, historical negationism, Kremlin propaganda, alternative facts and half-truths and have an audience of over 1000 people in Germany.
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Daniele Ganser implies that government and mainstream media would predetermine the way of thinking of the population.
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The content of Daniele Ganser's presentations is popular with a target audience of "conspiracy theorists and democracy skeptics".