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Licio Gelli
Licio Gelli was an Italian Freemason, businessman, and terrorist. A fascist volunteer in his youth, he is chiefly known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal and in the Bologna massacre. He was revealed in 1981 as being the Venerable Master of the clandestine Masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2). This would lead to him getting arrested in Switzerland in 1982. He managed to escape from prison t…
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business · Italian financier and Master of Propaganda Due (1919–2015) · journalist · banker · politician · financier · entrepreneur · poet · criminal · businessperson · also Licio Gelli, Gelli
Born 21 April 1919 · Died 15 December 2015 · Q551521
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2015· 9 entries
The Independent: Licio Gelli: Businessman who became the 'puppet master' of the sinister right-wing organisation, P2
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The American Conservative: Licio Gelli, Villain For the Ages
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Died 2015-12-15.
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“Mussolini è stato il figlio del fabbro, Hitler è stato il figlio di un imbianchino e io sono il figlio di un mugnaio .”
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“[Giornalista:] quindi non è stato realizzato niente del suo piano secondo lei? [Gelli:] mah io vedo d'altra parte che tutti si sono un po' abbeverati. Tutti ne hanno preso degli spunti; d'altra parte non posso dire altro. Anche perché era volto soltanto al bene. Mi dovrebbero, non dico, parlare di certi diritti. Non li richiedo nemmeno perché non fu possibile depositarlo alla SIAE.”
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“Noi con la P2 avevamo l'Italia in mano. Allora c'era l'Esercito, Guardia di Finanza, Polizia: erano nettamente comandate da tutta gente della loggia massonica P2. [...] Noi non abbiamo mai voluto attaccare e non si poteva attaccare, però eravamo una sentinella perché non emergesse il Partito Comunista.”
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“Il vero potere risiede nelle mani dei detentori dei mass media”
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“Giulio Andreotti sarebbe stato il vero "padrone" della Loggia P2? Per carità... io avevo la P2, Cossiga la Gladio e Andreotti l'Anello.”
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Gelli remained mostly under house arrest at his home in Arezzo
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2008· 1 entry
welt.de: Licio Gelli: Italian ex-freemason boss to appear on TV show
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2003· 1 entry
Gelli told La Repubblica that it seemed that the P2 "democratic rebirth plan" was being implemented by Silvio Berlusconi:Every morning I speak to my conscience and the dialogue calms me down
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1996· 1 entry
Gelli was nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, supported by Mother Teresa and Naguib Mahfouz
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1992· 1 entry
Gelli was sentenced to 18 years and six months of prison after being found guilty of fraud concerning the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano in 1982 (a "black hole" of $1
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1990· 1 entry
A report on RAI Television alleged that the CIA had paid Gelli to instigate terrorist activities in Italy
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1987· 1 entry
Gelli secretly came back to Switzerland in the car of his lawyer Marc Bonnant and surrendered in Geneva to investigative judge Jean-Pierre Trembley
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1984· 1 entry
Jorge Vargas, the secretary general of the Unión Nacionalista de Chile (UNACH, Nationalist Union of Chile, a short-lived National Socialist party ) and a former member of the Movimiento Revolucionario Nacional Sindicalis
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1983· 1 entry
And then fled to South America for four years
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1981· 3 entries
Gelli was one of the very few Italians to be invited to President Reagan's inauguration
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As being the Venerable Master of the clandestine Masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2)
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The Italian parliament passed a law banning secret associations in Italy
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1980· 1 entry
In the US, "mysterious Michele" was extradited to Italy
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1973· 1 entry
A decree granting Gelli the Gran Cruz de la Orden del Libertador in August 1974, as well as the honorary office of economic counselor in the embassy of Argentina in Italy
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1972· 1 entry
Sindona purchased a controlling interest in Long Island's Franklin National Bank
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1970· 1 entry
In the plans of the failed Golpe Borghese, Gelli was tasked with arresting the Italian President, Giuseppe Saragat
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1919· 1 entry
Born 1919-04-21.
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