Italy

nation state

Italy  link Sourcewatch Wikiquote
Capital city	Rome
Location	Europe
Leader	President of Italy
Type	nation state
Subgroups	Servizio Informazioni Difesa, Servizio Informazioni Forze Armate
European country that has the sixth-largest national wealth and third-largest central bank gold reserve. Italy/Deep state is an integral part of the SDS.

Italy is a nation state in Southern Europe. Its capital city, Rome, contains the Vatican city. After CIA intervention in 1947 to try to prevent the electoral success of the communist party it proved politically unstable. A swathe of bombings from the late 1960s was later shown to be part of a NATO-backed program of propaganda and social destabilisation, exposed in the 1980s. The project had different names in different countries, but the Italian name "Operation Gladio" has come to describe the whole project.

Deep state

Full article: Italy/Deep state

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The Italian Deep state, after 1945, centered on Propaganda Due (P-2), a masonic lodge run by Licio Gelli set up at the end of WWII under the rubric of Operation Gladio. Oswald LeWinter summarised it as a "wholly owned subsidiary of the company [i.e. the CIA] in Italy". The country saw intervention by the CIA in the 1940s.Template:Cn

Gladio

Full article: Operation Gladio

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Italy was the first country in which the CIA carried out covert actions. In 1947, Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter signed a document NSC 4-A, authorising covert intervention in the elections to prevent a communist victory. This began a decades long campaign by the CIA to try to prevent a communist government from taking power. The network exposed in Italy was Europe-wide and since no Europe wide name has been dscovered, the name "Gladio" has been applied to the entire project.

Years of Lead

Full article: Years of Lead

The Years of Lead were a decades long strategy of tension carried out against the Italian population. They were marked by assassinations and false flag attacks and the gradual exposure of Operation Gladio.

False flag bombings

The Peteano Attack was a false flag attack carried out in 1972 by Vincenzo Vinciguerra (a fascist), but blamed at the time on communist "terrorists". This began a NATO backed "strategy of tension" against the Italian people. After hundreds of people were murdered by false flag bombings such as the Bologna massacre, the level of interest was such that the secret stay-behind network, Operation Gladio was exposed.

Kidnapping and assassination of Aldo Moro

In 1978, former Italian Prime Minister, Aldo Moro was kidnapped and murdered by the Brigate Rosse (Red Brigades). Like the Peteano attack, the possibility that this could have been a false flag attack was initially not taken seriously, although after the exposure of Gladio, it now is. Culpability is still being debated.

Exposure

Italy was where the truth about Operation Gladio finally emerged (which is why the Europewide network has an Italian name). Italy was one of only 3 members of the European Union which complied with the European Parliament's directive to investigate Operation Gladio.

Covid-19 "Recovery Plan"

The Italian Covid Recovery Plan (still not approved by Parliament) was supposed to allocate €196 billion (debt financed?Template:Cn) to six areas. Of these funds:

• €48.7 billion will go towards digitalisation and innovation
• €74.3 billion to the green revolution and ecologic transition
• €27.7 billion to sustainable mobility and infrastructures
• €19.2 billion to education and research
• €17.1 billion to gender equality and
• €9 billion to healthcareTemplate:Did itTemplate:Cn

Healthcare, despite allegedly struggling during the Covid-19 pandemic, was only allocated just 5% of the funds. Vittorio Colao, the Bilderberger in charge of "Phase 2" of the Covid response said in June 2020, "we' cannot afford to waste this opportunity...As unfortunate as it has been, the virus has allowed the country to achieve the same amount of progress for digital adoption in two months as it would have in five years...Social distancing has forced many small businesses in Italy to suddenly go digital." There were large protests and strikes in opposition to the Green Pass.

Bearer bonds

Full article: Bearer bond

A 1 Billion Dollar gold Bearer bond

A 1 Billion Dollar gold Bearer bond

Extremely large amounts of Bearer bonds (in extremely large denominations) have turned up on the Swiss border, such as the June 2009 seizure of US$ 134.5 billion worth. Reports disagree as to whether the bonds were real or fake, but those caught importing hem into Switzerland appear to have been released with charge.

"War on Terror"

Full article: War on Terror

In 2015, six people were convicted of anti-semitism in Italy, under 1993 "race hatred" laws, in the wake of Charlie Hebdo.

Arms Production

Italy was the #8 nation worldwide as regards arms exports from 2012-2016.