Italy–USA Foundation

Italy–USA Foundation
Headquarters	Rome, Italy
Membership	•  Luigi Cavalchini •  Marta Dassù •  Gian Maria Gros-Pietro •  Giuliano da Empoli •  Claudio Bisogniero •  Lucio Caracciolo

The Italy-USA Foundation (Italian: Fondazione Italia USA) is one of the five most important think tanks in Italy.

Overview

The Italy-USA Foundation is one of the first five most important think tanks in Italy also in 2020, according to the report Cogito Ergo Sum by the organization Openpolis.

The largest and most interconnected structures are historically 5 organizations,specifically the Aspen Institute Italia (president Giulio Tremonti), Astrid (president Franco Bassanini), Italy-USA Foundation (president Mauro della Porta Raffo), Italia Decide (president Luciano Violante) and Italianieuropei (president Massimo D’Alema), according to the the research from Openopolis, that examined 153 think tanks in Italy.

The 'non-partisan' (i.e. agreeing on subjects that are beyond debate, like NATO, US bases and an economy open for U.S. corporations) Italy-USA Foundation, is also the structure with the highest number of parliamentarians: “the Italy-USA Foundation can count ties with 29 parliamentarians, the highest figure among the organizations surveyed. In particular, 18 deputies and 11 senators are part of the foundation. It should be noted above all that the Italy-USA Foundation has representatives in all the main political parties, from the Democratic Party to the League, passing through the 5 Stars Movement and Forza Italia.

The Italy-USA Foundation also is the organization, beyond the parliamentarians, with the largest number of journalists, ambassadors, exponents of culture, fashion, science, entertainment, and Nobel laureates, over 120 important personalities, "united by the friendship between Italy and the United States of America".

The Italy-USA Foundation does not receive donations from public or private companies, or by any public or governmental or local institution or body, nor sponsorships or advertisements by companies. The Italy-USA Foundation is the in Italy to be supported only and exclusively by the individual membership fees of its members.

 

Known members

29 of the 300 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
José María Aznar	Prime Minister of Spain 1996-2004, "If Israel goes down, we all go down", various deep state connections
José Manuel Barroso	Bilderberg Steering committee, President of the European Commission
Claudio Bisogniero	Italian diplomat
Emma Bonino	Attended the 1998 Bilderberg as European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection
Paul Bremer	Executive of Marsh & McLennan, a company whose offices were hit by a plane on 9/11, "Coordinator for Counterterrorism", Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq ...
Renato Brunetta	Italian minister who let the digital lobby penetrate public administration
Lucio Caracciolo	Double Bilderberg Italian foreign policy editorialist
Luigi Cavalchini	Attended the 1998 Bilderberg as Italian Permanent Representative to the European Union.
Marta Dassù	Deep state connected general director of the international activities of Aspen Institute Italy. NATO, Trilateral Commission, European Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies...
Giuliano da Empoli	Italian think-tanker showered with literary prizes for writing "Putin only understands the language of violence". Bilderberg/2023
Gian Maria Gros-Pietro	Attended the 2001 Bilderberg meeting as President of oil and gas company Eni.
Edward Luttwak	Neoconservative military strategist, author of Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook
Monica Maggioni	Italian influential journalist. Trilateral Commission
Giorgio La Malfa	Triple Bilderberger Italian politician
Antonio Martino	Italian politician
Giorgia Meloni	Became Prime Minister of Italy in 2022
Federica Mogherini	Italian politician, WEF
Mario Monti	Prime Minister of Italy. Bilderberg Steering committee. 27 Bilderbergs from 1983 to 2015
Rinaldo Petrignani	Italian ambassador to Washington, Deputy Secretary General of NATO, then Italy–USA Foundation and board positions in armaments companies.
Mario Moretti Polegato	Italian businessman with a heavy WEF AGM habit
Luigi Ramponi	Italian spook, Trilateral Commission
Anders Fogh Rasmussen	Bilderberger, ex Danish PM, ex-Secretary General of NATO.
Gianni Riotta	Transatlantic oriented Italian journalist and editor-in-chief
Carlo Rossella	Italian Bilderberger journalist
Curtis Scaparrotti	Supreme Allied Commander Europe from 2016-2019, Atlantic Council board member
Elly Schlein	"Rising star" of Italian politics with heavy deep state backing.
Michael Spence	Bilderberg economist who signed the Document:Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19
Jean-Claude Trichet	President of the European Central Bank, Governor of the Bank of France, Bilderberg Steering committee
Walter Veltroni	Italian politician. His candidacy in the 2008 general elections obtained 33.17% of the votes, but failed to take the government.

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