Gianfranco Piazzési

Gianfranco Piazzési   (journalist, writer)
Born	2 July 1923 Florence, Italy
Died	25 June 2001 (Age 77) Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Interests	• Italy/Deep state • Licio Gelli • P2
Italian journalist and writer who attended Bilderberg/1971. Journalistically ostracized after too close scrutiny of P2.  Journalist  In office 1960 - 1975 Employer Corriere della Sera Preceded by Max Frankel Succeeded by Uğur Mumcu Attended Bilderberg/1971.

Gianfranco Piazzési was an Italian journalist and writer. A former correspondent to the united States, he attended the 1971 Bilderberg meeting. By the early 1980s he was ostracized after investigating too closely the P2 lodge. In 1996 he wrote Caverna dei sette ladri a biography and exposure of Licio Gelli. The book tells how Gelli got his hands on parts of the Yugoslav gold reserve during World War 2, and how this treasure was later used to fund deep state activities after the war.

Career

Born in Florence, he made his debut as a journalist in 1946 at the newspaper of his city Il Nuovo Corriere directed by Romano Bilenchi. In that same period he collaborated with the well-known magazine Società where he made some reviews. He then went to the newspaper La Nazione as a correspondent from London and New York. He started at La Stampa as a special correspondent.

In the early sixties he was at Corriere della Sera under the direction of Alfio Russo; other young special correspondents worked at the Corriere with Piazzesi who would become great names in Italian journalism such as Piero Ottone, Enzo Bettiza, and Alberto Cavallari. In 1975 he moved to Il Giornale, by the will of the founder Indro Montanelli, who wanted him as a correspondent and commentator.

After a short time he made the reverse route, returning to Corriere della Sera. In 1980 he went on to lead La Nazione, but had to leave office after thirteen months following some too hot investigations into the P2 lodge, and which "condemned him to ostracism".

Once again he returned to Corriere, where he ended his career, remaining there until his death in 2001 and where he was the political columnist between 1973 and 1992, except for the brief periods in La Nazione and Il Giornale.

Books

Piazzesi was also a successful writer. In 1973 he won the Estense Prize for his first book La svolta dell'America.

In 1975 he anonymously published the novel Berlinguer and the Professor. It was a huge success, exceeding 400,000 copies sold. In the book, the anonymous author imagines writing in the year 2000. Towards 1975 the communists exceeded 35 percent of the vote and the famous "overtaking" of the Christian Democrats as biggest party was feared. What to do? Henry Kissinger proposed a military coup. The professor, Fanfani, made him change his mind. We resort, he proposed, to a "compromise" with the consent of the communists. The compromise doesn't work. It all ends with the murder of 27 politicians. Guilio Andreotti is stabbed. The professor is forced to implement a nearly totalitarian regime, under superior guidance from an unspecified place.

Also from anonymous, Piazzesi published yet another novel of the same genre: The Money in Paradise, in which Gianni Agnelli is one of the protagonists.

Only in February 1976 did Piazzesi reveal the true identity of the author of the two books.

In 1996 he wrote Caverna dei sette ladri a biography and exposure of Licio Gelli. The book exposes how Gelli got his hands on parts of the Yugoslav gold reserve during World War 2, and how this treasure was later used to fund deep state activities after the war.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1971	23 April 1971	25 April 1971	US Vermont Woodstock Woodstock Inn	The 20th Bilderberg, 89 guests

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