Italy

Italy
Capital city	Rome
Location	Europe
Leader	President of Italy
Type	nation state
Subgroups	•  Servizio Informazioni Difesa •  Servizio Informazioni Forze Armate
Interest of	Bilderberg/1993, Emanuele Ottolenghi
Member of	European Defence Union, European Union, Eurozone, G-20, Global Counter Terrorism Forum, International Criminal Court, International Energy Agency, NATO, OECD, UN
Subpage	•Italy/Ambassador •Italy/Deep state •Italy/Deputy Prime Minister •Italy/Member of the Chamber of Deputies •Italy/Military •Italy/Minister •Italy/Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation •Italy/Permanent Representative to the European Union •Italy/Police •Italy/President •Italy/Prime Minister
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

Gladio

Full article: Operation Gladio

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.

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.

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) will allocate €196 billion (presumably debt financed) 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 healthcare

Remarkably, 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 have been large protests and strikes in opposition to the Green Pass.

Bearer bonds

Full article: 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.

 

Events carried out

Event	Location	Description
2011 Attacks on Libya	Libya	"Perhaps one of the most egregious examples of US military aggression and lawlessness in recent memory", carried out under a pretext of "humanitarian intervention".
Evacuation from Afghanistan	Afghanistan	The evacuation of foreigners from Afghanistan, one of the largest airlifts in history

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Francesco Cossiga	“Maroni should do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior. First, leave the high school students alone, because think what would happen if a twelve-year-old was killed or seriously injured. Let them do the university students instead. Withdraw the police force from the streets and universities, infiltrate the movement with agents provocateurs ready for anything, and let the demonstrators devastate the shops, set fire to cars and set fire to cities for ten days. After that, thanks to popular support, the sound of ambulance sirens will overwhelm that of police and carabinieri cars. In the sense that the police should massacre the protesters mercilessly and send them all to hospital. Do not arrest them, since the magistrates would immediately set them free, but beat them to a pulp, and to a pulp even those teachers who foment them. Especially the teachers. Not the old ones, of course, but the little girls teachers, yes.”	Francesco Cossiga	2008

 

Nation state

Nation state	Description
Vatican City	The second smallest nation state in the world (arguably after the BIS), housing the HQ of the Roman Catholic church.

 

Events

Event	Description
"The pictures from Italy"	At the beginning of the global lockdowns in March 2020, pictures of piles of coffins in Northern Italy being transported away in convoys of army trucks under the cover of night, became probably the most important images to justify hard measures.
Argo 16
Bilderberg/1957 October	The 6th Bilderberg meeting, the latest ever in the year and the first one in Italy.
Bilderberg/1965	The 14th Bilderberg meeting, held in Italy
Bilderberg/1987	35th Bilderberg, in Italy, 106 participants
Bilderberg/2004	The 52nd such meeting. 126 recorded guests
Bilderberg/2018	The 66th Bilderberg Meeting, in Turin, Italy, known for months in advance after an unprecedented leak by the Serbian government.
Bologna bombing	A murderous attack on the Italian public, carried out by the MI6/CIA led Operation Gladio, blamed on communists, as part of a wider program to prevent their electoral success in Italy.
Borghese coup	A failed coup d'etat
Identity Crisis: Can European civilization survive conference
Itavia Flight 870	Suspicious plane crash that was the subject of complex legal action.
Le Cercle/1968 (Rome)	Precise dates uncertain
Mani pulite
Moby Prince	A ferry catastrophe during a military smuggling operation
Montesi case
Operation Gladio/Exposure	Operation Gladio was exposed in Italy by the research of Italian judge Felice Casson.
Peteano bombing	A suicide bomb attack which lured 3 carabinieri to their deaths with a booby trapped car bomb. The cover up of this murder - and its later uncovering by Italian judge Felice Casson was a major event in the exposure of Operation Gladio.
Piazza Fontana bombing	An act of terrorism carried out by NATO backed groups to try prevent the electoral success of the Italian communist party.
Piazza della Loggia bombing	Bomb attack carried out by Ordine Nuovo as part of Operation Gladio. Killed 8, injured 102.

 

Groups Headquartered Here

Group	Start	End	Description
Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Esterna
Aspen Institute Italia	1984		A big Italian business think tank, influence group and lodge
Banca Nazionale del Lavoro			Big Italian bank
Bank of Italy
Bocconi University	1902		Private university for wannabe business executives
Ca' Foscari University of Venice	1868		From the outset conceived as a national rather than a regional institution
Compagnia di San Paolo	25 January 1563 JL
Confindustria	1910
Eni	1953		Italian multinational oil and gas founded by Enrico Mattei.
European Gendarmerie Force	2006		An operational, pre-organised, and rapidly deployable EU intervention force with military status - meaning mysterious foreign-speaking troops with no local connections are used to crush unrest.
European University of Rome	2005		A legally recognized non-state university, located in Rome connected to the Legionaries of Christ.
FAO	16 October 1945
Fiat	1899		The company of the Agnelli family, with tentacles all over Italian society.
Ghisleri College	1567 JL		A prestigious college with long traditions
Italian International Affairs Institute	11 October 1965		Transatlantic Italian think tank founded by Altiero Spinelli.
Italy/Deep state			The Italian deep state, post-WW II, centered on the Operation Gladio network run through NATO and heavily influenced by the CIA and MI6.
Italy–USA Foundation
John Cabot University	1972		American-style university in Rome, Italy
LUISS	1974		Predecessor was a founded by Félix Morlion to train anti-communist cadres on behalf of the Vatican and the CIA.
La Repubblica	1976		Italian corporate newspaper
Legionaries of Christ	3 January 1941		The Catholic religious order ran a VIPaedophile sex ring (likely blackmail as well) in several Latin-American countries.
Leonardo S.p.A.	1948		8th biggest arms manufacturer in the world by sales
NATO/Defense College	19 November 1951		Meeting place for policy makers and military officers.
Operation Gladio	1948		Secret for over 40 years, Gladio is a NATO-backed network of armed soldiers inside the nations of Europe outside effective control of national governments. Ostensibly intended for use only in case of a Soviet invasion, Gladio carried out a string of false flag terror attacks. In 1990, the European parliament asked all member states to launch investigations, but only 5 national governments did so.
Opus Dei	2 October 1928		Secretive catholic deep state group with connections to Gladio
Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy	1701		Academy is dedicated to training priests to serve in the diplomatic corps and the Secretariat of State of the Holy See.
Pontifical Gregorian University	1551 JL		Higher education ecclesiastical school run by the Jesuits and dependent on the Holy See.
RAI	1924		The national public broadcasting company of Italy
SIFAR	30 March 1949	30 June 1966
Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George	1545 JL
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies	1987		Special-statute special-statute with deep state connections
Sapienza University of Rome	1303 JL		University of importance to the Italian Deep state
The European House - Ambrosetti	1965		Brings together more than 300 members from the top management of both national and multinational companies active in Italy. "We’ve called them elite, and we don’t think we’re wrong. A select group that thinks, discusses and develops an invaluable perspective which is then made available to all. For the good of the country"
University of Bari	1925		Founded in 1925 as the "Benito Mussolini Adriatic University"; many scandals.
University of Florence	1859		University located in Florence, Italy
University of Genoa	1481 JL		One of the largest universities in Italy.
University of Padua	1222 JL		University located in the city of Padua, Italy
University of Parma	13 March 962 JL		Claims to be the oldest university in the world
University of Pavia	1361 JL		One of the oldest universities in the world, located in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy.
University of Perugia			University based in Perugia, Italy
University of Pisa	1343 JL		One of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Italy
University of Sassari	1562 JL		Marred by corruption allegations
University of Turin	1404 JL		Many deep state operatives as alumni
World Food Programme

 

Citizens of Italy on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died	Description
Luigi Abete	17 February 1947
Mario Ferrari Aggradi	13 March 1916	24 December 1997	Italian Christian Democracy (DC) politician and several times minister. He attended the 1967 Bilderberg meeting.
Edoardo Agnelli	9 June 1954	15 November 2000	Heir to the huge Agnelli fortune who was "found dead under a bridge" after converting to Islam.
Gianni Agnelli	12 March 1921	24 January 2003	Italian industrialist, 37 Bilderbergs
Umberto Agnelli	1 November 1934	27 May 2004	Italian business magnate with multiple deep state connections including the Bilderberg Steering committee.
Alberto Alemanno	30 April 1975
Alberto Alesina	29 April 1957	26 May 2020	Italian economist who attended the 2018 Bilderberg and "strongly agreed" with the Bilderbergers' COVID Lockdown policy.
Giovanni Allavena	1917	September 1991	Head of Italian intelligence service SIFAR, connected to "some the darkest events that took place in Italy after the war". Removed after files scandal in 1966. Member of P2.
Renato Altissimo	4 October 1940	17 April 2015	Italian politician
Marco Alverà	August 1975		Italian gas executive, turning into "hydrogen power"
Alfredo Ambrosetti	June 1931		6 times Bilderberg visitor Italian businessman
Giorgio Ambrosoli	17 October 1933	11 July 1979	An Italian lawyer assassinated while investigating Michele Sindona.
Nino Andreatta	11 August 1928	26 March 2007	Italian politician and founder of think-tanks. Removed officials who appeared in the list seized from Licio Gelli and imposed the dissolution of the Banco Ambrosiano.
Giulio Andreotti	14 January 1919	6 May 2013	"The ultimate insider of Italian political life", who as Italian Prime Minister publicly confirmed the existence of Operation Gladio
Tima Anselmi	25 March 1927	1 November 2016	Single Bilderberger Italian Heath Minister
Enrico Anzilotti	8 February 1898	1983	Governor of Italian Somaliland from 1957-1958. Attended the 1959 Bilderberg
Carlos Aritario			Accompanied Virginio Rognoni to the 1982 Bilderberg.
Luca Attanasio	23 May 1977	22 February 2021	Ambassador assassinated in 2021.
Paolo Baffi	5 August 1911	4 August 1989
Sergio Balanzino	20 June 1934	25 February 2018	Twice acting Secretary General of NATO.
Vittorio Barattieri			Italian economist interested in privatization
Luigi Barzini	21 December 1908	30 March 1984	Italian anti-communist journalist and politician, Attended 1980 Bilderberg meeting.
Piero Bassetti	20 December 1928		Double Bilderberg Italian politician
Gianfranco Battelli	1937	March 2022	SISMI Director on 9-11, who reports that he refused to cooperate in kidnapping terrorist suspects for the CIA.
Rodolfo de Bendetti	2 July 1961		Double Bilderberg Italian deep state connected businessman
Carlo De Benedetti	14 November 1934
Brando Benifei	1 January 1986		Italian politician
Giorgio Benvenuto	8 December 1937		Italian trade unionist and politician, attended the 1980 Bilderberg as Italian Socialist Party/General secretary
Silvio Berlusconi	29 September 1936	12 June 2023	Italian media magnate, three time Prime Minister of Italy, bunga bunga parties ...
Franco Bernabè	18 September 1948		Italian banker and manager, Steering Committee of the Bilderberg
Gilberto Bernardini	28 August 1906	4 August 1995	Italian physicist and academic. Director of CERN 1957-64.
Tarcisio Bertone	2 December 1934		Vatican Secretary of State 2006-2013
Enzo Bettiza	7 June 1927	28 July 2017	Anti-communist Moscow correspondent and editor who attended the 1974 Bilderberg Meeting. Later Europhile politician.
Marco Bizzarri	19 August 1962		CEO of Gucci
Vincenzo Boccia
Emma Bonino	9 March 1948		Attended the 1998 Bilderberg as European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection
Luca Del Bono			Anglo-Italian entrepreneur listed in Jeffrey Epstein's black book.
Valerio Borghese	6 June 1906	26 August 1974	Organized a failed coup in Italy and was exiled.
Mario Borghezio	3 December 1947		Italian politician; interested in the Bilderberg
Ferrucio de Bortoli	20 May 1953		Italian journalist
Bruno Branciforte	6 November 1947		Italian admiral. The last head of the Italian Military Intelligence and Security Service and first leader of the Italian External Intelligence and Security Agency.
Flavio Briatore	12 April 1950		Italian businessman mentioned in Jeffrey Epstein's black book.
Umberto Broccoli	1895		Italian officer and spook who was involved in the establishment of Gladio
Manlio Brosio	10 July 1897	14 March 1980	The last Secretary General of NATO who was appointed before he attended the Bilderberg.
Aristide Brunello			Little known Cercle visitor. Vatican prelate and spy for the BND under Reinhard Gehlen. Attended a meeting of the Le Cercle.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a>
Renato Brunetta	15 May 1950		Italian minister who let the digital lobby penetrate public administration
Roberto Burioni	1962		Italian virologist and academic who was given prominence in Italy for his strong stance against the antivaccination movement. The loudest proponent of the lockdowns and other policies from the start of Covid in 2020.
Raffaele Cafiero	12 February 1891	10 July 1959	Italian monarchist politician who attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s
Luigi Calabresi	14 November 1937	17 May 1972	An Italian policeman who was alleged to have killed a suspect of the Piazza Fontana bombing. Assassinated in 1972, leading to public unrest.
Luigi Caligaris	4 October 1931	17 October 2019	Single Bilderberger Italian officer, later politician
... further results

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Italy 1947-1948	book extract	2003	William Blum
Document:Objectives, Tasks and Cluster activities and Relationships	Wikispooks Page		Euan Grant	Euan Grant lists an extensive list of willing collaborators. Intelligence people, non-fiction authors and lots and lots of media.
Document:Russia and the Italian Elections	report	25 June 2018	Fabrizio Luciolli	"For internal use only". Analysis of Italian election meddling - where some political parties apparently are trying to influence public opinion: "In Italy, appears evident that the promotion of a strategy to spread disinformation and to influence the Italian political opinions, has been limited and came much more from national populist parties, rather than from Russia or whatsoever foreign country."
Document:Skripal Case Italy	report	25 June 2018	Fabrizio Luciolli	Conclusion: "To counter this Italian trend it’s important to properly address the key political leaders, their new populist parties, and key editorialists, by an effective, discrete and articulated information campaign and narrative and not to be exclusively focused on trolls and fake news."

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