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In the two decades since 1969, Italy has suffered one of the most bloody and protracted periods of terrorist violence ever seen in a modern industrialized society. The first phase, which lasted until 1974, was characterized mainly by right-wing terrorism and, in particular, by indiscriminate bombings against the public. It is clear that many right-wing terrorists were manipulated and controlled by the Italian secret services, who frequently intervened to confuse judicial investigators and to protect terrorist suspects from arrest. Puppetmasters reveals how this this strategy was the result of secret NATO accords and was sanctioned at the highest levels of the Atlantic Alliance. The book shows the crucial role played by the Hyperion Language School in Paris in the manipulation of the Red Brigades and the role of the CIA in arming the revolutionary groups. But the spotlight falls on Licio Gelli, the head of the now outlawed P2 masonic lodge, who has been convicted of financing fascist terrorists. Gelli has publicly referred to himself as a puppetmaster but it can now be revealed that the strings which controlled the P2 boss stretched right up to the highest reaches of political power in the United States of America.Product Identifiers
PublisherConstable AND Company LTD
ISBN-139780094705906
eBay Product ID (ePID)91925137
Product Key Features
Number of Pages375 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePuppetmasters: Political Use of Terrorism in Italy
Publication Year1991
SubjectGovernment
TypeTextbook
AuthorPhilip Willan
Subject AreaPolitical Science
Dimensions
Item Height234 mm
Item Weight860 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorPhilip Willan