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Italy� 'Waron Crime by Marco Fanini

. I.na single night fled fromItaly and lives in New York, The police operation against the confirms the role of protected by Alexander Haig). This may be a goodplace to recall that Judge the Propaganda-2 lodge at the top of organized crime. Carlo Palermo accused the Italian ac­ tor Rossano Brazzi of weapons traf­ ficking, and that Brazzi is also sus­ pected of being a P-2 member. Brazzi lives in New York, where he directs On the night of June 16, the most a P-2 Mason linked to the deposed an ambiguous organization called "The imposing operation to date by police royal house of Savoy who is accused Knights of New Aragon." and carabinieri against the mafia was of having attempted a coup against the The P-2Iodge, which has been tar­ carried out in : 10,000 agents Italian repUblic. geted by the parliamentary commis­ served 856 arrest warrants, issued by It is extremely interesting that the sion of inquiry investigating the 1978 the prosecutors' offices in , Italian magistrates also accused Con­ kidnap-murder of former Prime Min­ against the Neapolitan mafia, known cutelli and Notarnicolaof being in the ister Aldo Moro, also controls and fi­ as the "Camorra." Camorra: Concutelli is a killer who nances politicians and entire parties, Among those arrested was the belongs to fascist associations, while like the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). popular television announcer Enzo Notarnicola is a terrorist of the ex­ This was proven once again in rnid­ Tortora, charged with drug traffick­ treme left. The apparent contradiction June when Robert Teardo, the Social­ ing. Also hit by the warrants was Pier­ can only be explained by the top-down ist Party leader in the Italian Riviera luigi Concutelli, the neo-fascist super­ control exercised by 's P-2 town of Savona, was arrested and terrorist, and Sante Notarnicola of the lodge over every subversive opera­ charged with belonging to the mafia. Red Brigades. tion: terrorism, the mafia, massacres, Teardo was a member of the P-2 All of them belonged to the Ca­ drugs, and kidnappings. lodge, but even after the P-2 scandal morraunder . The Ca­ In every chapter of the Italian de­ broke two years ago, PSI secretary morra is a 3,OOO-man army of killers stabilization we find the guiding role Craxi had kept him as president of the and gangsters based in the major Ital­ of the P-2 lodge and of its international Ligurian Region and even ran him as ian cities; its headquarters are in towns links, the Kissinger group inthe United a candidate for parliament.Thus, after near Naples such as Ottaviano and States and the "Bulgarian connec­ the clamorous cases of "Honorables" Nola, and the killers are mostly young tion" in the East bloc. Concutelli and Mancini, Landolfi, Pittella, Colucci, lumpen-proletarians from Naples. The Notarnicola in particular were work­ all PSI leaders, some of whom have Camorra is, however, very closely tied ing with the Roman mafioso Ernesto been tied to terrorism, others to the to thebig mafia families of New York, Diotallevi, in turn a close collaborator mafia, and others to smuggling, the and as we shall see, linked to the Pro­ of that same Flavio Carboni who today Teardo case has shown again that the paganda-2 Freemasonic lodge. is accused of the assassination of PSI, which gets about 9 percent of the The arrest of was a banker Roberto Calvi. Italian vote, is run by a bunch of vul­ shocker. On behalf of the private tele­ Carboni,the right-hand man ofLi­ tures who would find a more appro­ vision stations, he was about to inter­ cio Gelli, is a very important figure in priate perch in jail than in the view U.S. President Ronald Reagan. the mafia: his job was recycling the government. Tortora is now accused by the Italian dirty money of the Sicilian and Naples The Italian magistracy is moving Joe Valachi, -who has mafias through Italian and Swiss very fast to unmask the subversive . sung to the tune of 3,800 pages of . maneuvers of P-2, no holds barred. testimony-of supplying heroin and Calvi, the head of Banco Ambro­ Unfortunately, no Italian party is im­ cocaine to figures in the Itali� show siano, was used up to a certain point mune from P-2 control,except the POE business world. by Carboni in his operations. (European Labor Party), which is de­ But Tortora is also politically Around Carboni are other shady nouncing the P-2 and Yuri Andropov known for having participated during characters like Alvaro Giardili (of the for trying to destabilize Italy in order the 1960s in the Committee of Dem­ Eurocondotte and Aeragricola com­ to removeit fromthe American sphere ocratic Resistance of Edgardo Sogno, panies) and (who of influence.

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