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Aurelio Peccei, head of Rockefeller's top European Zero situation have been noted enthusiastically by a high Growth think-tank, the Club of Rome, is quoted in the NATO official in the , who has been part French newspaper Le Monde this week as saying that of the propaganda effort for the "progressive coup" "from a strictly European point of view, our Communists technique that NATO has used so effectively against the are without a doubt betier than our Christian working class in Peru and Portugal. Democrats." [emphasis added] Interviewed in Washington this week by IPS, this Pointing directly to the PCI, Peccei noted that "a man official claimed that "Communist participation in the like Berlinguer can much more easily than any non­ Italian government is inevitable." He noted, however, socialist leader in the country define for Europe ob­ that a PCI Popular Front government would not jectives sufficiently wide, modern, and long-termed." "disrupt NATO," and, indeed, that "the would [Berlinguer is the head of the PC!.] Presumably, the still have a security problem," and would still need "objectives" that Peccei believes the PCI can implement NATO. This official, who welcomes Social Demoeratic are similar to his own and the Club of Rome's - such as governments and Communist Party participation in all their publicly avowed goal of reducing the world's NA TO countries, believes that the current "in­ population by one billion. dependence" of Western European Communist Parties The PCI's terrified willingness to "offer our cover" to from the Soviet Union should be exploited and in­ even more bloody NATO plans to "stabilize" the world creased in order to strengthen NATO.

Italian CP Begs Rockefeller Agent Carli to Keep Job at Bank of

August 12 (IPS) - The (PCI) direetion. " has joined banker and ex-OSS agent Ugo La Malfa (seeretary of the Italian Republican Ptrty) in lamenting The same note was sounded by La Malfa in an in� the decision of Guido Carli to leave the governorship of terview in Corriere della Sera emphasizing the the Bank ofltaly and go to work for the Shah of Iran. In "teehnical" and "non-ideological" eharacter of Carli's the July 28 issue of l'Espresso. PCI economist Luciano jobo La Malfa, who like Carli emerged from the line of Barca eommented: "We are of the opinion that Carli enlightened pro-Roosevelt bankers under the Mussolini must stay where he is. In a moment like this there is no regime, is being perfeetly consistent. However, since PCI room for ehanges. Even though we are of a different Senator Colajanni launched a parliamentary inquiry into position than that of the governor, we recognize his Carli's eonneetions to U.S. Senator Javits, Roekefeller teehnical capacities and his independenee of and NATO only a month ago, one must ask if Italy's judgment ....The governor must be a highly eompetent Communist Party suffers from amnesia or technician to whom the government must give political sehizophrenia!

" Tempo Supports 'Liberal Coup D'Etat' in Italy

August 12 (IPS) - During the June 28 National Council [Italian Communist Party] into power." of the (ultraconservative) Liberal Party, Edgardo Sogno, 'leader of its right wing, called for a "liberal coup d' etat" A few days later, 11 Tempo editor Enrico Matiei in Italy. Flabbergasted, the party's "left" faction personally defended Sogno's position: the crisis of the. demanded that Sogno be thrown out of the party. But Il Christian Democratic Party in Italy, explained Mattei, Tempo, aRoman paper closely aligned with NATO, might be impossible to stop. Therefore, it is no crime to printed Sogno's letter defending himself against these query if the armed forees eould do something. After all, protests. In the letier Sogno warned of a "silent there are the examples of Peru, Egypt, Greece, and even Communist eoup d'etat being prepared for a long time, pre-coup Chile where military men collaborated with the and the crowning toueh would be the insertion of the PCI left and defended democracy! .

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