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Licio Gelli ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈliːtʃo ˈdʒɛlli]; 21 April 1919 – 15 December 2015) was an Italian Freemason, criminal and terrorist. A Fascist volunteer in his youth, he is chiefly known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal. He was revealed in 1981 as being the Venerable Master of the clandestine masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2).
In 1967 Giovanni Allavena, former number one of SIFAR, was initiated into the lodge, who gave Gelli the photocopies of 157,000 secret files, containing telephone and environmental interceptions, photographs, correspondence and private information, including on the sex life, of as many personalities.
May 21, 2018 · 21 May 2018. Propaganda Due suspects named. Italy horrified as list reveals alleged members of ‘secret state’. Licio Gelli's home was raided. by investigators.
Dec 17, 2015 · They uncovered a list of 962 people who were part of a secret masonic lodge known as Propaganda Due or P2 plotting to destabilise Italy’s democratic order, if deemed necessary, to protect the ...
Dec 29, 2015 · Charming, witty, and an eager and effective networker, Gelli rose swiftly to become head, or venerable master, of the once prestigious Propaganda Due (P2) lodge in the centre of Rome.
21 May 1981. The list of members contained the names of well-known Italians, for example, Silvio Berlusconi, Roberto Calvi (the leader of the collapsed Banco Ambrosiano), Admiral Giovanni Torrisi (Chief of the Defence Staff of Italy) and a whole string of generals. The lodge was headed by Licio Gelli, bearing the title "Maestro venerabile".
May 31, 1981 · It started with Propaganda Due, a shadowy Masonic lodge headed by Licio Gelli, a fugitive businessman and loyal Mussolini Fascist, who allegedly combined underworld ties with dreams of a...
