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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 ...
- Raffaello (b. 1947), Maria Rosa (b. 1956), Maurizio (b. 1959)
- Italian
- 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
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.
- 1877 (as Propaganda Massonica), 1966 (as Propaganda Due)
- 1976 (officially by Grand Orient of Italy), 25 January 1982
- ~962
- Licio Gelli
May 21, 2018 · Licio Gelli's home was raided by investigators Ordinary Italians were stunned and the country’s elite rocked to the core on this day in 1981 when a list was made public of alleged members of Propaganda Due, a secret Masonic lodge which sought to run the country as a ‘state within the state’.
Dec 16, 2015 · ROME (Reuters) - Licio Gelli, the former head of an outlawed secret masonic lodge linked to some of Italy's biggest and murkiest scandals of the 20th century, has died, his family said. He was...
Dec 29, 2015 · Tue 29 Dec 2015 11.44 EST. Licio Gelli, who has died aged 96, was among those rare individuals of whom it could be said that what was not known about them was more interesting than what was....
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...
Aug 7, 2021 · But documents seized from Licio Gelli, the head of the Masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2) back in 1982 are now thought to reveal payments made to the fascist terrorists who carried out an attack at Bologna railway station on 2 August 1980 that killed 85 people and wounded 200.