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...seven-time Prime Minister of Italy, Giulio Andreotti, has been battling charges of corruption and Mafia ties for many months. Now the wily Christian Democrat is at the center of a murder investigation, fending off allegations that he masterminded the killing of a journalist in 1979. As Senator-for-Life, Andreotti enjoys parliamentary immunity, but he has asked that this protection be lifted so that he can answer the "calumnies and falsehoods...
Once the grand old man of Italy's Christian Democrats, 74-year old Giulio Andreotti has become the party's gray old man. Last Tuesday a parliamentary inquiry concluded that Andreotti's Sicilian protege had links to the Mafia. The next day Andreotti turned up at an army barracks to be interrogated in the Operation Clean Hands probe. Another ex-Prime Minister, Arnaldo Forlani, was ! also placed under investigation for allegedly illegal party financing. Both men insist they are innocent...
Genuine political reconstruction may be long in the making. Tangentopoli has left scarcely any prominent political figure untouched. The latest to be implicated: Giulio Andreotti, a pillar of Italian politics for half a century and seven times Prime Minister, who is under investigation for corruption and for having ties to the Mafia. He has denied both accusations. The possibility of a Mafia connection at the pinnacle of power opened the door on far more sinister misbehavior than bribe taking. Suddenly, high-level murders, including those of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro following his kidnapping by the Red Brigades...
...invasion. Code name: Operation Gladio, as in a gladiator's double-edged sword. Skip ahead to last July, when a Venetian magistrate named Felice Casson, investigating a 1970s car bombing in Peteano, uncovers the network while searching through files at SISMI, the Italian intelligence service. When Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti admits Gladio did exist, a national scandal ensues. Most disturbing are suspicions that renegade Gladio agents may have been involved in right-wing terrorism in the 1960s...
Last week, during an address to Parliament, Andreotti insisted Gladio was completely justified by the climate of the times and chided the opposition for "insinuating suspicions." He insisted that although Gladio had a military structure, "it had never been involved in terrorist activities." Meanwhile, Casson has summoned President Francesco Cossiga to testify on the Peteano attack...