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Licio Gelli was an Italian financier, Fascist, and liaison officer between the Italian government and Nazi Germany, chiefly known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal. He was revealed in 1981 as being the Venerable Master of the clandestine lodge Propaganda Due . Wikipedia  

✵ 21. April 1919 – 15. December 2015
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“I am a fascist and will die a fascist.”

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[Licio Gelli, financier - obituary, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12054716/Licio-Gelli-financier-obituary.html, 16 August 2018, The Daily Telegraph, December 16, 2015]

“We had Italy in our hands. We would never have wanted to attack, but we were like a sentinel, carefully ensuring that the Communist party should never emerge.”

Licio Gelli

[Politi, James, Licio Gelli, fascist and masonic chief, https://www.ft.com/content/7d3fdd08-a418-11e5-8218-6b8ff73aae15, 16 August 2018, Financial Times, December 17, 2015]

“It is not up to us to deliver judgments. Only God will be able to tell the truth.”

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[Hooper, John, Licio Gelli obituary, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/29/licio-gelli, 16 August 2018, The Guardian, December 29, 2015]

“Every morning I speak to my conscience and the dialogue calms me down. I look at the country, read the newspaper, and think: 'All is becoming a reality little by little, piece by piece'. To be truthful, I should have had the copyright to it. Justice, TV, public order. I wrote about this 30 years ago…. Berlusconi is an extraordinary man, a man of action. This is what Italy needs: not a man of words, but a man of action.”

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