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

— Licio Gelli

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

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Italian financier, liaison with Nazi Germany, P2 grandmaste… 1919–2015

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