Licio Gelli
Where each worldview places it
A fascist supporter of Mussolini and Knight of Malta who restructured the P2 lodge and was its nominal head, "almost certainly the vehicle for other powers behind P2"[1]; The Biggest Secret calls P2 "controlled by the Mussolini fascist, Lucio Gelli"[2].
- Aliases
- Lucio Gelli
- Controls / directs
- Answers to / controlled by
- Dates
- 1965 (becomes a Grand Orient Freemason)
- 1981 (Reagan's inauguration)
- February 1986 (the "Swedish tree" telegram)[3]
- Places
- Key events
- after the war: helps organise the Nazi "rat line" and becomes economic adviser to Juan Peron[1]
- 1965: joins the Grand Orient and, at Grand Master Lino Salvini's request, restructures P2[1]
- attends the inaugurations of Carter, Ford and (1981) Reagan[4]
- February 1986: sends Phil Guarino the telegram "Tell our good friend Bush that the Swedish tree will be felled" before Olof Palme's assassination[5]
- Members / notable people
- Author's claims · 4
- 01He helped many Nazis, like Claus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon", escape to South America; the Americans had employed Barbie to spy on the French[6].
- 02He was close to the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza and connected with the Gladio paramilitary network[1].
- 03His Knights of Malta membership gave him "an 'in' to the highest levels of the Vatican"[1].
- 04He called himself a friend of George Bush[1].