#propaganda due

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I like how complex shadow governments have been exposed time and time again but you still get called batshit insane for humouring the idea that the US might be under the rule of one. Italy was legit ruled in all sectors of government well into the present by members of a fucking Masonic conspiracy cell and the idea that the same shit happens here is somehow a bridge too far.

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In today's Investigation:

The Murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Its Possible Link to the Secret Italian Lodge Propaganda Due (P2)

The brutal death of Italian filmmaker, poet, and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini on the night of November 1–2, 1975, remains one of the country’s most enduring mysteries. While the official version long pointed to a lone teenage hustler, a persistent and widely discussed theory connects the killing to the shadowy lodge Propaganda Due (P2), led by Licio Gelli.

Although no smoking-gun document has ever surfaced, the circumstantial evidence is compelling enough that many investigators, politicians, and journalists still consider it the most credible alternative explanation.

1. The Official Story – and Why It Collapsed

Pasolini was beaten and run over with his own car on a deserted beach in Ostia, near Rome. Giuseppe “Pino” Pelosi, a 17-year-old male prostitute, confessed to the murder in 1975 and was convicted. Thirty years later, in 2005, Pelosi retracted his confession, claiming he had been coerced. He stated that the real killers were three men with southern Italian (probably Sicilian or Calabrian) accents who shouted homophobic and anti-communist slurs during the attack. According to Pelosi, Pasolini recognized at least one of them and called him by name.

2. What Pasolini Was Working On in 1975

In his final year, Pasolini was completing two explosive projects that threatened powerful interests: The unfinished novel Petrolio (published posthumously in 1992), especially the chapter “Lampi sull’ENI” (“Flashes over ENI”), which described—in almost prophetic detail—corruption schemes involving the state oil company ENI, the Mafia, the CIA, and Christian Democratic politicians. The book explicitly linked the death of ENI president Enrico Mattei (1962) to a broader pattern of political murders.

A series of articles (most famously the “Io so…” – “I know…” pieces) in Corriere della Sera and Il Mondo, in which he claimed to know the names of those responsible for Italy’s wave of terrorist attacks (Piazza Fontana 1969, Peteano 1972, Brescia 1974, Italicus 1974, etc.). He described these as part of a deliberate “strategy of tension” orchestrated by neo-fascist groups protected by deviant elements within the state and secret services.

3. Enter Propaganda Due (P2)

The P2 lodge, headed by Licio Gelli, was precisely the nexus where the following worlds intersected:

High-ranking officers of the Italian military intelligence service (SID/SIFAR)

Leading Christian Democratic politicians (including Giulio Andreotti)

Mafia bosses (Stefano Bontate, Michele Sindona)

Neo-fascist terrorists (Stefano Delle Chiaie, Ordine Nuovo members)

Bankers and businessmen (Roberto Calvi, Michele Sindona)

The lodge’s membership list (962 names) was discovered only in 1981, but it had been active throughout the 1970s. Many of the terrorist attacks Pasolini claimed to “know” about have since been judicially or parliamentarily linked to networks that P2 either coordinated or shielded.

4. Key Elements That Support the P2 Hypothesis

In 1975, Pasolini had scheduled meetings with Italian Air Force officers who reportedly wanted to hand him classified documents about Gladio (NATO’s secret stay-behind network in Italy, which heavily overlapped with P2 personnel).

The original manuscript pages of the “Lampi sull’ENI” chapter of Petrolio were stolen and have never been recovered.

Several repentant Mafia members (pentiti), including Vincenzo Calcara, later claimed the murder was ordered by figures connected to Licio Gelli and Michele Sindona because Pasolini “knew too much” about the Mattei case and the broader corruption network linking ENI, the Vatican, and organized crime.

Judge Ferdinando Imposimato (who investigated the Moro kidnapping and Mafia cases) publicly stated his belief that Pasolini was killed by a Mafia squad on behalf of P2.

5. Counter-Arguments and Remaining Doubts

No internal P2 document mentioning Pasolini has ever emerged.

Multiple reinvestigations (including DNA testing after the 2005 reopening) failed to identify anyone beyond Pelosi, whose various versions of events have undermined his credibility.

Some investigators argue the murder could have been a simple homophobic hate crime or a robbery gone wrong—classic risks of the nocturnal underworld Pasolini frequented—and that the P2 theory is an example of Italy’s tendency toward over-conspiratorial thinking.

Final Thoughts

There is no definitive proof, but the circumstantial web is extraordinarily tight: Pasolini was investigating the exact same circles—deviant secret services, the Mafia, neo-fascism, and corrupt Christian Democracy—that P2 coordinated or protected. The timing (months before he would finish Petrolio and publish new explosive articles) and later testimony from magistrates and pentiti make the P2 trail the most plausible alternative to the official “crime of passion” narrative.

In the end, while Propaganda Due does not appear as a direct perpetrator in any court ruling, Pasolini’s assassination fits perfectly into the pattern of eliminating inconvenient witnesses that characterized Licio Gelli’s lodge during Italy’s darkest years. For a large part of the Italian left—and for many serious investigators—the P2 connection remains the shadow that refuses to go away.

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A puppet master.

— P2 conspirator Licio Gelli, when asked what he wanted to be as a child

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P2 / Propaganda Due / History

PROPAGANDA DUE / P2 WAS A MASONIC LODGE UNDER THE GRAND ORIENT OF ITALY (THE GRAND ORIENT OF ITALY (GOI) IS AN ITALIAN MASONIC GRAND LODGE FOUNDED IN 1805; T...

P2 / Propaganda Due / History

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Grim History

Propaganda Due: Italy’s Rogue Masonic Lodge

  In 1976, the Masonic Grand Orient of Italy withdrew its charter for the Propaganda Due lodge, otherwise known as the P2 Lodge. At that time, they were surrounded by controversy. Overseen by the notorious Licio Gelli, the organization had been involved in political scandals, violent crime, money laundering schemes and conspiracy. The P2 Lodge were deeply committed to far-right politics and a number of prominent Italian men were connected to it. Whether their ideas and practices had much impact on the real world, or even a realistic chance of having any influence at all, is a matter up for debate.

    The lodge originally opened its doors in 1877. Initially simply called the Propaganda Lodge, its highly exclusive membership was limited to the elitist of the elite in Italian upper-class society. Otherwise, it was unremarkable; an ordinary Masonic lodge that mainly functioned as a social club for the rich and well-connected. The Propaganda Lodge went into decline; the members of the fraternal order lost interest and eventually it was little more than a list of names. When Benito Mussolini and the fascists took over in the 1930s, Propaganda, as well as all Masonic lodges, were banned by law. After the Axis defeat in World War II, ex-fascist Licio Gelli revived the defunct lodge with a plan to use it for his own nefarious purposes.

    Born in Tuscany, Licio Gelli started his political career as a liaison officer for the Italian fascists and Germany’s Nazi party. With fascism apparently dead, the American government encouraged the Italians to ratify a new law allowing freemasonry to flourish in Italy once again, mainly as a bulwark against communism and a haven for free-thinkers and pro-democracy theorists. The Grand Lodge of Italy appointed Gelli to re-open the Propaganda Lodge, thereby renaming it Propaganda Due. The center-left Christian Democrat party was in power so Gelli used his contacts in right-wing extremist circles to build up a network of quasi-fascist businessmen and other people of influence; some of them were never formally initiated into Masonic ceremonial but were considered members nonetheless. Included in this consortium were high ranking members of the establishment including politicians, judges, journalists, bankers, police officials, secret service agents, mafiosi and Vatican representatives. The son of former king Victor Emmanuel belonged as did then media magnate and future prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. They soon would embark on a plot to permanently rid Italy of all leftist politics.

    By the end of the 1960s, the left-leaning government started growing suspicious of the Masons. They asked for a membership list. When Gelli submitted his list of P2 members, it mentioned only the “sleepers”, the people associated with P2 who had never actually been initiated into the rites of the brotherhood. This made the Grand Orient of Italy suspicious and, deciding that P2 was too hot to handle, they revoked their charter in 1976 and officially banned them from practicing freemasonry. Gelli himself claimed their charter had only been suspended and the lodge continued to operate under the radar without official standing.

    Five years of secret activity came to an end in 1981 with the death of Roberto Calvi, the president of Banco Ambrosiano. Calvi’s corpse was found in London. At first, the police deemed it a suicide but subsequent investigation revealed that he was murdered. The Banco Ambrosiano had collapsed and investigations into Calvi’s death revealed a trail that led through  Mafia hitmen to the Vatican and finally to Propaganda Due itself. The bank apparently had been laundering money for the Vatican who were funneling funds supplied by the American Central Intelligence Agency to the P2 Lodge in an effort to combat the Communist Party of Italy who were growing in popularity and becoming the biggest communist party in Europe.

    The scandal of the Banco Ambrosiano led to the discovery of the P2 Lodge who had been operating clandestinely since being banned half a decade earlier. When police raided Gelli’s home, they found a list of P2 Lodge members. Then in 1982, a Propaganda Due manifesto was discovered in the false bottom of a suitcase belonging to Gelli’s daughter. In an attempt to flee the country, officials found the document when she tried to clear the airport’s passport control in Rome. The papers laid out detailed plans for infiltrating, at the highest levels no less, all the major institutions of Italy for the sake of establishing a dictatorial regime to permanently govern the Italian nation. It all seemed clear, especially since Licio Gelli had once, in a newspaper interview, claimed that he aspired to be the puppet master of Italian politics.

    A further revelation was that the P2 Lodge was somehow associated with terrorist activities. On the morning of August 2, 1980, a bomb exploded in the central train station of Bologna, Italy. 80 people were killed and more than 200 were injured. The police prosecuted a neo-fascist group called the Armed Revolutionary Nuclei as the perpetrators of the attack. The group proclaimed their innocence and the trial was not conducted well; that is possibly because it was later learned that a couple high-ranking police officials were P2 Lodge members who had used their influence to hamper the investigation. Whether Propganda Due orchestrated the attack or not has never been proven.

    The long term effects of the P2 Lodge were mostly legal and not in the organization’s favor. The Italian government passed legislation banning secret societies. Although fraternal orders are still allowed to remain open, government officials are forbidden to join them. Propaganda Due may no longer exist but when Silvio Berlusconi became the prime minister of Italy, Licio Gelli declared that it was a sign that the P2 Lodge was being reborn. Gelli died in 2015. Now with the current swell of neo-fascist and right-wing extremist groups emerging again in Europe, some with Masonic-associated names like the Golden Dawn in Greece and the anti-Muslim Knights Templar orders in other countries, we should be aware that, regrettably, the spirit of the P2 Lodge lives on.

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