375 pages. Index. Glossary. Footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. "Reveals how the strategy of indiscriminate bombings against the public was the result of secret NATO accords and was sanctioned at the highest levels of the Atlantic Alliance. Shows the crucial role played by the Hyperion Language School in Paris in the manipulation of the Red Brigades, and the role of the CIA in arming the revolutionary group. Casts a spotlight on Licio Gelli, the head of the now outlawed P2 Masonic lodge, who has been convicted of financing fascist terrorists." - dust jacket. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Some red markings to contents in first 70 pages. Bit of clear tape inside back board. Light wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy.

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Title

Puppetmasters (Puppet Masters): The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy

Publisher

Constable & Co Ltd, London

Publication Date

1991

Language

English

ISBN 10

0094705909

ISBN 13

9780094705906

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition

Condition

Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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The CIA has been accused of a massive intelligence failure in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks -- the result, it is said, of a moralistic and bureaucratic approach to information-gathering. But the CIA's spies had few qualms when it came to cultivating terrorist organisations and interfering in the internal politics of Cold War Italy. Puppetmasters reveals how US intelligence services exploited the P2 masonic lodge to prop up friendly Christian Democrat-dominated governments and counter the growing political influence of the Italian Communist Party. It was a ruthless strategy involving coup plots, right wing terrorist bombings and the manipulation of the Red Brigades. And it gave Italy one of the bloodiest and most protracted periods of terrorist violence ever seen in a modern, industrialised society.

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Philip Willan is a British author and freelance journalist who has lived in Rome for more than 20 years. He helped research David Yallop's best-selling book "In God's Name", on the alleged murder of Pope John Paul I. He currently writes for a number of newspapers including The Guardian and The Observer.

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