Oh jeez. I think the P2 lodge has been gone over pretty thoroughly on this site. As I recall the lodge was not officially recognized.
"The Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, sharply denied that there was any
link between the group, codenamed Gladio...and a wave of unsolved bombings
between 1969 and 1984 in which 143 people were killed...The Communist Party
alleged that members of Gladio may have taken part in acts of terrorism
nero, or neo-fascist bombings such as that in the waiting room at Bologna
Station in August 1980, which killed 85 people in Italy's communist
heartland. Four neo-fascists were jailed for life for the crime, and the
grand master of the illegal P2 Masonic Lodge, Licio Gelli, was sentenced
to 7 years for his involvement in the case. But last July the appeals
court overturned the ruling for reasons never clearly explained, causing
a national outcry." (Fiona Leney & Wolfgang Achtner, Independent, 10/11/90)
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Links between Gladio, Italian secret services bosses and the notorious P2 masonic lodge are manifold (...) In the year that Andreotti denied Gladio’s existence, the P2 treasurer, General Siro Rosetti, gave a generous account of 'a secret security structure made up of civilians, parallel to the armed forces'
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"In the programme, Mr Brenneke alleged that, throughout the 1970's the CIA
had made large sums of money available to the subversive Masonic Lodge, P2,
widely believed to have been involved in the August, 1980 Bologna train
station bombing in which 85 people were killed. Furthermore Mr Brenneke
claimed that, not only does the CIA continue to secretly finance a revived
P2, but that it was involved in the 1986 killing of the Swedish Prime
Minister, Mr Olaf Palme. According to Mr Brenneke, P2, under the guidance
of its Grand master, Mr Licio Gelli, used some of the finance made
available by the CIA to set up agencies in West Germany, Austria and
Switzerland. These agencies in turn were used by P2 to set up the
assassination of Mr Palme, on the orders of the CIA. Finally, and perhaps
most sensationally, Mr Brenneke alleged that President Bush, then director
of the CIA, not only knew about these CIA activities in Italy (during the
late 1970s and early 1980s) but was in fact one of the masterminds behind
them.
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But one conspiracy, Masonic in origin, was catapulted into the sunshine one day in March of 1981 when the Italian police searched the home of Worshipful Master Licio Gelli and found a list containing the names of some of Italy's most prominent officials, including that of Silvio Berlusconi, a man who would become Premier of Italy and a personal friend of George W. Bush.
Founded in 1877, P2 or Propaganda Due was an irregular lodge formed as part of the Grand Orient of Italy. It had few members until Licio Gelli came to power and drastically expanded its membership within one year to over a thousand. Gelli was a former fascist, having been a "black shirt" in Mussolini's government, and served as a liaison between Mussolini's government and the Third Reich. Essentially setting the P2 Lodge up as a shadow government for Italy along fascist lines in the 60's and 70's, Gelli's Lodge included four Cabinet Ministers, all three heads of Italy's intelligence organizations, forty eight members of parliament, hundreds of military officers, and the cream of the crop of Italy's industrialists, bankers and diplomats. In addition, he developed high level contacts outside of Italy as well, most notably meeting with Alexander Haig, and contacts with Henry Kissinger and the CIA.
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Originally posted by jaamaanNo, it was suspended in 1975 and the Gladio scandal became public in 1981.
The P2 lodge was recognized up to the time that this Gladio scandal came out right ?
Originally posted by JoshNorton
Originally posted by jaamaanNo, it was suspended in 1975 and the Gladio scandal became public in 1981.
The P2 lodge was recognized up to the time that this Gladio scandal came out right ?
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So it had been operating clandestinely, independently, without the oversight of a Grand Lodge, for more than 5 years. Considering there were probably grounds for having their charter revoked, it's easy to believe they'd gone rogue prior to 1975, but the Grand Orient of Italy, like all institutional bodies, had to have all its charges in order before they could be processed appropriately.
Is it not as easy to believe that gladio had its connections to this lodge before it was considered officialy "rogue"?
So it had been operating clandestinely, independently, without the oversight of a Grand Lodge, for more than 5 years. Considering there were probably grounds for having their charter revoked, it's easy to believe they'd gone rogue prior to 1975, but the Grand Orient of Italy, like all institutional bodies, had to have all its charges in order before they could be processed appropriately.
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Originally posted by LowLevelMason
P2 is, in reality, the ultimate example of why freemasonry as a institution cannot be used for nefarious purposes. Its a clear case of someone attempting to carry out all the things that anti-masons claim freemasonry is just so susceptible to, and yet its a case where the nefarious plot never reached spread beyond the local lodge and the institution removed the lodge from its organizational structure as soon as it became aware of anything going on that was wrong.
Two ancient, mysterious, international fraternities kept the loosely-linked Gladio programs from flying apart. The Knights of Malta played a formative role after the war (see box), but the order of Freemasonry and its most notorious lodge in Italy, known as Propaganda Due (pronounced ``doo-ay'' ), or P-2, was far more influential. In the late 1960s, its ``Most Venerable Master'' was Licio Gelli, a Knight of Malta who fought for Franco with Mussolini's Black Shirts. At the end of World War II, Gelli faced execution by Italian partisans for his Nazi collaboration, but escaped by joining the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps. 23 In the 1950s, he was recruited by SIFAR.
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