Giulio Andreotti Quotes

Anche quest'anno ce l'abbiamo fatta, grazie a Dio. Tanti miei compagni di scuola non ci sono più. Io capisco e gli altri capiscono quello che io dico.

Power wears out those who do not have it.

In 1946, partisan networks were created with the express aim of forming a ready-made resistance in the event of a Soviet land invasion of Western Europe. Many of the men recruited were members of the previous fascist or Nazi infrastructures of Germany and Italy, or other right wing groups with a reliably anti-communist stance. These networks were supplied with weapons, training, and money by the British MI6 and the American Office for Strategic Services (OSS), later to be replaced by the CIA. This network became known as Gladio, and its existence was acknowledged after many years of secrecy when Giulio Andreotti, the Italian Prime Minister, revealed it in a speech to the Italian Parliament on October 24th, 1990.2