Propaganda Due

"The P2 also wanted Moro's death because he opened the door to the PCI. And Cossiga was powerless."

"[On the judicial investigations that led to his removal] I was more upset about the end of another investigation, the one into IRI's slush funds. In the P2 case it was the first time, and I thought it was an accident that could happen. But the next time I was on the verge of resigning."

"The investigations into the Freemasons and the relationship between the lodges and the mafia must lead to the political responsibility of the Honourable Mrs Anselmi and her commission on P2. What emerged was already known at the time, but Mrs Anselmi, on behalf of the party system, did not want to clarify the situation regarding the Freemasons."

"No one can deny that P2 is a criminal organisation."

"Being a member of the P2 meant having participated in an organisation, a secret sect, plotting against the State, and this was ratified by Parliament. And I share this opinion that was formed after the investigation by the Anselmi Commission."

"[About the Plan of "Democratic" Rebirth, as in the picture] My Plan of rebirth? I see that twenty years later this Bicamerale [the Massimo D'Alema Bicamerale] is copying it piece by piece, with the Boato draft. Better late than never. They should at least give me the copyright..."

"Since fifteen years a group of people has been using public functions to solve their own problems of justice; Go and reread the proposals of P2, go and reread all those proposals, they are exactly those of a justice system subservient to power, they are exactly those of an anti-democratic state where a caste rules over a people who are no longer citizens but subjects."

"The list of P2 affiliates includes, they say, 953 names, corresponding to the highest ranks of politics, the judiciary, the armed forces, bureaucracy, industry and finance. All ‘brothers’. It's proof that, in this country, woe betide only children."

"I don't want to attack Andreotti, for heaven's sake, but how can we forget that he handed the State over to P2 by appointing Grassini, Santovito and Pelosi as heads of the secret services in 1978? All of them were members of P2. The same three who later investigated the Moro crime."

"It is still not completely clear how ramified this organisation is [ Fethullah Gülen ] which resembles your P2 lodge, a criminal organisation that calls itself religious."

"The instigators have never sat in the dock. During the years of massacres we realised that within the State there is an Anti-State: high PUDUIST officers who acted to divert the course of justice, also using Gladio or the Anello, implicated in the most murky events of our history. Evidence destroyed, witnesses systematically eliminated. A misdirection of enquiries that continues today."

"The Palace had its occult and transversal implications. P2 teaches. P2 has run transversally through all the institutions of the State. It's a fact, I'm not the one saying it, and I'm not accusing anyone because I'm not in a position to do so. [...] So the transversality of my alleged attitude within the Red Brigades is specious, so I don't feel in the least bit affected."

"[On P2] Three years later it became quite clear that that power group saw my presence at Eni as an insurmountable obstacle to the continuation of the business system that existed before my appointment in 1992, and was trying in every way possible to eliminate me."

"Since the landing of the Allies in Sicily, and the decision to involve the Mafia to facilitate it, a 'quiet life' relationship has been established with this criminal organisation, which has characterised decades of our history. It was a necessarily occult agreement. And even more occult and opaque has necessarily been its perpetuation. What could it have produced if not blackmail? The blackmail of the criminal powers over politics. Another example of that way of governing the country by compromise, and then by blackmail, is the 'Cirillo case'. Remember? A part of the DC came to an agreement with Raffaele Cutolo's Camorra to free councillor Ciro Cirillo, granting, in exchange, the criminality access to the public resources of the post-seismic reconstruction. And I could go on: Iri's slush funds; the P2..."

"Would Giulio Andreotti have been the true "master" of the P2 Lodge? For heaven's sake... I had the P2, Cossiga the Gladio and Andreotti the Ring."

"With P2 we had Italy in our hands. Then there was the Army, Financial Police, Police: they were clearly commanded by all people from the P2 Masonic lodge. [...] We never wanted to attack and we couldn't attack, but we were a sentinel to prevent the Communist Party from emerging."

"Being a piduist is not a title of demerit."

"P2 gathered the best men in the country, and signing up was not a mistake but an accident through no fault of our own."

"When I received my membership card it said I was an apprentice bricklayer and I, who was a great home builder at the time, couldn't help but have a good laugh."

"Licio Gelli: In this country there is the only charismatic figure who can truly lead it: Silvio Berlusconi."

"Gomez: But in the meantime we know how these things go: he will end up being acquitted."