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Originally Posted by rickroll
lol at italy being run by the deep state, even harder lol at italy g7
not fully run by the deep state, but the deep state (actual "deviated" secret services and so on) did a lot of stuff in the 70s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension
The strategy of tension is most closely identified with the Years of Lead in Italy from 1968 to 1982, wherein far-left Marxist groups, far-right neo-fascist extra-parliamentary groups
and state intelligence agencies performed bombings, kidnappings, arsons, and murders
I mean when even wiki tells you that explicitly and it isn't even flagged as controversial, it's hard to deny it
Later , we have decent proofs of a deal between the deep state and the mafia to stop mafia terrorist attacks (which were very common in the early 90s)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-Mafia_Pact
In 1964 the deep state organized a coup that didn't materialize only because the government (which was the first leftist one since ww2, with socialists as ministers) lost a vote of confidence, and the new one was more moderate. But the Carabinieri were deployed to take control of RAI buildings in Milan and Rome among other things
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Solo
Piano Solo was an envisaged plot for an Italian anti-communist coup in 1964 requested by then president of the Italian Republic, Antonio Segni. It was prepared by the commander of the Carabinieri, Giovanni de Lorenzo [it], in the beginning of 1964 in close collaboration with the Italian secret service SIFAR, CIA secret warfare expert Vernon Walters, then chief of the CIA station in Rome William King Harvey, and Renzo Rocca [it], director of the Gladio units within the military secret service SID. It was named Solo (Italian for "alone" or "only") because it was supposed to be directed only by the Carabinieri.[1]
In those years, between the 60s and the 90s, Italy was bouncing around as the 4th/5th/6th economy in the world, so i am not sure what you mean with "lol at italy g7"