#Politics

8 entries tagged Politics.

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Bettino Craxi Bettino Craxi was the Italian Socialist Party secretary from 1976 and Prime Minister from 1983 to 1987 who was the only major political figure to publicly advocate negotiating for Aldo Moro's release in 1978, and who fled Italy in 1994 to avoid Tangentopoli corruption prosecution, dying in self-imposed exile in Tunisia.
Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi was an Italian media magnate and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy three times (1994-1995, 2001-2006, 2008-2011); he appears in this vault primarily as a member of the P2 masonic lodge exposed by Italian authorities in 1981, through which he was connected to the Gladio network and the strategy of tension, and as a figure whose political rise intersected with the Italian intelligence and organized crime dimensions of the broader vault topics.

Democrazia Cristiana Democrazia Cristiana (DC) was Italy's dominant postwar political party, governing continuously from 1945 to 1994 with CIA support during the Cold War, whose leading figures included Alcide De Gasperi, Aldo Moro, and Giulio Andreotti, and which dissolved in 1994 under the weight of the Tangentopoli corruption investigations.
Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party (PCI) was Western Europe's largest communist party, achieving 34 percent of the Italian vote in 1976 under Enrico Berlinguer's Eurocommunist leadership, whose proposed historic compromise with the Democrazia Cristiana was ended by Aldo Moro's murder in 1978 and which dissolved in 1991 to become the Democratic Party of the Left.
Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party (PSI) was Italy's third major postwar political force, which ran a joint electoral front with the Communists in 1948 before gradually moving to center-left autonomy, reached its peak of influence under Bettino Craxi's prime ministership from 1983 to 1987, and was destroyed by the Tangentopoli corruption investigations in 1992-1994.

Iranian Revolution 1979 popular uprising that overthrew Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, establishing an Islamic republic and fundamentally reshaping Middle Eastern geopolitics.

Dual Loyalty Dual loyalty is a concept that has been a concern to the American intelligence community since the creation of Israel in 1948.
Nuclear Proliferation Nuclear proliferation refers to the spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information to nations not recognized as 'nuclear weapon states' by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.