The global power of freemasonry - Gnostic Liberation Front

and the CIA within the freemasonry, held... the future of the Grande
Oriente in their hands".
In 1965, P2 had only 14 members. It had become a lodge of the
elite. The members were known as piduesti (P2s). When Gamberini
during the years 1966-67 re-organized the lodge by order of the
grand master of the Grand Lodge, Lino Salvini, he picked Licio Gelli
as grand master in 1967. The small businessman Gelli, who came from
Arezzo in Tuscany, had been initiated into the Grande Oriente and P2
in Rome in 1965 after a long sojourn abroad. He was also a member
of the Order of Malta.
Gelli had fought on the Franco side in the Spanish Civil War and
avidly supported Mussolini. During the Second World War he tortured
and murdered communist partisans and reported them. At the same
time he belonged to the underground communist party. After the war
Gelli and the Catholic priest Krujoslav Dragonovic organized a 'rat
line' for Nazis wishing to flee to South America. Gelli's fee was 40 per
cent of their money (David Yallop, "In God's Name", London, 1985, p.
172).
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