Licio Gelli, who has died aged 96, was among those rare individuals of whom it could be said that what was not known about them was more interesting than what was. Did he work for the CIA after the ...

Licio Gelli, a masonic grand master implicated in some of the darkest chapters of Italy's post-war history and one of the worst scandals to rock the Vatican, has died at the age of 96. Gelli, a ...

Sigrid Klop/Shutterstock If this man hadn’t existed, you wouldn’t believe it possible that someone like him actually lived outside the pages of a pulp-fiction novel. Excerpts: Licio Gelli, who has ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When officers from Italy’s tax police raided a Tuscan business on the outskirts of Arezzo on March 17, 1981, ...

Licio Gelli started the Propaganda Deu, which was held responsible for a number of scandals in 20th century Italy TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images Licio Gelli, the grand master of the notorious Italian ...

A bank manager was found hanging from London's Blackfriars Bridge. A Sicilian banker was murdered in jail with a poisoned cup of coffee. And in the middle of it all was Licio Gelli, a one-time fascist ...

The venerable master of the clandestine freemasons lodge Propaganda P2, one of Italy’s most sinister organisations believed to be at the heart of a fascist conspiracy, has died Licio Gelli (born 1919) ...

NEW YORK — Licio Gelli, a buccaneering Italian financier and self-professed fascist who was implicated in terror crimes, scandals, and a secret society that, with ...

Licio Gelli, the mastermind behind a notorious Italian masonic lodge with links to some of Italy’s biggest scandals of the 20th century, has died at the age of 96. Gelli was at the “grandmaster” of ...

Licio Gelli, who has died aged 96, was a one-time fascist blackshirt and grandmaster of a secret masonic lodge at the centre of Italy’s biggest post-war political scandal; it centred around the ...