Epstein Secrets

absentia to 8 years for financing terrorism in Florence, Italy and another 14 months for money laundering in San Remo. In 1987, Gelli surrendered in Chile and was sentenced to two months in prison in Switzerland. In February 1988, he was extradited back to Italy, accompanied by 2 armored cars and one

ussolini. In the agreement, called the Lateran Treaty, the Pope recognized that the Papal States, including Rome, were now part of Italy. In return, Mussolini accepted that a small parcel of land surrounding St. Peter's, called Vatican City, henceforth would be completely independent of the laws of Italy,

in Africa and Asia, and autocratic regimes gave way to democracy in Greece (1974), Spain (1975), Argentina (1983), Brazil EFTA00684343 (1985) and Chile (1989). The collapse of the Soviet Union created many fledgling democracies in central Europe. By 2000 Freedom House, an American think-tank, class

s communism and fascism looked like the coming things: when Spain temporarily restored its parliamentary government in 1931, Benito EFTA00684351 Mussolini likened it to returning to oil lamps in the age of electricity. In the mid-1970s Willy Brandt, a former German chancellor, pronounced that "western

ollowing a financial crisis far away from your own shores, you begin to notice an unnerving trend. On the streets of Iceland and then Spain and then Chile and then Israel and Ukraine and Turkey and Mexico and then New York City, thousands or hundreds of thousands of citizens gather. There is no one lea

theus Books, 1988) 212 70 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018302 to the neck and in to the death,” he wrote the day after Pearl Harbor. “Hitler's fate was Sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.”%8 Or