barism." The person who offered Calvi such protection in this "religious war" was Licio Gelli. A mattress spring manufacturer and poet from Arezzo, Gelli claimed to run one a powerful web of influence in the form of a Masonic Lodge in Rome called Propagandi Due, or P-2. This secret society, according

as a veritable a "state within a state." The Commission had come to EFTA_R1_02068605 EFTA02700928 these conclusions largely based on the files of Gelli and his close associates, but most of those named in them denied any such membership in Gelli's secret lodge. Nor did his P-2 lodge ever hold meeti