Combating_Communism_in_Italy.pdf

c.cA EO 13526 1.4(c)<25Yrs TSECRFP I O:\Ilist\History\Landa\Europe Defense BookNew Studies 4th Draft, I l-12-l I ,.f 1os "Shots from a Luce Cannon": Combating Communism in Italy, 1953-1956 DEcLASSIFIED rN FULI Auttrority: EO 13520 3H Trrmr6ltrrDrv,wHe Beginning with the April 1948 Italian national election campaign,r the United States invested large sums in economic aid and military assistiance, along with substantial covert funds, to reduce the power of the Communist Party, the largest in Europ...