Mr Basil Fawlty
14-09-2004, 00:03
ROME, Aug. 28. — Benito Mussolini was murdered by a two-man team led by a British secret agent acting on the orders of Winston Churchill, according to a new investigation.
In the official version, the Italian dictator and his final mistress, Clara Petacci, were shot by Italian partisans led by Walter Audisio — codenamed “Colonel Valerio” — at the gates of Villa Belmonte at Mezzegra near Lake Como at 4.10 p.m. on 28 April, 1945. Their bodies were then hung upside down in Milan.
But it is now suggested that this was cover-up, and that Mussolini and Petacci were really killed at 11 a.m. that day by Bruno Lonati, an Italian partisan codenamed “Giacomo”, and “Captain John”, a British Special Operations Executive agent of Sicilian parentage whose name was Robert Maccarrone.
An Italian state television documentary — Mussolini: The Final Truth — claims that Mussolini was carrying compromising letters from Churchill written over a period of years involving a deal under which Italy would make a separate peace with the Allies, a breach of Churchill’s agreement with President Roosevelt at Casablanca to seek the “unconditional surrender” of the Axis powers.
“Churchill, who like Mussolini was a life-long anti Bolshevik, was looking ahead to the coming conflict with the Soviet Union,” Peter Tompkins, a veteran American journalist who co-produced the documentary, said. Some biographers of Mussolini deny that the secret correspondence existed. — The Times, London
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=8&theme=&usrsess=1&id=52509
In the official version, the Italian dictator and his final mistress, Clara Petacci, were shot by Italian partisans led by Walter Audisio — codenamed “Colonel Valerio” — at the gates of Villa Belmonte at Mezzegra near Lake Como at 4.10 p.m. on 28 April, 1945. Their bodies were then hung upside down in Milan.
But it is now suggested that this was cover-up, and that Mussolini and Petacci were really killed at 11 a.m. that day by Bruno Lonati, an Italian partisan codenamed “Giacomo”, and “Captain John”, a British Special Operations Executive agent of Sicilian parentage whose name was Robert Maccarrone.
An Italian state television documentary — Mussolini: The Final Truth — claims that Mussolini was carrying compromising letters from Churchill written over a period of years involving a deal under which Italy would make a separate peace with the Allies, a breach of Churchill’s agreement with President Roosevelt at Casablanca to seek the “unconditional surrender” of the Axis powers.
“Churchill, who like Mussolini was a life-long anti Bolshevik, was looking ahead to the coming conflict with the Soviet Union,” Peter Tompkins, a veteran American journalist who co-produced the documentary, said. Some biographers of Mussolini deny that the secret correspondence existed. — The Times, London
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=8&theme=&usrsess=1&id=52509