P2/Propaganda Due: Masonic Lodge - Italy (1981)

P2/Propaganda Due: Masonic Lodge - Italy (1981) Propaganda Due (P2) was a Masonic lodge under the Grand Orient of Italy, founded in 1877. Its Masonic charter was withdrawn in 1976, and it transformed into a clandestine, anti-communist, anti-soviet, anti-leftist, pseudo-Masonic and radical right organization operating in contravention of Article 18 of the Constitution of Italy that banned secret associations. In its latter period, during which the lodge was headed by Licio Gelli, P2 was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries, including the collapse of the Vatican-affiliated Banco Ambrosiano, the murders of journalist Mino Pecorelli and banker Roberto Calvi, and corruption cases within the nationwide bribe scandal Tangentopoli. P2 came to light through the investigations into the collapse of Michele Sindona’s financial empire. In March 1981, police found a list of alleged members in Gelli’s house in Arezzo. It contained 962 names, among which were important state offic