Leaving nothing to chance
Recruited by MI5: the name's Mussolini. Benito Mussolini
Documents reveal Italian dictator got start in politics in 1917 with
help of £100 weekly wage from MI5
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/oct/13/benito-mussolini-recruited-mi5-italy
Tom Kington in Rome
Tue 13 Oct 2009 20.15 BST
Benito Mussolini in Dress Uniform
Benito Mussolini was paid £100 a week by MI5 to keep Italy in the first
world war. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
History remembers Benito Mussolini as a founder member of the original
Axis of Evil, the Italian dictator who ruled his country with fear and
forged a disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany. But a previously unknown
area of Il Duce's CV has come to light: his brief career as a British agent.
Archived documents have revealed that Mussolini got his start in
politics in 1917 with the help of a £100 weekly wage from MI5.
For the British intelligence agency, it must have seemed like a good
investment. Mussolini, then a 34-year-old journalist, was not just
willing to ensure Italy continued to fight alongside the allies in the
first world war by publishing propaganda in his paper. He was also
willing to send in the boys to "persuade'' peace protesters to stay at home.
Mussolini's payments were authorised by Sir Samuel Hoare, an MP and
MI5's man in Rome, who ran a staff of 100 British intelligence officers
in Italy at the time.
Cambridge historian Peter Martland, who discovered details of the deal
struck with the future dictator, said: "Britain's least reliable ally in
the war at the time was Italy after revolutionary Russia's pullout from
the conflict. Mussolini was paid £100 a week from the autumn of 1917 for
at least a year to keep up the pro-war campaigning – equivalent to about
£6,000 a week today."
Hoare, later to become Lord Templewood, mentioned the recruitment in
memoirs in 1954, but Martland stumbled on details of the payments for
the first time while scouring Hoare's papers.
As well as keeping the presses rolling at Il Popolo d'Italia, the
newspaper he edited, Mussolini also told Hoare he would send Italian
army veterans to beat up peace protesters in Milan, a dry run for his
fascist blackshirt units.
"The last thing Britain wanted were pro-peace strikes bringing the
factories in Milan to a halt. It was a lot of money to pay a man who was
a journalist at the time, but compared to the £4m Britain was spending
on the war every day, it was petty cash," said Martland.
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"I have no evidence to prove it, but I suspect that Mussolini, who was a
noted womaniser, also spent a good deal of the money on his mistresses."
After the armistice, Mussolini began his rise to power, assisted by
electoral fraud and blackshirt violence, establishing a fascist
dictorship by the mid-1920s.
His colonial ambitions in Africa brought him into contact with his old
paymaster again in 1935. Now the British foreign secretary, Hoare signed
the Hoare-Laval pact, which gave Italy control over Abyssinia.
"There is no reason to believe the two men were friends, although Hoare
did have an enduring love affair with Italy," said Martland, whose
research is included in Christopher Andrew's history of MI5, Defence of
the Realm, which was published last week.
The unpopularity of the Hoare-Laval pact in Britain forced Hoare to
resign. Mussolini, meanwhile, built on his new colonial clout to ally
with Hitler, entering the second world war in 1940, this time to fight
against the allies.
Deposed following the allied invasion of Italy in 1943, Mussolini was
killed with his mistress, Clara Petacci, by Italian partisans while
fleeing Italy in an attempt to reach Switzerland two years later.
Martland said: "Mussolini ended his life hung upside down in Milan, but
history has not been kind to Hoare either, condemned as an appeaser of
fascism alongside Neville Chamberlain."
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From South America, where payment must be made with subtlety, the Bormann
organization has made a substantial contribution. It has drawn many of the
brightest Jewish businessmen into a participatory role in the development of
many of its corporations, and many of these Jews share their prosperity most
generously with Israel. If their proposals are sound, they are even provided
with a specially dispensed venture capital fund. I spoke with one Jewish
businessmen in Hartford, Connecticut. He had arrived there quite unknown
several years before our conversation, but with Bormann money as his leverage.
Today he is more than a millionaire, a quiet leader in the community with a
certain share of his profits earmarked as always for his venture capital
benefactors. This has taken place in many other instances across America and
demonstrates how Bormann’s people operate in the contemporary commercial world,
in contrast to the fanciful nonsense with which Nazis are described in so much
“literature.”
So much emphasis is placed on select Jewish participation in Bormann companies
that when Adolf Eichmann was seized and taken to Tel Aviv to stand trial, it
produced a shock wave in the Jewish and German communities of Buenos Aires.
Jewish leaders informed the Israeli authorities in no uncertain terms that this
must never happen again because a repetition would permanently rupture
relations with the Germans of Latin America, as well as with the Bormann
organization, and cut off the flow of Jewish money to Israel. It never happened
again, and the pursuit of Bormann quieted down at the request of these Jewish
leaders. He is residing in an Argentinian safe haven, protected by the most
efficient German infrastructure in history as well as by all those whose
prosperity depends on his well-being.
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Please consider seriously the reason why these elite institutions are not discussed in the mainstream press despite the immense financial and political power they wield?
There are sick and evil occultists running the Western World. They are power mad lunatics like something from a kids cartoon with their fingers on the nuclear button! Armageddon is closer than you thought. Only God can save our souls from their clutches, at least that's my considered opinion - Tony
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