FEDERAZIONE ANARCHICA ITALIANA SPONSORSHIP OF REVOLUTIONARY ACTION GROUPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000600050002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 16, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
25X1A2g
COUNTRY .Italy
DATE: 25X1A6a
SUBJECT
Federazione Anarchica Italiana Sponsorship
INFO.
DIST.
1947
ORIGi11
of Revolutionary Action Groups
PAGES
SUPPLEMENT
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It is reported that the Federazione Anarchica Italiana is organizing groups
of kevolutionary Action with the aid 6P foreign elements:
2. It is recalled that the FAI attempted to organize a terroristic plan on
similar lines in June 1946 but that the project failed bscuse of the lack
of funds and the absence of capable directing personnel. To this end an
emissary had been sent to Italy by the Spanish Anarchists tthe beat organized
and nest active in Europe). The work of this emissary quickly failed, however',
In the general euphoria and let-down following the republican electoral vic-
toa^y. It was not long, however, before the anarchists realized that the
bourgeois and clerical Republic was far removed from their proletarian ideal,.
They the fore began contacts with other Italian parties of openly revolution-
ary ideology: the Fartito Socialista Rivoluzionario, the Federazione Communista
Libertaria Italiana and the ivimcaerato Comaanista d a Italia? An understanding
aging these groups was not achieved., however4 for reasons of a technical ar.
organizational character and because of uncertainty in undertaking a clearly
delineated li