On June 12, Silvio Berlusconi, the flamboyant billionaire, media tycoon and politician died at a Milan hospital. Like no other, Berlusconi had dominated Italian politics over past three decades. What is less know, however, is the fact that Berlusconi was a member of the anti-communist clandestine organization Propaganda Due or P2. Founded during the Second World War, the P2 has functioned like a state within a state over the past decades. It has infiltrated civilian and military decision-making and undermined Italian’s democratic institutions from within. The organization is widely believed to be the mastermind behind a series of neo-fascist terrorist attacks and assassinations that shook Italy between 1969 and 1980.The plan was to establish an authoritarian regime disguised behind a democratic façade. The control of the media and the establishment  ...