Mussolini-Churchill’s top secret files
A Conspiracy Machine and the States’ secrets.
A Conspiracy Machine and the States’ secrets.
We have been studying especially the matter because Mussolini was killed on Churchill's orders by British agents in synergy with Italian partisans. We believe that Mussolini’s death was covered up because of incriminating letters from Great Britain Premier to Duce. Benito Mussolini was murdered by a two-man team (commando) 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 April 28, 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 (S.O.E.), i.e. Special Operations Executive’s agent of Sicilian parentage whose name was Robert Maccarrone. Many writers and historians claim 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 antiBolshevik, was looking ahead to the coming conflict with the Soviet Union”, Peter Tompkins, a veteran American journalist who coproduced a documentary about espionage sides inside R.S.I.’s period, said. Some British biographers of Churchill deny the existence of this secret correspondence between the two premiers. But a number of letters have come to light, including Mussolini’s last letter, written on April 24, in which he pleads with Churchill to “intervene personally” and guarantee him “the chance to justify and defend myself”. Bruno Giovanni Lonati, 84 years old, a former Communist who became a Fiat manager after the war and now lives in Brescia, claims that “John” was sent to northern Italy with the specific aim of eliminating Mussolini and answered directly to General (later Field Marshal) Alexander. “John” and Mr. Lonati agent went together to the house where the Duce and his mistress (Clara Petacci) were being held after being captured by partisans near Dongo. When arrested, Mussolini was clutching a briefcase that he told his captors was “of historic importance for the future of Italy”. Signor Lonati said: “Petacci was sitting on the bed and Mussolini was standing. John took me outside and told me his orders were to eliminate them both, because Petacci knew many things. I said I could not shoot Petacci, so John said he would shoot her. He was quite clear that Mussolini had to be killed by an Italian”.
He said that, when Mussolini stepped out to get some air, under guard, Petacci said with a sad smile: “”So, it’s all over for us”. She asked them to shoot “at the chest, not the head”. At the corner of a lane leading down to the lake, less than a mile from Villa Belmonte, “John” and “Giacomo” stood their victims against a fence and opened fire. Signor Lonati said: “Mussolini had a look of surprise on his face, but not Petacci. “After the shootings, “John” took a camera from his knapsack and photographed the bodies, with Signor Lonati beside them. He had also referred to “very important documents” which he was ordered to recover from the Duce. Mr. Tompkins, who coproduced the documentary with Maria Luisa Forenza, said that there was evidence that the photographs existed. “Lonati went to the British consulate in Milan in 1981”, he said. “The consul sat opposite Lonati with them, but said he needed authorisation to hand them over. Lonati received a letter from the consulate promising to get in touch, but never heard any more”. Mr. Tompkins, himself an O.S.S.’ secret agent for the Allies in occupied Rome in 1944, said that he had approached the British Embassy in Rome about the pictures. An embassy official “promised to see what he could do, but later apologetically said ‘no’. He did not say they did not exist”.Signora Forenza said that Signor Lonati’s claims, first advanced ten years ago, had been greeted with scepticism “but we spent three years testing his account and find it completely convincing, with no discrepancies”. By contrast, the official version of Mussolini’s death changed frequently and was “riddled with inconsistencies and lies”. This month, the French-made MAS submachinegun with which Mussolini was said to have been shot by Walter Audisio came to light in Albania. Signor Lonati said that he and “John” had used Sten guns. The documentary by Rai, the Italian State television station, entitled Mussolini: The Final Truth, includes testimony from Dorina Mazzola, who was 19 years old at the time. She said that she heard the firing: “I looked at the clock, it was almost 11”. She said that her mother, Giuseppina, who was in the garden, saw the shooting. Partisans arrived soon after and took the bodies away, holding Mussolini up to make it look as if he was still alive, she said. The documentary says that partisans were later dressed as Mussolini and Petacci and driven to the gates of the Villa Belmonte, where the bodies were already laid out. “Colonel Valerio” and others then pretended to shoot them. Roberto Remund, who was at the scene, said that the bodies were “ unnaturally stiff and contorted” and that there was “very little blood”, suggesting that the killings had happened earlier. The programme includes interviews with Claudio Ersoch, grandson of Tommaso David, Mussolini’s head of covert operations, who said that his grandfather confirmed that the correspondence existed and that Churchill had promised in it to restore to Italy lost territory such as Istria. The programme claims that postwar painting trips made by Churchill to the Italian lakes were a cover for efforts to retrieve the correspondence. Christopher Woods, researcher for the official history of the SOE in Italy, disputed the suggestion that a British spy had led the assassination mission. He said: “It’s just love of conspiracy-making. The leaders of the Resistance in Milan, particularly the left-wing parties, decided that Mussolini should be killed before the Allies arrived”. Mussolini’s death in April 28 1945 came as the end of the Second World War was in sight and the Soviet Union and the West were already vying to shape the postwar world. Three days earlier talks to found the United Nations were held in San Francisco. But the most important personalities who knew something about secret correspondence Churchill-Mussolini and about Mussolini’s attaché cases (briefcases), that Duce believed it would have been an authentic elixir of long life for himself (i.e. Duce), were: Mr. Dante Gorreri, a dangerous partisan P.C.I.’s trafficker during 1945; Luigi Carissimi Priori of Gonzaga, a clever Italian partisan biotechnology expert, and last, but not least, the S.O.E.’s agent Max Salvadori, well-known as “Captain Sylvester”, who was in Milan since February 1945. According to Carlo Alberto Biggini, Minister of People's Education in the Italian Social (Fascist) Republic, Mussolini carried with him papers which proved the British (and Churchill's) responsibility for Italy's entry into the war. The UK persuaded Italy to mount a "phoney war" against the Allies in expectation of a general peace. Hitler would have appreciated Italy's "merits" and Mussolini would have been regaled at a "Munich Summit Two", helping the UK and France's position. Mussolini had a file and attempted to save the documents that he expressed would explain Italy's "mistakes" and his own "good reasons." Carlo Alberto Biggini was adamant about this file and vigorously stated this correspondence displayed proof of British guilt and complicity in Italy's war declaration. The British showed, before and after May of 1945, a most curious interest in those papers and expended much effort in attempting to find them. When Churchill lost the elections of July 1945, he did not give back the papers and files he had kept covering the years of 1940-1945. Fascists, Germans, Japanese, partisans and even two British individuals explicitly mentioned these papers. Renzo De Felice's last book, entitled Red and Black,, published by Baldini & Castoldi in 1995, maintained the British feared a "Mussolini International trial" and wanted him dead at all costs. Because of the correspondence, Mussolini was aware of some rather volatile information regarding the UK and Churchill.
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