lodge by that lodge's venerable grand master, the notorious Licio Gelli. Gelli is also
reported by informed sources to have worked energetically to promote Bush's 1980
presidential candidacy.
Some see Bush's alleged connections to Licio Gelli's P-2 lodge as relevant to the
assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on February 28, 1986. According to
Barbara Honegger's mysterious informant "Y", on February 25, 1986, just a few days
before Palme was killed, Licio Gelli, who was then in Brazil, sent a message to Philip
Guarino, a former official of the Republican National Committee telling him that "the
Swedish tree will be felled," along with a request to "tell our good friend Bush." [fn 33]
Palme, at the time of his death, was aware of the participation of Swedish arms
companies in weapons deliveries to the Khomeini regime within the framework of what
later became known as Iran-contra.
On July 2, 1990, the first program (Tg-1) of RAI Television, the Italian government-
sponsored network, broadcast an interview by journalist Ennio Remondino with Ibrahim
Razin and Richard Brennecke, a former US intelligence agent who has become well
known in connection with his allegations concerning the 1980 October Surprise. Here
Razin repeated the account of the message from Gelli to Guarino and Bush just
summarized. Brennecke added that US intelligence agencies provided the P-2 lodge with
funding in the amount of $10 million per month for gun-running, drug-running, and
destabilization. In the wake of this telecast, President Francesco Cossiga, the
psychologically unstable Italian chief of state, demanded that Prime Minister Giulio
Andreotti investigate these charges. Cossiga was indignant that both the US government
and George Bush had been accused of these heinous crimes. Andreotti's investigation was
a superficial one and certainly did not disprove any of the charges, leaving the matter
hanging. [fn 34]
NOTES:
- Joan Quigley, "What Does Joan Say" (New York, 1990), p. 112.
- Clay F. Richards, "George Bush: 'co-president' in the Reagan administration" United Press International,
March 10, 1981. - Alexander Haig, Caveat (New York, 1984), p. 54.
- Haig, Caveat, p. 115.
- Haig, Caveat, p. 302.
- Haig, Caveat, p. 60.
- Washington Post, March 22, 1981.
- Haig, Caveat, pp. 144-145.