VIEWS OF GIORGIO ALMIRANTE ON THE ITALIAN SOCIAL MOVEMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009400370001-1
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1999
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• Publication Date: November 20, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Views of Giorgio Amirante
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1. .Amirante refused to specify the strength of -MSI membership. He was cof
fident that, if a general election were held now, the MSI would secure
about 2 million votes. If MSI meetings were allowed to be held in the open,
this number would no doubt be increased.
2. It is not true, as is generally believed, that the majority of MSI members
come from the middle class. Many of this class are prepared to vote for
the MSI in a secret ballot, but are afraid to record open support for it by
becoming members. In fact, about 70 per cent of the HSI's members were from
the artisan and working classes.
3. The MSI refuses to have anything to do with men like Giuseppe Bottai, who
"betrayed Fascism" on 25 July 1943. It would, however, present among its
oandidates.at the next general election many prominent men of Fascist days
who were not compromised, in the eyes of the MSI, by the events of that date.
4. The HSI is a poor party, as can be seen by its lack of publications. It has
only one weekly. Over 70 per cent of its funds come from the voluntary s3+zb-.
scriptions of ordinary members. As an example, the Florence Federation of
the ]VLSI has Just acquired new office premises at a rental of 100,000 lire
a month. The money will be obtained through the contribution of 1,000 lire
a month by 200 members.
5. MSI Headquarters normally never gives a single lira to the Federations. Dur-
ing the last electoral campaign, a few posters were paid for by Headquarters
and sent to Federations, but the majority of electoral propaganda matter was
paid for by the Federations themselves.
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6, RNs only moral which had been received from abroad came from Italian symps-
thizers in the Argentine. Small sums were given to the MSI from time to
time by industrialists, businessmen we landowners. These were the only
ones who could afford to make occasional contributions of half a million or a
million lire. H. denied that any strings were attached to these contribu-
tions; if there were, they would not be accepted, Before the last general
election campaign, a very prominent Milanese businessman had offered to
finance the MSIgs entire electoral oampaign, provided that his election as
an MSI Deputy was assured. The offer was turned down,
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7. Almirante did not describe himself as a leader of a left wing of the MSI.
He said that the MSI, like all political parties, had a left, center and
right wing, although they were not clearly defined. Re and Augasto Do Mar