PRI ATTITUDES TOWARD 'CLARIFICATION' OF THE GOVERNMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00418R000500080008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 24, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2000/04/18 : CIA-RDP83-00418R000500080008-6
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the lCepionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.O. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
S-E-C-R-E-T
NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
Italy
PRI Attitudes toward: ',Clarification"
REPORT NO.
DATE DISTR.
z'/ June 1955
of the Government
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DATE OF INFO.
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Available in the CIA Library is a three-page photocopy of an untranslated t"epo't in
Ttab ri, ng with the. internal situation of the Partito Repubblicano Italiano
(PRI; Italian Republican Party). According to the report, the PRI considers
that the present quadripartite formula has reached a crisis, due mainly to the
movement of the Partito Liberale,Italiano (PLI; Italian Liberal Party) to the
Right and the tendency.;bf0the Ch~istiiitsDem 3chetid: Party,,to~3ards:~;~p6tpetuat~ ng
itself, as evidenced by its reinforcement of the Christian Democratic posts h.
in the lower ,of Government. The report points out the differences
in the views of Randolfo Pacciardi and Ugo La Malfa, both PRI Deputies, re-
garding the governmental "clarification". Pacciardi maintains that the PRI
should participate in the present or another government, if the proper
guarantees are obtained, while La Malfa is rigorously opposed to PRI partici-
pation in any form of coalition government. La Malfa believes that the split
in the Christian Democratic Party is a permanent one; and that, since the death
of Alcide De Gasperi, no other person could have avoided it. La Malfa maintains
that Italian democracy can no longer be entrusted to the Christian Democratic
Party, and that the lay parties should, form a bloc and develop a program. The
report concludes with the statement that the PRI Directorate has decided not
to participate in the "clari-ficatiors":.
Photocopies,iof.`Attaffhment available from CIA Library
Distribution of Attachment; OCD
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