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It all started in early January of 2001, someone had broken into Niger's Embassy in Rome. They didn't take much, some perfume, a watch, almost nobody noticed that the stationery was disturbed, and that some letterheads were taken. Almost nobody could have possibly known that this stationery would later be used as the tool to catapult the middle east into total disaster, as well as become the greatest foreign policy blunder of the United States yet.
The stationery was used to create the Yellowcake Forgeries, a document which was used as one of the justifications to go to war with Iraq, even mentioned in one of Bush's speeches. It's travels from Italy to the United States are not well understood, but what we do know is full of mysterious and questionable activities.
Silvio Berlusconi is up to his neck with ties with the forged documents. The former Prime Minister and former member of Propaganda Due, the strange secret society which seemed to be a command center of sorts for far right activities across the globe, controlled several newspapers during his time as Prime Minister. Somebody in the management of the newspapers told a reporter who came across the forgeries to NOT investigate. Eventually, the forgeries came into the hands of SISMI, Italy's intelligence service.
The director of SISMI, in a violation of protocol, decided to give the documents to the Office of Special Plans (A group which planned to only focus on intelligence that would make going to war look good), and not the CIA. Why did he decide to do this?
It'll take a worldwide investigation to only scrape at the truth about the Iraq War, and we can't just focus on the Bush Administration. We're going to have to take a look at Italy as well, and the enigmatic connections it has to this war and the Yellowcake Forgeries.
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