UK is Fucked
UK is Fucked
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Revealed: the secret British plan to keep Italy’s communists from power
Newly declassified files expose the Foreign Office’s dirty tricks campaign to influence the knife-edge 1976 election result
James Oliver and Nicholas Gilby
Sun 2 Oct 2022 07.00 BST
On 7 June 1976, the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme Panorama reported on the forthcoming Italian general election. Two weeks before the poll, the Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI) – the largest communist party in Europe – stood “on the threshold of power”.