Editing Propaganda Due (section)

=== Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry ===
After the discovery of the lists, [[Arnaldo Forlani]] appointed a committee of three wise men ({{Ill|Vezio Crisafulli|it}}, [[Lionello Levi Sandri]] and {{Ill|Aldo Mazzini Sandulli|it}}) to provide cognitive and critical elements on the activities of P2.<ref>[[Sergio Zavoli]], ''La notte della Repubblica'', Roma, Nuova Eri, 1992.</ref>

At the end of 1981, at the behest of the President of the Chamber of Deputies [[Nilde Iotti]], a parliamentary commission of inquiry was set up, led by the Christian Democrat deputy [[Tina Anselmi]][70], a former "white" partisan and the first woman to become a minister in the history of the Italian Republic. The commission carried out a long analysis to shed light on the Loggia, considered a point of reference in Italy for American secret service circles intending to keep Italian political life under control to the point, if necessary, of promoting specific constitutional reforms or organising a ''coup d'état''. The commission – which concluded its work in 1984 – produced six reports.<ref name="Zavoli, 1992"/>

The P2 was also investigated by the Commission for Mass Murders for alleged involvement in some massacres, but this led to nothing relevant. The members of P2 and Gelli were fully acquitted of the charges of "conspiracy against the State" by the Court of Assizes and the Court of Assizes of Appeal in Rome between 1994 and 1996.<ref>''[http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1996/03/28/la-p2-non-cospiro-contro-lo.html La P2 non cospirò contro lo Stato]'', in ''la Repubblica'' (March 28, 1996).</ref>

The Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry, headed by Anselmi, concluded that the P2 lodge was a secret [[criminal organization]]. Allegations of surreptitious international relationships, mainly with [[Argentina]] (Gelli repeatedly suggested that he was a close friend of [[Juan Perón]]) and with some people suspected of affiliation with the US [[Central Intelligence Agency]], were also partly confirmed. Soon a [[political debate]] overtook the legal level of the analysis.<ref name="Willan p50">Willan, ''Puppetmasters'', p. 50.</ref> The majority report said that P2 action resulted in "the pollution of the public life of a nation. It aimed to alter, often in decisive fashion, the correct functioning of the institutions of the country, according to a project which ... intended to undermine our democracy." A minority report by [[Massimo Teodori]] concluded that P2 was not just an abnormal outgrowth from an essentially healthy system, as upheld by the majority report, but an inherent part of the system itself.<ref name="Ginsborg p144" />