Editing Licio Gelli (section)

==Personal archive==
On 11 February 2006, Licio Gelli donated his "non-secret archive" to the State Archives of Pistoia, as part of an official ceremony, held under the patronage of the Municipality. However, the municipal administrators of Pistoia preferred not to take part in the ceremony.<ref>The granting of patronage by the Municipality aroused a strong protest which took the form of hundreds of citizens signing up for a document which requested the withdrawal of the patronage while accepting the donation. The administrators and the majority political forces did not accept the content of the protest. The Mayor, whose intervention was foreseen in the official program of the ceremony, decided not to participate. On the day of the ceremony, a protest garrison was held in front of the event venue, while a crowded protest demonstration took place in the provincial council chamber the days before.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comune.pistoia.it/cgi-bin/comunicati/comunicati_2006.cgi?cmd=vis&id=950|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130430193313/http://www.comune.pistoia.it/cgi-bin/comunicati/comunicati_2006.cgi?cmd=vis&id=950|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-04-30|title=Archivio Gelli: distinguere tra donazione e donatore|language=it|date=February 3, 2006}}</ref>

However, the so-called "500 directory" remained secret (426 files addressed by Gelli to businessmen, politicians, companies, banks, clergymen, etc.). Guardia di Finanza and investigators have never managed to find its contents.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.blogo.it/post/365439/10-cose-da-sapere-su-licio-gelli |author=Andrea Spinelli Barrile |title=10 cose da sapere su Licio Gelli |publisher=Blogo |date=December 16, 2015}}</ref>