Piano Solo

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Piano Solo was an envisaged plot for an Italian coup in 1964, planned by then director of the military police, Giovanni De Lorenzo.

The coup plans were investigated in 1967, but the results of that investigation remained classified until the early 1990s. It was released by premier Giulio Andreotti to the parliamentary investigation into Operation Gladio. The magazine l'Espresso mentioned that some 20,000 Carabinieri were supposed to deployed around the country, with 5,000 of them taking over Rome, including publishing outlets and the Communist headquarters.[1]

The Financial Times posed the possibility that the paper coup was simply used as a way to sway coalition talks between the Christian Democrats and Socialists. President Antonio Segni was apparently running out of patience with the demands from Pietro Nenni.[2]

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  1. ^ "Twenty-Six Years Later, Details of Planned Rightist Coup Emerge", Associated Press, 1991-01-05. 
  2. ^ "Comic opera themes in Solo plot", Financial Times, 1991-05-01. 
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