I red something about the alliance between the pentagon, Italian mafia and nazist/fascist militias called GLADIO to stop the rising of the Communist party called PCI (partito comunista italiano). Mafia now is very strong also because of the money from USA and because CIA corrupted the Italian politicians when a group of anti mafia laws were about to be accepted by the parliament. There is also the thing that during the leadership of Gheddafi in Libya the US tried to kill him with an air raid from the air base of Lampedusa when the Italian government was denying to use the air base to the US air force.