Riccardo Lombardi

Riccardo Lombardi (16 August 1901 – 18 September 1984) was an Italian politician.[1]

Riccardo Lombardi in 1966

Lombardi was born in Regalbuto. A leader of the Italian Resistance against Mussolini during World War II, he formed the Partito D'Azione, or Action Party, in Italy in 1942.[2]

He represented the Action Party in the Constituent Assembly of Italy from 1946 to 1948 and the Italian Socialist Party in the Chamber of Deputies from 1948 to 1983.[3] In 1980, he was made president of the Italian Socialist Party.

Forged NATO Document Incident

On 18 June 1970 Lombardi made claims before the Italian Chamber of Deputies, based on a document printed on NATO stationery, that the North American Treaty Organization was planning to move troops into Italy as a result of perceived political instability.[4] Lombardi stated that he had received the document at the end of a meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers on 25 May 1970.[5][6]

The document was later rejected as a forgery by both the Italian Foreign Ministry and NATO headquarters.[5]

References
  1. "Lombardi, Riccardo". Trecanni.
  2. "Riccardo Lombardi". Statesman Journal. 19 September 1984.
  3. "Riccardo Lombardi (1901-1984)". La Fondazione di Studi Storici Filippo Turati.
  4. Bittman, Ladislav (1985). The KGB and Soviet Disinformation: An Insider's View. McLean, Virginia: Pergamon-Brassey's. p. 104.
  5. "A "NATO Document" Branded a Forgery". New York Times. 20 June 1970. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
  6. Pisano, Vittorfranco S. (1987). The Dynamics of Subversion and Violence in Contemporary Italy. Hoover Press. ISBN 9780817985530.
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