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Rayon & Beans. Exporter Gentili, who also dabbles in politics (he ran unsuccessfully for the Italian Senate in 1948 and 1953), was approached in 1952 by Communist Leader Spartaco Muratori, then bossing a chain of party-owned firms that handle more than half of Italy's $123 million yearly East-West trade. Muratori made a deal with Gentili to take over the party's China trade. Two months later Peking gave Gentili an order for 7,000 cases of rayon fiber, paid him off with a shipload of soybeans, which he sold in Antwerp. Later Gentili was made...
...Italian government refuses to grant him import or export licenses. He has built a fortune by arranging deals between China and Italian suppliers. Through Gentili they ship textiles, chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and other nonstrategic items, although the Milan right-wing daily, La Patria, charged that Contact Man Muratori is "a notorious trafficker in strategic materials to the Soviet bloc." Gentili repays the Reds doubly for his virtual monopoly by pouring much of his profit into the treasury of the Communist-lining Italian Socialist Party of his good friend Pietro Nenni. (Gentili's contributions to Nenni in this year...
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