Hotel Excelsior place
also: Hotel Excellier, the hotel, the fourth floor suite
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the 33-year-old Shah of Iran and his glamorous 21-year-old wife. They were swept into the lobby of the Hotel Excellier in Rome's fashionable Via Veneto. The young royal couple cut a striking image.…
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Paparazzi had followed them to the hotel. Back in Tehran, violent mobs controlled the streets of the capital. And after 28 years on the peacock throne, the Pavlovi dynasty seemed to be on the verge of collapse. Fearing for their lives, the …
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the Persian industrialist who owned the fourth floor suite to make it available to the royal couple was keeping the Shah under careful care. The Iranian monarchs found their accommodations to their liking. It was very luxurious. The grandeu…
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also had become a favorite rendezvous point for espionage agents from around the world, as well as Italian men of mystery, including Lucio Galli, the leader of Propaganda Du. The conspiratorial Masonic order whose intrigue undermined Italia…
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was part of the CIA. The discreet gentleman who paid visits to Galley, whose secret quote-unquote anti-communist operations, meaning Gladio, drew funding from the CIA too. They would enter room 127, conduct business in 128, and then leave t…
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was also favored by Alan Dulles on his visits to Rome. That August, he and Clover were vacationing in Switzerland when the spymaster suddenly informed his wife they had to go to Italy. And on the afternoon of August 18th, the Dulleses check…
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In one of her stylish outfits, an eye-catching polka-dotted dress, as the coup reached its climax, Dulles was monitoring the operations from his bunker in the U.S. Embassy, just down the block from the hotel in Rome. The spymaster's vigil w…
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find echoes in a later generation's embrace of American exceptionalism mesh neatly with that of Dulles brothers. But while Luce could only preach about the historic imperative of American power, Alan Dulles acted on it. Dulles' main mission…