Giovanni de Lorenzo joined. 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 Italian Socialist Party. President Antonio Segni was apparently running out of patience with the demands from Pietro Nenni. See also Golpe Borghese Bibliography Cento Bull, Anna (2007). Italian Neofascism: The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Nonreconciliation, Oxford: Berghahn Books, Ganser, Daniele. Nato's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe. Cass, London, 2004. References Coup d'état attempts in Europe Political history of Italy 1964 in Italy 1960s in Italy