Paolo Guzzanti (born 1 August 1940) is an
Italian journalist and politician. He was previously a member of the
Italian Socialist Party.
Biography
Born in
Rome, he is the nephew of
Elio Guzzanti and father to actors
Corrado,
Sabina and
Caterina.
As a journalist he worked for
L'Avanti!,
La Repubblica (of which he was co-founder) and
La Stampa. He also hosted the first season of TV show
Chi l'ha visto?. Currently he is an editorialist of
Paolo Berlusconi's
Il Giornale (he was deputy director before and for
Panorama, also owned by Berlusconi.
He was elected to the
Italian Parliament for
Forza Italia. From 2002 to 2006 he was president of the
Mitrokhin Commission, a parliamentary commission which was entrusted with investigating the role of
KGB in
Italy. The commission, since the very beginning, received heavy criticism as it was pointed out that its main role seemed only that to discredit the former
Italian Communist Party. According to an interview of former KGB agent
Yevgeny Limarev published on
La Repubblica, Italian left-winged politicians to be discredited included
Romano Prodi,
Massimo D'Alema and
Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio. The commission was closed in 2006 without any concrete result given.
On 1 December 2006 Italian
Mario Scaramella, a contact of dead former spy
Alexander Litvinenko, tests positive for polonium-210. Mr Scaramella is involved in an
Italian parliamentary......
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