... the elections grew nearer by cleverly campaigning to smear the lives of the PCI candidates. CIA sponsored pamphlets began circulation in Italy with forged documents, purportedly coming from PCI leaders, painting them as fascist and against the church. These pamphlets also contained damaging stories of PCI leaders sex and personal lives that further discredited them as the kinds of people fit ... to run a country. This "smear- campaign had but one goal, regardless of truth or not, and it achieved its goal by raising doubt in the minds of Italians, and by painting the PCI in a bad light. ...

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