At this point, Magaldi's story becomes especially fascinating for the Italian reader. True? False? Ah, here come into play the now-famous documents that are inaccessible to the uninitiated but which the "repentant and/or dissident brothers" of the "Three Eyes" and other reactionary Ur-Lodges photocopied and gave to the authors of *Masons*; these authors then compared them with those arriving from the progressive super-lodges. What do these papers say? That Italy had been saved from no less than three attempted coups, which had already been approved by the authoritative voice of the aristocratic and conservative Henry Kissinger—in 1969 and 1970 by Junio Valerio Borghese, and in 1974 by Edgardo Sogno: both members, not coincidentally, of the "Three Eyes"—only thanks to the intervention of the democratic Freemason Arthur Schlesinger Jr., ideologue of the Kennedy New Frontier and several times Worshipful Master of the progressive Ur-Lodges "Thomas Paine" and "Benjamin Franklin." Why Schlesinger specifically? Because JFK had assigned him the task of evaluating US policy toward Italy, and he, who in Italy enjoyed excellent contacts with circles close to the Socialist and Social Democratic parties, supported the project of opening up to the center-left