Thanks Mach. I'm hooked.
Do you have any idea why Spezi would have engaged in side-trackings since 1973? ((IIUC, that's when he began covering the MOF case).
Yes, I do have an idea.
Let's just say that his was both a political task he carried on as a paid member of the SISDE and both because of his belonging to a "circle" of friends (Calamandrei was a close friend of him too). Those "friends" were connected by some peculiar interests, by masonic brotherhood, and by their attending some people and places.
The most important "friend" was a prominent politician. Besides the political-ideological and cultural alleigiance, peculiar interests included exoterism (this was a factual finding about Spezi) and peculiar sexual activities (on the part of the politician, of Narducci and other friends) and about "unorthodox" medical techniques to heal sexual problems (on the part of Calamandrei, Narducci and others); habits and acquaintances in common between Narducci, Vanni, Pacciani and Lotti were that they attended the same Florentine prostitutes (albeit Narducci was from Perugia) and they would also visit them
together, driving two cars one of which was Narducci's Citroen; and they also shared some very peculiar acquantances (like a known "psychic"); peculiar places included "Il Forteto" and some apartments and houses.
But the question is not really how these people happened to attend a circle and became involved in activities that connected them to each other.
The actual point is that there was a structural element, we can call it a political element, that also happens to be made by masons, but this is incidental (it's only a sub-set of masons), it is basically a political structure, it had established itself in those years and already existed, it pre-existed to the entering of Spezi and others so that it was
possible for those people to get involved in it, to become engaged under its umbrella, each one having the opportunity to take advantage of this in order to carry on their own personal illicit aims along their personal vices.
What keeps together a criminal group of power is that all members have something to hide, a need to cover up for each other and something to gain from their being the members of a circle.