What do the CIA, the Italian Secret Service, and one of Italy's most powerful secret societies have in common? Well, to start with, a plane crash.... And it gets worse from there. The plane that went down -- code named "Argo 16" -- had flown intelligence gathering missions for the Italian Secret Service and CIA, but that was only part of the story. Those missions were hiding a secret within a secret – they were a cover story for arms shipments to Italy's most powerful secret society, the Gladiatori, whose members spanned the board rooms of industry, the halls nation's politics, and even in corridors of the Vatican itself....

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Thomas Van Hare has published over 450 articles on aviation history since 1997 at Historic Wings - http://www.historicwings.com/. He is an author, including along with Matt Lawrence, of the bestselling book, "Betrayal: Clinton, Castro & the Cuban Five", about the shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue in 1996. He serves as the Director of the Defense Technology Innovation Program LLC, a public-private partnership with the Pentagon that scouts, identifies, and brings breakthrough technologies for potential military use. He is a former three-time White House appointee working in foreign policy, national security, and defense, a former CEO of an airline and flew as a command pilot and mission director on search and rescue missions, saving over 3,000 lives.

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