Edoardo Prettner Cippico

Edoardo Prettner Cippico (10 October 1905–7 April 1983) was an Italian Catholic priest and official in the Vatican Secret Archive who was imprisoned in 1948 on charges of financial crimes, and later revealed to have spied for the Soviet Union. The Cippico scandal embarrassed the Vatican and the Catholic Church in the buildup to the 1948 general election in which the leftist Popular Democratic Front presented a strong challenge to the Catholic-aligned Christian Democracy government.

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