Description: Up for auction Italian General Nino Pasti Signed Photograph & Envelope. ES-174 ROME, May 20—For years, Nino Pasti, a general in the Italian air force, sat in the highest councils of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, sifting secrets and providing advice. Today, he is a candidate , for the Senate on the ComImunist Party slate. General Pasti, who retired seven years ago with four stars. is running as an independent on the party's ticket. But, in an interview, he left no doubt of his admiration for the party. his worry about trends within the Atlantic alliance and his lack of concern about any agIgressive intentions of the Soviet Union. “It was gradual,” said the 67‐year‐old general, who works at home in a small office with pictures of American generals and the flags of alliance mem Ihers. “The decision to run on the Communist ticket was not taken suddenly. I have been working in the party since my retirement and my views coincide with the party. In my opinion, the Italian Communists are reliable and democratic. And I believe they do not want to destroy the ‘alliance, but to see both it and the Warsaw Pact decrease in strength together.” military manner, is the highestranking former officer of the Italian armed forces to run with the Communist Party. His military record was distinguished his assignments important, and his links to the alliance close. He was deputy chief of the general staff of the air force from 1958 to 1960, when he ,became the inspector general of the armed forces. From 1963 to 1966, he served in Washington as the Italian member of the alliance's Military Committee, one of the most sensitive in the organization. Then, from 1966 to 1968, he served as Deputy Supreme Allied Cornmender in Europe for nuclear affairs, first in Paris and then in Brussels. General Pasti, who speaks good English; said there should be no worry about his past access to military secrets. “I saw material marked secret,” he said, “but it wasn't all that sensitive. There are not that many secrets around anyway. Much of what I read eventually turned up in the newspapers.” In campaigning, he said, he would stress several themes. Among them, he added, would be the need for better control by Parliament over military spending to “avoid another Lockheed scandal.” Also, he said, he would argue for changes in the alliance so it will “promote detente rather than try to obstruct it.” In his view, Atlantic estimates of Soviet strength are exaggerated and the result is that member nations are spending too much in trying to match what is estimated to be Soviet power today. The Communist Party has pledged itself to maintain Italy's membership in the Atlantic Alliance, a pledge that has not persuaded Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and others in the organization to stop worrying. General Pasti, a former pilot who was a prisoner of the British during World War II. said he did not believe that everything about the Soviet Union was right and just. Like the Italian Communist Party, he was opposed to the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet tanks in 1968. The Communist Party has often asked nonmembers to run as independents, partly to bolster its prestige and give the appearance of a broader base. The system is used primarily by the Communists, who include on their independent list this time. Altiero Spinelli, a member of the Common Market's policy‐making Commission. as well f.s several prominent Roman Catholic laymen.
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