What We Know About Claudio Graziano – the Italian General Accused of Being at the Center of U.S. Vote Manipulation

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General Claudio Graziano, a lifelong military man, is now being accused of being at the center of one of the biggest scandals in history: being heavily involved in an operation to manipulate votes in the Nov. 3 U.S. election in order to throw the election to Joe Biden.

A whistleblower has testified in Italian court that operatives from various intelligence agencies (including CIA) remotely manipulated votes from the U.S. Embassy in Rome (and perhaps other locations), and used military satellites owned and operated by Italian defense contractor Leonardo SpA to do it.

Graziano is a board member of Leonardo SpA.

The four-star General started his military career in 1974. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel by 1990, and in 1992 lead United Nations troops in an operation in Mozambique.

In 2001 he was posted to Washington, D.C. as Military Attaché.

He was deployed to Afghanistan in the mid 2000s, and between 2007 and 2010 led the UN mission in Lebanon.

In December 2011 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Italian Army, and in 2015 assumed the role of Chief of the Italian Defense General Staff.

In 2018 Graziano was selected as Chairman of the European Union Military Committee (CEUMC).

In February of 2020 Graziano advocated for increased military intervention in Libya, saying he had never seen “real war so close to the door of Europe” in his decades-long career.

Last November he suggested a role for the EU to play in mediating tensions between the U.S. and China. A stronger EU “will help the global powers to avoid that tensions between the U.S. and China escalate,” he said.

Graziano is 67-years-old, and lives in Rome with his wife Marisa Lanucara

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