The Evolution of the Relations between Italian Antifascists and US Intelligence Agents from World War II to the Early Cold War. Time Dimension in Alfredo Pizzoni and Allen Dulles Ego-networks.

The research project presented in this paper examines the legacy of relations between Italian antifascists and the US secret services, which emerged during the Second World War and persisted into the early years of the Cold War. The analysis concentrates on the case study of the networks of relations that emerged surrounding the actions of two protagonists, namely the American Allen Dulles and the Italian Alfredo Pizzoni, in building relations between Italy and the United States, respectively. The period considered spans from 1943 to 1953. During the decade that bridges the last two years of World War II, with the emergence of the first tensions of the Cold War, Dulles and Pizzoni met each other and started to cooperate in the context of the antifascist struggle. Their relationship persisted and evolved during the following years. The social and political context around this relationship also evolved, moving from the wartime subversive antifascist actions to the elitist milieu of Wall Street. The ego-networks of Dulles and Pizzoni are reconstructed here in order to explore this evolution. The time dimension is therefore crucial in the analysis, as it is deeply entangled with the overall goal of this project. This paper focuses on the dialogue between the temporalities suggested by the nature of the historical sources, the time dimension in graphs, and the research objectives.