1983 - NINO PASTI (Former NATO Deputy Supreme Commander and Former Italian Senator)


Nino Pasti was invited by peace groups to speak at a nuclear disarmament rally in Boston. Pasti was denied a visa because of his membership in the World Peace Council, which the State Department claimed was a communist front group. Many thought the denial was politically motivated, since Pasti contradicted Reagan administration claims regarding nuclear weapons. Pasti maintained that the "American people are entitled to know not only the picture on one side, but the picture on all sides, in order to judge."