A native of
Alatri and a journalist by profession, Evangelisti was elected to the
Italian Chamber of Deputies for Democrazia Cristiana from 1963 to 1987, and then to the
Italian Senate until 1992. He was appointed as
undersecretary for Tourism and Spectacles in the second cabinet led by
Mariano Rumor (1968), keeping the position in the following ones, again under Rumor and then under
Emilio Colombo (1970–1972). He was undersecretary for the Presidency under the cabinets led by Giulio Andreotti, with functions as secretary since 1976. From 1979 to 1980 he was Minister for the Merchant Marine: on 4 March 1980 he resigned, after an interview to the newspaper
La Repubblica in which he declared to have received money by the entrepreneur
Gaetano Caltagirone. Just before his death, caused by a
cerebral hemorrhage in 1993, Evangelisti described to a journalist the alleged secret meeting between Andreotti and general
Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, who was assassinated in 1982. During the meeting, Dalla Chiesa showed Andreotti a memorial of
Aldo Moro (the president of DC who was
kidnapped and killed by communist terrorists in 1979) containing dangerous revelations against Andreotti. Evangelisti, together with Andreotti, was involved in several scandals. During the
Lockheed scandal, he was accused of receiving money by the former chairman of
Finmeccanica, and his name (together with that of Andreotti) was connected to the assassination of
Michele Sindona, a banker condemned for bankrupt and murder, who was linked to
Licio Gelli's secret masonic lodge
Propaganda 2. Evangelisti was also president of the football team
AS Roma from 1965, and the chairman of Italian Boxing Federation from 1969 to 1973. ==References==