 The CIA's policymaking also involved interference in the electoral process in France and Italy, funneling money to certain political parties. In Italy, it was the Christian Democrats, whom the CIA funded in an effort to prevent a coalition of socialists and communists from taking power. The assassination of Prime Minister Aldo Moro was connected to that CIA campaign. At the time of the assassination, Charles de Gaulle remarked that John F. Kennedy, whom he admired, had died as a result of an intra-government conflict.