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In 1984, a
young Italian judge, Felice Casson, decided to investigate from the
start a case of 1972, as he believed that there were many mistakes
and omissions in the initial investigation. This was a case about a
bombing attack outside the village Peteano.
Four police
officers had been called to investigate a suspicious car in the
woods. When they arrived, the car exploded and three of them killed.
After two days, an unknown man called the police and claimed that the
bomb was put by the far-left guerrilla group, Red Brigades. This had
resulted in arrests' pogrom of Leftists in Italy.
In February
1972, the Carabinieri accidentally found a crypt in Trieste,
containing military material. The police considered the crypt as
being used by criminal groups and hidden this discovery. Casson,
however, managed to conclude that the military material belonged to
NATO, but not to the official military armament of NATO in Italy. The
explosives found in the crypt were American C-4. Casson also found
that the material used in Peteano bombing was also C-4 type. These
findings were hidden by the police during the investigations.
Casson's
investigation led to the conclusion that the far-Right organization,
Ordine Nuovo, was actually responsible for the bombing attack at
Peteano. The organization had also connections with the Greek junta
at that time.
The real
bomber of Peteano was an Ordine Nuovo executive, Vincenzo
Vinciguerra, who revealed during the questioning that Ordine Nuovo
worked with the secret services and a secret network to cover his
tracks. Vinciguerra and other witnesses also revealed that this
network was responsible for a series of murderous actions, which
would be used to stop the rising of the Left by blaming it as being
responsible for these actions.
According to
the worst scenario, they would succeed in creating tension which
would make Italian citizens to choose the Italian Right in the
national elections as the only political power to guarantee "order
and security" for the country.
From 1969 to
1987, Italy suffered by 14,591 actions of political violence. 491
people killed and 1,181 wounded. Gladio was a significant parameter
in this cycle of violence which kept the Italian democracy under
hostage and prevented the Italian Left to take the power. The Red
Brigades proceeded in a series of attacks in response to the
fascists.
Gladio's
network tried three times to take the power by coup d'état in Italy,
of which one was similar to the Greek coup d'état by George
Papadopoulos. In 1974, the Italian judge, Giovanni Tamburino, led to
trial the head of secret services and member of Gladio, Vito Miceli,
under accusations of an attempt to throw the Italian government.
Miceli "attacked" the judges claiming that he was doing
what was necessary and that the US and NATO asked him to create that
service.
Information
from the research for the CIA's secret army in Greece by Kostas
Vaxevanis, HotDoc magazine, Issue 58, Aug. 2014.
(translated by SCH)
(translated by SCH)
See
also:
See: Gladio. NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe. Richard Cottrell. Amazon Com. (2012)
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