“Italy is today marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Aldo Moro with a wreath-laying ceremony in the street where his body was abandoned and tributes in parliament.”
“Suspicion continues to this day that the CIA or KGB, possibly both, may have played a role in his violent removal from the political scene. At the very least, they did nothing to secure his release.”
“One of the first people to voice that suspicion was Mino Pecorelli, a maverick journalist with excellent secret service contacts, who was shot dead in Rome a year after Mr Moro’s kidnap.”
“Mr Pecorelli’s writings attained an added significance last November, when a Perugia appeals court convicted Giulio Andreotti of ordering his murder. The court ruled that the killing was carried out at the behest of the seven-time prime minister to prevent Mr Pecorelli from making damaging revelations about the Moro case in his magazine, Osservatore Politico.”
“In a cryptic article published in May 1978, Mr Pecorelli drew a connection between the secret anti-communist resistance network known as Gladio, the existence of which was only publicly acknowledged by Mr Andreotti in 1990, and the death of Mr Moro.”
“By coincidence, the existence of Gladio was one of the state secrets touched on by Moro in a bid to negotiate his release. The Christian Democrat leader referred fleetingly to “Nato’s anti-guerrilla activities” during interrogation by his captors. The Red Brigades made no use of the sensational revelation, claiming later that they had failed to understand its significance.”
“”Moro was killed because he had revealed state secrets and could have revealed others,” [a new book claims.] “West and east were in agreement, because his policy was disturbing to both sides.””
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