Giandelio Maletti

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General Giandelio Maletti is a former head of Italian counterintelligence.[1]

At the trial of a number of right-wing extremists accused of perpetrating the Piazza Fontana massacre in March 2001, he suggested that the CIA had supported right-wing terrorism in Italy. He testified:

"The CIA, following the directives of its government, wanted to create an Italian nationalism, capable of halting what it saw as a slide to the left, and, for this purpose, it may have made use of right-wing terrorism."[2]

Notes

  1. Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Frank Cass, 2005, p.1.
  2. Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Frank Cass, 2005, p.6.