Strategy of Tension
Guido Salvini started investigating events relating to Italy's strategy of tension, which have involved a NATO stay-behind anti-communist network kwown as Gladio, in July 1988. After 463 interrogations, the investigations produced 60,000 pages. He indicted in 1998 David Carrett, officer of the US Navy, on charges of political and military espionage as well as participation in the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing. He also indicted Sergio Minetto, Italian official member of Gladio, and pentito Carlo Digilio, indicted in the Piazza Fontana investigation. In 1995, Carlo Rocchi, the CIA's man in Milan, was discovered searching for information concerning Operation Gladio. According to Salvini's investigations, the neo-fascist organizations involved in the strategy of tension, "La Fenice, Avanguardia nazionale, Ordine nuovo" were the "troops" of "occult armed forces", directed by components of the "state apparatus related to the CIA.". The neofascists had decided to kill Mariano Rumor, on retaliation against his decision not to proclaim the state of emergency following the Piazza Fontana bombing — which, according to neo-fascist Vincenzo Vinciguerra, was one of the main objectives of this bombing.
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