US 'supported anti-left terror in Italy'

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Sat Jun 24 13:37:51 PDT 2000



> Revelations about CIA funding and support, of sectors of the Italian far
>right, date back to at least 1990, when "Operation Gladio, " was first
>reported on. The Italian far right, in the Italian Social Movement and other
>groups, was to be used to destabilize the constitional state, in what was
>called the "strategy of tension". The most notable occurance of the terror
>deployed was a train station bombing, that if memory serves, killed over
>fifty people, in Turin.

Wasn't it Bologna?

Brad DeLong



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