Karz Publishers; (1979) Karz-Cohl pubs. also published an autobiographical acct. of the Prague Sping by Zdenek Mlynar, a CC member of the Czechoslovak CP in '68. Mlynar was Gorbachev roomate in college. See his Conversations With Gorbachev.
Gerald Horne>...Consequently, says the author, like the ultra-left in Italy in the 1970s, US imperialism pursues a "strategy of tension," i.e. "trying to maintain a certain level of international tension," which is designed to deflect attention away from its profound debilities.
Ahem, that was the neo-fascist Right in Italy. That the Red Brigades played into the far right strategy isn't surprising. http://ishi.berkeley.edu/history/grads/dissertations/1994/bale.html Title: THE "BLACK" TERRORIST INTERNATIONAL: NEO-FASCIST PARAMILITARY NETWORKS AND THE "STRATEGY OF TENSION" IN ITALY, 1968-1974 Author: Bale, Jeffrey McKenzie -- Michael Pugliese