Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa
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Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa (September 27, 1920 – 3 September 1982) was a general of the Italian carabinieri notable for campaigning against terrorism during Italy's 1970s strategy of tension, and later assassinated by the Mafia in Palermo.
Born in Saluzzo, Cuneo, he became commandant of the (military) region of Piemonte-valle d'Aosta in 1974 and created an anti-terrorism structure in Turin, which succeeded capturing in September 1974 Red Brigades members Renato Curcio and Alberto Franceschini, with the help of Silvano "fratre mitra" Girotto's infiltration.
Dalla Chiesa was murdered in Palermo in 1982. He was probably murdered by Pino Greco, one of Salvatore Riina's favorite hitmen, in the frame of the strategy of tension. A number of gunmen were involved, including twenty-one-year-old Giuseppe Lucchese, who sentenced to life imprisonment in the 1990s for his part in Dalla Chiesa's murder.
Dalla Chiesa was also investigating the death of Mauro de Mauro, a journalist who had himself been investigating on the murder of Enrico Mattei, head of Agip, the Italian oil company.
