Vincenzo Vinciguerra
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vincenzo Vinciguerra was a member of Avanguardia Nazionale ("National Vanguard"), a far-right terrorist organization founded by Stefano Delle Chiaie and involved in Italy's strategy of tension.
Vincenzo Vinciguerra is serving a life-sentence for the murder of three policemen by a car bomb in Peteano in 1972, for which the Red Brigades were long thought of having carried out.
Contents |
[edit] Conspiracy Theory
Daniele Ganser, noted for conpsiracy theories involving the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks and a much more active Gladio network, has postulated that Gladio is a much larger organization that was involved in terrorism and terrorist acts.
Ganser claims the C4 explosive used in the bombing came from a Gladio arms dump located beneath a cemetery near Verona and revealed to judges Felice Casson and Carlo Mastelloni by Giulio Andreotti, former Prime minister of Italy.
In 1984, questioned by judges about the 1980 Bologna station bomb in which 82 died and for which two secret services agent were convicted, Vinciguerra said: "With the massacre of Peteano, and with all those that have followed, the knowledge should by now be clear that there existed a real live structure, occult and hidden, with the capacity of giving a strategic direction to the outrages." The structure, he said, "lies within the state itself". "There exists in Italy a secret force parallel to the armed forces, composed of civilians and military men, in an anti-Soviet capacity - that is, to organise a resistance on Italian soil against a Russian army...". Vinciguerra explained how the Italian secret services had protected him, helping him flying away to Francoist Spain. Ganser claims this is related to Gladio and that Gladio stopped protecting Vinciguerra as soon as he started talking, which permitted his subsequent trial .
Along with Stefano Delle Chiaie, Vinciguerra testified in Rome in December 1995 before judge Maria Servini de Cubria that Enrique Arancibia Clavel (a former Chilean secret police agent prosecuted for crimes against humanity in 2004 [2]) and US expatriate DINA agent Michael Townley were directly involved in Chilean General Carlos Prats' assassination in Buenos Aires (Argentina).[3].
Vinciguerra also made this statement to The Guardian : "The terrorist line was followed by camouflaged people, people belonging to the security apparatus, or those linked to the state apparatus through rapport or collaboration. I say that every single outrage that followed from 1969 fitted into a single, organised matrix... Avanguardia Nazionale, like Ordine Nuovo (the main right-wing terrorist group active during the 1970s), were being mobilised into the battle as part of an anti-communist strategy originating not with organisations deviant from the institutions of power, but from within the state itself, and specifically from within the ambit of the state's relations within the Atlantic Alliance." [4].
[edit] Notes
- Daniele Ganser, "Terrorism in Western Europe: An Approach to NATO's Secret Stay-Behind Armies" in Winter/Spring 2005 Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations [7].
[edit] See also
- Mariano Rumor (in an interview, Vincenzo Vinciguerra declared that he was asked to kill Mariano Rumor)
