Facts Behind Terrorism

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FACTS BEHIND TERRORIS

'Skorpion' machine pistol found with Morucci as the one used to murder Moro's five-man body guard during the kidnapping and later to murder Moro himself. PSI leader Riccardo Lombar Italy's Socialist Party is linked di's top protege, vice-secretary of the PSI Claudio Signorile, con to terrorist Red Brigades tacted Piperno as part of the psrs effort to pressure the Andreotti Antiterrorist officials investigat information from wire-taps link government to comply with the ing the murder of former Italian ing PSI parliamentarian leaders Red Brigades demands for nego Prime Minister Aldo Moro have Giacomo Mancini and Antonio tiations toward an "exchange of announced a "profound reconsi Landolfi to the financing of a political prisoners." deration" of the case following magazine run by Franco Piperno. The tightening police dragnet their questioning of top leaders of Piperno, the still-at-large member around the PSI is confirming alle the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) of the trio accused of mastermind gations . made by the European over their contacts with known ing the Moro kidnapping and as Labor Party in Italy over one year terrorists involved in the Moro sassination and the partner of ago to the effect that to stop ter killing. Most important of those Padua University Professor An rorism in Italy, investigations to who have been questioned thus tonio Negri, who is currently in find the actual terrorists must be far is Bettino Craxi, general sec prison awaiting trial for the crime, gin with the PSI controllers at the retary of the PSI, who has been published the Autonomi maga top. By applying this method, in heralded by the New York Times zine, Metropoli. Another member vestigators have uncovered first as their carididateto head the next of the M etropoli editorial board is the Autonomi "controllers" and government of Italy. Oreste Scalzone, another "brain" now their contacts in the PSI. It was revealed yesterday that behind the Moro murder, who is . Also under investigation is the not only did Craxi and- PSI Vice also in jail with Negri. finanCing behind Piperno's "re Secretary Claudio Signorile meet The evidence showing Metro search center." According to with Pace, a Red Brigade terrorist poli as a center of terrorist control L'Unita, money was coming from who is charged with direct partici is accumulating daily as the inves Formet, a company linked to the pation in the Moro murder, but a tigation continues. On May 29, Cassa per II Mezzogiorno, an op letter from jailed terrorist master two Red Brigades suspects, Ad eration masterminded by PSI mind Toni Negri states that it was riana Faranda and Valerio Mo leader Giacomo Mancini and Bettino Craxi who pushed Negri rucci were arrested at the Rome FIA T magnate Gianni Agnelli. to contact Moro's wife on April apartment of Giuliana Conforto, While the investigation tight 30, 1978 to tell her that time was an instructor at the University of ens around the PSI, the Commit running out on meeting the Red Costenza in Calabria which was tee Against Repression in Italy, Brigade's demands. founded by Mancini. Conforto headed by Negri collaborator Syl These new revelations follow a told pplice she was housing the via Frederici held its second press series of exposes in the past few two terrorists at the behest of Pi conference at New York Univer- weeks in .the Italian press which perno. . sity in New York on June 28. have rocked the Italian political The last issue of Metropoli, Frederici was accompanied by scene. According to stories ap confiscated by the police, carried Negri's attorney Bruno Leuzzi pearing in press throughout Ita an article by Piperno titled "The Siniscalchi who is in the U.S. fil Iy-Corriere della Sera, the Italian Sooner they Pay" -a hit list which ing a legal suit to block collabo Communist Party's L'Unita, and targeted several judges who were ration between Italian magistrates La Repubblica�other top leaders investigating the Autonomi. The and Dr. Oscar Tosi, a U.S. expert in the Italian Socialist Party are names, addresses, descriptions, on voice identification. The com eVidentiarily linked to Red Bri schedule�, and favorite restau mittee bitterly denounced the An gade controllers. rants of the judges were found in dreotti government for placing Last week it was learned that a the personal files of Faranda and the PSI parliamentarians under Roman magistrate investigating Morucci. Furthermore, ballistic suspicion of terrorist connections. the Moro murder had obtained experts have since identified the -Michele Steinberg