This is Italy's JFK Mystery.

Who killed Aldo Moro, and why?
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00:00 INTRO
01:20 I: WHY ALDO MORO?
09:05 II: FIFTY-FIVE DAYS
16:10 III: A HORRIBLE PLOT
26:10 IV: THE FINAL WORD
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SOURCES
[1] Bocca, referenced in Indro Montanelli and Mario Cervi, L’Italia Degli Anni Di Piombo - 1965-1978, 2013.
& Morucci, quoted in Indro Montanelli and Mario Cervi, L’Italia Degli Anni Di Piombo - 1965-1978, 2013.
[6] Indro Montanelli and Mario Cervi, L’Italia Degli Anni Di Piombo - 1965-1978, 2013., ch. XIII: VIA FANI. Page numbers unavailable, so this book will be cited by chapter.
[8] Montanelli and Cervi, Anni Di Piombo, 2013., ch. XIII: VIA FANI.
[10] Montanelli and Cervi, Anni Di Piombo, 2013., ch. XIII: VIA FANI.
[12] Montanelli and Cervi, Anni Di Piombo, 2013., ch. XIII: VIA FANI.
[13] Ibid., ch. XIII: VIA FANI.
[14] Ibid., ch. XIII: VIA FANI.
[16] Indro Montanelli and Mario Cervi, L’Italia Degli Anni Di Piombo - 1965-1978, 2013., ch. XIII: VIA FANI.
[19] Richard Drake, The Aldo Moro Murder Case, (Harvard University Press: Cambridge Massachusetts, 1995), 60.
[20] Ibid., 101-102.
[21] Ibid., 99.
[22] Ibid., 104.
[23] “Riflettere sul passato per comprendere il presente,” in Polizia Democratica, May 2002.
[25] Drake, Aldo Moro Case, 75.
[26] Montanelli, ch. XII: NON-TRUST.
[27] “SCANDALS: The Lockheed Mystery,” in Time Magazine, 13 September 1976.
[28] Drake, Aldo Moro Scandal, 90
[29] Ibid., 90.
[30] Ibid., 90.
[31] Ibid., 30.
[32] Ibid., 90.
[33] Ibid., 174.
[34] Alessandra Stanley, “Rome Journal; Agony Lingers, 20 Years After the Moro Killing,” in The New York Times, 9 May, 1998.
[35] Anna Cento Bull, Italian Neofascism: The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Nonreconciliation (Berghan Books, 2007), 7; Philip Willian, “Moro's ghost haunts political life,” in The Guardian, 9 May 2003.
[36] Central Intelligence Agency, The Red Brigades: A Primer, 13-14.
[37] Montanelli and Cervi, Anni Di Piombo - 1965-1978, 2013., ch. XIII: VIA FANI
[38] Drake, Aldo Moro Case, 117.
[39] Ibid., 117.
[40] Ibid., 84.

[spectacles-dm]

❓Do you think the government should have negotiated?
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[tfox]

Anytime some horrible thing goes down during the Cold War I’m always expecting Henry Kissinger and I’m never let down

[mattwilliams]

Storing your guns in the trunk is really the mark of a top notch security detail.

[BroznikTSOC]

Sending your resignation as your final message to the men that damned you is fucking legendary ngl.

[TigerWave]

Next video idea: This is America’s JFK Mystery

[alexanderjacobsen]

The greatest thing about this story that people forget is the Pope. A good friend of Moro, he spoke in his funeral as if he was upset with God.

[pbix]

The Years of Lead really ought to be better known outside of Italy.

[ZombieSazza]

Knowing you’ve been damned by friends and men you thought you trusted and sending a last letter sending a resignation goes hard AF, just rage inducing knowing they completely stood aside letting this happen. I’m wondering just how many were involved.

[stefanocuccoli]

With Moro died the hope for a more righteous Italy and Europe. The "historic compromise" would have put the continent on the path of a stronger social approach to economics and politics.

For those who may want a last laugh, the DC was brought down in 1992 by the biggest corruption scandal in the history of Italy and Giulio Andreotti (the then PM that condemned Moro in order to get his place as the sole playmaker) is widely considered one of the most shady politicians of the century.

Oh and bonus nugget: you know who was a member of P2, years before becoming PM? Exactly: Silvio Berlusconi

[PenskePC]

A presidential detail keeping the guns in the trunk is the most European thing ive ever heard.

[Pantsinabucket]

You’re leaving out a key detail here, while P2 probably didn’t orchestrate it, they KNEW Moro would be kidnapped and purposefully avoided taking action.

In 1975, Italian police would arrest a drug trafficker with a genuine British passport named Terrence William Abbott. At his arraignment, Abbott revealed that he was actually “Ali Khoury”, a Palestinian terrorist based out of Lebanon. Using this newly invented identity, “Ali Khoury” infiltrated the Red Brigades in prison and befriended Renato Curcio.

He would go on to inform on the Red Brigades’ plans, primarily to Vito Miceli, a P2 member who was the former head of Italy’s intelligence services, who had been arrested for plotting a coup (this caused the 1977 reorganization of their intelligence services). Miceli by then had “cleared” his name and acquired a seat in Italy’s parliament, maintaining his P2 connections.

“Ali Khoury” informed Miceli and the police of the Red Brigades’ plans to kill both the judge presiding over Curcio’s trial and Aldo Moro. Yet, the Italian government took no actions to protect them. Instead, Graziano Gori, the cop leading the investigation into “Ali Khoury”, would die in a suspicious hit-and-run car accident.

So who was “Ali Khoury”? Well, at trial, Judge Giorgio Floridia would order his release on the grounds that he was a member of the American secret services, and exposed his real identity as Ronald Hadley Stark. Stark was a CIA agent infamous for being the world’s largest trafficker of LSD, the inventor of butane hash oil (dabs), and running a trafficking network stretching from California to Lebanon and further on to Afghanistan, being the primary fixer for the Brotherhood of Eternal Love until its collapse in 1973. Through his Brotherhood connections he had successfully infiltrated numerous leftist groups, trafficking rings, and Lebanese/Palestinian militias across the world. Coincidentally, the only newspaper worldwide to report on Stark’s 1985 “death” is La Repubblica, the same newspaper Aldo Moro holds up in his proof-of-life hostage photo.

So yeah, the CIA and P2 knew this was going to happen, and chose to let it happen. I would agree with the Red Brigades’ own claims that they acted independently, but they also acted without real interference for a reason.

[BunkrMan]

Must do: This is Serbia's JFK Mystery.

The assassination of the Prime Minister of Serbia on March 12, 2003 at 12:25, in the courtyard of the Government of the Republic of Serbia building in Belgrade, has many associations with the JFK assassination, and the whole story is very interesting, both because of Zoran Đinđić himself, and because of various foreign secret services which operated and waged their wars on the territory of Serbia, sending messages to each other in their great geostrategic game.

The break-up of Yugoslavia and the bombing of Serbia without the permission of the UN Security Council is a precedent that opened Pandora's box, which later developed into what we have today in the world, and the murder of Djindjic depicts the fate of leaders who decide to say no to dictates and decide to break relations with services that helped him to come to power and start leading the sovereign policy of his country.

[mistyhaney]

In the 1970's all roads led to Kissinger. He never saw a government he didn't want to interfere in, or hold influence over.

[biggiouschinnus]

My local barber was a young man in Italy in the 70s - he remembered Moro's murder very well. Even nearly 50 years later, I could tell it had a big impact on him.

[frankpower]

As an italian it's really strange to find the tragedy of moro on international channel, in a certain way it can be seen how the vision change, in italy we still believe in some sort on underlying cospiracy about Moro's case, there are a lot of things you didn't touch on like, Andreotti who was corrupt (like offically known) and motivation to delay any rescue of moro, a strange "seance" in with an unknown sensitive pinpointed the hiding place of the culprits, like the one that was discovered after the fact, in "via Gradoli" there is also the story of Moro's wife who pleaded the police to check that street since it was an hot spot for the comunist extremist, a pleading that was confirmed by others wife's relatives, and the police stated that such a street was non existent many times and the wife made no plead. Strange things that don't add up, it's not a matter of if a cospiracy was really under all of it, it's more like a lot of little conspiracies converged to a single objective, firstly to allow the kidnapping and then to delay any help.

[JeanJacqueJaenJeux]

Something more to add, it seems also that high members of Democrazia Cristiana, Moro's party, knew where he was and decided not to save him.
Raffaele Cutolo, one of the biggest Mafia bossess in Italy's history and creator of modern Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, who had partial control over Rome too later said that some of his men working with the Banda della Magliana (a famous gang from Rome) had come to know where Moro was situated and said so to some region's high ranking members of Democrazia Cristiana that apparently gave him the cold shoulder about the news as if they had no interest in saving him.
This was declared by him while in 41 bis (a special italian prison for Mafia and a few other things which is also attacked by many courts for being to harsh) we cannot know the truthfulness of his affirmations.

[caschi]

The segway from Moro to sponsor was truly horrible

[jekanyika]

A political kidnap and murder in Italy with out the involvement of the mafia. Unbelievable!

[riccardopampagnin]

The recent history of my country is so obscure. It is also a shame that we, in Italy, don't have a chance to study it because school curriculum is too damn long

[notmenotme]

“5 days later his body was found in the trunk of a Renault 4”

Disgraceful

They could have used an Italian car.