More details on the Bologna bombings revelations. The massacre was decided in Feb. 1979, long before the actual attack (Aug. 1980). So one attractive reason for it (a cover-up for the Itavia 870 shoot down in June '80) turns out to have been false 1/ corrieredibologna.corriere.it/bologna/cronac…
The action cost was huge - almost 5 million of current Euros. The money came from different sources and made some very circuitous trips from South America to Switzerland. The investigators have found plenty of evidence about this flow of money, who is somehow linked to 2/
the later collapse of the Ambrosiano Bank. So there may be a direct link between Bologna and the "suicide" of banker Roberto Calvi under the Blackfriar Bridge in London. Who knows 3/
Another thing now established is the name of the bombing team leader. It's Paolo Bellini, right-wing terrorist AND Calabrian mafia killer, who at some point became the most elusive terrorist in the Years of Lead annals. 4/
Bellini was a stone-cold killer, who in 1975 murdered a former friend (Alceste Campanile) because he had "betrayed" his right-wing group and defected to the left. The Campanile murder is another creepy Years of Lead story. In 1977 Campanile's father accused Lotta Continua /5
the left-wing group Alceste had joined, to have been behind the murder. For two years all sorts of "revelations" and creepy rumors abounded around left-wing groups who allegedly "knew" about this story. 30 years later Bellini was finally jailed and confessed /6
to have been the murderer. Of course, it's possible that behind this nth disinformation op there was the hand of Mario Tedeschi and the "parallel" security services involved in orchestrating the strategy of tension. /7
Coming back to Bologna, a question remains open - why? Now that Ustica is apparently out of question, it's more and more probable the train station massacre was part of a general strategy to create enough chaos in Italy to /8
justify a "strong government" and the kind of free-market reforms P2 advocated. But for some reason, this seems a bit too simple. If there's one thing I've learned about the YoL is that the simple explanation is rarely the right one /end
