Felice Casson

Felice Casson (born August 5, 1953, in Chioggia, province of Venice) is an Italian magistrate and politician, who discovered the existence of Operation Gladio, a "stay-behind" NATO anti-communist army during the Cold War, while investigating an attack on three "Carabinieri" in 1972, for which two neo-fascists were convicted; the explosives used in the attack supposedly came from a NATO arms cache. [cite news | title = 'Gladio' dominates Italy's political arena | publisher = The Independent | date = 1990-11-16] 622 Gladio members, including two people who served as prime minister and president, were exposed in the course of the investigation [ [http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=140315 Gladio prosecutor Casson: Ergenekon-like organizations spread like cancer] , "Today's Zaman", 28 April 2008 ] .

Passionate about jurisprudence, he graduated from the University of Padua, and entered the magistracy in 1980 as a prosecuting attorney. His most famous efforts were concerned with the Gladio in Italy. He was also the principal prosecutor in the trial of major directors of Enichem and Montedison regarding an environmental disaster and the death of 157 workers due to PVC production in Marghera, an industrial district of Venice. In 2005, he left the magistracy to run as a candidate for mayor of Venice for the centre-left coalition. However, two dissenting centre-left parties supported the former mayor Massimo Cacciari, who won by just a handful of votes. Casson went on to be elected as a senator on the Democrats of the Left list during the 2006 general election.

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*"Lo stato violato" (1985 - "The Raped State")
*"Servizi segreti e il segreto di stato" (1992 - "Secret Services and State Secret")
*"La fabbrica dei veleni" (2007 - "The poison factory")

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