- Guido Giannettini
Guido Giannettini is an Italian
far-right activist.Activism
He was active in the OAS support networks, and arrested in 1961 in Madrid along with
Pierre Lagaillarde [ René Monzat, "Enquêtes sur la droite extrême",Le Monde -éditions, 1992, p.91. Monzat quotesFrançois Duprat , "L’Ascension du MSI",Edition les Sept Couleurs , Paris, 1972 ] .Giannettini participated to the newspapers "
Il Roma " and "Il Secolo d'Italia ", as well as to "L'Italiano ", headed byPino Romualdi (MSI). In 1963-64, he started to write in the "Rivista Militare ", a journal of the Italian military general staff, and participated to variousNATO meetings [ According to a brochure edited inSwitzerland , "Giorgio Freda « nazi maoïste » ou révolutionnaire inclassable ?" followed by "Rapport Giannettini sur la stratégie de la tension et de quatre textes sur la révolution européenne", edited by the "« Comité de solidarité pour Giorgio Freda »" in Lausanne, supplement to "Avant-Garde", n°8, imprimerie du Nouvel Ordre social à Genève, 60 pages (quoted by René Monzat, 1992, p.91 ] .Giannettini participated to a
colloquium on "revolutionary warfare " on 3-5 May, 1965 in Rome ("Parco dei Principi" hotel), which was organized by the Institute Alberto-Pollio, "quasi-exclusively financed by theSIFAR " Monzat, 1992, p.91 ] military intelligence agency. Giannettini presented there one of the main reports . According to René Monzat, "this colloquium provided the theoretical framework for thestrategy of tension ." Monzat, 1992, p.92 ]Following this colloquium, to which about 20 students participated (among them,
Stefano Delle Chiaie andMario Michele Merlino ), Giannettini and other intervenants were hired by the Italian secret services . In April 1968, these students participated to a trip to Greece of 60 students from the "League of Greek Fascist Students in Italy" and of 51 Italianneo-fascist students, organized by the Greek junta . According to Frédéric Laurent, author of "L'Orchestre noir" (p.75), "more than half of the Italians (...) returned from Athens suddenly converted toAnarchism , Leftism, or toCommunism , preferably Chinese" [ Quoted by Monzat, 1992, p.92 ] .In 1966, Giannettini published with
Pino Rauti "Red Hands on the Armed Forces" ("Le mani rosse sulle forze armate"). In 1969, he participated to an Italian military delegation toWest Germany to prepare the buying ofLeopard tank s Monzat, 1992, p.93 ] . According to the Swiss brochure made by friends of Giannettini, he was an important agent of the SIFAR and then of the SID ("Agent Z") [ Quoted by Monzat, p.93 ] .During the Parliamentary Commission on Terrorism headed by Senator
Giovanni Pellegrino , the Italian Minister of Defense officially recognized before the parliamentaries that Giannettini had been on the Italian secret services' pay-roll .Giorgio Freda , who was acquitted in the trial concerning the 1969 bombings, gave public marks of trust to Giannettini .According to the magistrate
Guido Salvini , in charge of the investigations concerning the 1969Piazza Fontana bombing , "Guido Giannettini had contacts withYves Guérin-Sérac in Portugal ever since 1964" [ JudgeGuido Salvini hearing before the Italian Parliamentary Commission of investigation on terrorism in Italy, 9th session of12 February 1997 ( [http://www.parlamento.it/parlam/bicam/terror/stenografici/steno9.htm 9ª SEDUTA - MERCOLEDI 12 FEBBRAIO 1997] , "Presidenza del Presidente PELLEGRINO" it icon, quoted by Daniele Ganser, "NATO's Secret Armies:Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe", ISBN 0-7146-8500-3 2005, p.120) ]References
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