- Pietro Musumeci
Pietro Musumeci is a former general and deputy director of Italy's military intelligence agency,
SISMI .A member of "
Propaganda Due ", Musumeci was convicted in 1985, alongside with other SISMI officersFrancesco Pazienza andGiuseppe Belmonte , for embezzlement and criminal association. Musumeci and Belmonte were also convicted for possessing and transporting explosives. They tried to mislead investigators of the 1980 Bologna train station bombing by simulating a crime using placed explosives on a Taranto-Milan train, in January 1981. [cite news | title = Former Top Intelligence Official Convicted, Sentenced | publisher = Associated Press | date =1985-07-25 ]A further conviction came in 1988, when he was also server time for slandering said investigation. [cite news | title = Four Convicted Of Mass Murder In Italian Bombing That Killed 85 | publisher = Associated Press | date =
1988-07-11 ] Although acquitted on appeals, this sentence was upheld by the Italian Supreme Court in 1995.A 1984 parliamentary inquiry indicated that irregularities at SISMI included the charge that Musumeci used the
Camorra to negotiate the release ofCiro Cirillo , a Christian-democratic politician who was kidnapped by theRed Brigades . [cite news | title = Officers questioned on Bologna blast | publisher = The Guardian | date =1984-10-22 ]References
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