Guido Giannettini

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Guido Giannettini
Born22 August 1930
Died12 May 2003(2003-05-12) (aged 72)
NationalityItalian
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)

Guido Giannettini (August 22, 1930 – May 12, 2003) was an Italian secret agent.

Activism

Guido Giannettini was born August 22, 1930, in Taranto. In 1954 he joined the student association

OAS support networks, and arrested in 1961 in Madrid along with Pierre Lagaillarde.[1]

Giannettini wrote for the newspapers

MSI). In 1963-64, he started to write in the Rivista Militare, a journal of the Italian military general staff, and participated in various NATO meetings.[2]

Giannettini participated in a

SIFAR" [3] military intelligence agency. Giannettini presented there one of the main reports.[3] According to René Monzat, "this colloquium provided the theoretical framework for the strategy of tension."[4]

Following this colloquium, in which about 20 students participated (among them,

neo-fascist students, organized by the Greek junta.[4] According to Frédéric Laurent, author of L'Orchestre noir (p. 75), "more than half of the Italians (...) returned from Athens suddenly converted to Anarchism, Leftism, or to Communism, preferably Chinese".[5]

In 1966, Giannettini published with

SID ("Agent Z").[7]

During the Parliamentary Commission on Terrorism headed by Senator

Giorgio Freda, who was acquitted in the trial concerning the 1969 bombings, gave public marks of trust to Giannettini.[6]

According to the magistrate Guido Salvini, in charge of the investigations concerning the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, "Guido Giannettini had contacts with Yves Guérin-Sérac in Portugal ever since 1964."[8]

References

  1. ^ René Monzat, Enquêtes sur la droite extrême, Le Monde-éditions, 1992, p.91. Monzat quotes François Duprat, L’Ascension du MSI, Edition les Sept Couleurs, Paris, 1972
  2. ^ According to a brochure edited in Switzerland, 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
  3. ^ a b Monzat, 1992, p.91
  4. ^ a b c d Monzat, 1992, p.92
  5. ^ Quoted by Monzat, 1992, p.92
  6. ^ a b c Monzat, 1992, p.93
  7. ^ Quoted by Monzat, p.93
  8. ISBN 0-7146-8500-3
    , 2005, p.120)
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