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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- From David Black.
The sentencing last week of former-Italian Prime Minister Giulo Andreotti to 24 years imprisonment, for ordering the 1979 murder of journalist Mino Peccorelli, is of interest to those who have investigated the 1978 kidnap and assassination of Aldo Moro - another one-time Christian Democrat prime minister.
The Pecorelli and Moro murders figure in my own investigations into the strange tale of Ronald Stark, world-class LSD manufacturer, Red Brigades ‘special adviser’ and US intelligence agent. I have attempted to chart Stark's chequered career in my book, ‘Acid: a New Secret History of LSD’ (Vision. London, 2001)
Stark was arrested in Italy on drugs charges in 1975 and sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. By 1978, he was on intimate terms in with fellow prisoners who were in the leadership of Red Brigades. The 'Brigadistas' were evidently taken in by Stark's ability to pass himself off as a revolutionary who had connections with Palestinian guerrillas.
At the time of Moro's abduction by the Red Brigades in Spring 1978, Mino Pecorelli claimed that a 'Crisis Committee', secretly formed by the Christian Democrat government, had deciphered the encrypted morse signals of Red Brigades leader Mario Moretti. It is also believed that Pecorelli later obtained a statement by Moro penned in captivity – but not released by the kidnappers - which would also have been highly damaging to Andreotti.This statement emerged in full, years later in an abandoned Red Brigades safe house. In it, Moro gave strong hints of the involvement of the secret NATO ‘Gladio’ network and of the P-2 'masonic lodge' in the Italian secret state. Moro also spoke of Andreotti’s long standing liaison with US intelligence and the Mafia. In March 1979, a year after Moro's murder by his kidnappers, Pecorelli was about to publish information on illegal payments to Andreotti. Given that the Andreotti faction of the Party - along with the CIA - was in the process of burying Moro’s proposed 'Historic Compromise' with the Communists, Pecorelli's inside knowledge was dangeous stuff.
After the implosion of the Christian Democrats in the early 1990s amid corruption scandals, Andreotti was indicted in 1995 for Pecorelli's murder. Indicted with him were convicted Mafia boss Gaetano Badalamenti; former Senator, Claudio Vitalone; alleged hitman, Michelangelo La Barbera; and Mafia boss Pippo Calo. Super-grass Tommasso Buscetta testified that one of Andreotti’s most important Mafia protectors and fixers was Salvodore Lima (a contact of Ron Stark).
Calo was accused of involvement in the Moro kidnap along with Tony Chichiarelli, a forger connected also with neo-fascist groups, with the Red Brigades cells and also with the SISDE secret service. Chichiarelli, who was himself shot to death in a Mafia hit in 1984, was the author of a forged Red Brigades communiqué sent out in the fifth week of the kidnap, claiming that Moro had already been ‘executed’ and that his body had been dumped in Lake Duchessa. The Public Prosecutor, Vitalone had, during the kidnap, suggested forging Red Brigades communiqués, so as to remove their guarantee of authenticity. But this particular forged message diverted a large part of the security forces from the search for Moro and had the effect of ‘testing’ how the country would react to his death. Earlier that same day, Moro’s Red Brigades interrogator in the Red Brigades Rome hideout, Moretti, had escaped arrest at his own safehouse because of an apparent warning which, according to Pecorelli, had come from 'inside the state'. After the police had 'missed' Moretti, one of his neighbours reported having heard morse code transmissions coming from the flat.
What links Stark with Chichiarelli is the testimony to the Moro Commission of Red Brigades 'pentiti', Patrizio Peci, who claimed the false communiqué announcing Moro’s death had been the work of the tiny far-left group called Armed Revolutionary Action (ARA). Peci said he had learned this from his cell-mate, Enrique Paghera, an ARA member. Paghera also told Peci he had been arrested in possession of a hand-drawn map of a Lebanon PLO camp and a coded letter of introduction to the camp commander. Both of these documents, Peci said, were given to Paghera by Stark (this was later confirmed by Paghera himself). The Moro Commission later suspected that Stark and the SISMI secret service had been working together to establish “false trails” of Middle East connections with Italian terrorism.
On Stark's role in the Moro affair itself. Senator Vittorio Cervone, a close friend of Moro, suggested that the Commission should investigate “whether it is true that the Red Brigades, when they wanted to use a secret code, adopted an old military cipher that could be known only to members of the secret services?” He also wanted to know if the secret services had learned the location of the kidnap hideout on the Via Camillo Montalcini, but had decided to protect the kidnappers rather than free Moro.
The Moro Commission noted,“it may be presumed that he [Stark] wanted to create a direct link, not existing at that time, between Italian terrorism and Palestinian guerrillas, following a request which he himself said he had received from Curcio and Bertolazzi, [Red Brigades leaders] with whom he had collaborated in prison on brigatisti documents and even on a cryptographic system of communication.”
Six weeks into the kidnap, Aldo Moro's body was dumped in the boot of a car in the centre of Rome.. The 'Historic Comromise' was also dead. The Christian Democratic Party now belonged to Andreotti and his cronies. Peccoreli was murdered in a professional mafia hit in March 1979, just weeks before Ronald Stark was due in court for his second appeal. At his first appeal, in 1978, Stark, speaking in perfect Arabic, had claimed he was really 'Ali Khouri', a Palestinian revolutionary. This time Stark appealed on the grounds that he had been been an American intelligence agent all along. The Judge believed him enough to grant bail and Stark immediately fled the country. He reportedly died in the USA in 1984.
[D.B. November 19 2002]
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