Giovanni Falcone in the sights of the ''new'' Gladio. ''Stay Behind'' didn't end in 1990 Luca Grossi 01 April 2023 Scarpinato: "Components of the Services have operated even after the end of the danger of a Soviet invasion" The Gladio "Stay Behind" organization, formally created to counter a possible Soviet invasion, should have ceased its activity in 1990, that is when the then Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, on August 3 of the same year, had revealed its existence before Parliament. Covert operations, construction of ammunition and weapons warehouses (called Nasco) and unit training: all this was part of the 'doctrine' of "Operation Gladio", placed under the direct dependence of the Military Secret Services, first by the Sifar, then by the Sid and finally by SISMI in 1956 thanks to an agreement with the US CIA. Its existence, in addition to Andreotti,Francesco Cossiga , Luigi Lui , Arnaldo Forlani , Vito Lattanzio , Attilio Ruffini and Lelio Logorio . Nobody else. This protective umbrella of secrecy has covered numerous interests of the Secret Services over the years, as evidenced by some files that have now become public. But not all secrets have been exposed. The latest of these was revealed in recent days by the " TPI " magazine in a long eight-page article signed by Andrea Palladino : in reality the Gladio organization, under another form, would have continued operations even after 1990 thanks to the use of 'disposable agents'. But let's go in order. From documents viewed by " TPI " we learn that on 13 July 1990, in the offices of Forte Braschi - currently the headquarters of AISE and the Defense Unit Group - a division director (whose name is omitted) had sent a note to the director of SISMI: "Proposal for the establishment of a new structure within the seventh division". That is the sector of the military security service at the head of Gladio. In the note, the anonymous officer had recalled some operations carried out together with the British services in the period of 1988 - 1989: "It aroused considerable interest - we read - the fact that the operators were all EXTERNAL agents NOT RECOGNIZED AS BELONGING TO THE SERVICE AND CONSIDERED TO BE OCCURRENCY 'DISPOSABLE' (in capital letters in the original text, ed .) Or contractor.
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First page of the SISMI document
Here is what would be needed according to the anonymous official: "an organization capable of conducting ALL THOSE OPERATIONS THAT CANNOT BE CARRIED OUT BY EFFECTIVE STAFF BECAUSE THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE NATION IN CASE OF NEGATIVE DEVELOPMENTS IS INVOLVED". Such operations were nothing new as they were already widely used in Great Britain, the United States and France. " It's shocking, practically one is asked to have a kind of license to kill, in a broad sense, in the style of the American secret services and the worst world services" said magistrate Felice Casson commenting on the documents. " This is basically asked, that is, to go against the norms, to have people to be able to 'burn'in which serious events take place that a State cannot claim" . " As far as I know - he continued - this document has never been released up to now. I checked and it is not in the archives of the parliamentary commissions on the massacres, as far as I could see". This new secret formation would have included former members of Gladio, "former members of the special forces", such as the ninth the Col Moschin battalion and the Comsubin, the commando commandos of the Navy, two corps that had already been used by Gladio at least from 1980 onwards, but apart from this small glimmer of light it was not possible to go further. The structure created after the dissolution of Gladio still remains a mystery that does not fall within the scope of the declassification desired by Mario Draghi . The documents were also shown to the former attorney general of Palermo Roberto Scarpinato , now a senator of the Mov5Stelle. Reading the papers Scarpinato said that "the latest documents found confirm that crucial components of the Services have operated continuously over time, even after the end of the danger of a Soviet invasion, not as institutions of the legal state, subject to democratic control and the principle of responsibility, but as apparatuses of the so-called 'Deep State', putting in place out of control activities which, not being attributable to the legal State, could not have the cover of the State Secret. What has come to light up to now is, in my opinion , only the tip of the iceberg of a submerged continent" .
The shadow of the Gladio 'Scorpione' center on the Addaura attack There is a chapter in the history of Gladio which still remains obscure today: the 'Scorpione' center (the Sicilian Gladiolus), stationed in Trapani, may have played a marginal or direct role in the failed attack on the Addaura of 21 June 1989 , consumed when Giovanni Falcone and his Swiss colleagues Carla Del Ponte and Claudio Lehmann were present , having arrived in Palermo for a rogatory letter on money laundering in the "Pizza connection" investigation. The judges identified Salvatore Riina as principal; Salvatore Biondino (his right-hand man and substitute of the head district of San Lorenzo, at the time imprisoned, Giacomo Giuseppe Gambino ), Antonino Madonia(man of honor of the Resuttana family, where the Addaura is located, and son of the head of the homonymous district Francesco), Francesco Onorato (regent of the Partanna Mondello mafia family), Vincenzo Galatolo (representatives of the Acquasanta family , falling within the mandate of Resuttana) and Angelo Galatolo (son of Giuseppe and nephew of Vincenzo), as perpetrators of the crime of massacre; Giovan Battista Ferrante (man of honor of San Lorenzo) as responsible for the detention and port of the explosive. It is not the first time that the name of Trapani has been associated, in trials, with deviant masonries, secret services (infidels) and mafias. Just think of the conviction for the bosses who had killed the journalist Mauro Rostagno in 1988, in which a highly confidential 1991 report by Sisde emerged, in which it is said that the managers of the Scorpion center met prominent members of some mafia families.
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Second page of the SISMI document
Also in that province in 1993, in the villa of a policeman, an enormous deposit of war weapons and explosives was discovered, the origin of which has never been understood and which many believe to be one of the arsenals used by the Gladio structure or by a similar structure. We recall that Falcone himself was investigating Gladio in 1989, that is well before its existence had been revealed to the general public. After the attack on Addaura, Falcone had spoken for the first time of 'very refined minds'. On this point Scarpinato added a further element: "With regard to the attack on Addaura on June 21, 1989, during the Rostagno murder trial, a highly secret document was acquired, dated June 10, 1989, destined to be destroyed, but of which someone had significantly kept a copy for himself, in which instructions were given for an operation attributable to Gladio with the use of means from the Scorpion Center which was to take place precisely in the area where the villa inhabited by Falcone was located ". In addition to the document dated June 10, 1989, a second one, dated June 24, 1989. In the first (immediate destruction) the beginning of an exercise called "Domus Aurea" was authorized, which was to take place in the locality of Torre del Rotolo,a place near the Addaura and near the villa of Giovanni Falcone. The Addaura attack will take place just three days later. The second document, on the other hand, dates three days after the failed attack, and indicates in the same area the recovery of the material used in the "Demage Prince" exercise, specifically speaking of diving suits and "relative explosive material possibly left over from exercise". In the newspaper " Il Giornale" it was specified that between the first and second document the name of the exercise changes: first it is "Domus Aurea", then "Demage Prince". From the declassified archives of Gladio there is today further information which would seem to further confirm the genuineness of the message on the Gladio operation in front of the house of the: exactly that point, Torre del Rotolo, was considered a 'clandestine landing area' to be used for secret operations. Falcone had already guessed that something else could be hidden behind "Stay Behind", above all for a curious center created in 1978 in Trapani, certainly not a focal point for a possible Soviet invasion. " Giovanni Falcone - said Scarpinato - in the last years of his life focused his attention on the role of Gladio and the Scorpion Center of Trapani. He had developed the conviction that in some excellent political crimes a convergence of interests had taken place between the mafia power and external entities" . "Entities made up of 'very refined minds' who, not surprisingly, had entered the field against him, joining the mafia, with the anonymous complaints of the so-called 'crow' prodromal to the Addaura attack, after he had taken the black trail to the Mattarella murder, which also had significant projections on the Bologna massacre. As can be seen from excerpts from his published diaries, based on what I myself saw as a direct witness his investigations into Gladio and political crimes were hampered by the chief prosecutor of the time, so much so that this was one of the decisive reasons that led him to leave the Palermo prosecutor's office by accepting the proposal from Martelli, Minister of Justice at the time, to move to the Ministry of Justice in Rome as director of criminal affairs". "Shortly before being killed, Falcone aimed to pick up the threads of that investigative track. The last time I saw him in Rome, in confiding in me that he was almost certain of being appointed National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor, he proposed that I go back to work with him, telling me that we could finally carry out the investigations that had hitherto prevented us". Source
