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I n relazione a l l ' a r t i c o l o g i o r n a l i s t i c o apparso su " I l Tea po" d e l ' 15 • 11 • 1S78 a firma d i Giuseppe Lonj-o e concernente i l "diario''-^ che sarà pubblicato nel f a s c i c o l o d i dicembre d'Alia r i v i s t a "Peirthouss!"- del noto s c r i t t o r e Pietro Di Donato, non savrebbe i n u t i l e acquisire i l testo o r i g i n a l e • d e l "Diario" e l a r e l a t i v a traduzione.

A proposito del sedicente "Zùcor" i l cui âdre,"poeta d i l e t tante d i un certo valore" sarebbe sta t o amico d i Benedetto Croce l a cui madre sarebbe deceduta a l l ' i n i z i o .dell'anno a.95 anni,pot bero compiersi ricerche anagrafiche a iloma e anche a Lapoli, per accertare se t r a l e dotme d i età anziana deceduta nel 1^77-inizi del T978 ve ne fosse una d i "nobile f a m i g l i a " e s c r i t t r i c e d i " s t o r i e d i a.-ore sotto uno pseudonimo"ecc.

I n o l t r e , potrebbe.effettuarsi un c o n t r o l l o presse l a b i b l i c teca d i Benedetto Croce a fiapoli i n relazione a l l a presenza-di e v e n t u a l i l i b r i d i poesie d i poeti d i l e t t a n t i .

l i e i contempo, potrebbero V e r i f i c a r s i i nominativi dei sospe t i b r i g a t i s t i i n relazione a i d a t i concernenti i l o r o g e n i t o r i .

Va i n o l t r e accertato chi -fossero i t e s t i n c n i d e l l e nozze Curcio-Caôl e i presenti a l l a cerimonia, e se t r a l e s o s p e t t i appartenenti a l l e BR v i siano dorme- che hanno frequentato l'Uni versità d i Trento.

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OGGETTO; Omicidio del l 'on/ le Moro e del la scorta .

a l i .2 ALL'UFFICIO ISTRUZIONE presso i l Tribunale di

R O M A

A parziale evasione della richiesta d i codesta A.G. i n data 18.11 .u.se, che s i allega i n copia, s i comunica che l a Questura d i Trento, interessata da questo u f f i c i o , ha r i f e r i t o che i l matrimonio t r a CURCIO Renato e CAGOL Margherita venne celebrato i n data 1° agosto 1959 nel Santuario d i S.Roraedio (Trento) ed i testimoni furono SAUGO Italo,'nato a Thiene (VC) i l 26.2.1940,ivi residente i n via Zanella 13 e MULI NARI S Giovanni, nato ad Udine i l 14.7.1946, i v i residente i n via Duca d'Aosta 4.

Entrambi sono noti esponenti di "Lotta Continua", che, all'epoca., dimoravano i n Trento.

Per quanto concerne i presenti a l l a cerimonia, é stato possibile accertare che v i hanno preso parte la sorella della CAGOL e t r e comuni amici, non potuti però id e n t i f i c a r e , dato i l lungo tempo trascorso dalle nozze.

Tra l e donne sospettate appartenere al l e "brigate rosse" che hanno frequentato l'università di Trento, l a Questura di questo centro ha indicato l a nota BESUSCRTO Paola,nata a Verona i l 15.11.1947,ivi residente i h via A.Sciesa 3>attualmente detenuta,che ha conseguito i l diploma di laurea i n scienze sociali nel febbraio del 1974.

Si allega copia del telex della Questura d i Trento.

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I n relazione a l l ' a r t i c o l o g i o r n a l i s t i c o apparso su " I l Tempo del 15.11*1978 che r i p o r t a i n s i n t e s i i l contenuto d i uno s c r i t t o d i Pietro l ' i Donato concernerete l a p r i g i o n i a e l'uccisione d v l l ' o n . r.oro da' parte delle Brigate Rosse - s c r i t t o che sarà pubblicato nel fascicolo d i dicembre d a l l a r i v i s t a "Penthouse" — s i chiede l'esame del predetto Pietro Di Donato-tradite I n t e r p ol segnatamente sui seguenti p u n t i :

- c h i è i l senatore del P.C.I. che l o raise i n contatto con i l personaggio chiamato "R1";

- c h i è 'ta'le "R1 "(generalità;età;professione{abitazione ecc.) -c h i è i l personaggio chiamato "R2" ( generalità,età,profes-

sione, abitazione ecc«); '

-c h i sono i due b r i g a t i s t i amici d e l l a f a m i g l i a r.;oro"(gene ralitàyetàfprofessione, abitazione ecc.)»

- c h i è t a l e "£ucor"indicato dal Di Donato come " i l capo d e l l a banda";

-c h i erano i g e n i t o r i del sedicente "Zucor".

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N.050714/DIGOS Roma, 16 dicembre 1978

OGGETTO: Omicidio dell'on/le Moro e della scorta.

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R O M A

Con riferimento alle richieste di codesta A.G., ri s p e t t i v a mente i n data 18,22-11 .u.se., concernenti l ' a r t i c o l o apparso sul r i v i s t a "Penthsuse" di dicembre, a firma Pietro Di Donato, s i trasmette copia del telex i n data 12 corrente dell'Interpol, da cui s i evince che i l redattore capo della citata r i v i s t a ha r i f e r i t o che-Pietro Di Donato, i n considerazione del particolare tipo d i contatti da l u i avuti nella vicenda,"non consentirà d i essere escusso1.'

Ad ogni buon'fine,si allega copia del telex di questo u f f i cio i n data 24.11.u.se. con cui s i richiedeva di interessare l a pol i z i a degli USA perché "esaminasse" i l Di Donato sui punti i n d i c a t i da codesta A.G..

Circa l a presenza del Di Donato i n I t a l i a , durante i l periodo i n cui f u tenuto sequestrato 1*on/le Moro, essa sembra essere sufficientemente provata dalla.foto apparsa sul settimanale "Panorama" del 5 corrente, nella quale egli é r i t r a t t o insieme a don Agostino Mancini,parròco di Turrita Tiberina.

Si rinvia i n proposito a l rapporto pari numero di questo uff i c i o i n data 1° corrente.

Per quanto concerne g l i a l t r i punti i n d i c a t i nelle richieste di codesta A.G.,di cui s i allega copia,si fa presente che essi sono s t a t i , i n parte,evasi,con precedenti rapporti.

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i n c i n t e s i contenuto diario, t r a t t o da r i v i s t a "Psnthouse" dicembre

1978, noto scrittore i t a l o americano DI DONATO Pietro tra vicenda on.

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a l l ' a r t i c o l o g i o r n a l i s t i c o apparso su " I l Tex 8 a firma d i Giuseppe Longo e concernente i l

"diario"-che sarà pubblicato nel fas c i c o l o d i dicembre Stilla r i v i s t a "Penthouse'j- del noto s c r i t t o r e Pietrò Di Donato, non sa-

[iU ! f r eghe , i n u t i l e acquisire i l testo o r i g i n a l e del "Diario" e l a I r e l a t i v a traduzióne. .

À. proposito|del sedicente "Zucor" i l cui #adre,"poeta d i l e " tante d i un certo valore" sarebbe stato amico d i Benedetto Croci a cui madre sarebbe deceduta a l l ' i n i z i o dell'anno a 95 anni,po' bere compiersi ricerche anagrafiche a Roma e anche a I.'apoli, pe. accertare se t r a i l e donne d i età anziana deceduta nel 1977-iniz: del 1978 ve ne fosse una d i "nobile f a m i g l i a " e s c r i t t r i c e d i " s t o r i e d i amore jsc-tto uno pse"iAdcnimo"ecc.

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Pel contempo, potrebbero- v e r i f i c a r s i i nominativi dei sosp t i b r i g a t i s t i i h j r e l a z i o n e a i d a t i concernenti i loro g e n i t o r i ,

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Va i n o l t r e accertato chi fossero i testimoni delle nozze Curcic-Ciigol e i jpresenti a l i a cerimonia, e se t r a l e sos p e t t i " appa.rter.er.ti a l l e BR v i siano donne che hanno, frequentato l'Uni versità d i Trento.

I L GIUDICE ISTRUTTORE (dr. Fra:,cesco- ALIATO)

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del 15.11.197t che riporta i n sintesi i l contenuto di uno s c r i i te di Pietro l ' i Donato concernente l a prigionia''e l'uccisione dell*'on. iloro da parte delle Srigate 2*osse - s c r i t t o che sarà pubblicato nel fascicolo d i dicembre calla r i v i n t a "Jenthouse". s i chiede 1 *'esasie; del predetto Pietro Di Donate tradite Interpol segnatamente sui seguenti punti:

. j . -chi è i l senatore del J-.C.I. che lo .Mise i n contatto con

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i l personaggio chiamato " E l " ; i • '

-chi è tale i'R1 " (generalità'; età ; prof essi o;ie ;abitazione ecc. -chi è i l personaggio chiamato "1:2" ( generalità,età,profes

sione, abitazionejecc.); -chi sono i l due b r i g a t i s t i areici delia famiglia '. .<. ro" (gens

ralità,età,profescicne, abitazione ecc.); -chi è tale;"Zucor"indicato dal Di Denato ceree " i l capo

dalla banda"; j -chi erano | genitori del ?sedi u'sr.te ' "Zuet.-r".

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OGGETTO: Oraicidio del l 'on/le IToro e de l la scorta.

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R O M A

Richiamando quanto già riferito sul noto scritto di Pietro DI DONATO in inerito al sequestro e all'omicidio dell'on. IJoro, si trasmette copia fotostatica di un articolo apparso sul! settimanale "Panorama" del 5 dicembre, p.v., dal titolo "E Zucor disse a Koro.. nel quale appare anche una foto del predetto DI DONATO, ritratto in., Turrida Tiberina, insième a don Agostino Mancini. .-~f\

Con l'occasione s i trasmette copia fotostatica d i una nota del Commissariato di P.S. "Kontemario" i n data 17.11 .u.sc. ,concer- ;,, nente g l i accertamenti esperiti nella zona della Balduina,alla l u ce di quanto r i f e r i t o dal DI DONATO nel sud s c r i t t o .

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Chi ha rapito U presidente detta Oc? Zucor. CM Fha ucciso} Anna. Che cosa è successo in quei SS giorni? Negli Stati Uniti c'i uno scrittore che sostiene di aver saputo tutto.

*fP «cor. I l capo della co-i t a lonha che ha rapito Aldo Moro, riceve 11 presidente della De molto educatamente. «Le Br» , spiega Zucor, «non tono dei banditi. Lei deve considerarsi un prigioniera politico e. « Ma I prigionieri politici », risponde Moro s Zucor, .debbono per fona estere rinchiusi come Balline in un pollaio? ».

E un romanzo? Una ricostruzione di fantasia? Un delirio? • No ». spiega Pietro Di Donato, scrittore italo-. americano famoso negli art-1

ni Trenta per aver scritto. Cristo Ira i muratori. «La mia è la trascrizione fedele di ciò che "mi hanno raccontalo le Brigale rosse ». |

Comparso sul numero di dicembre della rivista americana per soli uomini Pen- •• Ihouse (sullo stesso numera, fra molte pesine di nudi femminili, c'era anche una intervista a Fidcl Castro), I ' . articolo di Di Donato. Cristo mila plastica, ha fatto un certo scalpore negli Stati Uniti e Di Donato deve ora correre da una stazione radiotelevisiva all'altra per spiegare come e riuscito a mettersi In contatto con le Br.

• Cinque anni fa ». racconta Di Donato, « incontrai in Italia, tramite un senatore del Pei. un industriale molto . famoso per idee di estrema sinistra. Lo rividi ancora e pian piano capii cìve II mio amico era un r i voluzionario coinvolto in «-rioni eversive. Cosi, quando l'editore di Penthoust mi affidò l'Incarico di scrivere una storU sull'assassinio di Moro, lo andai a trovare ti mio amico che mi presentò un.*brl-<fatista che era in contatto con i rapitori di Moro. £1 mio erticoSo e U frutto dei l«ro racconti ».

Ed ecco I loro racconti, pieni di episodi tanto singolari da apparire »»oluiamenie fanuudofl, ricchi di errori tanto clamorosi da lar pensare che siano i l prodotto di un mitoma-we disinformalo v superficiale.

I l rapimento. Del commastdo, composto da 11 uomini e una donna bionda, fa pane anche un motociclista vestito da poliziotto. Un episodio CU

PI»*» DI Dsnsta • Torrlta Tlfeorln* Inil.m* *4 Ago-Mise l&matm, »aiM«e>* <3 Alé* Uan

rloso: I quattro ventiti dà piloti dell' Alitali* memre'aspctuno all'angolo di via Fani che. arrivi l'auto di Moro vengono avvicinati da un vero pilota dcll Alitaliache offre a due di loro un passaggio sulla sua macchina sportiva. • Gran: ». rispondono I brigatisti. « preferiamo viaggiare tutt i insieme: aspettiamo l i pulmino ».

Di Donato e in grado di rivelare anche i l primo rifugio di Moro: • un garage sotterraneo di un p r n « o complesso residenziale, dulia Balduina, dieci minuti da via Fani ». • t» La p r i j ì o s j . • I l nascondiglio nel ejuslc Moro avrebbe dovuto essere tenuto prigioniero era stelo prepa-.

rato da un anno. Si trattava di un r i postiglio isolalo acusticamente al quale si accedeva attraverso un finto muro ». Uomini delle Br lavoravano nel garage sotterraneo montando la

. guardia 24 ore su 24. Alcuni poliziott i nei giorni successivi perquisirono i l garage, chiesero informazioni ai brigatisti, si fermarono a chiacchierare con loro. Ma poi se ne andarono. • t i trattamento. Di Donato sa tutto. Sa che un medico visitò Moro e lo .trovò anemico, con qualche problema pc/ i l rene sinistro, ma complessivamente in buone condizioni di salute. Che Moro non mangiava. Che raccontava a Zucor della tua villa di Torrita Tiberina dove aveva piantato le fave, i carciofi, i pomodori e i peperoni. Che poteva leggere, guardare la televisione, ascoltare dischi. • Zucor. Col passare del tempo tra Moro e Zucor, secondo Di Donato, si sviluppò una certa amicizia. Si era

r io accorti di essersi già incontrati ncl l95 0 in casa dello scritlorc Carlo Levi. Zucor, figlio di una scrittrice di romanzi d'amore, morta lo «corso anno a 9S anni di età. parlò di se a Moro. Gli disse che era caltolico. che andava a messa tutte le domeniche, che era molto affezionalo alla madre

•(nella sua stanza della prigione del *ponolo, Zucor aveva atlaccato ai muri I crocifissi e i rosari della madre). Zucor era Slato anche moltu amico di Gianglacomo Feltrinelli: insieme avevano fatto-vita da payboy e annusato cocaina. • I «ogni di Moro. Gli amici brigatisti di DI Donato sono siali precisi nel raccontare ciò che il presidente della De sognava la notte: la villa di

' Torrita Tiberina, la moglie triste, i figli che piangevano. Poi. lunghe passeggiate con Zoccagnini che sorrideva e con Cossiga. Sognava anche di tessere trame senza fine, di chiamarsi Malvolio ma di essere più conósciuto, nel sud, col soprannome di Lenguanero. • CU mterrogatort. Erano stringenti? politici? duri? Un esempio riportato da DI Donato: • E vero che la moglie del presidente Leone faceva le oree nella villa Le Rughe? «. . No! È falso! ». • Lei mentel ». • GII sta»aa(nl. L'articolo di Di Donato rivela chi sono gli autori male-ria!! dell'assassinio di Moro: Anna (la bionda di via Fani) e Franco. An-' na sarebbe una delle fondatrici delle Br: studentessa a Trcnlo insieme a Curcio e a Mara Cagol. partecipò al loro matrimonio religioso. Erano molto amici: era stata lei a dare un soprannome (Pippo) a Renato a causa de! suo grosso naso. Durante la prigionia. Moro, secondo Di Donato, tentò anche di corromperla: • Se mi aiuti », te disse, « ti prometto che non t i (arò ricercare ». E Anna, scuotendo la testa: « Le vostre promesse! Sono come quelle del governo americano ai pellerossa! ». . _

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li Po© Invoco: «È sfata la regina» JR capo del compiono c'era Elisa-sWa betta 11 di Inghilterra. La Corona ori tannica d'accòrdo con le monarchie di lutto i l mondo (compresi I Savoia) da tempo cercava di destabilizzare la situazione politica italiana. 11 Poe, Partito opcrajo europeo (uno* strano gruppo pieno di soldi, che si autodefinisce di estrema sinistra ma in realtà si sospetta levalo ad ambienti conservatori a-mcricanl), ne e sicuro. In un libro dal titolo promettente. Chi ha ucciso Aldo Moro, i l Poe ripercorre in 110 pagine i l tappe delia macchinazione. .

Innanzitutto l'organizzazione generale e 1 mandanti. La regina non ha (allo tulio da sola: ad aiutarla ci sono slati a fianco dei servizi segreti inglesi, lo Shin Bel israeliano, i l sovrano militare ordine di Mal-la, Henry Kizsinger, la mafia, l'in-totiauionalc socialista, l'aristocrazia in genere. »

Poi ci sono I fiancheggiatori: « Il nazi-britannlco Mitterrand, capo del clan del marsigliesi », il socialista Michele Achilli • organizzatore del sequestro Mazzo: ti •. il « monarchico » Indro Ubnianelli, tutti 1 componenti delle famiglie Caracciolo, Pallavicini, Colonna, Ripa di Mcana, Bassetti, poi Amlntorc pantani, Umberto Agnelli, Massimo De Carolis, Giorgio Amendola, Giorgio Napolitano, Ugo La alalia. !'• ispiratore delle rivolle nelle carceri » Stefano Rodo-, ta, il • mafioso dell'Eni • Francesco Forte, 11 «creatore delle Br» Francesco Albe remi, i l capo brigatista Mario Scialoja, il • filoierrurisla ecologo » Marco Pannclia, il • teppista crede al trono» Carlo di Inghilterra. )'• agente israeliano • Francesco Cossiga. « i l vertice da cui panano sia le piste rosse che le piste nere » Giacomo Mancini, i l • noto trafficante d'armi » Vittorio Emanuele e infine • l'uomo che ha lasciato la sua carta intestala nel covo di via Gradoli », Cloe Bettino Craxi.

Tutti costoro, secondo il fpe, compongano un*, organizzazione perfet

ta e collaudata. Hanno già uccisa Martin Luther King, John e Robert Kennedy, Enrico Malici. Nel loro carnet ci sono altri Ire importanti! appuntamenti: assassinare Helmut Schmidl, Giulio Andreotti e soprattutto Il scmisconosciulo presidente del partito laburista statunitense Lyndon La Rouche, grande ispiratore del Poe, colpevole di avere anta- . schcrato le loro trame.

Ma perché hanno rapito e ucciso Aldo Moro? Il Poe svela anche questo: perché Moro, insieme alle forze sane dell'Italia (Michele Sindon i . Giulio Andreotti, Enrica Berlinguer. Luigi Granelli, Flaminio Pie- . coni, Giovanni Leone), e del mondo (Paolo VI , Breznev, lo scia di Persia, Giscard d'Estaing, .Helmut Schmidl. Takeu Fukuda), cercava di portare avanti i l « Grande Disegno di sviluppo economico e culturale che sapeva essere l'unica salvezza del suo paese ».

L'ordine di rapire Aldo Moro, secondo II Poe, fu dato dall'» asente britannico » Gianfranco ?iazzesi, notista politico del Corriera della t i ra. I l 12 marzo, infatti. Piazze;! scrisse un lungo articolo eh» termi- -nava con la frase: • Moro ò uno di quei fatalisti che accettano stoicamente la morte a una sola condizione: che giunga 11 più lardi possi- ' bile ». Più che un articolo, commenta il Poe, quello di PiazzesI era una campana a morte, l'ordine di marcia.

D'altronde PiazzesI, secondo i l Poe, e uno di quegli «senti britannici che bisogna tenere maggiormente d'occhio. Cosi quando U I * agusto scrive sul Corriere della sera che Andreotti è « un uomo vota- -to al sacrificio, che sta mostrando una vitalità e una energia assolutamente Insospettate in chi t quasi tempre dato per moribondo e qualche voli» per morto », per il Poe 4 chiaro che PiazzesI ha indicalo la prussima vittima.

Ma come mai i l piano dì destabilizzazione (prevedeva anche un colpo di Slato In aprile che avrebbe

portato al potere Aminlunr Feniani, « rappresentante della corrente Savoia all'interno deUj De •) non è riuscito? 11 Poe dice, im po' sommariamente, che la fermezza del Valicano,' del governo e del Pei hanno mandato a monte i l losco compiono, nonostante la slampa « anglofila » (Panorama. L'Esvresio, la Repubblica, La Slampa e I I Messaggero) avesse fatto di tutto per creare lo « scenario favorevole». ' Più precisi Invece 1 redattori del dossier del Poe sono sul luogo dove Aldo iXoro 4 stato tenuto prigioniero: » & più che probabile che l'appartamento in questione sia quello dei principe Johannes Schwarzen-berg ejnbasciatore dei Cavalieri di Malta, i l palazzo Schwarzenberg. che gode dell'Immunità territoriale, si trova all'angolo tra via delle 3ol-Icehe Oscure e vis Caetani ».

Ma perche nessuno ha chiesto chiarimenti al principe? 11 giallo si infittisce. « Lo stesso principe ». con.

'tinua i l Poe, «si meravigliò che nessuno degli inquirenti avesse cercalo di interroRario ». E adesso non si potrebbe chiedergli qualcosa? Troppo tardi. La conclusione del Partito operaio europeo e degna di un classico del brivido: « l i principe Schwarzcnberg e morto in un incidente stradale qualche giorno dopo il ritrovamento del cadavere di Moro». _

6» Gli errori. L'articolo di Di Donato fa acqua da tutte le parti. Sembra la versione romanzata di una ricerca malfatta sul ritagli di giornali dell' epoca. Di Donalo definisci. Pannella « ministro ». Esrlinjuer « 11 duca sardo e railionirto »7 La Malfa e De Carolis • fasciati repubblicani ». Racconta che Anna, !a brigatista, partecipò al ma tri mono di Curcio Ignorando che vi parteciparono solo due iasilmonl, entrambi maschi (Italo Saugo e Vanni Mulinarli). Fa dire a Zucor (rivolto a-Moro): « Lei e responsabile dell'uccisione del lavoratori in sciopero o l>!odena, Reggio, Palermo, Catania s Sceiba,». Sbaglia la data dello morta di Feltrinelli c

sostiene che il 1" maggio l'Italia venne eliminata dalla coppa del Mondo di calcio (che sarebbe slata giocata colo in giugno). Racconta episodi incredibili, come quello di Paolo VI che avrebbe fallo dire messa su un elicottero che sorvolava la casa di Moro o quello di Eleonora Moro che insulta Poletti e Fanfani, chiamandoli pederasti, puttane e codardi e scagliando contro di loro un vaso di fiori.

Pietro Di Donato ammette di aver commesso qualche errore. « Io non sono Italiano », ha detto a Panorama, « e sono stalo un po' impreciso. Ma la sostanza e vera ». Può essere più preciso sulle fonti? a No; naturalmente. r.on ho Jorse dello che Sucor 1 S^io di unr. icrittrics .oonc Yf.aa eccito & C? « n i ? . C e ~ Ì s l o

voi, no? ». Panorama l'ha cercata, rru. l'unica scrittrice rosa novanlacin quenne. Carola Prosperi, è viva e abi ta a Torino. Suo figlio invece. Leo Pc stelli, giornalista e critico cincrruto grafico, è morto nel 1976. « Io so soli che le mie fonti sono credibili », in siste Di Donato, « e mi hanno dati alcuni nastri registrati». E i nasi" dove tono? » U ho distrutti ». t» Cos3ciuaiotz3- Dice Pietro Di Dona lo,-riferendosi a un?, testimone trop po ciarliera della strage di via Fani: • Gli italiani non si preoccupano tar lo che una storia si» pii' o meno ve-ro. qur.i'o piuttosto che sia ben r2c contato J-i •jle.-co vale, trob.^ti'-rcc-iw, pr.ri kttori ii Pciukouis.

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In relazione? a quinto pubblicato sul Tur>t.iditir,ri " IL. TK?TPOM,nell'arti rjoio a ri parso in datn 15 corrente a panini tr«, dal t i t o l o " Uno . scrittore americano ricostruisce i l t ; i o H i r i " , s i comunica che sono sta t i s v o l t i u l t e r i o r i - accertamenti n°ila parte alta di Via della Balduina,ove - secondo l'autore dello articolo — esisterebbe un garage attraverso i l quale i r a p i t o r i dell'On.le lloro l o avrebbero condotto nel luoro di pri tri oni a. •' Tali accertara»nti hanno dato esito negativo,né sono

emersi elementi nuovi ai f i n i delle u l t e r i o r i indagini.

"'. "Tuttavia,si fa presente che i n via della Balduina n.323 esiste l'atoesso del garage privato di due palazzine che hanno ingresso principale i n via Massimi 91|di proprietà fiell'Istitufro Opere 3eligiose,con sede i n via deli». Conci liasione n.IO. •

L'inrr^sso di tale garage è isolato ed è stato rica= vato da un muro,alto circa tre metri e lungo circa canto metri.

Trattasi i n e f f e t t i di un muro di cinta dèi" ' conplesso immobiliare sopraindicato' che potrebbe essere quello indicato nell'artico e definito " niimeti.r,zato".

eleménto Anche tale autorimessa è stata ispezionata ma n?nsn smerso a conferma di ouanto r i f e r i t o n e l l ' a r t i c o l o .

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OGGETTO: Omicidio dell*on/le Moro e della scorta.

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MFiLASTIC • Crucified, Aldo Mòro was worth more votes-to the Christian Democrats than he was breathing: the Red Bri'gades shot

: him eleven times, then • wrapped him in orangévinyl.

On March 16.1978. Aldo Moro, presidenl ol ' Haly's ruling party, the Christian Democrats. • was kidnapped by letrorists. an act setling off '•the greaiesl rnànhunt in history and sertously ', shaking the Italian government. On May 8 Moro , \ • was killed when Ihe government refused to - " v -' exchange thirteen terroris! leaders tor him. . ' • '• '•'Penthouse sent Pietro Di Donalo, an

Italian-American novelist and the author ol •. u . - ; • • '- Chris!irìConcrete, to cover Ihe story. ; ' • '••","

• For months the Aldo Moro case called . • • worìdwide attention to the existence ol the ".'•'*• ;"•• • Brigate Rosse—Italy's RedBrigades—but lor • alt ol its saturation coverage, the media never ' -

tafterf ro a BR member. Small wonder. Italians . talk orty to other Italians. - " . . .

Pive years ago. while writing a movie script in . ' - liaty, l met. through a Comminisi senalor (riho . ' would today like to lorget the whole thing). a ' ' manvihomttlcalIRt. He was a successili! •

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businessman; \>e wasjlso a revolutionary, though thSe was no ÌS>< ol the then-non-vblent Red Brigades.

Since I /fave/ ro llaly tiequently, we kepi in touch. When I began to believe that Rt was in earnesFT.was reatly involved in antigov-emment actions. my interest deepened; l'd joined ihe Communist party on August 23. 1927. the day càpitalism killed Sacco and Vanzetti; I was sixteen. Oul ol their dealhs and theearlier death ol my lathei. Geremio, carne my nove/ Chris! in Concrete. Since fhen /Ve grown more sophisticated about the nature ol ali politicai groups—l'm no longer a card carrier—but /Ve kepi on

j searching: Last May I returned to Rome lor the Moro

affair. I was prepared to try to use R1 and to let him try to use me. and I think lhe,bargam worked out Ime. Through RI I met-.anolher -ian—I might as weìt cali him R2—who

nad access to the master celi that kidnapped and ex'ecuied Aldo Moro. I spent two months interviewing the two Brigatisti, Iriends ol the Moro lamily, police. jóur-nalisls, politicai observers, priests— whoever would talk to me. From the material I gathered I allowed mysell the license to porlray Moro's lilty-lour-day ordeal and crucilixion.

The word sacrifice, Irom the Latin, means "lomake ho.'/" Rt and I discussed the tak-ing ol lite—the bloodiest and cruelest and

• .perhaps the most necessary art- visited . upon man by man—from the little Jewish

carpente! ol Nazareth, to the never-ending bloodbath ol war. lo my Umerale bricklayer lather. sacrificed in concrete to the Great God Job. to Aldo Moro, the synthelic savior ol Ihe Christian Democrats, the crucilied politician. the modem plaslic Christ. . .

The killers o l Aldo Moro witl never be tonno". . . . His mutuai sacnlicers will noi permil it.—P. D D

ROME. MARCH 16.1978 . Aldo Moro, the Godfather ol the ruling

Christian Democrats. has espresso and pastry shaves, dresses in a conservative suit. and listens to the cautionary counsel of his homely v.ile. Eleonora.

Il is 8:30 A M. The beli rings; the voice Irom the intercom at the Street entrance is that ot Marshal Oreste Leonardi. Moro's protecting shadow. Eleonora Moro tells him . lo come up wilh his boys for coffee. The ritual occurs every morning as though for the first time.

Hats in hand, the bodyguards enter. They wear ciyilian clothes. With ihe marshal are Domenico Ricci, the son of peasants and Moro's chauffeur for iwenty years; young Giulio Rivera, from a Campobasso tarm; chunky Raffaele lozzino, a laborer's son; and Francesco Zizzi. also from a poor family. Zizzi is elated. It is his first day in the envious job; he is replacing Officer Gentiluomo, who has sucdenly and inexplica-bly lefi Moro's employ (and who.sub-sequently disappears). "My whole family lit candles lo Our Lady of Fatima in gratitude for my being given the honor of guarding the precious lìle of the president of the

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Christian Democral party." Zizzi babbles to Mrs. Moro.

In the Balduina section o l Rome, lour men ol ine RedBngades (Brigate Rosse), wear-ing the blue hats. insignia, and unilorms ol Alnalia pilots. pack machine guns in airline bags.

Al 8:30 A M they aie driven in a white Fiat 128, with a Diplomane Corps license piate, tonard Monte Mario, the Roman suburb where Moro lives. Simullaneously. Irom •separate points ot departure. three more Fiats, carrying seven men and a blonde, and a motoreyclist dressed as a policeman head lor Monte Mario. The white Fiat stops atthe curb on upper Via Mario Fani. The two men in front remain in the car. The lour "pilots' casually walk one block to the in-lersection ol Via Mario Fani and Via Stresa and stand chatting in troni ola closed bar. The corner is a bus stop lor Alilalia limousine service to Leonardo da Vinci airport. The thiee other cars and the "policeman'

Zucor told Moro: "You are an

embarrassment now tò church and state. -

Crucified, you may be of more use."

on his high-powered molorcycle park be-hind the white Fiat. Several other commandos, dressed as telephorie workers. stand by lo sabotage lelephone lines.

Two housevrives come oul o l the corner apartment building opposite the bus stop. One has a dog on a leash. They comment on ihe absence ol a llorist, Antonio Spiritic-chio. and his wile. In any weather the two arrive in a van each morning to set up llow-eis on the sidewalk. Today is crisp and sunny. They should be here. • -

An old man on a balcony leeds and la/te to his canaries. A police car filled with carabinieri races by. speeding danger-ously lor no reason, as usuai. A few mid-die-aged professional men leave home.

Ihe BR has worked on this operalion lor months. Ih Czechoslovakia they rehearsed

. the ambush to come wilh cars and dumrnies—each move laid out geometri-cally, pinpointed and timed. The night be-loie. tuo. ol them had gone to Via Angelo Brunetti 38, where the llorist Spiriticchio lives, and slashed the tires ol his Ford van so that it wouldn'l obstruct their shooting. (They planned to do a to/ ol it.)

Aldo Moro bids his wife and three of his fout

grown children adiro. Eleonora goes a beo! f u net chores.

The leader of the Christian Democrats leaves his house at Via del Forte Trionfale 79 and gets into his blue Fiat 130. Moro is a j methodical man. People in the neighbor-1 hood aie iamiliàr with his habits and route. | Each morning he stops to pray at Ihe church of Santa Chiara, pauses at his lava- j ite newsstand to buy the officiai organs of ', the six llalian politicai parlies. and then ' goes on lo government business. (On the night before. however. Moro had told Leonardi that. for salety's sake. they would use a new. devious way to get to the seal ol government in the center of Rome. Then he phoned Leonardi and told him he'd de-cided to go along Via Mario Fani, as usuai. The Red Brigades commandos were ap-prised ol both changes. They also knew neither of Moro's cars was bulletproof.)

Domenico Ricci drives carefully. By his side is Marshal Leonardi; Aldo Moro is in the left rear seat. The ofdaial escori car, a white 130 Alfa Romeo "Alletta" model, carrying Rivera. Zizzi, and lozzino, follows.

Many aviation personnel live in Monte Mario An airline employee. spotting the four ANtalia "pilots," stops his sports car and says he has room lor two passengers. They thank him and say they'll wail for Ihe Alitalia limousine, due shortly. becausa they want.to stay together.

At the newsstand the vendor praises Moro for having shaped the new coati-t ionJ-meaning Moro's "historic compromise" with Enrico Berlinguer and the Ciornmunists. This very morning a new government wili be formed; forty-six elected officials, members of Moro's Christian Democrats and Berlinguer's Par/i/o Com-munisti Italiano (PCI), wifl be selected.

The two Moro cars leave the newsstand at 8:55. Moro hates fast driving. He glances at Paesa Sera, the Communist paper. and // • Messagero, then reads about himself in// '• Giorno. Il Giorno emphasizes the loyalty to > Moro ol llalian Presiderà Giovanni Leone, ' Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. Senate ' President Amintore Fanfani, and Christian ; Democrat Secretary Benigno Zaccagnmi. j Moro has lo smile. Fanfani is openlyt maneuvering for his job. They are ali aboul ] as Irustworthy as vampires. - " .'

At 9:00 Ricci-dnves by the landmark ol i Pone Trionfate; three mìnu'.es later he turns1

left on Via Mario Fani. . j

The commandos' white Fiat begins lo trail the Moro cars. The other three BR cars lotlow it. Ahead, on the corner, the pilots unzip their bags and step imo the Street. A fewyards Irom the ìntersection ol Via Stresa and Via Fani, the white Fiat speeds up, passes Moro's car, swerves in front ol it. and stops dead. Ricci jams on the brakes lo avo/d a collision, and the second Moro guard car bangs into him, shaking eveiy-one slightly. Moro, engaged with the politicai news, pays little altention.

Belore Moro's guards can react, Ihe BR commandos open tire. The telephone lines are cut al the precise moment Ihe shooting

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starts. Tnéiwo meri Irom the white Fiat and the pilbs are blasiìHg away Irom the Ironl and Street sides, the lake motoreycle cop and commandos Irom the other three cars Irom the rear. They lire huntiretis ol bulìets. riddling each guard Irom head to waist. Only young lozzino mgkes it oul ol the sec-ond Moro car, and thè automatic-weapons lire nearly cuts him in hall.

Moro, ennging, is spattered wilh the blood and brains o l his guards. He is dragged Irom his car. In his Iright he clings to his portlolio. as i l it can save him, bui in lite Street he drops it and begms crying: "Plvnsv lui mo go—what do you w.int ot ino?'' Thu bi t cotnnundus ub.tiulim thuir white car. shove Moro inlo onc ol Ihe olhers, then screech outol Via Fani, turnmg righi at the corner, and roaring up Via Strésa. The motoreyclist brings up the rear....

The whole operation takes less than a minute.

The BR cars turn on Via Trionfale and race lo Via Casale De Bustis. Tivo pi the cars stop and transfer Moro lo a wailing car. Then everyone goes in dilferent directions.

Moro is held on the lloor and diugged; taking him any dìstance is hazardous. despile the sabolaging ol the ielephone lines. The car containing Moto and two ol the Aliialia "pilots," who have now ditched their hats and coats, stows down and pulls imo the cavarnous underground garage ol a large apartment comptex in Balduina, just ten minutes away. The garage altendants

are BR, prepared to receive Moro.

There was an unnatural quiet in Via Fani. Then Ihe residents carne oul to salely view the bodies. Young, l a i lozz ino was sprawled in the guller wilh outstretched arms, red openings in his groin. chest, arms, and face. A woman placed // Giorno over him. but a breeze blew the sports sec-tion Irom his indillerent (ace. In the escori car. Zizzi and Ftivera. painied with blood. looked like they'd been llung by the hand ot God or the devil. In Moro's car Marshal Loónardi's head was pressed on driver Ricci's chesl. and Ricci's bloody mouth was on Luonurdt's lorohoad, as though kissing him.

Via Mario Fani became a Verdi opera; police. carabinieri, and the army carne careening at breakneck speed. sirens screaming. Armbd helicopters hovered. as though they could light and destroy the Red Brigades at the scene ol the crime. Then carne Cardinal Poletti. vicar ol Rome, reinlorced by his monsignors and priests.

Eleonora Moro and her lour children arrived. The pocr woman went trom corpse to corpse. She said to people: "I knew each. They were good boys. I would ralher have wept the death ot my husband than to see Ihese so young dead."

Before RAI Telegiornale television cam-eras. the politicians carne and held Eleo-nora's hands: They vowed fidelity and sot-idarity, love and prayers. They vowed ali aid

to redeem her kidnapped husband. In his high voice, (ascisi Republican Ug<.

La Malfa said. "We are in a state cf war Vile need the dealh penalty relurned!" Socialist Bettino Craxi brayed incomprehensibly Prime Minister Andreotti. in his government building, vomiled with excitement and had to change his clothes. Francesco Cossiga. minister of the interior and head of security. became hysterical. He calied the Pentagon and the CIA. the Bundeskriminalamt spe-cialists in Wiesbaden. Scotland Yard, the French Secret Service, the League ot Privato Delectivos. and ali dop.vtrnenls of his police. Ho ordorod thousands ol car-ubiniuri. grurutiori, und bvisaglivn troni such distarli placos as Sicilia. Calabria, and Sardegna calied out. "I want every telephone in Italy controlled!" he shouted.

The BR calied the major newspapers. saying they had killed "Cossiga's leather-heads" and kidnapped Aldo Moro. But so did the Walter Alasia"£olumn of Revotu-tionary Action, the Armed Proletarian Cetls (NAP). the Group Action Partisans (GAP),, and the Baader-Meinhof gang.

The little Sardinian duke and millionaire head of Italy's Communist party, "the father ' of Euro-Communism." Enrico Berlinguer, swore that it was alj a plot by multinalional conglomerates. According to "the cyber-netics of probabilities." it was the "last psychotogical chess move of universa! capitalista' that was subsidizing the "fake Communists" of the Red Brigades lo com

,.TOit alrocities in order to shock Ihe good people of the world and turn them against his Italian Communist party.

The families of the guards carne to Via - Fani to identify Ihe bodies. Detectives and reporters questionéd residents. An old lady said a woman had been in command ot ihe Biigatisti, a blonde who barked orders in German. The Secret Police received a cali from a guttural Iemale voice: "Aldo mit unsi" A man al a window said the leader had been a bearded fai man who shouted with a Milanese accenl. A woman reported that she had photographed the ambush and turned the film over to the police. bui i t :

"disappoarod." No two storios agroed. The llonst, Antonio Spiriticchio. and his

wite were seized and giventhe third degree. ^ A neighbor who had a grudge against ' him said Spiritrcchio was a Brigatista.

Another swore she'd taken her dog out at dawhto pée and had seen two men slash-ing the lire sof Spinticchio's Ford van. She'd

. calied the police. They did not appear.. Other neighbors spoke on the florisl's be-half. Antonio Spiriticchio. then was treated '•

" as a hero. Mrs. Spiriticchio was even inter-viewed on television. She said she had seen the killings and the kidnapping of Aldo Moto and gave a stirring. detailed account—never mina that she was ten miles. away. helping her husband remove the (lai

. tires ol the van. when the slaughter hap-pened. Italians don't care whether a story is true or not so long as it is well told.

In his Turin prison, Renato Curdo, lound- • er of the Red Brigades. and twelve other BR members under charges of "kneecap-

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ping" (sflBoìiflg govèltìmen! olficials and businessmen in the knees) and subver-sion. heard the news on the radio while in the exercise yard. They raised their lists. shouted revolutionary slogans. and sang T h e Re8 Flag."

Pope Paul VI seni Eleonora Moro a telegraf i : "I desire to express my alarm and unily with you al Ihe ambush that snatched your beloved consorl and cui ol i the lives ol live innocenls. . . ." Fanlani, Berlinguer, Zaccagnini. and the test ol Aldo's com-rades and "(riends to the end" calied Eleonora in the night. Their messagos were lite that ot the pope: saccharinc hopc and no

\ commitment. Eleonora lalked with her children: Maria

Fida, a journalist wilh the Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno; Anna, a pedul i nata' Agnese, a librarian: and Giovanni, a law slu-Jent. Each was a child ol our lime, an intol-lectual o( the far left who had condemned the father's reactionary establishment. They spoke of the kidnapping in 1974 ol the hated Genovese prosecutor, fascisi Mario Sossi, in the BR's Operalion Sunflower.

The BR had tried Sossi, sentenced him to death. and then said they would release him if certain BR prisoners were (reed. Sossi and his wife imploted tlje government to negotiate. H refused. So Sossi and his vvite clamored to the newspapers that his tellow politicians had cynically signed his

- death warrant. The only moral government in Italy was the press. The BR in Genoa.

having made their point and using the propaganda to gain sympathy wilh the people. released Sossi wrthout condition atter"holding him for a monlh.

"But." said Eleonora, "the siluation wilh Papa is diflerent. Unlil now Ihe BR has not killed anyone. With Papa. Ihey wenl past the point of no return. Now they will go ali the way. I had a chili Irom the ambiguous demeanor of Pope Paul and Zaccagnini and the olhers. They will stand, cowardly, on the mythical honor of church and state and become our mortai enemies."

It was Eleonora who had said in 1964: "To mo lite politicai wortd is tnhuman. Within these wails [the Moro apartment J shatt prevali only human sentiments!" Hard lo be-lieve. but Moro was forbidden to talk poli-Ics in his own homo.

Socurily head Cossiga— who owod his career to Moro and claimed lo love him wilh ali his heart—overnight turned llaly inlo a police state. The police actually searched the labynnthine underground garage in the apartment building where the master celi held Aldo Moro, but their inspection was superficial. They chalted with the Brigatisti garage atiendants. then cleared the place of suspicion. In a gestore of contempi, the BR drove back lo within a block of the scene of the massacra on Via Fani and abandoned the three ambush cars.

MARCH 18 Al neon the BR calied Ezio Pasera. who is a

reporter for II Messagero. "This is the Red Brigades." *lf you're Ihe Red Brigades," said Pas

era. T m Buffalo Bill." But the caller was cairn and serious: "In

the underpassage between Largo Argentina and Via Arenual there is a boolh with a Xerox machine. On top. under a ream ol paper. is a yellow business envelope In it you will ftnd Communicaiion Number One and a photo."

Pasera hastened. knowing that atl press phones were tapped. He got there belore the cops and found the envetope. The message was a decìaration of war upun the system ol "corrupt clowns" of the govein-ment and announced the beginning ot a protracted trial ol the pnsoner beloir Ihe socii l lod pooplus' liitninii) nt>at:iH«i<irn>i; subsuquunlly s j i d Ihut UHI UH had ulriudy slam Moro and that the photo was a mon-tage. But experis said il was an authenlic Polaroid; Moro wilh an op$n white shirl was seated before a big banner that said BRIGATE ROSSE; Ihe BR emblem. a five-pointed star in a circle. was clearly visible. Moro had a querulous. mocking. anti-climactic expression: lucid apprehension confrbnting grotesque destiny.

That aftèrnoon saw Ihe funeral of the guards in the church of San Lorenzo.

The Red Brigades are relerred to by Ihe "Sbiui" ano" "Sgherri V-the police and their agefn provocateurs—as the "Bierre." the Itali'a'n phonelic pronunciatici lor the letters B and R. Italians like laconic labels, and so the press and magazines always reduce "Brigate Rosse" to (he simple "BR,"

In its lledgling days Ine BR had no precise setup. But after two notable belrayals by alleged members Marco Pisetta and an unsavory ex-priest. Silvano Girono, that led to the arresi ol Renalo Curdo, the BR per-tected an organic struclure ol autonomous ce/te. Each celi has three members. Six ce/Vs in a pyramid fbrm a nucleus. The natola/ pyramid is a loolprool construction ot ali the successive, autonomous pyrvn rir. The BR is like a worm cut into many pans. ti exisls as separate enlilies. When police chance upon a cell. Ihe cc.plured doni know the whole BR operalion and Ihuì connol botray it. Tho Sbirri don'l gel blcod Irom stones. So Ihey coment themselvns with ìrrelevant units. For cosmetic reasons they falsily their lindings.

Itis not easy lo gel into Ihe BR. Leading members include psychologisls. who enti-cally evaluate prospective joiners. The traitors Pisetta and Girono proved a lesson.

'Zucor"—not his rea! nàme—the director of the master celi in charge of the March 16 operation, réceived the president of the Christian Democrats with civility. The BR, Zucor told Moro, were not brigands like the boms kidnapping wealthy industrialists Ihroughout the country. The BR was an as yet unrecognized politicai group at war wilh the "legitimate" régime. No mailer whal you calied the régime, it was domi-nated. as through the centuries, by family

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dynasties. landowners, corporations. and iQteigners—particularly American ime»-ests. Moro had to admit that. no? So Moro was not kidnapped-tor money, he was a politica ,prisoner Moro grunted at Zucor and ask'ed il politicai prisoners needed to be Irussed up like chickens.

The BR master-cel! hìdeoul in which Moro was to be held tot the next tifty-tour days had been a year in prcparation. It was a soundprool dead-slorage space in a huge. anonymous apartment building: entry was made through a false wall. It was stocked with enough provisions so that en-Iries were minimal—once a day at most. at

t a'prearranged hour that changed con-stantly. Brigatisti attendants workirig in the underground garage were son guard twenty-four hours.' Zucor did not even chance an illegai telephony.

' A doctor examinod Moro. He was anemie and had a cysl of the Ihyrord and some degeneration ol the lelt kidney. Otherwise. he wasn't too bad.

Italy is a small place. It lurned out that Zucor and Moro were not strangers.

Zucor and Moro recalled meeting through the Communist writer. Carlo Levi. Moro had been minister of public educa-tion. Fanfani was president, and Angelo Roncalli had just become Pope John XXIII. Moro and Zucor, both allractive men (Zucor was a few years younger). had talked about their mistresses and then about the per

petuai pcJitics Zucor had said he was a revolutionary: "When you were a young, compliant officer in the Fascisi army. I was underground, hiding Communists and Jews and killing Blackshirts and Nazis." In 1970 ned left the "corrupt Communists" and Kjined the Brigate Rosse, a younger. less "intellectuar group Ihal purged itsetf legularly, and had come lo believe in vio-lence "when necessary."

Captor and prisoner now had graying hair. Moro looked at Zuccor and said. "Poii-tics means lite to me. It is my art, more a melhodology than a system of ideas."

Zucor said. "I had ali the pleasures and a chain of infatuations. but I had an empathy for the deprived. and that became my sen-suality. We are opposite parts. polanzed lorces. but I leel for you and your family"

Mao watched Zucor. who made a sot-emn ritual of cooking. The food was good, but Moro hardly ate and lost weight. He ttìought of his villa. "Three Geese." and little farm in Torrita Tiberina, where only recently Eleonora had planted fava beans, ar-tichokes, tornatoes, peppers, greens. and herbs.

Eventually. Moro had the tun of the con-fined space. He was given reading material, a lelevision set, and à record player, but the sound on the lalter two were fixed on levi

As lime passed. Zucor and Moro devel-cped a curious fraternily. Moro did not have

to be pressured. just spoken to. He was ne: toyed with. Zucor totd him. "We are not you: brutal Cossiga pobee. in your trial you wil. cooperale and give us themnet workings o! the crimes your government has comrmt-ted II condemned lo die. you may We. it exchanged for the BR phsoners in Tunn. We would rather see you live We expeci you to hetp yoursetf and do hope you are saved by your friends."

Moro's Inai was intorniai and grave. He thought of Raskoinikov and his atfable proseculor. There was nothing Zucor and his jury could teli him about himself. In thirty years of politicai juggling. the press had already caricatuted him as the Levantine Clausewitz, the Latin Kerensky the Trojan Horse ot Clerica! Marxism. the Pygmalion ol Liberalism, the Machiavelli of Pasta PcJitics. the Theonst of Doubl. Ihe Hamlet of Dialectics. the Last Bus lor the Italian Bour-geoisie . . . Moro's irony asserted itself. He grinned at the avatanche: "You have presided al the councils that decided upon . reaclionary laws. You are responsible lor the kiltings of striking workers in Sceiba. Modena. Reggio Emilia. Palermo. Catania, and many other places: and for the murder of Mara. Renato Curcio's wite. and Ihe slu-dents Roberto Franceschi and Giorgiana Masi. You are guilty ot invoivement in count-less scandals involving oil deals. coffee purchases, Lockheed, arms traflic. You ve

-held every government post; therefore '.yóu're guitty of every crime."

The interrogata began. Moro's answers were recorded- His denials were futile.

. "Leone embezzledlargesums. isit not so?" "No." "You liei" "His wife. Vittoria, con ducted sex orgies in the presidenti country mansion. 'Le Rughe.' is it not UueT "No!" "You liei"

Moro was regularly inundateo v. .: cai literature: the publication 'Cc.i.s.. rormation" and four books aboul ma .' Brigades: Criminalization or irte Oasf Struggle, BR—Docurrienls ariti Cliron '-es ot the Red Brigades, Red Emergerle*, ano NeverAgain Withouta Rille!—Origin olthe BR. He read about himself, the BH'r analySTs of the phrases of the Moro-esquf styte that was fashioned to "mesmerize tho

. mediocre Senale": "linguislic moduies seni inlo politicai orbit," "paratlet coovergence." "convergence of postures." "convergencs of squared circìes." "convergence of con-

, trary rationales," "reciprocai comprehen-sion of diverse fronts." Then there was tha* term so dear to him. pluralismo, used in combinations: "juridical pluralism." "prac-tical and polemìcal pluralism." Moro had :

coined "interclassism," "centrism." "exper-imentaf caution." "operalion wilhout trauma," "fluid situational rapport," "angu-larity of confluenf visions." In a circum-stance beyond his control (the first lime this had happened to him since. as a student, he'd learned the politicai poetry of duplic- ] ity). Moro was reading about anolher Aldo ' Moro. This one was the Falher of Lies. He saw his words covered wilh (lies.

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Eleonora and hit children in Ihe villa 'Three 6eése." Bui his wile was scowling and (he children were sneermg More and more'of-ten. he lound himseH m the reaim ot dor-mant phantasmagoria wandering and conterring with grmning Zaccagnini and tawrong Cossiga m the Palazzo Chigi. Mon-lecilorio. the Viminale, the Deparimeni ol. Justice. or in Christian Democrat head-quarters- oh the Piazza di Gesù. Moro Oieamed o( himsetl schemingwithout end: Maivoiio. or as they calied hirn m Napies and the soùth. "Lenguaneio" ("Black tongue").

He. Fantani. Andreotti. and Cossiga. in the name ol democracy had struck laws more Unjust than those ol II Duce Moro had long (eli the hate ol thè young. bui in recent years naie seemèd universa). Zucor and his jurors now reminded Moro of how indif-(eient the IlaNan masses were to his plight. He was far Irom a popular man. His kidnapping. Ske any other circus^ct. was welcomed as a diversion (rem ine bleak boredom ol lile without work. money, or dreams.

Moro and Zucor were botri veiy Cathoiic. a fact overlooked by many commentators òn the case, including the" shrill bitch jour-nalisl Oriana Fallaci. As Moro began to see

now abandoned he was by politicians. reli-gorv.«s and Inends. he carne to savor his imprisonmeni. the absence ot power. Gradually. as he talked lo Zucor and ob-served the BR. a curious rcmanticism. the basis ol Mao» occutt Catholicism. long burieej. reasserted itsell. perhaps re-awakened by the stress that tlooded him. According to Zucor. Moro seemed glad he was bemg pumshed . . .

At the BR s direction. Moro wroie letters in his scholarly. middle-class manner to each ol his associate*, trying to convince them that the people* court was serious. that the guerrìllas ol the Red Brigades were at war with the govérnmeni. and thal the international rules ot warlare applied. An exchange ol prisoners was necessary. He wrote nearly eighty tetters. On the outside. people assumed he was being lortured and drugged.

Moro and the BR watched the news of their drama daily on Telegiornale. Autonomous BRceJls calied in spurious leads. and the police raced madly through the streets and countryside to raid barns and cellars. They even searched congre-gations at Mass. The affair was made for television, and Moro began to see his lite as a soap opera. Each day. following the exacting ordeal of his own trial. Moro watched Ihe televised legai proceedings against Renato Curcio. Roberto Ognibene. and Alberto Franceschini. the chiefs of the

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BR. They were in chains. caged like btrds io a Tunn couilroom. Two ol their lawyets. suave Guisa and falcon-laced Oi Giovanni, quesboned prospective jurors. The pro-cess had been gang on lor a long lime, smee no one wanted'to SA in (udgrnent ol the BR. Italian Chnslrani knew their Ecclesiasles: "A lime lo kit—a lime to keep one's mouth shul."

Moro watched Cossiga. his lormer prc-tégé. lustify the Itatian governmertt's im-placable stand against making any deal with the BR to save rum. Cossiga. viewed by millions. mouthed a quote from the Cathoiic martyi Thomas Mote: "In out mot al purpose we must proceed with utmost firmness not apparent to the public." Moro saw his iron-taced wife laìking wilh the bizarrely attired. skmny old man of the Vati-can. the absurd claimanyo mfallibility and intimacy with the Creator of the cosmee. ' Eleonora asked the pope for the deliver-ance of her husband. The pope broke wind on her burnmg heart; he bestowed pietist vaporings- upon her Moro, immersed in a fathomless moment of truth. reasoned: "The pope has a language ditficulty—he does not know how to utter sìmpte words: I. the spiritual guide ot 700 million followers. can and will save Aldo Moro.' " And Moro saw Fantani and Zaccagnini. protecled by a small army. enter his home to warn his

..'wife and children not to negotiate wilh the . BR. He saw them then as false faces and

the mirre* of his soul told htm that he loo had been the master of masks.

Zucor told Moro that atler a strategy ol tensicn his He could be exchanged for the Turin comrades. However. in analyzing Moro's posilion. he minced no words "You are an embarrassment now to church and state. Crucified. you may be of more use." This situation was exacerbated by Aniello Coppola's biography. Aforo. It had been selling well before the kidnapping, and 't breught to light the minuliae of thirty yeans of Mephisio manipulation of Italy—Italians calied Italy. 'Italia Uorotea.' Moro and his government had been mute about Vietnam, Chile. and the South American dic-tatorships manufactured in the White House. Worse. they had daily loused up Italy In their weekly pre-Communion con-tessiohs. there was never the breath ol mea maxima culpa.

Al one point. Moro asked Zucor the sig-nrficance of his being snatched on March 16. "Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (the GAP revo-lulionaryl was murdered by your government and the CIA on the sixteenth." Zucor replied.

Feltrinelli and Zucor. very wealthy and ol the nobility. had long been Iriends. For a brief peried Zucor and Feltrinelli had been playboys. sniffing coke with the industriai royalty»Zucoi's lather wasa dilettante poet. and to their palazzo carne Benedetto Croce and the towering Ihinkers and artista. By Ihe lime he was twelve. Zucor had read the 2.000 books in his tather's library Zucor's mother wrote love stories under a pen name. To Zucor. she was queen of the universe. Zucor wenl to mass because his

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Brllliant Feltrinelli expanded his family's publishing house and founded an inslitute documenting the hìstory ol workers' movemenls. He joined the Communists. bui uncompromising revolution was in his blood: in 1957 he broke with Palmiro Togliatti and the Italian Communist party, con-tending that il "pissed on the heads ol the woikers." t , ,

He visited Castro in the Sierra Maestra and went with Che Guevara and Regis De-bray to the jungles ol Bolivia (where. ironi-cally. only his (ortune and status saved him). He later tracked down one of Ché's assassins. Roberto Quintanilla. in the Bo-livian Consolale in Hamburg. The gun that killed Quintanilla was Fellrinelli's Colt Cobra.

The United States' military intervention in South America and Indochina convinced Feltrinelli that at any moment the CIA would turn Italy into another Chile. In Italy he went underground. Under many names. he fur-nished seed money for various radicai groups: the "Hammer and Sickles." "llalian Marxist-Leninist Party," "G A P." "XXII Ottobre." In 1969 at the University of Trento and in the factories of Tunn, Genoa, and Milan. through Feltrinelli. Zucor. Curcio. and Curcio's wife. Mara; the Brigate Rosse was born.

The soul and nucleus of the BR is now Ihe imprisoned Brigatisti. Somehow they com-municate with anonymous. sympathetic in-tellecluals. professional people. and workers. sending out guidelines to the mole'cu-lar network of terrorism. Zucoi spoke of ar-l icu la t ion in " c a p i l l a r y c i r c l e s " of 'simpatizzanti' "—adherenls intercon-nected according to the sophisticated techniques of modem clandestine war. The BR has gone from minor lo major bloody episodes relatively quickly. But the ruthless character of ils attacks. Zucor points out, is in the great tradition o! politicai killmgs in Italy—even the Jesuits claimed the righi to murder rulers who opposed the "will of God and Ihe people." Power has its own logie.

Moro was the brains of ihe Cathoiic and dollar democralic hierarchy. "Go with the limes and absorb ine adversary." said Moro, who had begun his career in Bari as a sycophant 01 the Cathoiic Fascisi party. Systematically, the BR mamtained. he'd. brought the mufidane methods of the Holy Roman Empire and the age ol the degenerate popes to the modem llalian ruling class. Even now Street cynics sneer: "The Holy Roman Empire can never die; if the BR wins. Ihe Valican will simply bless it."

MARCH 29 Moro's letter io Cossiga: "Caro Francesco

. ." At ler bourgeo is ameni l ies. he broaches the realism of a deal.

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Mof o reduced to impotence in a vile pnson. stunned Dy drugs and psychological bratnwashmg?.,. . Surely Ihe BR wrote the letler and torged his signature—or Moro has gone insane. The Christian Democrats extend their protound sentiments ol moral and politicai solidarity . . . to Aldo Moro, but Ihe government judges it unthmkable to have any dialogue with criminal enemies ol Ihe state."

In the Cossiga lelter. Moro ciled the agreement between Leonid Brezhnev and Augusto Pinochet ter the exchange ol re-negade dissrdent Vladmir Bukowski and thu Chitedn.Communist leader Luis. Corva-1an. He also condcmnud Uni in^U.'xiblo sland ol Israel and the Podurul Rupubliu ol Gurmany lor relusing to nogotiatu wilh the turrorists ol thu Block Scplembor group "ur Ihuir ulluck on tho Ist.iuli Olympic

j n . On Easter. television crews focus long-

distance lenses on the Windows ol Moro's home, but they are curtained. Eleonora and the children have locked themselves away from Ihe circus. Only sleadlasl Iriends come and go al Via Forte Trionfate 79. Nicolo Rana and Corrado Guerzoni main-lain secret communicatrens with the BR. nogotiating lor Moro's lile. The police hound them.

MARCH 31 Moro's Christian Democrats iormatly

abandon him. A statement is issued: "As long as the party stands firm against any negotialions. the killing ol Moro will repre-sent a spiritual viclory lor Italy and a definite deleat lor Ihe terrorists." Knowmg that there are secrel Communications belween the BR and the lamily Altorney General De Matteo goes to the Moro home in order to grill Eleonora sublly. She considera him an enemy. Then the pope belches again: "The Church deplores Aldo Moro's predicamene bui we dp not despair. wepray"

Zaccagnini goes to Eleonora Moro and tnos lo pursuadc bar that the honor and dig-nity ol thu stufo tiiko procudonnu ovur hur emolions. Eleonora ali bui throws him oul.

APRIL 2 Now conscluuunuss bucutno Moro's nighimare. He ollen daydreamed. He was in a strange land, surrounded by menacing blacks; he couldn'l find the police. and there was no way back to Eleonora.

Eleonora had ollen said that politicians were noi human. He. himself was not capa-ble of compassion. only of the chess of statecrafl. He rarely saw his family. Once. Eleonora found a love letter in his coat. From then on she went no more lo the beauty shop, nor used cosmetics, nor bought dresses. She mourned his infidelily and linked it to his indifference to ihe fate of ihe viclims of the power lui.

In some ways "Anna*—that is not her rear name—the one Iemale member ol Zucor's celi (who wore the blonde wig at Via Fani) reminded Moro of Eleonora She had her strength. Anna was pan ol the Trento University politicai larva of 1967-69 that evolved from the dialeclical "Università Negativa" into the BR. Anna had been Margharila ("Mara") Cagol's bridesmaid when she married Renato Curcio. Anna. Mara. Curcio. Mauro Rostagno. and Ihe German student leader Peter Schneider were (he prenafal BR.

Anna had no illusions about a Castro-type victory. Sho had wnttim. "This is our pruruvuluttonury momunt. Ituly's situatimi is not similar to the oxpurioncu of tho Rus-sians. Chinese. or Cubans Wo must udiust to a long poriod ol blooily slrugglu Wo must noi bo . . . ittlollucluiil vuyouis who sii on ihe sidelines and 'interpret.' The capitatisi enemy kills. as Ihey killed my fa-ther in the police-provokecftvtilan riot ol De-cember'12.1969. Either we kill them or they kilt us."

By accident. Anna happened not Io be with Mara when Mara was Irapped and shot to deaih by the police. Anna could have passed for Mara Cago! Curcio: small. frail. soft spoken. But it was Anna who gave, Renalo Curcio his nickname. "Pippo." be-cause ol his1 big nose.

Dunng Moro's trial. Anna brought Ihn evtóence of Ihe charges. along with pi lotes and films of police terrorism. She pre-sented "prool" of government frauds. of its .liaisons with the Mafia and ine Vatican lo "keep Italy feudal." She made Moro feel veryold.

Oncfe, feverishly. he dared whisper to Anna that if she would help him. he'd pive his word to exempt her from prosecution "tour word1.' As valueless as government Irealies with Indians! As valueless as summit conferences with the unconsciO'js' We will not hesitate to tear your word 'o shreds! Write your confessioni Cough up your identity and restore the magical bai-ance of memory and desire!" She actually spai at Moro. ,

They brought much—too muori— against him. He no longer answered al ali. He became as ingenuous as Prince Myshkin in The Idiot.

APRIL 10 Moro told Zucor he had a premonition of dealh. President Leone had cynically named his water spaniel "Moro."

APRIL 15 The editor of La Republica teceives a phone cali: Communication Number Six is in a certain garbage can on Via dell' AT-nunciala. It begins: "L'interrogatrio al prigioniero Aldo Moro e' terminato,' and ends. "Non ci sono dubbi. ALDO MORO E COLPEVOLE E VIENE PERTANTO CONDANNATO A MORTE." Moro's trial is com-pleted. He is guilty beyond doubl and forthwith condemned to die.

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medi?.:*, ofler lo mediale. The llalian government refuses. A clown sends an aileged BR message: Moro commiited suicide; his body Can be lound in Lake Duchessa, high m the Abruzzi Mountains. The government doesn't hesitate lo spend lavishly on a searcrToperation that could relieve il ot its Moro problem.

Moro's son. Giovanni, however, secretly in touch with the BR. knows his father is alive. He organizes a petilion ol antipapal prelates lor an appeal to Ihe government. Il ' is ignored.

ChooGlng lo boliovu him rlii.-ul. Muro's coiimUau In yuvumimiiil Ioni thu miiol ol cafharsrs; ineyquicklybtrgiri their telomous

) chatler; "hero of Ihe nation with grandiosity of soul." "genius of conciliation." lAldo lives on in our breasls!" Via Mario Fani has its name changed to Via Mart'yr ol March 16.

APRIL 19 A corpse is found under the ice of Lake Duchessa, but il is that ol a locai man. The disappointment in Roman power circles is palpable.

The BR strikes ali over Italy.knee-capping—"lurning powerfùl reaclionaries*. into lame horses." They chili Lorenzo Cotu-gno, the sadislic warden ol Curcio's prison.

APRIL 20 Communication Number Seven: Moro's death senjence can be commuted if BR

prisoners are freed. The government is al-lowed forty-eight hours. To erase any doubts about Moro's bemg alive, the BR calls the editor of /' Messagero. Nearby. on Via Tritone, is an envelope with a photo. In it Moro has a tranquil expression. Behind him is the Brigate Rosse banner: propped in front of him is La Republica wilh the head-line HAS MORO BEEN KILLED?

The BR sends xerox copies of eight pages wrinen by Moro to cilies ihroughout Italy Moro insists on the govemmenfs mak-ing a deal. He has doparled Irom his old ochotillnncrinr utammur, hlu woulu dio an» gutuliud and plum; "You—Zaccagnini. Andreotti, Fanfani. Berlinguer. Leone, and Cossiga—are ali guilty along with me and must rise lo the manliness of sharing my fate. I am here for ali of you. and should you not agree to the prisoner exchange, 1 shall hold you and the government as my mur-derers. Aldo Moro."

APRIL 21 The pope addresses an appeal to the BR: "I wrile you. men of the Red Brigades, and pray of thee on bended knees to restore to Ihe common brotherhood of man our faith-ful son of the Church of Christ, the Honor-able Aldo Moro, without conditions. Paul VI." Bui the following day, from his balcony. the pope squeals harshly of Moro's keep-ers. This does not help the Moro family's efforts. However, the BR does not act upon

its deadlme. The government leàders seer smug. Berlinguer, not lo be outdone. pulì out alt the stops. He shrieks against "Ih assassins of the Brigate Rosse." Berlingu .?• is particularly otlended (hat the BR are cali ing themselves "the Irue Communists."

APRIL 22 The Bishop of Ivrea. Luigi Bettazzi, workinr with the Moro family, oflers his. Me as hos tage lo the BR. The pope indignante squelches the bishop's invotvemenl. But Ihe bishop delies Ihe popp, he ami arxmynuHJu rlch Inumili itvuv Siti niilliiw* runsom and pludyo an addilioniil $20 mil-lion. Church and state negate the attemp" as an act demeaning to the government .-inviolable stance. A statement is issuec "With the saving ot Moro, the lawless BR m i kilt ànd kidnap continuali/"

The BR turn down the ransom olfer. They are not interested in money They want Ihe recognition of politicai ajatus.

A group of impotenf actors, bulfoon di-rectors, narcissistic writers. and discarded celebril ies, such as Federico Fellirii, Eugenio Montale, Sergio Amidei, and Alberto Moravia, sign an anti-BR sermon. The Communist Bernardo Bertolucci keeps his mouth shut.

APRIL 24 Communiaation Number Eight: Thirleen prisoners are to be freed, including Brigatisti. Nappisli, and members of the October Twenty-second Group—"the llower ol flowers of lerrorism." If not. Moro dies.

Minister Marco Pannella wanls the situa-tion debated in Parliament. Cabinet Presi-dent Pietro Irtgrao says no. Ingrao takes his orders from Fanfani and Berlinguer.

APRIL 25 Moro's third letter to Zaccagnini: "Zac. . we are at the moment of my slaughter Ths DC must depart from its attachmsn to mythomania, admit to reality and f-ccrp! the conditions ot the Brigate Rosse. . i do not accept the inequily and ingratm idt and the atrocious death sent3nce visi'er upon me by the Christian Democra! pfcfty which is no! the people but you. my Ine •• >• of thirly years—and. as I see now. . • men who will have to account fo my far": •/ the nation, history. and God for your partic-ipation in my m u r d e r . . . for what you have committed against us. I demand thal ne State authorities or men of the DC des£ crate my funeral with their presence. ! v/sh my corpse tò be attended only by ;he leni who in God's eyes were good and |rue ¥>

•me. . . . Aldo Moro." As answer. church and state make imag-

inalive gestures to show the people Ihal Ihey are aiding Aldo and Eleonora. The pope has a helicopter containing a beauti' fui slatue ol Our Lady of Falima and a priecl saying a Salvalion Mass hover over Moro's home; the Air Force has six jets paini the red, white. and green Italian tlag in the skies over the Via Martyr.

In Torrila Tiberina the white-haired paslor, Agostino Mancini . Moro's confessor.

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iks sadly ove' Marlooros ano wine: "In wenty-five years that I conlcssed the xacle Aldo-Moro. God and I heard is about government that would make hair stand on end. Signora Eleonora

jed him to relitte Irom what she calied mhumanity ol his pursuit. but he had i his soul as bail lo the state he oe-sd. The common people unarumously hat Moro will be immolated by the lad ilian democracy I will noi comment on xxitill—he is not Pope John . . . bui BR prisoners could be released. ima has ollered them sanctuary and ' Moro is home, the government could trt- 'the Israelis and West Gcrmans: :k tnem down and |usiice' thom. Pooit ro. He has not even picked out a' rb. . ." «

ì l i 'atoiy. Sodatisi Craxi speaks ol an "au-nmous initiative" bargain with the BR. xagnini goes crazy: "What the hell do i mean by 'autonomous initiative ? ' Craxi jgests one or two prisoners be allowed iig a tunnel and escape; then let others . on the pretended grounds ol en-tgered health. The pian leaks to the pa-s. There is a furor among the fescists, ixi modifies his pian: suspend à few sen-ces and give paroles; also, reform the k Ages prisco conditions. The Com-lisi party thunders no!

ÌIL 27 o's personal secretary. Nicolo Rana, lily friends Corrado Guerzoni and eno Freata. and Eleonora and Ihe chil-' n come up with a scheme: BR prisoners ild be Iranslerred from the Turin jail to a vincial prison no more secure than a ;ken coop; BR commandos could raid prison and (ree the comrades. with ihe me placed on the rural authorities. Moro, eleased. everybody is happy, and the' /ernment's face is saved. Zaccagnini and his boys fiercely reiecl • idea. Eleonora appeals to Paul VI. but i pope clasps his ringed hantìs deplor-|ly and shakés his head.

•RIL 28 xo has never watched so much televi-xi. Along wilh 25 million other TV fans. he ics a series, "Madame Bovary." He dis-jssc it with Zucor and his keepers.

PRIL 30 Messagero publishes anolher Moro mes-age. As president of the DC. he wants a onvocation of the National Council. "I want te irnpossible done lo save my lite! The Jocialisls have shown more humanity. . . . wish Misasi lo preside in my place. "My social views and Ihe dialectics and

deàls ol Ihe BR have hardly anything in common, but ali my public lite I have re-lained as humanely feasible the mercilul exchange of prisoners of war. The Christian Democrats have judged that Aldo Moro must die." Moro repeats that he does not want the men of power, not even the pope.

at his luneral. Then "I see that my party wants my destruction—assumes that I am wnting under the dictation ol the BR. Why do youlie?. .-."

MAY 1 A satyricon begins: the llalian soccer team is eliminated Irom World Cup competition. Television shows tho result ol Ihe defeat. Ali over Italy. there is rage. depression. drink-ing.

Zaccagnini. whose hobby is the study of Nostradamus. announces that Nos-tradamus prophesied the Moro ambush. This scems to comlort Zaccagnini.

The Society of Jesuits accuses piGOS—the secret service—of effeminale weakness and muddling. Fascisi Re-pubticans Massimo De Carolis and La Mal|a vow Ihat there is underoable collusion between the police and the BR.

Jimmy Carter, in uphoiding human rights. *' President Carter s representative. Joe ^ u ^ " * *

Califano. whodoesn'l know his ass from a " hole in the ground in Italy. applauds Zac-cagnini's no.

Russia's Pravda calls the Brigate Rosse "Red Bandits" and bad-mouths Socialist Craxi for trying to save Moro.

An American novelist descrjbes for an llalian magazine a Sgherri headquarters in Trastevere: " . . . in their bare rooms they wile away the time like cretins. playing with balls of paper. making airplanes. practic-ing fast draws like their heroes in American cop movies. holding masturbalion con-tests."

The Communist Saint. Enrico Berlinguer, informs on "extreme leftists" who have left his party "to, most likely, ally Ihemselves with the clandestine politicai terrorists!"

MAY 2 Magistrate Mario Daniele ol Miian pro-poses that in exchange for Moro, the government commule the sentences of ali BR prisoners to a maximum of two years. Zaccagnini. no doubt thinking ol Nostradamus, thunders "No!" again.

Yassir Aralat defines the BR terrorism as "mililary operations."

Idi Amin Dada, over Radio Kampala in Uganda, says he will convince the BR to release Moro, since he believes. atong wilh

MAY 5 The ninth and final BR communication ar-rives: "The action initialed Marcii 16 is properly now reaching its climax with the fullillment of the sentence to which Aldo Moro was condemned. . . . The Moro bat-tte is the first of many. This is only the begin-ning."

MAY 6 Eleonora receives a cali: "This is the' BR. You have a few hours left in which to save your husband. Aldo Moro, the father of your

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The phone is tapped by Cossiga's police, but the message is just code anyway: de-cipheied, it means that a note irom Aldo awaits. The daughter. Anna, leaves the house. Anna takes bus 446 to Ponte Milvio. She bides her turn patiently at a phone booth, enters. does not make a cali, finds a letter in one ol the directories. relurns home by bus.

"Dearest Norina. This is i t . . .they have told me that in a little while they are going to kill me. The DC and the government. had they wanted, could easily have saved me. This is the end. I am to die very soon. I kiss you lor the last time. Kiss the children lor me.'

Eleonora immediately gives the letter to ali the papers. They publish special edi-tions.

The arch-reactionaries in-^ie DC se-verely criticize Moro's larewetl missive and pressure the pope to teli Moro that it's God's will lor him to die and that he should tace death happily. as have many Calholics beforehim.

Most government leade'rs have lelt Rome on their efection campaigns.

The populace are lixed to their television sets as usuai, watching an Agatha Christie murder mystery The Aldo Moro show is (jetting boring.

The rJC sends the uncluous paunch, Fanfani, to Eleonora, and Paul VI sends Cardinal Potetti. She is to resign herself to the martyrdom of her man for the ineffable glory of The Law and Jesus Christ. Eleonora Chiavarelli Moro, erudite daughter of a physician. Montessorian teacher. finally explodes with truths. In her rage. she calls the pope and the polilicians charlaians. pederasls. whores. and cowards. They are trailors. who are soon to be stained with ti»; blood of Aldo Moro so that Italy won't tose face belore the rotten superpowers anc stinking multinational corporations. In her wtath she curses man-made church and state and smashes a large vase filled with f lowers against the wall near Cardinal Potetti and Fanfani.

Tho Christian Domoctalo had ptclcnnd Moro as « murtyr pnor lo tho icgion:i> and nalional eloctions. Thoy had calculaicd that the shockod public would rotici emc-llonallyforlawandorder, incroasing the power of the DC and diminishing notably, if not disastrously. the standmgs that the radicai parties had. Indeed. they were right. In the subsequent election, the DC pìcked up 8 percent of the national vote, raising its share to 46. The Communists. to Berlinguer's chagrin, dropped down to 30 percent.

MAY8 A BR source in police intelligence reports that a German cnminologist has correctly deduced the area ol the Moro hide'out. At night the master celi vacates. Moro is taken in a van to a temporary hideout near the sea. It's an area of.summer homes for Ihe rich, relatively uninhabited until June. an hour Irom Rome.

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MAY 9 Zucor. tells Moro that this is it.

Moro admits thal he is tired. He has been thinking ol a message. sent by Eleonora. "You have been abandoned by Church and man. Only Aldo Moro can help you now . . ." Moro thinks of defecling. then rejecls the idea, "l'd look bad in khaki." he tells Zucor.

rie doesn't eat his last meal. He refuses sedatici. He just wanls to pf'rayj he has no other desire. '

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A priest is sent for. a young radicai who will never inform. He is brought in a closed van, then blindfolded from the van to Moro's room. Moro softly conlesses his sins. buf his Act of Contrtlion is lervent. The young priest celebrates Mass and gives Moro the lasl sacraments. The priest weeps.

For collation Moro has a cup ot water. Anna gives him a haircut. He showers and brushes his teeth, but h%doesn't bother to shave. He dresses in the clolhes he wore when kidnapped. He puts on his socks of midnight blue (which, he does not notice. are inside oul), the wliite shirt with blue stripes made by La Ninarelli in Bologna, Suspenders, the beige Swiss sweater, the carefully knotted tie with tiny. white de-signs, the dark blue suit, tlexible shoes calied "mocassini." He puts his scapular. ro-sary as well as some medals of saints in his pockets.

Zucor tells him. "You will go now with Anna and Franco." Anna wears a red wig this lime. Moro meekly fcJlows them out of the house and along a dnveway lo a red Renault 4 station wagon. Zudor says: "Please get in and lie down." Aldo Moro obeys. The- space in Ihe back is so cramped that he has lo (old his legs under him.

Zucor gives the following orders to Anna and Franco: "Park and lock the car on Via Caelani. in the ancienl Jewish ghetto be-tween Moro's Christian Democrats and the building of Berlinguer s Commurnsts: Walk slowly away with your weapons in tho shopping bag."

Franco drives. while Anna covers Moro from the front seat. The Renault, with the stolen license "Roma N57686." is passed by a few cars and trucks on Ihe highway by the sea. It turns onlo an isclated, sandy road. No one says anything.

Franco and Anna get out. He holds a 9 mm. pistol; she. a scorpion machine pistot. Bolh are fitted with silencers. They tilt the station wagon's rear door and fix the lalch. Moro loote at them. To die in such a shabby w a y . . .

Eleven bullets slam through Moro's chest, leaving a path of punctures. They wrap him in a large sheel of orange-colored plaslic and place him on a heavy, soiled overcoal. They put their guns in a STANDA store bag and drive back onto the highway toward Rome.

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ygjlpfe'HMing'in fesponse lo Ihe essày "De-tofe^Nopaiièf " by James E. LUÌ.' (Supicm-ta^ 1978) I am pteased lo see that the pesete atPentftouse have me spini to ptim

ri ;a'yj^;4SS>osihg,lhat 01 your "Cartorgate" ,. àii«s:.;l ani in prison and don i rimi uve ":' it»mhmt<«iiutK<ialx»ittlvr-puhndit* «irti : am gjulflul lor fho informano l yui Iran . your magatine. You print the linest com-• V°>ary of alt the magazines feceivfed tjere r.;Ì«Siopiison. '

'. J wuutd UMI lo pomi out to your rUiileia dui fruuidoiit CurHir's many Ciinip.iiyti rxqihises are long in coming lo fruilion lor

•y reasons. I lee) that Ihe main reason is ditlicuUy he has had in ridding his ad-

rrunistration ot Nixon cronies. I think that Carter is doing what he can; one step at a lime. He is slowty ridding himself and the nation of the ineffactua^ people within the lederai government.

Penthaisè is also doing a splendid job of exposmg the corporate poweis thal appear to be running the government. President Carter has his hands luti with these power-hungry (reaks thal continue io make our government a laughingstock behind Ihe c1 £oó òoors of corporale greed. In this land ol free emerprise if a man wanta lo make a taxi out ot his own car. it will cost him

S2Q0G0 to do so. Is this free enterprise? No it's corporaiions digging mio our pock-«ts. Their money makes the laws that rid themselves of any competilion through paid-otl congressmen and senators righi nn down the Ime to our own city supervisore Mi. Carter is accepling new laws thal wifl aflect Ihese no-compelition laws. He must wòrk slowly. or he will be shot down.

VVhat wo need is a sialo ol concerà Fvery persoli who considera tintiseli an Airxiricari shixiltì moki! an ulfort to bicorne aware of Ihtt reat silualions that the people lare every day Mr. Car lei is the president ol It»; United States wholher wu like it nr noi. Ile neeil:; the barking ol alt Iht: people lo i-uiiniiue the strugglo to nyht many wrongs.— K.W.G.. Vacavate. Calif.

In his arlicle "Defending Carter" James E, Lee says. "One world is stili some dislance away but the direction is clear And what sane, sentient person would take excep-tion to such a prospecj?" I do. I lake slrong exception to Ihat prospect as well as lo Mr. Lee's opinion of Carter. The one world Mr. Lee speaks of is not a pleasant place if one happens to believe In the principles of individuai freedorn. democracy. and justice. The Global Society envisioned by Rocke-feller. Carter, and Brzezinski is a lotalilarian. socialistic society more similar to the Soviet Union than to America.

The Rockefeller-Brzezinski pian for world

unity was actually conceived 200 years ago by a small grnup ot ultianc.h men who calied themselves "The Illuminali " or "The Enlightened Ones." Their pian was simple: to use whatevw means were. avaitable— violenl revolution tirtmocraiic process. bnbery • - to allow governments ali over the world lo gam miai control ovf :r every aspect ot the individuali lite and then to gam conimi of the governments themselves Tho pian has worked ouife well so far and has resulied m the sociali/ation ol Russia. Easiorn Furopc mosl ol Alnca and to a tesser degroe the United States Don't gut contused by the lact that Rockefeller and his cnhorls (hoirs of the Illuminali) oio "rupiMlists": tliuy Un net deane j riiriliriiiii-Imn. of the Irw.'-enierprise system Thuy used it to gain their wealth. but Ihey know that il free enlerprise continues. they might • tose their wealth to anyone^ho could pio-

• vide consumers wilh bettèr produets at lower prices. So Ihey seek to preserve the power that wealth prings them by giving control ol ali weallh (noi jusl their own. but yours and mine too)to the government and by putting themselves in control ol the government. .

These men are not stupid. They have plotted carefutly for many years to bnng their pian to fruition. They are noi about to lei any^independenl source ol weallh and power escape their control. A globat society with them in chargemust be totaluarian. Any area ol human life that is lelt out ot their control will attract the most creative and energetic individuai in the society and torm the beginning of a power base thal would threaten the world order. Only by blotting out ali freedorn can they ever hope to maintain their power.

As an individuatisi and a lover of freedorn. I could not lolerate such a society. Those who feel likewise shoulri rom the light against The Tnlaleral Commission and Ino Rockefeller-Brzezinski-Carter pian for tho Global Sòciely. A true. heallhy world community can be brought about only by indi-viduals who work together votuntanly. not by some government tellinp them to dn so. The way to tight Rockefeller's cronies is lo oppose any mlrusion of the government into the private affairs of the citizens and lo demand that alt current intrusicms be re-pealed. What is left of Ihe true free-ènterprise system cannot survive a national-health-insurance program, the conlinued expansion of welfare and social securily. the regulation ol private busi-nesses by parasitic bureaucracies. and who knows whal else Mr. Lee's Iriends can dream up.

The recent passage of Propositton 13 in. California showed that "the powers that be" ' can be defeated. But the fighi to regam tosi freedorns must not stop ihere. Taxes must be limited in every state as well as at the federai level. Conslitutional amendments must be passed to prevent any furlher expansion of the government and to eliminate many currenì programs. And. above ali etse.JimmyCarter must not be reelected. —M. Wagner. Middletown. NX CH—a

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