Moro Case-Sechi: Craxi Thought Pecchioli Was KGB Spy

(AGI) - Rome, 11 May. - In the winter of 1993 Craxi asked Spadolini and Napolitano, then Presidents of the Italian Senate and Lower House respectively, to obtain the resignation of Pecchioli, the President of the Parliamentary Committee in charge of the secret service and civil and military security. Craxi thought he was a Soviet agent, a KGB spy. Was he wrong? Perhaps Giorgio Napolitano and Giuliano Amato, who were in charge of prevention, intelligence and repression as Ministers of the Interior could shed some light on the question. Two letters from Craxi to Spadolini and Napolitano have been published in ‘Le vene aperte del delitto Moro’, a book by Salvatore Sechi, professor of Modern History at Ferrara University, written as part of the ‘Radici del Presente’ series to mark the 31st anniversary of the murder of Moro, former leader of the Christian Democrat Party by the Red Brigades. Franco Mazzola, former undersecretary to the Council of Ministers along with Craxi and Cossiga, judge Luigi Carli, who sentenced the Genovese branch of the Red Brigades; two experts on the Red Brigades, Marco Clementi and Vladimiro Satta, an expert on Western European history, Fernando Orlandi, historian Richard Drake and two terrorism experts, Gabriele Paradisi and Roberto Bartalli all contributed to the book.