US Navy ‘wanted to kill Mintoff’

In 1976, two years after Secretary of State Henry Kissinger threatened then-Italian Foreign Minister Aldo Moro about forming a coalition with the Communists, right-wing hardliner Senator ‘Scoop’ Jackson, on a trip to Italy, issued a similar warning to Moro.

In Philip Willan’s Puppetmasters, Moro’s widow recounted Kissinger’s warning, which was undoubtedly echoed by Jackson: “You must abandon your policy of bringing all the political forces in your country into direct collaboration… or you will pay dearly for it.”

Moro was kidnapped for 55 days by the so-called Red Brigades, who were later found to be in the service of Italian fascists, Italian intelligence, the P-2 Masonic Lodge, a parallel SID (Italian Defence Intelligence Service), and the CIA.

Some of these same elements would be behind the infamous Niger yellowcake forgeries used by the neo-cons to prove the case for war against Iraq. Independant online