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...Recent investigations have indicated that the escalating series of unexplained bombings and attacks (beginning in late 1969--suspiciously soon after the strikes--with the explosion in Piazza Fontana in Milan, including bombings of trains in the summer of 1974, and most recently, the killing of a state prosecutor in Genoa) all of which the government attributed to extremist groups of the left, may actually have been planned by the Italian secret service...
Like most Italians, Genoa Chief Prosecutor Francesco Coco, 67, preferred to eat lunch at home, and last week that habit cost him his life. Coco and a bodyguard were climbing a long flight of steps to the prosecutor's Genoa house when three men stepped out of an archway and shot them down at pointblank range with heavy-caliber pistols. Two more assassins, meanwhile, closed in on the blue official Fiat from which Coco had just emerged and pumped bullets into the police chauffeur. As the three victims lay dying, their killers vanished; two of them sped away down...
Heads soon began to roll. In May 1975, Mario Einaudi, freewheeling chief of a state-owned mining and textile conglomerate, was forced to resign after he highhandedly tried to gain control of a Genoa shipping, insurance and newspaper group without informing the government. Next to go was Raffaele Girotti, chairman of ENI, who had led the big state petroleum company to a $95 million loss. Camillo Crociani, apparently recognizing that his job was shaky, chose not to wait...
...electrical engineer, born near Genoa, brought up in Naples, Giannini became an actor out of sheer desperation. "I was so uncertain, so deeply involved with myself," he says...
...Genoa, Italy, members of the Red Brigades, a revolutionary Marxist group, seized an official of a state-owned factory, Vincenzo Casabona, 47, shaved his head, chained his feet to a pole in a garbage dump, and released him six hours later after a vicious beating...