Pietro Musumeci

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Pietro Musumeci is a former general and deputy director of Italy's military intelligence agency, SISMI.

A member of Propaganda Due, Musumeci was convicted in 1985, alongside with other SISMI officers Francesco Pazienza and Giuseppe Belmonte, for embezzlement and criminal association. Musumeci and Belmonte were also convicted for possessing and transporting explosives. They tried to mislead investigators of the 1980 Bologna train station bombing by simulating a crime using placed explosives on a Taranto-Milan train, in January 1981.[1]

A further conviction came in 1988, when he was also server time for slandering said investigation.[2] Although acquitted on appeals, this sentence was upheld by the Italian Supreme Court in 1995.

A 1984 parliamentary inquiry indicated that irregularities at SISMI included the charge that Musumeci used the Mafia to negotiate the release of Ciro Cirillo, a Christian-democratic politician who was kidnapped by the Red Brigades.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Former Top Intelligence Official Convicted, Sentenced", Associated Press, 1985-07-25. 
  2. ^ "Four Convicted Of Mass Murder In Italian Bombing That Killed 85", Associated Press, 1988-07-11. 
  3. ^ "Officers questioned on Bologna blast", The Guardian, 1984-10-22. 
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