Federico Umberto D'Amato

Federico Umberto d'Amato (1919 - 1 July 1996[1]) was an Italian secret agent, who led the Office for Reserved Affairs of the Italian of the Minister of Interior from the 1950s till the 1970s, when the activity of the intelligence service was undercover and not publicly known.

Biography

D'Amato was born in Marseille, and during World War II he worked for the US Office of Strategic Services. After the end of the conflict he was at the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Special Office, a link between NATO and the United States[2].

He entered the Office for Reserved Affairs of the Italian of the Minister of Interior in 1957[3]. In 1974, two days after the Piazza della Loggia bombing, he was removed from the position and assigned to the boundary police, although he kept a strong influence on the office until the 1980s[4]. For his activity as the office's director (1969-1974) he has been accused of sidetracking numerous investigations about the massacres occurred in that period[5].

D'Amato was a member of Propaganda 2 (P2), a secret masonic lodge involved in numerous political and economical scandals in the 1970s. An expert of gastronomy, he held a column in the weekly L'espresso, under the pseudonym of Federico Godio[6].

See also

References

  1. ^ Carlo Lucarelli, Piazza Fontana, Turin, Einaudi, 2007. p. 100 ISBN 9788806185244}}
  2. ^ Carlo Lucarelli, Piazza Fontana, Turin, Einaudi, 2007. p. 100 ISBN 9788806185244}}
  3. ^ Carlo Lucarelli, Piazza Fontana, Turin, Einaudi, 2007. p. 100 ISBN 9788806185244}}
  4. ^ Carlo Lucarelli, Piazza Fontana, Turin, Einaudi, 2007. p. 100 ISBN 9788806185244}}
  5. ^ Marcello Veneziani, Controinformazione
  6. ^ Stella, Gian Antonio (4 April 1997). "D' Amato, lo 'sbirro grand gourmet' che tirava le fila dell' esercito di infiltrati". Il Corriere della Sera. http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1997/aprile/27/Amato_sbirro_grand_gourmet_che_co_0_9704277014.shtml.