#Neofascism

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Junio Valerio Borghese Junio Valerio Borghese was the Italian naval commander of the Decima Mas commando unit, sheltered from war crimes prosecution by OSS officer James Angleton in 1945, who became the leading figure of Italian postwar neofascism and organized the December 7-8, 1970 Borghese coup attempt against the Italian government before dying in exile in Spain.
Vincenzo Vinciguerra Vincenzo Vinciguerra was the Ordine Nuovo member who carried out the 1972 Peteano bombing, then provided voluntary confessions in 1984 describing in explicit detail how neofascist operatives worked within the protection of Italian military intelligence and the Gladio stay-behind network to execute the strategy of tension.

Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari The Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (NAR) was the Italian neofascist terrorist group whose members Massimo Fioravanti and Francesca Mambro were convicted of the 1980 Bologna railway station bombing, the deadliest postwar Italian terrorist attack, with P2 and SISMI personnel convicted separately for the subsequent cover-up.
Ordine Nuovo Ordine Nuovo was an Italian neofascist organization whose members Franco Freda and Giovanni Ventura were convicted of responsibility for the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, Italy's opening strategy of tension attack, and whose operational relationship with SID military intelligence personnel was documented in subsequent parliamentary investigations.

Bologna railway station bombing The Bologna railway station bombing of August 2, 1980, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 200 in Italy's deadliest postwar terrorist attack, was carried out by the neofascist Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari with the knowledge of elements of P2 and Italian military intelligence, with Licio Gelli later convicted of obstruction of justice for his role in concealing responsibility.
Peteano bombing The Peteano bombing of May 31, 1972, in which three Carabinieri were killed by a booby-trapped Fiat 500 near Gorizia, was carried out by Ordine Nuovo member Vincenzo Vinciguerra, whose subsequent confessions in 1984 directly implicated the Italian stay-behind network and led magistrate Felice Casson to uncover the Gladio documents that forced Andreotti's 1990 parliamentary disclosure.
Piazza Fontana bombing The Piazza Fontana bombing of December 12, 1969, in which a bomb at the Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Milan killed 17 people and wounded 88, was the opening act of Italy's strategy of tension and was ultimately attributed to the neofascist network Ordine Nuovo operating with the knowledge of elements of Italian military intelligence.