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[Jan Klimkowski]

Now here's a good one!

A 1973 European magazine article alleges the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing was a Gladio style plot, and names the funding source for the Gladio conspiracy as the Rome offices of the Feed Grains Council, Merrill Lynch, the Continental Illinois Bank of Chicago, and 'FSO [i.e Foreign Service Officer] Peter Bridges'. The embassy then plans a detailed public relations offensive to counter the claims. I'm quoting this one in full just below, but Officer Bridges has a Wikipedia page here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bridges

and has quite an an illustrious bio. What wonderful stories he could probably tell.

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ALLEGATION OF US SUPPORT FOR ITALIAN FAR RIGHT

https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1...261_b.html

1. APRIL 26 ISSUE OF SENSATIONAL WEEKLY NEWS JOURNAL QUOTE PANORAMA UNQUOTE CARRIED SCURRILOUS COVER STORY ENTITLED QUOTE THE FASCIST POISON UNQUOTE LINKING THE RIGHT-WING MSI, THE CIA, AND FSO PETER BRIDGES (ASSIGNED ROME 1966 TO 1971) IN PLOT ALLEGED TO INCLUDE 1969 PIAZZA FONTANA (MILAN) BANK BOMBING WHICH TOOK 16 LIVES AND INJURED 88 OTHERS. STORY ALLEGES PLOT AND BOMBING INTENDED TO SPARK SWING TO RIGHT IN PUBLIC OPINION TO PERMIT RIGHT-WING "CHANGE OF COURSE." CHANNELS OF FUNDS TO SUPPORT MSI IN GENERAL, AND THEREFORE CONSPIRACY ALSO, WERE NAMED AS ROME OFFICES OF FEED GRAINS COUNCIL, MERRILL LYNCH, AND CONTINENTAL ILLINOIS BANK OF CHICAGO (LINKED IN STORY TO MICHELE SINDONA). ARTICLE IS BEING TRANSLATED AND WILL BE POUCHED TO ADDEES ASAP.

2. FEED GRAINS COUNCIL HAS INFORMED US THEY CONSIDERING LEGAL ACTION AND HAVE ASKED ADVICE. EMBASSY IS RESPONDING WITH ADVICE NOT TO DIGNIFY AND ENCOURAGE REPLAY OF ARTICLE BY ANY VOLUNTEERED REBUTTAL OR LEGAL ACTION, BUT TO CATEGORICALLY AND EMPHATICALLY DENY STORY (UNDERSCORE) IF ASKED ( END UNDERSCORE). FCC WILL BETOLD EMBASSY WILL SAY NOTHING PUBLICLY BUT IF ASKED WILL REPLY TO ANY PRESS QUERY WITH STATEMENT THAT STORY IS QUOTE TOTALLY WITHOUT FOUNDATION AND NOT WORTHY OF REPLY UNQUOTE. TO QUESTIONS BY OTHERS THAN PRESS, EMBOFFS WILL LABEL ARTICLE AN OUTRAGEOUS LIE.

3. EMBASSY WILL ALSO CONTACT MERRILL LYNCH AND CONTINENTAL ILLINOIS BANK REPS TO INFORM THEM, WITHOUT ADVISING, OF COURSE OF ACTION EMBASSY INTENDS TO TAKE, STRESSING THAT WE WILL NOT RESPOND AT ALL UNLESS ASKED.

4. EMBASSY ( DCM) WILL CALL ATTENTION OF PRIMIN' S DIPLOMATIC ADVISOR (CAGIATI) TO ARTICLE EXPRESSING OUR PARTICULAR UNHAPPINESS AT IRRESPONSIBILITY SHOWN IN NAMING DIPLOMATIC OFFICER, PRESENTLY SERVING IN COMMUNIST POLICE STATE, IN OUTRAGEOUS FABRICATION OF THIS SORT. AT APPROPRIATE LEVEL, WE WILL CALL ATTENTION OF FON MINISTRY TO ARTICLE, NOTING THAT IT UNWORTHY OF PUBLIC REBUTTAL, BUT THAT OUR UNHAPPINESS BEING SIGNALLED TO OFFICE OF PRIME MINISTER.

5. EMBASSY OF COURSE AWARE THAT PUBLICATION OF STORY NOT A MATTER FOR DIRECT AND OFFICIAL GOI INTERVENTION. OUR ANNOYANCE WILL FIND SYMPATHETIC EAR IN PRIMIN' S OFFICE, HOWEVER, AND IT NOT UNLIKELY THAT DISPLEASURE WILL REACH MONDADORI (PANORAMA PUBLISHER) IN APPROPRIATE AND INDIRECT WAY. VOLPE

"Scurrilous" screams the CIA.

Translated from spook jargon, "scurrilous" clearly means "dangerously close to the truth".....