Stefano Delle Chiaie

[Magda Hassan]

Stefano Delle Chiaie (born 13 September 1936 in Caserta) is a neofascist Italian activist (founder of Avanguardia Nazionale, member of Ordine Nuovo, and founder of Lega nazionalpopolare, 1991). He went on to become a wanted man worldwide, suspect to be involved in Italy's strategy of tension, but was acquitted. He was a friend of Licio Gelli, headmaster of P2 masonic lodge. He was suspect to be involved in South America's Operation Condor.

Italy activity


Founder of Avanguardia Nazionale in 1960

Delle Chiaie began as member of the Italian Social Movement (MSI, the neo-Fascist party). However he rejected the participation of the MSI in elections, preferring to take the battle to the streets, and so he left the party in 1960 to form the National Vanguard ("Avanguardia Nazionale") as a street-fighting group. Around this time, he also became a member of the secret P2 Masonic Lodge.
Delle Chiaie soon became a close ally of Junio Valerio Borghese and was suspected with him in the Golpe Borghese, but was acquitted because at time was in Barcelona-Spain.
Delle Chiaie was arrested in Caracas, Venezuela in 1989 and extradited to Italy to stand trial for his role in the Strage di Piazza Fontana bombing of Milan on December 12, 1969. Delle Chiaie was acquitted by the Assize Court in Catanzaro in 1989, along with fellow accused Massimiliano Fachini.[1]. At 20 febbraio 1989 was declared as not guilty. At 5 luglio 1991 on appeal was acquitted for the case and for partecipation to subversive association.
He was also charged with subversive association in relationship to the 1980 Bologna railway station bombing, but was acquitted on appeals.[2]

Founder of Lega Nazionalpopolare 1991

October 1991, was founder of Lega Nazionalpopolare. The movement have limited success at Italy national parliamentary election 1992.

Sud-America activity

Stefano delle Chiaie was described by the CIA as being the most wanted rightist terrorist in 1983, was suspected of a lot of irregular activity, but without demonstration and was always acquitted.

In the course of his activities Delle Chiaie was also known by a number of aliases, the most notable of which were ALFA and Alfredo Di Stéfano, after the celebrated footballer of the same name. In Spain he become an ally of veteran Belgian fascist Léon Degrelle. Delle Chiaie has since spent most of his time working in Latin America. Stefano Delle Chiaie took part in Yves Guérin-Sérac's "Aginter Press" founded in Salazar's Portugal in 1965. He was then present at the June 20, 1973 Ezeiza massacre in Argentina,[3] Having become close to Augusto Pinochet, he left Spain in 1974 to resettle in Chile, where he worked not only for the government, but also in training both government and rightist rebel troops in Argentina and El Salvador, participating in the "Dirty War" and Operation Condor assassination campaign.
With Klaus Barbie, a former Nazi, he took part in the 'Cocaine Coup' of Luis García Meza Tejada, when a notoriously corrupt military regime forced its way to power in Bolivia in 1980, with assistance from the Argentine SIDE which had called for on 70 foreign agents. He later worked for the new government in training its soldiers. Stefano Delle Chiaie later declared in a 1983 interview to a Spanish reporter:

"I was decided to give my hand to the creation of an international revolutionary movement... Therefore, when the opportunity of a national revolution appeared in Bolivia, we were there to shoulder our comrades. We were neither repressors nor narco-terrorists, but political militants."[4]

During a 1997 hearing before the Commission on terrorism headed by senator Giovanni Pellegrino, Stefano Delle Chiaie went on speaking about a "black fascist International" and his hopes of creating the conditions of an "international revolution." He talked about the World Anticommunist League, but said that after attending a meeting in Paraguay, he left it. He claimed that the latter was a front for the CIA [4]. He only admitted having taken part in the New European Order (NOE) organization, and denied having worked with the International Anticommunist Alliance around 1974.
Delle Chiaie met in Madrid with Pinochet during Franco's funeral in 1975, beginning his involvement with the Chilean regime and his part in Operation Condor. According to lawyer Alun Jones, representant of the Spanish justice during Spain's request to Great Britain for the extradition of Augusto Pinochet, Pinochet met with Delle Chiaie in Madrid to plan an attack against Carlos Altamirano, the leader of the Chilean Socialist Party. The plan either failed because of Altamirano's awareness and personal caution, or because some intelligence agency — it is not known from which country — may have made him aware of the threats on his personal life.[3]
According to CIA documents, in Madrid, Stefano Delle Chiaie also met with Michael Townley, a DINA agent, and Virgilio Paz Romero, a Cuban based in Miami, with connections in Chile, to prepare, with the help of Franco's secret police, the murder of Bernardo Leighton, a Chilean Christian Democrat. On October 6, 1975 Leighton and his wife were severely injured by gunshots while in exile in Rome [1].
It has been claimed that Delle Chiaie was involved in the murder of General Carlos Prats in Buenos Aires on September 30, 1974[5]. Delle Chiaie, along with fellow extremist Vincenzo Vinciguerra, also testified in Rome in December 1995 before judge Servini de Cubria that Enrique Arancibia Clavel (a former Chilean secret police agent prosecuted for crimes against humanity in 2004 [6]) and Michael Townley (a United States-born secret police officer) were directly involved in this assassination [5].
Michael Townley has claimed that DINA agent Enrique Arancibia Clavel, convicted in Argentina for the 1974 assassination of General Carlos Prats, had traveled to California in Fall of 1977 on banking business for ALFA, alias Stefano Delle Chiaie [7].

Result of Sud-America activity

Stefano Delle Chiaie was never found guilty for Sud-America cases.

References

1. ^ "Two Acquitted of Organizing Terror Attack". Associated Press. 1989-02-21.
   
2. ^ "Four Convicted Of Mass Murder In Italian Bombing That Killed 85". Associated Press. 1988-07-11.
   
3. ^ a b "Las Relaciones secretas entre Pinochet, Franco y la P2 - Conspiración para matar". Nizkor Project. February 4, 1999. http://www.derechos.org/sorin/doc/p2.html.
   
4. ^ a b Hearing of Stefano Delle Chiaie on 22 July 1997 before the Italian Parliamentary Commission on Terrorism headed by senator Giovanni Pellegrino
   
5. ^ a b Arancibia, "clave" en la cooperación de las dictaduras, La Jornada, May 22, 2000 (Spanish)
   
6. ^ Vital rights ruling in Argentina, BBC, August 24, 2004 (English)
   
7. ^ Declassified documents, 2, 6 published by the National Security Archive
   

Further reading

• Stuart Christie, Stefano Delle Chiaie: Portrait of a Black Terrorist, 1984
  

External links

• I segreti del “er caccola” Stefano Delle Chiaie, Andrea Barbato, July 24, 1988