Vincenzo Vinciguerra

Vincenzo Vinciguerra (born 3 January 1949) is an Italian neo-fascist activist, a former member of the Avanguardia Nazionale ("National Vanguard") and Ordine Nuovo ("New Order"). He is currently serving a life-sentence for the murder of three Carabinieri by a car bomb in Peteano in 1972. The investigation in this previously unsolved affair by prosecutor Felice Casson led to the revelation of "Gladio" networks around Western Europe.

1972 Peteano bombing

Following juridical investigations, it has been discovered that the C4 explosive (the most powerful explosive available at the time) used in the 1972 bombing came from a Gladio arms dump located beneath a cemetery near Verona, whose existence was revealed to judges Felice Casson and Carlo Mastelloni by Giulio Andreotti, former Prime minister of Italy. Judge Casson's investigations revealed that Marco Morin, an explosives expert who worked for the Italian police and a member of Ordine Nuovo far-right group, had deliberately provided a fake expertise, claiming that the explosives used were the same that the Red Brigades used. However, Casson demonstrated that the explosives were in fact C4, which was used by NATO. A group of Carabinieri had accidentally discovered on February 24, 1972, an arms dump near Trieste, containing arms, munitions and C4 identical to the one used in Peteano the same year. According to conspiracy theorist Daniele Ganser:

According to Vinciguerra, the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing was supposed to push then Interior Minister Francesco Restivo to declare a state of emergency.

Vinciguerra explained how the Italian secret services had protected him, helping him flying away to Francoist Spain.

According to Ganser, Gladio stopped protecting Vinciguerra as soon as he started talking, which permitted his subsequent trial.

Testimony concerning Chilean general Carlos Prats' 1974 assassination Along with Stefano Delle Chiaie, Vinciguerra testified in Rome in December 1995 before judge María Servini de Cubría that Enrique Arancibia Clavel, a former Chilean secret police agent prosecuted for crimes against humanity in 2004, and U.S. expatriate DINA agent Michael Townley were directly involved in Chilean General Carlos Prats' assassination in Buenos Aires, Argentina.