Italy Accuses US Envoy Steve Pieczenik of Aldo Moro Murder
The idea of having Western Europe's largest Communist Party suddenly catapulted into the government for the first time was loathed by the US administration.
Moro's widow, Eleonora, once claimed that Henry Kissinger told her husband he was going to "pay dearly for it".
Italian detectives have demanded the authorisation to place under formal investigation a US envoy for the murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978.
Prosecutors in Rome said there is "serious evidence" suggesting Steve Pieczenik, a former State Department international crisis manager, participated in the murder that shocked Italy.
Moro was kidnapped at gunpoint by Red Brigades terrorists who ambushed his car, killing his chauffeur and five policemen, in a street of the Italian capital on 16 March, 1978.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/italy-accuses-us-envoy-steve-pieczenik-aldo-moro-murder-1474527
Aldo Moro was twice Italy’s prime minister. On May 9, 1978, when police found Moro in the boot of a Renault 4, riddled with 11 bullet holes, his body was no more than 400 metres from the spot where, 2,000 years earlier, Julius Caesar had been knifed.
Moro, who after his second term ended in 1976 became president of the powerful Christian Democracy Party, had been kidnapped on March 16, in Rome’s Via Mario Fani. He was being driven through town with a security escort when two cars suddenly blockaded the road. Armed terrorists attacked and the politician’s five-man security detail was massacred in a hail of machine-gun fire. He was bundled into a car and driven away.
Moro’s widow, Eleonora, testified that in early 1978, Henry Kissinger, together with an unidentified CIA official, met her husband. “Abandon your policy of bringing all the political forces into direct collaboration,” they told him, “or you will pay dearly for it.” Moro ignored this warning. A few weeks later he was kidnapped, on the very morning he was to sign the compresso storico into law.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-body-in-the-boot-and-a-long-hunt-for-answers/