Gianadelio Maletti

General Giandelio Maletti is a former head of Italian counterintelligence.

At the trial of a number of right-wing extremists accused of perpetrating the Piazza Fontana massacre in March 2001, he suggested that the CIA had supported right-wing terrorism in Italy. He testified:

"The CIA, following the directives of its government, wanted to create an Italian nationalism, capable of halting what it saw as a slide to the left, and, for this purpose, it may have made use of right-wing terrorism."