"Originally a leftist "revolutionary" terrorist organization, the red Bridades] were infiltrated by various secret services and had the leadership taken over by secret service agents. The objectives became those of the reactionaries.
"One example is the terrorist assassination of Aldo Moro. The Italian Communist Party, having scored a major election victory of 34% (1973-74 elections), made the Christian Democratic government under the leadership of Aldo Moro dependent on the support of the Communist vote in parliament.
"Fanatic anti-Communist red lights began flashing in Washington. Israel worried that under the influence of the Communists, a Moro government would become 'pro-Arab.' Like the CIA, the Mossad sought to instrumentalize the Red Brigades for their own policy.
"The Red Brigades were already infiltrated by different intelligence agencies, both Italian and foreign, ranging from the Carabinieri, SISMI, the police, the CIA, the US military.
"The book "Agenten, Terror, Staatskomplott" offers the following example: 'Antonio Nirta, a con man for the carabinieri General, Francesco Delfino [had been infiltrated into the Red Brigades]. In 1976, with the help of Silvano Girotto, a police agent in[side] the Red Brigades, was able to have the moderate Red Brigade leader, Renato Curcio, arrested -- which made it possible for Mario Moretti, suspected by Red Brigade members to also have collaborated with the secret services, to become their leader."
"Earlier, in order to establish contact with the Red Brigades, the Mossad warned the Brigades that the infiltrator Girotto planned the arrest of Renato Curcio. The warning Moretti was to have passed on never reached Curcio. Curcio fell into the trap as planned and was arrested. With Curcio behind bars, the CIA was able to effectuate a change of leadership which brought Moretti to the top.
"The Israelis expected that Moretti would let Curcio step into the trap. It was following the arrest of Curcio that the active cooperation with the Mossad began.
"Camouflaged as being from groups of radical Palestinians, among them the group around George Habash, the Israelis organized weapons transfers for the Brigades. These transfers passed only over Moretti. "Palestinian weapons" were delivered to southern Lebanon – where the Israeli army exercised absolute control.
"Alberto Franceschini, one of the founders of the Red Brigades, reflected in an interview from his prison cell:
"Some of our comrades went to Rome to do a political/military action. Following the judge's kidnapping, we wanted a politician next. We planned on Andreotti. But just as we were about to carry out our plan, Curcio and I were suddenly arrested.
"An agent by the name of Brother Mita had infiltrated our ranks. He had been in the organization for about a year. We suggested he supervise our military training. Had he accepted, he would have become familiar with every member of our underground.
"We all knew how important [Aldo] Moro was as President of the Christian Democrats. Yet we were amazed and couldn't believe it when our comrades succeeded in kidnapping him. At the start, the Red Brigades, a group of young people, had no military training at all. Then, only a few years later, it demonstrated it was capable of carrying out a complex and dangerous operation -- seizing Moro in the middle of Rome, neutralizing his well-trained bodyguards.
"I want to know, why I am spending 17 years in prison? What or who used me? Whenever I thought I was going in one direction, I was being pushed in the other, and I didn't even realize it."
