Part of the Years of lead and Neo-fascist activity in Italy
Front page of the newspaper Paese Sera on the failed neo-fascist coup
Date
7–8 December 1970
Location
Rome
Goals
Overthrow of centre-left national government
Methods
Coup d'etat
Resulted in
Coup suspended
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Years of Lead (Italy)
1968
Battle of Valle Giulia
1968 movement
1969
Hot Autumn
Murder of Antonio Annaruma
Piazza Fontana bombing
Defenestration of Giuseppe Pinelli
1970
Reggio revolt
Golpe Borghese
1972
Murder of Luigi Calabresi
Peteano massacre
1972 bombings
1973
Primavalle fire
Milan police headquarters bombing
1974
Piazza della Loggia bombing
Italicus Express bombing
1975
Murder of Sergio Ramelli
Murder of Mikis Mantakas
1976
Murder of Vittorio Occorsio [it]
1978
Acca Larentia killings
Kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro
Killing of Fausto and Iaio
Murder of Antonio Esposito [it]
1980
Murder of Mario Amato
Bologna massacre
1981
Kidnapping of James L. Dozier
1982
Salerno shooting
Related
Terrorism in Italy
The Golpe Borghese (English: Borghese Coup) was a failed Italian coup d'état allegedly planned for the night of 7 or 8 December 1970. It was named after Junio Valerio Borghese, wartime commander of the Decima Flottiglia MAS and a hero in the eyes of many post-War Italian fascists. The coup attempt became publicly known when the left-wing journal Paese Sera ran the headline on the evening of 18 March 1971: Subversive plan against the Republic: far-right plot discovered.
The secret operation was code-named Operation Tora Tora after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.[1] The plan of the coup in its final phase envisaged the involvement of US and NATO warships which were on alert in the Mediterranean Sea. The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reportedly followed the coup, with President Richard Nixon being personally informed of it. Yet in leaked documents, the US ambassador to Rome is quoted saying "The last thing we need right now is a half-cooked coup d’état … We wouldn’t support it."[2]
^Willan, Puppetmasters p. 91
^"Golpe Borghese, all the CIA papers". 8 December 2020.
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