services knew English in the early days of 1978 that the U.S. administration led by Democrat Jimmy Carter was seriously considering to implement in Italy a 'cover action', a covert operation to 'split the PCI (' 'split the PC ") that were avoided the dreaded possibility of a more important support given by the government of the Communist Party of the West Country. That same government that was launched by Giulio Andreotti on March 16, the day of the kidnapping of Aldo Moro . The news emerges from the British documents declassified in early 2009 and were found by Mario Cereghino and Joseph G. Casarrubea Kewgardens and archives which are available from today on the website "www.casarrubea.wordpress.com" under "Moro and the PC."
Richard Garden, U.S. ambassador to Italy was summoned to Washington in early 1978. "He painted - the documents refer English - a very bleak picture." Garden with fears that the Communist Party in the government "there is a serious relapse of public order". The British ambassador in London noted that Washington has sent instructions to its diplomatic missions to seek the views of European governments on the Italian situation. The British have their say and point out that the position of the Communist Party "is ambivalent: Dark Shops expects the situation" mature slowly, to the point where they enter the government will materialize without drama. "The information gathered within the Communist Party - the report of the Foreign Office report, led by David Owen - come from secret sources.
On 23 January, Michael Pike, a senior official informed the British Embassy in Washington London by the great battle of the Carter administration hawks and doves. The U.S. president - he said - has no intention of resurrecting the methods of Kissinger (the coup in Chile in '73 for example) 'cause this would provide a powerful weapon with the PCI the DC and the U.S.. On the table are then placed several options: for example the idea of \u200b\u200bfielding a covert operation to crush the Communist Party. "Around the table are the ambassador to Italy Gardner, Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, an employee of these George Vest, and the national security advisor, Brzezinski, the NSC staff, headed by Bob Hanter. Only Vance and Vest, on behalf of Carter, are opposed to extreme solutions. No covert operation against the PCI. In the document takes stock of the decisive meeting indicate "at least for now, seems to be ruled out even a secret (black band to hide two rows of the English text, ed.)
From a political point of view more general the difficulties associated with such actions need not be emphasized. In addition, any proposal for a covert operation should be evaluated by at least eight committees of the U.S. Congress. Consequently, the ability to keep it secret would be minimal "essentially in Washington realizes that" even among hawks "such activities in a member country of birth effects and little that can backfire on their creators. Among the many declassified documents and available now those on the immediate application made by Francesco Cossiga of aid by the British SAS. The evening of the abduction Cossiga asked to send commandos skilled in dealing with "a state of siege (ie, in If it is located the hideout of Moro and his captors). Casarrubea Cereghino and report the news of the many documents, "has always said that the interference at various points in U.S. 'hot' the world was typical of Republican diplomacy Kissinger, Secretary of State until January '77.
Instead these papers show that it is assumed 'to last until a "covert operation" to "crush the Communist Party" again in January-February '78. The wisdom of Carter seems to have been decisive in avoiding that plan. In addition, hawks and doves in the U.S. were confronted harshly on the "Affaire Italy a few weeks after the launch of the Government of not trust. They were the British to play a moderating role of fundamental importance."
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