Operation Gladio: The Foot Soldiers (Part 3)

Part 3 examines the truth behind the kidnapping - and the subsequent assassination of Aldo Moro - and the killing of five men of his escort.

Aldo Moro at that time was probably, together with Giulio Andreotti, the most powerful politician in the country. He was spoken about openly as the next president of the republic and precisely that March 16, the Parliament was preparing to vote for confidence in the new government led by Andreotti, a government strongly supported by Moro, against many of his own party comrades: for the first time since 1947, the Communist Party would be an integral part of the majority. There was also discontent among the communists but his kidnapping and the massacre of the men of his escort overshadowed all the doubts that still hovered among the parliamentarians the evening before: the Chamber first and the Senate afterwards took very little time to vote for the confidence in the Andreotti government, in order to have an executive with full powers in what would be considered as the most difficult days in the history of the Republic.

This episode also reconstructs a series of unexplained and bloody killings a few years earlier in Belgium, when masked gunmen murdered people shopping in supermarkets (Brabant Massacres).

Voice of Aldo Moro: Sir Ian McKellen

Note: Since the time of this documentary, a lot of new information have come out in regards to Aldo Moro's assassination. New documents have been declassified and as from 2 October 2014 to 22 March 2018 a new parliamentary commission of inquiry was set up, to investigate on the case.