The second edition of Webster Tarpley's book, 9/11 Synthetic Terrorism - Made in USA [1], contains the following paragraph:
Another thesis of the 1978 study was that those who glorify and lionize terrorism, providing the terrorists with ideological cover, should be investigated as its accomplices. One pro-terror ideologue whom I singled out in this regard was Antonio Negri, Professor of Doctrine of the State at the University of Padua, near Venice. Later, in April 1979, Judge Calogero of Padua issued arrest warrants for Toni Negri, Franco Piperno, and other leaders of the allegedly defunct Potere Operaio group. They were charged with being not just the ideologues and sympathizers, but part of the leadership of the Red Brigades. It was said that Calogero had been influenced by my Moro dossier. Today Negri is still operational from his jail cell, helping to inspire a regroupment of violent anarchist “criminal energy†groups like the Black Bloc, which represent the culture medium from which future terrorists are being recruited by intelligence agencies in Europe. After the publication of Imperial Hubris, this thesis should be applied to the CIA, home of what appears to be the most influential chapter of the Bin Laden fan club.
Tony Negri, perhaps most famous for co-authoring Empire [2], is considered to have been framed by the left, The Observer reported in 1992 that Gladio "co-operated in - or at least did nothing to prevent - the kidnapping and killing of Aldo Moro" [3].
In the paragraph before Webster Tarpley says that the main finding of the report he produced in 1978, while working for EIR (Lyndon LaRouche) was that "Moro had been killed by NATO intelligence, using the Red Brigades as tool and camouflage at the same time", he is probably correct.
The issues this raised for me are:
Why is he boasting about framing an innocent man -- if Gladio was responsible why does he think it is good that Tony Negri was jailed and not the people who conducted the kidnap and killing and those who ordered it?
Is his claim that his report was influential true? How can this be verified? Does anyone have a copy of the report, what does it actually say?
Ralph Schoenman said yesterday [4] that Lyndon LaRouche's organistation was, for some years at least, run by the CIA -- what role did they play in the production of this report and it's dissemination?
If people want a bit more details on this, see the thread on Indymedia that this has been extracted from [5].
[1] http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2005/07/317436.p...
[2] http://www.infoshop.org/texts/empire.pdf
[3] http://www.cambridgeclarion.org/press_cuttings/gla...