ABSTRACT
The Strategy of Tension, that is, the set of attacks and violent actions perpetrated by the Italian extreme right in collaboration with the national and American secret services to prevent the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from accessing government roles and to keep Italy in NATO, did not yet have a start date. Several authors placed the date of the beginning of the Strategy of Tension in conjunction with the Piazza Fontana massacre, while others backdated it at least to the early 1960s in conjunction with different events. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act made a huge number of documents available to researchers between 2001 and 2005. The enormous number of documents is fragmentary, and for several documents the declassification remains partial. The analysis of some declassified documents and their contextualization in Italian political and terrorist events has allowed the beginning of the Strategy of Tension to be backdated to 1947. The Strategy of Tension is linked to a project called Los Angeles Network which, officially activated in 1947, is based on the collaboration of American military intelligence (CIC) with the Italian secret services, whose leaders are also American agents, and the far-right terrorist group Fasci di Azione Rivoluzionaria (FAR). The documentary and historical analysis has also made it possible to determine how the Network, updated and strengthened with different names but the same reference figures, operated until the years of the Piazza Fontana (1969) and Piazza della Loggia (1974) massacres.
