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@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ The Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (Armed Revolutionary Nuclei, NAR) was an Italian
 
 NAR operated primarily in Rome, committing assassinations of magistrates, police officers, and political opponents, and bank robberies for operational financing. Its principal leaders included Massimo Fioravanti, a former child actor who became the organization's most active operational figure, and Francesca Mambro, who was Fioravanti's partner.
 
-The organization's ideology drew on third-positionist neofascism - explicitly rejecting both capitalism and communism, combining nationalist mysticism with violent direct action. This framework, similar to elements of [[Ordine Nuovo]]'s ideology, placed NAR within a continuity of Italian neofascist violence dating to the strategy of tension period of the late 1960s.[^1]
+The organization's ideology drew on third-positionist neofascism - explicitly rejecting both capitalism and communism, combining nationalist mysticism with violent direct action. This framework, similar to elements of Ordine Nuovo's ideology, placed NAR within a continuity of Italian neofascist violence dating to the strategy of tension period of the late 1960s.[^1]
 
 ### Bologna Bombing
 

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-Ordine Nuovo (New Order) was an Italian neofascist organization founded in 1956 by Pino Rauti following a split from the mainstream Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI). It drew on the theoretical framework of Julius Evola's racial mysticism and Third Positionist fascism and positioned itself as a radical alternative to the parliamentary right. The Italian Interior Ministry dissolved the organization on November 23, 1973, under anti-fascist statutes, but networks of former members remained active.[^1]
+Ordine Nuovo (New Order) was an Italian neofascist organization founded in 1956 by [[Pino Rauti]] following a split from the mainstream Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI). It drew on the theoretical framework of [[Julius Evola]]'s racial mysticism and Third Positionist fascism and positioned itself as a radical alternative to the parliamentary right. The Italian Interior Ministry dissolved the organization on November 23, 1973, under anti-fascist statutes, but networks of former members remained active.[^1]
 
 ### Ideology and Structure
 
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 The judicial path to conviction was tortured over three decades, with acquittals and retrials reflecting deliberate obstruction by SID personnel who had knowledge of Freda and Ventura's responsibility. The Court of Cassation's May 2005 ruling found that Freda and Ventura had organized the bombing but could not result in conviction: both had already been definitively acquitted in 1987, and double jeopardy barred further prosecution. No one was ever imprisoned specifically for the Piazza Fontana massacre.
 
+### Peteano Bombing and Vinciguerra
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+The [[Peteano bombing]] of May 31, 1972, in which three Carabinieri were killed by a bomb concealed in a Fiat 500, was carried out by [[Vincenzo Vinciguerra]], a member of both Ordine Nuovo and Avanguardia Nazionale. Vinciguerra fled to Spain after the attack and surrendered to Italian authorities in 1979. In 1984 he made a voluntary confession to Venice investigating magistrate [[Felice Casson]], providing testimony that explicitly linked the attack to the Gladio stay-behind network and to SID intelligence service protection - naming not just his own actions but the organizational framework within which they occurred. His testimony became the foundation for Casson's discovery of the Gladio documents in 1990 and the subsequent forced disclosure by Prime Minister [[Giulio Andreotti]].[^1]
+
 ### SID Relationships
 
 Italian parliamentary and judicial investigations established that Ordine Nuovo operatives maintained relationships with SID officers who were simultaneously managing the Gladio network. The precise nature of these relationships - whether SID provided direction, logistical support, protection, or simply intelligence from informants within the network - was never fully established. The consistent finding was that SID personnel knew about Ordine Nuovo operations before, during, or immediately after they occurred and took no preventive action, and in several cases actively interfered with subsequent investigations.[^1]
 
 ### Pino Rauti and Later Career
 
-Rauti himself was investigated but not convicted for the bombings. He returned to the MSI mainstream, eventually rising to become MSI party secretary in 1990 before losing the position to Gianfranco Fini. The separation between Rauti as mainstream right politician and his organization's role in political mass murder is one of the characteristic features of Italian political history in the strategy of tension era.[^2]
+Rauti himself was investigated but not convicted for the bombings. He returned to the MSI mainstream, eventually rising to become MSI party secretary in 1990 before losing the position to [[Gianfranco Fini]]. The separation between Rauti as mainstream right politician and his organization's role in political mass murder is one of the characteristic features of Italian political history in the strategy of tension era.[^2]
 
 ### Footnotes