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10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Junio Valerio Borghese.md

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+category: "World War II & Nazi Era"
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   - Person
-  - Fascist
-  - Italy
   - WW2
-  - Cold_War
-  - Operation_Gladio
-  - Golpe_Borghese
+  - Nazi
+summary: "Junio Valerio Borghese, known as the Black Prince of Borghese, was an Italian aristocrat descended from the Borghese family of the Italian black nobility."
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 Junio Valerio Borghese, known as the Black Prince of Borghese, was an Italian aristocrat descended from the Borghese family of the Italian black nobility. Borghese commanded the Decima Flottiglia MAS, a former regiment of the Italian Navy, which fought as a prominent piece of the army under the Nazi puppet state known as the [[Republic of Salo]] in Northern Italy during World War II. The regiment continued to fight the Allies in the northern territories under the Republic's administration right up until the end of the war.[^1]
 
 Unlike some fascist collaborators strung up beside Mussolini in the Piazzale Loreto, Borghese was chaperoned to the sanctuary of [[Vatican City]] by OSS spook James Angleton. Borghese then became the primary OSS and later CIA asset in establishing the Italian branch of [[Operation Gladio]]'s stay-behind network, designed to suppress left-leaning political movements in Italy. The Black Prince lived on to become a figurehead of Italy's post-war fascist movement. Trieste, part of the former [[Republic of Salo]], had a strong left-leaning labor union movement after the war, making it one of the first targets of [[Operation Gladio]] using former Decima Flottiglia MAS operatives under Borghese's direction in 1953.[^1]