Stefano Delle Chiaie

The address was: Apartado 1682, El Salvador.

Delle Chiaie soon became a close ally of Junio Valerio Borghese and was suspected with him in the Golpe Borghese, but was acquitted because at the time he was in Barcelona.

Stefano Delle Chiaie (13 September 1936, Caserta – 10 September 2019, Rome ) was an Italian neo-fascist terrorist.

He was the founder of Avanguardia Nazionale, a member of Ordine Nuovo, and founder of Lega nazionalpopolare.

He went on to become a wanted man worldwide, suspected of involvement in Italy's strategy of tension, but was acquitted.

He was a friend of Licio Gelli, grandmaster of P2 masonic lodge.

He was suspected of involvement in South America's Operation Condor, but was acquitted.

He was known by his nickname "il caccola" (Roman slang for "shorty" ) as he was just over five feet tall - although he stated that originally, the nickname came from his very young involvement, at age 14, in the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist political party established after the war

Delle Chiaie began as member of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist party.

However he rejected the participation of the MSI in elections, preferring to take the battle to the streets.

After participating to the foundation of the Centri Studi Ordine Nuovo with members of the MSI, he created the small Gruppi di Azione Rivoluzionari (GAR) at the end of the 1950s.

Involved in various political actions, such as protesting against Eisenhower's visit to Italy or fighting against Italian Communist Party members, he already maintained close international links, notably with the Austrian Konrad Windisch, leader of the neo-Nazi Kameradschaftsring Nationaler Jugendverbände (KNJ).

He left the MSI in 1958.

He then formed, in 1960, the National Vanguard ("Avanguardia Nazionale") as a street-fighting group.

Around this time, he also became a member of the secret P2 Masonic Lodge.

From 1962 to 1964 he was employed by the Servizio informazioni forze armate tasked with infiltrating in and breaking up left-wing demonstrations.

Delle Chiaie took part in Yves Guérin-Sérac's "Aginter Press" founded in António de Oliveira Salazar's Portugal in 1965.

He first took part in Yves Guérin-Sérac's "Aginter Press", founded in Salazar's Portugal in 1965.

After assisting Borghese during his 1970 attempted coup in Italy, he escaped to Franquist Spain — as would Vincenzo Vinciguerra — and met with future members of the GAL paramilitary group.

He was then present at the Ezeiza massacre in Argentina on 20 June 1973, and then met with US-born DINA agent Michael Townley in 1975 to prepare Chilean Christian Democrat Bernardo Leighton's failed assassination.

In May 1974, Delle Chiaie’s last known forwarding address was discovered by investigators from the Portuguese Armed Forces Movement when they raided the Lisbon HQ of Aginter Press and its political wing, "Order and Tradition."

In 1976, he participated in the Montejurra Incidents against left-wing Carlists in Spain, before leaving for Latin America.

Delle Chiaie started a neo-fascist transnational magazine entitled Confidentiel in Paris, France, in 1979.

He was also charged with subversive association in relationship to the 1980 Bologna railway station bombing, but was acquitted on appeals.

As cited in The Fourth Reich: Klaus Barbie and the Neo-Fascist Connection, by Magnus Linklater, Isabel Hilton, and Neal Ascherson, Delle Chiaie was one of the orchestrators of the "Cocaine Coup" in Bolivia, along with the German war criminal Klaus Barbie, that brought General Luis García Meza to power in the early 1980s.

His international activities started early.

In South America, he took part in the 'Cocaine Coup' of Luis García Meza Tejada, when a notoriously corrupt military regime forced its way to power in Bolivia in 1980, with assistance from the Argentine SIDE which had been called on for 70 foreign agents.

He later worked for the new government in training its soldiers.

The magazine was also published in Italy, Spain and France and folded in 1981.

Delle Chiaie was described by the CIA as being the most wanted rightist terrorist in 1983, was suspected of a lot of irregular activity, but was always acquitted on appeal.

In the course of his activities, Delle Chiaie was also known by a number of aliases, including Er Caccola, Alfa, Topigigio and Alfredo Di Stéfano, after the celebrated footballer of the same name.

Delle Chiaie has since spent most of his time working in Latin America.

Delle Chiaie later declared in a 1983 interview to a Spanish reporter:

"I was decided to give my hand to the creation of an international revolutionary movement... Therefore, when the opportunity of a national revolution appeared in Bolivia, we were there to shoulder our comrades. We were neither repressors nor narco-terrorists, but political militants."

Delle Chiaie was arrested in Caracas, Venezuela on 27 March 1987 and extradited to Italy to stand trial for his role in the Strage di Piazza Fontana bombing of Milan on 12 December 1969, when 17 people were killed and 88 wounded.

Delle Chiaie was acquitted by the Assize Court in Catanzaro in 1989, along with fellow accused Massimiliano Fachini.

On 20 February 1989 he was declared not guilty.

On 5 July 1991 on appeal was acquitted for the case and for participation to subversive association.

In October 1991 he founded Lega Nazionalpopolare.

The movement had limited success at the national parliamentary election 1992 in Italy.