Red Brigades

From the KYW newsroom, these are the top stories of the hour.

A standoff continues between the Italian government and the Red Brigades who kidnapped former Premier Aldo Moro.

The kidnappers vowed to kill Moro today if their demands for the release of jailed comrades were not met.

The tentative start update for the Resorts International Casino opening in Atlantic City is now May 25th.

They're all the good things wrapped up in one.

From the KYW newsroom, these are the top stories of the hour.

Italy's Red Brigades remain silent today on the fate of kidnapped former Premier Aldo Moro, whose government refused to negotiate for his life.

The tentative start-up date for the resort's international casino in Atlantic City is now May the 25th instead of the 19th.

Wow.

And effectively, they're just pulling the 1960s, 1970s playbook where they finance all these red terrorists, like basically Baader-Meinhof, Red Brigades.

You know, they literally went out and killed executives of industrial corporations in Europe.

So the Russians think they're going to do this and there's going to be, ha, ha, ha, we're so cool.

They all considered themselves to be urban guerrillas in the mold of the radical leftists who were conducting bombings and kidnappings in Europe during the 1970s.

The Baader-Meinhof Group in Germany, Italy's Red Brigade, Action Directe in France.

Anne Hansen actually spent a year hanging out with some of these groups.

And when she got back to Vancouver, she had some ideas, ideas that Taylor, Jerry Hanna, Judy Belmus, and Doug Stewart embraced.

What is the difference between the Italian Postal Service and the Italian Red Brigades? The Red Brigades actually deliver their letters.

In this episode of Global Warning, most Palestinians want a two-state solution.

And it includes support for compromising with Israel.

An illicit sea cucumber trade involves Mexico and China.

An evolving conflict between Ethiopia and Tigray.

And finally, a look at the Red Brigades.

Let's get started.

As we know, there are known knowns.

I just think folks, uh, haven't been exposed to enough of it on the Cold War side.

You know, guys like, like you and I, I mean, I keep hanging in my office here a poster that was distributed all over Europe in the, in the '80s, and these are the wanted posters for the terrorists at the time, were all Marxist-supported, um, um, Soviet Union-supported Marxist terror groups like the Red Army Faction and Baader-Meinhof, Action Directe, Brigata Rossa, the Red Brigades out of Italy.

You remember, may remember they captured, I think it was General Dozier at the time.

Yeah.

But we didn't wanna lose the control that that military presence had given us, so we left a secret army behind that didn't wear uniforms and that maybe spoke Italian in Italy and spoke French in France and spoke Swiss French in Switzerland.

And they, uh, controlled and funded the Red Brigades and, uh, other terrorist groups.

And the leaders in those groups did, uh, most of them didn't even know they were being controlled by the intelligence agencies.

So, um, then, uh, [laughs] Castro of Cuba very recently said, um, nine eleven was an inside job.

And it's probably...

Italy's darkest period back then because you had the Red Brigades, you had the Mafia, of course, and then also there was a lot of corruption.

And so what happened was that two competing distilleries got together and they bribed the port officials of Venice Harbor and they blocked a whole shipment of my grandfather's skins for six months.

Wow.

Then there was the Aldo Mora Kidnapping and Murder in 1978.

Former Prime Minister kidnapped and murdered by Red Brigades.

It's fascinating because of the involvement of the P2 network intelligence services and competing theories about what the state knew.

P2 propaganda, 1970s, 1980s.