Federico Umberto D'Amato

Federico Umberto D'Amato (4 June 1919 – 1 August 1996)[1] was an Italian secret agent, who led the Office for Reserved Affairs of the Ministry of Interior (Italy) from the 1950s till the 1970s when the activity of the intelligence service was undercover and not publicly known.

After the end of the conflict he was at the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Special Office, a link between NATO and the United States.

This recruitment program included prominent figures such as Prince Valerio Borghese, Pino Rauti and Licio Gelli, who are believed to have played a major role in the terrorist attacks in Cold War Italy.

[1] In 1974, two days after the Piazza della Loggia bombing, he was removed from the position and assigned to the boundary police, although he kept a strong influence on the office until the 1980s.

[3] D'Amato was a member of Propaganda 2 (P2),[4] a secret masonic lodge involved in numerous political and economical scandals in the 1970s.