Mario Moretti

[1] A leading member of the Red Brigades in the late 1970s, he was one of the kidnappers of Aldo Moro, the president of Italy's largest political party Democrazia Cristiana (Christian Democracy), and several times premier.

Later Moretti tried to fabricate for himself a leftist and proletarian family environment, but the documents collected by the Italian Parliament's commission into the assassination of Aldo Moro later denied this reconstruction.

[2][need quotation to verify] Recommended by an Italian noblewoman, Anna Casati Stampa,[3] he moved to Milan in 1968 to work and to study at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.

[4] In Milan, Moretti worked at Sit-Siemens, where he met Corrado Alunni [it], Giorgio Semeria and Paola Besuschio [it], future members of the Red Brigades (BR).

[6] Moretti also confessed to assassinating Moro after it became clear that the demand made by BR for the release of thirteen jailed terrorists in return for freeing the politician would not be met by the Italian government.