Strategy of Tension
Aginter Press took part in Italy's strategy of tension, a campaign of false flag bombings and an attempted coup d'état organised by the Italian neo-fascists with support from Propaganda Due (P2) and Gladio, NATO's stay-behind anti-communist networks during the Cold War.
This agency is alleged to have carried out work for various right-wing authoritarian regimes (including Salazar, Franquist Spain, the Greek Regime of the Colonels after the 1967 putsch, etc.) Its agents worked under the cover of reporters or photographers, which allowed them to travel freely.
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