At the end of World War II US intelligence recruited large numbers of officials from the Republic of Salò and from the Italian Special Forces , Decima MAS , with the help of D'Amato to operate in the newly founded Italian state . 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 . D'Amato 's later contact with the CIA was James Jesus Angleton . He entered the Office for Reserved Affairs of the Italian of the Minister of Interior in 1957 . 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 . For his activity as the office 's director ( 1969-1974 ) he has been accused of sidetracking numerous investigations about the massacres occurred in that period
Piazza della Loggia bombing
Piazza della Loggia bombing
Federico Umberto D'Amato