Intelligence scholar Peer Henrik Hansen and the U.S. government claim the document as a forgery by Soviet intelligence services . The document first appeared in Turkey in the 1970s , before being circulated to other countries . It was also used at the end of the 1970s to implicate the Central Intelligence Agency in the Red Brigades ' kidnapping and assassination of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro
kidnapping and assassination
Kidnapping of Aldo Moro
U.S. Army Field Manual 30-31B