Carmine " Mino " Pecorelli ( ; September 14 , 1928 &ndash; March 20 , 1979 ) was an Italian journalist , shot dead in Rome a year after former prime minister Aldo Moro 's 1978 kidnapping and subsequent killing . He was described as a " maverick journalist with excellent secret service contacts . " According to Pecorelli , Aldo Moro 's kidnapping had been organized by a " lucid superpower " and was inspired by the " logic of Yalta " . Pecorelli 's name was on Licio Gelli 's list of Propaganda Due masonic members , discovered in 1980 by the Italian police . In 2002 , former prime minister Giulio Andreotti was sentenced , along with Mafia boss Gaetano Badalamenti , to 24 years ' imprisonment for Pecorelli 's murder . The sentence was thrown out by the Italian Supreme Court in 2003
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Carmine Pecorelli