In 1984 , questioned by judges about the 1980 Bologna station bomb Vinciguerra said : " With the massacre of Peteano , and with all those that have followed , the knowledge should by now be clear that there existed a real live structure , occult and hidden , with the capacity of giving a strategic direction to the outrages ... it lies within the state itself ... There exists in Italy a secret force parallel to the armed forces , composed of civilians and military men , in an anti-Soviet capacity that is , to organise a resistance on Italian soil against a Russian army ... A secret organisation , a super-organisation with a network of communications , arms and explosives , and men trained to use them ... A super-organisation which , lacking a Soviet military invasion which might not happen , took up the task , on NATO 's behalf , of preventing a slip to the left in the political balance of the country . This they did , with the assistance of the official secret services and the political and military forces
1980 Bologna station bomb
Bologna massacre
Vincenzo Vinciguerra