Pazienza holds a degree in medicine from the University of Rome . He worked as a business consultant in France during the 1970s . In 1979 he was hired into SISMI , and became an assistant to SISMI director , General Giuseppe Santovito . Pazienza left the intelligence agency in wake of the Propaganda Due scandal that rocked the Italian political scene in 1981 . The Banco Ambrosiano scandal , Roberto Calvi 's " suicide , " and charges of mishandling state secrets concerned with the 1980 Bologna bombing , made Pazienza a fugitive from Italian law
1980 Bologna bombing
Bologna massacre
Francesco Pazienza