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BRONZE Seller in Torino, Italy
Since the second decade of November 1967, the attention of Italian newspapers was magnetized by the "De Lorenzo-Espresso" trial in progress in Rome. The criminal clash opposed the surelan Giovanni De Lorenzo, former general and commander of the Sifar, the military secret service, and of the Carabinieri weapon, to the two journalists, Eugenio Scalfari and Lino Jannuzzi, who in April of the same year, with a bomb title in the weekly L'Espresso, had denounced an alleged coupling maneuvers in Italy: "Finally the truth about Sifar. July 14, 1964: Pope at the Quirinale. Segni and De Lorenzo prepared the coup ». In that same April 1967, the fears of an attack on democracy materialized in Greece for the military putsch implemented by the colonels Geōrgios Papadopoulos, Nikolaos Makarezos and Stylianos Pattakos who dethroned the monarchy of King Constantine. But, in the sixteenth, the dark, twisted and mysterious news of the events of those months, had also reserved a striking space in Turin, where in March he had been defeated by military counterintelligence (SID, so renamed after the Sifar scandal) a espionage network in favor of the USSR and arrested three people: the paratrooper Giorgio Rinaldi, his wife, owner of a "Bottega" at the Bottega. of Valentino and their driver. It was the Rinaldi affair, which at the end of the year would land in the courtrooms. That story, which in 2021 had a sort of remake starring the Marina Walter Biot officer, arrested for espionage in favor of Russia, returned with all the charm of an authentic spy story in the last issue of Turin history, with an article by Enrico Bassignana which proposes a synthesis for the glass door. My name is Rinaldi. Giorgio Rinaldi. A multifaceted character: born in Turin in 1928 and died in Asti in 1988 he was a partisan, parachuting champion, writer, painter. And above all spy: from September 1956 to March 1967 Rinaldi is one of the most efficient secret agents of the crane, the military equivalent of the Soviet KGB. In short, one 007 under the Mole: and in fact Turin is often the place for contacts with other spies or for the passage of secret information. Born in a family of the Turin bourgeoisie, after September 8, 1943, very young, he joins a group of partisans active in the Asti area with the battle name "Neri". In the first post -war period he devoted himself to sports parachuting. At that time he was approached by a former Soviet partisan, who in 1956 hires him as a spy. It is trained in Moscow, from the crane (central direction for information) and then starts operating on the field. His task is to create contacts in Spanish military airports, to recover secret material on the collaboration between Spain and the United States. Rinaldi takes advantage of his reputation as an trainer (in 1958 he became director of the Civil Center of Parachuting, in Turin) and sportsmen, who sees him engaged between Spain, Italy and Switzerland. In 1957, even if not officially, he exceeded the European primacy of free fall without oxygen; In 1963 he made his title of free fall with oxygen, throwing himself from 9200 meters. The espionage activity proceeds to swollen sails, very appreciated by the Soviets who, at a certain point, appoint him the colonel of the Red Army. But at a certain point something goes wrong: in 1965 a Spanish soldier betrays Rinaldi and his wife, Angela Maria Antoniola, called Tsarina. The two are arrested for political-military espionage in March 1967, and sentenced to the end of a trial as sensational as discussed: 15 years for Rinaldi, 11 for Tsarina (who in the meantime has become his wife) and 10 for their accomplice. Tsarina Rinaldi dies free, affected by cerebral hemorrhage, at the age of 63 on February 12, 1978. Although several times urged, Rinaldi refuses to ask for grace. It is not considered guilty. Since the arrest he had declared that he had acted not for money but for ideological conviction. For him, the lawyer Bianca Guidetti-Serra, who appeals to President Giovanni Leone, will be obtained: for what has continued to call himself "Soviet prisoner" the prison doors "
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