Overview

• Pazienza served as an officer in SISMI and was associated with the secretive P2 network while claiming to have built the “Super-SISMI” parallel intelligence structure
• He was definitively convicted in 1995 for orchestrating a false trail in the 1980 Bologna railway station bombing by planting explosives on a Milan-Taranto train
• In 1993 he received a prison sentence for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano collapse that led to Roberto Calvi’s death and exposed illicit Vatican bank dealings
• In 1981 he negotiated with the Camorra to secure Christian Democrat politician Ciro Cirillo’s release from the Red Brigades under terms that remain under scrutiny
• Released in 2007, Pazienza spent his later years in Lerici volunteering in public assistance until his death on June 22, 2025