Mariano Rumor

Mariano Rumor
59th Prime Minister of Italy
In office 26 July 1972 – 23 November 1974
Preceded by	Giulio Andreotti
Succeeded by	Aldo Moro
59th Prime Minister of Italy
In office 12 December 1968 – 6 August 1970
Preceded by	Giovanni Leone
Succeeded by	Emilio Colombo
Personal details
Born	June 16, 1915 Vicenza, Italy
Died	January 22, 1990 Rome, Italy
Political party	Christian Democracy

Mariano Rumor (June 16, 1915 – 22 January, 1990) was an Italian politician, a member of the Democrazia Cristiana and several times Prime Minister of Italy.

He was born in Vicenza, Veneto. He graduated in Letters and was elected to the Constituent Assembly (which was opening the way for the new Italian Parliament of the Italian Republic) in 1946.

In 1973, Interior Minister Mariano Rumor was attacked by Gianfranco Bertolli, an alleged anarchist. Four were killed during the bombing, and 45 injured, while Rumor escaped alive from it. Bertolli was in reality a right-wing activist and a long-standing informant of the SID, the Italian military intelligence agency. According to the Italian justice, General Gianadelio Maletti, head of the SID from 1971 to 1975, knew in advance of the attack but failed to advise Mariano Rumor and the Italian justice of Bertolli's true identity. Maletti was convicted in 2000 in absentia to a 15 years prison sentence for obstruction of justice concerning this case. The attack took place in the frame of the "strategy of tension" carried out in Italy during the Cold War .

See also

• History of the Italian Republic
• Strategy of tension