"Lightning over Eni": A new book unveils the international conspiracy to liquidate Enrico Mattei and reveals the involvement of French agencies and Italian collusion
The political, media and cultural circles in Italy witnessed a state of widespread activity and great interest with the release of the new investigative book entitled “Lampi sull'Eni: Il piano per eliminare Enrico Mattei” (Lightning over Eni: The plan to liquidate Enrico Mattei), issued by the prestigious Italian publishing house “Giangiacomo Feltrinelli\\”.This author comes to reopen one of the most mysterious and controversial pages in modern Italian history, the case of the assassination of Enrico Mattei, founder and president of the giant Italian energy group Eni. The book is approximately four hundred medium-sized pages, and provides an in-depth forensic and historical analysis of the circumstances of the crash of the Mattei plane in the town of Baskapi on October 27, 1962, an incident that was promoted for many years as merely a tragic aviation accident, before subsequent investigations revealed it.The secret documents indicate that it was a carefully planned political assassination at the highest international and local levels to change the energy map in the Mediterranean region and the entire world.
This book derives its exceptional strength and credibility from the professional identity of its authors. The first is Giuseppe Udo, a veteran investigative journalist and former envoy for the famous Italian newspaper “Il Sole 24 Ore” specializing in economic affairs, and who has a long history in revealing the secrets of major deals and the parallel state.In Italy. The second author is Vincenzo Caglia, a prominent judge and legal advisor who personally led the official judicial investigations by the Italian Prosecutor's Office of Bascapi into the circumstances of Enrico Mattei's death. This unique combination of a keen journalistic eye and a rigorous judicial background allowed for the presentation of a documentary work that does not rely on speculation or popular conspiracy theories, but is based entirely on a careful re-examination of judicial documents, investigative records, and suppressed testimonies, in addition to archival work.A massive and painstaking work that took many years to trace the tangled threads that had been deliberately hidden over decades.
In the introduction to the book, the authors pose a series of fundamental and shocking questions that form the basic structure of the investigation. Who is the real party that issued the final order to liquidate Enrico Mattei? Why was there an urgent insistence on physically assassinating him at that particular time, despite the fact that the ruling party in the country at that time, the Christian Democracy Party, had already taken a secret decision and succeededBehind the scenes to exclude him from the presidency of Eni? More importantly, why was he liquidated at the moment when this man decided to abandon his traditional hostility and fierce confrontation with the cartel of major international oil companies known as the “Seven Sisters,” and accepted to enter into a strategic truce with the American “Standard Oil” company, a truce that was supposed to culminate in an anticipated and direct historic meeting with US President John Kennedy? These questions open the door wide to understanding the fierce battleWhich Mattei fought to preserve his country's national sovereignty and help emerging peoples achieve economic liberation.
What is striking and new in this investigative work is the intense and precise focus on what is known as the “French path” in the assassination. By tracing the documents and re-reading the geopolitical scene of 1962, Kalia and Odo conclude by directing a direct and documented accusation against the French sovereign and intelligence services as the party most in a hurry and pressure to get rid of Mattei.
