Editing Enrico Mattei (section)

=== Theories about his death ===
According to {{ill|Phillipe Thyraud de Vosjoli|fr}}, a former agent of the French secret service [[SDECE]], SDECE agents were responsible for the 1962 plane crash which took the life of Mattei. Mattei was on the verge of engineering an Italian takeover of French oil interests in Algeria. A French agent code-named Laurent sabotaged Mattei's aircraft.<ref name=kruger>{{cite book |chapter=The French intelligence Zoo |chapter-url=http://quixoticjoust.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-great-heroin-coup-chapters-2-3-4.html | title=The Great Heroin Coup - Drugs, Intelligence & International Fascism | url=https://quixoticjoust.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_6.html | publisher=[[South End Press]] | last=Kruger |first=Henrik | year=1980 | location=Boston | isbn=0-89608-031-5 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140802142031/https://quixoticjoust.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_6.html | archive-date=2 August 2014 |url-status=live}}. Foreword by [[Peter Dale Scott]]. Originally published in Danish as ''Smukke Serge og Heroien'', Bogan, 1976.</ref>

When preparing the film ''[[The Mattei Affair]]'' in 1970, [[Francesco Rosi]] asked the journalist [[Mauro De Mauro]] to investigate the last days of Mattei in [[Sicily]].<ref name=ind290897/> De Mauro soon obtained an audio-tape of his last speech and spent days studying it. De Mauro disappeared eight days after he retrieved the tape on 16 September 1970 without leaving a trace. His body was never found.<ref name=ind290897/><ref name=ind190605>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150925191517/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/revealed-how-story-of-mafia-plot-to-launch-coup-cost-reporter-his-life-8016392.html "Revealed: how story of Mafia plot to launch coup cost reporter his life"]. ''[[The Independent on Sunday]]''. 19 June 2005.</ref> All the [[Carabinieri]] and [[police]] investigators who searched for De Mauro, and consequently investigated his presumed kidnapping, were later killed. Among them, the general [[Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa]] and [[Boris Giuliano]] were both killed by the Mafia.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

[[Tommaso Buscetta]], an important Mafia turncoat (''[[pentito]]''), declared that the Sicilian Mafia had been involved in the murder of Mattei. According to Buscetta, Mattei was killed at the request of [[Angelo Bruno]] of the [[American Mafia]] because his policies had damaged important American interests in the Middle East.<ref name=rep230594/><ref name=arlacchi79>Arlacchi, ''Addio Cosa Nostra'', pp. 79-83.</ref> Journalist De Mauro was subsequently killed in 1970 because his investigation of Mattei's death was getting close to the truth.<ref name=rep230594>[http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1994/05/23/buscetta-cosa-nostra-uccise-enrico-mattei.html "Buscetta: 'Cosa nostra uccise Enrico Mattei'"]. ''[[La Repubblica]]''. 23 May 1994. {{in lang|it}}</ref> [[Gaetano Iannì]], another ''pentito'', declared that a special agreement had been achieved between the Sicilian Mafia and some foreigners for the elimination of Mattei, which was organized by [[Giuseppe Di Cristina]].<ref name=rep210694>[http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1994/06/21/fu-di-cristina-sabotare-aereo.html "Fu Di Cristina a sabotare l'aereo di Enrico Mattei"]. ''La Repubblica''. 21 June 1994 {{in lang|it}}.</ref> These statements triggered new inquiries, including the exhumation of Mattei's corpse.<ref name=ind290897/>

Admiral [[Fulvio Martini]], later chief of [[SISMI]] (Italy's military secret service), declared that Mattei's plane had been shot down.{{citation needed|date=February 2011}} In 1986, former Italian Prime Minister [[Amintore Fanfani]] described the accident as a shooting, perhaps the first act of [[terrorism in Italy]].{{citation needed|date=September 2011}}