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The Red Mime of Milan by Charles C. Mann Accidental Death was written about what Italians refer to as the "strategy of tension": a scheme carried out during the early 1970s by right-wing extremists in the military and secret services to discredit the Italian Communist Party by staging a number of "leftist" bombings. The most notorious of these incidents occurred in Milan, where scores of people were killed or maimed by a blast in a crowded bank. A coven of rather foolish anarchists was framed for the crime, but the whole business came unraveled after one member of the group was chucked out of a high window in a police station during an interrogation. The subsequent cover-ups, inquests, re- coverups, and trials lasted for years, aroused great public ire, and ended in the disbanding of the Italian intelligence service.