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Mauro De Mauro (born September 6, 1921 – disappeared September 16, 1970) was an Italian investigative journalist. Originally a supporter of the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini he eventually became a journalist with the left-leaning newspaper ''L'Ora'' in Palermo. He disappeared in September 1970 and his body has not yet been found. The disappearance and probable death of the "inconvenient journalist" (''giornalista scomodo'') – as he became known as a result of his investigative reporting – remains one of the unsolved mysteries in Italian history. Several explanations for his disappearance are current. One is related to the death of the president of Italy's state-owned oil and gas conglomerate ENI, Enrico Mattei. Another is that De Mauro had discovered drug trafficking between Sicily and the United States. A third explanation links his disappearance with the Golpe Borghese, a planned right-wing coup d'état (the plan failed in December 1970). Apparently De Mauro was convinced that he had got hold of a story of a lifetime. Before his disappearance he told colleagues at the newspaper ''L'Ora'', "I have a scoop that is going to shake Italy."〔(Revealed: how story of Mafia plot to launch coup cost reporter his life ), The Independent on Sunday, June 19, 2005〕〔 (De Mauro ucciso per uno scoop: scoprì il patto tra boss e golpisti ), La Repubblica, June 18, 2005〕 ==Fascist past== De Mauro was born in 1921 in Foggia, Apulia. His father Oscar De Mauro belonged to a reputable family of doctors and pharmacists that had been living in Foggia for several generations. His mother Clementina Rispoli came from Naples and was a math teacher.〔 , La Repubblica, February 19, 2009〕〔 (Curriculum vitae Tullio De Mauro ) (accessed January 29, 2011)〕 His younger brother Tullio De Mauro (born March 31, 1932) is a linguist and politician, who became Minister of Education in 2000-2001. De Mauro was a supporter of the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. After the armistice with the Allied Forces in September 1943, he choose to follow the hard-line fascist regime of the Italian Social Republic (''Repubblica Sociale Italiana'' – RSI) in German-held northern Italy. During the German military occupation of Rome in 1943-1944, he was vice-commander of Police under the Commander Caruso, informant of the SS Captain Erich Priebke and of the Colonel Herbert Kappler. He was also a member of the Koch Band, a special unit of the Home Security in the Italian Social Republic.〔 (Documenti statunitensi e italiani sulla Banda Giuliano, la Decima Mas e il Neofascismo in Sicilia ), by Giuseppe Casarrubea, November 2005〕〔 (A 40 anni dalla scomparsa del giornalista De Mauro, eliminato dalla mafia mentre indagava sulle trame nere d’Italia ), Arcoiris TV, September 16, 2010〕 Using a variety of aliases (Roberto Marini, Mauro Mauri, Mariani, etc.), De Mauro managed to infiltrate several resistance organizations (in Rome and Milan) to hunt the partisans.〔 He and his wife Elda volunteered to join the Decima MAS, a brutal anti-partisan force under the command of prince Junio Valerio Borghese, also known as the "Black Prince". De Mauro worked for the journal ''La Cambusa'' (The Galley) of the propaganda unit of the military formation.〔 (Chi era Mauro De Mauro ), Il Post, June 11, 2011〕 He was arrested during the liberation in Milan in April 1945. He escaped from the prison camp Coltano (Tuscany) in December 1945 and took refuge in Naples with his young wife (where he also had two daughters, Junia and Franca Valeria, named after Junio Valerio Borghese)〔 (Mauro De Mauro ), by Antonella Romano, in: ''Giornata della Memoria dei giornalisti uccisi da mafie e terrorismo'', Rome: Unione Nazionale Cronisti Italiani, 2008, pp. 28-35〕 Accused of having participated in the Fosse Ardeatine massacre in March 1944 in which 335 people were executed,〔〔 (Mauro De Mauro al tempo della Rsi ), blog by Giuseppe Casarrubea, July 7, 2010〕 he was absolved by the court in 1948.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mauro De Mauro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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