August 27 -
Sicilian mafioso,
Tommaso Buscetta, is arrested in
New York[3] on a pending double murder conviction in
Italy but because of no request for extradition he is released.
September 16 –
Italian journalist
Mauro De Mauro disappears while preparing the
film "Il Caso Mattei"[4] about the mysterious death of
Enrico Mattei, the president of
Italy’s national oil company
Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI), in 1962. Director
Francesco Rosi had asked De Mauro to investigate Mattei's last days in
Sicily. De Mauro soon obtained an audio tape of Mattei's last speech and spent days studying it. De Mauro disappeared 8 days after his retrieval of the tape without leaving a trace. His body was never found.
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