Mauro De Mauro, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian journalist
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Place of Birth: Foggia, Apulia, Italy
About Mauro De Mauro
- Mauro De Mauro (Italian pronunciation: ['mauro de 'mauro]; 6 September 1921 – disappeared 16 September 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 never 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 greatest unsolved mysteries in modern 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."
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