Munich ’72, the threat in the documents of the 007 of the Bern Club

The Bern club was founded in the mid-1960s and among the creators is Federico Umberto D’Amato, the then director of the Reserved Affairs Offices of the Italian Ministry of the Interior, who remained in office as President until 1974. The The idea is to periodically bring together the main heads of the internal security services of Western Europe (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands), sometimes extending the meetings to the United Kingdom, Switzerland and in some cases also to the United States and Israel to issues of international terrorism. The documents of the Berne Club include both the document signed by D’Amato from 1971 (a telex dated 31 August 1971 – which Adnkronos was able to view – sent to the head of German internal intelligence Hubert Schrübbers and relating to the “concern” of the German Services “for the conduct of the Munich Olympics” and the initiative to compile a “file” of terrorists to be exchanged between European countries in view of the ’72 games), and the “Report on the decisions approved at the meeting of the heads of Western European security services held on November 19, 1971 in Cologne “, at the time classified as” highly confidential “, and relating to a security issue for the Munich Olympics. The first meeting of the Bern club mentioned documentary trace dates back to 1969 in Paris and discusses the need to create periodic meetings between the heads of the major European police services, a program already requested by the Italian interior ministry since 1965. It is an informal collaboration between the 6 countries of the European Community aimed at creating coordination on problems related to internal security and the fight against political subversion without hindering the work of Interpol which instead focuses on police matters criminal. In 1968, the year of the student unrest, behind the push of the French ministry it was decided to hold the meetings every six months. The internal situation of each country is jointly examined by looking at violence, political terrorism, the financing of various terrorist groups, the possible role of Eastern European services in fomenting unrest, the activities of left-wing extra-parliamentary groups and their infiltration into the public apparatus. The other meetings were held in Paris in February 1969, in The Hague in September 1969, again in Paris in September 1970, in Cologne in November 1971, in Rome in May 1972, in Bern between October and November 1972 and in Cologne. in January 1973.