In the film, Steve admits that the decision was made to let Moro die and that baiting the kidnappers into killing him was the only solution available. Quote, the decision was made in the fourth week of the kidnapping when Moro's letters became more desperate and he was about to reveal state secrets. Hey, hey, assholes! For real! Yep, that's the position that he was putting forth. It's like Moro was allowed to write letters back to the government and what have you, and they were getting the tone. They're like, he's going to start telling the Red Brigades a bunch of shit. Yeah. So, Steve, and this is not backed up by anything, correct? I don't know. Steve saying that the Italian government was literally like, let's let him die. You're looking at me with very pregnant eyes. Well, many people don't believe Steve, which I think is a pretty healthy instinct. Yeah, that's a good start. However, some people do. In 2014, the International Business Times reported that, quote, prosecutors in Rome said there's serious evidence suggesting Steve Pieczenik, a former State Department international crisis manager, participated in the murder that shocked Italy. Considering he'd more or less admit as much on tape six years prior, I don't think that's too shocking of a report. Yeah, that sounds right. Both Steve and Italian Interior Minister Francesco Cosiga have admitted that they released a false statement attributed to the kidnappers, known as communication number seven, which announced that Moro was dead, though he was still alive in captivity. Steve admitted that they did this to gauge the public's reaction to news of Moro's death, as well as to send a message to the Red Brigades that they didn't care whether Moro lived or died, that they considered him dead already. That's fucked up. Yeah. That is really. Yeah. No, you can't do that. We don't have people who do that, right? Yeah, one guy. That's not a thing that you can do. Nobody's. So he literally just sent this message of just like, we're going to be out in front of this story. We're saying he's dead. So you have the option of killing him or making him the fucking Jesus. Those are your options, Red Brigades. And Steve, this was Steve's idea. Hey. Well, we don't know if it's Steve's idea. We don't know if it's participating, but he participated in the city. It could have been the interior minister who came up with this. Right, right, right. Steve seems to relish in it as a good idea. So this is. And this was not known for quite a while. When I mentioned that that article, a lot of his bio comes from involves the Aldo Moro kidnapping. This stuff is not like it's not public at this point. This isn't. He's presenting a different version of the events that happened. Right. So. So other people are like, ah, this guy, he doesn't know what he's talking about. And then the International Business Times is like, oh, that dude murdered a dude. Later, this information came out, and both of them have admitted that they sent this fake communication, which was part of trying to manipulate the kidnappers. Man. Which probably led them to not believe that they had a bargaining chip anymore. Obviously. So to quote Steve speaking about the Red Brigades, quote, I drew them into a trap where the only thing they could do eventually was kill Aldo Moro. Steve literally literally says that he did this through a psychological operation, a psyop. Steve's goal was not to free Aldo Moro. His goal was to protect the established power structure. And once it got to a point where it was decided that Moro was a threat, he worked to get Moro killed. Freeing him wouldn't be advantageous, since Moro's letters indicated a feeling of being betrayed by his associates, and they worried that if he made it out alive, he would use their inaction to save inaction to save him against them politically.