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Ugo Luca

Ugo Luca (1891-) was an Italian Carabinieri colonel. In 1949, Interior Minister Mario Scelba dispatched Luca, commander of the Carabinieri in Lazio and a decorated military intelligence veteran, to oversee a counter-insurgency campaign against the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano. He and 500 Carabinieri diminished Giuliano's bandit troupe from 1949 to 1950, and Luca lost only one man before Giuliano was betrayed and killed by his former right-hand man Gaspare Pisciotta in 1950. Luca and the military claimed credit for Giuliano's death.

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