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The Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse in Italian, often abbreviated as the BR) were a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group based in Italy and responsible for: assassinations, kneecappings, robberies and general political violence during the "Years of Lead". Formed in 1967, the Red Brigades sought to create a revolutionary state through armed struggle and to extract Italy from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. The Red Brigades gained notoriety throughout the 1970s and early 1980s for their violent attempts to destabilise Italy with sabotage attacks on factories, bank robberies and kidnappings. Their most infamous move took place in 1978, when the second groups of the BR, headed by Mario Moretti, kidnapped the former Christian Democrat Prime Minister Aldo Moro, who was trying to reach an historic compromise with the Communists, killing five men of his entourage and subsequently murdered him 54 days later. The BR barely survived the end of the Cold War following a split in 1984 and the arrest or flight of the majority of its members. In the 1980s, the group was broken up by Italian investigators, with the aid of several leaders under arrest who turned pentito and assisted the authorities in capturing the other members. After the mass arrests in the late 1980s, the terror group slowly faded into insignificance. A majority of those leaders took advantage of a law that gave credits for renouncing the doctrine (dissociato status) and contributing to efforts by police and judiciary to prosecute its members ("collaboratore di giustizia", also known as pentito).