 Pecorelli was able to describe with ease complex situations, often protecting facts and characters behind pseudonyms.For example, he referred to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa as "general Amen," explaining that it was he who, during the weeks of Aldo Moro's detention in the hands of his kidnappers, had informed Interior Minister Francesco Cossiga of the location of the hideout where Moro was being detained.In 1978, Pecorelli wrote that Dalla Chiesa was in danger and would be assassinated.