August 27 - Sicilian mafioso, Tommaso Buscetta, is arrested in New York[3] on a pending double murder conviction in Italy but because of no request for extradition he is released.
September 16 – Italian journalist Mauro De Mauro disappears while preparing the film "Il Caso Mattei"[4] about the mysterious death of Enrico Mattei, the president of Italy’s national oil company Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI), in 1962. Director Francesco Rosi had asked De Mauro to investigate Mattei's last days in Sicily. De Mauro soon obtained an audio tape of Mattei's last speech and spent days studying it. De Mauro disappeared 8 days after his retrieval of the tape without leaving a trace. His body was never found.