• Member of the Brigate Rosse Valerio Morucci, 1949
• Member of the Brigate Rosse Patrizio Peci, 1953
• Member of the Brigate Rosse Barbara Balzerani, 1949

Morucci was born in Rome. He took part in the libertarian movement of 1968, and later entered Potere Operaio, a far left organization. After the dissolution of Potere Operaio in 1973, he tried to form several political - military organizations including the Formazioni Comuniste Armate (FCA), which were absorbed by the Red Brigades (Italian: Brigate Rosse, or BR) in 1976.

Morucci, considered an expert in weapons and military organizations, became responsible of BR's "column" in Rome. In March 1978, he took part in the ambush in via Fani in which the escort of former prime Minister Aldo Moro was massacred, and during which Moro was allegedly kidnapped. According to the official reconstruction of the events which followed, Morucci disturbed all the communications of the BR and was allegedly against the final decision (attributed to BR national leader Mario Moretti) to kill Moro. He also entered in contact with Lanfranco Pace and Franco Piperno (in turn in contact with the Italian Socialist Party, one of the few political forces favorable to negotiations to liberate Moro).

Accordng to his declarations during the ensuing trials, Morucci escorted the red Renault 4 in which Moro's corpse was found on 9 May 1978 to its discovery location in via Caetani. He subsequently made the phone call announcing to the victim's relatives where Moro could be found. His voice has been identified as that of the person who, during Moro's detention, called several times his family (aside from a call by Moretti on 30 April 1978)

Morucci was arrested in 1979. Due to its following dissociation from BR, and the information given about the organization, he was paroled. His sentence expired in 1994. He wrote several books, including Ritratto di un terrorista, in which he tells about his life before and after his militancy in the BR, and Patre galere. Cronache dall'oltrelegge, about his detention years.

Patrizio Peci (Ripatransone, 29 July 1953) is a former Italian terrorist belonging to the Red Brigades, who was also the first to repent.

He grew up in Ripatransone until 1962, then, for reasons related to the work of his father, he moved with his family to San Benedetto del Tronto. He was the eldest of four children: Ida, Roberto and Leonora.

He founded the PAIL (Workers in the armed struggle) and was drafted by the Red Brigades in 1977, in the column of Mara Cagol of Turin.

Patrizio Peci took part in the following terrorist operations:

• On 22 April 1977 he participated in ​​his first action together with Raffaele Fiore (aka Naso) and Angela Vai (nom de guerre Augusta), attempting to murder Anthonio Munari, foreman of Fiat, after shadowing him for weeks. The attack was claimed on 24 April with a press release by the BR.
• Pedinò Ezio Mauro in May 1977, although the journalist was not harmed.

• On June 30, 1977 he took part, along with Piero Panciarelli and Andrea Coi, they ambushed the director of Fiat.
  
• On October 25, 1977 in the ambush against Antonio Cocozzello, member of DC.
• He took part in the ambush and stalking the journalist Carlo Casalegno.

Based on this conviction and in retaliation, the Red Brigades kidnapped Roberto, put him on ``trial", sentenced him to death and killed him.

"They took my brother Roberto by deception, one morning. They caught and arrested him; that is how desperate and senseless is  the logic of revenge. They kidnapped him by a miserable trick, with the aim of holding a show trial against him and kill him. But in fact did so only out of a fierce revenge against me "(...). "Every time a piece of history reaches me, a wound is reopened. I only noticed by chance that I am the only one, the only one who has lived in the years of lead in both sides of the Damned, both as one of the perpetrators, among those who have administered death, and those who have experienced death, one of the worst deepest senses of irrevocable loss".

The final part of the "proletarian process", including the execution of the judgment, was recorded on video, was aired on national television multiple times, including the reading of the "verdict". Patrizio has always denied the claim. Hoping to save him, his sister admitted temporarily, during the days of his detention, the claims of the informant, only to explain her position and regret and, when it was over, the reasons for her statements.

Later, Peci, published, with Giordano Bruno Guerri the book I, the infamous (1983) in which are recounted his years in the Red Brigades and the subsequent regrets.

"Patrizio Peci died May 18, 1983. Patrizio Peci was me. On 18 May 1983 in Turin, the man known by that name entered in a court of Turin to testify against his former comrades, the main 'prosecution witness in the trial of the BR. Until that day I had been a Brigade member, after that I became the most ferocious enemy of BR '(...). After 1983, a new Patrizio, without any public image, faceless, without ties to his former world - in short, I - would have had to make a new baptismal rite, and start his  life from scratch".

The book was later republished in October 2008 in an updated version, adding a new section on the period after the first publication.

In 1983, Peci granted a television interview with Enzo Biagi, broadcast by Rai.

He was sentenced to eight years imprisonment on 17 February 1986, together with other members of the column Cagol Mara, who were sentenced to a total of 13 life sentences .

Peci currently lives in a secret location and has changed his name. In 2008, in Switzerland , the IST has aired for the first time a documentary on the Peci brothers, directed by Luigi Maria Perotti and entitled The infamous and his brother.

90 minutes in duration, the film (co-produced by Italy and Germany), highlights the figure of his sister Ida and her desire to understand the reasons behind the killing of her brother.

The documentary was aired in Italy in June 2008 and in Germany on 8 November 2010, under the title Der Verräter und sein Bruder.

Balzerani was born at Colleferro, in the province of Rome.

In the 1970s she became a leader of the Red Brigades (Italian Brigate Rosse, or BR, which she had joined in 1975) in Rome. She took part in several killings, such as that of Girolamo Minervini and the assassination of Aldo Moro's escort in Via Fani (1979). After the arrest of BR's national leader Mario Moretti in 1981, she unsuccessfully tried to handle the split in the organization, becoming a leader of the "Brigate Rosse - Partito Comunista Combattente", while Giovanni Senzani led the other faction, the "BR - Partito Guerriglia".

During the detention of Aldo Moro, she occupied, together with Moretti, the BR base in Via Gradoli in Rome. The base was discovered due to water leak, allegedly caused by a tap left open - although the circumstances of its discovery by Italian police forces were never totally clear. In 1981 she participated in the abduction of US general James L. Dozier.

She was one of the last historical BR leader to be arrested, in 1985. From the prison, she claimed the assassination of Florence's former mayor Lando Conti. She was sentenced to life imprisonment, but was paroled on 12 December 2006. She received unconditional freedom in 2011.

Balzerani wrote four books, Compagna luna (1998), La sirena delle cinque (2003), Perché io, perché non tu (2009) and Cronaca di un'attesa (2011).