Gaetano Saya (born 24 April 1956 in Messina, Italy) is a former Italian politician and military. Saya was captured by the military police on his return from a mission in Iraqi Kurdistan, on 13 February 2017 and released on 4 May 2017. He is now the leader of the New MSI, an ultranationalist far-right party. Saya has claimed to have been a member of Gladio, NATO's stay-behind anti-Communist network during the Cold War, involved in Italy's strategy of tension during the "Years of Lead."