SISMI


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SISMIServizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare (Italian Defense Secret Service)
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In return for the payment of US$227 million (NT$7 billion), he disposed of 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste, whose final resting place must be the ocean near Taiwan, according to SISMI.
Businessman dumped North Korean nuclear waste in Ocean near Taiwan
I didn't need any more details; the official from SISMI had the answers to all the questions that occurred to me.
Issa: in his latest work, Algerian-born writer Amara Lakhous--whose previous novel was hailed as the first contribution ever, from a foreigner, to serious Italian literature--examines the uneasy relations between Muslims and Europeans in multicultural Rome, his adopted city
Osama Mustafa Hassan, an imam better known as Abu Omar, was snatched from a Milan street on February 17, 2003, in an operation coordinated by the CIA and SISMI.
Italy requests tougher sentences for CIA abduction
The directors of SISMI and SISDE have operational control
European approaches to homeland security and counterterrorism
Behind the scheme were three individuals connected with SISMI--Rocco Martino, a former Italian secret agent turned freelance intelligence peddler; Colonel Antonio Nucera, a recently retired deputy chief of SISMI's counter-proliferation division; and a woman codenamed "La Signora," a longtime SISMI asset working as a secretary at the Niger embassy in Rome--who came together sometime in 1999 or 2000.
The Italian job: if anything, a visit to Rome only deepens the Niger forgeries mystery
Nicolo Pollari of SISMI had said Martino was working for French intelligence as the time (on a freelance basis) and that this could be behind Britain's claim that a "separate intelligence agency" was the source of the Niger document.
IRAQ - The Italian Dimension
The issue of the Niger yellowcake uranium precursor had been a point of controversy since late 2001, when the Italian secret service, SISMI, reported to their American, British and Israeli counterparts that they had obtained documents on Niger government letterhead indicating that Iraq had attempted to purchase 500 tons of yellowcake.
Drinking the Kool-Aid
to profitable account in The Spike, and Sterling was promulgating her Network, Ledeen, another high roller of the Reagan years, was commissioned by SISMI, Italian military intelligence, to do some papers on international terrorism [see "Beat the Devil," July 6/13].
Beat the devil: the history of hot air
17, 2003, in an operation coordinated by the CIA and Italy's SISMI military intelligence.
Prosecutor expects CIA trial involving Egypt's Abu Omar to continue
While living in Italy in the 1970s, he was a political historian, a correspondent for The New Republic, and a consultant to SISMI on terrorism issues.
Three days in Rome: in which a neoconservative jack-of-all-trades, a pair of Pentagon hawks, and an Iranian exile with a knack for tall tales try to outflank the CIA and conjure a coup In Tehran
Italy's secret service SISMI learned that a former Iraqi army colonel had told a suspected al-Qaeda cell in Madrid to strike, said Il Messagero newspaper.
Face of a massacre suspect
But the explosive aspect of events unfolding in Rome has been the increasing evidence that during the long months of his incarceration, Agca was coached by agents of the highly politicized and rightist SISMI, the military branch of Italian intelligence.
The gospel according to Ali Agca
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