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Servizio Informazioni Difesa
Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare (abbreviated SISMI, ''Military Intelligence and Security Service'') was the military intelligence agency of Italy from 1977–2007. With the reform of the Italian Intelligence Services approved on 1 August 2007, SISMI was replaced by Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Esterna (AISE).Legislative Act n.124 of 08/03/2007, reported on the Official Gazette of the Italian Republic, General Series, n.187 of 08/13/2007 History Since the end of World War II, Italian intelligence agencies have been reorganized many times ( SIM 1900-49, SIFAR 1949-65, SID 1965-77) and last SISDE (civil) and SISMI (military) from 1977 to 2007, in an attempt to increase their effectiveness and bring them more fully under civilian control. The agency was established as part of a broader reform of the Italian intelligence community, which represented the latest in a long string of government attempts to effectively manage Italy's intelligence agencies. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agenzia Informazioni E Sicurezza Esterna
The Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Esterna (AISE; Italian: ''External Intelligence and Security Agency'') is the foreign intelligence service of Italy. AISE was established in 2007 to replace the Military Intelligence and Security Service (SISMI) as part of reforms of Italy's intelligence services. The agency operates outside of Italy to protect national security and interests mainly through the use of HUMINT and is responsible to the Prime Minister of Italy through the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. The current Director of AISE is General Giovanni Caravelli. History Since the end of World War II, Italian intelligence agencies have been reorganized many times: * SIM 1900–49, * SIFAR 1949–65, * SIOS 1949–97, * SID 1965–77, * SISMI (military branch), and SISDE (civil branch), Executive Committee for Intelligence and Security (CESIS) 1977–2007 in an attempt to increase their effectiveness and bring them more fully under civilian control. AISE was fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CESIS
Comitato Esecutivo per i Servizi di Informazione e Sicurezza () was an Italian government committee whose mission was the coordination of all the intelligence sector, and specifically between the two civilian and military intelligence agencies (respectively, SISDE and SISMI), with the aim to report all the relevant information collected by it to the political Authorities, represented by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. With the reform of the Italian Intelligence Services approved on 1 August 2007, CESIS was replaced by DIS.Legislative Act n.124 of 08/03/2007, reported on the Official Gazette of the Italian RepublicGeneral Series, n.187 of 08/13/2007 History Since the end of World War II, Italian intelligence agencies have been reorganized many times in an attempt to increase their effectiveness and bring them more fully under civilian control. The committee was established as part of a broader reform of the Italian intelligence community, which represented the lates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulvio Martini
Fulvio Martini (26 February 1923 - 15 February 2003) was an Italian Navy admiral and intelligence officer. He was the head of Military Security and Intelligence between 5 May 1984 and 26 February 1991.L Biography Fulvio Martini was born in Trieste which a few years earlier had been transferred from Austro-Hungary to Italy in the context of the wartime treaty commitments whereby the British and their allies had persuaded Italy to join in the war on the allied side. During the Second World War he enlisted in the Italian navy. Martini's first assignment was as a junior officer on the aging battleship Duilio. He continued his naval career after the war ended, serving between 1972 and 1973 as ship's captain on the battle cruiser Vittorio Veneto, at which time the vessel was the flagship of the Italian navy. His long career in military intelligence began in 1956. He served till 1962 in the naval branch of the military intelligence and status information service (''"Servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Lugaresi
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Italian Minister Of The Interior
The Minister of the Interior (Italian: ''Ministro dell'Interno'') in Italy is one of the most important positions in the Italian Council of Ministers and leads the Ministry of the Interior. The current Minister is prefect Matteo Piantedosi, appointed on 22 October 22 in the Meloni Cabinet. The Minister of the Interior is responsible for internal security and the protection of the constitutional order, for civil protection against disasters and terrorism, for displaced persons and administrative questions. It is host to the Standing Committee of Interior Ministers and also drafts all passport, identity card, firearms, and explosives legislation. The Interior Minister is political head for the administration of internal affairs. They control the State police, the Vigili del Fuoco The Vigili del Fuoco is Italy's institutional agency for fire and rescue service. It is part of the Ministry of Interior's ''Dipartimento dei Vigili del Fuoco, del Soccorso Pubblico e della Difes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romano Prodi
Romano Antonio Prodi (; born 9 August 1939) is an Italian politician, economist, academic, senior civil servant, and business executive who served as the tenth president of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. He served twice as Prime Minister of Italy, first from 18 May 1996 to 21 October 1998, and then from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008. Prodi is considered the founder of the Italian centre-left and one of the most prominent and iconic figures of the so-called Second Republic. He is often nicknamed ''Il Professore'' ("The Professor") due to his academic career. A former professor of economics and international advisor to Goldman Sachs, Prodi ran as lead candidate of The Olive Tree coalition, winning the 1996 Italian general election and serving as Prime Minister until 1998. Following the victory of his coalition The Union over the House of Freedoms led by Silvio Berlusconi in the 2006 Italian general election, Prodi took power again. On 24 January 2008, he lost a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imam Rapito Affair
The Abu Omar Case was the abduction and transfer to Egypt of the Imam of Milan Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar. The case was picked by the international media as one of the better-documented cases of extraordinary rendition carried out in a joint operation by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Italian Military Intelligence and Security Service (SISMI) in the context of the "global war on terrorism" declared by the Bush administration. Abu Omar was abducted on February 17, 2003, in Milan by agents of the SISMI and CIA, and transported to the Aviano Air Base, from which he was transferred to Egypt, where he was imprisoned for four years without charges, secluded, interrogated and "brutally tortured by America's long-standing ally, the Mubarak regime." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolò Pollari
Nicolò Pollari (born 3 March 1943 in Caltanissetta) is a general of the Italian Guardia di Finanza The ''Guardia di Finanza'' (G. di F. or GdF) () (English: literal: ''Guard of Finance'', paraphrased: ''Financial Police'' or ''Financial Guard'') is an Italian law enforcement agency under the authority of the Minister of Economy and Finance. ..., who was the former head of Italy's national military intelligence agency, or SISMI, from 1 October 2001 until his resignation on 20 November 2006. He assisted in the CIA kidnapping of a cleric to be sent to Egypt for torture - for which he was convicted in 2013 to a 10-year jail sentence, that was overturned in 2014 upon appeal to the Italian Supreme_Court_of_Cassation_(Italy), Supreme Court of Cassation. He is claimed to have earlier supported the US efforts to justify the invasion of Iraq by providing false documents. Niger uranium forgeries In a 2005 article in the newspaper ''La Repubblica'' he was identified by investigative re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladio
Operation Gladio is the codename for clandestine "stay-behind" operations of armed resistance that were organized by the Western Union (WU), and subsequently by NATO and the CIA, in collaboration with several European intelligence agencies during the Cold War. The operation was designed for a potential Warsaw Pact invasion and conquest of Europe. Although Gladio specifically refers to the Italian branch of the NATO stay-behind organizations, "Operation Gladio" is used as an informal name for all of them. Stay-behind operations were prepared in many NATO member countries, and some neutral countries. During the Cold War, anti-communist armed groups engaged in attacks on left-wing parties with torture, terrorist attacks, and massacres in countries such as Italy. The role of the CIA and other intelligence organisations in Gladio—the extent of its activities during the Cold War era and any responsibility for terrorist attacks perpetrated in Italy during the " Years of Lead" (late 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Santovito
Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph, from Latin Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף. It is the most common name in Italy and is unique (97%) to it. The feminine form of the name is Giuseppina. People with the given name Artists and musicians * Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1671–1707), Italian composer * Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526 or 1527–1593), Italian painter * Giuseppe Belli (singer) (1732–1760), Italian castrato singer * Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791–1863), Italian poet * Giuseppe Castiglione (1829–1908) (1829–1908), Italian painter * Giuseppe Giordani (1751–1798), Italian composer, mainly of opera * Giuseppe Ottaviani (born 1978), Italian musician and disc jockey * Giuseppe Psaila (1891–1960), Maltese Art Nouveau architect * Giuseppe Sammartini (1695–1750), Italian composer and oboist * Giuseppe Sanmartino or Sammartino (1720–1793), Italian sculptor * Giuseppe Santomaso (1907–1990), Italian painter * Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dipartimento Delle Informazioni Per La Sicurezza
The ''Dipartimento delle Informazioni per la Sicurezza'' (DIS, 'Department of Information for Security') is a department of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of Italy, instituted in 2007 as part of the reform of the Italian security services. The department is part of ''Sistema di informazione per la sicurezza della Repubblica'' (information system for security). It is currently headed by Elisabetta Belloni, the successor to General Gennaro Vecchione. The department is divided into several functional areas. The Central Security Office (''Ufficio Centrale per la Sicurezza'') deals specifically with administrative protection of state secrets, including the granting or withdrawal of security clearance to individuals and organisations, the Central Archives Office (''Ufficio Centrale degli Archivi'') coordinates and manages the data in the possession of the Italian secret services, and the Training School (''Scuola di Formazione'') is responsible for the training of governmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
