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Italian Prosecution Looking for More Spy Conviction ...
An earlier ruling by an Italian court that convicted 23 American and 2 Italian citizens has been appealed. The defendants were accused of kidnapping a terrorism suspect. Now, the Italian prosecution is trying to reverse some of the lower court’s decisions. They have opened an appeal in hopes of incriminating the 5 other Italian agents who had been acquitted…
Italy arrests Iranian spies smuggling weapons
Iran’s steadily progressing nuclear program is top of the terrorist/espionage pops and it comes as no surprise that the country’s got its spies on the hunt for weapons and nuclear materials to import into Iran illegally.
In a nutshell, Iran is under an international UN arms embargo, so they’re having a tough time getting their hands on…
American spies get time for CIA kidnapping in Italy
On Wednesday, 23 Americans and two Italians were convicted of participating in an extraordinary rendition allegedly carried out by the CIA in Milan in 2003. In a nutshell, the CIA wanted to interrogate a Muslim…
Mussolini once in cahoots with MI5
In 1917, when Mussolini was the journalist in charge of the newspaper Il Popolo d’Italia, he was on the payroll of British Intelligence, reports the historian Peter Martland of Cambridge University. Might sound hard to believe, but…
Prison sentences for Americans in Italy CIA renditi ...
In Italy the trial against those Italian and American agents believed to be involved in an alleged CIA rendition operation continues. The Italian prosecutor has…
Former CIA spy laments Milan rendition
An ex-U.S. spy – once a CIA station chief in Italy – recently spoke to the Italian paper Il Giornale about his involvement in a 2003 CIA rendition heist, which took a Muslim cleric (Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr) suspected of terrorist involvement from his home in…
7 Italians plead innocent in CIA kidnapping
The trial against those allegedly involved in the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric working in Milan continues to unfold in Italy. The defendants comprise seven Italians and 26 Americans, the latter who are…
It’s just a cell phone…or is it?
There’s good reason cell phones are amongst the items being scrutinized by airport security. Back in November 2008 Italian police discovered a legit .22 caliber gun disguised as an innocent-looking cell phone during a raid near Naples.
Drugs, ammunition and thousands of pounds numbered among the items seized in the raid against the Neapolitan mafia, but this…