Francesco Maurizio Cossiga, was an Italian politician. A member of the Christian Democratic Party of Italy, he was the prime minister of Italy from 1979 to 1980 and the eighth president of Italy from 1985 to 1992. Cossiga is widely considered one of the most prominent and influential politicians of the First Republic.
Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare was the military intelligence agency of Italy from 1977–2007.
The Polizia di Stato is one of the national police forces of Italy.
Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Democratica, was the domestic intelligence agency of Italy.
Law enforcement in Italy is an exclusive duty of the State, which means that policing is centralized on a national level. According to Italian system, as "policing" we can refer to the duties of "full-powered officers" coming from the three national main forces: Polizia di Stato, Carabinieri and, even if generally active in specific fields, Guardia di Finanza. While these three corps' duties spaces from investigating, preventing to arresting, other local forces carry out restricted and limited duties and will always subjeted to the main ones. The two main police forces in the country are the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie, and the Polizia di Stato, the civil national police. The third one is the Guardia di Finanza, a militarized police force responsible for dealing with financial crime, smuggling, illegal drug trade, and others.
Nicolò Pollari is a general of the Italian Guardia di Finanza, 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.
The SISMI-Telecom scandal, uncovered in Italy in 2006, refers to a surveillance scandal believed to have begun in 1996, under which more than 5,000 persons' phones were tapped.
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.
Guido Salvini is an Italian judge, based in Milan. He issued European arrest warrants in 2005 against approximatively 20 CIA agents accused of having taken part in the abduction of Abu Omar, the Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. The case is known in Italy as the Imam Rapito affair. Before that, Guido Salvini was in charge of investigations, since July 1988, concerning Italy's strategy of tension during the 1970s.
The Mitrokhin Commission was an Italian parliamentary commission set up in 2002 to investigate alleged KGB ties of some Italian politicians.
Comitato parlamentare per la sicurezza della Repubblica is a body of the Italian Parliament deputed to survey and oversee the activities of the Italian intelligence agencies.
Servizio Informazioni Operative e Situazione was an Italian military intelligence and security service serving from 1949 until 1997. Its main duty was safeguarding the internal security of military bases and its personnel and military intelligence activities against enemy and foreign forces, especially through SIGINT activities.
Italian intelligence agencies are the intelligence agencies of the Italian Republic. They have been reorganized many times since 1946 birth of the Italian Republic in attempts to increase their effectiveness and bring them more fully under civilian control. Currently, the Italian intelligence agencies are AISE and AISI, and are part of the Department of Information for Security, which is part of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
The counter-terrorism page primarily deals with special police or military organizations that carry out arrest or direct combat with terrorists. This page deals with the other aspects of counter-terrorism:
The Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Interna, commonly known as AISI, is the security agency of Italy. The AISI is the successor of the Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Democratica (SISDE) which was disbanded, and replaced by Dipartimento delle Informazioni per la Sicurezza, after the Act of August 3, 2007 No 124 which restructured the Italian intelligence community. Article 6 of this act clearly prohibits the agency from conducting operations outside Italy.
The Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Esterna is the foreign intelligence service of Italy.
The Dipartimento delle Informazioni per la Sicurezza 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. It is currently headed by General Gennaro Vecchione, the successor to Prefect Alessandro Pansa.
The kidnapping of Aldo Moro, also referred to in Italy as Moro Case, was a seminal event in Italian political history.
The Direzione Investigativa Antimafia, also known as DIA, is an Italian multi-force investigation body under the Department of Public Security of the Ministry of the Interior. Its main task is the fight against the mafia-related organized crime in Italy.
Giuseppe Tavormina was an Italian General officer of the Arma dei Carabinieri and former head of the DIA and of CESIS.
