Check out Eurotribune's post on the secret SISMI facility in a rented Rome attic apartment that was used to create false dossiers, run disinformation operations, forge documents, etc. which was exposed by the Milan magistrate investigating the Abu Omar abduction yesterday. Eurotrib writes, "....The clandestine base was reportedly discovered, ironically, through wiretaps on a senior Sismi agent, General Gustavo Pignero, and the Chief of Sismi's First Division, Marco Mancino. Marco Mancino's name has turned up in the illegal wiretapping cases that dwarf NSA wiretapping by comparison. [...] According to reports, when the vice director of the Berlusconi daily Libero, Renato Farina, asked for an interview with the Public Ministers, Armando Spataro and Ferdinando Pomarici, over the Abu Omar case, Spataro was warned by the Digos that Farina had been engaged to spy on him by Pio Pompa, Sismi agent in charge of press relations for Pollari. It is Pio Pompa who had rented out the flat in Via Nazionale. It did not take long for the Milan investigators to discover and understand the significance of the flat. ... "

Posted by Laura at July 6, 2006 07:34 PM