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The LAT focuses on the secret domestic intelligence operations revealed as a side show to the Italian investigation of the Abu Omar rendition. The Eurotribune's take on the exposure of the "deviant parallel service bent on manufacturing false information and dossiers" is worth reading as well. It was run out of a sixth floor rented apartment at 230 via Nazionale, a main street that runs near Rome's Termini train station, near the Piazza della Repubblica. The LAT describes the secret Sismi facility as an "archive" but reports I'm hearing from Rome is that it had an operational component as well.
The Italian press led by Repubblica has been reporting for months, but it is a detail you couldn't make up; that the best friend since childhood of the arrested Sismi #2 Marco Mancini is Giuliani Tavaroli, ex-chief of Telecom Italia security. Quite a useful friendship if your business is wiretapping your political enemies. No joke, Tavaroli is also now under investigation.