The DIS department that coordinates
Italy's intelligence agencies said Wednesday that it is taking
legal action against two newspapers, 'Il Foglio' and 'L'Unità',
over what it described as "false and defamatory" articles they
published.
The department referred to an article by Luca Gambardella
published by Il Foglio on Tuesday which said Giovanni Caravelli,
the director of the AISE intelligence agency, recently went to
Libya to inform the authorities there about a list of Libyans
wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
It also referred to a piece by Piero Sansonetti in Wednesday's
L'Unità with a headline that said "Almasri's informer is the
head of our 007s".
That was a reference to Libyan judicial police chief Osama
Almasri, who was released on a technicality and flown back home
on a secret services plane two days after his January 19 arrest
by Italian authorities on an ICC warrant on charges of war
crimes and crimes against humanity.
The DIS said the reports were "totally groundless and seriously
detrimental to the dignity of the Director of the Aise, prefect
Giovanni Caravelli, and the institutional correctness and
loyalty of the intelligence agencies".
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