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| − | Commission set up by [[Silvio Berlusconi]] to investigate links between the [[KGB]] and his political opponents on the Italian left. In practice it was a smear operation.<ref>[http://www.slate.com/id/2155274/ The Secret Life of Mario Scaramella], by [[Alexander Stille]], [[Slate]], 11 December 2006.</ref>
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| − | ==Romano Prodi==
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| − | ::[[Alexander Litvenko|Litvinenko]] had no compunction in recalling a piece of gossip he had been told by a former KGB deputy director as he fled Russia. In 2000, General [[Anatoly Trofimov]] had warned Litvinenko not to go to Rome since "Prodi is our man in Italy". He was referring to [[Romano Prodi]], the former Italian prime minister who went on to become president of the European Commission.
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| − | ::Now Litvinenko regurgitated the unfounded claim to [[Mario Scaramella|Scaramella]] who persuaded him to write it down.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,2246124,00.html Why a spy was killed], by [[Cathy Scott-Clark]] and [[Adrian Levy]], [[The Guardian]], 26 January 2008.</ref>
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| − | On 29 March 2006, Litvinenko met [[UKIP]] MEP [[Gerard Batten]] at the Itsu restaurant in London. Four days later, with an Italian general election imminent, Batten called for an Inquiry into Prodi in the [[European Parliament]]. Prodi responded by threatening to sue Litvinenko and Scaramella. In the resulting controversy, [[Silvio Berlusconi]] was forced to wind up the [[Mitrokhin Commission]], and Prodi won the election.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,2246124,00.html Why a spy was killed], by [[Cathy Scott-Clark]] and [[Adrian Levy]], [[The Guardian]], 26 January 2008.</ref>
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| − | ==The Imam Rapito Affair==
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| − | Litvinenko, Scaramella and [[Evgeni Limarev]] met in Italy with [[Robert Seldon Lady]], a [[CIA]] agent posted as a political officer to the US consulate in Milan. Lady was allegedly involved in the so-called [[Imam Rapito]] affair, the kidnapping of Egyptian cleric [[Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr]]. The [[Mitrokhin Commission]] investigated allegations that the prosecutor in the case, [[Armando Spataro]], had secret links to the [[KGB]].<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,2246124,00.html Why a spy was killed], by [[Cathy Scott-Clark]] and [[Adrian Levy]], [[The Guardian]], 26 January 2008.</ref>
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| − | ==Niger Uranium story==
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| − | After the Italian press reported CIA involvement in producing the story that [[Saddam Hussein]] was sourcing uranium from Niger, the [[Mitrokhin Commission]] claimed the journalists involved were dupes of the [[FSB]]. <ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,2246124,00.html Why a spy was killed], by [[Cathy Scott-Clark]] and [[Adrian Levy]], [[The Guardian]], 26 January 2008.</ref>
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| − | ==People==
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| − | ===Members===
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| − | *[[Paolo Guzzanti]] - President.
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| − | *[[Andrea Papini]] - Vice-President.
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| − | *[[Giovanni Mongiello]] - Vice-President.
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| − | *[[Giampaolo Zancan]] - Secretary.
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| − | *[[Salvatore Meleleo]] - Secretary.
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| − | '''Senators:'''
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| − | *[[Giulio Andreotti]]
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| − | *[[Guglielmo Castagnetti]]
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| − | *[[Mario Cavallaro]]
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| − | *[[Amadeo Ciccanti]]
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| − | *[[Cinzia Dato]]
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| − | *[[Luciano Falcier]]
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| − | *[[Constantino Garraffa]]
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| − | *[[Mario Gasbarri]]
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| − | *[[Salvatore Lauro]]
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| − | *[[Loris Guiseppe Maconi]]
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| − | *[[Lucio Malan]]
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| − | *[[Luigi Marino]]
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| − | *[[Franco Mugnai]]
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| − | *[[Gianni Nieddu]]
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| − | *[[Ludovico Pace]]
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| − | *[[Piergiorgio Stiffoni]]
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| − | *[[Roberto Ulivi]]
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| − | '''Deputies'''
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| − | *[[Ferdinando Adornato]]
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| − | *[[Gabriele Albonetti]]
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| − | *[[Maurizio Bertucci]]
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| − | *[[Valter Bielli]]
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| − | *[[Francesco Carboni]]
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| − | *[[Fabrizio Cicchitto]]
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| − | *[[Giuseppe Cossiga]]
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| − | *[[Oliviero Diliberto]]
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| − | *[[Lino Duilio]]
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| − | *[[Giuseppe Fallica]]
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| − | *[[Vincenzo Fragala]]
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| − | *[[Pierfrancesco Emilio Romano Gamba]]
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| − | *[[Francesco Giordano]]
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| − | *[[Giuseppe Lezza]]
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| − | *[[Giuseppe Molinari]]
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| − | *[[Erminio Angelo Quartiani]]
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| − | *[[Enzo Raisi]]
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| − | *[[Giacomo Stucchi]]<ref>[http://www.senato.it/leg/14/BGT/Schede/Commissioni/4-00131.htm Commissione parlamentare d'inchiesta concernente il "dossier Mitrokhin" e l'attività d'intelligence italiana], Italian Parliament, 7 May 2002.</ref>
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| − | ===Consultants, contacts, and sources===
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| − | *[[Mario Scaramella]]
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| − | *[[Alexander Litvinenko]]
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| − | *[[Evgeni Limarev]]
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| − | *[[Gianni Paolo Pelizzaro]] - a consultant to the Commission.
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| − | ==References==
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