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Litvinenko, Scaramella and [[Evegeni 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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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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==People==

Revision as of 16:11, 20 April 2008

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.[1]

Romano Prodi

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.
Now Litvinenko regurgitated the unfounded claim to Scaramella who persuaded him to write it down.[2]

On 29 March 2006, Litvinenko met UKIP MEP Gerald 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.[3]

The Imam Rapito Affair

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.[4]

People

Members

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Deputies

Consultants, contacts, and sources

References

  1. ↑ The Secret Life of Mario Scaramella, by Alexander Stille, Slate, 11 December 2006.
  2. ↑ Why a spy was killed, by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, The Guardian, 26 January 2008.
  3. ↑ Why a spy was killed, by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, The Guardian, 26 January 2008.
  4. ↑ Why a spy was killed, by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy, The Guardian, 26 January 2008.
  5. ↑ Commissione parlamentare d'inchiesta concernente il "dossier Mitrokhin" e l'attività d'intelligence italiana, Italian Parliament, 7 May 2002.
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