Ex-spy: CIA, Italians worked on abduction - by Christine Spolar
MILAN, Italy -- A former Italian intelligence agent told prosecutors that the top CIA official in Italy in 2003 worked directly with Italian military intelligence to abduct a Muslim cleric who was later imprisoned in Egypt, according to an arrest warrant filed last week.
The former Italian agent, Stefano D'Ambrosio, told prosecutors that he was informed "in explicit terms" by a ranking CIA agent that a joint operation to kidnap the cleric was encouraged by and "directly attributed" to the CIA's station chief in Rome.
"It was [the CIA station chief] who actually made the contacts with SISMI for this purpose," said D'Ambrosio, who worked for SISMI, the Italian military intelligence agency. D'Ambrosio, who was responsible in part for tracking terror activities in Milan, also told investigators that he eventually left SISMI because his career was derailed when he questioned superiors about the plan.
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