Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Esterna

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AISE coat of arms

The Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Esterna ( AISE ; German  "Office for Information and External Security" ) has been Italy's foreign intelligence service since 2007 . By a law on the reform of the Italian intelligence services of August 3, 2007, the new agency took over almost all tasks of the disbanded military service SISMI .

Mission and organization

Like the domestic service Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Interna, AISE is subordinate to the Italian Prime Minister or a minister commissioned by him without a portfolio or state secretary . The Office of the Prime Minister has the Dipartimento delle Informazioni per la Sicurezza (DIS) service to coordinate the intelligence services .

In contrast to its predecessor, SISMI, which was also responsible for counter-espionage domestically and was involved in illegal operations in Italy under this pretext, AISE is exclusively responsible for international operations. If it wants to work in Germany, it can only do so in cooperation with the domestic service and under the control of the DIS.

AISE reports to the Prime Minister but also reports to the Ministries of Interior , Foreign Affairs and Defense . The Prime Minister defines the exact division of tasks between the AISE foreign service and the military intelligence service of the General Staff, the Centro Intelligence Interforze . The mentioned ministries are provided directly with relevant information, all others must address their inquiries to the DIS.

Under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister , the Cabinet Committee Comitato Interministeriale per la Sicurezza della Repubblica (CISR) determines, among other things, the general job profiles for the services.

Facilities

Forte Braschi, within the AISE headquarters

The headquarters of AISE is located in the northwest of the center of Rome nearby Forte Braschi (pronounced Braski ), the line has a second service based at the DIS at the Piazza Dante in the district Esquilino ( ⊙ ). Other well-known AISE facilities are the listening system at Cerveteri (Rome, ⊙ ) and the CAG training center at Capo Marrargiu (Torre Poglina) on Sardinia. Smaller well-known institutions are located in San Donà di Piave near Venice, near Lecce in Apulia and in Oristano in Sardinia. These and other AISE objects located in Italy are protected by a military association called Raggruppamento Unità Difesa (RUD), whose name is also used as an alias for these AISE facilities.

Others

Since December 2015, the Prime Minister has had the right, after hearing the parliamentary committee to control the intelligence services, to order the use of special military forces in the context of intelligence operations if a crisis abroad affects the national security of Italy or if the protection of Italian citizens abroad is no different can be guaranteed. In these cases, the mission is usually carried out by the foreign intelligence service AISE, with the assigned special forces then being on an equal footing with the AISE employees. In the past, the so-called “K-Bureau” of the SISMI operated illegally, with the support of the RUD, which had existed since 1960.

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  • Bruno Branciforte (2007-2010)
  • Adriano Santini (2010-2014)
  • Alberto Manenti (2014-2018)
  • Luciano Carta (2018-2020)
  • Giovanni Caravelli (since 2020)

Web links

  • AISE. Retrieved June 12, 2018 (Italian, Official Website).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roberto Petretto: Ruderi e servizi segreti ecco le strutture militari. La Regione ha censito gli immobili di proprietà del demanio con le stellette Grande riserbo sulle caserme del Rud in viale Repubblica ea Siamaggiore. June 1, 2013, accessed June 14, 2018 (article on AISE-RUD facilities in Sardinia in lanuovasardegna.it).
  2. ↑ Missioni internazionali: conversione in Legge del DL 174/2015. Retrieved on June 14, 2018 (legal basis for the Prime Minister's authority to issue instructions to the special forces (198/2015, Art. 7 bis)).
  3. ↑ Enrico Gregori: 15 maggio 1991 Il colonnello Bazzanella svela ai magistrati l'esistenza di un ufficio “K” del Sismi. In: ilmessaggero.it. May 3, 2014, accessed June 14, 2018 (article on the K-Büro).
  4. ^ Il governo sceglie due fiamme gialle per i servizi segreti: Gennaro Vecchione al Dis, Luciano Carta all'Aise. In: repubblica.it. November 21, 2018, accessed November 22, 2018 (Italian).
  5. ↑ Marco Ludovico: Caravelli al vertice dell'Aise, un generale mite e informatissimo. In: ilsole24ore.com. May 13, 2020, accessed May 13, 2020 (Italian).

Remarks

  1. ↑ A list Italian special forces is under Comando Interforze per le operazioni delle Forze Speciali # special forces to find

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