Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Interna

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The Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Interna ( AISI ; German  "Office for Information and Internal Security" ) has been Italy's domestic intelligence service since 2007 . Through a law on the reform of the Italian intelligence services of August 3, 2007, the new agency took over almost all the tasks of its predecessor SISDE .

Tasks and organization

Like the foreign service Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Esterna, AISI is subordinate to the Italian Prime Minister or a minister appointed 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 service SISDE and the military service SISMI, which were not organized according to the territorial, but according to the functional principle, the AISI is exclusively responsible for the inland. She has taken over counter-espionage domestically from the military SISMI . If, for example , it wants to work abroad to solve organized crime , it can only do so in cooperation with the AISE international service and under the control of the DIS.

AISI reports to the Prime Minister, but also reports to the Interior Ministry . The Direzione Investigativa Antimafia , which is not an intelligence service, but a police organization, is also subordinate to this to fight organized crime . The same applies to the state security DIGOS . While the Ministry of the Interior is supplied directly with relevant information, all other authorities must first 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.

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  • Franco Gabrielli (2007-2008)
  • Giorgio Piccirillo (2008–2012)
  • Arturo Esposito (2012-2016)
  • Mario Parente (since 2016)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ European Secret Services: An Overview , Institute for Civil Rights & Public Security eV, October 26, 2016

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