Centro Intelligence Interforze

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The Centro Intelligence Interforze (CII) (German: "Intelligence Center of the Armed Forces", English: Joint Intelligence Center ) is a military intelligence service of the Italian General Staff .

Mission and organization

The Centro Intelligence Interforze is the operational arm of the Second Division of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, which is traditionally responsible for operational military intelligence and security . In NATO parlance, this department is called J2 (for Joint 2 , as opposed to the partial armed forces- related “G2” or “A2”), in the Italian General Staff it is called II Reparto - Informazioni e Sicurezza (German: “2nd Department - News and Safety"). This General Staff department is subordinate to the Centro Intelligence Interforze (and the Italian military attachés abroad) and the Centro Interforze di Formazione Intelligence e Guerra Elettronica (German "Training Center of the Armed Forces for Intelligence and Electronic Warfare ").

The Centro Intelligence Interforze operates as a specialized military intelligence service focusing on telecommunications intelligence ( SIGINT , ELINT , COMINT , etc.) and field intelligence ( National Intelligence Cells ) for the emergency services as well as in the field of military security (including counter-espionage ). The staff comes from all four Italian armed forces . The civil intelligence service Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Esterna , which also reports to the Ministry of Defense, covers general military-political questions or military-related matters . The Italian Prime Minister or a state secretary subordinate to him determines the precise division of labor between the military intelligence service and the foreign intelligence service.

The headquarters of the Centro Intelligence Interforze is located around five kilometers northeast of Rome-Fiumicino airport in the town of Castel Malnome. The Comando Interforze per le Operazioni Cibernetiche , the cyber command of the armed forces, was also located there in 2017 .

history

Until the Second World War, the Servizio Informazioni Militare (SIM) , which was assigned to the General Staff of the Armed Forces and the Army, and two departments in the navy and the air force held the tasks of today's CII. Together with the forerunner of the later SISMI or today's AISE , three military-operational specialist intelligence services were again established in 1949 for the general staffs of the armed forces (G2 / A2). These services were called Servizio Informazioni Operative e Situazione (SIOS) (German: "Service for operational intelligence and situation assessment") or after the armed forces SIOS-Esercito (army), SIOS-Marina (navy) and SIOS-Aeronautica (air force). In 1997, the General Staff of the Armed Forces, which up to this point had only coordinated tasks with the armed forces as primus inter pares , was permanently upgraded and expanded into a central military command instrument. On this occasion, the SIOS services of the armed forces were combined in the new Centro Intelligence Interforze (CII) and placed under the new second department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces. In the first years after the establishment, the service was simply called RIS ( Reparto Informazioni e Sicurezza ) after the responsible General Staff Department . Since this abbreviation was already used by the forensic department of the Carabinieri ( Reparto Investigazioni Scientifiche ), which is often quoted in the media , it was abolished in favor of the name of the operational intelligence center (CII). The higher general staff department is now called as above. II Reparto - Informazioni e Sicurezza .

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Coordinates: 41 ° 50 ′ 21.8 "  N , 12 ° 17 ′ 29.7"  E