The new headquarters of the Italian 007, since yesterday, has moved to Piazza Dante, at the 25 street, Esquilino district.
Present at the inauguration President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Presidents of the Senate and Chamber, Elisabetta Casellati and Roberto Fico, the directors of Dis, Aise and Aisi, Gennaro Vecchione, Luciano Carta and Mario Parente. Many ambassadors intervened, the choir of Santa Cecilia's children, agents of Italian services and representatives of allied secret services.
The prestigious building housed the postal savings banks, which later evolved into Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, which remains the owner of the building and leased it for the next 30 years to the presidency of the Council.
The DIS offices will converge in this Italian Langley, as part of the Aise (foreign) and Aisi (internal) operational ones. It took 10 years of work, an unspecified amount of millions of euros, the death of a worker, two thousand km of cables and optical fibers, the rearrangement of sixty thousand square meters, more than a thousand windows. Since yesterday, the Information and Security Department has a worthy headquarters.
At the entrance there is the Wall of Memory dedicated to the fallen of intelligence - 4 tombstones: dedicated to Vincenzo Li Causi, Nicola Calipari, Lorenzo D'Auria, Pietro Antonio Colazzo.
The intervention of the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte
"The acceleration made in the last few months to complete the work has put a strain on all the actors involved in the implementation of the project, to whom I would like to express my warm appreciation. From now on, this location in Piazza Dante will host three structures whose duty and raison d'etre is to work harmoniously to protect the national interest. This Palace is, therefore, much more than the new address of the Secret Service. It is the plastic representation of a path indicated by the reform law, which has opportunely outlined a not unique, but triadic articulation, of our intelligence, intended to enhance and enhance the ethical and operational scope of the two Services, also expanding the spectrum of their information collection activities.
In recent years, the unity of the System has thus been strengthened, channeling the management powers and related responsibilities into a single top political figure, and identifying solutions, starting with the coordination functions of the Information Security Department, which they allow the practical exercise of these powers and such high responsibilities in the daily work. So much so that, in this circumstance, the feelings that I most feel to share with the valiant professionals of our intelligence are awareness and trust. Awareness that national security is a daily achievement. Trust that although zero risk cannot exist in the face of any threat, the country is nonetheless resilient, it knows how to discern risks from opportunities, it knows how to reduce uncertainty about the future ”. “Gratitude to Li Causi, Calipari, D'Auria and Colazzo” “I address my most affectionate thoughts to the relatives of the four fallen members of the sector, whom I have already greeted personally a few minutes ago. Vincenzo Li Causi, Nicola Calipari, Lorenzo D'Auria and Pietro Antonio Colazzo, four valiant servants of the state, to whom we all owe a sincere tribute of gratitude for the sacrifice they went through ”.