Today at the police headquarters of San Vitale in Rome he was remembered Nicola Calipari, the official of the Aise (External Information and Security Agency) who died March 4, 2005, killed by "friendly" American fire during the liberation of the journalist Giuliana Sgrena. The Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte intervened at the solemn ceremony, maintaining the delegation of the Italian services.
So Giuseppe Conte during his speech:
"the day of Calipari's death, I was a common citizen and I was very struck by that tragic event. For him it was an ordinary gesture but of extraordinary significance. A servant of the state, an esteemed and excellent police officer: he sacrificed his personal life to fulfill his institutional task".
The tragic story
It is the evening of March 4, 2005, in Baghdad: Nicola Calipari, another intelligence agent, and Giuliana Sgrena, journalist of the 'manifesto', kidnapped a month earlier in Iraq, are traveling in a gray Toyota Corolla with Iraqi license plates. The car drives to the airport. The delicate match with the kidnappers went to checkers: the journalist was released, now it is only a question of taking her to safety and arranging the return flight to Italy to return the woman to the embrace of her loved ones and the nation. Suddenly, the tragedy. A US National Guard patrol is on guard duty on 'Route Irish', the road that connects central Baghdad with the airport. Block Point 541 was prepared in anticipation of the passage of a convoy carrying the American ambassador on board. The car with Calipari on board arrives and ends up under fire from American soldiers: the Italian 007, director of the SISMI Research Department, dies. Giuliana Sgrena is injured. The US soldier Mario Lozano will then be accused of having fired the fatal shots.
Who are they and what do Italian service agents do?
According to what reported by institutional website.
It is not the 007 at the service of cinema or novels, it is the men and women of the Security Information System of the Republic that every day, and in different parts of the world, operate to protect political, military, economic, scientific interests. and industrial sectors of our country.
Beyond the collective imagination or the publicist of the sector, beyond the cinematographic and literary fiction, beyond the clichés linked to the secret and the mystery, we want to be us to tell you "what we do". And to do that, we chose a video, because the communicative power of images can often be more than a thousand words.
https://vimeo.com/78176129
Through a narrative, which has no reference to episodes actually happening or in progress, we have created a screenplay for a typical operational situation that involves all the actors who normally find themselves acting in similar situations: the two intelligence agencies - AISE e AISI - with their operatives, the Department of security information(DIS) with its analysts and experts in various sectors, the different police forces called to collaborate in the whole operation, all according to their role and responsibilities.
History has never happened, nor are references to facts, people, places, situations real. Some of these events, however, may occur one day in a manner not altogether dissimilar. And in this case you would know better how the intelligence compartment really works.