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Second Course (second article in the La Repubblica series), hot from the kitchen.
A taste:
-- Now let's jump right in. Mmm, Meaty!
But is it really true that our [Italian] cloak-and-dagger people worked solely with the CIA? Or did they work as part of the clandestine effort undertaken by the parallel intelligence conduit ["Stovepipe"--Nur] created by Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz within the Iraq War Group [White House Iraq Group (?) -- Shystee], the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans and the office of the National Security Advisor--all determined to produce the evidence for "regime change" in Baghdad.
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La Repubblica has documented the dual channel used by the Italian government and by Italian intelligence. According to intelligence agents, in at least one of the backdoor meetings in which Pollari participated, the the creation of a conduit took place linking government, security agencies and intelligence.