Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Interna
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The Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Interna (Italian
for "Internal Information and Security Agency"), commonly known as AISI, is the domestic intelligence agency
of Italy
. The AISA is the successor of the Executive Committee for Intelligence and Security Services
(CESIS) which was disbandeed after the Act of August 3 2007 No 124 which restructured the Italian intelligence community. Article 6 of this act clearly prohibits the agency from conducting operations outside of Italy. The motto of the agency is "scientia rerum reipublicae salus".
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
for "Internal Information and Security Agency"), commonly known as AISI, is the domestic intelligence agency
Intelligence agency
An intelligence agency is a governmental agency that is devoted to information gathering for purposes of national security and defence. Means of information gathering may include espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public...
of Italy
Italy
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. The AISA is the successor of the Executive Committee for Intelligence and Security Services
CESIS
Comitato Esecutivo per i Servizi di Informazione e Sicurezza was an Italian government committee whose mission was the coordination of all the intelligence sector, and specifically between the two civilian and military intelligence agencies , with the aim to report all the relevant information...
(CESIS) which was disbandeed after the Act of August 3 2007 No 124 which restructured the Italian intelligence community. Article 6 of this act clearly prohibits the agency from conducting operations outside of Italy. The motto of the agency is "scientia rerum reipublicae salus".