Rocco Martino is an Italian

Italy

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 secret agent

Secret Agent

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. He was born in Tropea

Tropea

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, province of Catanzaro

Province of Catanzaro

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He played a major role in the fabrication and the dissemination of the Yellowcake Forgery, when he approached CIA Rome station chief Jeffrey W. Castelli

Jeffrey W. Castelli

Jeffrey W. Castelli is a noted member of the U.S. intelligence community. He was the CIA station chief in Rome at the time the Niger uranium forgeries were received by U.S...

 with documents on Niger

Niger

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 government letterhead

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 describing secret plans for the sale of uranium to Iraq. Reportedly, Castelli dismissed the documents right off as forgeries, and never bothered passing them to Langley

Langley, Virginia

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Although claiming to be an intelligence/disinformation conduit on his own account, it is likely Martino was deliberately deployed as a double agent by SISMI

SISMI

Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare was the military intelligence agency of Italy from 1977-2007....

, Italian military intelligence, originally to spy on the French.