Vito Miceli was an Italian

Italy

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 general and politician. He was chief of the SIOS (Servizio Informazioni), Italian Army Intelligence's Service from 1969 and SID's head from October 18, 1970 to 1974. A member of the masonic

Freemasonry

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 Propaganda Due

Propaganda Due

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, he later became senator for the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement

Italian Social Movement

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Vito Miceli was arrested in October 1974 on charges of "political conspiracy" concerning investigations about the Golpe Borghese

Golpe Borghese

The Golpe Borghese was a failed Italian coup d'état allegedly planned for the night of 7 or 8 December 1970. It was named after Junio Valerio Borghese, an Italian World War II commander of the notorious Xª MAS unit, the "Black Prince", convicted of war crimes, but still a hero in the eyes of many...

 "coup" attempt. He was acquitted of any wrongdoing in 1978. Miceli also received money in the 1972 from the United States embassy in Rome. Ambassador Graham Martin

Graham Martin

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 turned $800,000 over to Miceli, with approval of the director of the National Security Council

United States National Security Council

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, Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

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, over the objections of the CIA Rome station chief. It is unknown how Miceli spent the money.

In 1977, Italian secret services were reorganized with parliamentary oversight. With law #801 of 24/10/1977, SID was divided into SISMI

SISMI

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

 (Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare), SISDE

SISDE

Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Democratica , was the domestic intelligence agency of Italy.With the reform of the Italian Intelligence Services approved on 1 August 2007, SISDE was replaced by AISI....

 (Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Democratica) and CESIS

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...

 (Comitato Esecutivo per i Servizi di Informazione e Sicurezza). The CESIS has a coordination role, led by the President of Council. Furthermore, the Italian Parliamentary Committee on Secret services control was created.