Posted on Mar 31, 2021
Italian officer 'caught selling secrets to Russia'
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An Italian navy officer has been arrested in the act of handing secret documents to a Russian military official, police say.
The men were stopped by military police on suspicion of serious crimes relating to espionage and state security.
The Russian, who reportedly worked at the Russian embassy in Italy, is expected to be expelled.
Russia's ambassador Sergey Razov has been summoned to the foreign ministry in Rome.
The carabinieri military police acted "during a clandestine meeting between the two, caught immediately after the transfer of a document by the Italian officer in exchange for a sum of money," a police statement said.
The website of Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reports that papers seized in the naval officer's flat suggest he may have passed on Nato secrets, thereby placing other countries' national security at risk.
The men were stopped by military police on suspicion of serious crimes relating to espionage and state security.
The Russian, who reportedly worked at the Russian embassy in Italy, is expected to be expelled.
Russia's ambassador Sergey Razov has been summoned to the foreign ministry in Rome.
The carabinieri military police acted "during a clandestine meeting between the two, caught immediately after the transfer of a document by the Italian officer in exchange for a sum of money," a police statement said.
The website of Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reports that papers seized in the naval officer's flat suggest he may have passed on Nato secrets, thereby placing other countries' national security at risk.
Italian officer 'caught selling secrets to Russia'
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Chip when I was a 2LT I had a negative/positive run in with them. The positive is I did not get scuffed up nor did I do any time in Italian jail, but I got talk to like I was a 2LT f'ing up pretty bad. The truth is I was a 2LT f'ing up pretty bad.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
LTC Jeff Shearer I've Got a Nice Benign Fatty Cell Sarcoma, My Third Breast where a Little Female Bobby Thumped Me while She was providing security outside 7 North Audley St in London (My Office) when it was surrounded by 15K CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Protestors) I was CTO1 E-6 at the Time. I was Just Trying to Get to Work. I remember turning around in a Parking Lot in Florissant, MO as a Teenager to See a Cop right in Front of Me with a Gun Pointed at Me. Some of My Run Ins with the "Authorities" have been Less than Desirable.
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