CIA/European Division/Rome Station
 CIA/European Division/Rome Station    | |
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| Location | Rome, Italy |
| a key installation of the Central Intelligence Agency in Italy. | |
The CIA Rome Station is a key installation of the Central Intelligence Agency in Italy.
Contents
People
Chiefs of Station (COS)
- Michael Burke (OPC) - 1951.
- Gerry Miller - c.1955.[1]
- Thomas Karamessines
- William King Harvey - c. early 1960s.
- Seymour Russell
- Richard F. Stolz - 1966-1969.
- Duane Clarridge - c.1981
- Alan D. Wolfe[2]
- John J. Devine - late 1980s.[3]
- Jeff Castelli - c.2003.[4]
Other Officers
In 1981 Covert Action Information Bulletin reproted that The Chief of Station for Italy is Frederick Dalziel Vreeland, born June 24, 1927 in Connecticut. Vreeland has been with the CIA since 1951, and has served in Geneva. Switzerland; Berlin and Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany; Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika; Rabat, Morrocco; United Nations Headquarters, New York; and Paris, France. In CAIB Number 3 (January 1979), we noted that Vreeland had been transferred to Italy in late 1978, where he served as Deputy Chief of Station under Hugh Montgomery. Since Montgomery has departed Italy it seems clear that Vreeland is now Chief of Station.
Vreeland’s Deputy is Roger Laurent Pierre, born October 6, 1922 in New York, Pierre has also been with the Agency since 1951, when he commenced three years as a “political analyst” for the Department of Defense. Since then he has served under diplomatic cover in Saigon, Vietnam, and in Casablanca, Morocco. In 1966 he apparently resumed cover other than diplomatic, as no State Department records refer to him from that time. However, he has resurfaced at the Rome Embassy, posted there, according to the Diplomatic List, in October 1979, as attache.
Duane R. Clarridge, born April 16, 1932 in New Hampshire, is a case officer posted to Rome in August 1979. Clarridge has served in Kathmandu, Nepal; New Delhiand Madras, India; Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey--where, from 1971 tillat least 1973 he was Deputy Chief of Station. He does not appear in State Department records from late 1973, and is next noted in the Rome Diplomatic List.
Another veteran case officer in Rome is Donald J. Healey, born July 11, 1931 in New Jersey. Healey spent from 1958 to 1961 under cover as a “research analyst” for the Department of the Army—as noted many times in this Bulletin,a completely phony, non-existent position used in the Biographic Register for CIA people. From 1962 to 1966 he was, according to State Department publications, a research analyst for a private “industrial surveys associates” firm, an indication of CIA work under deep cover. He then worked with AID, before posting to Hong Kong, Saigon, and Paris, where he arrived in late 1974. He next appears on the Rome Diplomatic List as an attache, posted there in September 1978.
Another Rome case officer is Naran Sansha Ivanchukov, born December 12, 1937 in Bulgaria. He served in Taichung, Taiwan; Saigon, Vietnam; and Rangoon, urna, before his posting to Rome in June 1979, under cover of First Secretary.
Yet another case officer in Rome is Eugene G. Vincent. Vincent served in Khartoum, Sudan from 1973 to 1975 and in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 1975 to 1978, before returning to Headquarters. According to the Rome Diplomatic List, he was transferred there in July 1980.
In addition to the above newly-discovered postings, it should be noted that the August 1980 Rome Diplomatic List confirms the continued presence there of two case officers previously exposed. These are Vincent M. Cannistraro, whose full biography appears in “Dirty Work 2: The CIA in Africa,” and Charles Ronald Emmling, whose biography appeared in CA/B Number 7.
Cannistraro, born January 10, 1940, served in Mogadiscio, Somalia, and in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, before being posted to Rome as of at least October 1978. Emmling served in Rangoon, Burma and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, before posting to Rome in July 1979."[5]
A CIA/European Division/Rome Station victim on Wikispooks
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Adriano Olivetti | Italian industrialist possibly murdered by the CIA during a hostile takeover of his revolutionary computer department by General Electric. |
References
- ↑ Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Frank Cass, 2005, p.68.
- ↑ David Wise, Of moles and men, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2003.
- ↑ James Risen, CIA Official's Posting Sparks Anger in Ranks : Intelligence: Some are upset by Deutch's decision to award plum job to agent touched by Ames scandal. Defenders say officer wasn't responsible., Los Angeles Times, 18 July 1995.
- ↑ Reuters, Ex-CIA Rome chief gets jail term in "rendition" trial, Chicago Tribune, 1 February 2013.
- ↑ Special Technology Issue by Covert Action Information Bulletin, No 9 (Jun 1980) https://archive.org/details/cia-rdp-90-00845-r-000100190004-3/page/42/mode/2up
