Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Esterna
| Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Esterna | |
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| Formed | 28 August 2007 |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of Italy |
| Headquarters | Rome, Caserma "Casal Forte Braschi - Nicola Calipari |
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| Website | [1] |
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Presidenza del Consiglio dei ministri della Repubblica Italiana Ministero della Difesa Ministero degli Affari Esteri Dipartimento delle Informazioni per la Sicurezza |
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The Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Esterna (Italian for "External Intelligence and Security Agency"), commonly known as AISE and formerly known as SISMI, is the foreign intelligence service of Italy. Operating outside Italy the organisation protects Italy's regional interests mainly through the use of HUMINT (Human intelligence). Counterparts in other countries include MI6, CIA, BND and DGSE.
The agency is currently headed by General Alberto Manenti.
Since the end of World War II, Italian intelligence agencies have been reorganized many times:
in an attempt to increase their effectiveness and bring them more fully under civilian control.
AISE was founded in 2007 with the reform of the intelligence agencies provided by the Italian 3 August 2007, n. 124 law: new agencies were formed as the Department of Information Security (DIS) and the Homeland Security and Information Agency (AISI).
The reform drastically changed the structure of the Italian intelligence, as compared to the 24 October 1977, n. 801 law, it now does not divide the responsibilities between civilian and military structures (i.e., SISDE and SISMI), but along territorial spheres of competence:
aligning Italy with how other countries arrange their services. By law, it is a similar case with the Central Intelligence Agency in the U.S.
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