It definitely concerns territorial USA. Spy names and secret documents do turn up in print in Europe. There is a relevant story of a purported secret US Army doc that the CIA did not want released under FOIA. They eventually relented in 2000 or 2001. The same document without omissions had been publicly available in Italy since the 80's. It was used as evidence in one of the trials for the Bologna station massacre.

And Michael Scheuer, the retired CIA terrorist specialist? In an interview with Bonino for la Repubblica a couple of weeks ago he had no problem openly discussing Castelli, and actually indicating Pavitt as the major coordinator of the Abu Omar kidnapping. In Italian, in Europe. Would he have kept shut if it was the WP or the Observer?

I don't know the names of actual station chiefs in Italy. Nor does it interest me really. It's actions that count, and quite frankly I don't feel that the CIA per se is behind a lot of the shit that rained down here these past 6o years. The CIA is definitely behind the Abu Omar case, but likely is not the only actor. I have my doubts that the CIA was a major actor in the Niger caper.