Prof Scaramella's knowledge of atomic materials is clear, however. The Mail on Sunday has discovered that in June last year Italian police launched an investigation into an alleged plot to smuggle uranium into the country after being tipped off by Prof Scaramella.
He told officers that the uranium was hidden in a suitcase and had originated from an undisclosed country in the former Soviet Union. Within just 24 hours, police in Rimini made four arrests.
At the time all Prof Scaramella would say was: "I was investigating the activities of former KGB activities in San Marino (a tiny independent republic near Rimini)
On November 22, Carlo Bonini the famous and authoritative Repubblica reporter published a lengthy article on how Scaramella screwed Litvinenko in 2004, based on an interview conducted in February 2005. I controlled the Repubblica archives only to find that the interview had never been published.
The interview was published today in la Repubblica. I will put up excerpts today. In brief, Litvinenko was used by Scaramella to support false charges against Prodi in the Mitrokhin commission. Litvinenko denies ever having made charges that Prodi was a KGB agent. He signed what he thought were translations of his testimony against Putin. Those signed documents were used by the Mitrokhin commission in its obscene attacks on Berlusconi's enemies.
Litvinenko feared that Berlusconi's close relation with Putin which notoriously exceeds state protocol would endanger him and his brother, a cook who lived in Rimini at the time.
We have a clear situation here, apparently paradoxical: The kangaroo Mitrokhin Commission through Scaramella gathers testimony against Putin by one of his major adversaries, Litvinenko. The same commission then falsifies Litvinenko's testimony. Berlusconi has always defended Putin and vaunts a close and special relation with him. Further, Berlusconi used his power as prime minister to set up ambitious and favourable business ventures with the Russian nomenklature. The extent of Berlusconi's personal involvement with Putin has yet to be investigated. Considering Berlusconi's on-going knack for international crime, one has license to speculate.
I would have no problems in speculating that Scaramella turned over Litivinenko's testimony to interested parties.
On credibility, besides number of claims that FSB was preparing hit on Berezovsky (proved to be false, but highly benefitial to Berezovsky himself: in one case FSB management was toppled, in another Berezovsky was given asylum in the UK) here are a number of selected quotes:
On al-Zawahiri:
A. Litvinenko: Certainly, here it is. The number two person in the terrorist organization al Qaeda, who they are crediting with the series of explosions in London, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is an old agent of the FSB. Being sentenced to death in Egypt for terrorism and hunted by Interpol, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in 1998, was in the territory of Dagestan, where for half a year he received special training at one of the educational bases of the FSB. After this training he was transferred to Afghanistan, where he had never been before and where, following the recommendation of his Lubyanka chiefs, he at once ... penetrated the milieu of bin Laden and soon became his assistant in al Qaeda.
On 2005 London bombings:
The correspondent: What can you say concerning the acts of terrorism in London ? From what region and with what forces was this impact directed? A. Litvinenko: In reply to this question I can declare perfectly definitely, that the center of the global terrorism is not in Iraq , Iran , Afghanistan or the Chechen Republic . The terrorism infection creeps away worldwide from the cabinets of the Lubyanka Square and the Kremlin. And until the Russian special services are forbidden, dispersed and condemned, the terrorism will never stop: bombs will blow up, and blood will be shed. Terrorism has no limitation period and those, who were engaged in it, should be found and punished, until they are alive, instead of to award them with the Nobel Prize of the world and not to set up monuments for them.
A. Litvinenko: In reply to this question I can declare perfectly definitely, that the center of the global terrorism is not in Iraq , Iran , Afghanistan or the Chechen Republic . The terrorism infection creeps away worldwide from the cabinets of the Lubyanka Square and the Kremlin. And until the Russian special services are forbidden, dispersed and condemned, the terrorism will never stop: bombs will blow up, and blood will be shed. Terrorism has no limitation period and those, who were engaged in it, should be found and punished, until they are alive, instead of to award them with the Nobel Prize of the world and not to set up monuments for them.
On 1999 shooting in Armenian parliament:
Former Federal Security Service (FSB) agent Alexander Litvinenko said in various interviews that the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General-Staff of the Russian armed forces had organized the terrorist attack in the Armenian parliament.
On murder of Kadyrov:
But this is by no means the only theory. Contrary to Kommersant, Aleksandr Litvinenko, the former FSB lieutenant colonel and ally of fellow exile and Putin opponent Boris Berezovsky, argued that Ramzan Kadyrov, being Akhmad Kadyrov's son and head of his security service, must have known the Chechen president's schedule and movements on May 9. After the elder Kadyrov's murder, Ramzan, rather than immediately setting out to apprehend the assassins or even "crying for his father," flew to Moscow to "report to Putin," Litvinenko wrote.
The only rational explanation for all this is that Litvinenko was Berezovsky's faithful sidekick and was playing popular in Anglo-Saxon press angle of Putin=FSB=KGB. For Berezovsky Putin is Frankenstein who occupies his rightful place of top dog in Russia.
It's important to put up as much information as possible on the protaganists in this story so that one can make an informed opinion.
I am aware that my opinion of Guzzanti and Scaramella appears one-sided. I'm comforted by the fact that they have plenty of prominent supporters or shoddy reporters to shovel their shit for them.
On Scaramella, he is not known in Russia, but I've seen comments on Russian side that he was working in Moscow and had access to the same open KGB archives every foreigner can get access to.
On Litvinenko, one thing to understand is this context is that he was not in a position to confirm or deny anyone's involvement in former KGB's foreign operations. He have not even seen the same archives Scaramella saw, did not work in any kind of spy business, and Goldfarb clearly states that when he tried to run to the US, he had nothing to offer in terms of information in exchange for settlement of his immigration case. UK was willing to take him as is.
I simply wish to report the controversial aspects of the Berlusconi commissions which includes of course the roles of ex-KGB/ FSB members.
What I find interesting is that two important interviews carried out last year have now been published- perhaps too controversial at the time, but now pertinent to an understanding of the Berlusconi regime.
Interesting comment via a distant contact in Finland with knowledge of military matters over the border - 'his rapid rise up through the military in his early career was quite rare' You can't be me, I'm taken
The interview was conducted on March 3rd, 2005.
Limarev was involved in the Scaramella scams at the behest of Litvinenko as another testimony. His opinion of both Guzzanti and Scaramella is blunt: a fraudulent caper to smear prominent opposition figures. Limarev names names (published) and declares that Scaramella's security company was run in tandem with Americans. The author of the article asserts that Limarev showed him the names of the American security companies but does not publish them.
Limarev accuses Scaramella of having used both himself and Litvinenko for political ends.
Scaramella recently asserted that he had received the notorious emails he took to London from Limarev. Limarev categorically denies any involvement with the emails.
Anyway, Scaramella strikes me less as a "private enterprising" conman-vulture, even in tandem with Guzzanti, than a very shady guy working for a no less shady group/faction with a distinct agenda, both internal and external to Italian politics. Note also the ties to Colombia mentioned in the Sun article, and the silent American Litvinenko declares sat in at one of his sessions with Scaramella. Plus SOMEONE with international-level influence must have pushed for invites for him and his ECPP thingy to the OSCE conferences and NYU symposia that list his name and ECPP-thingy amongst their reporters/participants in google-traceable official proceedings pdfs? "Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is really worrisome." Mohammed Khatami
Ledeen, Claire Sterling and Francesco Pazienza were deeply involved in putting together the fake Bulgarian connection in the Ali Agca assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II's life. The Mitrokhin commission tried to resell the story by alleging there was proof in the Stasi archives. Guzzanti and his cohorts accused the Stasi of holding back the documents. They produced a big PR storm which was amplified and broadcasted throughout the world through the good offices of the Corriere della Sera.
La Repubblica blew the scam apart. They got hold of the Stasi documents and began publishing them. The contents only proved that the Bulgarians were bewildered by the American- Italian attempt to frame them. The Repubblica then interviewed the head of Stasi, Misha Wolff, who brushed off the matter sardonically. At that point Repubblica turned over the entire cache of the Stasi-Bulgarian documents with a note saying that usually reporters are forced to turn over documents by warrant and that they find it very satisfying to donate the "missing" documents to the commission to further their search for truth.
There is a disquieting follow up to all this. The other day the actual head of the Bulgarian archives, Bozhidar Doychev, was found dead, shot through the mouth. Suicide or suicided. The Bulgarian archives may be opened by a parliamentary vote in the near future. Purportedly it would contain information from the infamous "Darzhavna sigurnost" on Ali Agca and the Markov murder, much to Guzzanti's joy. If only he could get his chums to forge some fake Bulgarian archives. With Igor Marini, Rocco Martino and Scaramella presently on the dole he shouldn't have problems finding helpers.
There has been a rash of "suicides" (three) in Bulgaria this autumn, all linked to the Minister of Interior or the Secret Services.
