RADIO STATION AT MT. CERVINO COSMIC RAY STATION, ITALY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002500040007-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: March 9, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. In the PLan-Rosa area of Mt. Cervino there is a receiving and
transmica on radio station installed in the observatory of the
Nuclear Physics Studies Center, which began functioning in December
1947.
Center In Rome University. Transmissions are made daily, normally
from 7:30 A.M. to 8930 A.M., on 40-49 motors. Sometimes transmissions
are made at other hours of the day by appointment. The station begins
its transmissions with the call words "America calling Ondulas" w=hich
corresponds to the initials "ACO", the station's call sign.
It is reported that Prof. 1 ttore Pancini,1 residing in Venice, early in
1948 requested from the General Inspector of the Telegraph and Radio-
telegraph Office authorization to install a radio tranemittor at Cervino.
Prof. Pancini is openly of Communist belief and took active part in
Communist clandestine military activity at Venice during the German
occupation.
2. The station is in daily contact with the Nuclear Physics Studies
assistant at Rome University.
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b) Dr., Fiorenze Name. born 1B June 1922 at, Viterhn. a
4. In addition to Pancini the following are employed at the Nuclear
Physics Studies Center:
a) Prof. Gilberto Dernardini. born 20 August 1906 at
Florence, a teacher at Rome University and director
of the Cervino Observatory. He has been absent from
Cervino for about two months and is presently in the
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