ITALIAN PAPER NAMES SIX IN U.S. EMBASSY AS AGENTS OF C.I.A. [New York Times, 17 January 1976]

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• Publication Date: January 17, 1976
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!Italian Paper Names
'Six in U.S. Embassy
As Agents of C.Z.A.
Special to The New York T;mes
ROME, Jan. 16-An Italian
newspaper today published the
names of six American Embas-
:sy officials whom it described
l as agents of the Central Intel-
ligence Agency.
The list was the latest in
a series published in Greece,
England, France and elsewhere
of American Embassy officials
said to be working for the
C.I.A. After the disclosure" in
Athens,` unknown assassins
murdered Richard Welch, the
chief' of station, in a shooting
doeslist such a unit, described
by officials there as a group,.
"handles administrative mat-
ters for the military."
La Repubblica said the unit!
employed up to '14 civilian
agents of the C.I.A. - i
The C.I.A. has been receivingi1
special attention in the Italians1
press since the disclosure last
week in Washington of a clan-
destine operation to pay $6 million to Italian politicians to
bolster non-Communist forces'
because of the urge of the
Communist Party, Italy's se-
cond largest. The political im-
pact has been small so far,
largely because most Italians
did not find themselves sur-
prised by the news.,
6n Dec, 23.
The newspaper, ta_ Reu~bbli=
ca which says it is -aimed at
lewing intellectuals,, started
publishing this week as Italy's
first tabloid. It is a joint ven-
ture by Mondadori Editore, the
large Milan publishing house,
and L'Espresso, the mass circu-
lation weekly magazine. The
editors : Eugenio Scalfari, is a
former' -Socialist member of
,
1 Parliament.'
The article said that the
American Embassy in Rome,
included a "vast and secret"
C.I.A. operation that functioned!
under the name of "U.S. Army;
Southern European Projects)
Unit." The embassy directory
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