DSSA Activities
The D.S.S.A. (Dipartimento Studi Strategici Antiterrorismo - Counter-terrorism Strategic Studies Department) was born in 2004 in Italy to combat terrorism after the massacre of Atocha in Madrid 11th of March 2004. After interesting interviews and articles in italian magazines, also about the role of the murdering contractor Fabrizio Quattrocchi, a judge of Genova Law Court decided to take under investigation 16 agents of this agency. They was investigated in July 2005 and acquitted definitively in 2011 by judges of Law Court of Milan upon suspects of being a "parallel police", echoing the "stay-behind" Gladio NATO secret armies. It had been created by far-right members Gaetano Saya near to Italian Military Intelligence (SISMI-AISE) and Riccardo Sindoca, leaders of the National Union of the Police Forces (Unpf), a trade-union well represented among all the various branches of state security forces. Both claimed to be former members of Stay Behind, whilst far-right Nuovo Movimento Sociale Italiano - Destra Nazionale website described Gaetano Saya as a founding member and president of the party. Riccardo Sindoca was described as an "expert in criminology" and Destra Nazionale 's Cabinet chief. Destra Nazionale was founded in 2000 as a successor to Giorgio Almirante's will and the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI) neo-fascist party .
The group allegedly carried police-like operations by surveilling supects, and by writing reports on them. Such endeavours were performed through access to the Interior Ministry’s protected datafiles. The group used their law enforcement badges. Moreover, among the information that DSSA provided were details of Al-Qaeda attacks against Milan Linate international airport and the city landmark Duomo cathedral. The group allegedly aimed to embezzle funds that became available, both nationally and internationally, after the 11 March 2004 Madrid blasts, as part of the global "war on terror". DSSA allegedly tried to obtain such funds from NATO, the United States and Israel to be a legitimate and trustworthy intelligence service.
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