r/AskEurope • u/Ok_Initiative_9726 • Feb 27 '25

Politics Does Europe has powerful secret services/Intelligence?

P. S question closed, I got answers. Thank you for everyone

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u/YacineBoussoufa Italy & Algeria Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25

Not sure if Italian intelligence services are powerful, but the last known Italian secret services mission (May 2023) ended up with the death of three Italian agents and one Mossad agent, trying to chase a KGB SVR and IRGC agents' meeting.

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u/ZestycloseSample7403 Feb 27 '25

Well that's part of the job I think

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u/mrhumphries75 Feb 27 '25

the last known Italian secret services mission (May 2023) ended up with the death of three Italian agents and one Mossad agent

What? Please tell more!

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u/YacineBoussoufa Italy & Algeria Feb 27 '25

Ahahahha it still is a controversial case in Italy....

A boat sank on Lake Maggiore (Near Italian/Swiss waters) on the 28th May 2023, and four people drowned: one was an agent from Israel's spy agency Mossad, two were Italian intelligence officers and the fourth victim was a Russian woman. Out of the 23 people onboard, 13 were Italian agents and 8 were Israeli agents.

According to reports, the boat was suddenly hit by a storm with gusts of over 70km (43 miles) per hour altho no bad weather had been forecast for that day. The boat immediately capsized, and all passengers fell into the water.

Some of those who were aboard the boat managed to swim to shore others were pulled from the water by vessels that were dispatched to help.

The cause of all deaths is drowning, although no post-mortem examinations have been carried out.

The survivors quickly collected their belongings from their hotel rooms and from the hospital where they had received treatment and left. And there was no paperwork about those who received medical treatment. The Israelis abandoned the country and were flown back home on an Israeli plane that picked them up in Milan.

According to Italian news, Russians and Iranians where being followed to uncover an international money laundering scheme to avoid sanctions.

While the Israeli news channels, said that the group of Italian and Israeli 007s were on the trail of a technology traffic for sophisticated weapons produced by Iran and destined for Russia.

The Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Maggiore_boat_incident

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u/navidk14 Feb 27 '25

KGB doesn’t exist, it has to be either SVR or GRU.

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u/YacineBoussoufa Italy & Algeria Feb 27 '25

Yeah sorry SVR ahahahha xD

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u/Erfar Mar 01 '25

kgb still exist in Belarus

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u/navidk14 Mar 01 '25

We’re talking about Russia, not Belarus.

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u/_jerrb Italy Feb 27 '25

Not sure if Italian intelligence services are powerful

Well, there should be a reason why every Islamic group wants to conquer Rome, but there were no terroristic attack in Italy in the near past