Jeffrey W. Castelli
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Jeffrey W. Castelli is a noted member of the U.S. intelligence community. Though his identity is often shielded in the U.S. media,[1] he was the CIA station chief in Rome at the time the Niger uranium forgeries were received by U.S. intelligence authorities, and during the kidnapping of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, for which he would be subsequently indicted by Italian magistrates in 2007.
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[edit] Diplomatic postings
- Pakistan 1981-1983
- India 1986
- Italy 2003
[edit] Involvement in the Imam Rapito affair
Castelli was CIA station chief in Rome at the time of the kidnapping of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr on February 17, 2003, and was among 26 U.S. nationals (and one of the few with confirmed identities) subsequently indicted by Italian authorities[2] for their involvement in what in the Italian press is referred to as the Imam Rapito (or "kidnapped cleric") affair. The start of the trial is set for June 8, 2007.
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[edit] Further reading
- Anti-CIA Club of Diplomats. Spooks in U.S. Foreign Service. 1983 (4)
- Executive Intelligence Review 2006-08-04 (49)
- Kunhanandan Nair, Berlin "Devil and His Dart: How the CIA is Plotting in the Third World" Sterling Publishers, New Delhi, 1986 (117)
- Barton Gellman, "A Leak, then a Deluge", The Washington Post, October 25, 2005
[edit] References
- ^ For example, as of February 2007, "Jeffrey Castelli" returns no matches at washingtonpost.com, and only 1 article match at nytimes.com (in its coverage of his indictment), even the "Rome station chief" has been mentioned several times by both newspapers in conjunction with the Yellowcake and Imam Rapito affairs.
- ^ Rapt d'un imam à Milan: la CIA va devoir s'expliquer, Libération, February 16, 2007 (French)
