Servizio Informazioni Militare
| Servizio Informazioni Militare (SIM) | |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 1900 |
| Preceding agency |
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| Dissolved | 1949 |
| Type | Military intelligence agency |
| Jurisdiction |  Kingdom of Italy |
| Agency executive |
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The Italian Military Information Service (Italian: Servizio Informazioni Militare, or SIM)[1] was the military intelligence organization for the Royal Army (Regio Esercito)[2] of the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) from 1900 until 1946, and of the Italian Republic until 1949. The SIM was Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's equivalent to the German Abwehr.
SIM had a large, well-organized cryptologic group, Section 5 (Sezione 5). Section 5 produced codes and ciphers for the Royal Army and higher level enciphered codes for the Italian Royal Navy.[3]
Organization[]
SIM had five major sections:
1) Sezione Calderini (espionage)
2) Sezione Bonsignore Calderini (counterespionage)
3) special services (sabotage and assassination)
4) cryptology
5) assessments[4]
See also[]
- Italian intelligence agencies
- Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism
- Kenpeitai
- Tokubetsu Keisatsutai
- Mario Roatta
Notes[]
- ^ Heiber, p. 838
- ^ Kennedy, p. 729
- ^ Kennedy, p. 729
- ^ Italian World War II Spying and Counterintelligence--Servizio Informazione Militari (SIM)
References[]
- Heiber, Helmut, and Glantz, David M. (2005). Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences 1942-1945. New York: Enigma Books. ISBN 1-929631-09-X.
- Kennedy, David M., Wagner, Margaret E., Osbourne, Linda Barrett, Reyburn, Susan, and the Staff of the Library of Congress (2007). The Library Congress World War II Companion. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Symon & Schuster. pp. 982. ISBN 978-0-7432-5219-5.
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