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but how desperate can you be? very desperate, evidently …

A declassified version of the US report on the killing of “Italy’s James Bond” was released in .pdf format, with big chunks of it blacked out. Too bad a simple text-select and paste reveals the deleted info, as discovered Sunday by a University of Bologna student.

Oh, and you’ll notice that all these links are from the BBC, that’s b/c American news sources aren’t touching it at all, cowards. If you believe some reports, this was intentional assassination.

High-level European intelligence sources report that the 51-year old slain Italian SISMI military intelligence agent, Dr. Nicola Calipari, killed by U.S. sharpshooters while accompanying the freed Italian hostage—Il Manifesto journalist Giuliana Sgrena—to Baghdad International Airport, was a prized target of opportunity for American assassins because of his knowledge about past Republican White House ties to Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program.

This might be a little much, except for the fact that Calipari was killed by one shot to the temple.

Oh, and here’s the .pdf report, if you want to play super-spy. just use the text-select tool and then paste into a new document to read the full version.

Just a cute pic from last night: