Corps general Gianni Caravelli and the new director of the Aise (Secret Service for Foreign Affairs) appointed by the government in place of Luciano Carta, now president of Leonardo (formerly Finmeccanica)
Corps general Gianni Caravelli and the new director of the Aise.
The appointment to the top of the foreign secret service was approved yesterday evening by the Council of Ministers.
Caravelli succeeds Luciano Carta, appointed by the government through the Ministry of Economy as the presidency of Leonardo (formerly Finmeccanica) in place of Gianni De Gennaro, surprisingly not confirmed or indicated by the government for leading positions in other subsidiaries or state-controlled as the journalistic indiscretions also said.
Caravelli, 59, from Abruzzo, was already deputy director of the Information and External Security Agency.
Let’s see how some newspapers gave an account of Caravelli’s curriculum WHO IS CARAVELLI ACCORDING TO AGI
Giovanni Caravelli, general of the Army Corps, new director of the information and external security agency, was born on March 18, 1961 in Frisa (Chieti). Married, two daughters, and in the Services since August 2014. After attending the Military Academy and the Military Application School from 1979 to 1983, he obtained a degree in Strategic Sciences (University of Turin), a second level Master in Strategic Sciences (University of Trieste), a degree in International Diplomatic Sciences (University of Trieste); a specialization Master in European Studies (“Alcide De Gasperi” Institute for European Studies); the Master in Peacekeeping Studies (Univesita Roma / Tre).
He was commander of Sam “Hawk” Battalion of the “Peschiera” Regiment (Cremona); Section Chief of the General Staff at the General Office of the Army Chief of Staff; Division Director at SISMI (with numerous activities in support of the Italian armed forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia Herzegovina, Kosovo and Lebanon); commander of the Rista EW Brigade; military adviser to the special representative of the UN Secretary-General; Deputy Head VI C4IStar Department of the Defense Staff; Head of the II Information and Security Department of the Defense Staff; deputy vicar director of the Aise.
Numerous honors obtained, including medals for participation in the NATO mission in Kosovo (Kfor), for participation in United Nations peacekeeping missions, for participation in the mission in Afghanistan and for participation in competition activities in public disasters. for the Umbria earthquake. And also a bronze cross for military merit, a gold cross for seniority in military service and a great officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. WHO IS CARAVELLI ACCORDING TO HUFFINGTON POST ITALY
General Gianni Caravelli has been appointed new director of the Aise the external secret service. It is the recognition of twenty years within the SISMI and then the Aise, of which he also led an elite corps. Since 2014 (Renzi government) Caravelli was deputy director of Forte Braschi. A career crowned by the latest success, the release of the Italian aid worker Silvia Romano. Now someone will write that Caravelli has been awarded for the hostage release operation. In reality, even in this case, the temporal sequence is not the causal (post hoc, not procter hoc). Already last Friday the choice of him was given for sure, the appointment decree ready, if anything the operation that was in progress has postponed the appointment to the next council of ministers, namely today’s.WHO IS CARAVELLI SECOND FORMICHE
Abruzzese, 59 years old, born in Frisa, in the province of Chieti, Caravelli, general of the army corps since January 2017, awarded the Bronze Cross of Merit of the Army in 2012, and deputy director of the Aise since 2014 and has a long experience in the world of intelligence.
From 2013 to 2014 he was director of the Information and Security Department of the Defense Staff. Established in 1998 and operational since 2000, the department was created to replace the Sios (Operational and Situation Information Services) of the individual Armed Forces and interacts exclusively with the Aise.
Caravelli closely followed many of the most delicate foreign missions under the coordination of the Aise. Among these is the crisis in Libya, which has seen the former deputy director very active in recent months, engaging in dialogue both with the UN-recognized government of Fayez al Serraj and with the Field Marshal of Cyrenaica Khalifa Haftar. Another mission that the general knows well is that in Afghanistan, which to date sees about 800 Italian soldiers as part of the NATO Resolute Support mission.
There, from July 2010 to July 2011, Caravelli held the position of Head of the unit of advisors within the “United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan” and Military Advisor to the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations, as well as that of officer older Italian.
In the past, the general led an elite structure of the SISMI. He was also commander of the Tactical Information Brigade (former RISTA-REW Brigade), a brigade that groups together the electronic warfare units belonging to the Italian Army, under the command of the operational support land forces, and used in the analysis of data traffic, voice, radar and electronic warfare of possible counterparts on a theater of operations.
