Bloomberg
Italian police used mobile phone records and hotel information to identify two dozen alleged U.S. intelligence agents accused of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric in Milan, the city’s top anti-terrorism investigator said.
Calls made from those numbers to local hotels were linked to U.S. citizens who were guests there, he said. “We determined that the U.S. citizens had several mobile phone numbers and some were used during the kidnapping,” Megale said. “The phones were used to contact various U.S. numbers in Virginia and the CIA station chief in Milan.” The CIA’s headquarters is in Langley, Virginia.
Megale said police recognized the CIA station chief’s cell phone number from call lists because he was their main contact for terrorism issues. More
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