The Mitrokhin Commission was a parliamentary commission set up in 2002 by the Italian Parliament, then led by Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition, the Casa delle Libertà, and presided by senator Paolo Guzzanti.

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  • The Mitrokhin Commission was a parliamentary commission set up in 2002 by the Italian Parliament, then led by Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition, the Casa delle Libertà, and presided by senator Paolo Guzzanti. Its aim was to investigate alleged KGB ties to opposition figures in Italian politics, basing itself on one hand on the controversial Mitrokhin Archive, on the other hand on various others sources, including the consultant Mario Scaramella, who rose to international prominence in 2006 in the midst of the Alexander Litvinenko affair. Litvinenko was a former KGB agent poisoned in London in 2006. The Mitrokhin Commission alleged, among others, that Romano Prodi, former center-left Prime Minister of Italy and President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004, was the "KGB's man in Italy. " Mario Scaramella was arrested end of December 2006 and charged with calumny and illegal weapons' trade, while interceptions of phone calls between Scaramella and senator Guzzanti were published by the Italian press at the end of 2006, showing that they planned to discredit various figures of the opposition by claiming KGB ties. The commission was shut down in March 2006 without any concrete evidence given to support the original allegations of KGB ties to Italian politicians. In five years, the Commission heard 47 consultants, for a total cost of 1.9 million euros Following various events, including the arrest in December 2006 of Mario Scaramella, a consultant of Paolo Guzzanti (paid 1.300 euros a month, not including additional work expenses), for defamation, as well as the April 2006 general election won by Romano Prodi's left-wing coalition, L'Unione, the Italian parliament instituted a new commission to investigate the Mitrokhin Commission and allegations that it was manipulated for political purposes.
  • Il Dossier Mitrokhin, prende il nome da Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin, un ex archivista del KGB in pensione. Con questo termine si fa riferimento ad una parte del corposo Archivio Mitrokhin, residente in Gran Bretagna. È formato da 645 schede, che hanno portato alla produzione di oltre 3500 rapporti di contro intelligence trasmessi a 36 nazioni, denominate originariamente «Impedian», redatte dall'MI6, il servizio segreto inglese, sulla base delle note manoscritte che l'ex archivista copiò da documenti segreti del KGB. Le 261 schede che vennero consegnate al SISMI a partire dal 1995 al 1999 corrispondono a un arco temporale che va dal 1917 al 1984, anno in cui Mitrokhin andò in pensione.
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  • The Mitrokhin Commission was a parliamentary commission set up in 2002 by the Italian Parliament, then led by Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition, the Casa delle Libertà, and presided by senator Paolo Guzzanti.
  • Il Dossier Mitrokhin, prende il nome da Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin, un ex archivista del KGB in pensione. Con questo termine si fa riferimento ad una parte del corposo Archivio Mitrokhin, residente in Gran Bretagna.
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  • Mitrokhin Commission
  • Dossier Mitrokhin
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