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analyst, his name was Davide De Luca, I asked him to work on the claims. After some days De Luca came to me and told me: this is the map of the places where the phone calls come from, and this is the map of the SISMI peripheral offices in Italy, the two maps coincided perfectly, and in addition De
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The wide scope of these claims (about 1,200 between 1990 and 1995) led investigators to suggest that the group was fictitious and that it was used to mislead inquiries into organised crime, or possibly that the calls were the work of a compulsive liar.
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