Servizio Informazioni Militare

Servizio Informazioni Militare

Servizio Informazioni Militare (SIM)
Agency overview
Formed	1900
Preceding agency	Various agencies (see text)
Dissolved	1949
Type	Military intelligence agency
Jurisdiction	Kingdom of Italy
Agency executive	Mario Roatta, Director

The Italian Military Information Service (Italian: Servizio Informazioni Militare, or SIM) was the military intelligence organization for the Royal Army (Regio Esercito) of the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) from 1900 until 1946, and of the Italian Republic until 1949. The SIM was Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's equivalent to the German Abwehr.

SIM had a large, well-organized cryptologic group, Section 5 (Sezione 5). Section 5 produced codes and ciphers for the Royal Army and higher level enciphered codes for the Italian Royal Navy.

Organization

SIM had five major sections:

1) Sezione Calderini (espionage)
2) Sezione Bonsignore Calderini (counterespionage)
3) special services (sabotage and assassination)
4) cryptology
5) assessments

See also

• Italian intelligence agencies
• Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism
• Kenpeitai
• Tokubetsu Keisatsutai
• Mario Roatta

References

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• Kennedy, David M., Wagner, Margaret E., Osbourne, Linda Barrett, Reyburn, Susan, and the Staff of the Library of Congress (2007). The Library Congress World War II Companion. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Symon & Schuster. pp. 982. ISBN 978-0-7432-5219-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)