Rome CIA Station

The US Embassy in Rome on the Via Veneto (User: Gobbler at wikivoyage shared, CC3.0).

The CIA Rome Station was at the centre of one of the agency’s first major covert operations during the Italian elections of 1948. Interventions in Italian politics would remain a significant theme in succeeding decades.

Rome also served as an important regional base for operations across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.