The Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 Military Intelligence Service (from 1900 to 1949) was the military intelligence

Military intelligence

Military intelligence is a military discipline that exploits a number of information collection and analysis approaches to provide guidance and direction to commanders in support of their decisions....

 organization for the Royal Army (Regio Esercito ) of the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) from 1900 until 1946, and of the Republic of Italy until 1949. SIM was Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....

's equivalent to the German

Nazi Germany

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 Abwehr

Abwehr

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.

SIM had a large, well-organized cryptologic group

Cryptography

Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...

, Section 5 (Sezione 5). Section 5 produced codes

Code (cryptography)

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 and ciphers

Encryption

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 for the Royal Army and higher level enciphered codes for the Royal Navy.

See also

• Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism
• Kempeitai
  Kempeitai
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• Tokkeitai
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• Francesco De Martini
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• Mario Roatta
  Mario Roatta
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