Nov. 7—The following is an edited transcript of EIR’s Nov. 9, 2024 interview with General Fabio Mini. General Mini served in the Italian Army for 38 years, retiring in 2003 at the rank of three-star general. During his career, he served as Chief of Staff of the NATO Southern European Command (now Joint Force Command Naples) and as commander of the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) mission in the Balkans.
General Mini, along with other influential military-intelligence officers from eight EU/NATO countries, were recently targeted in a report issued by the Ukrainian Center for Defense Reforms, accusing them of being “Russian agents.” The Center for Defense Reform is financed and controlled by NATO/EU countries—primarily the U.S. and UK.
A section of the report dedicated specifically to Italy, besides General Mini, includes: General Roberto Vannacci (retired Special Forces, now a member of the EU Parliament), Antonio Maria Rinaldi (former member of the European Parliament and reserve officer of the Guardia di Finanza), Lt. Col. Fabio Filomeni (retired Special Forces), General Piero Laporta (retired combat engineer, writer and blogger), General Leonardo Tricarico (former Air Force Chief of Staff and current president of the ICSA Foundation), General Marco Bertolini (retired Special Forces, former Chief of Defense Operations and now president of the Paratrooper Association), and Pasquale Tarantino (retired Air Force officer). They are described as “dangerous” because they are “qualified, authoritative, and listened to experts in warfare and geopolitics.”
General Mini was asked about his thoughts concerning the Ukrainian report. The interview was conducted by EIR’s Claudio Celani.
EIR: General, what do you think about the report?
General Mini: The text is written in a mix of Anglo-American-Slavic English/machine translation, and the information for some countries is taken from identical information compiled by natives of those countries on behalf of Ukraine. The publication supplements the previous filing edited by the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) and the kill list compiled by neo-Nazi “volunteers” from Myrotvorets (“Peacemakers”) already published by Kyiv.
