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MADRID — In a decision that seriously weakened the highest-profile prosecution in Europe involving the seizure of terrorism suspects by intelligence operatives, Italy’s highest court ruled Wednesday that Italian prosecutors had violated state secrecy in their case against U.S. and Italian intelligence operatives.
The ruling was a blow to the case, in which 25 CIA operatives, a U.S. Air Force colonel and a half-dozen Italian intelligence officials are on trial for the 2003 seizure of an Egyptian terrorism suspect. The Americans are being tried in absentia.
