Three secret agents died in the shipwreck from Lake Maggiore. It is not the first time that agents have appeared in this region.
Lake Maggiore – The boat accident from Lake Maggiore has revealed more than initially assumed. In the case of the boat accident on Sunday evening, among the four fatalities were three people who worked for the secret service. A man worked in Israel, a woman and a man in Italy for the respective intelligence services. This was confirmed by both the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Italian authorities. A new chapter in a region already known for agent stories.
Boat accident on Lake Maggiore – in the "espionage triangle" between Italy, France and Switzerland?
As the Italian Corriere headlined after the accident, the region between northern Italy, southeastern France and southern Switzerland is a kind of "espionage triangle". In the past, there have always been conspicuous revelations from spies.
In a boat accident on Lake Maggiore, three former employees of secret services are among the four fatalities. © Dpa
Iranian and U.S. intelligence services have already made an appearance in northern Italy
Lake Maggiore is located in Lombardy. The region, with its industry, has already been of interest to secret agents in the past. According to the newspaper, the Iranian secret service, among other things, has been operating there since the 90s to procure resources for civilian and military technologies. In addition, the agents had set up a screening company in Milan to forward suitable material to Tehran. As early as 1988, the U.S. CIA had also appeared to retreat in northern Italy after a mission in Napoli.
Unsolved case from 2019: French secret agent shot dead in parking lot near Geneva
A little further in the north-west of Switzerland, secret agent Daniel Forestier, a former French secret agent, was also shot dead in the Geneva area in March 2019, according to Corriere. He was ambushed in his car in a parking lot and was murdered there.
Even though the case is still unsolved, there are many clues to the cause. Possible reasons would be past business with the Soviet Union, a civil war on the African continent and unpaid bills. According to the reports, Switzerland, especially Geneva, is often used as a transit country by secret services.
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15 Russian spies operated from the Alps to all of Europe
On the French border, where the "espionage triangle" to Switzerland and Italy is to close, according to reports from Le Monde, 15 Russian spies had also settled in the French Alpine department of Haute-Savoie in the past. This was therefore the GRU unit active in Europe – also known as 29155. From there, they had posed as holidaymakers all over Europe to operate for the secret service. Destinations included the Côte d'Azur and Great Britain. This has also brought the French counterintelligence service onto the scene.
"Spy triangle" on Lake Maggiore also present in James Bond films
With the boat accident on Lake Maggiore, former employees of the secret service in this region around the Alps have once again appeared. A high concentration of intelligence services in this region does not seem unlikely, at least. The directors of the classic film James Bond – 007 have also taken this to heart.
In the 1996 film "James Bond – On Her Majesty's Secret Service", Switzerland and its Alps served as the filming location for the hit film. The films of 1977, 1981, 1987, 1999 and 2015 also filmed scenes in the Alps of France, Italy, Austria and Switzerland. It was not uncommon for the Alps to be at the centre of the plot.
