Talk:OVRA

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The article says that "Italy was eventually expelled from the Balkans by these resistance groups", however this is not accurate: when the armistice between Italy and the Allied was announced, on Sept., 8th 1943, the Italian Army was not retreating from its positions in the Balkans. After the Armistice, the then Kingdom of Italy was not at war anymore against the Allies, and many Italian soldiers in the Balkans, cut away from Italy as they were, joined the resistance and fought against the Germans. Others (most of them) were interned or massacred by Wehrmacht or SS troops. It's true that Tito thrusted toward Trieste in 1945, and that Italian troops from the Mussolini puppet-state created in northern Italy fought against them, containing their advance, rather than retreating. Tito was able to capture Trieste only after the war was actually over and as Northern Italy was being occupied by the Allies. So if Tito did expel the Italians, he did so in Italy proper (not the Balkans) and only after the war was actually over and no Italian was left still fighting.

Also, the article says: "In 1943, with the Allied invasion of Italy, the OVRA began to recruit double agents to infiltrate the British SOE, but these efforts failed to stop Mussolini's ouster". Again, fiction. If there were any double-agents, they were the ones recruited (also by the OSS) within the OVRA by the Allied secret services, not the opposite.

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this page needs more information about the OVRA, and more sources —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.214.193.6 (talk) 22:54, 5 November 2007 (UTC)