Federico Umberto D'Amato

Federico Umberto D'Amato (4 June 1919 – 1 August 1996) was an Italian secret agent, who led the Office for Reserved Affairs of the Ministry of Interior (Italy) from the 1950s till the 1970s, when the activity of the intelligence service was undercover and not publicly known.

Biography D'Amato was born in Marseille, and during World War II he worked for the Office of Strategic Services. After the end of the conflict, he was at the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Special Office, a link between NATO and the United States. D'Amato's later contact with the CIA was James Jesus Angleton. He entered the Office for Reserved Affairs of the Italian Ministry of the Interior in 1957.

D'Amato was a member of Propaganda 2 (P2), a secret masonic lodge involved in numerous political and economic scandals in the 1970s. An expert of gastronomy, he held a column in the weekly L'espresso, under the pseudonym of Federico Godio.

He appeared in a BBC documentary about Operation Gladio in June 1992.