I remembered you said this when I was checking Cannistraro's profile page...the journalist who received the forgeries from Rocco Martino was Italian Panorama journalist Elisabetta Burba.
Now...
On January 2nd, 2001, police discover that the Nigerien Embassy [in Rome] has been broken into and documents and files were stolen. Italian investigators now believe that the breakin is related to the Niger forgeries.
Elisabetta Burba, a journalist for Panorama, receives a telephone call from Rocco Martoni telling her about the Niger documents, offering to sell them to here for ten thousand dollars. She meets with him and he gives her photocopies. She asks how they could be authenticated and he shows her a photocopy of the codebook from the Niger Embassy.
Italian authorities believe the codebook was obtained in the breakin of the Niger Embassy in 2001.
Daily Kos {Ugh}, while trying to blame Ledeen
Was Vince still with the Vatican in 2001? Dang I wish I had more time today...gotta leave in 3 minutes, hubby is coming home tonight {Sigh}...
I'll have to see what Cannistraro's relation to the Vatican was in 2001. But you'd think he'd have maintained whatever intelligence contacts he developed while he was there.
So who broke into the Nigerian embassy in Rome?