The file with the Russian money the parties financed: Investigations began several months ago

Information and verification were entrusted to Treasury Department officials based on data collected by the CIA, but not including National Security.

This is the first information sent to the Italian government from the United States through diplomatic and intelligence channels. A report that does not, however, resolve the crucial issue for Italy's presence on the list of states listing parties and politicians “on the salary list”.

The “is currently unknown, but things can change”, said the president of the committee for national security in the Italian Parliament, Adolfo Urso, who left immediately on a trip to Washington. In the evening, he wrote on Twitter: “I just completed a positive meeting at the State Department”, with a picture of two flags.

However, tension in an election campaign already marked by allegations of external intervention remains very high. After filtering news of the report's existence Tuesday evening, no official communication from the United States reached the countries involved. In fact, in the informal notes of these hours, Italian media say, it is estimated that the file will not yet be handed over to foreign governments because it is “classified”.

Italian analysts believe that the “bomba” cast by America may in fact be a kind of warning regarding the attitude to take against Washington and a reason to push the executive in office to seek clear information on elements gathered by American officials. The Italian press says the choice to partially filter the results in these days of election fever in Italy could turn into a charge of interference in the election campaign in the function of the 25 September vote, much more under consideration, he adds, that in the United States, rumors circulated of voting conditioning in Albania, Montenegro, Ecuador, Madagascar, etc. /TopChannel/