{"id":664546,"date":"2026-01-19T10:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cronologia-universale.it\/march-30-2021-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T10:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:19:19","slug":"march-30-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cronologia-universale.it\/en\/march-30-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"March 30, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rome. Walter Biot, an Italian Navy officer, is arrested for espionage. He handled classified documents aimed at state security. Biot was responsible, among other things, for the projection of Italian defense assets in foreign theaters of operations, as well as NATO, EU, and UN operations. The officer, caught red-handed, had sold 181 photographs of classified material to a Russian spy. The material includes nine documents classified as top secret, of a military nature, and 47 NATO documents considered &#8220;secret.&#8221; Top secret documents have four levels: confidential, top secret, secret, and top secret. Italy expels two Russian diplomats. It will later be determined, in April 2022, that the documents Biot sold to the Russians are 47 &#8216;NATO secret&#8217;, 57 &#8216;NATO confidential&#8217;, and nine classified as &#8216;top secret&#8217;, states the Court of Cassation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome. Walter Biot, an Italian Navy officer, is arrested for espionage. 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