The shipwreck on Lake Maggiore that unveiled secret agent M and Mossad's operations against Iran

A news event that took place a few years ago in Piedmont is back in the spotlight, and it turns out to be connected to the events of the war between Israel and Iran. It is the mysterious sinking on 28 May 2023 of the 16-metre sailing boat Good...uria, which took place on Lake Maggiore. On that occasion, four of the 23 people on board lost their lives. And 21 of these people, all except the skipper Claudio Carminati, who survived the shipwreck, and his companion, the Russian Anna Bozhkova, who died instead in the waters of the Verbano, were secret service agents, both Israeli and Italian.

Three of the victims were called, by the time chronicle, '007'. Two of them were Italian: Claudio Alonzi aged 62 and Tiziana Barnobi aged 53. The other, a 50-year-old Israeli whose name was not disclosed at the time, was simply described as 'a pensioner of the security forces'.

But evidently this was no mere pensioners' boat trip, as we now learn thanks to the revelations of David Barnea, director of Israel's external intelligence service, the famous Mossad. During a ceremony in memory of the fallen, Barnea mentioned a certain M, without revealing his full name. It would be him, as the local Israeli press informs us, the 50-year-old man who died in the shipwreck. And M Barnea has dedicated a passionate remembrance to him, which ties in with the events of war news in recent weeks. M is said to have been at work, at the time of the shipwreck, while preparing operations against Iran.

"The operations led by M. combined creativity, cunning and technology and significantly influenced the successful campaign against Iran," Barnea said during the ceremony, "During Operation 'Lion Roar', my thoughts and heart were filled with pride for the character and actions of M, who fell outside Israel while carrying out his mission.

After Barnea's statements, which said nothing about either the place or the date of M.'s death, the Israeli media went to work and reconstructed that agent M, who served Mossad for 30 years, lost his life in the shipwreck in Lake Maggiore 'while working with Italian intelligence to prevent Tehran from obtaining advanced weapons'.