Military hospital, PaduaThe stealth protocol was part of bilateral agreements between the Italian State and the Holy See; every intelligence operation that employed undercover agents involved the recovery of subjects in danger of being discovered and who, due to the delicacy of their assignment, required confidentiality. There were three units of the Italian army in charge of this: Padua, Rome and Palermo. Wherever their intervention was needed, based on the location of the interested parties, the closest unit would have recovered the persons indicated and, subsequently, covered any reference to the operation in progress, without knowing or asking anything. The subjects thus recovered were escorted to the nearest military garrison; in the specific case, as there were wounded, hospitalizati
