I'm looking for another source on Fitzgerald traveling to Italy as well. I've heard it from a couple of sources, who have varying degrees of reliability, as well as posters here.
That's why I added "reportedly" and "if the above is true" to my post.
There is also a recent post on this thread (#35 from Angkor) that said the phone on Fitzgerald's new web site originally linked to a DOJ "Counterintelligence" office.
For what it's worth...Salon reported this week that NATO sources confirmed that Fitzgerald had asked for and received the unpublished Italian government's investigation into the forgeries.
Whoops. "Counter espionage".
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/10/21/BL2005102100970_pf.html
"Incidentally, if you call the number the new Web site lists for Fitzgerald's D.C. office, the phone is somewhat mysteriously answered "counterespionage section."
But as Samborn explained to me, that's because the special prosecutor is borrowing space in the Justice Department's Bond Building from the counterespionage section. "The office of special counsel doesn't really have its own dedicated space," he said.