Environmental Crime Prevention Program
The Environmental Crime Prevention Program (ECPP) was an organization founded by Italian lawyer and self-styled security consultant Mario Scaramella along with his partner Filippo Marino in Naples, Italy in 1997. Describing itself as an itself as "permanent intergovernmental conference" focusing on environmental with rotating presidencies by such countries as Samoa and Angola, its true purpose remains difficult to discern, and recently the ECPP has attracted the attention of Italian investigative authorities, who consider it to be a probable front organization.
Mission and purpose
The website of Environmental Security International quotes Dr. Scaramella as describing the mission of the ECPP as "providing environmental protection and security through technology on a global basis, particularly for developing nations. ECPP has offices at the Fucino Space Center in Italy, the largest civilian space center in the world. ECPP has used aerial surveillance and the remote sensing capabilities of satellites to detect environmental crimes in Eastern and Southern Europe and eco-terrorism in Central Africa and South America."
Stealth conferences
Among the mysteries of the ECPP was a supposed "IV Plenary Conference"[1] held at the Environmental Protection Agency's offices in New York, which Scaramella used to register for intergovernmental status. The ECPP's IV Plenary Confernce reportedly lasted for all of one hour,[2] and there is no record of anyone physically attending, not even Scaramella.
See also
References
- ^ http://www.uonna.it/ecpp-programma.htm ECPP 4th Plenary Report
- ^ Claudio Gatti, How one man insinuated himself into poisoning case, International Herald Tribune January 9, 2007
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