Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said he made clear to the United States that his country’s intelligence services had no ties to Joseph Mifsud, the mysterious Maltese professor who allegedly played a central role in the launch of the Trump-Russia investigation.

Two recent meetings between Attorney General William Barr and Italian intelligence officials “clarified that our intelligence was not involved in the affair,” Conte told reporters.

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