After having been appointed with great pomp a year ago as head of the Dipartimento delle Informazioni per la Sicurezza (DIS), Elisabetta Belloni has in recent months made a point of keeping out of the media, despite the internal and international issues agitating the DIS, which oversees Italy's internal and external intelligence services. According to those close to her, she is using this media silence to try and forget all the political events which have been affecting the service's international