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Servicio para la Seguridad y la Información Militares o algo así, son siglas, en italiano dan SISMI, s, i, s, m, i, no tiene ningún misterio.
The Military Security and Information Service, or something like that, it's an acronym, which in Italian gives you SISMI, s-i-s-m-i, there's no great mystery about it.
La idea era, de hecho, comercializar las actividades del SIS —recordé las siglas, se las había oído a Tupra o a Wheeler: Secret Intelligence Service, a ella le salieron en inglés aunque habláramos en español, s, i, s, o es, ai, es, a nuestros oídos— y conseguir lucrativos contratos que equivalían a privatizar parcialmente la agencia, obtener de inmediato grandes beneficios y rescatar del hastío a buen número de ociosos y de deprimidos, destinándolos al servicio más o menos directo de las empresas.
The idea was basically to commercialize the activities of the SIS’—I remembered this acronym, I’d heard Tupra and Wheeler use it: the Secret Intelligence Service, she said the acronym in English, s, i, s, or to Spanish ears, es, ai, es, even though we were speaking Spanish—‘to win lucrative contracts, which was tantamount to a partial privatizion of the agency, to reap immediate large rewards and rescue from boredom a good number of the idle and depressed by sending them to work more or less directly for these companies.
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