There have been so many lies from the Rossi camp...some understandable, such as protecting ones identity (Cures), that it is hard to piece this together. Alan, I certainly believe you are honestly telling us what you were told. Para, I and Can have likewise honestly reported Rossisays that seem to contradict that. I would say that no one here is right, or wrong... so we all deserve a like.
Also, based on Paradigmnoia's finding that Penon picture, I do believe now that Penon is NOT the Nato Colonel, Domenico Fioravanti. That means that when Rossi was quoted saying that Fioravanti was "directing", "involved with", and "would sign off on the (first Hotcat) report", it was another Rossiays...as it was Penon, not DF who later signed off on it. That was the last we ever saw or heard from DF, but a year later Cures popped back up briefly on Cobraf.
One can not help but repeat Bob's reasonable question as to how...if these people are professionally legit, with integrity, know of this great discovery that could change the world almost overnight, yet could "just walk away from it"? Not a peep out of either of them (assuming they are not one and the same) for 3 1/2 years now. I could not keep my mouth shut, if I *trusted* it to be real, and that I had not been lied to..could you?
And this Italian Army thing reminds me of a Lewan comment along those lines, when the IH lawsuit broke, that he had it on good information -he could not divulge the source of course, that "the military" had possession of an Ecat, or 1MW (forget which). Trust me, if the military had a working overunity device for the past 5 years, we would all know about it by now. In fact, that was Walker's (not Eric) "October surprise" scenario for two US President election cycles running, and it never came.