By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
WASHINGTON — Ex-FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, the tough American G-Man , is going Italian — all the way.
In a ceremony at the Italian Embassy in Washington, Freeh was given Italian citizenship, according to the embassy website.
Freeh, who headed the FBI for eight years, “acquired his Italian citizenship in an official ceremony in which he swore allegiance to the Constitution before Italy’s Ambassador to the USA Giulio Terzi”, the website said.
Terzi cited Freeh’s fight against organized crime and “open cooperation with Italy’s major law enforcement agencies.” Italy allows dual citizenship.
The site said Freeh’s “Italian ancestry traces back to his maternal grandfather who came to the United States in 1870 from the province of Avellino.”
