If any of you read the background info on Lenny, don't put too much store into his alleged assocation with the U.S. Embassy as a liaison officer. To my knowledge, he was never on their payroll. The consulates are in Milan, Florence and Naples. He was closest to Milan which was several hundred miles away from Vicenza. If one helps a consulate over the telephone make contact with someone in your city, you may call yourself a "liaison". Am fairly sure that's the extent of that association in that story.
When he was in northern Italy, he was retired, and also worked at the commissary of the U.S. army garrison in Vicenza (Caserma Ederle). His wife is Italian and they had friends/family connections in Vicenza.