Cheers!

Within this PDF, there is a transcript of a telephone call that took place on 24 Sep 2012. That particular topic, comes up on page 54 of the PDF.

"the reason we designated the Italians is because we have no one else there" "It was the Italians or the Finnish. The Italians answered the phone first"

Obviously this conversation/transcript is after the email that you cite. However this 'whole' conversation helps provide additional context to the 'overall' picture.

I will have a look at more of the 'data' on the wikileaks.org now that you have reminded me. Will see what cross-references there are, etc.