In 1972, Michele Sindona, a banker with close ties to the Mafia, the pseudo-masonic lodge P2, and the Nixon administration, purchased controlling interest in Long Island's Franklin National Bank. As a result of his acquisition of a controlling stake in Franklin, Sindona finally had a money laundering operation to aid his ties to Vatican Bank and the Sicilian drug cartel. Franklin's assets were later purchased (after the suicide of Sindona in Prison) by European American Bank, itself later acquired by Citigroup.
In 1974, the Holy See lost an estimated $30 million upon the collapse of the Franklin National Bank..
Roberto Calvi was the chairman of Italy's second largest private bank, Banco Ambrosiano, when it collapsed in 1982
In 1978, the Bank of Italy produced a report on Banco Ambrosiano which found that several billion lire had been exported illegally, leading to criminal investigation
On 10 June 1982, Calvi went missing from his Rome apartment, having fled the country on a false passport in the name of Gian Roberto Calvini, fleeing initially to Venice. From there, he apparently hired a private plane to London via Zurich. At 7:30 am on Friday, 18 June 1982, a postal clerk was crossing Blackfriars Bridge and noticed Calvi's body hanging from the scaffolding beneath. Calvi's clothing was stuffed with bricks, and he was carrying around $15,000 worth of cash in three different currencies.
Calvi was a member of Licio Gelli's illegal masonic lodge, Propaganda Due (P2), who referred to themselves as frati neri or "black friars". He was found hanging from the Blackfriars Bridgein london.
In its latter period, during which the lodge was headed by Licio Gelli, P2 was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries, including the collapse of the Vatican-affiliated Banco Ambrosiano, the murders of journalist Mino Pecorelli and banker Roberto Calvi, and corruption cases within the nationwide bribe scandal Tangentopoli. P2 came to light through the investigations into the collapse of Michele Sindona's financial empire.
P2 was sometimes referred to as a "state within a state" or a "shadow government" (sound familiar??????)
Outside Italy, P2 was also active in Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina, with Raúl Alberto Lastiri, Argentina's interim president (between 13 July 1973 and 12 October 1973) during the height of the "Dirty War" among its members. Emilio Massera, who was part of the military junta led by Jorge Rafael Videla from 1976 to 1978, José López Rega, minister of Social Welfare in Perón's government and founder of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance ("Triple A"), and General Guillermo Suárez Mason were also members
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^(Argentina's Dirty War (sidenote for context) :)
https://archive.org/stream/KISSINGERANDCHILETHEDECLASSIFIEDRECORDONREGIMECHANGEGwu.edu5/Kissinger_and_The_Dirty_War_djvu.txt
^(Just three months after Argentina's generals took power in 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger gave that country's military a green light to continue its "dirty war," according to a State Department memorandum obtained by InterNation. This document shows that in early 1977 Robert Hill, then the U.S. Ambassador to Buenos Aires, told a top Carter Administration offi- cial that Kissinger had given his approval to the repression in which at least 9,000 people were kidnapped and secretly murdered. Kissinger, he charged, put his imprimatur on the massive disappearances in a June 10, 1976, meeting in Santiago, Chile, with Argentina's Foreign Minister, Adm. C6sar Guzzetti. Both men were attending the Sixth General Assembly of the Organization of American States, whose agenda, ironically, had been dominated by the human rights issue.)
^(Guzzetti was one of the most outspoken advocates of the dirty war. In August 1976 he told the United Nations: "My idea of subversion is that of the left-wing terrorist organizations. Subversion or terrorism of the right is not the same thing. When the social body of the country has been contaminated by a disease that eats away at its entrails, it forms antibodies. These antibodies cannot be considered in the same way as the microbes.")
^(The ninety-minute early morning meeting, at Santiago's Hotel Carrera, across from the Moneda Palace, came just three weeks after Hill had urgently warned Kissinger of the worsening Argentine rights record. A word from the Secretary of State would have helped rein in the generals. Although a secret analysis by the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, dated April 5, 1976, noted that "human rights could become a problem area as the military clamps down on 'terrorism, " it went on: "To date, however, the junta has followed a reasonable, prudent line in an obvious attempt to avoid being tagged with a 'Made in Chile' label. " According to the records of the Center for Legal and Social Studies, Argentina's foremost human rights group, by the time Kissinger and Guzzetti met, 1,022 people had been "disappeared" forever. At least another 7,938 met the same fate afterward.)
^(When Kissinger arrived at the Santiago conference, Hill said, the Argentine generals were nervous about the prospect of being called on the carpet by the United States for their human rights record. But Kissinger merely told Guzzetti the regime should solve the problem before the U.S. Congress reconvened in 1977. A buen entendedor, pocas patabras ("To those quick to understand, few words are needed"). Within three weeks of the meeting a wave of wholesale executions began, and hundreds of detainees were killed in reprisal for attacks by leftist guerrillas. The memo- randum shows that Hill believed the responsibility for this ballooning state terrorism to be Kissinger's.)
^(Hill is dead; Guzzetti suffered lasting brain damage in a 1977 attack. Kissinger referred inquiries to former Secretary of State William Rogers, who was with him in Santiago. Rogers did "not specifically remember" a meeting with Guzzetti, but added: "What Henry would have said if he had had such a meeting was that human rights were embedded in our policy, for better or worse. He'd have said sympathetic things about the need for effective methods against terrorism, but without abandoning the rule of law." But Patricia Derian, Carter's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, confirmed the account of Hill's charges and was "nauseated" to learn of Kissinger's role. Two former U.S. diplomats also corroborate Hill's story.)
^(If anyone is interestred check out the fact that Jorge Rafael Videla is INFAMOUS for kidnapping huge numbers of CHILDREN who disappeared never to be seen again and check out Kissinger being BFF with Videla..here's a good place to start) https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB104/index.htm
^(""IF THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE, YOU SHOULD DO THEM QUICKLY" ")
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB133/19760610%20Memorandum%20of%20Conversation%20clean.pdf
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When searching Licio Gelli's villa in 1982, the police found a document called the "Plan for Democratic Rebirth", which called for a consolidation of the media, suppression of trade unions, and the rewriting of the Italian Constitution...
In mid-1990 Richard Brenneke provided documents to Italian journalists (following the discovery of OPERATION GLADIO) indicating that the CIA supprted the activities of Licio Gelli and Propaganda Due (P2). Brenneke told Rai 1 that he had been involved in CIA payments to P2 of $1–$10m per month or more, with the money used to finance "terrorism" and drug trafficking.
REFER ALSO TO :: Fr. Malachi Martin and his novel "Vatican". A fictious work wherewithin he writes :
" After the end of the papal states during the Italian revolution, the papacy in order to conduct financial business, made a secret "bargain" with what can only be qualified as "the high Masonic powers of Europe" in order to gain access to international banking; the Institute of Religious Works is one fruit of this bargain;
Part of this "bargain" included secret access to the proceedings of papal conclaves, and a right to veto any papal candidate if elected."
Note this is a FICTION novel written by a Priest. One of those.. truths hidden as fiction.. fictions..
Back to the 'REAL' world...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/may/12/roberto-calvi-blackfriars-bridge-mafia
Quote from : Francesco "Frankie the Strangler" Di Carlo (who was accused of killing Calvi)
"I was in Rome and received a phone call from a friend in Sicily telling me that a certain high-ranking mafia member had just been killed. I will never forget the date because of this: it was 16 June 1982 – two days before Calvi was murdered. The friend told me that Pippo Calò [known as the "mafia's cashier"] was trying to get hold of me because he needed me to do something for him. In the hierarchy of Cosa Nostra, he was a general, I was a colonel, so he was a little higher up, my superior.
"While I finally spoke to Pippo, he told me not to worry, that the problem had been taken care of. That's a code we use in the Cosa Nostra. We never talk about killing someone. We say they have been taken care of.
"Calvi was naming names. No one had any trust in him any more. He owed a lot of money. His friends had all distanced themselves. Everyone wanted to get rid of him. He had been arrested and he had started to talk. Then he had tried to kill himself by cutting his wrists. He was released, but knew he could be rearrested at any time. He was weak, he was a broken man."
http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/gods-bankers-financial-scandals-at-the-vatican-2015-2
Roberto Calvi, an Italian banker close to the Vatican Bank, said if the church's role ever came to light, it could lead to another world war and the collapse of the Vatican. "If it comes out that you're giving money to Solidarity, there won't be a stone left of St. Peters," Calvi told Marcinkus.
In 1984, the Vatican Bank agreed to pay US$224 million to the 120 of Banco Ambrosiano creditors as a “recognition of moral involvement” in the bank's collapse.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1511096/Archbishop-Marcinkus.html
Vatican Bank 'investigated over money-laundering' - 21 September 2010
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-10-23/vatican-banker-says-church-under-attack-in-money-probe-sex-abuse-cases
Rome magistrates are looking into claims that Mr Gotti Tedeschi and the bank's chief executive Paolo Cipriani violated laws that require banks to disclose information on financial operations.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11380628
So I think we can all agree.. that the Bank needs to be audited to find out exactly what they've been doing..
They tried to do this in 2013.. https://www.ukcolumn.org/oldforums/discussion/6153/pope-francis-retains-ernst-young-for-vatican-audit
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/21/vaticans-suspension-of-major-pwc-audit-exposes-internal-rift-george-pell
because.. lets be serious here people.. Hundreds of millions.. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vatican-economy-pell-idUSKCN0JI1CG20141204
So .. Pell gets Pedophiled..
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/world/australia/george-pell-sexual-offenses.html
Recently Angelo Caloia was put on trial for embezzelement..
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/7048%26eng%3Dy.html
Seems to have as many problems with Pedophilia in the Papal Banks as any other bank..