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and Banco Ambrosiano 129, 166, 254, 273, 280–1, 290
and BPF 100
counterfeit bonds 33, 34, 36, 37
creation 86
and Finabank 101
and illegal currency exports 259–60
investigations xxi, 78, 196–7
Marcinkus and 29, 37, 38–9, 40, 46, 55–6, 58, 76, 78, 95, 133, 140, 141, 142, 161, 178, 197, 207, 246, 249, 250, 271, 275, 277, 278, 284, 289–90, 291
money laundering xxii, 117, 118, 255, 262
Panamanian companies 270, 271, 272, 273, 277, 278, 289–90
and Suprafin 133, 138, 139–40
tax exemptions 87, 89
Vatican City xx, 36, 40, 82
Vatican Council (1870) 4, 12
Vatican Council, Second (1962) 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 32, 43, 56, 69, 73, 107, 147, 158, 165, 173, 175, 220
Vatican Incorporated 80, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 90, 95, 99, 112, 113, 124, 126, 127, 128, 129, 141, 142, 143, 151, 161, 178, 186, 195, 246, 269, 303
‘Vatican Incorporated’
and John Paul I 143, 151, 186, 195, 246
origins of 83, 88
and Sindona 112, 124, 126, 129
and tax 113
Vatican Radio 68, 72, 154, 156, 185, 186, 208
Vatican Tribunal 226
Venice, Patriarch of
Baggio’s refusal of office 194–5, 227
Luciani as xix, 24–7, 29, 31, 39, 41, 42, 44, 46–7, 48, 49–50, 53, 54, 60, 75, 123, 132, 168
Urbani as 24
Vetco Industries 121
Vianini company 290
Videla, General 150, 171
Viezzer, Antonio 257
Villot, Cardinal Jean 29, 52, 53, 56, 62, 63, 64, 70, 76, 78, 123, 124, 141, 146, 150, 153, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 164, 165, 169, 182, 184, 186, 190, 192, 196, 197, 198, 201, 210, 248, 291
death 257, 285
and John Paul I xx, xxi, 152, 199–200, 205–6, 207, 208, 209, 211, 212, 213, 214, 216, 220, 227, 237, 240, 285
and John Paul II 249
as suspect 202, 206, 237–8, 239, 240, 241, 242, 284–6
Vincenza, Sister xx, 167, 168, 200, 204–5, 206, 208, 213, 214, 217, 227, 238
violence, John Paul I on 45
Visser, Father Jan 18
Vitalone, Claudio 256
Vittorio Veneto, diocese 10, 11, 13, 15, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 48, 65, 155, 185, 187, 196, 232, 237
Volk, Cardinal 65, 67
Volpe, John 122
White Coup (1972) 136
Willebrands, Cardinal 51, 52, 65, 67, 69, 70, 75, 192, 210
Wilson, David 180
Wilson, Helen Dolan 180, 181, 286, 288
Wojtyla, Karol see John Paul II
World Synod of Bishops (1971) 27
Wyszynski, Cardinal 12, 65
Zalba, Father Marcellino 18
Zanfagna, Gennaro 139
Zitropo company 115, 116, 132
Zizola, Giancarlo 60
Zucconi, Vittorio 223
Zürich Handelsbank 34
2 The 11-year-old Albino Luciani at Feltre seminary.
3 Giovanni and Bortola with Pia: the photograph which accompanied Luciani everywhere.
4 Luciani, the newly ordained priest, July 7th 1935.
5 Cardinal Ottaviani led those who were against reform of the Church’s position on birth control.
6 Luciani with his brother Edoardo and sister-in-law and their ten children, took the opposing view.
7 Vatican City State.
8 The Patriarch of Venice with some of his priests, including (second right) his secretary, Father (now Monsignor) Senigaglia.
9 Pope Paul VI and Albino Luciani in St Mark’s Square, Venice.
10 Pope Paul I with his Secretary of State, Cardinal Villot.
11 Cardinal Cody of Chicago (in foreground, left). Behind Pope Paul VI (to the left) is Helen Wilson.
12 and 13 The Puppet Master, Licio Gelli, leaning forward in conversation with General Juan Peron, waiting to be received by Pope Paul VI.
14 President Nixon with Pope Paul VI and Monsignor Macchi, one of the members of the ‘The Milan Mafia’.
15 John Volpe, then U.S. Ambassador to Rome, congratulates Sindona (right) on being named by the American Club ‘Man of The Year.’
16 President Lyndon B. Johnson meets Pope Paul VI, with Paul Marcinkus (second left) acting as interpreter.
17 The two leaders of P2 in the company of President Leone of Italy (centre foreground): second and fourth from the President’s left are Licio Gelli and Umberto Ortolani.
18 Gelli with the then Prime Minister of Italy, Giulio Andreotti.
19 Some contenders for the empty throne. Cardinals Siri and Felici.
20 Cardinal Pignedoli in conversation with Cardinal Gantin.
21 Luciani’s choice, Cardinal Aloisio Lorscheider.
22 Cardinal Bertoli, a good friend of Gelli.
23 Cardinal Baggio.
24 ‘We have a Pope!’
25 Cardinal Felici places the woollen pallium over the shoulders of the new Pope.
26 and 27 Lucian’s impact was immediate with young and old alike.
28 Between the Pope and his secretary, Father Diego Lorenzi, sits a member of the Curial old guard, Monsignor Martin.
29 Luciani exchanges greetings with the Communist Mayor of Rome; Giuilo Argan, on the only occasion on which he went outside the Vatican City during his reign.
30 Members of the Curia attempted to monitor the Pope’s every movement.
31 The Swiss Guard acknowledges the arrival of Paul Marcinkus at the Vatican.
32 Cardinal Jean Villot.
33 Roberto Calvi.
34 Cardinal Cody.
35 Umberto Ortolani.
36 Michele Sindona.
37 Licio Gelli stood to lose his grip on a whole empire through Luciani’s proposed reforms.
39 An ebullient and zestful Luciani with Cardinal Sin of the Philippines. This last photograph of Luciani was taken a few hours before the Pope died.
40 Father Magee.
41 Sister Vincenza.
42 Ernesto and Arnaldo Signoracci, Papal embalmers.
43 Luciani, Pope John Paul I, lying-in-state.
44 Prime Minister Andreotti (kneeling, third from left) prays by the body.
45 The new Pope with Cardinal Benelli, who was deprived by a mere handful of votes from succeeding Luciani.
46 On July 10th, 1976, the murder of Italian magistrate Vittorio Occorsio halted the investigation into the links between a neo-Fascist movement and the Masonic Order, P2.
47 and 48 Emilio Alessandrini, a Milan magistrate, was murdered on January 29th, 1979, soon after he opened an investigation into Calvi’s Banco Ambrosiano.
49 Mino Pecorelli was a disenchanted P2 member who began to talk. He, too, was murdered.
50 The deputy General Manager of the Bank of Italy, Mario Sarcinelli, leaves jail after being falsely imprisoned on trumped up charges arranged by Gelli.
51 Giorgio Ambrosoli was murdered hours after he gave vital evidence against Sindona.
52 Giorgio Ambrosoli was murdered hours after he gave vital evidence against Sindona.
53 Two days before he was murdered Giorgio Ambrosoli had conferred with Palermo police chief, Boris Giuliano. Within two weeks of Ambrosoli’s death, Giuliano was also murdered and laid to rest.
54 The Milan headquarters of Roberto Calvi.
55 Bologna railway station, 1980, when 85 people were killed and 182 injured in a bomb explosion masterminded by P2.
56 By 1980 Roberto Rosone (left); deputy chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, was becoming a threat to Calvi’s activities. On April 27th, 1980 Rosone was shot and seriously wounded.
57 The body of Rosone’s assailant, Danilo Abbruciati, after he was shot dead by Banco Ambrosiano guards.
58 Flavio Carboni (centre right), friend of Roberto Calvi.
59 Roberto Calvi ‘suicided’ in London on June 17/18th, 1982.
60 A few hou
rs before Calvi’s death his secretary, Graziella Corrocher, was also ‘suicided’ from the fourth floor of the Banco Ambrosiano headquarters. An ambulance leaves with her body.
61 With all the other suspects dead, in prison, or fugitives from justice, Marcinkus (centre foreground) remains inside the Vatican.
62 ‘God’s Banker’ in his bank.
63 Umberto Ortolani.
64 Swiss police photographs of Licio Gelli.
65 Michele Sindona is serving 25 years in prison in the U.S.A.