15. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press (New York: Verso, 1998), p. 116.
16. Peter T. Schneider and Jane C. Schneider, Reversible Destiny: Mafia, AntiMafia, and the Struggle for Palermo (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2003), p. 76.
17. Ibid.
18. Donatella Della Porta and Alberto Vannucci, Corrupt Exchanges: Actors, Resources, and Mechanisms of Political Corruption (Chicago: Aldine Transaction, 1999), p. 168.
19. Patricia Clough, “Spirit of the Masons Lives on in the Murky Recesses of Italian Life,” The Independent (UK), July 18, 1993.
20. Ibid.
21. P2 list, as found among the papers of Licio Gelli, Deep Politics Forum, posted September 2008, https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/showthread.php?1222-List-of-P2-Members (accessed May 20, 2014).
22. Ibid.
23. Roger Faligot and Pascal Krop, La Piscine: Les Services Secrets Francais: 1944-1984 (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1985), p. 85.
24. Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe (London: Frank Cass, 2005), pp. 86–89.
25. Ibid.
26. Daniele Ganser, “Terrorism in Western Europe: An Approach to NATO's Secret Stay-Behind Armies,” The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Winter/Spring 1985.
27. Ibid.
28. William Blum, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II (Portland, ME: Common Courage Press, 1995), p. 61.
29. Richard Cottrell, Gladio: NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe (Palm Desert, California: Progressive Press, 2012), p. 57.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid., p. 112.
32. Carl Colby, dir., The Man Whom Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby, New York: Act 4 Entertainment, September 2011.
33. Edward Pentin, “Why Did Vatican II Ignore Communism?” Catholic World Report, December 10, 2012, http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/1798/why_did_vatican_ii_ignore_communism.aspx#.UkyiQNK1EYE (accessed May 20, 2014).
34. Martin A. Lee, “Their Will Be Done,” Mother Jones, July/August 1983, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1983/07/their-will-be-done (accessed May 20, 2014).
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. Andrea Lazzarini, Paolo VI (Rome: Casa Editrice Herder, 1978), pp. 20–21.
38. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 35. See also, Cockburn and St. Clair, Whiteout, p. 116.
39. Roland Flamini, Pope, Premier, and President: The Cold War Summit That Never Was (New York: Macmillan, 1980), pp. 186–89.
40. “Letter Written by Fr. Luigi Villa to All Cardinals regarding Pope Paul VI,” The Laitytude, November 21, 2012, http://mumbailaity.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/letter-written-by-fr-luigi-villa-to-all-cardinals-regarding-pope-paul-vi-and-who-was-appointed-to-uncover-freemasonry/ (accessed May 20, 2014).
41. Andrew Gavin Marshall, “Operation Gladio: CIA Network of ‘Stay-Behind’ Secret Armies,” Global Research, July 17, 2008, http://www.globalresearch.ca/operation-gladio-cia-network-of-stay-behind-secret-armies/9556 (accessed May 20, 2014).
42. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 219.
43. David Yallop, In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), p. 113. See also Philip Willan, “Meeting Licio,” Interview 1989, http://www.philipwillan.com/gelli.html (accessed May 20, 2014).
44. Lernoux, In Banks We Trust, p. 175.
45. Cockburn and St. Clair, Whiteout, p. 70.
46. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 114.
47. Ibid., p. 246.
48. Memo, Colonel Harlan Holman to Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, August 29, 1957, in the Army Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence's Post 1952 Paperclip files, Washington National records Center, declassified.
49. Cockburn and St. Clair, Whiteout, p. 70.
50. Lernoux, In Banks We Trust, p. 175.
51. Cockburn and St. Clair, Whiteout, p. 178.
52. John Judge, “Good Americans,” Selected Writings of John Judge, Citizens Watch, 1983, http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/GoodAmericans.html (accessed May 19, 2014).
53. John Cornwell, Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII (New York: Viking, 1999), p. 265.
54. Yallop, In God's Name, pp. 118–19.
55. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 31.
56. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 141.
57. Arthur E. Rowse, “Gladio: The Secret U.S. War to Subvert Italian Democracy,” The Architecture of Modern Political Power, February 23, 1993, http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/gladio.html (accessed May 20, 2014).
58. Andrew Dilks, “Boston, False Flags and the Strategy of Tension,” Disinformation, April 29, 2013, http://disinfo.com/2013/04/boston-false-flags-and-the-strategy-of-tension/ (accessed May 20, 2014).
59. Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies, p. 70.
60. Ibid., p. 71.
61. Giuseppe De Lutiis, Storia Dei Servizi Segreti in Italia (Rome: Editori Riunite, 1984), p. 73.
62. S. Christie, “Stefano de Chiaie,” Anarchy/Refract, 1984, http://digilander.libero.it/freebintel/bgt.htm (accessed May 20, 2014).
63. Staff report, “Mio Padre Scrisse a Moro la Verita’ sul Piano Solo,” La Repubblica, December 12, 1990, http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1990/12/21/mio-padre-scrisse-moro-la-verita-sul.html (accessed May 20, 2014).
64. Willan, Puppetmasters, p. 67.
65. Ibid.
66. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 115.
67. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 73.
68. Ibid., p. 68.
69. Marshall, “Operation Gladio.”
70. Willan, Puppetmasters, p. 55.
71. Ibid., p. 158.
72. Ibid., p. 46.
73. Ibid., p. 48.
74. Ibid., p. 52. See also Pietro Calderoni, Servizi Seareti (Naples: Tullio Pironti, 1986), p. 14.
75. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 117.
76. Gelli, quoted in Larry Gurwin, The Calvi Affair (London: Pan Books, 1984), p. 51.
CHAPTER SIX: THE RISE OF MICHELE SINDONA
1. Douglas Valentine, The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs (New York: Verso, 2006), p. 168.
2. Pino Arlacchi, Addio Cosa nostra: La vita di Tommaso Buscetta (Milan: Rizzoli, 1994), pp. 60–63.
3. Valentine, Strength of the Wolf, p. 168.
4. Luigi DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker: Michele Sindona (New York: Franklin Watts, 1983), p. 86.
5. Valentine, Strength of the Wolf, pp. 241–42.
6. Matt Birkbeck, The Quiet Don: The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino (New York: Berkley Books, 2013), pp. 124–25.
7. Ibid., p. 126.
8. Charles Grutzner, “Ruled Family of 450. Genovese Dies in Prison at 71. ‘Boss of Bosses’ Here,” New York Times, February 16, 1969; Valentine, Strength of the Wolf, pp. 182–83.
9. Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2003), p. 74.
10. DiFonzo, St Peter's Banker, p. 225.
11. Dean Henderson, Big Oil and Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families, and Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics, and Terror Network (New York: Bridger House Publishing, 2010), p. 284.
12. David Yallop, In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), p. 108.
13. R. D. da Scritto, “La Storia Sono Loro: Michele Sindona e il Delitto Ambrosoli,” Polis Blog, September 10, 2010, http://www.polisblog.it/post/8528/la-storia-sono-loro-michele-sindona-e-il-delitto-ambrosoli (accessed May 20, 2014); Stefania Limiti, “L'Ultimo Incontro di Michele Sindona,” Codo in Piedi, May 26, 2013, http://www.cadoinpiedi.it/2013/05/26/lultimo_incontro_di_michele_sindona.html (accessed May 20, 2014).
14. Peter Dale Scott, “Operation Paper: The United States and Drugs in Thailand and Burma,” The Asia Pacific Journal, 2008, http://japanfocus.org/-peter_dale-scott/3436 (accessed M
ay 20, 2014). See also, Valentine, Strength of the Wolf, p. 260.
15. Martin A. Lee, “Their Will Be Done,” Mother Jones, July/August 1983, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1983/07/their-will-be-done (accessed May 20, 2014).
16. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 38; Yallop, In God's Name, p. 109; Henderson, Big Oil, p. 287.
17. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 8.
18. Rupert Cornwell, God's Banker: An Account of the Life and Death of Roberto Calvi (London: Victor Gollancz, 1984), p. 52.
19. Piers Compton, Broken Cross (London: Neville Spearman, 1984), p. 212.
20. Ibid.
21. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 109. See also, David Golman, “ADL's Sterling Bank Sued in Italian Mafia Case,” EIR, February 10, 1982.
22. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 37.
23. Penny Lernoux, In Banks We Trust (New York: Penguin Books, 1986), p. 180.
24. “Family Jewels,” FOI Electronic Reading Room, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Archives (accessed December 2, 2013).
25. Sam Giancana and Chuck Giancana, Double Cross (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2010), pp. 470–71.
26. Valentine, Strength of the Wolf, p. 167.
27. Mae Brassell, “Transcription of World Watchers International, Broadcast #495,” May 31, 1981, http://www.maebrussell.com/Transcriptions/495.html (accessed May 20, 2014).
28. Lernoux, In Banks We Trust, pp. 63–99.
29. Peter Lattiman, “Willard C. Butcher, Former Chief of Chase Manhattan, Dies at 85,” New York Times, August 27, 2012.
30. Lernoux, In Banks We Trust, pp. 84–88.
31. Edward M. Brecher, “The Consumer Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs,” Consumer Reports, 1972, http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/cu20.html (accessed May 20, 2014).
32. Sean Gardiner, “Heroin: From the Civil War to the 70s, and Beyond,” City Limits, July 5, 2009.
33. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 111.
34. Ibid.
35. Kim Andersen, “Vatikanets Penge,” Tagryggen, October 7, 2004, http://www.tagryggen.dk/?tr=true&num=VmF0aWthbmV0cyBQZW5nZQ== (accessed May 20, 2014).
36. Ibid.
37. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 112.
38. Ibid.
39. “Michele Sindona,” Strano, 1989, http://www.strano.net/stragi/stragi/nomi/sindona.htm (accessed May 20, 2014).
40. Claire Sterling, Octopus: How the Long Reach of the Sicilian Mafia Controls the Global Narcotics Trade (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), p. 191.
41. Ibid.
42. Henrik Kruger, The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence and International Finance (Boston: South End Press, 1980), p. 225.
43. Michele Sindona, “La Lettera a Reagan,” September 7, 1981, http://ioso.info/2013/09/17/lettera-di-michele-sindona-a-reagan/ (accessed May 20, 2014).
44. McCoy, Politics of Heroin, pp. 250–51.
45. Ibid.
46. Joseph J. Trento, Prelude to Terror: The Rogue CIA, the Legacy of America's Private Intelligence Network (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2005), p. 44.
47. Ibid., pp. 46–47.
48. Sterling, Octopus, p. 191.
49. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 11.
50. Ibid.
51. Malachi Martin, Rich Church: Poor Church (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1984), p. 62.
52. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 11.
53. Martin, Rich Church, Poor Church, p. 62.
54. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 11.
55. Piers Compton, Broken Cross (London: Neville Spearman, 1984), p. 212.
56. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 125.
57. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 124.
58. David Pallister and Rory McCarthy, “Corruption Hits Senior Politicos,” Guardian, November 14, 2003, http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/nov/15/uk.economy (accessed May 20, 2014).
59. John A. Shaw, “From Baghdad to Chicago: Rezko and the Auchi Empire,” Wikileaks, October 10, 2008, http://wikileaks.org/wiki/From_Bagdad_to_Chicago:_Rezko_and_the_Auchi_empire (accessed May 20, 2014).
60. G. William Domhoff et al, “Probing the Rockefeller Fortune,” A Report Prepared for Members of the U. S. Congress,” November 1974, http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~schwrtz/Rockefeller.html (accessed May 20, 2014).
61. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 87.
62. Ibid.
63. Martin, Rich Church, Poor Church, p. 65.
64. Ibid.
65. Domhoff et al, “Probing the Rockefeller Fortune.”
66. Martin, Rich Church, Poor Church, p. 65.
67. Nick Tosches, Power on Earth: Michele Sindona's Explosive Story (New York: Arbor House, 1986), pp. 113–14.
68. Umberto Santino, “The Financial Mafia: The Illegal Accumulation of Wealth and the Financial-Industrial Complex,” Centro Siciliano di Documentazione, 1984, http://www.centroimpastato.it/otherlang/finmafiaen.php3 (accessed May 20, 2014).
69. Cornwell, God's Banker, p. 28.
70. Ibid.
71. Ibid., pp. 48–49.
72. Palash Ghosh, “Green, White and Lots of Red: How Italy Got the West's Biggest Communist Party,” International Business Times, July 26, 2013, http://www.ibtimes.com/green-white-lots-red-how-italy-got-wests-biggest-communist-party-1360089 (accessed May 20, 2014).
CHAPTER SEVEN: FALSE FLAG TERRORISM
1. Jack Greene and Alessandro Massignani, The Black Prince and the Sea Devils: The Story of Valerio Borghese and the Elite Units of the Decima MAS (Cambridge, MA: De Capo Press, 2004), pp. 222–23.
2. Philip Willan, Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Terror in Italy (London: Constable, 1991), pp. 89–93.
3. Staff, “1969: Deadly Bomb Blasts in Italy,” BBC News, December 12, 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/12/newsid_3953000/3953999.stm (accessed May 20, 2014).
4. Giorgio Bocca, “Quella Sera in Piazza Fontana,” La Repubblica, December 11, 2009, http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2009/12/11/quella-sera-in-piazza-fontana.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
5. Paolo Biondani, “Piazza Fontana: ‘Colpevoli Erano Freda e Ventura,’” Corriere della Sera, April 12, 2004, http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2004/aprile/14/Piazza_Fontana_Colpevoli_erano_Freda_co_9_040414067.shtml (accessed May 26, 2014.)
6. Willan, Puppetmasters, p. 99.
7. Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe (London: Frank Cass, 2005), p. 5.
8. Ibid., p.6.
9. Philip Willan, “Paolo Emilio Taviani” (obituary), Guardian, June 21, 2001.
10. Ola Tunander, “The Use of Terrorism to Construct World Order,” Paper presented at the Fifth Pan-European International Relations congress,” Netherlands Congress Center, The Hague, September 9–11, 2004, http://humanbeingsfirst.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/cacheof-tunander-theuseofterrorismtoconstructworldorder.pdf (accessed May 21, 2014).
11. Ibid.
12. Luciano Lanza, “Secrets and Bombs: The Piazza Fontana Bombing and the Strategy of Tension,” wordpress.com, January 16, 2012, http://secretsandbombs.wordpress.com/tag/captain-david-carrett/ (accessed May 21, 2014).
13. Maurizio Dianese and Gianfranco Bettin, La Strage: Piazza Fontana—Verita e Memoria (Rome: Feltrinelli, 2002), pp. 165–69.
14. Allen Douglas, “Italy's Black Prince: Terror War against the Nation State,” Executive Intelligence Review, February 4, 2005, http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/3205_italy_black_prince.html (accessed May 19, 2014).
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Staff, “Il Gorpe Borghese: Storia di Un'Inchiesta,” La storia siamo noi, Rai Educational, February 24, 2011.
18. Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies, p. 3.
19. Willan, Puppetmasters, p. 162.
20. Ibid.
21. Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies, p. 12.
22. Willan, Puppetmasters., p. 168. See also, Charles Richards, “Gladio Is Still Opening Wounds,” Independent (UK), December 1, 1990, http://www.cambridgeclarion.or
g/press_cuttings/gladio.parliamentary.committee_indep_1dec1990.html.
23. Gianni Cipriani, L'Unita, November 21, 1990.
24. Ed Vulliamy, “Secret Agents, Freemasons, Fascists…and a Top-Level Campaign of Political Destabilization,” Guardian, December 5, 1990, http://www.cambridgeclarion.org/press_cuttings/vinciguerra.p2.etc_graun_5dec1990.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
25. Ibid.
26. Luciano Lanza, “The Piazza Fontana Bombing and the Strategy of Tension,” Secrets and Bombs, January 7, 2012, https://secretsandbombs.wordpress.com/tag/carlo-fumagalli/ (accessed May 21, 2014).
27. Philip Willan, “US ‘Supported Anti-Left Terror in Italy,’” Guardian (UK), June 24, 2000, http://www.cambridgeclarion.org/press_cuttings/us.terrorism_graun_24jun2000.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
28. Gianni Flamini, Il Partito del Golpe, Volume 3, Book 2 (Ferrara: Italo Bovolenta, 1983), p. 616.
29. Willan, Puppetmasters, p. 101.
30. Enzo Mastroilli, “Preso in Argentina Augusto Cauchi Terrorista di Destra,” Corriere della Serra, April 14, 1993, http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1993/aprile/14/preso_Argentina_Augusto_Cauchi_terrorista_co_0_930414633.shtml (accessed May 21, 2014).
31. Philip Willan, Puppetmasters, p. 104.
32. Licio Gelli and Propaganda-Two, “Memorandum sulla Situazione Italiana” and “Piano di Rinascita Democratica,” 1975 and 1976, http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=161890 (accessed May 21, 2014).
33. Paul Ginsborg, Italy and Its Discontents (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. 144–48.
34. Willan, Puppetmasters, p. 216.
35. Arthur E. Rowse, “Gladio: The Secret U.S. War to Subvert Italian Democracy,” Covert Action Quarterly, December 1994.
36. Ibid.
37. Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies, p. 80.
38. Ibid., p. 70.
39. Concita de Gregorio, “Le Confessioni di Cossiga, Io, Gelli e la Massoneria,” Le Repubblica, October 3¸2003, http://www.repubblica.it/2003/i/sezioni/politica/gelli/cossiga/cossiga.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
40. Willan, Puppetmasters, p. 120.
41. Report of the Moro Commission, Rome: 1983, p. 53.
42. Ibid.
43. Saviona Mane, “A Murder Still Fresh,” Haaretz:, May 9, 2008, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/981929.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
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