44. Ibid.
45. Philip Willan, “Moro's Ghost Haunts Political Life,” Guardian (UK), May 9, 2003, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/09/italy.worlddispatch/print (accessed May 21, 2014).
46. Willan, Puppetmasters, pp. 215–20.
47. Ibid., p. 220.
48. Nick Tosches, Power on Earth: Michele Sindona's Explosive Story (New York: Arbor House, 1986), p. 195.
49. Andrew Gavin Marshall, “The ‘Sacrifice’ of Aldo Moro,” Geopolitical Monitor, July 17, 2008, http://www.globalresearch.ca/operation-gladio-cia-network-of-stay-behind-secret-armies (accessed May 21, 2014).
50. Ibid.
51. Ibid.
52. Rita de Giovacchino, Il Libro Nero della Prima Repubblica (Rome: Fazi Editore, 2005), p. 43.
53. Sergio Flamigni, La Sflinge delle Brigate Rosse (Milan: KAOS Edizioni, 2004), pp. 286–90.
54. Staff, “Inquiry Prodeo,” La Peste (Rome), 1995, http://web.mclink.it/MJ4596/pro%20deo.htm (accessed May 21, 2014).
55. 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).
56. Karim Schelkens, “Vatican Diplomacy after the Cuban Missile Crisis: New Light on the Release of Josyf Slipyj,” Catholic Historical Review, October 2011, https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/catholic_historical_review/v097/97.4.schelkens.pdf (accessed May 21, 2014).
57. Claudio Celani, “Strategy of Tension: The Case of Italy,” (four-part series) Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, April 2, 9, 30, http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3117tension_italy.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
58. Willan, Puppetmasters, p. 240.
59. Ferdinando Imposimato, La Repubblica delli Stragi Impunite (Rome: Newton Compton Editori, 2013), p. 339.
60. Giacomo Galeazii, “A Londra il Confessore di Moro,” La Stampa, December 18, 2010, http://www.lastampa.it/2010/12/18/blogs/oltretevere/a-londra-il-confessore-di-moro-xPVaJTaw95kcpnGoZ0CC4N/pagina.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
61. Carlo Lucarelli, “Blu Notte la Strage di Bologna,” Rai Sat. Premium (Italian news broadcast), October 2, 2007, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9pywmKG0sk&feature=related (accessed May 21, 2014).
62. Ibid.
63. Staff Report, “Stragi di Bologna, 30 Anni a Ciavardini, Cassazione Conferma la Condanna all'ex Nar,” La Repubblica, April 11, 2007, http://www.repubblica.it/2007/04/sezioni/cronaca/strage-bologna-ciavardini/strage-bologna-ciavardini/strage-bologna-ciavardini.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
64. Celani, “Strategy of Tension: The Case of Italy.”
65. Ibid.
66. Ibid.
67. Ibid.
68. P2 List, Report of the Parliamentary Commission, July 12, 1984, in “Elenco Delgi L'scritti alla Loggia,” Archivo ’900, February 2, 2006, http://www.archivio900.it/it/documenti/doc.aspx?id=42.
69. Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies, pp. 3-4.
CHAPTER EIGHT: GLADIO: SOUTH OF THE BORDER
1. Richard Cottrell, Gladio: NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe (Palm Desert, CA: Progressive Press, 2012), pp. 125–26.
2. Judge Guido Slavini, testimony before the Italian Parliamentary Commission of Investigation on Terrorism in Italy, 9th session, February 27, 1997.
3. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 145.
4. George Crille, Charlie Wilson's War (New York: Grove Press, 2003), p. 52.
5. Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe (London: Frank Cass, 2005), p. 108.
6. Juan Arias, “Un Neofascita Italiano Disparo contra los Abogados de le Calle de Atocha, Segun un Arrepentido,” El Pais, March 25, 1984, http://elpais.com/diario/1984/03/25/espana/449017212_850215.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
7. Omer Karasapan, “Turkey and U. S. Strategy in the Age of Glasnost,” Middle East Report, Middle East Research and Information Project, September/October 1989.
8. Larry Gerber, “Neo Nazi Group Suspected in Munich Oktoberfest Bombing,” Lewiston Daily Sun, September 29, 1980, http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9gYgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=t2QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1421%2C5561612 (accessed May 21, 2014).
9. Penny Lernoux, Cry of the People: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America and the Catholic Church in Conflict with the US (New York: Penguin Books, 1980), p. 51.
10. Peter Gribbin, “Brazil and the CIA,” Counterspy, April–May 1979, http://www.namebase.org/brazil.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Lernoux, Cry of the People, p. 248.
14. Ibid.
15. David Yallop, In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), p. 132.
16. Staff, “Licio Gelli Cuenta Como Inicio a Peron en la Masoneria,” Perfil.com, August 31, 2008, http://www.perfil.com/contenidos/2008/08/31/noticia_0019.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
17. Susana Viau and Eduardo Tagliaterro, “Carlos Bartffeld, Mason y Amigo de Massera, Fue Embajador en Yugoslavia Cuando Se Vendieron Armas a Croacia,” Pagina 12 (Buenos Aires), December 14, 1988, http://www.pagina12.com.ar/1998/98-12/98-12-14/pag03.htm (accessed May 21, 2014).
18. Ibid.
19. P2 List, Report of the Parliamentary Commission, July 12, 1984, in “Elenco Delgi L'scritti alla Loggia,” Archivo ‘900, February 2, 2006, http://www.archivio900.it/it/documenti/doc.aspx?id=42 (accessed May 21, 2014).
20. Thomas C. Wright, State Terrorism in Latin America: Chile, Argentina, and International Human Rights (New York: Ronan and Littlefield, 2007), p. 158.
21. Arthur McGovern, Liberation Theology and Its Critics (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1989), p. 9.
22. Theresa Keeley, “Nelson Rockefeller's 1969 Mission to Latin America and the Catholic Church,” doctoral dissertation, Department of History, Northwestern University, 2011, http://www.rockarch.org/publications/resrep/keeley.pdf (accessed May 21, 2014).
23. Lernoux, Cry of the People, p. 51.
24. 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).
25. Ibid., p. 56.
26. David Yallop, The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007), p. 174.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid., p. 175.
29. Andrew Orta, Catechizing Culture: Missionaries, Aymara, and the “New Evangelism” (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), p. 95.
30. Robert P. Baird, “The U. S. Paid Money to Support Hugo Banzer's 1971 Coup,” Real News, May 30, 2010, http://hcvanalysis.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/us-paid-money-to-support-hugo-banzers-1971-coup-in-bolivia/ (accessed May 21, 2014).
31. Jerry Meldon, “Return of Bolivia's Blood Stained Dictator,” The Consortium, Winter 1997, http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/story40.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
32. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press (New York: Verso, 1998), p. 181.
33. Ibid.
34. Gary Webb, Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1999), pp. 1–21.
35. “Declaration of David Guyatt on IOR,” court document, US District Court, Northern District of California, December 5, 2008.
36. Lee, “Their Will Be Done.”
37. Lernoux, Cry of the People, p. 332.
38. Brett Wilkins, “‘Smoking Gun’ Memo Proves Pope Francis Collaborated with Military Junta,” Global Research News, March 18, 2013, http://www.globalresearch.ca/smoking-gun-memo-proves-pope-francis-collaborated-with-military-junta/5327354 (accessed May 21, 2014).
39. Lernoux, Cry of the People, p. 333.
40. Report of Ambassador Hill to Secretary Kissinger, February 16, 1976, http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB185/19760216%20Military%20Take%20Cognizance%20of%20Human%20Rights%20Issue%2000009FF0.pdf (accessed May 21, 2014).
41. National Security Council, Staff
Meeting Transcripts, March 26, 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB185/19760326%20Secretary%20of%20Stet%20Kissinger%20Chariman%20apgesl%201-39%20-%20full.pdf (accessed May 21, 2014).
42. US Ambassador Robert C. Hill, Department of State Telegram, March 30, 1976, http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB185/19760330%20Videlas%20moderate%20line%20prevails%20%2000009EF2.pdf (accessed May 21, 2014).
43. Lernoux, Cry of the People, p. 341.
44. Luis Granados, “Life Sentence for Gen. Videla,” Humanist, January 2011, http://blog.thehumanist.org/2011/01/life-sentence-for-gen-videla/ (accessed May 21, 2014).
45. Ibid.
46. Tom Hennigan, “Former Argentinian Dictator Says He Told Catholic Church of Disappeared,” Irish Times, July 24, 2012.
47. Staff Report, “Prensa Argentina Vincula a Bergoglio con el Secuestro de Dos Jesuitas Durante la Dictadura de Videla,” El Periodista, March 13, 2013, http://elperiodistaonline.cl/globales/2013/03/prensa-argentina-vincula-a-bergoglio-con-el-secuestro-de-dos-jesuitas-en-1976/ (accessed May 21, 2014).
48. Ibid.
49. Iain Guest, Behind the Disappearances: Argentina's Dirty War against Human Rights and the United Nations (Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), p. 41.
50. John Simpson and Jana Bennett, The Disappeared: The Chilling Story behind Argentina's Dirty War (London: Sphere, 1986), p. 145–48.
51. Associated Press, “Argentina's Death Flight Trials Begin,” SFGate, November 28, 2012, http://www.sfgate.com/world/article/Argentina-s-death-flights-trials-begin-4075675.php (accessed May 21, 2014).
52. Declassified document from the Secretary of State to the US Embassy in Argentina, August 8, 1977, http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB85/770815%200000A869.pdf (accessed May 21, 2014).
53. Wilkins, “‘Smoking Gun’ Memo.”
54. Ibid.
55. Ibid.
56. Horacio Verbitsky, “Cambio de Piel,” Pagina 12, March 17, 2013, http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-215961-2013-03-17.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
57. Wilkins, “‘Smoking Gun’ Memo.”
58. Isabel Vincent, “Victims of Argentina's ‘Dirty War’ of the Late 1970s Blast Pope's ‘Deadly’ Silence,” New York Post, March 17, 2013, http://nypost.com/2013/03/17/victims-of-argentinas-dirty-war-of-the-late-1970s-blast-popes-deadly-silence/ (accessed May 21, 2014).
59. Wilkins, “‘Smoking Gun’ Memo.”
60. Ibid.
61. Associated Press, “New Pope: Austere Jesuit Sometimes at Odds with Liberal Argentina,” MSN News, March 14, 2013, http://news.msn.com/world/new-pope-austere-jesuit-sometimes-at-odds-with-liberal-argentina (accessed May 21, 2014).
62. Jonathan Watts and Uki Goni, “New Pope's Role during Argentina's Military Era Disputed,” The Guardian (UK), March 14, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/15/pope-francis-argentina-military-era (accessed May 21, 2014).
63. Ibid.
64. Ibid.
65. Watts and Goni, “New Pope's Role.”
66. Sergio Rubin and Francesca Ambrogetti, Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio: His Life in His Own Words (New York: Putnam, 2013), pp. 197–218.
67. Associated Press, “Argentine Jorge Bergoglio Elected Pope, Chooses Name Francis,” Inquirer News, March 14, 2013, http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/373313/argentinian-cardinal-is-new-pope (accessed May 21, 2014).
68. Sakura Saunders, “CIA in South America,” Geopolitical Monitor, October 24, 2007, http://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/us-interventions-in-latin-american-021/2007 (accessed October 27, 2014).
69. Michel Chossadovsky, “‘Washington's Pope?’ Who Is Pope Francis I? Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Argentina's ‘Dirty War,’” Global Research, March 14, 2013, http://www.globalresearch.ca/washingtons-pope-who-is-francis-i-cardinal-jorge-mario-bergoglio-and-argentinas-dirty-war/5326675 (accessed May 21, 2014).
70. Ibid.
71. Alana Horowitz, “Pope's Approval Rating Soars: CNN Poll,” Huffington Post, December 24, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/24/popes-approval-rating-poll_n_4497813.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
CHAPTER NINE: IL CRACK SINDONA
1. L. Britt Snider, The Agency and the Hill: CIA's Relationship with Congress, 1946–2004 (Washington, DC: Center for the Study of Intelligence, 2008), p. 261.
2. Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2003), pp. 461–69.
3. Snider, Agency and the Hill, p. 274.
4. US Senate, “Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities,” April 26, 1976, http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/FBI/Church_Committee_Report.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
5. Snider, Agency and the Hill, pp. 275–76.
6. Jonathan Kandell, “Laurence H. Tisch, Investor Known for Saving CBS Inc. from Takeover, Dies at 80,” New York Times, November 16, 2007.
7. Ibid.
8. Barry M. Goldwater, With No Apologies: The Personal and Political Memoirs of Senator Barry M. Goldwater (New York: William Morrow, 1979), p. 277.
9. Phyllis Schlafly and Chester Ward, Kissinger on the Couch (New York: Arlington House, 1975), p. 151.
10. Ibid., p. 276.
11. Ibid., p. 276.
12. “Council on Foreign Relations,” NNDP, http://www.nndb.com/org/505/000042379/ (accessed May 21, 2014).
13. Luigi DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker: Michele Sindona (New York: Franklin Watts, 1983), pp. 138–39.
14. Penny Lernoux, In Banks We Trust (New York: Penguin Books, 1986), p. 183.
15. Walter S. Ross, People's Banker: The Story of Arthur T. Roth and the Franklin National Bank (New Canaan, CT: Keats Publishing, 1987), p. 267.
16. Patrick Scrivener, “The M-16-Rockefeller-Pentagon-Mafia Connection,” Reformation.org, 2013, http://www.reformation.org/rockefeller-pentagon-mafia.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
17. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 144.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid., p. 147.
20. Ibid., p. 177.
21. Ibid., p. 178.
22. Ibid., pp. 148–49.
23. Council on Foreign Relations, Membership Roster, January 8, 2014, http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
24. Lernoux, In Banks We Trust, pp. 241–42.
25. Ibid.
26. David Yallop, In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), p. 134.
27. Ibid., p. 135.
28. United States v. Sindona, No. 247, Docket 80–1270, September 29, 1980, http://openjurist.org/636/f2d/792/united-states-v-sindona (accessed May 21, 2014).
29. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 261.
30. Lernoux, In Banks We Trust, p. 185.
31. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 137.
32. Ibid.
33. Malachi Martin, Rich Church, Poor Church (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1984), p. 67.
34. Claire Sterling, Octopus: The Long Reach of the International Sicilian Mafia (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), p. 192.
35. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 215.
36. Ibid., p. 221.
37. Ibid., p. 193.
38. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 147.
39. Ibid., p. 148.
40. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 213.
41. Ibid.
42. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 137.
43. Tosches, Power on Earth, pp. 170–71.
44. Paul Lewis, “God's Banker: Italy's Mysterious, Deepening Bank Scandal,” New York Times, July 28, 1982.
45. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 213.
46. Malachi Martin, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1981), p. 278.
47. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 229.
48. Sterling, Octopus, p. 191.
49. Sindona v. Grant, US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, January 8, 1980, http://www.uniset.ca/othe
r/cs4/619F2d167.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
50. DiFonzo, “Justifiable Homicide,” New York Magazine, April 11, 1983.
51. Ibid.
52. Aldo Bernacchi, “Il Caso Sindona,” News per Miccia Corta, November 1, 2006, http://www.micciacorta.it/archivio/articolo.php?id_news=158 (accessed May 21, 2014).
53. Emanuele Giulano and Giorgio Bongiovanni, “Traffico di Droga, Casa Sindona e Omicidio De Mauro Dietro la Morte di Giuliano?” Antimafia, May 20, 2008, http://www.antimafiaduemila.com/200805206346/articoli-arretrati/traffico-di-droga-caso-sindona-e-omicidio-de-mauro-dietro-la-morte-di-giuliano.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
54. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, pp. 104–06.
55. Ibid., p. 106.
56. Phillip Willan, The Vatican War: From Blackfriars to Buenos Aires (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse LLC, 2003), Kindle edition.
57. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, pp. 239–40.
58. Ibid.
59. Ibid., pp. 230–31.
60. Staff report, “Per Sindona, L'Unico Ladro E'Bordoni,” La Repubblica, December 22, 1984, http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1984/12/22/per-sindona-unico-ladro-bordoni.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
CHAPTER TEN: HIGH TIMES, NEW CRIMES
1. Ralph Blumenthal, Last Days of the Sicilians: At War with the Mafia (New York: Crown, 2012), Kindle edition.
2. Ibid.
3. Robert Young Pelton, The World's Most Dangerous Places (New York: Harper Resource, 2003), p. 158.
4. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press (New York: Verso, 1998), p. 246.
5. Ibid., p. 249.
6. Ibid.
7. Penny Lernoux, In Banks We Trust (New York: Penguin Books, 1984), p. 79.
8. Ibid., p. 83. The CIA's ties to Resorts International is evidenced by File #591,722, a recently declassified agency document.
9. Ibid., p. 86.
10. Jonathan Kwitny, The Crime of Patriots: A True Story of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1987), pp. 162–63.
11. Peter Dale Scott, “Deep Events and the CIA's Global Drug Connection,” Global Research, September 6, 2008, http://www.globalresearch.ca/deep-events-and-the-cia-s-global-drug-connection/10095.
12. Lernoux, In Banks We Trust, p. 88.
13. Jim Drinkhall, “CIA Helped Quash Major Star-Studded Tax Evasion Case,” Washington Post, April 24, 1980.
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