Operation Gladio
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14. Ibid.
15. Kwitny, Crimes of Patriots, pp. 19–22.
16. Lernoux, In Banks We Trust, p. 69.
17. John Simkin, “Bernie Houghton,” Spartacus Educational, June 2013, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhoughtonMB.htm (accessed May 21, 2014).
18. John Rainford, “How Australian Bank Financed the Heroin Trade,” Green Left (Aus. Daily), December 7, 2013, https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/55553 (accessed May 21, 2014).
19. Kwitny, Crimes of Patriots, p. 207.
20. Lernoux, In Banks We Trust, p. 71.
21. Ibid., p. 72.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Michael Barker, “The CIA, Drugs, and an Australian Cop Killer,” Swans Commentary (AUS), October 5, 2009, http://www.swans.com/library/art15/barker32.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
25. Rainford, “How Australian Bank Financed the Heroin Trade.”
26. Lernoux, In Banks We Trust, pp. 69–70.
27. David Pallister, “How MI6 and SAS Joined In,” Guardian (UK), December 5, 1990, http://www.cambridgeclarion.org/press_cuttings/gladio.mi6.sas_graun_5dec1990.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
28. Maureen Orth, “Former CIA Director William Colby: The Man Nobody Knew,” Vanity Fair, September 22, 2011, http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/09/former-cia-director-william-colby--the-man-nobody-knew (accessed May 21, 2014).
29. Richard Cottrell, Gladio: NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe (Palm Desert, CA: Progressive Press, 2012), p. 16.
30. Kwitny, Crimes of Patriots, pp. 21–22.
31. Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2003), p. 431.
32. Philip Willan, “Meeting Licio,” interview, 1989, http://www.philipwillan.com/gelli.html (accessed May 20, 2014).
33. Sherman H. Skolnick, “William Colby and CIA Dirty Tricks,” Radio Free America, May 7, 1996, http://www.beyondweird.com/conspiracy/cn07-79.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
34. Ibid.
35. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 36.
36. McCoy, Politics of Heroin, p. 261.
37. Alex Jones, “CIA Involvement in Drug Smuggling, Part 2,” Dark Politics, May 2009, http://darkpolitics.wordpress.com/cia-involvement-in-drug-smuggling-part-2/.
38. McCoy, Politics of Heroin, p. 429.
39. Pelton, World's Most Dangerous Places, p. 158.
40. McCoy, Politics of Heroin, pp. 72–73.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: A PAPAL PROBLEM
1. John Cooney, The American Pope: The Life and Times of Francis Cardinal Spellman (New York: Times Books, 1984), p. 281. See also the following declassified documents: “Francis Cardinal Spellman,” FBI memo, June 6, 1963, declassified February 5, 1980; “Francis Cardinal Spellman,” CIA confidential report, November 6, 1964, declassified July 8, 1976; and “Cardinal Francis Spellman,” Department of Defense, top secret report, September 6, 1966, declassified September 7, 1978.
2. Gloria C. Molinari, “The Conclave: August 25th–26th, 1978,” John Paul I; The Smiling Pope, blog, September 13, 2012, http://www.papaluciani.com/eng/conclave.htm (accessed May 21, 2014).
3. Ibid.
4. John Cornwell, A Thief in the Night: The Mysterious Death of John Paul I (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989), p. 50.
5. Ibid.
6. Avro Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican (Springfield, MO: Ozark Books, 1985), p. 113.
7. David Yallop, In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), p. 189.
8. Ibid., p. 191.
9. David Yallop, The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007), p. 21.
10. Ibid., p. 173.
11. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 64.
12. Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican, p. 110.
13. Ibid., p. 86.
14. Richard Hammer, The Vatican Connection (New York: Charter Books, 1982), pp. 224–25.
15. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 42.
16. Hammer, Vatican Connection, pp. 300–302.
17. Yallop, Power and the Glory, p. 34.
18. Ibid., p. 154. See also, Tyler Durden, “Vatican Bank to Shut All Embassy Accounts to Halt Money Laundering,” Zero Hedge News, September 20, 2013, http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-30/vatican-bank-shut-all-embassy-accounts-halt-money-laundering (accessed May 21, 2014).
19. Yallop, Power and the Glory, p. 34.
20. Yallop, In God's Name, pp. 143–45.
21. Concetto Vecchio, “Alessandrini e Quella Carezza del Presidente,” La Repubblica, April 28, 2011, http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2011/04/28/news/emilio_alessandrini-15477062/ (accessed May 21, 2014).
22. Yallop, In God's Name, pp. 176–77.
23. Canon Law of 1917, which remained in effect at the time of John Paul I, stipulated the following: “Those who join a Masonic sect or other societies of the same sort, which plot against the Church or against legitimate civil authority, incur ipso facto an excommunication simply reserved to the Holy See (c. 2335).”
24. Vance Ferrell, The Murder of John Paul I (Beersheba Springs, TN: Pilgrim Books, 1999), p. 47.
25. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 177.
26. Ibid.
27. Cornwell, Thief in the Night, pp. 236–37.
28. Department of State, confidential memo, issue date: December 11, 1978, declassified August 17, 1998; CIA official use file, issue date: January 7, 1979, declassified February 8, 1988.
29. Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican, p. 155.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 220.
33. Cornwell, Thief in the Night, p. 102.
34. Dr. Buzzonetti's pronouncements appeared in the official Vatican press release of John Paul's death.
35. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 222.
36. Ibid.
37. Cornwell, Thief in the Night, p. 272.
38. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 222.
39. Ibid.
40. Cornwell, Thief in the Night, pp. 274–76.
41. Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican, p. 158.
42. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 220.
43. Cornwell, Thief in the Night, p. 74.
44. News Alert, Radio Vaticana, September 29, 1978.
45. Yallop, In God's Name, pp. 236–37.
46. Ibid., p. 254. See also Lucien Gregoire, The Vatican Murders: The Life and Death of John Paul I (Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2003), p. 24.
47. Carlo Bo, “Perché Dire di No a Un'autopsia?” Corriere della Sera, October 1, 1978.
48. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 248.
49. Ibid.
50. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 244.
51. Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican, p. 171.
52. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 239.
53. Cornwell, Thief in the Night, pp. 312–13.
54. Yallop, Power and the Glory, p. 24.
55. Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican, p. 222.
56. Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi, His Holiness: John Paul I and the History of Our Time (New York: Penguin Books, 1996), pp. 35–40.
57. Yallop, Power and the Glory, p. 28.
58. Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican, p. 216.
59. Ibid.
CHAPTER TWELVE: THE NEW NETWORK
1. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press (New York: Verso, 1998), p. 261.
2. Ibid.
3. Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2003), p. 476.
4. Ibid.
5. Robert Pelton, The World's Most Dangerous Places (New York: Harper Resource, 2003), p. 342.
6. Cockburn and St. Clair, Whiteout, p. 264.
7. McCoy, Politics of Heroin, p. 474.
8. Jeffrey Lord, “Jimmy Carter's Dead Ambassador,” American Spectator, October 23, 2012, http://spectator.org/articles/34550/jimmy-carters-dead-ambassador (accessed May 21, 2014
).
9. Ibid.
10. US State Department memorandum reproduced in Cockburn and St. Clair's Whiteout, pp. 262–63.
11. Ibid., p. 263.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., p. 259.
14. Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperative (New York: Basic Books, 1997), pp. 20, 40.
15. Jagmohan Meher, America's Afghanistan War: The Success That Failed (New Dehli, India: Gyan Books, 2004), pp. 68–69.
16. Jonathan Beaty and S. C. Gwynne, “BCCI: The World's Dirtiest Bank,” Biblioteca Pleyades, July 29, 1991, http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_globalbanking118.htm (accessed May 21, 2014).
17. David Sirota and Jonathan Baskin, “Follow the Money: How John Kerry Busted the Terrorists’ Favorite Bank,” Washington Monthly, September 2004, http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0409.sirota.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
18. Lucy Komisar, “The Case That Kerry Cracked,” Alter Net, October 21, 2004, http://www.alternet.org/story/20268/the_case_that_kerry_cracked (accessed May 21, 2014).
19. Jonathan Beaty and S.C. Gwynne, The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Heart of the BCCI (New York: Random House, 1993), p. 228.
20. Senator John Kerry and Senator Hank Brown, “The BCCI Affair: A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations,” US Senate, December 1992, http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/11intel.htm (accessed May 21, 2014).
21. Steve Lohr, “Auditing the Auditors—A Special Report: How BCCI's Accounts Won Stamp of Approval,” New York Times, September 6, 1991.
22. Kerry and Brown, “BCCI Affair.”
23. David Yallop, The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007), p. 424.
24. Ibid.
25. Kerry and Brown, “BCCI Affair.”
26. Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe (London: Frank Cass, 2005), pp. 230–31.
27. Ibid., p. 239.
28. Claire Sterling, Octopus: The Long Reach of the International Sicilian Mafia (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), p. 160. See also, “The Grey Wolves,” Organized Crime Syndicates, 2012, http://www.reocities.com/OrganizedCrimeSyndicates/GreyWolves.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
29. Vivian Freyre Zoakos, “Colossal East-West Arms and Drug Ring Cracked,” EIR International, December 14, 1982, http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1982/eirv09n48-19821214/eirv09n48-19821214_036-colossal_east_west_arms_and_drug.pdf (accessed May 21, 2014).
30. L. Puparo, “Italy Late 70's,” Gangsters, Inc., March 5, 2010, http://z14.invisionfree.com/GangstersInc/ar/t1410.htm.
31. L. Puparo, “Judge Carlo Palermo and the Turks,” Gangsters, Inc., November 25, 2009, http://z14.invisionfree.com/GangstersInc/ar/t1357.htm (accessed May 21, 2014).
32. Sterling, Octopus, pp. 158, 343.
33. Puparo, “Italy Late 70's.”
34. Sterling, Octopus, pp. 164–65.
35. Ibid., p. 159.
36. Richard Cottrell, Gladio: NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe (Palm Desert, CA: Progressive Press, 2012), pp. 203–204.
37. Statement of John Lawn, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, to the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Task Force on International Narcotics Control, June 8, 1984.
38. “West Europe Report: Case Study of Agca Activities,” Information Service of the US Department of Commerce, internal document, April 23, 1983.
39. Douglas Valentine, The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America's War on Drugs (New York: Verso, 2006), p. 140.
40. Martin A. Lee, “On the Trail of Turkey's Terrorist Grey Wolves,” Consortium News, 1997, http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/story33.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
41. David Emory, “Who Shot the Pope—Stibam,” segments 17–21, Radio Free America, May 22, 1986, http://emory.kfjc.org/archive/afa/afa_20a.mp3.
42. Umberto Pascali, “KLA and Drugs: The ‘New Colombia of Europe’ Grows in the Balkans,” Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), June 22, 2001.
43. Puparo, “Italy Late 70's.”
44. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 278.
45. Ibid., p. 277.
46. Ibid., p. 270.
47. Emory, “Who Shot the Pope.”
48. Peter Dale Scott, “Opium and the CIA: Can the U.S. Triumph in the Drug-Addicted War in Japan?” Global Research, April 5, 2010, http://www.globalresearch.ca/opium-and-the-cia-can-the-us-triumph-in-the-drug-addicted-war-in-afghanistan/18522 (accessed May 21, 2014).
49. McCoy, Politics of Heroin, p. 463.
50. Ibid., pp. 464–65.
51. Selwyn Raab, “2 Admit Importing Heroin for Mafia Crime Family,” New York Times, January 7, 1994, http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/07/nyregion/2-admit-importing-heroin-for-mafia-crime-family.html.
52. Dana Sauchelli, “Mob Boss’ Grandson Arrested for Illegal Waste,” New York Post, December 20, 2013.
53. Jonathan Lamire, “Sicilian Mobsters May Become New York's Latest Big Italian Import,” New York Daily News, February 28, 2008, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/sicilian-mobsters-new-york-latest-big-italian-import-article-1.311848 (accessed May 21, 2014).
54. Thomas Garrett, “Mafia International? Organized Crime in Central and Eastern Europe,” New East, October 7, 2011, http://thevieweast.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/mafia-international-organised-crime-in-central-and-eastern-europe/ (accessed May 21, 2014).
55. Ibid.
56. Anthony M. DeStefano, “The Balkan Connection,” Wall Street Journal, September 9, 1985.
57. Jerry Capeci, “Zef's Got Staying Power Too,” Gangland, September 4, 2003.
58. Gus Xhudo, “Men of Purpose: The Growth of the Albanian Criminal Activity,” Ridgeway Center for International Security Studies, The University of Pittsburgh, Spring 1996.
59. M. Bozinovich, “The New Islamic Mafia,” Serbianna, February 21, 2005, http://www.serbianna.com/columns/mb/028.shtml (accessed May 21, 2014).
60. Terry Frieden, “FBI: Albanian Mobsters ‘New Mafia,’” CNN, August 19, 2004.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE SHELL GAME
1. Nick Squires, “God's Banker Linked to Pablo Escobar,” Telegraph (UK), November 26, 2012, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9703479/Gods-banker-linked-to-Pablo-Escobar.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
2. Ibid.
3. David Yallop, In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), p. 311.
4. Katherine Reinhard, “Authorities Had Their Eye on Cocaine Ring Suspect,” Morning Call, August 17, 1986, http://articles.mcall.com/1986-08-17/news/2538181_1_air-america-drug-smuggling-federal-investigators (accessed May 21, 2014).
5. Ron Devlin, “Drug Smuggler's Pocono Estate Seized,” Morning Call, January 28, 1990, http://articles.mcall.com/1990-01-28/news/2732952_1_drug-cartel-seized-federal-drug (accessed May 21, 2014).
6. For a full account of Rik Luytjes and his drug-smuggling operation, see Berkeley Rice, Trafficking: The Boom and Bust of the Air America Cocaine Ring (New York: Scribner's, 1990).
7. Philip Willan, The Vatican at War: From Blackfriars Bridge to Buenos Aires (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse LLC, 2003), chapter three, Kindle edition.
8. Ibid.
9. Malachi Martin, Rich Church, Poor Church (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1984), pp. 68–69.
10. Paul Lewis, “Italy's Mysterious, Deepening Bank Scandal,” New York Times, July 28, 1982, http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vatican/esp_vatican117.htm (accessed May 21, 2014).
11. Penny Lernoux, In Banks We Trust (New York: Penguin Books, 1986), p. 206.
12. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 287.
13. Lernoux, In Banks We Trust, p. 208.
14. Ibid.
15. Rupert Cornwell, God's Banker: An Account into the Life and Death of Roberto Calvi (London: Victor Gollancz, 1984), pp. 69–71.
16. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 280.
17. Ibid., p
. 281.
18. Lernoux, In Banks We Trust, p. 196.
19. David Yallop, The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007), p.118.
20. Eric Frattini, The Entity: Five Centuries of Secret Vatican Espionage (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004), p. 324.
21. Ibid., p. 326.
22. Yallop, Power and the Glory, pp. 169–70.
23. Ibid., p. 138.
24. Willan, Vatican at War.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. Peggy Polk, “Informers Expose the Sicilian Mafia,” Chicago Tribune, February 6, 1994, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-02-06/news/9402060128_1_gaspare-mutolo-sicilian-mafia-bosses (accessed May 21, 2014).
28. Willan, Vatican at War.
29. Martin A. Lee, “On the Trail of Turkey's Terrorist Grey Wolves.” Consortium News, 1998, http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/story33.html.
30. Jonathan Marshall, “Italian Imbroglio,” Parapolitics, vol. 2, no. 1, 1983, http://www.scribd.com/doc/63837545/Parapolitics-USA-v-2-no-1 (accessed May 21, 2014).
31. Ibid.
32. Cornwell, God's Banker, pp. 90–91.
33. Ibid., p. 92.
34. Jose Manuel Vidal, “The Strange Death of a Pope,” 4, Comunidad de Ayala, September 14, 2003, http://www.comayala.es/Libros/ddc2i/ddc2e04.htm (accessed May 21, 2014).
35. Lewis, “Italy's Mysterious, Deepening Bank Scandal.”
36. Martin, Rich Church, Poor Church, p. 68.
37. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 287.
38. Cornwell, God's Banker, p. 121.
39. Vidal, “Strange Death of a Pope.”
40. Ibid., p. 127.
41. Willan, Vatican at War.
42. Cornwell, God's Banker, pp. 127–28.
43. Yallop, In God's Name, pp. 296–97.
44. Ibid., pp. 294–95.
45. Cornwell, God's Banker, p. 129.
46. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 312.
47. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 228.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE DESPERATE DON
1. Luigi DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker: Michele Sindona (New York: Franklin Watts, 1983), p. 243.
2. Penny Lernoux, In Banks We Trust (New York: Penguin Books, 1986), p. 188.
3. David Yallop, In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), pp. 277, 281.
4. Philip Willan, The Vatican at War: From Blackfriars Bridge to Buenos Aires (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse LLC, 2003), Kindle edition.