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5. Ibid.
6. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 246.
7. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 134.
8. Martin A. Lee, “Banking for God, the Mafia and the CIA,” Mother Jones, July/August 1983, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1983/07/banking-god-the-mob-and-cia (accessed May 21, 2014).
9. Ibid., p. 282.
10. Ibid.
11. Luigi DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 74.
12. Ibid.
13. Nick Tosches, Power on Earth: Michele Sindona's Explosive Story (New York: Arbor House, 1986), p. 199.
14. Ibid., p. 208.
15. David Yallop, In God's Name, p. 283.
16. Nick Tosches, Power on Earth, p. 217.
17. Ibid.
18. David Yallop's The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007), p. 81.
19. Tosches, Power on Earth, p. 219.
20. Richard Drake, The Aldo Moro Murder Case (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995 ), p. 106.
21. Tosches, Power on Earth, p. 219.
22. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 258.
23. Barbara Honegger, October Surprise (New York: Tudor Communications, 1989), pp. 229–44. Ms. Honegger had served the Reagan Administration as a researcher and policy analyst.
24. Leonardo Servadio and Mark Burdman, “Italian Probe Could Mean New Woes for Lt. Col. Oliver North,” Civil Intelligence Association, May 1988, http://ncoic.com/p2masons.htm (accessed May 21, 2014).
25. Honegger, October Surprise, pp. 229–44.
26. Peter Kornbluh and Malcolm Byrne, The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History (New York: New Press, 1993), p. 214.
27. Jonathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, and Jane Hunter, The Iran Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era, 1984, http://www.whale.to/b/scott_b1.html (accessed May 21, 2014).
28. DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, pp. 260–61.
29. Philip Willan, Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy (London: Constable, 1991), p. 12.
30. Rupert Cornwell, God's Banker: An Account of the Life and Death of Roberto Calvi (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1984), pp. 134–35.
31. David Yallop, The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007), p. 119.
32. Cornwell, God's Banker, p. 126.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE POPE MUST DIE
1. David Yallop, The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007), p. 67.
2. Penny Lernoux, In Banks We Trust (New York: Penguin Books, 1986), 187.
3. Staff, “Italy in Crisis as Cabinet Resigns,” BBC, May 26, 1981, http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/26/newsid_4396000/4396893.stm (accessed May 22, 2014).
4. Jack Blood, “Italian Supreme Court President Writes Book Linking Bilderberg to Operation Gladio and the CIA,” Deadline Live, April 12, 2013, http://deadlinelive.info/2013/04/12/italian-supreme-court-president-writes-book-linking-bilderberg-to-operation-gladio-and-the-cia-2/ (accessed May 22, 2014).
5. Richard Cottrell, Gladio: NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe (Palm Desert, CA: Progressive Press, 2012), p. 284.
6. Ibid.
7. Yallop, Power and the Glory, p. 106.
8. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 282.
9. Ibid.
10. Felix Corley, “Soviet Reaction to the Election of Pope John Paul II,” Religion, State and Society, Vol. 22, No. 1, 1994, http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/rss/22-1_037.pdf (accessed May 22, 2014).
11. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 283.
12. Robert Young Pelton, The World's Most Dangerous Places (New York: Harper Resource, 2003), p. 347.
13. Dave Emory, “The Pope's Shooting: Stibam,” For the Record #43, September 1996, https://archive.org/details/For_The_Record_43_The_Pope_Shooting_Stibam, accessed May 22, 2014.
14. Timothy Gorton Ash, The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), pp. 165-166.
15. Yallop. The Power and the Glory, p. 106.
16. Ash, The Polish Revolution, p. 171.
17. Ibid., p. 172.
18. Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe (London: Frank Cass, 2005), p. 138.
19. Ibid., p. 122.
20. Ibid., p. 100.
21. Ibid., p. 132.
22. The Insider from Turkey, “The Court Case against Generals behind Turkey's 1980 Coup,” Boiling Frogs, April 19, 2011, http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/04/19/the-court-case-against-generals-behind-turkey%E2%80%99s-1980-coup/ (accessed May 22, 2014).
23. Abbas Guclu, “61 Anayasasi Turkiye'ye Buyut Geldi,” Milliyet (Istanbul), September 25, 2003, http://www.milliyet.com.tr/2007/09/26/yazar/guclu.html (accessed May 22, 2014).
24. Insider from Turkey, “Court Case against Generals.”
25. Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies, p. 233.
26. Hussein Tahiri, The Structure of Kurdish Society and the Struggle for a Kurdish State (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publications, 2007), pp. 232 ff.
27. Pico Iyer, “Long Memories,” Time, August 8, 1983.
28. Sibel Edmonds, “Court Documents Shed Light on CIA Illegal Operations in Central Asia Using Islam and Madrassas,” July 11, 2008, http://letsibeledmondsspeak.blogspot.com/2008/07/court-documents-shed-light-on-cia.html (accessed May 22, 2014).
29. Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies, pp. 228–29.
30. Frank Bovenkerk and Yucel Yesilgoz, The Turkish Mafia: A History of the Heroin Godfathers (London: Milo Books, 2007), chapter 6, Kindle edition.
31. Ibid.
32. Human Rights Report, Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, 1998, http://www.tihv.org.tr/1998-insan-haklari-raporu/ (accessed May 22, 2014).
33. Cottrell, Gladio, pp. 272–73.
34. Bovenkerk and Yesilgoz, Turkish Mafia.
35. Erkan Acar, “Ergenekon Has Links to Security and Judiciary Bodies,” Today's Zaman (Istanbul), September 6, 2008.
36. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 398.
37. Douglas Valentine, The Strength of the Pack: The People, Politics and Espionage Intrigue that Shaped the DEA (Springfield, OR: TrineDay, 2009), p. 140.
38. Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies, pp. 236–38.
39. Kendal Nezan, “Turkey's Pivotal Role in the International Drug Trade,” Le Monde Diplomatique (July 1998).
40. Bovenkerk and Yesilgoz, Turkish Mafia.
41. Cottrell, Gladio, pp. 288–90.
42. Bovenkerk and Yesilgoz, Turkish Mafia.
43. Yallop, Power and the Glory, p. 128.
44. Bovenkerk and Yesilgoz, Turkish Mafia.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE SHOOTING IN ST. PETER'S SQUARE
1. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press (New York: Verso, 1998), pp. 247–48. See also, Mizgin Yilmaz, “Armitage—Part I: The Early Years and the Golden Triangle,” Boiling Frogs Post, November 11, 2009, http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2009/11/11/armitage-part-i-the-early-years-the-golden-triangle/#more-729 (accessed May 22, 2014).
2. Richard Cottrell, Gladio: NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe (Palm Desert, CA: Progressive Press, 2012), p. 291.
3. David Corn, “The Legacy of Theodore Shackley,” AlterNet, December 12, 2012, http://www.alternet.org/story/14767/the_legacy_of_theodore_shackley (accessed May 22, 2014).
4. John Simkin, “Ted Shackley and the Secret Team,” Education Forum, December 10, 2005, http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=5597 (accessed May 22, 2014).
5. John Simkin, “Theodore (‘Ted’) Shackley,” Spartacus Educational, December 2013, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKshackley.htm (accessed May 22, 2014).
6. Robert Parry, “Bush and a CIA Power Play,” Consortium News, November 1996, http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/xfile7.html.
7. Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Roots of Terror (New York: Harmony, 2005), pp. 84–85.
8. Staff report, “Nazis, the Vatican and the CIA,” Covert Action Information Bulletin, No. 25, Winter 1985.
9. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 267.
10. Dave Emory, “Who Shot the Pope? Part V: Western Intelligence Connections,” For the Record #21, May 29, 1986, https://archive.org/details/AFA21_Who_Shot_the_Pope_Part_V_Western_Intelligence_Connections (accessed May 22, 2014).
11. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 276.
12. Emory, “Who Shot the Pope?” See also, Matthew Brunwasser, “Sergei Antonov, 59, Bulgarian Accused in Plot to Kill the Pope Is Dead,” New York Times, August 3, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/obituaries/03antonov.html?_r=0 (accessed May 22, 2014).
13. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 275.
14. Wolfgang Actner, “Obituary: Claire Sterling,” Independent (UK), June 26, 1995, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-claire-sterling-1588401.html (accessed May 22, 2014).
15. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 269.
16. Emory, “Who Shot the Pope?”
17. Ibid.
18. Heinz Hohne and Hermann Zolling, The General Was a Spy: The Truth about General Gehlen and His Spy Ring (New York: Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, 1972), pp. 38–42.
19. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 290.
20. Hakan Aslandi, “Famous Terrorist Oral Celik in Turkey,” Hurriyet (Turkey's leading daily newspaper), September 20, 1996, http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=famous-terrorist-oral-celik-in-turkey-1996-09-20 (accessed May 22, 2014).
21. Frank Bovenkerk and Yucel Yesilgoz, The Turkish Mafia: A History of the Heroin Godfathers (London: Milo Books, 2007), chapter 6, Kindle edition.
22. Ibid.
23. Staff, “Security Chief Was ‘Guardian Angel’ to Pope,” Wall Street Journal, November 6, 2009, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB125746370679932197?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB125746370679932197.html (accessed May 22, 2014).
24. Henry Tanner, “Pope Is Shot in Car in Vatican Square; Surgeons Term Condition ‘Guarded’; Turk, an Escaped Murderer Is Seized,” New York Times, May 14, 1981, https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0513.html (accessed May 22, 2014).
25. David Yallop, The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007), p. 123.
26. Ibid.
27. Bovenkerk and Yesilgoz, Turkish Mafia, chapter 6.
28. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 266.
29. Ibid.
30. Jesus Lopez Saez, El Dia de la Cuenta: Juan Pablo II, a Examen (Madrid: Meral Ediciones—Comunidad de Ayala, 2005), http://www.comayala.es/index.php/en/libros-es/el-dia-de-la-cuenta-ingles-texto (accessed May 22, 2014).
31. Henry Tanner, “Turk Says He Tried to Kill the Pope,” New York Times, July 21, 1981, http://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/21/world/turk-says-he-tried-to-kill-the-pope.html (accessed May 22, 2014).
32. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 291. See also, Emory, “Who Shot the Pope?”
33. David Corn, Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994).
34. Saez, El Dia de la Cuenta.
35. Ibid.
36. Matthew Brunwasser, “Sergei Antonov, 59, Bulgarian Accused in Plot to Kill a Pope Is Dead,” New York Times, August 3, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/obituaries/03antonov.html?_r=0 (accessed May 22, 2014).
37. Ibid.
38. Saez, El Dia de la Cuenta.
39. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 280.
40. Saez, El Dia de la Cuenta.
41. Ibid.
42. Uğur Mumcu, “West Europe Report, No. 2131: The Case Study of Agca's Activities,” Foreign Broadcast Information, April 22, 1983, http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a333139.pdf (accessed May 22, 2014).
43. Ibid.
44. Ibid.
45. Otkay Eksi, “Mumcu Cinayet Aydinlanirken,” Hurriyet, December 27, 2008, http://hurarsiv.hurriyet.com.tr/goster/haber.aspx?id=-152724&yazarid=1 (accessed May 22, 2014).
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: A RAID AND REDIRECTION
1. Alexander Stille, Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic (New York: Vintage, 1995), pp. 37–42.
2. Luigi Cipriani, “Armi e Droga Nell'Inchiesta de Giudice Palermo,” Democrazia Proletaria, March 1985, http://www.fondazionecipriani.it/Scritti/palermo.html (accessed May 22, 2014).
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Richard Cottrell, Gladio: NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe (Palm Desert, CA: Progressive Press, 2012), p. 278.
6. Franco Vernice, “La Caccia All'Oro di Bankitalia,” La Repubblica, November 11, 1984, http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1984/11/29/la-caccia-all-oro-di-bankitalia.html (accessed May 22, 2014).
7. Cipriani, “Armi e Droga Nell'Inchiesta de Giudice Palermo.”
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Vivian Freyre Zoakos, “Colossal East-West Arms and Drug Ring Cracked,” EIR News Service, December 14, 1982.
11. Roger Lewis, “Henry Arsan,” Prison Planet Intelligence, 1984, http://ppia.wikia.com/wiki/Henri_Arsan (accessed May 22, 2014).
12. Ibid.
13. Antonella Beccaria, “Santovito: Gli Anni delle Stragi All'Ombra Dei Generali P-2,” Domani (Rome), January 3, 2010, http://domani.arcoiris.tv/santovito-gli-anni-delle-stragi-all%E2%80%99ombra-dei-generali-p2/ (accessed May 22, 2014).
14. Cottrell, Gladio, p. 277.
15. Franco Vernice, “Quelle Spie Dell'Est e Dell Ovest,” La Repubblica, August 22, 1985, http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1985/08/22/quelle-spie-dell-est-dell-ovest.html (accessed May 22, 2014).
16. Stille, Excellent Cadavers, p. 204.
17. Saez, El Dia de la Cuenta: Juan Pablo II, a Examen (Madrid: Meral Ediciones – Comunidad de Ayala, 2005), http://www.comayala.es/index.php/en/libros-es/el-dia-de-la-cuenta-ingles-texto (accessed May 22, 2014).
18. Terence Charles Byrne, Witness Statement, Form 991A, Department of Justice, March 18, 1991, http://jancom.org/DocumentsPDF/Witness%20Statement%20-%20ByrneSnr.pdf (accessed May 22, 2014).
19. Philip Willan, The Vatican at War: From Blackfriars Bridge to Buenos Aires (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse LLC, 2003), Kindle edition.
20. Ibid.
21. Frank Bovenkerk and Yucel Yesilgoz, The Turkish Mafia: A History of the Heroin Godfathers (London: Milo Books, 2007), Kindle edition.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. John Stockwell, “The Secret Wars of the CIA,” lecture, October 1987, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4068.htm (accessed May 22, 2014).
25. Cockburn and St. Clair, Whiteout, p. 265.
26. Ibid., p. 265.
27. Ibid., p. 265.
28. Ibid., p. 269.
29. Jonathan Beaty, “A Mysterious Mover of Money and Planes,” Time, June 24, 2001, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101911028-155760,00.html (accessed May 22, 2014).
30. John Kerry and Hank Brown, “BCCI in the United States: Initial Entry and FGB and NBG Takeovers,” US Senate Subcommittee Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, 1992, http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/03hist.htm (accessed May 22, 2014).
31. David Livingston and Sahib Mustaqim Bleher, Surrendering Islam: The Subversion of Muslim Politics throughout History until the Present Day (Karachi, Pakistan: Mustaqim Ltd., 2010), p. 121.
32. Ibid.
33. Willan, Vatican at War, Kindle edition.
34. Cockburn and St. Clair, Whiteout, p. 320. See also, Andrew W. Griffith, “Jackson Stephens, BCCI and Drug Laundering,” Red Dirt Report, January 22, 2012, http://www.reddirtreport.com/red-dirt-grit/jackson-stephens-bcci-and-drug-money-laundering.
35. Ibid.
36. Kerry and Brown, “BCCI in the United States.”
37. Livingston and Bleher's Surrendering Islam, p. 125.
38. Willan, The Vatican at War, Kindle edition.
39. Ibid.
40. Michael Yockel, “Rothschild Bank AG Zurich Tied to Cal
vi Murder and P-2 Masonic Lodge,” Hard Truth, March 7, 2001, http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/calvi_murder.htm (accessed May 22, 2014).
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE
1. Mae Brussell, “Broadcast #787,” World Watchers International, June 5, 1987, http://www.maebrussell.com/Transcriptions/787.html (accessed May 22, 2014).
2. Roberto Cocciomessere, “Weapons to Iraq: A State Bribe,” Radio Radicale It., October 30, 1987, http://www.radioradicale.it/exagora/weapons-to-iraq-a-state-bribe (accessed May 22, 2014).
3. Philip Willan, The Vatican at War: From Blackfriars Bridge to Buenos Aires (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse LLC, 2003), Kindle edition.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. David Yallop, The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007), p. 133.
7. Rupert Cornwell, God's Banker: An Account of the Life and Death of Roberto Calvi (London: Victor Gollancz, 1984), p.140.
8. Jesus Lopez Saez, El Dia de la Cuenta: Juan Pablo II, a Examen (Madrid: Meral Ediciones—Comunidad de Ayala, 2005), http://www.comayala.es/index.php/en/libros-es/el-dia-de-la-cuenta-ingles-texto (accessed May 22, 2014).
9. Yallop, Power and the Glory, p. 134.
10. Ibid.
11. Cornwell, God's Banker, p. 250.
12. Ibid.
13. Nick Tosches, Power on Earth: Michele Sindona's Explosive Story (New York: Arbor House, 1986), pp. 247–48.
14. Willan, Vatican at War, Kindle edition.
15. Ibid.
16. Yallop, Power and the Glory, p. 139.
17. Cornwell, God's Banker, p. 175.
18. Paolo Biondani, “Condannati: Carboni e un Boss della Magliana. Sono I Mandanti del Tentato Omicidio di Rosone,” Corriere della Sera, January 15, 1994, http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1994/gennaio/15/condannati_Carboni_boss_della_Magliana_co_0_940115795.shtml (accessed May 24, 2014).
19. Cornwell, God's Banker, pp. 179–80.
20. Yallop, Power and the Glory, pp. 141–42.
21. Cottrell, Gladio: NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe (Palm Desert, CA: Progressive Press, 2012), p. 228.
22. Yallop, Power and the Glory, p. 138.
23. Ibid.
24. Willan, Vatican at War, Kindle edition.
25. Cornwell's God's Banker, p. 189.