13. Sibel Edmonds, “From Susurluk and Chicago to Ergenekon,” Boiling Frogs Post, September 26, 2009, http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2009/09/26/from-susurluk-and-chicago-to-ergenekon/ (accessed May 24, 2014).
14. Bovenkerk and Yesilgov, Turkish Mafia.
15. Ibid.
16. The Government in Exile of East Turkistan Republic, website, http://eastturkistangovernmentinexile.us/resources.html, accessed May 24, 2014.
17. Christoph Germann, “The New Great Game Round Up: China's Central Asia Problem,” Boiling Frogs Post, May 30, 2013, http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/05/30/the-new-great-game-round-up-chinas-central-asia-problem/, accessed May 24, 2014.
18. Staff Report, “Central Asia: A Major Player in the Oil and Gas Energy Industry,” World Finance, January 16, 2014, http://www.worldfinance.com/markets/central-asia-a-major-player-in-the-oil-and-gas-energy-industry, accessed May 24, 2014.
19. Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (New York: Basic Books, 1998), p. 125.
20. Luke Ryland, “Court Documents Shed Light on CIA Illegal Operations in Central Asia Using Islam and Madrassas,” Oped News, July 11, 2008, http://www.opednews.com/articles/Court-Documents-Shed-Light-by-Luke-Ryland-080711-771.html (accessed May 24, 2014).
21. Debbie Hamilton, “East Turkistan Is Not a Real Country, although It Receives Millions in Foreign Aid from the United Nations and the United States,” Right Truth, July 19, 2010, http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2010/07/east-turkistan-is-not-a-real-country-although-it-receives-millions-in-foreign-aid-from-the-united-nations-and-the-united-sta.html (accessed May 24, 2014).
22. Sibel Edmonds, “Friends-Enemies-Both? Our Foreign Policy Riddle,” Boiling Frogs Post, October 13, 2010, http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2010/10/13/friends-enemies-both-our-foreign-policy-riddle/ (accessed May 24, 2014).
23. Andrew Gavin Marshall, “Creating an ‘Arc of Crisis’: The Destabilization of the Middle East and Central Asia,” Global Research, December 7, 2008, http://andrewgavinmarshall.com/2011/07/10/creating-an-arc-of-crisis-the-destabilization-of-the-middle-east-and-central-asia/ (accessed May 24, 2014).
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25. Staff, “Kurdish Rebels Kill Turkey's Troops,” BBC News, April 8, 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6537751.stm (accessed May 24, 2014).
26. Staff, “Turkish Press Scanner, Hurriyet (Turkish daily news), December 16, 1996, http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-press-scanner.aspx?pageID=438&n=turkish-press-scanner-1996-12-16 (accessed May 24, 2014).
27. Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies, p. 230.
28. “Global Muslim Networks: How Far They Have Traveled,” The Economist, May 6, 2008, http://www.economist.com/node/10808408 (accessed May 24, 2014).
29. Chris Morris, “Turkey Accuses Popular Islamist of Plot against State,” The Guardian (UK), August 31, 2000, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/sep/01/1 (accessed May 24, 2014).
30. Edward Stourton, “What Is Islam's Gulen Movement?,” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13503361 (accessed May 24, 2014).
31. “Fethullah Gulen v. Michael Chertoff, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, et al.,” Case 207-cv-02148-SD, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, http://www.novatv.nl/uploaded/FILES/Karin/IN%20THE%20UNITED%20STATES%20DISTRICT%20COURT.doc (accessed May 24, 2014).
32. Ibid. See also, Suzy Hensen, “The Global Imam,” New Republic, November 10, 2010, http://www.tnr.com/article/world/magazine/79062/global-turkey-imam-fethullah-gulen?page=0,2 (accessed May 24, 2014).
33. Rachel Sharon-Krespin, “Fethullah Gulen's Grand Ambition: Turkey's Islamist Danger,” Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2009, http://www.meforum.org/2045/fethullah-gulens-grand-ambition (accessed May 24, 2014).
34. Fethullah Gulen, “Fethullah Gulen ‘den Ibretlik Vaaz,” Haber 5, November 20, 1979, http://www.haber5.com/video/fethullah-gulenden-ibretlik-vaaz (accessed May 24, 2014).
35. Sibel Edmonds, “Additional Omitted Points in CIA-Gulen Coverage, A Note from ‘The Insider,’” Veterans Today, January 11, 2011, http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/11/additional-omitted-points-in-cia-gulen-coverage-a-note-from-%E2%80%98the-insider%E2%80%99/ (accessed May 24, 2014).
36. Joseph Brenda, “The Neo-Ottoman Trap for Turkey,” Executive Intelligence Review, September 10, 1999, http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1999/eirv26n36-19990910/eirv26n36-19990910_045-the_neo_ottoman_trap_for_turkey.pdf (accessed May 24, 2014).
37. Fethullah Gülen, “Ctyan Yuvasi Vatikan,” undated, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRAyGkE1q50#t=4m51s (accessed May 24, 2014).
38. Chris Morris, “Turkey Accuses Popular Islamist of Plot against State,” The Guardian (UK), August 31, 2000, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/sep/01/1 (accessed May 24, 2014).
39. Ibid.
40. Brenda, “The Neo-Ottoman Trap for Turkey.”
41. Sibel Edmonds, “Turkish Intel Chief Exposes CIA Operations via Islamic Groups in Central Asia,” Boiling Frogs Post, January 6, 2011, http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/01/06/turkish-intel-chief-exposes-cia-operations-via-islamic-group-in-central-asia/#more-2809 (accessed May 24, 2014).
42. Ibid.
43. Sharon-Krespin, “Fethullah Gulen's Grand Ambition.”
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid.
46. The author of this book has paid several visits to the Gülen compound at 1857 Mt. Eaton Road in Saylorsburg, PA, but was denied entrance into the compound by Turkish sentries. He has conducted interviews with nearby residents, who have complained of the gunfire and the surveillance helicopter.
47. See above note.
48. “Bill Clinton on Fethullah Gulen's Contribution to the World,” Hizmet Movement (the official website of the Gülen Movement), January 1, 2011, http://hizmetmovement.blogspot.com/2011/01/bill-clinton-on-fethullah-gulens.html (accessed May 24, 2014).
49. “Fethullah Gulen: Infiltrating the U.S. through Our Charter Schools,” Act! for America, April 9, 2009, http://www.actforamerica.org/index.php/learn/email-archives/1069-fethulla-gulen-infiltrating-us-through-our-charter-schools/ (accessed November 5, 2014).
50. Sermon aired on Turkish channel ATV (General Television Station), June 18, 1999. See also, Sharon-Krespin, “Fethullah Gulen's Grand Ambition.”
51. Ibid.
52. Second Sermon aired on Turkish channel ATV, June 18, 1999.
53. Ibid.
54. Erick Stakelbeck, “The Gulen Movement: A New Islamic World Order,” CBN, June 4, 2011, http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2011/May/The-Gulen-Movement-The-New-Islamic-World-Order/ (accessed May 24, 2014).
55. Sharon-Krespin, “Fethullah Gulen's Grand Ambition.”
56. Ibid.
57. Sharon-Krespin, “Fethullah Gulen's Grand Ambition.”
58. Soner Cagaptay, “Behind Turkey's Witch Hunt,” Newsweek, May 15, 2009, http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/05/15/behind-turkey-s-witch-hunt.html (accessed May 24, 2014).
59. Sharon-Krespin, “Fethullah Gulen's Grand Ambition.”
60. Ibid.
61. Sharon-Krespin, “Fethullah Gulen's Grand Ambition.”
62. Stephanie Saul, “Charter Schools Tied to Turkey Grow in Texas,” New York Times, June 6, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/education/07charter.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 (accessed May 24, 2014).
63. “Turkish Olympiad Kicks Off with Glorious Opening at Dolmabahce Palace,” Fethullah Gulen: A Life Dedicated to Service (a Gulen website), June 17, 2011, http://www.fethullah-gulen.net/news/turkish-olympiad-dolmabahce/ (accessed May 24, 2014). See also, Mehmet Aslan, “The International Turkish Language Olympiad: Educating for International Dialogue and Communication,” Sociology and Anthropology, 2014, http://www.hrpub.org/download/20140525/SA1-19602237.pdf (accessed Nov. 6, 2014).
64. Robert Paulsen, “Synopsizing Sibel Edmonds: The Evolution of Gladio�
��Part Four,” American Judas, March 28, 2013, http://americanjudas.blogspot.com/2013/03/synopsizing-sibel-edmonds-evolution-of_28.html (accessed May 24, 2014).
65. Ibid.
66. Sibel Edmonds, “Sibel Edmonds on Gladio B—Part 4” (video), Corbett Report, February 22, 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOCYMU3zYH0 (accessed May 24, 2014).
67. Philip Giraldi, “Who's Afraid of Sibel Edmonds?” American Conservative, November 1, 2009, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/whos-afraid-of-sibel-edmonds/ (accessed May 24, 2014).
68. Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: The CIA's Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2003), p. 505.
69. Ibid.
70. Ibid., p. 518.
71. Staff, “Drug War? American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium; U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Heroin Production,” Global Research, December 22, 2013, http://www.globalresearch.ca/drug-war-american-troops-are-protecting-afghan-opium-u-s-occupation-leads-to-all-time-high-heroin-production/5358053 (accessed May 24, 2014).
72. Peter Dale Scott, America's War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010), electronic edition, “Obama and Afghanistan.”
73. Asad Ismi, “The Canadian Connection: Drugs, Money Laundering and Canadian Banks,” Briarpatch, July/August 1997, http://www.asadismi.ws/cancon.html (accessed May 24, 2014).
74. Ibid.
75. Rajeev Syal, “Drug Money Saved Banks in Global Crisis, Claims UN Advisor,” Guardian (UK), December 12, 2009, http://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-banks-saved-un-chief-claims (accessed May 24, 2014).
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: SEMPER EADEM
1. Alan Cowell, “As Pope Visits Sicily, Mafia Sends Gruesome Warning to Priest,” New York Times, November 6, 1994.
2. Staff Report, “Vatican Bank Involved in Mafia's On-Line Washing Money,” Xinhua News Agency, October 3, 1999, http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com/xinhua.htm (accessed May 24, 2014).
3. Ibid.
4. Michael Becket, “Gangster's Paradise across the Atlantic,” Daily Telegraph (London), November 19, 2001, http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com/dt.htm (accessed May 24, 2014).
5. David Yallop, The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of John Paul II's Vatican (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007), pp. 438–39.
6. Staff, “Catholics in Crisis,” The Week, April 30, 2010, http://theweek.com/article/index/202388/catholics-in-crisis (accessed May 24, 2014).
7. Ibid., p. 212.
8. Ibid., p. 214.
9. Staff, “Catholics in Crisis.”
10. Yallop, Power and the Glory, p. 210.
11. Jonathan Petrie and Daniel Johnson, “‘Britain Is a Pagan Society,’ Says Cardinal,” The Telegraph (UK), January 20, 2003, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1419421/Britain-is-a-pagan-society-says-Cardinal.html (accessed May 24, 2014).
12. Yallop, Power and the Glory, p. 227.
13. Ibid., p. 228.
14. Peter Moore, “Scots Cardinal Uses Christmas for Gay Attack,” Bondings, Spring 2004, http://www.newwaysministry.org/pastissues/Bondings-Vol24N3.pd (accessed May 24, 2014).
15. Joan Grillo, “Protestants on the Rise as Pope Visits Mexico,” Reuters, March 21, 2012, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/22/us-mexico-pope-idUSBRE82L06E20120322 (accessed May 24, 2014).
16. Michael D. Shaffer, “Sex Abuse Crisis Is a Watershed in the Roman Catholic Church's History in America,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 25, 2012.
17. Annysa Johnson and Paul Gross, “Archdiocese of Milwaukee Files for Bankruptcy Protection,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 4, 2011, http://www.jsonline.com/features/religion/112878494.html (accessed May 24, 2014).
18. “Catholic Church Pays $655 Million in Abuse Cases,” Agence France-Presse, March 8, 2008.
19. Yallop, Power and the Glory, p. 352.
20. Jason Berry, Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and Sexual Abuse of Children (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000), pp. vii–xii.
21. Maureen Sowd, “Pope Saint, Victims Asterisks,” Commentary, Scranton Times-Tribune, April 24, 2014.
22. Richard Behar, “Washing Money in the Holy See,” Fortune, August 16, 1999, http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/08/16/264285/index.htm (accessed May 24, 2014).
23. Philip Willan, The Vatican at War: From Blackfriars Bridge to Buenos Aires (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse LLC, 2003), Kindle edition.
24. Yallop. Power and the Glory, p. xii.
25. BBC, “Vatican Bank ‘Investigated over Money Laundering,’” BBC Europe, September 21, 2010, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11380628 (accessed May 24, 2014).
26. “The Vatican's Woes: God's Bankers,” The Economist, July 7, 2012, http://www.economist.com/node/21558249 (accessed May 24, 2014).
27. Nick Squires, “Ex Head of Vatican Bank Has Archive on Senior Italian and Church Figures,” Telegraph (UK), June 7, 2012, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/9316219/Ex-head-of-Vatican-bank-has-archive-on-senior-Italian-and-Church-figures.html (accessed May 24, 2014).
28. Juan Vicente Boo, “Vatican Protests the Seizure of Documents,” ABC News (Spain), June 9, 2012, http://www.abc.es/20120609/sociedad/abci-vaticano-protesta-duramente-incautacion-201206082200.html (accessed May 24, 2014).
29. David Gibson, “Vatican Bank Needs More Transparency, Regulators Say,” Huffington Post, July 18, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/18/vatican-bank-needs-more-transparency-regulators-say_n_1684198.html (accessed May 24, 2014).
30. Marta Paterlini, “Court Endorses Vatican Bank's Rescue of Italian research Center,” Science Insider, October 31, 2011, http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/10/court-endorses-vatican-banks-rescue.html (accessed May 24, 2014).
31. “Beretta and IOR,” Ecclesia Dei, February 2, 2012, http://musicasacra.forumfree.it/?t=60356939 (accessed May 24, 2014).
32. Pew Research, “Strong Catholic Identity at a Four Decade Low,” Religion and Public Life Project, March 13, 2013, http://www.pewforum.org/2013/03/13/strong-catholic-identity-at-a-four-decade-low-in-us/ (accessed May 24, 2014).
33. Robert W. Wood, “Vatican Money Laundering and Tax Charges Ensnare Flashy Monsignor,” Fortune, January 23, 2014. See also, Tom Kington, “Pope Francis Gets to Keep Scandal-Plagued Vatican Bank Alive,” Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2014, http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-pope-francis-vatican-bank-20140407,0,4278220.story#axzz30KJg2W3h (accessed May 24, 2014).
34. Nicole Winfield, “Vatican's Finance Report Card Gets Mixed Evaluation from Europe's Moneyval Committee,” Huffington Post, December 12, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/12/vatican-finance-report-card_n_4433039.html (accessed May 24, 2014).
35. Nicole Winfield and Daniela Petroff, “Pope Francis Presides over John Paul II, John XXIII Historic Canonization,” Associated Press, April 28, 2014, http://www.lohud.com/story/news/religion/2014/04/28/franis-makes-john-paul-ii-john-xxiii-saints/8386411/ (accessed May 24, 2014).
36. Yallop, Power and the Glory, p. xii.
37. Nick Tosches, Power on Earth: Michele Sindona's Explosive Story (New York: Arbor House, 1986), p. 14.
AAA. See Argentine Anticommunist Alliance
Abbatino, Maurizio, 208
Abbruciati, Danilo, 227, 234
ABC (American Broadcasting Company), 59, 134
Abedi, Agha Hasan, 170, 172
Abramowitz, Morton, 273, 274
Abs, Hermann, 255
Absalon (CIA code name for secret army in Denmark), 261
Acampora, Tullius “Tully,” 84
Acheson, Dean, 132
Adalet ve Kalkinma [Justice and Development Party of Turkey] (AKP), 17, 277
Adenauer, Konrad, 51
Adham, Kamal, 171, 222
Adonis, Joe, 40
Advanced War College [Escola Superior de Guerra] (Brazil), 113–14
Afghanistan
drugs, cultivating and trafficking, 16, 167, 168, 177, 203, 220–21, 280
Taliban trying to prohibit, 279
Soviet invasion and war in, 16, 168–70, 199, 221, 257, 259, 271
US led invasion of, 17, 279–80
Afghan Students Association, 169
African Americans
CIA encouraging to join mujahideen in Afghanistan, 258
conversions to Islam, 257
and drugs, 30–44, 48
African Party Independence Movement (Guinea and Cape Verde), 111
Ağar, Mehmet (Turkey's interior minister), 267
Ağca, Mehmet Ali, 14, 107, 173, 204–205, 206, 210–13, 214, 215, 238, 239, 250, 253, 266
Agenzi Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA), 239
Aginter Press (CIA code name for secret army in Portugal), 111, 261
AIG (American International Group), 19, 57, 147
Air America, 31, 180
Air Scranton, 180
AIUC. See American International Underwriters Corporation
AKP. See Adalet ve Kalkinma
Albanian Mafia. See Mafia
Albertini, Gerlando, 175, 216, 218
Albertini, Giuseppe, 218
Alblondi, Alberto, 64
Alessandrini, Emilio, 158, 234
Alessandro, Gottardi, 64
Alfa Romeo, 60, 90
Ali, Karah Mehmet, 216
Alitalia (airlines), 60, 115
Aliyev, Heydar, 268
al-Jihad, 170
al-Jihad Group, 170
Allende, Salvador, 117, 129, 206, 245
Allied Military Government, 60
Allivane and Allivane International (CIA shell companies), 220
Alperin v. Vatican Bank (class action suit), 52
al-Qaeda, 170, 258
Altmann, Klaus (name used by Klaus Barbie), 72
Ambrosiano Group Banco Commercial. See Banco Ambrosiano
Ambrosiano Overseas. See Banco Ambrosiano
Ambrosoli, Giorgio, 16, 141–42, 190, 224, 234, 249, 251
American Chamber of Commerce in Italy, 27
American Express International, 280
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