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by Paul L. Williams


  Sea Supply, Inc., 13, 57, 146

  “SEBA” (Baggio's Masonic name), 159

  Secord, Richard, 150, 259

  Secret Counterintelligence (in OSS) (SCI), 20, 27, 28

  Securities and Exchange Commission (US), 134

  Semproni, Domenico, 65

  Senzani, Giovanni, 106

  Serono (pharmaceutical company), 91

  Serravalle, Gerardo, 99–100

  Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage [External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service ] (France) (SDECE), 66, 207

  Servizio Informazioni Difesa [Information Defense Service] (Italy) (SID), 76, 217

  Servizio Informazioni Forze Armate [Armed Forces Information Service] (Italy) (SIFAR), 74–75

  Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Democratica [Italian domestic intelligence service] (SISDE), 109, 238, 239

  Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare [Military Information and Security Service] (Italy) (SISMI), 14, 104, 106, 108–109, 196, 207, 208, 209, 217–19, 223, 235, 253, 260

  SETCO (airline), 259

  Shackley, Theodore “Blond Ghost,” 14, 15, 88, 149, 150, 176, 206–209, 212, 219

  Shaddick, Peter, 137

  Shakarchi Trading Company, 220

  Shakespeare, Frank, 51

  Shalabi, Mustafa, 258

  Shan United Army (private army in Thailand), 151

  Shaw, Clay, 74

  Shell Oil, 90

  Shriver, Sargent, 244

  Sichterheitsdienst (SS foreign intelligence service), 23

  Sicily, 43

  Allied invasion of, 36–37

  Sindona and US planned coup, 16, 142–44, 145, 191

  See also Mafia, Sicilian Mafia

  SID. See Servizio Informazioni Difesa

  SIFAR. See Servizio Informazioni Forze Armate

  Signoracci, Ernesto and Arnaldo, 162

  Silva, Golbery do Couto e, 114

  Silva Henríquez, Raúl, 117

  Simioni, Corrado, 105

  Simon, William, 207, 244, 255

  Simon Wiesenthal Center, 255

  Sinatra, Frank, 47

  Sindona, Michele, 10, 60, 79–94, 98, 130–44, 155

  end of financial power of, 189–95, 245–47

  asking Reagan for pardon, 245, 249

  attempted suicide, 193, 224

  death of, 16, 252–53, 256

  faking kidnapping, 189–92, 196–97, 216, 249, 251

  loss of Mafia backing, 249

  speaking out, 250–51

  trials of, 251–52

  and Gelli, 73, 98, 138, 141, 142, 157, 191, 193, 250

  and murder of Giorgio Ambrosoli, 224

  as nexus between Mafia, CIA, and Vatican, 13, 15. See also Central Intelligence Agency (US) (CIA); Mafia; Vatican; Vatican Bank

  and P2, 76, 109

  and US planned coup of Sicily, 142–44, 145

  and the Vatican/Vatican Bank, 80, 81–82, 83, 86–87, 89–92, 119, 137–38, 157, 187. See also Marcinkus, Paul “the Gorilla”

  See also Banca Privata Finanziaria [Bank of Private Finance] (BPF)

  Siragusa, Charles, 48

  Siri, Giuseppe, 61, 154, 165

  SISDE. See Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Democratica

  SISMI. See Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare

  Smith, Ian, 149

  Smith, James E., 137

  SMOM. See Sovereign Military Order (Malta)

  “So-Called Parallel SID, The—Operation Gladio,” 260–61

  Socialist Minister of Interior (France), 66

  Società Generale Immobiliare (construction company), 91

  Società Italiana per il Gas (natural gas company), 60

  Society for Contemporary Life, 277

  Society of Jesus (Argentina), 122, 125

  Sodano, Angelo, 118

  Sogno, Edgardo, 142

  Solidarity movement in Poland, 16, 182–83, 185, 188, 198–200, 209, 227, 245, 253, 287

  “Solo Republic,” 28

  Somoza Debayle, Anastasio, 181, 182

  Sorino, Angelo, 134, 135

  Soucek, Theodor, 66–67

  South America. See Latin America

  Southeast Asia, drugs in, 14, 53, 57, 58, 88, 129, 145, 147–48, 152–53, 206

  loss of Southeast Asia as source for, 153, 160, 167, 173

  See also names of specific countries

  Sovereign Military Order (Malta) (SMOM) (aka Knights of Malta), 13, 42, 51–52, 60, 66, 69, 151, 205, 207, 210, 255

  Soviet Union, 33, 67, 167, 170, 221, 264

  after collapse, 266, 268, 270, 271

  and attempted murder of John Paul II, 209, 213, 214, 215

  invasion/war in Afghanistan, 16, 168–70, 199, 221

  beginning withdrawal, 259

  Soviet's losing resolve in, 257

  in Italy, 43, 61, 69, 100

  rapprochement attempts by Pope John Paul II, 69, 198–99, 208

  Stalin's creation of Comecon, 50

  US concerns about Communism and Soviet Union, 23–24, 25, 26, 28, 51, 68, 198, 270

  Spada, Massimo, 59–60, 73, 83, 195

  Spagnuolo, Carmelo, 76, 141

  Spain, 71, 244, 285

  CIA/Gladio in, 112, 200

  Spain, James, 69

  Spatola, Rosario, 143, 189, 190, 191, 194, 246, 248

  Spatola, Vincenzo, 190, 191, 194, 246

  Spatola crime family, 14, 81, 84, 88, 141, 157, 177, 235, 245–46, 248, 249

  Special Forces (US), 172

  Special Military Plan for Psychological Warfare in Sicily (US Joint Chiefs of Staff report), 36–38

  Spellman, Francis, 13, 47, 48, 52, 58

  Spy for All Seasons, A (Clarridge), 174

  SS. See Schutzstaffel

  SSU. See Strategic Services Unit (US)

  “Stability Operations—Intelligence—Special Fields” (US military dossier), 102

  Stalin, Joseph, 26, 33, 50

  Standard Oil, 92

  Stanford Technology Trading Group, Inc., 207

  Stankard, Francis X., 244

  Starfield SA, 179, 225

  Starr, C. V., 19, 57, 147

  “stay-behind armies,” 23–29, 51

  Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), 51, 175, 210, 211

  in European countries, 61–62, 66–68, 111, 112, 113, 261

  in Italy evolving into Masonic organizations, 62. See also P2 (Propaganda Due)

  in Turkey, 68, 112. See also Grey Wolves

  Stephens, Jackson, 221–22

  Stephenson, David, 246

  Stephenson, William “Little Bill,” 31

  Sterling, Claire, 14, 208, 209, 213–14

  Stibam International (company), 16, 175–76, 184, 194, 197, 204, 208, 210, 214, 216–20, 223, 230, 235, 253

  Strategic Services Unit (US) (SSU), 40

  “strategy of tension,” 15

  Stroessner, Alfredo, 181

  Sturmführer, 26

  Suenens, Leo, 281

  Sullivan and Cromwell (law firm), 24–25, 32

  Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 59

  Sunday Times (newspaper), 58

  Supreme Court (Italy), 76, 141, 265

  Susurluk (Turkey) incident, 17, 266–68, 271

  “Sveaborg” (covert army in Sweden), 68

  Sweden, CIA/Gladio in, 68

  Tablighi Jamaat, 257

  Tajikistan, 257, 269

  Taraki, Nur Mohammad, 167, 168–69

  Taskim Square massacre, 113

  Tassan Din, Bruno, 109, 181

  Tatum, Gene “Chip,” 216

  Taviani, Paolo Emilio, 61, 97

  Technischer Dienst des Bundes Deutscher Jugend [Technical Service Branch of the League of German Youth] (TD-BDJ), 67–68

  Teclefin (subsidiary of United Trading Corporation), 182

  Tedeschi, Ettore Gotti, 288

  Terpil, Frank, 208, 211

  Terror Network, The (Sterling), 209

  Third Reich

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sp; setting up “Solo Republic” in northern Italy, 28

  US considering peace negotiations with, 23–24, 25–26

  US providing support to stay-behind armies after war, 27, 28–29

  See also ratlines for escaping Nazis

  Time (magazine), 24, 70, 249

  Time, Inc., 59

  “Timeline of CIA Atrocities, A” (Kangas), 23

  Time of the Assassins, The (Sterling), 214

  TIR. See Transport Internationaux Routiers

  Tisch, Laurence, 130, 132–34, 135, 141

  Tisserant, Eugène, 157

  Togliatti, Palmiro, 43, 141

  Topal, Ömer Lütfü, 272

  Torrisi, Giovanni, 76, 104, 109

  Tortolo, Adolfo, 121, 122

  Tosches, Nick, 250, 251, 252

  Totolo, Antonio, 175

  Tovini, Giuseppe, 180

  Trabalzini, Dino, 65

  Traditionalist, The (newspaper), 139

  Trafficante, Santo, Jr., 15, 40, 41, 48, 79, 80, 81, 88–89, 146

  Transmaritania, 119

  Transport Internationaux Routiers [International Road Transport] (TIR), 175

  Treaty on Extradition between the US and Italy, 141

  Trilateral Commission, 14, 16, 132, 136, 137, 198, 202, 245

  Trocchi, Vittorio, 65

  Truman administration, 33, 40, 41, 46

  Tucci, Roberto, 65, 282

  Tucker, Samuel A., 147

  Turani, Anwar Yusuf, 269

  Türkeş, Alparslan, 13, 68, 270–71

  Turkey, 273, 277

  CIA/Gladio in, 15, 68, 112, 172–73, 200–205, 268, 273, 277, 278

  killing of Kurds in, 271–72

  “Susurluk incident,” 266–68, 271

  Taskim Square massacre, 113

  Turkish drug route, 55–56, 172–75

  Turkification of Islam, 277–78

  Turkish Anti-Christian Liberation Front, 238

  Turkish Cultural Center, 275

  Turkish Olympiad, 278

  Turkmenistan, 202, 257

  Turner, Stansfield, 142, 191, 262

  Tuti, Mario, 102

  UBS. See Union Bank of Switzerland

  Udall Research Corporation, 207

  Uğurlu, Abuzer, 173, 174, 204, 205, 214

  Ulema Union of Afghanistan, 170

  Ulricor (subsidiary of United Trading Corporation), 181–82

  Underwriters Bank, Ltd., 147

  Union Bank of Switzerland, 179

  United Press International, 59

  United Trading Corporation, 179, 181, 225, 235, 237

  University of Messina, 60

  University of Pennsylvania, Sindona speaking at, 139

  University of Scranton, 9

  UN Office on Drugs and Organized Crime, 280

  Uruguay, 111, 114, 181

  Us, Gonga, 266

  “US Friendship Bridge,” 274

  Ustashi (Croatian fascist group), 71, 73

  Uyghurs in northwestern China, 268, 269, 271

  Uzbek Communist Party, 274

  Uzbekistan, 170, 202, 257, 269, 273–74, 278

  Vaccari, Sergio, 233

  Valpreda, Pietro, 96

  Vance, Cyrus, 123

  Vandenberg, Hoyt S., 40

  Vang Pao, 88, 145

  Varisco, Antonio, 142, 234

  Vasoula (cargo ship), 214

  Vatican, 154–66, 281–90

  assets of, 90–91

  and the CIA

  CIA bugging the Vatican, 15

  CIA rigging papal elections, 70, 126, 154–56, 165, 198

  and the Communist problem in Italy, 46–47, 49, 50–51, 151

  and Gladio, 47, 52, 66, 70, 82, 113

  John Paul II causing problems for, 196–205

  in Latin America, 118, 119, 122, 126

  laundering money, 42, 89–90

  and the Mafia, 42, 49, 236, 253, 283, 287, 289

  shooting in St. Peter's Square, 206–215

  as a source for passports for escaping Nazis, 71

  as a sovereign state, 50, 253, 287

  use of Price Waterhouse after negligence charges, 171

  US states filing RICO suit against, 284

  See also Opus Dei

  Vatican at War, The (Willan), 179, 243

  Vatican Bank, 17, 45–52, 119

  after pedophilia scandal seeing deficits, 287

  and Banco Ambrosiano, 243, 253

  and the Bank of Italy, 187, 196–97, 227, 228, 236–37

  and bogus securities, 157

  Calvi's involvement with, 228, 229–30, 253

  CIA and Mafia using Vatican Bank to launder money, 45–52, 59–60

  collecting processing fee for handling drug money, 146

  cooperating with Sicilian Mafia on banking scam, 283–84

  creation of, 15, 45

  and elimination of liberation theology (Banzer Plan), 118–19

  Gelli smuggling Ustashi treasury to, 73

  John Paul I concerns about, 156–61

  known as Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR), 15, 45

  lending money to a nightclub, 241

  and money laundering, 179–88, 234, 250–51, 289, 290. See also Banco Ambrosiano

  owning other banks, 84, 87, 137–38, 139, 151, 158, 177, 181–82

  use of shell and holding companies, 176, 179–88, 196–97, 197, 222, 225, 235, 236–37, 241, 289

  Pope Francis I choosing to keep open, 289–90

  Pope John Paul II rejecting requests to investigate, 186–87

  receiving black ops monies, 149

  reorganization of under Opus Dei, 254–55

  secrecy of, 45–46

  and Sindona, 80, 81–82, 83, 86–87, 89–92, 119, 137–38, 157, 187

  See also Marcinkus, Paul “the Gorilla”

  Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder and the Mafia, The (Williams), 10

  Vatican II, 285

  Venezuela, 76, 117, 127, 143

  Ventura, Giovanni, 96

  Verbitsky, Horacio, 124

  Vergari, Pietro, 282

  Vessel Operation, 70

  Vicari, Angelo, 98

  Videla, Jorge Rafael, 110, 120, 121, 122, 126, 181

  Viera Contreras, Leonardo, 117

  Viet Cong, 54, 151, 152, 206

  Viet Minh, 58

  Vietnam, drugs in, 145–46

  Vietnam War, 206

  Vignes, Alberto, 110, 115

  Village Voice (newspaper), 250

  Villot, Jean-Marie, 65, 157, 159–66

  Vincenza, Sister, 160–61, 162, 163

  Vinciguerra, Vincenzo, 100

  Vino, Domenico, 101

  Viola, Guido, 251

  Virtù, Sergio, 240

  Vitale, Giacomo, 247

  Vizzini, Calogero “Don Calo,” 13, 37–38, 44, 48, 49, 50, 52, 55, 60, 248

  Voghera. See Casa Circondariale Femminile

  Volpe, John, 190

  von Wernich, Christian, 125

  Wakkas, Salah Al Din, 175

  Wałęsa, Lech, 182, 198–99, 200

  Walters, Vernon, 51, 75, 76, 114, 182, 255

  Ward, Chester, 131

  Washington Post (newspaper), 41, 148, 264

  “Washington's Pope.” See Francis I (pope)

  Wasiutynski, Elizabeth, 198

  WCC. See World Commerce Corporation

  Webb, Gary, 119

  Weiner, Tim, 30

  “werewolves” (first Gladio unit), 13, 25, 26, 27

  Westinghouse, 92

  Westmoreland, William, 102

  White, George, 59

  Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press (Cockburn and St. Clair), 30

  Whitlam, Gough, 149

  Willan, Philip, 179, 243

  Wilson, Bob, 148

  Wilson, Edwin, 149, 207

  Wilson, William, 207

  Wilson, Woodrow, 24, 114

  Winchell, Walter, 38

  Wisner, Frank, 41, 44, 74

  Wojtyła, Karol. See John Paul II (pope)

 
Wolff, Karl, 25–26, 28, 29

  Workers’ Commission Trade Union (Spain), 112

  World Commerce Corporation (WCC), 13, 31, 49, 56–57, 82

  World Council of Churches, 120

  Worthern Bank, 221

  Wyszyński, Stefan, 165

  X MAS. See Decima Flottiglia MAS (Italy)

  Yallop, David, 160, 171, 187, 189

  Yalta agreement, 26

  Yasin Mosque (Brooklyn, NY), 257

  Yates, Earl Preston, 150

  “Years of Lead” (1969 to 1980), 15, 109, 110, 142, 260, 265

  Yılmaz, Mesut, 268

  Yorio, Orlando, 122, 123–24, 126

  Zagladin, Vadim, 199

  Zaman (newspaper), 272

  Zaza, Michele, 174

  Zilletti, Ugo, 76, 186

  Zinn, Georg August, 68

  Zitropo (company), 134, 158

  Zyklon B (gas), 25

 

 

 


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