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Mc Mike

(9,260 posts)
34. Banco Ambrosiano:
Sun Nov 6, 2016, 07:26 AM
Nov 2016

" In 1981, police raided the office of Propaganda Due Masonic lodge to apprehend the Worshipful Master Licio Gelli and uncover further evidence against Roberto Calvi. Calvi was arrested, put on trial, and sentenced to four years in prison. However, he was released pending an appeal and retained his position at the bank. Other alarming developments followed: Carlo de Benedetti of Olivetti bought into the bank and became deputy chairman, only to leave two months later after receiving Mafia threats and lack of co-operation from Calvi. His replacement, a longtime employee named Roberto Rosone, was wounded in a Mafia shooting incident. The criminal organization responsible for this shooting was the Banda della Magliana (Magliana Gang) which had taken over Rome's underworld in the late 1970s, and has been related to various political events of the anni di piombo (years of lead).

In 1982, it was discovered that the bank was unable to account for $1.287 billion (equivalent to $3.16 billion in present-day terms). Calvi fled the country on a false passport, and Rosone arranged for the Bank of Italy to take over. Calvi's personal secretary, Graziella Corrocher, left a note denouncing Calvi before leaping to her death from her office window. Calvi's body was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London on June 18.

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Roberto Calvi's 1982 murder

David Yallop believes that Calvi, with the assistance of P2, may have been responsible for the death of Albino Luciani who, as Pope John Paul I, was planning a reform of Vatican finances. This is one of many conspiracy theories about Luciani, who died of a heart attack. However, Calvi's family maintains that he was an honest man manipulated by others. Their perspective informs Robert Hutchison's 1997 book Their Kingdom Come: Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei. According to the magistrates who indicted Licio Gelli, P2's headmaster, and Giuseppe Calò for Calvi's murder, Gelli would have ordered his death to punish him for embezzlement of his and the mafia's money, while the mafia wanted to stop him from revealing the way Calvi helped it in money laundering. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Ambrosiano


Licio Gelli and Stefano Delle Chiaie:

" Stefano Delle Chiaie (born 13 September 1936 in Caserta) is a neofascist Italian activist (founder of Avanguardia Nazionale, 1960, member of Ordine Nuovo, and founder of Lega nazionalpopolare, 1991). He went on to become a wanted man worldwide, suspected of involvement in Italy's strategy of tension, but was acquitted. He was a friend of Licio Gelli, grandmaster of P2 masonic lodge. He was suspected of involvement in South America's Operation Condor, but was acquitted. He is known by his nickname caccola (shorty) as he is five feet tall - although he states that originally, the nickname came from his very young involvement, at age 14, in the Italian Social Movement (MSI, a neo-fascist party founded after the war);[1] the name is not particularly flattering as caccola, in Italian, also means "booger".
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Founder of Avanguardia Nazionale in 1960

Delle Chiaie began as member of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist party. However he rejected the participation of the MSI in elections, preferring to take the battle to the streets. After participating to the foundation of the Centri Studi Ordine Nuovo with members of the MSI, he created the small Gruppi di Azione Rivoluzionari (GAR) at the end of the 1950s. Involved in various political actions, such as protesting against Eisenhower's visit to Italy or fighting against Italian Communist Party members, he already maintained close international links, notably with the Austrian Konrad Windisch, leader of the neo-Nazi Kameradschaftsring Nationaler Jugendverbände (KNJ).[2] He then formed, in 1960, the National Vanguard ("Avanguardia Nazionale&quot as a street-fighting group. Around this time, he also became a member of the secret P2 Masonic Lodge. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano_Delle_Chiaie


Licio Gelli and Opus Dei:

" Gelli's relationship with (Klaus) Barbie would continue well into the early 1980s, by which time the former Gestapo chief was deeply entrenched in Bolivia. Ironically, Barbie had been tasked with suppressing Freemasonry in Holland when he was sent there in early 1940. By all accounts he managed this task with ruthless efficiency. But moving along.

Also during World War II Gelli seems to have made contact with the founder of another secret organization that crops up time and again in the saga of P2. The individual in question was Josemaria Escriva and the secret society was Opus Dei. Reportedly the ties Gelli developed with either were quite beneficial, especially during Gelli's years aiding the "Ratlines."

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"Gelli's Rat Line funneled Nazis to South America. Though Gelli gets the historical credit because he headed it up, the Rat Line was an Opus Dei scheme of which Gelli was an operations officer.
In 1946, Escriva and Gelli enlisted Carlos Fuldner into the ranks of Opus Dei. Fuldner had been an officer in Hitler's SSGuard and an old friend of Escriva, the reason why Escriva was able to make his remark in 1941 'Hitler will take care of the Jews...' Only the SS Guard knew what was going on in the death camps at that time.
Gelli and Fuldner ran rescue efforts from Madrid to Argentina for Nazi war criminal seeking refuge. Among those rescued were Adolf Eichmann and Joseph Mengele though there are conflicting reports the latter may have escaped through the Pius XII Rat Line – a network of monasteries from Poland to Naples to South America."

(Murder in the Vatican, Lucien Gregoire, pgs. 128) "

http://visupview.blogspot.com/2015/05/propaganda-due-strange-and-terrible.html

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All this time, I thought Hanssen was CIA LeftInTX Oct 2016 #1
I think CIA's distrust of FBI was valid, but, led to disrupted communication blm Oct 2016 #2
Ture and I think this will only make things between the two agencies worse. sarcasmo Nov 2016 #33
Kicking for younger DUers who probably never heard of Robert Hanssen. blm Oct 2016 #3
Antonin Scalia was rumored to belong to the Opus Dei Society. Fla Dem Oct 2016 #6
He was Opus Dei. blm Oct 2016 #7
Alito, Thomas, Roberts, quite possibly. Mc Mike Nov 2016 #11
Add FBI's Opus Dei Mafia to Putin's Russian Orthodox authoritarians. blm Nov 2016 #14
Are we talking about James Kallstrom on the fed end? Mc Mike Nov 2016 #15
Don't know, but, the MO sounds familiar. Methinks this ODmafia at the FBI has grown since Hanssen. blm Nov 2016 #16
This explains dRumpf's stupid and incomprehensible slam at the Al Smith dinner Mc Mike Nov 2016 #21
Whoa…I forgot about that Al Smith dinner slam - Everyone was shocked that he'd say blm Nov 2016 #22
And I believe that Putin took over the Rusian Orthodox Church. Mc Mike Nov 2016 #23
Exacty, and their unifier is hatred for others and their admiration for authoritarian fascists. blm Nov 2016 #24
We'd have to change the planet name to ''Drumpf", for that one ruler idea. Mc Mike Nov 2016 #28
I wonder if Opus Dei has malicious intent for Pope Francis who is NOT an Opus Dei Catholic. blm Nov 2016 #31
JP I found out about that the hard way, Mc Mike Nov 2016 #32
Banco Ambrosiano: Mc Mike Nov 2016 #34
Yip, that was the Great Conversion Fever for spooks, Robt NOVAKula, & INGRAHAM UTUSN Oct 2016 #4
Hoping younger DUers catch up to this group. blm Oct 2016 #5
Opus Dei is just another reason I left Dawson Leery Oct 2016 #8
Earthquake stopped me. blm Nov 2016 #9
Wondering how many FBI agents are working for KGB at this point? blm Nov 2016 #10
I Wanted To Make A Joke About.... Laxman Nov 2016 #12
Thank you. I never forget these things and view all events like this through blm Nov 2016 #13
HA HA HA This is the funnest thing I have ever read here. KWR65 Nov 2016 #17
So…..post your reasons why it couldn't possibly be plausible. We'll listen blm Nov 2016 #18
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