Rome judge to deliver ruling on killing of 'God's banker'

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Independent on Sunday
Four defendants wait to hear if they will face full trial for 1982 murder of Roberto Calvi
By Philip Willan in Rome
17 April 2005


As the cardinals go into conclave tomorrow a Rome judge will begin delivering his verdict on the murder of Roberto Calvi, the banker whose spectacular financial collapse cast a shadow over the early years of the pontificate of Pope John Paul II. Judge Orlando Villoni must decide whether there is sufficient evidence to justify a full trial for four defendants charged with conspiring to murder Calvi and suspending his body from scaffolding under Blackfriars Bridge in London in what appeared to be a macabre symbolic warning to the controversial banker's associates.

The body of the man known as "God's banker" for his close financial relationship with the Vatican was found on the morning of 18 June 1982 by a postal clerk on his way to work at the Daily Express. The mystery of his death, his feet dangling in the Thames and his pockets stuffed with bricks, has baffled investigators for more than 20 years. The preliminary hearing - equivalent to the grand jury process in the United States - has taken just over a year to hear evidence about the complex intrigue that accompanied Calvi to his death.

As chairman of the Banco Ambrosiano, a bank founded by a priest, with close links to the diocese of Milan and to the Vatican's Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), Calvi had embarked on an apparently suicidal series of offshore investments that left his bank with debts of some £800m. His flight to London in the company of a Sardinian property developer with close links to the secret services took place against an alarming backdrop of blackmail and conspiracy that brought senior prelates into uncomfortably close contact with Mafia hoods and the rogue freemasons of the P2 lodge. The American head of the IOR, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, was at one time confined within the Vatican to avoid arrest by Milan prosecutors wanting to try him for his alleged role in the Ambrosiano bankruptcy.

Mr Villoni is expected to rule tomorrow on whether the prosecution has presented a sufficiently convincing case that Flavio Carboni, the Sardinian businessman, deliberately lured Calvi to his death and that the murder was carried out on the orders of Pippo Calo, a senior Mafia boss responsible for Cosa Nostra's finances who was allegedly peeved at the incompetent way Calvi had laundered his organisation's money. The two other defendants are Mr Carboni's then girlfriend, Manuela Kleinszig, and a Rome underworld boss, Ernesto Diotallevi. Further revelations are expected, however, from a parallel investigation, the subjects and content of which have remained highly secret.

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1. Labor problems or Labour's Problems?????

"There has been very little mention of the Banco Ambrosiano scandal in all the accolades following the Pope's death," said Charles Raw, the author of The Moneychangers, an in-depth examination of the Ambrosiano affair. Mr Raw said the relationship between the Ambrosiano and the IOR had enabled the Vatican to cover up some of its more embarrassing investments in Italy, in companies with labour problems that might have led to trade union demonstrations in front of St Peter's. "In return they provided the mechanism for Calvi to cover up his."

Mr Raw estimates that the Vatican ultimately lost around $510m from its involvement with Calvi but, in the early stages, the relationship was mutually advantageous. "They made quite a lot of money out of it, which Marcinkus said he made directly available to the Pope," he said.

Mr Raw said Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, the Vatican secretary of state, was the man who should have intervened to put an end to this disreputable connection. "The ultimate decision in the Vatican lay with the Pope, so he should take ultimate responsibility."

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In their report, prosecutors refer to "suspicious gaps" in the City of London police's early investigation and quote the testimony of Francesco Delfino, an Italian military intelligence officer who was sent to London on news of Calvi's death. "I was in contact with the British secret services who, when I arrived, were treating the case as though it were the suicide of a tramp," Mr Delfino said.
17 April 2005 15:56

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THIS one is squarely down to Poodle and his continued cover-ups for Shrub.....

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2. FULL TRIAL

Please?

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4. You can count on it. City of London cops have played superb

cat and mouse game with the P2 Lodge,Marcinkus, Poppy, Shrub, Thatcher, Robert Maxwell's heirs and successors and of course Poodle. This is high stakes poker the likes of which has never been seen before in the history of organised crime on planet earth.

Effectively the cops have pissed all over these macabre TheoCon slimebag politicians who rolled out their self-promoting red carpets on their way into high public office. Especially Poppy and his KGB/Stasi chums who planned that "New World Order" by murdering targeted victims and planting operative 'lookalikes' via sophisticated ID theft techniques.

For background check:
Operation Gladio, by David Guyatt
http://www.copi.com/articles/guyatt/gladio.html

This year's BBC Calvi story focused on role of City of London cops - who are totally separate from Metropolitan Police and are much more closely linked to UK Military Police in terms of answerability and accountability:

BBC January 2005 newslink on documentary about City of London cops' investigation:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/4149813.stm

The only salient point they left out was that a post-mortem examination of Calvi ALSO found a small piece of writing paper shoved up his asshole with the words "acid tripe" written in biro and pubic hairs from two separate sources.

This little gem was gagged until the summer of 1986 when witnesses to the arrest of Robert Maxwell RIP in the Hampstead, North London pedophoile brothel run by the Children of God cult, were questioned by Holborn, Central London detectiuves (Metropolitcan Police) and a desk officer from MI5's organised crime department was asked to produce a DNA file relating to them.

"Acid Tripe" turned out not to be bad spelling but anagram of "Particide". Another UK spooks' witticism for labelling the gangsters working for Thatcher in the UK.

City of London cops may also have extended their counter-intelligence operations through this little number, which alleges that a laptop with sensitive Calvi trial info was stolen:

BBC May 2004:
Mafia squad probe Calvi bag theft
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3684163.stm

The UK banker directly associated with the theft and subsequent laundering of UK assets into the coffers of the Vatican's slush fund the Institute of Religious Works (ex-CEO Marcinkus, who got full immunity from prosecution from Poppy) that began the bankruptcy chain reaction of Ambrosiano is John Bond, (NOW Sir John Bond, CEO of HSBC) who was manager of Midland Bank (now part of HSBC) Reading, Berkshire branch and personal manager to the Polish Catholic order the Marian fathers (based a few miles down the road in Henley on Thames) who were seminal to the theft of those assets which eventually were mortgaged by the Vatican before their slush fund collapsed.

Poodle has personally protected Bond because of family ties to Cherie and the rest of the disgusting, blackmailing Robert Maxwell clan. And Maxwell's death by drowning was never investigated, on the orders of Tory Minister Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
"Tories blocked maxwell Inquiry": http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3681364.stm


See also:
"Robert Maxwell was a Mossad Spy" by Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon
review:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12419168&method=full&siteid=50143
BUT....

It takes only one domino fall to cause the chain reaction that is inevitable.

That reaction = most of the Tory grandees still in public office or on fat cat sinecures like Chris Patten, John Major, Norman ST John Stevas, Ted Heath, etc as well as various former Bank of England governors, diplomats, foreign office mandarins and ex heads of the spooks agencies like Stella Rimington and Sir ichard dearlove.

But on the Labour side there are plenty of heads that will also roll.

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3. Who was Pope at the time, Karol Wojtyla?

http://www.zpub.com/un/pope/unpope-bio.html


David Emory did a 30 min on the death of Karol Wojtyla. I haven't heard it but I'd bet it's DUlicious! You can order it here. (David had all these bastards pegged back in the early 80's. Karol Wojtyla, the priests and the P-2 Lodge.
FTR-504  The Vatican Rag – Reflections on the Death of the Pope  04/03/05
http://www.spitfirelist.com/ftr.html


Search Dave Emory's Anti-Fascist Archives
http://rpirani.best.vwh.net/FTR_Search.html

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5. JP1 had 33 days in office before the P2 Lodge got to him. For P2

Lodge read the JP2 Lodge, aided and abetted by that epitome of spiritual probity Archbishop Stanislaz Dziwisz, "Wojtyla"'s former secretary...

His Eminence Grise or full accomplice?

Piers Compton's book "The Broken Cross" is an excellent source of background to the P2 Lodge.

Compton was found "mysteriously dead" at his home in marlow, Bucks (a few miles down the road from Henley on Thames, Bucks HQ of the Marian Fathers) shortly after giving Thatmes Valley cops evidence about the role that Dziwisz played in huishing up child sex scandals run in UK care and foster homes operated by the marian Fathers. Also ran their accounts, audited their books and liaised with John Bond at Midland Bank over transfers of assets to Italy.