Five acquitted over Calvi death

[emad]

Source: bbc news


A court in Rome has acquitted all five defendants of murder charges in the 1982 death of Roberto Calvi, a banker who had close ties to the Vatican.

Mr Calvi, the chairman of a private Italian bank, Banco Ambrosiano, was found hanging from scaffolding under London's Blackfriars Bridge in 1982.

A British inquest ruled the death suicide, but the case was reopened at the insistence of Mr Calvi's family.

Mr Calvi died as his bank collapsed in one of Italy's largest fraud scandals.

Cleared of murder charges are Giuseppe Calo, alleged to be a cashier for the Sicilian Mafia; Mr Calvi's close associate, businessman Flavio Carboni; businessman Ernesto Diotallevi; Mr Calvi's bodyguard and driver Silvano Vittor; and Mr Carboni's ex-girlfriend Manuela Kleinszig.



Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6726353.stm

[ck4829]

1. This article is wrong

The inquest 20 years ago said that he committed suicide. In 2002, it was revised to say that he was indeed murdered.

[emad]

3. Wrong?? check the data box with key events:

CALVI KEY DATES
1971: Becomes chairman of Banco Ambrosiano
1981: Convicted of corruption, but bailed pending appeal
11 June 1982: Leaves Italy with a suitcase of documents
18 June 1982: Body found
July 1982: Suicide verdict
July 1983: Open verdict at second inquest
1998: Calvi's body exhumed
Oct 2002: Forensic report says Calvi murdered
July 2003: Italian prosecutors name four suspects
Sept 2003: City of London Police re-open investigation
Mar 2004: Four appear at pre-trial hearing in Rome
April 2005: Four people charged with murder in Italy
October 2005: Murder trial opens in Italy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6726353.stm

[ck4829]

4. Talking about the text in the article

"A British inquest ruled the death suicide"

If this article is passed around, many people may not see the timeline.

[emad]

5. Still don't see what you're getting at.

This BBC story highly accurate.

Two UK inquests into the death were followed up by the Rome murder trial.


EDIT:

Exactly the same conclusions as the BBC News stopry in other reports/coverage. See:

5 acquitted of 'God's banker' murder
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-06-06-Gods-banker_N.htm

Italian jury acquits five accused of murdering Vatican banker found hanging under a London bridge
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23399625-details/Jury%20acquits%20'God's%20Banker'%20murder%20accused/article.do

etc

[Joe Chi Minh]

9. The verdict and cover-up were so laughable that the Italians called

the English police officer in charge of the investigation, "Goofy".

The stones were actually bricks, and in fact his murder by the infamous P2 Freemasons' lodge or its agents apparently exhibited a number of features in line with a European, Masonic ritual sanction. Blackfriars bridge, under which he was found hanging, I believe also had some connection, as well as the hanging and a high tide.

If you look up key words on Google there are one or two interesting links.

[EVDebs]

11. P2 was probably a faux-Masonic lodge

Since it seems to have been doing the bidding of our CIA. Read Their Will Be Done by Martin A. Lee

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1983/07/willbedone.html?welcome=true

most SMOM were also the cadre making up our early CIA, 'present at the creation'.

And see that the SMOM, earlier known as Knights Hospitaller, since their days as the tormentor of the Knights Templar-- now known as Freemasons, shows that Freemasons are still somewhat a target of the church.

Godfather Part III even makes a passing reference to the P2 as some sort of overreaching power. Indeed, if it weren't for mafia funding of Godfather I through Michele Sindona's Gulf and Western, this inside joke would be almost to hard to bear.

"As it happens, The Godfather was produced by Paramount Pictures. Paramount at this time was owned by Gulf + Western. The CEO of Gulf + Western was a man by the name of Charles Bludhorn. Reports are Bludhorn enjoyed trading fraudulent stocks with one Michele Sindona, head banker of the Roman Curia, and the brains behind the Vatican Bank. Moreover, Sindona was a member of p2, and a member of the Mafia. In 1972, the same year that The Godfather was being filmed, Bludhorn was slapped by the FEC for his trades with Sindona.

As it happens, part of the land where the film was being shot was owned by an Italian company named Immobiliare (meaning "biggest landlord") which had previously been owned by the Vatican, but sold by Sindona. Reportedly, Sindona kept an interest in Immobiliare, and when Paramount was filming The Godfather, some of this rent to Immobiliare went directly to Sindona.

And so, a film about the Mafia funneled money to the Mafia. Years later, in The Godfather Part III, Coppola would make a nod to this, by incorporating the Vatican banking scandal, Immobiliare, and the death (assassination?) of John Paul I into the script."

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=The%20Godfather

Even Calvi's murder, the so-called Masonic ritual stuff, only matches somewhat. "...at a place where the tide regularly ebbs and flows..." is about the only thing at Blackfriar's bridge that meets the criteria. Amateur hour, and therefore CIA, obviously !

Even David Yallop's otherwise excellent book In God's Name swallows this line of b.s. Calvi was said to have been trying to even sell exocet missles while in London to Argentina. Now THAT'S a more likely scenario to get yourself killed. BTW, P2 had members with dual P2 and Knights of Malta (SMOM) memberships.

It wasn't so long ago that Freemasonic membership would get you EXCOMMUNICATED. Why on earth would SMOMers join up with a Freemasonic group unless you're into a very Jesuit-like plan to discredit said group ? Yes, follow the money and see where it takes you...to the real killers.

(BTW, in the Third Degree ritual, why would they include the "To Ethiopia" part ?

"Third Ruffian--Whither are you bound?

Captain--To Ethiopia." http://www.sacred-texts.com/mas/dun/dun04.htm

-- this is about a third of the way down if you scroll through--

The answer is that the Ark of the Covenant, the body buried in the rubbish of the Temple mentioned a bit earlier, is a clue as to where the Ark was taken. This backs up Graham Hancock's thesis of The Sign and The Seal).

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[EVDebs]

17. Knights of Malta more likely. The CIA connections are higher up

"In terms of hierarchy, Gelli reported to Umberto Ortolani, described by one writer as "the great Vatican door-opener" and "secret chamberlain of the papal household". In addition to his P2 connections, Ortolani is also a member of the inner council of the Knights of Malta and has military intelligence connections that date back to WWII."

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/pol/344188729.html

[Joe Chi Minh]

19. Why do you see a snug symbiosis of the European freemasons and the CIA

as improbable? I can't think of more likely bedfellows.




You should be aware, having read David Yallop's book on Pope John-Paul I's assassination, that certain prelates were freemasons (presumably P2, though I'm not sure), despite its proscription by the Roman Catholic Church; most, notably, the Camerlengo.

Were they not also involved in the terrible terrorist bombing of a major railway station, either as members of the Italian secret service or with their backing? The purpose being to blame the Communists.

I don't believe British masons (or probably American ones) have historically been viewed by the RC Church in quite the same unfavourable light as the European branches, which I believe were more militantly atheistic. It's anecdotal, but it seems plausible. There are many freemasons of goodwill in Britain, including Protestant clergy.

[emad]

2. Some curious data about God's Banker murder...

The last documentary shown on BBC TV about Calvi's death made a number of points about the macabre shenanigans surrounding God' Banker:

The site of his death, London Bridge, is the first geopgraphical location in central London going eastwards along the river Thames that is outside the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police. It comes solely under the aegis of the City of London Police which at the time of the 1982 death was answerable directly to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and not to the Home Secretary, to which the Met's commissioner normally reports.

Secondly a really bizarre piece of evidence stated that the autopsy found in Calvi's anus a folded piece of writing paper with the words 'acid tripe'written on it and some pubic hair and dried semen samples contained in the wrap.

[Chemical Bill]

6. Mention "Vatican Bank" in the states...

and nobody knows what you're talking about. "Free press"? "Liberal media"? No way! This has been kept from the public eye by the media here. It's no wonder the article is a BBC one.

Bill

[emad]

7. ...except the Bushes! Bush Senior gave Cardinal Marcinkus

immunity from prosecution over the missing $400 million in the Banco Ambrosiano bankruptcy collapse.

marcinkus then lived rent free in Arizona to the end of his lying perjuring Bush-sponsored days.

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. Puffing away on his choice cigars, no doubt. He loved the high life.

[EVDebs]

12. Time for another "Year of Jubilee" to raise more $ for that $ that was lost ? nt

[antigop]

8. Will we ever learn the truth? n/t

[EVDebs]

13. Hint...find out the circumstances of Michele Sindona's murder first

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Sindona

Was that a Starbucks latte with a twist ? And I just love how this P2 is automatically viewed as a legit Freemasonic lodge on the upandup LOL !

[antigop]

14. I read "In God's Name" n/t

[emad]

15. How God’s banker met his maker: Financial Times

By Tony Barber

Published: June 3 2007 19:32 | Last updated: June 5 2007 18:44

There was the bombing of a Milan bank in 1969 that killed 16 people. There was the kidnapping and murder in 1978 of Aldo Moro, a former prime minister. There was the 1980 bomb that blew up 85 people at Bologna railway station. But of the terrible, politically related crimes that stain Italy’s post-fascist history, the violent death of Roberto Calvi has a good claim to be the most mysterious of the lot.

Calvi, chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, a bank that went bust soon after his death, was known as “God’s banker” because of the illicit financial dealings that connected him to the Vatican’s bank, the Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR).

An obstinate, socially awkward man with a neurotic fear of losing the black briefcase in which he kept his most sensitive documents, Calvi joined the secret Propaganda Due (P2) masonic lodge in 1975. P2 counted many of Italy’s most prominent politicians, generals, secret servicemen, policemen, civil servants and businessmen among its members. Calvi was, in short, one of the most well-connected bankers of his generation. He was also one of the most disreputable: his work consisted of laundering money through offshore companies, making illegal payments to Italian political parties and funding clandestine arms deals.

Calvi’s body was discovered in London on June 18 1982, hanging by the neck from scaffolding on Blackfriars bridge. Bricks and stones were stuffed inside his pockets and the fly of his trousers, and he was carrying £7,370 in cash, mainly in foreign currencies, according to a police report. As Philip Willan’s book makes clear, the British inquiries into Calvi’s death were breathtakingly inept. The police treated it as little more than the suicide of some foreign tramp. A hastily conducted coroner’s inquest also gave suicide as its verdict.

Yet Calvi had travelled to London on a false passport. Moreover, he had been found guilty in Italy a year earlier of serious currency violations. Italian investigators, aware of Calvi’s real importance, sensed that murder was the probable cause of death. But mutual suspicions between the British and Italian police meant that the full background to the Calvi affair did not come properly into focus.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/95aedf0c-11fe-11dc-b963-000b5df10621.html

[EVDebs]

18. Bologna train station bombing 1980, don't forget

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_massacre

and Operation Gladio, anyone ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

"However, internal subversion was also considered, as the use of "false flag operations" (terror attacks attributed to the opposite side). "A briefing minute of June 1, 1959, reveals Gladio was built around 'internal subversion'. It was to play 'a determining role… not only on the general policy level of warfare, but also in the politics of emergency'. In the 1970s, with communist electoral support growing and other leftists looking menacing, the establishment turned to the 'Strategy of Tension' … with Gladio eager to be involved."<3> The rising importance of communist parties in some countries, especially in Italy in the 1970s, led to the effective realization of those plans "