ARCHBISHOP OF CHICAGO, PAUL MARCINKUS WAS PRESIDENT OF THE VATICAN BANK FOR 18 YEARS
ALBINO LUCIANI BECAME
POPE JOHN PAUL I ON AUGUST 26, 1978 AND DIED 33 DAYS LATER
BEFORE INSTITUTING MAJOR CHANGES AT THE VATICAN BANK
Paul Casimir Marcinkus:
Was an American archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was best known for his tenure as President
of the Vatican Bank from 1971 through 1989.
In July 1982, Marcinkus was implicated in financial scandals being reported on the front pages
of newspapers and magazines throughout Europe, particularly the collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano, in which Propaganda Due (aka "P2"), a masonic lodge,
was involved (Marcinkus had been a director of Ambrosiano Overseas, based in Nassau, Bahamas, and had been involved with Ambrosiano's chairman,
financier Roberto Calvi, for a number of years). He was also involved with Michele Sindona, who had links with the Mafia.
In 1984, Marcinkus was named as a possible accomplice in the murder of Pope John Paul I by investigative journalist David Yallop in his book In God's Name.
He returned to the Archdiocese of Chicago in 1990...
Propaganda Due:
A Masonic lodge operating under the jurisdiction of the Grand Orient of Italy from 1945 to 1976...
During the years that the lodge was headed by Licio Gelli, P2 was implicated in numerous Italian crimes
and mysteries, including the collapse of the Vatican-affiliated Banco Ambrosiano, the murders of journalist
Mino Pecorelli and banker Roberto Calvi...
Roberto Calvi:
Chairman of Banco Ambrosiano... dubbed "God's Banker" by the press because of his close association
with the Holy See... His death in London in June 1982 is a source
of enduring controversy and was ruled a murder after two coroner's inquests and an independent
investigation.
The French Cardinal Jean-Marie Villot was the Vatican’s Secretary of State.
On September 28, 1978 John Paul I gave Villot a list of people connected to the
Vatican Bank that were to be transferred. Many of the people were connected to Propaganda Due.
On September 29, 1979, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his bed. Villot had his body embalmed
immediately, and against all traditions of the Catholic Church, the body was cremated. This would
suggest that he was, “Poisoned, his blood in the sacred chalice.”
In the years immediately after the Pope’s death, many individuals connected to the Vatican Bank,
the Banco Ambrosiano scandal, and the collapse of Franklin National Bank have died mysteriously or very dramatically.
Take for instance, Roberto Calvi, the Director of Banco Ambrosiano.
He was found hanging from London’s Black Friars Bridge with thirteen pounds of bricks in his pockets.
Members of Propaganda Due, incidentally, call themselves the Black Friars.
March 19, 2013
Pope Francis: what did he really do in Argentina in the 1970s?
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The new pontiff has been lambasted over his failure to speak out against the military junta in his home country.
March 9, 2023
Pope Francis: ‘I did what I felt I had to do’ during Argentina’s Dirty War.
One of the Jesuits at the meeting asked the pope what his relationship with Father Ferenc Jálics, the Hungarian, had been like and noted,
“Serious accusations have been made against you.”
Father Jálics and another Jesuit, Father Orlando Yorio, were kidnapped by Argentina’s military junta in 1976.
The pope, then-Jesuit Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was the Jesuit provincial of Argentina from 1973 to 1979,
the height of the clandestine war that saw as many as 30,000 Argentines kidnapped, tortured, murdered or disappeared, never to be seen again.
Allegations periodically have surfaced that then-Father Bergoglio either failed to protect Fathers Jálics and Yorio or even that he facilitated their kidnapping.
OPERATION CONDOR:
A campaign of political repression involving assassination and intelligence operations officially implemented in 1975
by the right-wing governments of the Southern Cone of South America. The United States participated in a supervisory capacity,
with Ecuador and Peru joining later in more peripheral roles.
The paternity of Operation Condor is to be attributed to General Rivero,
intelligence officer of the Argentine Armed Forces and former student of the French.
From 1976 onwards, the Chilean DINA and its Argentine counterpart, SIDE, were its front-line troops.
CIA documents show that the CIA had close contact with members of the Chilean secret police, DINA,
and its chief Manuel Contreras.
Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford administrations, was closely involved
diplomatically with the Southern Cone
governments at the time and well aware of the Condor plan.
On May 31, 2001, French judge Roger Le Loire requested that a summons
be served on Henry Kissinger while he was staying at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris. Loire wanted to question Kissinger as a witness for alleged U.S. involvement
in Operation Condor and for possible US knowledge concerning the "disappearances" of 5 French nationals in Chile during military rule.
Kissinger left Paris that evening, and Loire's inquiries were directed to the U.S. State Department.
French journalist Marie-Monique Robin found in the archives of the Quai d'Orsay, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the original document proving that
a 1959 agreement between Paris and Buenos Aires set up a "permanent French military mission" of officers who had fought in the Algerian War,
and which was located in the offices of the chief of staff of the Argentine Army. She showed how Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's government secretly
collaborated with Videla's junta in Argentina and with Augusto Pinochet's regime in Chile.
Marie-Monique Robin also showed ties between the French far right and Argentina since the 1930s,
in particular through the Roman Catholic fundamentalist organization Cité catholique created by Jean Ousset, a former secretary of Charles Maurras.
The key figure of the Cité catholique was priest Georges Grasset, ...the spiritual guide of the Organisation de l'armée secrète (OAS)
pro-French Algeria terrorist movement founded in Franquist Spain. This Catholic fundamentalist current in the Argentine Army explains, according to Robin,
the importance and duration of Franco-Argentine cooperation. In Buenos Aires, Georges Grasset maintained links with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre,
founder of the Society of St. Pius X in 1970 and excommunicated in 1988.
April 15, 2013
WikiLeaks cables confirm collusion between Vatican and dictators:
In a cable dated October 18, 1973, Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, Vatican Deputy Secretary of State, denied the crimes committed by Pinochet’s junta,
expressing “his and Pope’s grave concern over successful international leftist campaign to misconstrue completely realities of Chilean situation.”
More precisely, the cable documents Benelli’s view on the “exaggerated coverage of events as possibly greatest success of communist propaganda,
and highlighted fact that even moderate and conservative circles seem quite disposed to believe grossest lies about Chilean junta’s excesses.”
His source of information was Cardinal Raúl Silva, a staunch opponent of communism. According to the cable,
“Cardinal Silva and Chilean Episcopate in general have assured Pope Paul that junta making every effort to return to normal and that stories alleging
brutal reprisals in international media secret are unfounded.