The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder, and the Mafia (37 page)

25. Ibid., p. 81.

26. Ibid., p. 89.

27. Ibid.

28. Tisserant Journals; see also ibid.

29. Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican, p. 89.

30. Ibid.

31. Tisserant Journals. The assertions concerning the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Pius XI and the lost encyclical were
upheld by Fr. Walter Abbott, S.J., in a report that appeared in National
Catholic Reporter (December 15, 1972)-Castelli, "The Lost Encyclical."

32. Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican, p. 90.

33. Ibid., p 92.

CHAPTER 4

1. Thomas J. Reese, Inside the Vatican (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996), p. 205.

2. Ibid., p. 205.

3. Jonathan Levy, "The Vatican Bank," in Everything You Know Is
Wrong (New York: The Disinformation Company, 2002), pp. 18-22.

4. Paul L . Williams, Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the
Catholic Church But Were Afraid to Ask for Fear of Excommunication (New
York: Doubleday, 1990), p. 266.

5. David Yallop, In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of
Pope John Paul I (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), p. 299.

6. Malachi Martin, Rich Church, Poor Church (New York: G. P.
Putnam's Sons, 1984), pp. 76-77.

7. Cardinal Vagnozzi, quoted in Yallop, In God's Name, p. 105.

8. Gerrado Pallenburg, quoted in John Cornwell, Hitler's Pope: The
Secret History of Pius XII (New York: Viking, 1999), p. 1.

9. Lees Milne, quoted in ibid.

10. Ibid.

11. Avro Manhattan, Catholic Imperialism and World Freedom (London:
Watts and Company, 1952), p. 41.

12. Cornwell, Hitler's Pope, p. 350.

13. Ibid., p. 209.

14. Martin, Rich Church, Poor Church, pp. 41-42.

15. Ibid., p. 39.

16. John Cooney, The American Pope: The Life and Times of Francis
Cardinal Spellman (New York: Times Books, 1984), p. 46.

17. Martin, Rich Church, Poor Church, p. 42.

18. Ibid., p. 45.

19. Ibid.

CHAPTER 5

1. Avro Manhattan, Catholic Imperialism and World Freedom
(London: Watts and Company, 1952), p. 445.

2. Ibid., pp. 447-48.

3. Ibid., p. 446.

4. John Cornwell, Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII (New
York: Viking, 1999), p. 250.

5. David Crowe, A History of Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia
(New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1994), p. 105.

6. Milovan Zanitch, quoted in Avro Manhattan, The Vatican Holocaust (Springfield, Mo.: Ozark Books, 1988), p. 48.

7. Dr. Mile Budak, quoted in Vladimir Dedyer, The Yugoslav
Auschwitz and the Vatican (Freiburg, Ger.: Anriman-Verlag, 1988), p. 30.

8. Cornwell, Hitler's Pope, p. 54.

9. Manhattan, Vatican Holocaust, p. 54.

10. "Memorandom on Crimes of Genocide Committed against the Serbian People by the Government of the Independent State of Croatia during
World War II," October 1950, sent to the president of the Fifth General
Assembly of the United Nations by Adam Pribicevic, president of the Independent Democratic Party of Yugoslavia; Dr. Vladimir Bilayco, former justice of the Supreme Court of Yugoslavia; and Sr. Branko Miljus, former minister of Yugoslavia.

11. Manhattan, Catholic Imperialism, pp. 45 3-57.

12. Mark Aarons and John Loftus, Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, the
Nazis, and the Swiss Banks (New York: St. Martin's, 1997), pp. 70-87.

13. Cornwell, Hitler's Pope, pp. 251-52.

14. Scott and John Lee Anderson, The League (New York: Dodd,
Mead, and Company, 1986), p. 120.

15. Cornwell, Hitler's Pope, p. 254.

16. Ibid.

17. Manhattan, Catholic Imperialism, p. 453

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid., p. 455.

20. Ibid., p. 454.

21. Ibid., pp. 456-57.

22. Cornwell, Hitler's Pope, p. 252.

23. Ibid., p. 258.

24. Manhattan, Vatican Holocaust, p. 92.

25. Manhattan, Catholic Imperialism, p. 463.

26. Cornwell, Hitler's Pope, p. 256.

27. Manhattan, Catholic Imperialism, p. 464.

28. Aarons and Loftus, Unholy Trinity, pp. 237-38.

29. Quoted in Manhattan, Catholic Imperialism.

CHAPTER 6

1. Avro Manhattan, The Vatican Holocaust (Springfield, Mo.: Ozark
Books, 1988), p. 110.

2. Mark Aarons and John Loftus, Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, the
Nazis, and the Swiss Banks (New York: St. Martin's, 1997), pp. 75-78.

3. Counter Intelligence Corps., U.S. Army: Rome Detachment, September 12, 1947, case #5650-A.

4. John Cornwell, Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII (New
York: Viking, 1999), p. 265.

5. Susan Headden, Dana Hawkins, and Jason Rest, "A Vow of
Silence," U.S. News and World Report, March 30, 1998, p. 34.

6. U.S. State Department report, "The Fate of the Wartime Ustashi
Treasury," June 1988; see also Aarons and Loftus, Unholy Trinity, pp. 78-79.

7. Manhattan, Vatican Holocaust, p. 110.

8. Memo to Harold Glasser, directory of Monetary Research, U.S.
Treasury Department, from Emerson Bigelow, Strategic Services Unit
(RG226).

9. Memo from Agent William Gowan, Counter Intelligence Corps.,
U.S. Army: Rome Detachment, February 12, 1947.

10. Cornwell, Hitler's Pope, p. 266.

11. Manhattan, Vatican Holocaust, p. 142.

12. Davip Yallop, In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of
Pope John Paul I (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), p. 113; see also Cornwell, Hitler's Pope, p. 265.

13. Cornwell, Hitler's Pope, p. 267.

14. Aarons and Loftus, Unholy Trinity, pp. 75-78.

15. Ibid.

16. State Department, "Fate of the Wartime Ustashi Treasury."

17. Ibid.

18. Manhattan, Vatican Holocaust, p. 162.

19. Patrick Goodenough, "Vatican Faces Lawsuit for Alleged Nazi-Era
War Crimes" [online], http://www.cnsnews.com [November 23, 1999].

CHAPTER 7

1. Malachi Martin, Rich Chuch, Poor Church (New York: G. P.
Putnam's Sons, 1984), p. 47.

2. Ibid.

3. Alcide De Gasperi, quoted in Paul Johnson, Modern Times: The World
from the Twenties to the Nineties (New York: HarperPerennial, 1991), p. 578.

4. Ibid., p. 579.

5. Martin, Rich Church, Poor Church, p. 48.

6. John Cornwell, Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII (New
York: Viking, 1999), p. 329.

7. John Cooney, The American Pope: The Life and Times of Francis
Cardinal Spellman (New York: Times Books, 1988), p. 157.

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid., p. 161.

10. Gaspare Pisciotta, quoted in Luigi Di Fonzo, St. Peter's Banker:
Michele Sindona (New York: Franklin Watts, 1983), p. 33.

11. Ibid.

12. Cardinal Siri, quoted in Cornwell, Hitler's Pope, p. 330.

13. Hatch, quoted in Di Fonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 33

14. Cooney, American Pope, p. 161.

15. Spellman, quoted in ibid.

16. Martin, Rich Church, Poor Church, p. 50.

17. Ibid.

18. Ibid., p. 51.

19. Ibid., p. 52.

20. Ibid., pp. 52-53.
21. Ibid.

22. David Yallop, In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of
Pope John Paul I (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), p. 31.

23. Ibid., p. 98.

24. Ibid.

25. Cornwell, Hitler's Pope, pp. 270-71.

26. Ibid., pp. 271-72.

27. Ibid., p. 349.

28. Ibid., p. 350.

29. Ibid., p. 358.

CHAPTER 8

1. Avro Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican (Springfield, Mo.: Ozark
Books, 1958), p. 29.

2. John Cooney, The American Pope: The Life and Time of Francis
Cardinal Spellman (New York: Times Books, 1988), p. 260.

3. Department of State secret dispatch, "John XXIII," issue date:
November 20, 1958, declassified: November 11, 1974; see also Manhattan,
Murder in the Vatican, p. 29.

4. Department of State confidential biography, "John XXIII," issue
date: no date, declassified: February 15, 1974; see also, Manhattan, Murder
in the Vatican, pp. 29-30.

5. Department of State confidential biography, "John XXIII"; see also
Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican, p. 31.

6. Department of State confidential biography, "John XXIII"; see also
Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican, p. 32.

7. Cooney, American Pope, p. 259.

8. Department of State secret dispatch, "John XXIII." News of this
bizarre event was leaked to foreign journalists, including Louis Remy, who
later wrote an article entitled "The Pope: Could He Be Cardinal Siri?" The
article appeared in Sous La Banniere 6 (July/August 1986).

9. The announcer's words appeared in the London Tablet, November
1, 1958, p. 387.

10. Houston Post, October 27, 1958, pp. 1 and 7.

11. Department of State secret file, "Cardinal Siri," issue date: April 10,
1961, declassified: February 28, 1994; see also Remy, "The Pope: Could He
Be Cardinal Siri?"

12. Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican, p. 37; Richard P. McBrien,
Lives of the Popes (San Francisco: Harper, 1997), pp. 371-72.

13. Cardinal Spellman, quoted in Cooney, American Pope, p. 261.

14. Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican, pp. 37-38.

15. "Mater et Magistra," in Renewing the Earth: Catholic Documents of
Peace, Justice, and Liberation, ed. David O'Brien and Thomas Shannon
(Garden City, N.Y.: Image Books, 1977), pp. 50-116.

16. "Pacem in Terris," in ibid., pp. 125-70.

17. John XXIII, quoted in Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican, p. 41.

18. John XXIII, quoted in McBnien, Lives of the Popes, p. 373.

19. Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican, p. 44.

20. Harry Herder, Italy: A Short History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 259-60.

CHAPTER 9

1. Central Intelligence Agency, "Giovanni Montini," top secret, issue
date: July 20, 1953, declassified: February 28, 1975; Department of
Defense, "Giovanni Montini" (Paul VI), top secret, no issue date, no declassification date; see also Avro Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican (Springfield,
Mo.: Ozark Books, 1985), pp. 47-49.

2. Central Intelligence Agency, "Giovanni Montini."

3. Manhattan, Murder in the Vatican, p. 50.

4. John Cooney, The American Pope: The Life and Times of Francis
Cardinal Spellman (New York: Times Books, 1984), pp. 280-81; see also
Department of Defense, "Giovanni Montini." One CIA operative identified
the bugged prelate in question as Cardinal Spellman.

5. Populorum Progressio in Renewing the Earth: Catholic Documents
on Peace, Justice, and Liberation, ed. David O'Brien and Thomas A.
Shannon (Garden City, N.Y.: Image Books, 1977), p. 330.

6. Ibid., p. 332.

7. Peter De Rosa, Vicars of Christ (New York: Crown Publishers,
1988), p. 293.

8. Humanae Vitae, quoted in ibid., p. 304.

9. Ibid., p. 307.

10. Ibid.

11. Ibid.

12. Luigi Di Fonzo, St. Peter's Banker: Michele Sindona (New York:
Franklin Watts, 1983), p. 9.

13. Victor Marchetti, former CIA operative, interview with Panorama
(Milan, Italy, June 1972), refuted by Paul VI in a United Press Report of
July 12, 1972; see also Di Fonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 35.

14. Di Fonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 11.

15. Ibid.

16. Ibid., p. 12.

CHAPTER 10

1. Luigi Di Fonzo, St. Peter's Banker: Michele Sindona (London:
Franklin Watts, 1983), p. 25.

2. Federal Bureau of Investigation file (39-2141), "Salvatore Luciana,
aka Charles `Lucky' Luciano," confidential, declassified: November 11, 2001.

3. Federal Bureau of Investigation file (58-7146), "Vito Genovese,"
confidential, declassified: January 12, 2001.

4. Di Fonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 6.

5. Ibid.

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid.

8. Ibid, p. 86; see also Nick Tosches, Power on Earth: Michele Sindona's Explosive Story (New York: Arbor House, 1986), pp. 89-90; and
Malachi Martin, Rich Church, Poor Church (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons,
1983), p. 60.

9. Claire Sterling, Octopus: The Long Reach of the International
Sicilian Mafia (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), pp. 82-96.

10. David Yallop, In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of
Pope John Paul I (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), pp. 107-108.

11. Carlo Bordino, quoted in ibid., p. 111.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid.

15. Sterling, Octopus, p. 191.

16. Giulio Andreotti, quoted in ibid.

CHAPTER I I

1. David Yallop, In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of
Pope John Paul I (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), p. 113.

2. Reuters News Service, "Police Find Pot of Gold," Rome, Monday,
September 13, 1999.

3. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 114.

4. Central Intelligence Agency memo, "Gelli," issue date: October 5,
1982, no declassification date; see top secret agenda, "Operation Stay
Behind," (Gladio), issue date: July 20, 1953, declassified: February 28,
1975, and top secret memo, "Operation Stay Behind," issue date: April 25,
1967; also see David Guyatt, "Operation Gladio" [online],
http://www.copi.com/articles/guyatt/gladio.html.

5. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 115.

6. Luigi Di Fonzo, St. Peter's Banker: Michele Sindona (New York:
Franklin Watts, 1983), p. 73; see also Yallop, In God's Name, p. 116.

7. Di Fonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 68.

8. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 117.

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid.

11. Ibid., p. 121; see also Philip Willan's Puppetmasters: The Political
Use of Terrorism in Italy (London: Constable and Company, 1991), pp.
38-45.

12. Di Fonzo, St. Peter's Banker, p. 259.

13. Yallop, In God's Name, p. 119.

14. Associated Press, International News, "Italian Justice Minister
Quits in Scandal over Masonic Lodge," PM Cycle, May 23, 1981.

15. Di Fonzo, St. Peter's Banker, pp. 73-74.

16. Marcinkus, quoted in Yallop, In God's Name, p. 105. Yallop also
documents the membership of Bishop Paul Marcinkus in P-2, see pp.
176-77.

CHAPTER 12

1. David Yallop, In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of
Pope John Paul I (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), p. 125.