Michele Sindona person
· died in Rome
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Claims (94)
Michele Sindona funded
1970 Italian Coup Attempt book_quoted
“According to the House of Representatives Pike report on CIA activities, Sedona was a key channel for millions distributed by the agency to their Gladio program in Italy and affiliated organizations and political candidates so they can inte…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 14 @ 46:33
Michele Sindona member_of
Gambino Mafia Family guest_asserted
“you know had roots in this area Vito Genovese and the Gambinos and of course Michele was the Gambino's godfather so uh so that that those those investigations led me to him so after I started to look into the matter of international terrori…”
▶ Interview with PAUL WILLIAMS Author OPERATION GLADIO @ 12:40
Michele Sindona involved_in
Operation Gladio guest_asserted
“research regarding organized crime. I met, by the way, during my journalistic career, I met Michele Sandana in Otisville. He became the subject of, yeah, the key figure in Gladio. But Michele Sandana, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I also had a, yea…”
▶ Interview with PAUL WILLIAMS Author OPERATION GLADIO @ 7:57
Michele Sindona funded
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“According to the House of Representatives Pike report on CIA activities, Sedona was a key channel for millions distributed by the agency to their Gladio program in Italy and affiliated organizations and political candidates so they can inte…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 14 @ 46:33
Paul L. Williams met
Michele Sindona guest_asserted
“research regarding organized crime. I met, by the way, during my journalistic career, I met Michele Sandana in Otisville. He became the subject of, yeah, the key figure in Gladio. But Michele Sandana, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I also had a, yea…”
▶ Interview with PAUL WILLIAMS Author OPERATION GLADIO @ 7:57
Paul L. Williams met
Michele Sindona guest_asserted
“research regarding organized crime. I met, by the way, during my journalistic career, I met Michele Sandana in Otisville. He became the subject of, yeah, the key figure in Gladio. But Michele Sandana, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I also had a, yea…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 8:02
Michele Sindona member_of
Mafia host_asserted
“But other banks were set up. And the banks in Italy and in Europe, many of them were set up by a mafioso, a figure whom I referred, who I spoke about before, Michele Sedana, became the leading banker for, really, for the three agencies, for…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 1:01:05
Michele Sindona appointed
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“In 1976, Pope Paul VI, no, I'm sorry, let's go to 1969, Pope Paul VI put Sedona in charge of all Vatican finances. And the Vatican at that time was faced with another uprising of communism. So the Italian firms in which...…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 1:01:37
Michele Sindona member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“the Vatican was infested, were liquidated and invested in the United States and elsewhere by Sedona. But Sedona became a key figure and a key figure in Gladio. And, you know, as you know, by this time, you know, the threat of communism, we …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 1:02:05
Michele Sindona member_of
P2 Masonic Lodge book_quoted
“elections in 1972. Oh, you mean like we did in 1947? Yes, we're back in 1972 doing the exact same thing. The funds went through Ambrosiano Bank and Mikhail Sedona, God's banker, mafia guy, and the Italian intelligence chief Vito Marcelli. T…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner_ The Medusa Files; Part 12 @ 43:29
Michele Sindona laundered_money_for
Catholic Church host_asserted
“overseas expansion, even when the bank was broke. So you see how they're all in on it. They're all in on it. Having raided the assets of Banca Privata Financiere and Banca Union, Italy's national union bank, Sedona had purchased, which Sedo…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 4 @ 41:14
Ellsworth Bunker funded
Michele Sindona book_quoted
“Millions more were funneled to Sedona for the implementation of false flags. They were funneled and arranged and controlled by the U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin. In 1970 alone, Sedona received more than $10 million from the ambassador. Now,…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview @ 10:14
Michele Sindona member_of
Gambino crime family guest_asserted
“the Gambinos, and of course, Michele was the Gambinos' godfather. So those investigations led me to him. So after I started to look into the matter of international terrorism, I came upon a book by Brzezinski. Remember Brzezinski? Oh, yeah.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 12:48
CIA supported
Michele Sindona host_asserted
“And then on August 2nd, Sedona walks out of his luxury suite at the Hotel Pierre and disappears forever. He's never been seen again. So Sedona's dream of an independent Sicily was shared by the CIA, not only because of its strategic locatio…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 48:49
Michele Sindona laundered_money_for
Gambino crime family host_asserted
“All right, jumping back to banks. So we've got Sindona. He goes to New York City in the 50s, builds up a bunch of networks, gets to know a bunch of right-wing politicians, New York bankers, becomes a banker for the Gambino family. It's kind…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 26:16
Michele Sindona recruited
Fulgencio Batista host_asserted
“All right, jumping back to banks. So we've got Sindona. He goes to New York City in the 50s, builds up a bunch of networks, gets to know a bunch of right-wing politicians, New York bankers, becomes a banker for the Gambino family. It's kind…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 26:16
Michele Sindona laundered_money_for
Vatican host_asserted
“There's a Italian tax lawyer and banker by the name of Michael Sindona. Or it might be Mikel. I can't. It's spelled M-I-C-H-E-L-E. Should be more of a household name. He ended up being a banker for the mafia in the Vatican, but I'll get to …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 12:57
Michele Sindona funded
Cosa Nostra host_asserted
“You have to have some kind of banking or tax haven. We talked about Liechtenstein. We talked about Switzerland. It was Shanghai for a bit. And it always seems to shift. Cuba seemed to be a haven for it. So we're in the 1960s. And this guy, …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 37:24
Michele Sindona funded
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“What he's doing is he's investing their money in these various tax havens. Again, Lichtenstein and Switzerland. Setting up shell corporations of shell corporations of trusts. And there's all kinds of this spider web. And he's trying to make…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 37:51
Michele Sindona funded
Franklin National Bank host_asserted
“It became a huge mecca for all of this international trade, whether it be drug trafficking or money laundering. The Colombian cartels get involved there. And this is the environment that exists on the international banking system when BCCI …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 45:25
Michele Sindona laundered_money_for
Franklin National Bank host_asserted
“in 79 on 68 counts of fraud yeah it's because the franklin national bank went insolvent uh because they were making bad loans apparently and um everyone dropped cindona he lost a ton of money for the mafia a ton of money for the vatican and…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 52:32
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
Michele Sindona host_asserted
“they were accused of serving as a tax haven for Italian elites and organized crime. The allegations are that the IOR allegedly opened accounts for figures like Giulio Andriotti, who's a former Italian prime minister, reportedly with a $50 m…”
▶ The Shadow State 39 The Vatican Bank @ 1:01:11
Michele Sindona placed_contract_on
John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“The visit to Arizo and Sedona's incarceration in a New York prison where he now begins to talk. And there was a $100,000 contract put out by him while he's still in jail on John Kenney, who was his chief prosecutor during the extradition he…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 15 and 16 @ 12:11
Michele Sindona spied_on
Licio Gelli host_asserted
“who had become the world's establishment. Sedona spoke of Gelli, the Masons, and basically the strategy of tension. He's given up Gladio and how they basically set up the Italian Communist Party to take the fall on everything and how the U.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:13:22
Michele Sindona member_of
P2 Masonic Lodge host_asserted
“That's why he was hung off the Blackfriar Bridge. There's lots of symbolism when they murder somebody like that. Michael Sedona, mafia guy, money laundering for the Gambino family, also a leading member of the P2 Masonic Lodge. He was ultim…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 1 @ 1:10:59
Michele Sindona member_of
P2 Masonic Lodge host_asserted
“were all members of the P2 secret society, the Masons. Now, and keep in mind, Calvi and Mark Kinnis were the Vatican bankers. And Sedona was the Vatican banker even before that. So they were all instrumental in setting up the branches of Ba…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 15 and 16 @ 11:10
Michele Sindona member_of
P2 Masonic Lodge book_quoted
“which is their excuse for all of the bad things that they did. He also was talking about the Vatican's subversive attempts to gain control of Ambrosiano, but also about his involvement in the P2 Masonry secret society and Gladio units. So a…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:09:51
Michele Sindona instrumental_in
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“were all members of the P2 secret society, the Masons. Now, and keep in mind, Calvi and Mark Kinnis were the Vatican bankers. And Sedona was the Vatican banker even before that. So they were all instrumental in setting up the branches of Ba…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 15 and 16 @ 11:10
Michele Sindona headed
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“That guy that was the guy that was running the Banco Ambrosiano is found hanging from Friars Bridge up in London. They took him out because the Italian officials started investigating Gladio and they could see the the walls closing in and t…”
▶ Colonel Towner with Enjoy the Show Hosted by DC Lidzone @ 59:56
Michele Sindona member_of
Mafia book_quoted
“to leading Catholic dignitaries, including Giovanni Montini, who was by now appointed Archbishop of Milan. Montini, in turn, introduced the ambitious lawyer to Massimo Spada. Sedona now formed an integral part of the nexus between the CIA, …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 1:14:41
Michele Sindona member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“were liquidated and invested in the United States and elsewhere by Sedona. But Sedona became a key figure and a key figure in Gladio. And, you know, as you know, by this time, you know, the threat of communism, we still have to make the wor…”
▶ Interview with PAUL WILLIAMS Author OPERATION GLADIO @ 1:02:03
Michele Sindona funded
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“The trial date for Sedona was set for September 10th, but St. Peter's banker was not terribly worried. The U.S. intel officials he had served for so long was going to take care of him. He was just convinced of it. After all, his only crime …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 48:18
Michele Sindona operated_in
Cuba host_asserted
“All right, jumping back to banks. So we've got Sindona. He goes to New York City in the 50s, builds up a bunch of networks, gets to know a bunch of right-wing politicians, New York bankers, becomes a banker for the Gambino family. It's kind…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 25:58
Michele Sindona did_business_with
American Mafia host_asserted
“and snuck them out through Egypt and Spain on to South America. So they were holding hands at that point. So he's basically spilling his guts about everything. So he didn't tell him everything, though. He held a little back because he still…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:14:19
Michele Sindona died_in
Rome host_asserted
“He had vomited all over himself. His faces convulsed in horror, and he said, they poisoned me. Those were his last words. He's rushed to the hospital. He's found in an irreversible coma from a lethal dose of potassium cyanide. So 48 hours l…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:18:55
Michele Sindona located_in
Rome host_asserted
“So Sedona is transported to a prison in Rome. Y'all know he's going to die, right? He's definitely going to die. They place him in a maximum security cell that had been the exact same cell that the Turkey guy that shot John Paul II was in. …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:11:20
Michele Sindona did_business_with
Sicilian Mafia host_asserted
“their bank, the cocaine, heroin trafficking. He basically kind of became the go-between between the Sicilian mafia and New York via South America and all the different drug routes. We've also talked a lot about the Vatican Bank, so I'm not …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 1 @ 1:11:28
Michele Sindona member_of
Sicilian Mafia book_quoted
“for the Allied military government, which he then provided to Salvador Giuliano and other members of the movement for the independent of Sicily. By the end of the war, Sedona had become a respected member of the Luciano Don Paolo crime fami…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 1:13:40
Michele Sindona did_business_with
Sicilian Mafia host_asserted
“and snuck them out through Egypt and Spain on to South America. So they were holding hands at that point. So he's basically spilling his guts about everything. So he didn't tell him everything, though. He held a little back because he still…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:14:19
Michele Sindona founded
Asian Development Bank host_asserted
“The whole government can organize crime. And they just built this fantasy world for consenting adults. The big bank Sindona built in Cuba is called the Bandas Development Bank. And what they did is they used debt financing, so public-privat…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 26:27
Michele Sindona ordered_assassination_of
Ann Rosali host_asserted
“And the Ambassador Martin creating massive financial holes for the disappearance of billions in cash. The commissioning, the killing of Ann Rosali. And how his whole kidnapping unfolded. So those are the things he's kind of holding back as …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:14:51
Michele Sindona did_business_with
Rokey host_asserted
“Basically, the guy who he supposedly hired to make the hit had died from an alleged escape attempt from a New York jail. Sure. So that Rokey guy, he's meeting with him and he basically Sedona says, I want to talk about the scandalous matter…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:16:49
Michele Sindona supplied_arms_to
Salvatore Giuliano book_quoted
“sedona was able to get the protection and he found out about him through his local catholic church official oh gosh crazy and the bishop used his influence with the sicilian dons in the u.s military to provide sedona with fresh produce forg…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 1:13:11
Michele Sindona set_up
Sissopine host_asserted
“overseas bank in Bahamas. So evidently, they have regional shell banks and shell companies. Cecil Pine was set up by Sedona and the Archbishop Marcinkus through the Bank of Ambrosiano Holdings, which was a Sedano bank, a Luxembourg company …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 7 and 8 @ 1:26:50
Michele Sindona did_business_with
Rosario Felicia host_asserted
“Rosario Fatola met in a room on Staten Island and Sedona tells them all about this plan. And the U.S. military, he's quoting, the U.S. military has authorized me to do this. They will not participate in the coup, but there will be a fleet o…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 46:23
Michele Sindona did_business_with
Robert Vesco host_asserted
“The response from Interpol was absolutely not. Sedona's connections to the presidential administration of Richard Nixon, right up there with Robert Vesco, are more firmly established. Sedona's Italian banks were investment partners with Con…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 14 @ 40:40
Michele Sindona founded
Banca Privada host_asserted
“He merged those two firms and called it Banca Privada. The two holes now became a massive crater because he's basically making these two banks fail as well. And by 1974, his new institution had a loss of 200 billion lira.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 4 @ 41:41
Michele Sindona member_of
Catholic Church book_quoted
“The Vatican was doing all of the money laundering of the drug operations for the CIA. And that's all well established in Paul Williams' book, Operation Gladio. And oh, by the way, he's a Catholic. So he's not anti-Catholic. It's just a prov…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Dave Troy’s article Part 2 @ 35:37
Michele Sindona member_of
Catholic Church guest_asserted
“And Sally, go ahead. Welcome, or thank you for letting me speak. I just posted earlier in the Purple Pill a map of Sindona and the Vatican's intricate banking system. It's kind of small, but it kind of gives perspective. And I just wanted t…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2 @ 1:56:16
Michele Sindona laundered_money_for
P2 Masonic Lodge book_quoted
“to include interference once again in the Italian elections. The funds went through Ambrosiano's bank connection, Mikel Sedona, Mr. Mafia himself, and the Italian intelligence chief, Vito Maselli, both P2 members.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 11 @ 43:27
Michele Sindona member_of
Vatican book_quoted
“to leading Catholic dignitaries, including Giovanni Montini, who was by now appointed Archbishop of Milan. Montini, in turn, introduced the ambitious lawyer to Massimo Spada. Sedona now formed an integral part of the nexus between the CIA, …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 1:14:41
Michele Sindona member_of
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“which is their excuse for all of the bad things that they did. He also was talking about the Vatican's subversive attempts to gain control of Ambrosiano, but also about his involvement in the P2 Masonry secret society and Gladio units. So a…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:09:51
Michele Sindona operated_in
New York City book_quoted
“about Epstein, she actually talks about this guy. I had to go look him up because I'm like, that, yeah, she identifies this guy. Between 1952 and 1955, he spent a considerable amount of time in New York, acting as New York City, acting as L…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 1:14:10
Michele Sindona founded
FASCI International host_asserted
“and director of Fasco International, Sedona's Luxembourg-based holding company. So let me get this straight. Continental Illinois Bank was the bank that was caught up in the whole savings and loan fiasco. And when Marcinkus, Archbishop Marc…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 14 @ 41:12
Michele Sindona did_business_with
Mudge, Rose, Guthrie and Alexander host_asserted
“It exceeded the capability of laundering at the Vatican Bank. That guy was in business with Kennedy at the Continental Illinois Bank. And that guy becomes the Secretary of Treasury. Holy moly. Sedona's interests were represented in the U.S.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 14 @ 43:24
Michele Sindona funded
Luigi Turgi host_asserted
“In Italy, Sedona orchestrated the efforts of the fascist deputy Luigi Turgi to garner Italian support for the Nixon election campaign. I don't know why we need Italian support, but whatever. Sedona offered $1 million to the creep, which is …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 14 @ 44:33
Michele Sindona did_business_with
Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company host_asserted
“The response from Interpol was absolutely not. Sedona's connections to the presidential administration of Richard Nixon, right up there with Robert Vesco, are more firmly established. Sedona's Italian banks were investment partners with Con…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 14 @ 40:40
Operation Gladio assassinated
Michele Sindona host_asserted
“was only to be expected. The Gladio agents possessed the key to every prison. They could manage the escape of Adka from a cell in Turkey and Geli from a jail in Switzerland. They could arrange the jailhouse deaths of the Our Son guy from St…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:19:22
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
Michele Sindona host_asserted
“They were accused of serving as a tax haven for Italian elites and organized crime. The allegations are that the IOR allegedly opened accounts for figures like Giulio Andriotti, who's a former Italian prime minister, reportedly with a $50 m…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #38 @ 1:00:55
Carlo Bordoni exposed
Michele Sindona host_asserted
“a guy that worked with Sedona, had been arrested at the request of the U.S. Justice Department for his role in the collapse of the Franklin National. So Italian journals in which he spoke of the Sedona syndicate, including the ties to the V…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 47:24
Pietro Parente laundered_money_for
Michele Sindona host_asserted
“The Archbishop Markinus was in on this because he actually took some of them and passed them off at a Zurich bank and another bank in Rome just to check if anybody noticed they were fake. However, both of those transactions certified that t…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 11 and 12 @ 23:42
Carlo Rolke spied_on
Michele Sindona book_quoted
“one of its Italian agents, to monitor Sedona's behavior in federal prison. He gains the mafia financer's trust by presenting himself with an affidavit from the Justice Department, basically saying he's a reliable person, and they're on beha…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:10:18
Admiral Morris supported
Michele Sindona host_asserted
“from an Admiral Morris basically saying that. And he tells these guys, you know, all I need is a few more people. So we're going to work on this together. And of course, the guy kisses his hand. He's like, oh my gosh, you're the best thing …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 46:53
Massimo Spada did_business_with
Michele Sindona book_quoted
“and also companies that aggregated up to 90% of Italian steel manufacturing. For assistance in managing the billions, Spada turned to tax attorney, I don't know if his name is spelled like Michelle, but I'm going to say it's Michael, Sedona…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 1:12:10
Pope John Paul II refused_to_help
Michele Sindona host_asserted
“They're building up to put all of the blame on John Paul II because in the last chapter that we reviewed, John Paul II refused to get involved in helping Sedona. And we know that they did that all the time. People would escape. But for some…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 15 and 16 @ 12:43
John Connally exposed
Michele Sindona host_asserted
“The Italian government continued to press for his arrest, even though the Supreme Court in Italy has basically screwed that up. This pressure prompted the Pope's banker to initiate action against his adversaries, including Ambrosio, the Ita…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 41:58
Licio Gelli lied_to
Michele Sindona host_asserted
“Catholic Church, come testify at your trial. They'll let you off. It's not a big deal. So Sedona goes back home to the United States only to find out that Galley lied to him. He's not sending anybody there. There's not going to be any help.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 13 and 14 @ 53:45
Pope John Paul II refused_to_help
Michele Sindona host_asserted
“had been used by p2 as a means of providing arms to right-wing regimes and rebel armies the italian police are now aware that u.s political leaders including the vice president bush secretary of state and u.s ambassador were intricately inv…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 15 and 16 @ 11:40
Meyer Lansky did_business_with
Michele Sindona host_asserted
“All right, jumping back to banks. So we've got Sindona. He goes to New York City in the 50s, builds up a bunch of networks, gets to know a bunch of right-wing politicians, New York bankers, becomes a banker for the Gambino family. It's kind…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 25:58
Fulgencio Batista did_business_with
Michele Sindona host_asserted
“All right, jumping back to banks. So we've got Sindona. He goes to New York City in the 50s, builds up a bunch of networks, gets to know a bunch of right-wing politicians, New York bankers, becomes a banker for the Gambino family. It's kind…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 25:58
Michele Sindona operated_in
Milan host_asserted
“He ended up being a banker for the mafia in the Vatican, but I'll get to that. He came out of Milan, which was becoming a post-war industrial hub. And Sedona becomes a banker for the rich people who wanted to hide their income. And it worke…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 12:52
Michele Sindona laundered_money_for
Gambino crime family host_asserted
“National Bank to John Kinney, a prosecutor in the U.S. DOJ. The evidence included transcripts that proved Sedona had pilfered funds from the Italian bank to purchase the shares from Tisch. He had obtained checks and documents. He had everyt…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 42:31
Michele Sindona did_business_with
Gambino crime family host_asserted
“That's why he was hung off the Blackfriar Bridge. There's lots of symbolism when they murder somebody like that. Michael Sedona, mafia guy, money laundering for the Gambino family, also a leading member of the P2 Masonic Lodge. He was ultim…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 1 @ 1:10:59
Michele Sindona did_business_with
Gambino crime family host_asserted
“John Paul was aware of the Vatican's involvement in a plot to sell a billion dollars in counterfeit securities. The deal had been forged by Sedona, who made the arrangements for the preparation of the bogus securities with members of the Ga…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 11 and 12 @ 23:13
Michele Sindona did_business_with
Gambino crime family documented
“In addition to 25 years in prison for his role in the collapse of another bank called Franklin National, Sedona had been sentenced on April 20th in 81 to two and a half years for jail jumping and perjury. And the Gambinos were unindicted co…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:02:50
Michele Sindona laundered_money_for
Gambino crime family host_asserted
“He ended up being a banker for the mafia in the Vatican, but I'll get to that. He came out of Milan, which was becoming a post-war industrial hub. And Sedona becomes a banker for the rich people who wanted to hide their income. And it worke…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 12:52
Michele Sindona did_business_with
John Gotti Jr. host_asserted
“financial consultant to Johnny Gambino and Genevieve's concrete company, which is basically the mafia. He also became a lecturer in economics at American universities to include the University of Pennsylvania. He waved the American flag, ta…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 35:38
Michele Sindona incarcerated_in
Manhattan host_asserted
“in Manhattan awaiting sentencing. He tries to commit suicide by drugging himself and slitting his wrist. St. Peter's banker was sentenced to 25 years in prison and fined $207,000. And this whole fine thing is also one of my big pet peeves. …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 13 and 14 @ 55:25
Michele Sindona moved_to
Vienna host_asserted
“tighten around calvi's neck he goes to visit sedona and sedona ends up and he's in trouble he's under indictment and he um comes up with the disguise to head off to vienna where he's not supposed to be um because he's has a three million do…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 13 and 14 @ 52:09
Michele Sindona funded
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“What he's doing is he's investing their money in these various tax havens. Again, Lichtenstein and Switzerland. Setting up shell corporations of shell corporations of trusts. And there's all kinds of this spider web. And he's trying to make…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 37:33
Michele Sindona did_business_with
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“So Mikhail Sedona was basically the financial advisor to the Vatican, for lack of a better way of explaining that. He kind of was the inside guy where Calvi was the outside guy. Both were members of the P2 lot and very close to Jelly. So th…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 5 @ 14:58
Michele Sindona laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“National Bank to John Kinney, a prosecutor in the U.S. DOJ. The evidence included transcripts that proved Sedona had pilfered funds from the Italian bank to purchase the shares from Tisch. He had obtained checks and documents. He had everyt…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 42:31
Michele Sindona laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“That's why he was hung off the Blackfriar Bridge. There's lots of symbolism when they murder somebody like that. Michael Sedona, mafia guy, money laundering for the Gambino family, also a leading member of the P2 Masonic Lodge. He was ultim…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 1 @ 1:10:59
Michele Sindona headed
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“In 1976, Pope Paul VI, no, I'm sorry, let's go to 1969. Pope Paul VI put Sedona in charge of all Vatican finances. And the Vatican at that time was faced with another uprising of communism. So the Italian firms in which the Vatican was infe…”
▶ Interview with PAUL WILLIAMS Author OPERATION GLADIO @ 1:01:33
Michele Sindona funded
Cosa Nostra host_asserted
“You have to have some kind of banking or tax haven. We talked about Liechtenstein. We talked about Switzerland. It was Shanghai for a bit. And it always seems to shift. Cuba seemed to be a haven for it. So we're in the 1960s, and this guy S…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 37:05
Michele Sindona attempted_coup_against
Sicily host_asserted
“While mafia assassins eliminate the problem of his Italian adversary, Sedona continues to plan a coup. And this is just crazy. So he starts planning in America a coup to separate Sicily from mainland Italy. And your first thought might be, …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 44:02
Michele Sindona financed_via
Giovanni Montini book_quoted
“about Epstein, she actually talks about this guy. I had to go look him up because I'm like, that, yeah, she identifies this guy. Between 1952 and 1955, he spent a considerable amount of time in New York, acting as New York City, acting as L…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 1:14:10
Institute for the Works of Religion front_for
Michele Sindona host_asserted
“He just had been at Columbia when he gets sentenced in a Milan court to three and a half years in prison for embezzlement. But he had no worries because he knew he was going to be protected. Sedona may have been an honor at the Ivy League i…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 36:31
Michele Sindona member_of
P2 Masonic Lodge host_asserted
“P2 is also implicated in the Vatican banking scandal, thanks to the presence of two financiers that also happened to be two P2 Lodge members, Mikhail Sedona and Roberta Calvi. Roberta Calvi, of course, was God's banker, while Savak was God'…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 48:31
U.S. Department of Justice ordered_assassination_of
Michele Sindona book_quoted
“And the mafia financer, Sedona, continued to get, he was charged with a million dollar a year heroin business between Sicily and the U.S., which he had. He was also charged with illegal possessions of firearms, false passport, violating cur…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:08:17
Gambino crime family trafficked
Michele Sindona book_quoted
“And the mafia financer, Sedona, continued to get, he was charged with a million dollar a year heroin business between Sicily and the U.S., which he had. He was also charged with illegal possessions of firearms, false passport, violating cur…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:08:17
Michele Sindona member_of
Institute for Bankers of Italy host_asserted
“He was the Vatican banker. Yeah, well, he was mafia first, then the Vatican, which makes it even scarier that the Vatican thought the mafia banker was a good guy to get in business with. But the way it really went down is the euro dollar, a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 49:08
Michele Sindona member_of
Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company host_asserted
“is in the city of London, they were able to lend U.S. dollars where there was no regulators. And the reason for that is the city of London had special rules that English regulators didn't regulate U.S. dollars, and the U.S. regulators could…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 7 @ 49:35
Michele Sindona member_of
P2 Masonic Lodge host_asserted
“if he was to come back to Italian soil. So basically, the Supreme Court guy, who is also one of the P2 Masonic Lodge guys, says, oh no, you can't extradite him because he'd be kidnapped and murdered by the communists, those fake communists …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 40:53
Mentions (75)
▶ 1:56:16
And Sally, go ahead. Welcome, or thank you for letting me speak. I just posted earlier in the Purple Pill a map of Sindona and the Vatican's intricate banking system. It's kind of small, but it kind of gives perspective. And I just wanted t…
▶ 1:39:35
murder of the banker Calbee because they hung him up on a bridge in London for all to see. And some of the other Sedona that was like, you know, God's banker and all these other people. When that stuff all started hitting the fan, Marcinicu…
▶ 1:15:03
It was named after Julio Valerio Borghese. And that's the guy I talked about yesterday. That's the Black Prince. The coup attempt involved hundreds of Gladio participants, including Jelly and Sedona, along with members of the state forest p…
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Did anybody else have anything? Go ahead, Josh. Yeah. In reference to what you were talking about with Sedona, the Panama shell companies that he was setting up, it reminded me of Alden Global Capital. And I don't know if in your research y…
▶ 1:41:00
And last, sorry, very sorry for my English. I studied so long, but I didn't imagine I was so bad. I hope you're very good. You're doing great. Thank you. So that's that's it. Thank you very much. And I want to highlight what you just said. …
▶ 38:30
Because they're too big to fail bullshit. So Sedona's purchase of Franklin National created a financial nightmare. And by April 1974, the bank was in a nosedive. The reality was that Franklin had suffered $40 million loss and the Federal Re…
▶ 41:14
overseas expansion, even when the bank was broke. So you see how they're all in on it. They're all in on it. Having raided the assets of Banca Privata Financiere and Banca Union, Italy's national union bank, Sedona had purchased, which Sedo…
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He merged those two firms and called it Banca Privada. The two holes now became a massive crater because he's basically making these two banks fail as well. And by 1974, his new institution had a loss of 200 billion lira.…
▶ 42:06
Sedona managed to convince the directors of Banco Roma to sink $200 million into his Banco Privada. And on and on and on. And this just keeps happening. And so Sedona is basically stealing all of the money out of these banks. And a lot of t…
▶ 42:32
is going into the Vatican and into this international syndicate. This branches out into Germany, into Zurich. And shortly after the stroke of midnight in 1974, Lucio Gelli made a call to Sedona, who was staying at a chalet in Switzerland, t…
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balance sheet documents and the other for fraudulent statements of bankruptcy. Leave Switzerland before they notify Interpol, Jelly advised. Get out of there so that they can't extradite you. If you don't, our enemies will torture you. They…
▶ 43:28
Prominent bankers who had lost fortunes thanks to Sedona's financial shenanigans were now demanding the arrest of the Pope's banker. Sedona heeded Jelley's advice. He packed his bags and headed to New York, where he would remain under prote…
▶ 45:04
When it comes to their shenanigans, there does seem to be some overlap between them. Okay, so let's see. I'm trying to find this one thing. So he goes to jail. He gets a life sentence. And supposedly, he's poisoned in prison.…
▶ 1:06:25
Word immediately got back to this international syndicate that having him in jail wasn't going to work out for them because he's going to crack. So a few days later, the Italian government charged Sedona with the murder of a guy by the name…
▶ 49:29
That everybody's going to have a rice bowl that gets peed in. If you're a Catholic, you're going to find out that your church was money laundering drug money. A lot, like trillions of dollars. You're going to find out that it was murdering …
▶ 3:29
All was in on it. And this information went on to implicate Sedona, Calvi, the guy that they hung off the bridge in London, and Marcinkus, who was the archbishop in Chicago that they moved over to control the Vatican Bank, which they then b…
▶ 7:49
He was appalled. So he goes on and he talks about the rise of Mikkel Michael Sedona. And Sedona, for those of you who don't know, was dubbed the Pope's banker, met a really ugly death. But in the meantime, he he faked he actually had someon…
▶ 10:14
Millions more were funneled to Sedona for the implementation of false flags. They were funneled and arranged and controlled by the U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin. In 1970 alone, Sedona received more than $10 million from the ambassador. Now,…
▶ 14:12
Sedona, High Times, New Cross, because they weren't going to get out of the game, Desperate Dawn, The Pope Must Die, the shooting in St. Peter's, shooting at that point, a raid and misdirection, Blackfriars Bridge, which is the assassinatio…
▶ 14:41
another banker in Italy that was working with Sedona and they decided that he needed to be killed. So basically what they did, his name was Calvi, C-A-L-V-I. Basically what they did was he's kind of fat and…
▶ 35:37
The Vatican was doing all of the money laundering of the drug operations for the CIA. And that's all well established in Paul Williams' book, Operation Gladio. And oh, by the way, he's a Catholic. So he's not anti-Catholic. It's just a prov…
▶ 48:39
So what they got, they got in trouble with making a lot of risky loans. But what they were doing is they were borrowing money in the euro dollar market. And if people that have watched our BCCI series know about the euro dollar. Was that th…
▶ 49:35
is in the city of London, they were able to lend U.S. dollars where there was no regulators. And the reason for that is the city of London had special rules that English regulators didn't regulate U.S. dollars, and the U.S. regulators could…
▶ 8:02
research regarding organized crime. I met, by the way, during my journalistic career, I met Michele Sandana in Otisville. He became the subject of, yeah, the key figure in Gladio. But Michele Sandana, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I also had a, yea…
▶ 8:30
even in prison, and a really fascinating character, and probably one of the leading victims of Gladio, as it turns out. Of course, he was one of the main proponents of it as well. But going back to my career, I started to write about Islam.…
▶ 10:28
I was familiar with Operation Gladio for numerous years. Of course, in my research, I'd eventually inevitably come upon it. And once again, I had also, I mean, my interest in Gladio was also perked by the fact that I had met Sindana, and I …
▶ 12:18
So, but yeah, I did. And I had a couple of words with him. I mean, he found out who I was and closed the door. But in any case, you know, I had a background in that. And once again, I was writing about Vatican affairs. So I had known Marcin…
▶ 1:01:05
But other banks were set up. And the banks in Italy and in Europe, many of them were set up by a mafioso, a figure whom I referred, who I spoke about before, Michele Sedana, became the leading banker for, really, for the three agencies, for…
▶ 1:01:37
In 1976, Pope Paul VI, no, I'm sorry, let's go to 1969, Pope Paul VI put Sedona in charge of all Vatican finances. And the Vatican at that time was faced with another uprising of communism. So the Italian firms in which...…
▶ 1:02:05
the Vatican was infested, were liquidated and invested in the United States and elsewhere by Sedona. But Sedona became a key figure and a key figure in Gladio. And, you know, as you know, by this time, you know, the threat of communism, we …
▶ 48:31
P2 is also implicated in the Vatican banking scandal, thanks to the presence of two financiers that also happened to be two P2 Lodge members, Mikhail Sedona and Roberta Calvi. Roberta Calvi, of course, was God's banker, while Savak was God'…
▶ 38:32
employing illegal aliens, had allegedly masterminded the smuggling of 90 pounds of heroin from Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan by way of Milan. What makes their case more intriguing is that the Gambino connection to the powerful Milan finan…
▶ 39:05
by poisoning his coffee. Sedona was convicted in New York in late March, so it's right around the same time, where he had looted $45 million from Franklin National Bank. Huh. On August 2nd, 1979, three weeks after the assassination in Milan…
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And one month before the scheduled opening of his New York trial, Sedona disappeared, supposedly kidnapped by the leftists. He actually faked his own kidnapping. It didn't work out for him. Sedona's fortunes suffered another setback when It…
▶ 40:13
repeatedly told the Italian magazine Panorama that Michele Sedona was and still is one of the mafia's bankers, the route through which organized crime passes across the Atlantic. Back in 67, Interpol had asked the Italian police if they cou…
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The response from Interpol was absolutely not. Sedona's connections to the presidential administration of Richard Nixon, right up there with Robert Vesco, are more firmly established. Sedona's Italian banks were investment partners with Con…
▶ 41:12
and director of Fasco International, Sedona's Luxembourg-based holding company. So let me get this straight. Continental Illinois Bank was the bank that was caught up in the whole savings and loan fiasco. And when Marcinkus, Archbishop Marc…
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Bishop in Chicago. He banked there. And when he got selected to run the bank at the Vatican that's money laundering for the intelligence agencies, narcotic networks, where did they send him for his one week, here's how banking works? Contin…
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David Kennedy, who is money laundering and teaching the new Vatican Bank Archbishop how to do this whole network and hide all this money. That guy running that bank was Richard Nixon's Secretary of Treasury. He also was in business with wha…
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This is literally Sedona's nickname, God's banker. All of the money the Vatican was laundering, hundreds of billions of dollars got so big that the Vatican just at the Vatican Bank couldn't do it. They set up like 23 shell companies in the …
▶ 43:24
It exceeded the capability of laundering at the Vatican Bank. That guy was in business with Kennedy at the Continental Illinois Bank. And that guy becomes the Secretary of Treasury. Holy moly. Sedona's interests were represented in the U.S.…
▶ 44:33
In Italy, Sedona orchestrated the efforts of the fascist deputy Luigi Turgi to garner Italian support for the Nixon election campaign. I don't know why we need Italian support, but whatever. Sedona offered $1 million to the creep, which is …
▶ 46:02
the entire narcotics trafficking network with william polly and a whole bunch of other people claire chanel in southeast asia it's all related while sedona was out vescoing robert vesco himself the cia was exploiting sedona's political symp…
▶ 46:33
According to the House of Representatives Pike report on CIA activities, Sedona was a key channel for millions distributed by the agency to their Gladio program in Italy and affiliated organizations and political candidates so they can inte…
▶ 43:27
to include interference once again in the Italian elections. The funds went through Ambrosiano's bank connection, Mikel Sedona, Mr. Mafia himself, and the Italian intelligence chief, Vito Maselli, both P2 members.…
▶ 43:53
It should be noted that Sedona's American investments were handled by Continental Illinois Bank, headed by Nixon's first treasury secretary, none other than David Kennedy, and his legal representative in the U.S. was the law firm of John Mi…
▶ 46:45
Ambrosiano Bank Connection, Mikel Sedona, and the Italian intelligence chief, Michele, both P2 members. It should be noted that Sedona's American investments were handled by Continental Bank, headed by Nixon's first Treasury Secretary, Davi…
▶ 47:11
was the law firm of Richard Nixon's attorney general. So John Mitchell is handling the mafia, what they call the God's banker, Mikkel Sedona, who ends up going to jail and basically kills himself. Or no, he was poisoned by coffee in his jai…
▶ 49:43
Leno and her book in Banks We Trust is typical of the time. The P2 crowd obtained money from the kidnappings of well-to-do businessmen in Europe and from the drug trafficking in South America. Sedona's bank laundered money for the notorious…
▶ 43:29
elections in 1972. Oh, you mean like we did in 1947? Yes, we're back in 1972 doing the exact same thing. The funds went through Ambrosiano Bank and Mikhail Sedona, God's banker, mafia guy, and the Italian intelligence chief Vito Marcelli. T…
▶ 44:02
P2 members. It should also be noted that Sedona American investments were handled by Continental Illinois Bank, headed by Richard Nixon's Treasury Secretary David Kennedy and a legal representative of the U.S. law firm of Nixon's Attorney G…
▶ 42:39
Vatican Bank story happens to fit perfectly in our timeline or the story we've been telling. I think we should probably reintroduce a gentleman by the name of Michelle Sindona. If you've been following the Colonel and I, we did a series a w…
▶ 43:13
Sure. And Michelle Sedona was an Italian tax lawyer and banker, and he was known as the banker for the Vatican and the mafia at the same time. Yes. We've already established a mafia connection to the CIA with Operation Underworld. Now, Sedo…
▶ 43:48
where he had his banks or his headquarters was right next to Switzerland, Liechtenstein, which was perfect for taking money across the border to evade taxes. The joke was all companies in Italy would have five sets of books, one for the tax…
▶ 45:44
multi-billion dollar drug trade that is set up and it is going to run through cuba into the united states so brady's um uh conversation about sedona is critical he is the mafia is going to be the last leg of that distributing it throughout …
▶ 46:35
put the dirty money in a cash transaction to buy real estate and brady you need to explain to them about how that's exempt from that disclosure requirement as well just as a reminder that they would park it in real estate and then they sell…
▶ 47:07
tax tax loophole exploiter is working hand in hand with the mafia, the CIA and all of this stuff right there. I mean, that's the point I want to hammer home is that the Vatican is knowingly involved in all this. Correct. Well, Sedona become…
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a a pardon and um ask for forgiveness and a whole bunch of if you've never invest or researched anything about sedona i would highly suggest you do it because um it was a crazy story um paul williams book operation gladio has a very good ti…
▶ 49:36
of the dirty, drunk, covert money. Yeah, Sondana, you know, I should add more flavor to him. But once Cuba falls, the city of London becomes really important. That's where they had the euro dollar. And as I've said before, the euro dollar i…
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the british banking regulators don't have any oversight into it so basically the city of london trading in dollars became a well basically a monetary hub half the world's banking went through it and not all of it was clean so of course sind…
▶ 51:05
Colombian cartels go into business in the Bahamas. 71 is the year Nixon takes us off the gold standard, and Sedona was trying to purchase a U.S. bank. Franklin National Bank is the one he was getting his fingers into. And at the time, you'r…
▶ 51:36
Sindona gets arrested in the US on 68 counts of fraud. Everyone drops him as their banker. He's practically penniless. And as the colonel said, he did not die a happy death. And let me add in your timeline right there, when you go from 71, …
▶ 1:01:11
they were accused of serving as a tax haven for Italian elites and organized crime. The allegations are that the IOR allegedly opened accounts for figures like Giulio Andriotti, who's a former Italian prime minister, reportedly with a $50 m…
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There's a Italian tax lawyer and banker by the name of Michael Sindona. Or it might be Mikel. I can't. It's spelled M-I-C-H-E-L-E. Should be more of a household name. He ended up being a banker for the mafia in the Vatican, but I'll get to …
▶ 13:27
which is very near the border of both Switzerland and Liechtenstein, two banking havens. So as you can imagine, the opportunity there, I mean, it was too much to resist. What you found in Italy is if you had a company, you'd have five sets …
▶ 13:58
bear-backed shares and every fun little money-hiding trick in the world. And Milan just became, and this guy Sindona became a master at it, creating shell companies under shell companies across borders, moving currencies left and right. And…
▶ 26:16
All right, jumping back to banks. So we've got Sindona. He goes to New York City in the 50s, builds up a bunch of networks, gets to know a bunch of right-wing politicians, New York bankers, becomes a banker for the Gambino family. It's kind…
▶ 37:24
You have to have some kind of banking or tax haven. We talked about Liechtenstein. We talked about Switzerland. It was Shanghai for a bit. And it always seems to shift. Cuba seemed to be a haven for it. So we're in the 1960s. And this guy, …
▶ 37:51
What he's doing is he's investing their money in these various tax havens. Again, Lichtenstein and Switzerland. Setting up shell corporations of shell corporations of trusts. And there's all kinds of this spider web. And he's trying to make…
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It's really a new empire. Half the world's banking is going through that. And then, of course, they outsource it to places like the Channel Islands. All sorts of different islands pop up, the Cayman Islands. And they're fully aware that the…
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war on drugs of the nixon administration in the early 1970s they took out the um french mafia the uh corsican mafia that had the monopoly on the number four heroin refinement um there and they shifted that so nixon's war on drug was actuall…
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It became a huge mecca for all of this international trade, whether it be drug trafficking or money laundering. The Colombian cartels get involved there. And this is the environment that exists on the international banking system when BCCI …
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now i don't think that the threat i think it's important to have competition for the treasury and that allows it to the market to slowly have it dwindle down as opposed to a complete rip the band-aid off so let me go back and finish um mars…
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the embezzlement of billions of dollars through these shell companies the Vatican set up, all done under his watch. He lives the rest of his life, dies in Sun City with a warrant out for his arrest and an extradition request pending at the …
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in 79 on 68 counts of fraud yeah it's because the franklin national bank went insolvent uh because they were making bad loans apparently and um everyone dropped cindona he lost a ton of money for the mafia a ton of money for the vatican and…