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Claims (110)
Bernardino Nogueira founded
Institute for the Works of Religion book_quoted
“in the middle of World War II. I think it's odd that you would create a bank in the middle of the war, but that's just me. There are a few other dates that's going to stick out to you as we go through this. So it was created by Pope Pius XI…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 12:39
Institute for the Works of Religion located_in
Vatican book_quoted
“of religion, which is referred to as the IOR, we're going to refer to it as the Vatican Bank because it's easier. But I wanted everyone to know that if you ever see the words Institute for Works of Religion, IOR, it is referring to the Vati…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 10:35
Pope Pius XII founded
Institute for the Works of Religion book_quoted
“in the middle of World War II. I think it's odd that you would create a bank in the middle of the war, but that's just me. There are a few other dates that's going to stick out to you as we go through this. So it was created by Pope Pius XI…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 12:39
Marcinkus headed
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“been involved in banking before, so he's very literate about that whole topic. So it's funny that Continental just so happens to be the bank that the Mafia and Marcinkus, who we find over at the Vatican, when he was sent after he was select…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 3:54
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
Marcinkus headed
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“is basically in bed with the mafia in the United States. It was called the Illinois Continental Bank or something like that. And so a lot of money laundering going on there. And you have Marcinkus get selected to be in charge of the IOR. He…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 41:40
Bank of Boston laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“in amounts less than $10,000 would flow from CIA-controlled banks, including Continental Illinois, Castle Bank and Trust, BCCI, to the Vatican Bank and the Vatican chain of parochial banks throughout Italy. Eventually, the money laundered w…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 11 and 12 @ 1:31:37
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
CIA laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“we can channel it through another sovereign agency within a sovereign state. The sovereign state is the Vatican City, and the sovereign entity, completely sovereign entity within the sovereign state, is the IOR, the Institute for Religious …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 57:55
Bernardino Nogueira headed
Institute for the Works of Religion book_quoted
“things that are relating to him. Okay, back to the book. So he becomes the steward, president, however you want to refer to him, of the Vatican Bank. And in doing this, I'll put the glasses on here for just a second. What's interesting abou…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 17:34
Marcinkus headed
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“that it owned a substantial share of Banco Ambrosiano, as well as all of those dummy corporations that were set up for money laundering, and that it was responsible for the theft of $1.75 billion. So Italy's now getting serious. They issue …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:20:23
Albert Carone laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“Carone also collected money for drug payments and later for money to be laundered by the Vatican from mafia families in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. He was awarded the Grand Knight of the Sovereign Military of Malta from the mili…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 2:18:00
Gambino crime family laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“after the arrest warrant for Sedona had been issued by the financial police in Italy. The heroin continued to be sent to the Gambino family in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The Gambinos deposited large sums of their earnings in the banks control…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 13 and 14 @ 42:39
Ettore Gotti Tedeschi headed
Institute for the Works of Religion documented
“The investigation targeted Ettore Gatti Tedeschi, who was the IOR president, and Paolo Cipriani, who was the IOR's director, and they were accused of failing to comply with transparency regulations. The investigation outcome, $23 million, w…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #38 @ 1:04:06
Bureau of Narcotics laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion book_quoted
“So wait, Montini goes on to be the Pope. The Federal Bureau of Narcotics arranged to divert the flow of cash at first through the Merrill Lynch brokerage house before it finally ended up at the Vatican Bank. The transactions were supervised…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 1:11:07
Paolo Cipriani headed
Institute for the Works of Religion documented
“The investigation targeted Ettore Gatti Tedeschi, who was the IOR president, and Paolo Cipriani, who was the IOR's director, and they were accused of failing to comply with transparency regulations. The investigation outcome, $23 million, w…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #38 @ 1:04:06
Marcinkus headed
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“is basically in bed with the mafia in the United States. It was called the Illinois Continental Bank or something like that. And so a lot of money laundering going on there. And you have Marcinkus get selected to be in charge of the IOR. He…”
▶ COLONEL TOWNER OPERATION GLADIO DIG INTO Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster PART 3 @ 41:21
Felice Micheletti headed
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“Again, that's what happened every single time one element of Operation Gladio was exposed. One month after Calvi's death, commissioners from the Bank of Italy appeared at the Vatican Bank to confront Archbishop Marcinkas. And keep in mind, …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 26:52
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
Operation Gladio guest_asserted
“It is. So now we need a bank to launder the money through. Well, they picked the Vatican because the Vatican is a sovereign. The bank is a sovereign within a sovereign. So you have a sovereign bank within a sovereign territory. And it just …”
▶ William Ramsey Investigates with Colonel Towner Watkins @ 18:29
CIA laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“I mean, sales are very, very good. And money is pouring into our coffers. And, you know, holy Father, we don't know how to launder it. I mean, where can we go? We can't, you know, run it through banks in the United States, any, you know, pr…”
▶ Interview with PAUL WILLIAMS Author OPERATION GLADIO @ 57:21
Bernardino Nogueira funded
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“who would have been about $1.6 billion in today's dollars. That would be invested by a gentleman by the name of Bernardino Nogueira, who was the Vatican banker from about 1929 until the early 40s, or even into that. And he invested it in st…”
▶ The Shadow State 39 The Vatican Bank @ 29:41
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“a year in Italy alone, was laundered through the Vatican Bank. That's why that bank was created, because it's critical to this operation. Former CIA agent Victor Marchetti testified that in 1950 and 60s, the CIA gave economic support to man…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 5 and 6 @ 15:55
Citigroup laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“in amounts less than $10,000 would flow from CIA-controlled banks, including Continental Illinois, Castle Bank and Trust, BCCI, to the Vatican Bank and the Vatican chain of parochial banks throughout Italy. Eventually, the money laundered w…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 11 and 12 @ 1:31:37
Grey Wolves laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“you've got those two basically getting in bed with each other. And they would later, one of their members, irony of all ironies, is the guy that ends up shooting and nearly killing Pope John Paul II. So one of these werewolf unit guys that …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 11 and 12 @ 1:17:59
Bank of New York laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“in amounts less than $10,000 would flow from CIA-controlled banks, including Continental Illinois, Castle Bank and Trust, BCCI, to the Vatican Bank and the Vatican chain of parochial banks throughout Italy. Eventually, the money laundered w…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 11 and 12 @ 1:31:37
BCCI laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“in amounts less than $10,000 would flow from CIA-controlled banks, including Continental Illinois, Castle Bank and Trust, BCCI, to the Vatican Bank and the Vatican chain of parochial banks throughout Italy. Eventually, the money laundered w…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 11 and 12 @ 1:31:37
Castle Bank & Trust laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“in amounts less than $10,000 would flow from CIA-controlled banks, including Continental Illinois, Castle Bank and Trust, BCCI, to the Vatican Bank and the Vatican chain of parochial banks throughout Italy. Eventually, the money laundered w…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 11 and 12 @ 1:31:37
Henry Arson member_of
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“the United States and Milan shipping company. And they're trying to describe this whole network. And they've got a firm that was located in one of the Vatican banks ran by a 67 year old Henry Arson, who was known as the playboy of the mob. …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 11 and 12 @ 1:26:47
Illinois Continental Bank laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“in amounts less than $10,000 would flow from CIA-controlled banks, including Continental Illinois, Castle Bank and Trust, BCCI, to the Vatican Bank and the Vatican chain of parochial banks throughout Italy. Eventually, the money laundered w…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 11 and 12 @ 1:31:37
P2 Masonic Lodge member_of
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“A couple of journalists begin in the mid-1960s investigating this because they're seeing patterns. If a prosecutor brings a case against anybody affiliated with Gladow, because you haven't mentioned the P2 Lodge yet either. The P2 Lodge was…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 46:54
Marcinkus laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“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 …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 52:02
Pope Leo XIII founded
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“which is founded by Pope Leo XIII in 1887, which is a quasi-bank. Then it evolved to become what's known as the Institute for the Works of Religion, or the IOR, we'll call it the Vatican Bank. So it's founded in 1942 by Pope Pius II, and it…”
▶ The Shadow State 39 The Vatican Bank @ 31:15
Pope Pius XII founded
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“which is founded by Pope Leo XIII in 1887, which is a quasi-bank. Then it evolved to become what's known as the Institute for the Works of Religion, or the IOR, we'll call it the Vatican Bank. So it's founded in 1942 by Pope Pius II, and it…”
▶ The Shadow State 39 The Vatican Bank @ 31:15
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
Sicilian Mafia 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
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
Giulio Andreotti 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
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
L. Michael Marcinkus headed
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“by the way that's why we know the people in jonestown wasn't um fed arsenic poisoning because they didn't look like that um so that all of that's covered up and marcinkus was there in charge of the vatican bank when all of this happened ind…”
▶ The Shadow State 39 The Vatican Bank @ 1:03:14
Banca d'Italia funded
Institute for the Works of Religion documented
“September 2010, Italian authorities seized 23 million in IOR funds held at an Italian bank called Credito. Artigiano is part of a money laundering investigation. Allegations are the prosecutor suspected the IOR of violating Italian anti-mon…”
▶ The Shadow State 39 The Vatican Bank @ 1:03:49
Ettore Gotti Tedeschi headed
Institute for the Works of Religion documented
“The investigation targeted Ettore Gatti Tedeschi, who was the IOR president, and Paolo Cipriani, who was the IOR's director, and they were accused of failing to comply with transparency regulations. The investigation outcome, $23 million, w…”
▶ The Shadow State 39 The Vatican Bank @ 1:04:22
Paolo Cipriani headed
Institute for the Works of Religion documented
“The investigation targeted Ettore Gatti Tedeschi, who was the IOR president, and Paolo Cipriani, who was the IOR's director, and they were accused of failing to comply with transparency regulations. The investigation outcome, $23 million, w…”
▶ The Shadow State 39 The Vatican Bank @ 1:04:22
MONEYVAL exposed
Institute for the Works of Religion documented
“This incident prompted the Vatican to create the Financial Information Authority, the AIF, in 2010 under Pope Benedict XVI to align with international anti-money laundering standards. The MoneyVol, which is Europe's anti-money laundering ev…”
▶ The Shadow State 39 The Vatican Bank @ 1:04:50
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
Giulio Andreotti 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
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
Roberto Calvi host_asserted
“They are everywhere. The goodwill payment to Ambrosiano creditors from the coffers of Opus Dei did not close the file on the criminal probe of the bank collapse of Ambrosiano. So by February of 1987, the investigating magistrates conclude t…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:19:52
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“But he tied his bank into the Vatican Bank by making loans to the Vatican Bank, which then they created shell companies. They used that money to launder back in to buy control of Calvi's bank so that it would end up with the Vatican owning …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 11:23
Institute for the Works of Religion financed_via
Banco Ambrosiano book_quoted
“Germany tried to take every one of those. Germany creates stay-behind units and now says that if these states that they want to dominate goes into an economic union against the Soviet Union, we're going to use that to get more CIA funds wer…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 38:23
Institute for the Works of Religion secretly_owned
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“that it owned a substantial share of Banco Ambrosiano, as well as all of those dummy corporations that were set up for money laundering, and that it was responsible for the theft of $1.75 billion. So Italy's now getting serious. They issue …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:20:23
Institute for the Works of Religion controlled
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“Also revealed that the Vatican Bank had set up and controlled dummy corporations to plunder the assets of the Milan Bank Ambrosiano and that the Vatican officials actually signed paperwork.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 30:24
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“for the drug operations that funded Operation Gladio. And so he wanted to use some of that money because he was a Polish archbishop prior to becoming Pope. He wanted to use some of that money to ease the Soviet Union, kind of basically brib…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 1 @ 1:12:58
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“And that was located in Vatican City. And that's where we'll pick up next time in Chapter 3, the role that the Vatican Bank, which could have been completely unknown to the Pope, but the Vatican Bank and some key players in that inner circl…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 1 and 2 @ 2:23:10
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“the Banca Nazionale del Labarno in Italy, the Instituto Opere Religione, which is the IOR, or the Vatican Bank. And the Vatican Bank is used a lot in Operation Gladio, especially on the drug side for money laundering. They were money launde…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner OPERATION GLADIO 101 (Updated) @ 30:45
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“initial bank of choice was the Vatican bank to money launder all of this money through because the Vatican bank made 10% off of every drug dollar, every weapons dollar, 10%. That was their handling fee. And they used it for whatever they us…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 with Janet from Another Planet @ 37:23
Institute for the Works of Religion located_in
Italy host_asserted
“guy in charge of the Vatican Bank, Luigi Menini, and Pellegrino del Strobo. Those are all the top three guys in charge of the Vatican Bank. But no arrests were made because the Vatican pointed out that thanks to the treaty they signed in 19…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:20:51
Institute for the Works of Religion financed_via
Catholic Church book_quoted
“In addressing the communist problem, the CIA black money or mob muscle was paid out by the Vatican Bank and by the organization called Catholic Action. In this way, the Holy See forged an alliance with the Sicilian mafia. The force of the m…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 31:51
Institute for the Works of Religion funded
Nazi Party host_asserted
“The Vatican Bank had been involved in such services since its founding because we already tied the two together. In 1942, Gladio units began in Germany, and the Vatican Bank began in 1942. And we know that the Vatican Bank helped Hitler's N…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:13:53
Institute for the Works of Religion did_business_with
Sicilian Mafia book_quoted
“In addressing the communist problem, the CIA black money or mob muscle was paid out by the Vatican Bank and by the organization called Catholic Action. In this way, the Holy See forged an alliance with the Sicilian mafia. The force of the m…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 31:51
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
Sicilian Mafia 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
Institute for the Works of Religion financed_via
Sicilian Mafia book_quoted
“In addressing the communist problem, the CIA black money or mob muscle was paid out by the Vatican Bank and by the organization called Catholic Action. In this way, the Holy See forged an alliance with the Sicilian mafia. The force of the m…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 31:51
Institute for the Works of Religion controlled
Stybo host_asserted
“The fears of the CIA came into full fruition. John Paul II's refusal to shore up the losses of the Vatican shell companies had resulted in exposure of the P2 Masons, the Raid on Stybom, which is the arms smuggling company that was embedded …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 24:03
Institute for the Works of Religion acquired
Zitrapo host_asserted
“was then sold to Calvi, and in 1978, the company was acquired back by the Vatican. That's called money laundering. All this time, the shares of the bank had never left the Vatican safe. So, in addition, the final report Cardinal Benelli tol…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 11 and 12 @ 29:40
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
Roberto Calvi did_business_with
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“stone as in like masonic marble stone in his pocket to make it known that it was a hit. Cittarelli carefully removed highly sensitive confidential documents relating to Calvi's dealings with the Vatican private bank, the IOR, Pope John II, …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 5 @ 14:27
Ray Cline claimed
Institute for the Works of Religion book_quoted
“that money was laundered through the Vatican Bank until it got so immense that they had to start setting up other banks to use. So the Vatican Bank sheltered Harajito's assets and Nazi assets during the war. It is also one of the 42 countri…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 20:48
Paul Martin laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion 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
Paul Martin did_business_with
Institute for the Works of Religion 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 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
Banco Ambrosiano did_business_with
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“Six months later, they issued a report that basically said not a whole lot. The report devoted more than 25 pages to the torturous relationship between Banco Ambrosiano and the Vatican Bank. And basically, it doesn't say anything. And I don…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 13 and 14 @ 45:48
Castle Bank & Trust laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“in large part in connection with the Vatican Bank money laundering scheme of Operation Gladio. So what is interesting about it also is Cantor is involved in the operation of Castle Bank as well. And it ties the Pritzker family to that bank …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 1 @ 2:03:34
Licio Gelli laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“Bonte's share of the profits was $150 million for each shipment. This money was delivered to Gelli, who used a string of Sicilian banks and Banco Ambrosiano to funnel the cash and launder it into the Vatican. The day after Menorca spilled h…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 13 and 14 @ 43:37
CIA financed_via
Institute for the Works of Religion book_quoted
“While Bill Donovan, while he's still a military two-star general, was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sylvester, the oldest and most prestigious papal knighthood. So in the months that followed 1948 national election, the CIA, b…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 26:53
CIA financed_via
Institute for the Works of Religion book_quoted
“According to MoneyVal, which is an anti-money laundering committee of the Council of Europe, it remains one of the world's leading launderers for dirty cash under Pope Francis. In 1947, Pope Pius XII was more than willing to allow black mon…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 22:30
Roberto Calvi did_business_with
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“But he tied his bank into the Vatican Bank by making loans to the Vatican Bank, which then they created shell companies. They used that money to launder back in to buy control of Calvi's bank so that it would end up with the Vatican owning …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 11:23
Thomas Pritzker member_of
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“bank within Italy. The vice president, there was a vice president and then three other board members. Thomas Pritzker, not our guys, a guy from Deutsche Bank, and Thomas Maciose, M-A-C-I-O-C-E, an American businessman. The new managing dire…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:25:30
Angelo Caglio headed
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“from Yugoslavian government while operating the rat lines for the Nazis. That was his compensation for ferrying out the Nazis. In the reorganization of the Vatican finances under Opus Dei that got underway in 1989, a five-member supervisory…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:24:57
Luigi Menini member_of
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“guy in charge of the Vatican Bank, Luigi Menini, and Pellegrino del Strobo. Those are all the top three guys in charge of the Vatican Bank. But no arrests were made because the Vatican pointed out that thanks to the treaty they signed in 19…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:20:51
Pellegrino del Strobo member_of
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“guy in charge of the Vatican Bank, Luigi Menini, and Pellegrino del Strobo. Those are all the top three guys in charge of the Vatican Bank. But no arrests were made because the Vatican pointed out that thanks to the treaty they signed in 19…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:20:51
Giovanni Badio headed
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“bank within Italy. The vice president, there was a vice president and then three other board members. Thomas Pritzker, not our guys, a guy from Deutsche Bank, and Thomas Maciose, M-A-C-I-O-C-E, an American businessman. The new managing dire…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:25:30
Thomas Macioco member_of
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“bank within Italy. The vice president, there was a vice president and then three other board members. Thomas Pritzker, not our guys, a guy from Deutsche Bank, and Thomas Maciose, M-A-C-I-O-C-E, an American businessman. The new managing dire…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:25:30
Martin Maciocco recruited
Institute for the Works of Religion documented
“It ended up, he wasn't able to save it. So they brought in another guy. Let's see. So they're saying that this guy's a friend of Frank Costello's and Ray Cohn, mob guys. One of the firm's partners was Martin, M-A-C-I-O-C-E, who was brought …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 12 @ 40:52
Luis Aponte Martínez headed
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“Archbishop Markinakis, Markinakis, now keep in mind, he's the one that is in charge of the Vatican Bank now after Sedona moves on, was forced to submit to the indignity of intensive questioning by Italian officials because he supposedly was…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 37:32
Mario Barone headed
Institute for the Works of Religion 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
Santa Romana laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“that they used occasionally. That was just not their preferred method. The umbrella took care of security. The mafia first became involved after the war with Santis Gold was moved to banks in Italy, including the Vatican Bank. Oh my gosh. S…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chap 10 @ 51:57
Bank of Italy funded
Institute for the Works of Religion documented
“September 2010, Italian authorities seized $23 million in IOR funds held at an Italian bank called Credito. Artigiano is part of a money laundering investigation. Allegations are the prosecutor suspected the IOR of violating Italian anti-mo…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #38 @ 1:03:33
Hirohito laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“So that takes us up to chapter four. We're going to go into basically an outline of where else they went. And the fact that Harry Hito moves money to Rome, to the Vatican Bank. Yes, just like the money laundering that was done in Operation …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Colonel's Corner Book ClubReview Gold Warriors Chapter 2 @ 1:05:56
Bernardino Nogueira appointed
Institute for the Works of Religion book_quoted
“He stayed there in that capacity until 1954. He was retained by several popes during this process. Nagara's career, he had the ability to float around circles of industry and politics under the guise of being an envoy of the church in this …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 13:44
Bernardino Nogueira covered_up
Institute for the Works of Religion book_quoted
“not that long ago, where you could have numbered accounts, complete anonymity, and where the Bank of International Settlements is, where the WEF meets. So there seems to be a lot of globalization going on in Switzerland. So Nogara, who beca…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 3 and 4 @ 19:30
Hirohito funded
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“To sweeten his bid for the Pope's favor, Harry Hito had his financial advisors move $45 million into the Vatican Bank in Rome and to the Vatican-controlled banks in Portugal and Spain. Now, I have my Gladio glasses on, so why is Portugal an…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 4 @ 24:14
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
Cosa Nostra host_asserted
“So Vatican becomes the money laundering destination for the Paul Helliwell apparatus that has been set up in the Golden Triangle with Chiang Kai-shek. And so basically in the original structure, the Vatican was getting all of the money to l…”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 13; BCCI Pt. 3- The Cover-Up @ 42:09
General Development Corporation laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“I want to also point out that the Panama company that the Vatican set up was United Trading Corporation. And they used General Development Corporation, which I've come across a million times in Operation Gladio research, because that compan…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #38 @ 1:13:26
Banco Ambrosiano front_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“and the Holy Father, but also from Roberto Calvi, the new director general of Banco Ambrosanio in Milan, who refused to receive his calls. Calvi and Marquinecas, Aunt Sedona's scheme of raiding the assets of the Milan bank by setting up a s…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 9 and 10 @ 38:29
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
Institute for the Works of Religion money_laundering_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“And generally, especially when I'm talking about Operation Gladio, I stay away from the religious aspect of it, except for when it's relevant to explaining a facet of Gladio, like Steve just mentions the Vatican Bank. You can't talk about G…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 1:37:40
Bellatrix laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“They also used a company called Bellatrix, B-E-L-L-A-T-R-I-X, and another company called Manic, M-A-N-I-C, to funnel the money. So just in case anybody else comes up with those companies and other research. So it's a really interesting hist…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #38 @ 1:14:22
Universal Trading Corporation front_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“as part of the money laundering hubs so i just wanted to to mention that too um it says the vatican ownership of united trading corporation a panama registered shell company used for money laundering was um part of a banco ambrosiano scanda…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #38 @ 1:13:55
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
Bellatrix host_asserted
“They also used a company called Bellatrix, B-E-L-L-A-T-R-I-X, and another company called Manic, M-A-N-I-C, to funnel the money. So just in case anybody else comes up with those companies and other research. So it's a really interesting hist…”
▶ The Shadow State 39 The Vatican Bank @ 1:14:38
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
Manic host_asserted
“They also used a company called Bellatrix, B-E-L-L-A-T-R-I-X, and another company called Manic, M-A-N-I-C, to funnel the money. So just in case anybody else comes up with those companies and other research. So it's a really interesting hist…”
▶ The Shadow State 39 The Vatican Bank @ 1:14:38
Institute for the Works of Religion funded
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“because they had set up the Vatican Bank to be the money launderers and how they funded the whole Operation Gladio using that same kind of message. Once Eisenhower arrived in the White House, Lemonsker's prospects was like a vertical takeof…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 6 @ 29:11
Institute for the Works of Religion covered_up
Ratline host_asserted
“That's not to say that the Vatican wasn't intimately involved in Germany because it was. They actually facilitated the rat lines, Scorsese being one of them, hid out in Catholic sanctuaries and claimed sanctuary in these churches in order t…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2 @ 1:16:48
CIA laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion guest_asserted
“And what are you going to do with that? How are you going to launder that money? You can't shove it under the bed of Alan Dulles or Bill Donovan. I mean, what are you going to do with the money? So they channeled it, of course, originally t…”
▶ Interview with PAUL WILLIAMS Author of Operation Gladio PART 2 @ 17:00
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
CIA host_asserted
“The Vatican Bank in 1942 was set up, which corresponds with the same date in 1942, not like on the date, but the year, in Germany that the werewolves was set up, the werewolf units. So keep that in mind. And the Vatican Bank was used to mon…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 8 @ 20:17
Manic laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“They also used a company called Bellatrix, B-E-L-L-A-T-R-I-X, and another company called Manic, M-A-N-I-C, to funnel the money. So just in case anybody else comes up with those companies and other research. So it's a really interesting hist…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #38 @ 1:14:22
Roberto Calvi laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“But they actually had a different number, like P2 was Italy, then P7 is Belgium. I've never seen that part of the equation. And then the ferreting of money being through the lodge, which makes perfect sense because Roberto Calvi is one of t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 50:27
Institute for the Works of Religion secretly_owned
Universal Trading Corporation host_asserted
“as part of the money laundering hubs so i just wanted to to mention that too um it says the vatican ownership of united trading corporation a panama registered shell company used for money laundering was um part of a banco ambrosiano scanda…”
▶ The Shadow State 39 The Vatican Bank @ 1:14:11
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
NATO host_asserted
“John Paul II. Now, remember, John Paul I got assassinated. John Paul II, we all know that he got shot, right? Do you know why he got shot? Go ahead. So he got shot because it was found out. And now the Vatican Bank's money laundering for th…”
▶ SECRET SOCIETIES COLONEL TOWNER with Special Guest WARHAMSTER BRADY #38 @ 1:07:13
Institute for the Works of Religion laundered_money_for
NATO host_asserted
“John Paul II. Now, remember, John Paul I got assassinated. John Paul II, we all know that he got shot, right? Do you know why he got shot? Go ahead. So he got shot because it was found out. And now the Vatican Bank's money laundering for th…”
▶ The Shadow State 39 The Vatican Bank @ 1:07:29
CIA laundered_money_for
Institute for the Works of Religion host_asserted
“bank, the central bank for central bankers. Right. Yes, that's true. But I thought BIS was, well, it was the Vatican Bank that I was thinking of that happened during World War II. So my apologies. Yeah. 1942, the Vatican Bank was set up. An…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 1:03:28
Institute for the Works of Religion funded
World War II caller_asserted
“Okay, the Vatican Bank, what about it? The people who ran that bank, they were trying to play both sides of the war, right, in World War II, because they didn't really know who was going to win. So weren't they, like, donating both sides to…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 2 @ 1:16:20
Mentions (54)
▶ 1:15:49
Okay, Susan, you're up. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Colonel, for all your knowledge and everything that you do. I have a question. Was the Vatican Bank, they were playing both sides of the war, right? Which bank? I didn't hear you. Oh,…
▶ 1:16:20
Okay, the Vatican Bank, what about it? The people who ran that bank, they were trying to play both sides of the war, right, in World War II, because they didn't really know who was going to win. So weren't they, like, donating both sides to…
▶ 1:15:18
Because there's not enough funds to cover if a big bank did fall. But I do believe, like you said, all of these banks, the large banks and stuff like that throughout the world are all, every single one of them are laundering. I'll keep it q…
▶ 1:03:28
bank, the central bank for central bankers. Right. Yes, that's true. But I thought BIS was, well, it was the Vatican Bank that I was thinking of that happened during World War II. So my apologies. Yeah. 1942, the Vatican Bank was set up. An…
▶ 57:55
we can channel it through another sovereign agency within a sovereign state. The sovereign state is the Vatican City, and the sovereign entity, completely sovereign entity within the sovereign state, is the IOR, the Institute for Religious …
▶ 58:26
Now, let's face it. If you look into this to this day and I give you my background on the Vatican, my dealings with, you know, I am a lawyer. I'm very familiar with this. But the the the Vatican Bank, the the inner workings of the Vatican B…
▶ 58:56
Despite all the scandals, the turbulence, the Catholic Church will say, disclose its financial position. And there's always a catchphrase at the end of every disclosure. It says, omitting the holdings of the IOR. Omitting the holdings of th…
▶ 50:56
Marcinkus, who came out of the Chicago archbishop diocese and was also banking with the mafia there while he was in Chicago. And so he gets tapped to do the money laundering later on, not at the very beginning. But during the time when the …
▶ 45:42
was upchanneling all of their fraudulent loans onto Continental. And Continental Bank is the bank that when Archbishop Marcinkis gets put in charge of the Vatican Bank, he doesn't know anything about banking. He's basically being a bodyguar…
▶ 3:54
been involved in banking before, so he's very literate about that whole topic. So it's funny that Continental just so happens to be the bank that the Mafia and Marcinkus, who we find over at the Vatican, when he was sent after he was select…
▶ 0:18
We are normally here talking about secret societies, but we wanted to take the opportunity to introduce an in-depth look at the Vatican Bank since the Vatican has been in the news lately. And I am joined, as usual, with Warhamster Brady. Ho…
▶ 2:19
everything from the sistine chapel paintings by michelangelo etc the vatican bank has a mass amount of priceless art and work and they value every single one of these at about one euro on their balance sheets because they never plan on dive…
▶ 10:41
Because people weren't going there and paying their Peter's pence. And then, of course, the other part of the income of the Holy See is the Vatican City State and the IOR, also known as the Vatican Bank. And we don't exactly have itemized f…
▶ 11:12
This is the smallest country in the world, Vatican City, and they did not have a tax base. So their finances, they have got to be creative. And as we've said in the Wall Street Journal article, France's solution is give us more money, peopl…
▶ 11:42
So you have the sovereignty of the Vatican City State, but the IOR at the Vatican Bank is a sovereign within that sovereignty. So there's no visibility into their books at all. Yeah, very much so. And we'll see that theme come up over and o…
▶ 13:15
That's about the 2,800 dioceses, about 300 religious orders, and affiliated institutions like Catholic charities. And they manage their own finances, each one. Estimates are all over the board for this, so these are broad numbers. But you'r…
▶ 13:47
As we've talked earlier, Vatican Bank is not exactly transparent. I bring this point home because we now have the first American Pope, Pope Leo XIV. And it's interesting because a lot of people have been pontificating that the reason for th…
▶ 15:53
Well, not quite yet. We're going to go into the history of the Catholic Church's financing. There's a couple of interesting stories there before we get to the 20th century and the founding of the Vatican Bank. And that's where the colonel i…
▶ 28:38
Because there are people running around the Internet, some well-intentioned, that truly believe that the United States in 1871 was bankrupt and was bailed out. And we became a U.S. corporation was bailed out by the Vatican Bank, which didn'…
▶ 30:15
Okay, now we get to the modern day. 1942, World War II is going on, and we get the founding of the Vatican Bank. Why did they found the Vatican Bank, Colonel? Well, I think it's not a coincidence that in 1942 is when Hitler began their...…
▶ 30:47
staging a creation of the werewolf units and his entire stay behind network throughout Europe. And the exact same year that the Vatican Bank gets established. Yeah, that's going to, that theory of yours really correlates well with the resea…
▶ 31:15
which is founded by Pope Leo XIII in 1887, which is a quasi-bank. Then it evolved to become what's known as the Institute for the Works of Religion, or the IOR, we'll call it the Vatican Bank. So it's founded in 1942 by Pope Pius II, and it…
▶ 31:46
by physical or juridical juridical persons and intended for works of religion or charity part of the charter says it includes managing funds for catholic institutions dioceses religious orders papal initiatives and ensuring financial suppor…
▶ 32:18
The Vatican's financial advisor since 1929 creates the IOR as an offshore bank within Vatican City, which members said about a sovereignty inside a sovereign. Because of the structure, it's exempt from wartime financial regulations. I'll sa…
▶ 33:45
to move that money around, both physical money and money that had been deposited in the Bank of International Settlements. And it's interesting that the Vatican Bank that had just been set up was also very...…
▶ 35:31
the setting up of the vatican bank is going to facilitate the movement of the wealth confiscated in europe as well as the rat lines and then the soon-to-be opium trade yeah that's all because of the lack of transparency and regulation altho…
▶ 52:26
around that same time period for the Vatican in order to do their money laundering more in-house. Very good. All right, what else is going on in the 70s? Oh, we have another scandal. Let's talk about Banco Ambrosiano and your good friend Ro…
▶ 53:01
holds a significant stake in Banco Ambrosiano and was accused of facilitating money laundering through a web of offshore shell companies, primarily in Panama and the Bahamas. Sound familiar? Yep. These companies, allegedly controlled by the…
▶ 54:29
um and get access to the books because there was an interface between the two even though supposedly it's the sovereign within a sovereign um and are you going to talk about how he dies i'll let you do that let me let me get the uh well let…
▶ 59:41
Freemason connection of the investigation, because the Masonic connections are going to keep coming up when it comes to the Vatican Bank. Yes. I have notes that said, of course, as you said, originally ruled a suicide, but they actually the…
▶ 1:00:39
of the top echelon of Gladio was a member of the P2 Lodge. So this was Operation Gladio telling you that they murdered Calvi. You pretty much saw, or somebody wanted us to think that, and I think we do. Okay, a little bit more money launder…
▶ 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…
▶ 1:01:44
Outcome of those investigations, no formal convictions tied to the IOR directly to money laundering as a Vatican City's legal immunity blocked Italian investigations. Another book to read. Go ahead. Go ahead. This is from the book. First, r…
▶ 1:02:15
very much interested in the Vatican Bank. And he began immediately asking a whole bunch of questions, some very uncomfortable questions about what was going on inside the Vatican Bank. And he was poisoned with arsenic poisoning. And the way…
▶ 1:03:14
by the way that's why we know the people in jonestown wasn't um fed arsenic poisoning because they didn't look like that um so that all of that's covered up and marcinkus was there in charge of the vatican bank when all of this happened ind…
▶ 1:03:49
September 2010, Italian authorities seized 23 million in IOR funds held at an Italian bank called Credito. Artigiano is part of a money laundering investigation. Allegations are the prosecutor suspected the IOR of violating Italian anti-mon…
▶ 1:04:22
The investigation targeted Ettore Gatti Tedeschi, who was the IOR president, and Paolo Cipriani, who was the IOR's director, and they were accused of failing to comply with transparency regulations. The investigation outcome, $23 million, w…
▶ 1:04:50
This incident prompted the Vatican to create the Financial Information Authority, the AIF, in 2010 under Pope Benedict XVI to align with international anti-money laundering standards. The MoneyVol, which is Europe's anti-money laundering ev…
▶ 1:05:18
By 2022, Moneyball rated the Vatican substantially effective in anti-money laundering operations. So after a whole bunch of investigations that occurred around Calvi's murder, the Italian authorities, even though they didn't have jurisdicti…
▶ 1:05:49
They started putting the screws to the Vatican Bank. They started asking a whole bunch of very in-depth questions. That leads the Vatican Bank to basically fire Marcinkas. So Marcinkas comes back to the United States. And because of his inv…
▶ 1:06:17
puts out an extradition for Marcinkus. They want him to come back and answer questions. The United States refused to extradite him to Italy. He died a peaceful death in Sun City, Arizona, protected by the US government years later. And as a…
▶ 1:06:51
The annual auditor that they chose was the auditor that the CIA always uses, Price Waterhouse. And none of it was ever disclosed, but they were required to basically tell the Italian officials whether they got a pass-fail. They were never r…
▶ 1:07:29
John Paul II. Now, remember, John Paul I got assassinated. John Paul II, we all know that he got shot, right? Do you know why he got shot? Go ahead. So he got shot because it was found out. And now the Vatican Bank's money laundering for th…
▶ 1:11:26
add swift codes to their accounts which makes for much greater transparency in banking especially international of course this comes back to bite them on january 1st 2013 the bank of italy orders the deutsch bank italia which managed electr…
▶ 52:06
Holy crap. We started to make some connections. That's crazy. Uh-huh. Oh, my gosh. Now I got to go back and check on that because I bet that was part of the money laundering thing for the Vatican Bank. I'm almost sure it was. It's got to be…
▶ 38:21
The Vatican is spending a lot of money throughout the world for various purposes through something called the IOR. Are you familiar? Yes. Yeah, it's the Instituto per le Opere di Religione. That's my Italian accent. Which is basically like …
▶ 38:48
Yeah, interesting. So let's bust a myth here. You know, you've heard this 1871 U.S. corporation theory where they say that the United States coming out of the Civil War was bankrupt and had to basically became the U.S. corporation as we sol…
▶ 40:13
Regulations that are mostly made by British lawmakers and American lawmakers. Makes you wonder how those things kind of happen. And the Vatican Bank shared some very similar hands-off qualities, as did the banks inside the City of London. Y…
▶ 41:40
is basically in bed with the mafia in the United States. It was called the Illinois Continental Bank or something like that. And so a lot of money laundering going on there. And you have Marcinkus get selected to be in charge of the IOR. He…
▶ 42:09
So Vatican becomes the money laundering destination for the Paul Helliwell apparatus that has been set up in the Golden Triangle with Chiang Kai-shek. And so basically in the original structure, the Vatican was getting all of the money to l…
▶ 43:34
world market that was going to be eventually going into Europe and into the U.S. under the control of the CIA using Sicily and the Vatican Bank. I'm just curious if there's any coincidence or because they overlap between the Korshkin Mafia,…
▶ 51:04
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…
▶ 51:32
this the country of italy has had enough of the whole money laundering and the the murder and they decide that they're going to they give the vatican one last chance to clean their crap up so marsinkas gets sent on his way do you know where…
▶ 52:32
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…