Banco Ambrosiano organization
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Claims (30)
Banco Ambrosiano financed_via
Bellatrix host_asserted
“So the money poured into those eight countries, companies, and they were doing with those companies the same things that we saw with the Castle Bank and the Hand Bank in Australia. The Bank of Ambrosiano in Milan was issuing loans to all of…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 13 and 14 @ 30:55
Roberto Calvi headed
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“Calvi. Calvi is the guy that was running the bank Ambrosiano. So the CIA had tried to resolve the interlinking of the Vatican Bank and all of their shell companies with the bank Ambrosiano, but they weren't having a lot of luck. So they eve…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 4 @ 1:00:48
SIPRI located_in
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“So he would grant shelter to the assassins as head of the military intelligence and commander of the Italian Gladio units. He was uniquely qualified for this role. The general was working closely with Stiben, which is the company that's the…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 15 and 16 @ 53:01
Banco Ambrosiano money_laundering_partner_with
Catholic Church host_asserted
“As the years of lead unfold in Italy, funding a whole bunch and doing all the money laundering for the drug networks and the Vatican Bank. And then you have the what's his face, whose name I can never remember, that ends up hanging off the …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 2:01:12
Banco Ambrosiano laundered_money_for
Catholic Church host_asserted
“Money would go from those companies to Milan in the Bank Ambrosiano and then into the Vatican, where the Vatican charged the 15% to 20% processing fee to hide the money. They then transferred it to banks in Switzerland, and basically that's…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 13 and 14 @ 27:18
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
Roberto Calvi laundered_money_for
Banco Ambrosiano 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
Catholic Church laundered_money_for
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“And when in 1990, all of this stuff got exposed and the guy that was running the Banco Ambrosiano, one of the other banks that they were using because it was too much money for the Vatican Bank. They had set up over 20 shell companies to la…”
▶ Colonel Towner with Enjoy the Show Hosted by DC Lidzone @ 59:27
Roberto Calvi headed
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“a suitcase stuffed with $21 million in cash. That money was to pay for the murder of Roberto Calvi. And remember that Roberto Calvi was part of the Vatican Bank, Bank of Ambrosia deal. Calvi was in charge of the Bank of Ambrosia, and he had…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 17 and 18 @ 40:26
Pope John Paul II opposed
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“No one expected John Paul II's reaction. The Pope opposed the plan, the bailout plan that had been put together. The Ambrosiano, this is a quote according to Pazienza. The Ambrosiano was to represent the modern secular arm of the church in …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 17 and 18 @ 48:43
Roberto Calvi headed
Banco Ambrosiano 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
Sicilian Mafia carried_out_attack
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“Banca, which is a bank, who had witnessed Sedona's threat to the life of Ambrosio Soli and the attempted hit on Roberta Rizzoni, which we talked about last video. After participating in the murder of Calvi, the gang tossed an executive of A…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 20:39
Licio Gelli involved_in
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“and after serving less than two months behind bars, Gelley complained of deteriorating health and was released on parole. In 1992, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for his involvement in the Ambrosiano affairs, but it was later reduce…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 1:23:58
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
Catholic Church front_for
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“between the vatican and the bank of ambrosia they set up these eight shell companies that they were using to launder the money with and to use to buy weapons and facilitate this whole gladio operation and the guy that was the governor of th…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 17 and 18 @ 37:45
Roberto Calvi founded
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“ambrosiano fell 30 on the milan exchange it also garnered the attention of the financial police the new investigation headed by a judge musi prompted calvi to move the base of his international operations even deeper into the heart of latin…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 13 and 14 @ 46:18
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
David Rockefeller invested_in
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“three Saudi businessmen and two banks to pay $1.2 billion for the nine shell companies that now held nearly 16% of the Ambrosiano stock. Seven days after John Paul II was shot, Calvi was arrested for the illegal transfer of the funds out of…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 17 and 18 @ 45:12
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
Bank of Italy investigated
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“criminal justice. There's justice for the criminal, just not the rest of us. And then they just disappear. So they're either murdered or funneled out of the country. I don't know. In June of 1978, a 12-man team from the Bank of Italy decide…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 13 and 14 @ 45:16
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
Opus Dei paid
Banco Ambrosiano 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
RHJ International located_in
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“increase the scrutiny and it would lead to an office called stybom international this this company was located on the property of the abraziano bank and it basically was a drugs for arms smuggling company um supposedly to make the world saf…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 15 and 16 @ 15:09
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
Roberta Rizzoni headed
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“So while Markinicus was making this pronouncement of trust in Calvi, Robert Rizzoni, the general manager of Ambrosiano, was making a new demand for Calvi's dismissal as the director and a call on all of those loans that had been made to the…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 17 and 18 @ 50:29
Opus Dei financed_via
Banco Ambrosiano host_asserted
“reparations payment for the embezzling of funds from the bank Ambrosiano. The source of the cash and Opus Dei stands for work of God. That's what it stands for. And as of 1984, when this payment was made, they were up to $3 billion in asset…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 19 and 20 @ 51:43
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
Banco Ambrosiano financed_via
Catholic Church host_asserted
“you know, honored their sovereignty, they basically gave them an ultimatum. And they said, if you don't hire, not Pricewaterhouse, but a real auditing firm and have somebody look at your shit, we are going to basically take your sovereignty…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 4 @ 1:23:01
Banco Ambrosiano laundered_money_for
Catholic Church guest_asserted
“Bank Ambrosiano was the Vatican had so much money that they were laundering. They couldn't do it by themselves. So they involved Italian banks.…”
▶ 'Operation Gladio is Alive and Well' NATO_s secret terrorist army EXPOSED @ 1:05:37
Mentions (22)
▶ 1:05:37
Bank Ambrosiano was the Vatican had so much money that they were laundering. They couldn't do it by themselves. So they involved Italian banks. The chief of the military intelligence, the chief of the military, basically their sect. They we…
▶ 1:00:17
There's a whole bunch of stuff that happens with the discovery of the fake companies. A whole bunch of other people die. And a lot of the Italian government gets discovered. And there's a decision made because of all of the exposure that th…
▶ 1:00:48
Calvi. Calvi is the guy that was running the bank Ambrosiano. So the CIA had tried to resolve the interlinking of the Vatican Bank and all of their shell companies with the bank Ambrosiano, but they weren't having a lot of luck. So they eve…
▶ 1:03:40
fiat to handle relations with the U.S. and the Italian government. So they're the Gladio operators that are going to be inserted. In 1981, Paziazza begins to devise a plan to plug the gaping hole in Banco Ambrosiano. And at that point, it w…
▶ 1:04:03
And because they know how involved it is, if that bank goes down, it's going to screw up the Vatican. And that's what they're trying to avoid happening. So the CIA helps him with their contacts. He arranges for two American investors, David…
▶ 1:06:52
He ended up in the prison infirmary. He did not die. And that obviously said that he knew exactly what was going to be happening. So Calbee was sentenced to four years in prison and a fine of 16 billion lira. His lawyer filed an appeal and …
▶ 1:23:01
you know, honored their sovereignty, they basically gave them an ultimatum. And they said, if you don't hire, not Pricewaterhouse, but a real auditing firm and have somebody look at your shit, we are going to basically take your sovereignty…
▶ 1:06:38
You know, the murder of Calvi, who was the guy that was running the bank, Ambrosiano or Brunt, whatever you say that. All of those roads keep leading back to the Vatican. And so the Italian, although the Vatican Bank is not under Italian ba…
▶ 41:27
Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, and Costa Rica. Leave no stone unturned. According to the authors of Iran-Contra connection, the driving force behind these movements was not the Argentine government, but an international partnership that had d…
▶ 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.…
▶ 46:11
The CIA money laundering bank for weapons and drug money. Yeah, continental. Because of course he does. And then to find, to read this, this is just so amazing to me. I gotta read that again. The funds went through $10 million in the 70s wh…
▶ 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…
▶ 51:08
And finally, the failure of the CIA dependent Banco Ambrosiano also put a kink in their style. These upper level CIA reformers, however, were only a temporary setback because they can outlive anybody. So he goes on to say that as this opera…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 53:31
The funds were reportedly used to launder money for Italian elites, the mafia, and possibly political groups, with some accounts linked to tax evasion and illicit activities. Anything to add? Yes. So Calbee is very interesting because in ad…
▶ 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…
▶ 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…
▶ 1:13:42
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 bank w…
▶ 1:14:11
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…
▶ 53:02
um in italy to go insolvent because he got hung off the friar's bridge in london he was the bank of ambrosia or something like that however you say that abrogiani um bank in italy and they he was trying to escape being arrested they they th…