Vatican City place
also: the Vatican, Vatican, Vatican Bank, Vatican City State
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Claims (7)
Robert F. Wagner appointed
Vatican City documented
“Calls up Mr. Wagner and says, hey, how would you like to be my ambassador to the Vatican where John Paul II had just been elected? Wow. Yeah, he takes that job. John Paul II is the guy that the Turkish gray wolves shot. And of course, the V…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Society Societies @ 42:32
CIA operated_in
Vatican City host_asserted
“having died, knowing because of previous conclaves to elect the next Pope, and the CIA had went into the Vatican and bugged all of the different offices. So they decide they're going to do secret balloting this time, and they put them, inst…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 11 and 12 @ 14:27
Vatican City laundered_money_for
Operation Gladio book_quoted
“Operation Gladio Drug Network was depositing and laundering into the Vatican. He was using the 10 to 15% cut that the Vatican was taking for the money laundering and giving it to Solidarity in a, and he was actually talking to the Soviet Un…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16 @ 1:44:44
Pat Nixon spied_on
Vatican City documented
“And then there's this conversation on Nixon tapes. I think it's I've also pinned that one to the nest where he starts talking with Nixon about his plans in Italy. And then suddenly there's this two minute national security break for the Vat…”
▶ Revolution by another name Operation Gladio —GREECE @ 1:13:56
Reinhard Gehlen lived_in
Vatican City host_asserted
“who were to be assassinated in case of an emergency. And this is all, again, in the name of democracy. Keep that in mind. Upon questioning him, he tells them that they received millions of dollars in funding from an American citizen named S…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER - Operation Gladio by Paul Williams Chapter 5 and 6 @ 28:52
Vatican City funded
Solidarity (Poland) book_quoted
“Operation Gladio Drug Network was depositing and laundering into the Vatican. He was using the 10 to 15% cut that the Vatican was taking for the money laundering and giving it to Solidarity in a, and he was actually talking to the Soviet Un…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in The Skorzeny Papers Chapter 15-16 @ 1:44:44
Vatican City laundered_money_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“They all have this symbology because there's an obelisk there. Well, interestingly enough, those were kind of the three things that created Gladio, too. Right. And the NATO and all of the rest, because it was MI6, the CIA, and they used the…”
▶ Colonel's Corner Podcast with Ron Partain Operation Gladio Part 3 @ 37:32
Mentions (17)
▶ 1:13:56
And then there's this conversation on Nixon tapes. I think it's I've also pinned that one to the nest where he starts talking with Nixon about his plans in Italy. And then suddenly there's this two minute national security break for the Vat…
▶ 27:34
Since they were communists, they had no interest in the Catholic Church. And they had certainly no interest in the Vatican remaining, the Vatican City, within the heart of Italy. So the Church at that time stood to lose its status as a gove…
▶ 28:05
stood on the brink of losing everything. You've got to realize that before the Lateran Treaty and the ascent of Mussolini, the church, the assets of the Roman Catholic Church, amassed a little more than a million dollars. It's dirt poor. An…
▶ 55:30
The book came out in 70 and the movie came out in 72. Set up BCCI and Nugent Hand Bank as part of their money laundering operation in 1972. Yeah. And, you know, what's also interesting, I mean, I mean, these are works of fiction, but someho…
▶ 56:49
the affairs of the Vatican are laid to rest and Pope Pius XII is happy because, you know, there's no longer this awful threat facing him. Well, but there's, you know, Donovan and company and Dulles say, you know, there's one thing that we c…
▶ 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…
▶ 59:59
I mean, all of that was possible because suddenly the CIA is rich. Matter of fact, rich beyond measure. Rich not thanks to the American taxpayer, not thanks to the American government, but rich thanks to two sources, one heroin to the Vatic…
▶ 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...…
▶ 10:23
billionaire George Soros established in Budapest the Soros Foundation. His first target was Poland. John Paul II and U.S. President Ronald Reagan met in 1982 at the Vatican to discuss the destabilization of the communist bloc. In this endea…
▶ 4:23
leading clergy to move Vatican funds into an account under a cardinal's name and stockpile cash in a shopping bag. Not the kind of behavior you really expect out of your priests. The auditor was mystified that nuns kept account ledgers in p…
▶ 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…
▶ 12:13
tell the Vatican to give up information. A lot of investigations died on the vine. The other next part of the Vatican balance sheet or the Catholic Church is the Vatican City-State budget. And that's revenue sources from that are the Vatica…
▶ 28:11
What was going on was Italian unification, and what they did is they annexed all of the Vatican's properties, eliminating over a billion in annual revenue, and left the church, the only real estate they really owned, was what's now known as…