Vatican City place
also: the Vatican
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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…”
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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...…
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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…