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This pro­gram updates a long-running inves­ti­ga­tion into events in and around the shad­owy P-2 Lodge, a Masonic lodge which served as a crypto-fascist gov­ern­ment that secretly ran Italy for much of the post– World War II period.

The P-2 was founded by Grand Mas­ter Licio Gelli, a for­mer Waf­fen SS offi­cer and ardent sup­porter of Ital­ian Fas­cist dic­ta­tor Mus­solini. Con­victed and/or deeply impli­cated in numer­ous heinous crimes, Gelli embar­rassed Ital­ian author­i­ties by escap­ing from Italy in May of 1998. The pro­gram cov­ers his escape and recent activities.

In addi­tion, the broad­cast dis­cusses the mur­der of Alois Ester­mann, the head of the Swiss Guards, who’ve served for cen­turies as the Pope’s body­guards. A mem­ber of an arch-reactionary Vat­i­can order known as Opus Dei, Ester­mann shielded the John Paul II from fur­ther bul­lets dur­ing the attempt on his life in May of 1981.

The con­clu­sion of the pro­gram details an ongo­ing cover-up by var­i­ous intel­li­gence agen­cies of the truth con­cern­ing the attempt on the Pope’s life. In addi­tion to dis­cussing indi­ca­tions that var­i­ous West­ern intel­li­gence agen­cies gen­er­ated the now dis­cred­ited Bul­gar­ian the­sis, the pro­gram sets forth infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing con­tin­ued threats to the Pope’s life from the Grey Wolves (a Turk­ish fas­cist orga­ni­za­tion, to which con­victed would-be papal assas­sin Mehmet Ali Agca belonged.) Please note that the afore­men­tioned P-2 Lodge is con­nected to the attempt on the Pope’s life.