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COMMENT: On Mon­day, April 13, Dave pre­sent­ed a tuto­r­i­al on the rela­tion­ship between the Vat­i­can and fas­cism.

Begin­ning with the Vatican’s chan­nel­ing of mon­ey to Ger­man Army intel­li­gence agent Adolf Hitler in 1919 through Papal Nun­cio to Munich Arch­bish­op Euge­nio Pacel­li (lat­er Pope Pius XII), the talk traces the man­i­fes­ta­tion of the insti­tu­tion­al rela­tion­ships stem­ming from the Lat­er­an Treaty of 1929.

Those rela­tion­ships are inex­tri­ca­bly-linked with the devel­op­ment and oper­a­tions of fas­cism at a fun­da­men­tal lev­el.

Top­ics of Dis­cus­sion and Analy­sis Include: The Lat­er­an Treaty’s estab­lish­ment as the offi­cial state reli­gion of Italy and Mussolini’s “Cor­po­rate State;” The Treaty’s estab­lish­ment of the IOR (The Vat­i­can Bank); The Treaty’s estab­lish­ment of the Vat­i­can as a Sep­a­rate State with its own pass­ports and diplo­mat­ic sta­tus; The Treaty’s ben­e­fits to sib­lings of the Pope (Pius XII: Euge­nio Pacel­li); Pius XII’s suc­cess­ful encour­age­ment of the Vat­i­can Bank’s invest­ment in Nazi Ger­many; The Hitler-Pius estab­lish­ment of the Church Tax, which filled the Church’s cof­fers in Ger­many; The Opus Dei orga­ni­za­tion and its fun­da­men­tal role in Franco’s fas­cist gov­ern­ment in Spain; The Vatican’s sup­port for the bru­tal Ustachi regime in Croa­t­ia; The financ­ing of the Vat­i­can “Rat­lines” using forged UK cur­ren­cy from Oper­a­tion Bernhard—supervised by Friedrich Schwend; Car­di­nal Gio­van­ni Bat­tista Montini’s cen­tral role in the Rat­lines; The beat­i­fi­ca­tion of Ustachi par­lia­men­tary mem­ber Alois Stepinac; The Vat­i­can Bank’s role fun­nel­ing Nazi mon­ey back from Ger­many, through Switzer­land and on to Latin Amer­i­ca; The beat­i­fi­ca­tion of Father Jose Maria de Bal­a­guer (founder of Opus Dei); Hugh Angle­ton (father of James Jesus Angle­ton) and his intro­duc­tion of Michele Sin­dona to Car­di­nal Gio­van­ni Bat­tista Mon­ti­ni (lat­er Pope Paul VI); P‑2 Grand­mas­ter Licio Gel­li and his role in the Rat­lines; Gelli’s mem­ber­ship in the elite Her­mann Goer­ing Divi­son of the Wehrma­cht; The P‑2’s role as a cryp­to-fas­cist gov­ern­ment of Italy in the post­war peri­od; The role of the P‑2 with the CIA in foment­ing “The Strat­e­gy of Ten­sion;” Licio Gelli’s role in the found­ing of the Red Brigades; The large num­ber of key Ital­ian intel­li­gence offi­cers belong­ing to the P‑2; Vat­i­can Bank advi­sor Michele Sindona’s role in the col­lapse of the Franklin Nation­al Bank; Sindona’s alleged “sui­cide” in Jail; Medellin car­tel king­pin Pablo Escobar’s alleged bank­ing of funds with the Ban­co Ambrosiano; Sindona’s charge that the miss­ing funds from Ban­co Ambrosiano (which col­lapsed the bank) were used to fight anti-Com­mu­nism in Latin Amer­i­ca; P‑2 mem­ber and Vat­i­can finan­cial advi­sor Rober­to Calvi’s alleged “sui­cide” in Lon­don; Lico Gelli’s even­tu­al indict­ment for Calvi’s mur­der; The curi­ous death of Pope John Paul I, after he moved to sev­er the rela­tion­ship between the Vat­i­can and the P‑2 Lodge; The ascent of reac­tionary Pol­ish Car­di­nal Karol Wojty­la to the Papa­cy; John Paul II’s spon­sor­ship of Nazi banker Her­man Abs to over­see a com­mis­sion look­ing into cor­rup­tion at the Vat­ian Bank; The shoot­ing of John Paul II after his attempts at tamp­ing down con­flict with the U.S.S.R.; For­mer CIA Sta­tion Chief in Turkey Paul Henze’s float­ing of “The Bul­gar­i­an Hypoth­e­sis;” The Grey Wolves role as the Turk­ish com­po­nent of Oper­a­tion Stay Behind; BND agent Horst Grillmaier’s traf­fick­ing of the pis­tol used by Agca; The role of Latin Amer­i­can branch­es of the P‑2 in “The Strat­e­gy of Ten­sion” in Latin Amer­i­ca; Over­lap of the P‑2 Lodge with Klaus Barbie’s Bride­grooms of Death fas­cists in Bolivia; P‑2 involve­ment with fas­cist coup attempts in Italy in 1970 and 1973; The role of the Stibam arms-for drug ring with the shoot­ing of the Pope; The role of Stibam with both the Iran-Con­tra Scan­dal and the Iraq­gate scan­dal; The rela­tion­ship of Stibam to the Ban­co Ambrosiano; The untime­ly deaths of Stibam king­pin Hen­ry Arsan, alleged Pope-shoot­ing pay­mas­ter Bekir Celenk and P‑s mem­ber and Ital­ian intel­li­gence offi­cial Giuseppe San­tovi­to; The car-bomb­ing of Stibam inves­ti­ga­tor Car­lo Paler­mo; The role of Ger­man Car­di­nal Josef Frings in the rise of Car­di­nal Joseph Ratzinger (lat­er Pope Bene­dict XVI); Ratzinger’s mem­ber­ship in the Hitler Youth; Ratzinger’s appoint­ment of Ger­man Knight of Mal­ta and Blohm & Voss board mem­ber Ernst von Frey­berg to head the Vat­i­can Bank; The pos­si­ble role of “The Vel­vet Mafia” (a pow­er­ful gay sub­stra­tum with the Vat­i­can) and the res­ig­na­tion of Pope Bene­dict XVI); Benedict’s post-res­ig­na­tion res­i­dence in Vat­i­can City, ren­der­ing him immune to inves­ti­ga­tion and pros­e­cu­tion.

NB: Black Fri­ar’s Bridge (from which Rober­to Calvi alleged­ly hung him­self) is in Lon­don.