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1. P2 – the Most Infamous Masonic Sect
   The most infamous masonic lodge in Europe is called P2, which has
   been interpreted as Propaganda 2, but should rather be read
   Palladism 2 (Albert Pike was the founder of this very secret Palla-
   dian freemasonry), whose centres were in Charleston, Rome, and
   Berlin.
   P2 officially was established in 1966 by Giordano Gamberini, grand
   master of the Grande Oriente d’ltalia, with a membership of 18 000.
   In actual fact a Palladian masonic Council in Rome formed by
   Giuseppe Mazzini and Albert Pike, was developed into a secret Maso-
   nic lodge in 1877 called Propaganda Massonica. This was introduced
   for those freemasons that visited the capital from other parts of
   Italy, and the king himself was a member. Later its 23 councils
   became centres for terrorism.
   Together with the Illuminati, the Grand Orient of France played a
   leading role in the Jacobine takeover in France in 1789, the event
   known as the “Great” French Revolution. The Grand Orient was under
   the total control of the Illuminati, according to several historians,
   among those Nesta Webster.
   After the Second World War, when freemasonry again was legal in
   Italy, the Italian freemasonry was reorganized by the Americans. The
   CIA emissary Gilliotti personally began cleansing the Grande Oriente
   d’ltalia of less important members. Gianni Rossi and Francesco Lom-
   brassa stated in their book “In the Name of the ‘Lodge'” (“In nome
   della ‘loggia’: Le prove di come la massoneria segreta la tentato di
   impadronarsi dello stato italiano. Iretroscena della P2”), published in
   1981 that “the Americans, especially those representing the Mafia
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   and the CIA within the freemasonry, held… the future of the Grande
   Oriente in their hands”.
   In 1965, P2 had only 14 members. It had become a lodge of the
   elite. The members were known as piduesti (P2s). When Gamberini
   during the years 1966-67 re-organized the lodge by order of the
   grand master of the Grand Lodge, Lino Salvini, he picked Licio Gelli
   as grand master in 1967. The small businessman Gelli, who came from
   Arezzo in Tuscany, had been initiated into the Grande Oriente and P2
   in Rome in 1965 after a long sojourn abroad. He was also a member
   of the Order of Malta.
   Gelli had fought on the Franco side in the Spanish Civil War and
   avidly supported Mussolini. During the Second World War he tortured
   and murdered communist partisans and reported them. At the same
   time he belonged to the underground communist party. After the war
   Gelli and the Catholic priest Krujoslav Dragonovic organized a ‘rat
   line’ for Nazis wishing to flee to South America. Gelli’s fee was 40 per
   cent of their money (David Yallop, “In God’s Name”, London, 1985, p.
   172).
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   In 1954, Gelli himself had to flee to Argentina, where he became
   the protege of President Juan Peron. He had acquired dual citizen-
   ship. Gelli was also close to Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza.
   Under Gelli P2 grew quickly. He used ruthless blackmail to recruit
   new members to his lodge (Stephen Knight, “The Brotherhood”,
   London, 1994, p. 271). All members should be loyal to Gelli and not
   to the Italian state. P2 members were to obey for fear of horrible
   punishment. He blackmailed his “brothers”; compromising documents
   were found in his villa in Tuscany. Membership fees were sky-high.
   The P2 headquarters were located at Hotel Excelsior in Rome. In
   actual fact P2 was run by the Swiss Grand Lodge Alpina.
   In 1973, the Swiss journalist Mattieu Paol began investigating the
   role of Alpina in forming the EC (European Community). The principal
   propagandist was President de Gaulle, who belonged to this lodge.
   Paol’s book “Les Dessous” (“The Undercurrents”) caused a feeling of
   insecurity in Europe. This had to be eliminated. The Israeli intelli-
   gence kidnapped him, accused him of espionage and executed him
   without trial. Mossad had in fact become the terror organization of
   the Rothschilds.
   Through a powerful member of P2, the banker Michele Sindona,
   Gelli became connected to the Cosa Nostra in the 1970s. P2 soon had
   close ties to the Mafia and was above all involved in narcotics
   trafficking.
   Dr Agostino Cordova, the public prosecutor for the Calabrian town
   of Palmi and one of the foremost experts on the Mafia, in 1993 was
   able to link Gelli to the Calabrian masonic lodge Roccella Ionica,
   which was involved in criminal activities, as well as to the local
   Mafia, ‘Ndrangheta, whose chief business was to cheat the EU Com-
   mission of its agriculture benefits. At least ten per cent of the EU
   budget is lost due to fraud and corruption. Cordova concluded that
   P2 Grand Master Gelli, known as II Venerabile (the Venerable) was
   indeed involved in the fraud and massive arms and drugs conspiracy.
   All P2 members were involved in economic crimes. The government
   was cheated of 2 billion dollars per year in unpaid taxes. Using false
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   documents crude oil was sold instead of petroleum, since diesel oil
   was heavier taxed. There were also fraudulent stock transactions and
   illegal currency exports. In April 1997, an international accounting
   firm claimed that organized fraud were swindling European Union
   citizens and companies of more than 50 billion dollars yearly. The
   firm investigated the fraud for the EU Commission. In Italy alone
   200 000 people make a living out of fraud.
   When prosecutor Cordova in February 1993 exposed Gelli’s criminal
   ties with the Calabrian lodge at Roccella Ionica, in defrauding the
   Commission, the socialist Minister of Justice, Claudio Martelli,
   blocked Cordova’s nomination as chief prosecutor of the Italian Anti-
   Mafia Commission and as public prosecutor of Naples, where the local
   Mafia is called the Camorra (Brian Freemantle, “The Octopus”, Lon-
   don, 1995, p. 19).
   Soon anticorruption Judge Cordova revealed that Martelli had
   completely stopped his investigations into masonic and Mafia in-
   filtration of the power centre of the European Union {ibid, p. 256).
   Cordova pointed out that one member of the Parliamentary Anti-
   Mafia Commission was a P2 freemason. Martelli resigned his office
   and the Socialist Party. Briefly he went to London to take a course in
   economics.
   P2 was during the 1970s under great influence of the Grande
   Oriente, but Gelli wanted it to be more independent.
   P2 was responsible for the bombing attack at the Bank of Com-
   merce at Piazza Fontana in Milan on 12 December 1969, when 16
   people died. They also arranged another bomb explosion in a tunnel
   against the train Italicus between Rome and Monaco, the night of 4
   August 1974, as part of a planned coup d’etat, which failed. Twelve
   people died and 105 were injured.
   In December 1974, Lino Salvini, grand master of the Grande Orien-
   te d’ltalia, suggested that P2 be closed. He wanted publicly to repu-
   diate the lodge. In March 1975, Gelli formed the new P2 and again
   became grand master. The list of the members was officially no
   longer secret to the Grande Oriente. Spartaco Mennini, grand secre-
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   tary of the Grande Oriente d’ltalia, only knew a third of the members,
   however. The rest of the list Gelli kept to himself as well as the
   Pentagon, who also had a complete list of members of P2 (Philip
   Willan, “Puppet Masters: The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy”, Lon-
   don, 1991, p. 69).
   In July 1976, P2 was suspected of killing Judge Vittorio Occorsio,
   who was investigating P2 connections to other criminal organizations
   among masonic lodges.
   When the freemason Francesco Siniscalchi in 1976 informed the
   chief prosecutor of Rome that Gelli was involved in criminal activity,
   it was ignored. The bubble burst anyway, however.
   Pope John Paul I was a serious threat to freemasonry. He was
   going to stop the illegal money transactions by the freemasons from
   the Vatican to various banks all over the world, and the corruption
   within papacy. In the Vatican there were 100 freemasons at the time.
   Some time between the 28 and 29 September 1978 the pope died. The
   cause of death was listed as unknown. He had been in office only 33
   days. David Yallop proves in his book “In God’s Name” (London,
   1985) that P2 and Gelli had arranged the murder of the pope – and
   behind P2 was the Swiss Grand Lodge Alpina.
   In 1979, Licio Gelli was chosen as chairman of the international
   organization of masonic lodges, Association Maconnique Inter-
   nationale (Vladimir Krasny, “The Children of the Devil”, Moscow,
   1999, p. 272).
   In 1980, Gelli was interviewed in the press, where he stressed that
   freemasonry in Italy to him was like a great puppet theatre. He ad-
   mitted that he always wanted to be the one pulling the strings. That
   was a terrible breach against the official policy of the freemasonry.
   The Italian freemasons were upset. The masonic tribunal convened
   early in 1981 and Gelli was banned from freemasonry, and P2 was
   closed. All actions from Gelli would henceforth be considered illegal.
   The Grande Oriente gave clearance to the police to scrutinize the
   affairs of Gelli and P2. Before that he was left in peace under the
   wings of the Grand Lodge.
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   Italian freemasonry was going to send a clear signal by punishing
   Gelli on 18 March, the day the last grand master of the Knights
   Templar was burned at the stake. On 18 March 1981 the police sear-
   ched Gelli’s villa Vanda in Arezzo, and found many compromising
   documents. In Gelli’s safe a list of 962 P2 members was found. Among
   these were 19 high judges, four ministers (among them the Minister
   for Industry Antonio Bisaglia), three assistant ministers, various
   industrial leaders, diplomats, 195 high-ranking military officers (30
   generals, among them Giulio Grassini, and eight admirals), chiefs of
   police, bankers, journalists and TV stars, editors (including Franco
   LiBella, editor of Corriere della Sera), 58 university professors, heads
   of various political parties (except for the communists) and directors
   of three intelligence services. Among Bettino Craxi’s socialists 35
   were members of P2. At first only these 962 names were disclosed.
   The police also found 150 gold bars with a total weight of 165
   kilos, in the house in Arezzo. The value of the gold was about 2
   million dollars. It was found in the huge flowerpots that stood on the
   terrace in front of the house, which had been searched 34 times
   before but nothing of value had been found.
   On 5 May 1981, the police searched the headquarters of the Grande
   Oriente d’ltalia at 8 via di Pancrazio in Rome, where the P2 mem-
   bership register and correspondence were seized.
   Then it turned out that the real number of freemasons in P2 was as
   many as 2600, 422 of which were employed in the civil service,
   though their actual positions remained unknown. It was revealed
   that P2 had close connections to Banca Nazionale di Livomo. Among
   the lodge members was also Silvio Berlusconi, who was considered to
   be the Italian media king. In the beginning he denied being a mem-
   ber of P2, but the records show that he became a member on 26
   January 1978. His membership number was 1816, issued under the
   code E.19.78. He was recommended as a member by the socialist
   leader Bettino Craxi, who was returned to power on 4 August 1983.
   Craxi’s socialist Minister of Finance, Pietro Longo, was also a member
   of P2 (No. 2223).
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   On 11 May 1994, Silvio Berlusconi became Italian prime minister,
   despite a career of scandals and fraud. He acquired his villa in
   Ancona through the attorney Cesare Previti (later gratified as
   minister of defence), who administered the estate for an under-age
   girl whose parents had died in a tragedy. Berlusconi lived there for
   ten years without even paying the low fee agreed upon or the
   property tax (Giovanni Ruggeri, “Berlusconi gli affari del Presidente”
   / “The Business of Chairman Berlusconi”, Rome, 1995). Berlusconi
   was returned as prime minister in May 2001.
   In June 2002, Berlusconi had three outspoken newscasters fired.
   Enzo Biagi, Michele Santoro, and Daniele Luttazzi were some of the
   most popular journalists at Italian National TV (RAI). They had
   exposed some of his criminal activities. As a typical freemason, Ber-
   lusconi denied all involvement in this new scandal.
   Now let us return to Gelli. The French intelligence service, which is
   controlled by the Grand Orient of France, prevented Italian security
   police from arresting Gelli in March 1982, so that he could escape to
   Switzerland (David Yallop, “In God’s Name”, London, 1985, p. 444).
   He was arrested in his absence, charged with political, military and
   industrial espionage. He was considered a threat to the national
   security. Interpol managed, however, to seize him in Geneva on 13
   September 1982, when he tried to withdraw 120 million dollars from
   a secret bank account using a false passport. The account had been
   frozen at the request of the Italian Government. He was taken into
   custody in one of Switzerland’s maximum security prisons. Champ
   Dollon outside of Geneva.
   On 10 August 1983, Gelli escaped. It was officially claimed that
   Gelli had paid 12 000 Swiss francs to a prison guard, Umberto Ger-
   dana. According to Admiral Emilio Massera (P2), Gelli had five false
   passports at his disposal. He first fled to Argentina and later to
   Uruguay, a country the Italian freemasonry maintains especially good
   connections with, but returned to Switzerland in 1987. He was
   extradited to Italy in 1988 and was released on probation after a
   month in custody.
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   On 8 May 1981, an investigation was opened and on 21 May 1981
   the government made public the P2 membership list. There were
   members of the cabinet (Minister of Justice Adolfo Sarti, Giulio
   Andreotti, prime minister 1972-73 and 1976-1979), and 43 members
   of parliament among others. Andreotti again became prime minister
   in 1989 as though nothing had happened. He was also a member of
   the Prieure de Sion (Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln, “The Messianic
   Legacy”. London, 1986. p. 426).
   The Italian government under Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani fell,
   however, on 25 May 1981. The scandal almost led to the dissolution
   of NATO.
   On 9 June 1981, there was a new search at the headquarters of
   Grande Oriente in Rome. Lists of all Italian freemason were seized
   and the archives were sealed.
   Not until 15 July 1981, could Giovanni Spadolini form a new
   government that took power on 28 July.
   P2 was declared illegal and was “dissolved” by an act of parliament
   on 21 January 1982. In the extensive file about the still-active
   organization, P2 is described as “an invisible power structure con-
   nected to economic crime, political and military circles and the
   intelligence service, formed so as to be a state within the state”.
   The CIA made sure that P2 started to function again. Armando
   Corono, who was Spadolini’s closest associate, on 27 March 1982,
   became the new grand master, while in Gelli’s absence. The masonic
   elite was in great need of such subversive lodges.
   On 2 July 1990, the former CIA and Mossad agent Richard Bren-
   neke was interviewed by Italian TV. He told the following: “I have
   known P2 since 1969 and I had deals with P2 in Europe since that time
   and I had contact with it also recently, till the beginning of the 1980s.
   The US government sent money to P2. In some periods the sum was
   about 1 -10 million a month…
   The CIA money for P2 had several aims. One of them was terrorism.
   Another aim was to get P2’s help to smuggle dope into the United States
   from other countries. We used them to create situations favourable to the
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   explosion of terrorism in Italy and in other European countries at the
   beginning of the 1970s…
   P2 since the beginning of the 1970s was used for the dope traffic, for
   destabilization in a covert way. It was done secretly to keep people from
   knowing about the involvement of the US government. In many cases it
   was done directly through the offices of the CIA in Rome and in some
   other cases through CIA centres in other countries…
   P2 collaborated with agencies of the American government in sending
   weapons to Iran after the meeting of 1980.
   I
   know that Bush was in Paris in the same day for meetings dealing
   with the freedom of the hostages and the payment of a ransom for their
   freedom. Gelli took part in these meetings… My accusations are very
   serious and I would not do it without evidence.”
   Richard Brenneke claimed a close co-operation with P2 for over 20
   years. The real control of P2 was in Switzerland and the United
   States. The journalist Mino Pecorelli, member of P2, also revealed
   that the lodge was controlled by the CIA. Brenneke confirmed that
   the lodge continues as P7 in Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and Ger-
   many.
   A further 128 freemasons were involved with Gelli in a massive
   arms and drugs conspiracy (Brian Freemantle, “The Octopus: Europe
   in the Grip of Organised Crime”, London, 1995, p. 19).
   In July 1990, the Italian President Francesco Cossiga demanded an
   investigation of the claims by Brenneke that the CIA had paid Licio
   Gelli to encourage terrorist activities in Italy at the end of 1960s and
   1970s.
   Gelli was also one of the main architects behind the communist
   terror group the Red Brigade’s (Brigate Rosse) many operations. Gelli
   and P2 get them started in 1969. La Repubblica was upset that
   among the P2 members was also the Judge Guido Barbara, who was
   to prosecute the Red Brigades (Juan Maler, “Das Jiingste Gericht” /
   “The Doomsday”, Buenos Aires, 1982, p. 25).
   P2 together with the Red Brigades organized the kidnapping and
   murder of the Christian democrat leader Aldo Moro (prime minister
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   1963-1968 and 1974-1976, and later chairman of the National
   Council). According to the P2 secret list, he was also a member of the
   lodge. During the kidnapping on 16 March 1978, Moro’s five body-
   guards were also killed. The authorities refused to negotiate with the
   terrorists. The Christian democrat’s political secretary Flaminio Piccoli
   stated that Moro was killed on 9 May 1978, because he did not want
   Italy to be transformed into a masonic arena for various illegal
   activities.
   Half an hour before the assault took place (at 8:30 a.m.), a radio
   station already broadcast the story that Aldo Moro had been kid-
   napped. The Red Brigades had their accomplices. An intelligence
   officer was present as can be seen from press photographs. He
   explained that he was to have lunch with a friend – but a 9 in the
   morning?
   All members of the crisis group that was supposed to find Moro
   belonged to P2, namely the director of the secret police General
   Bassini, the chief of intelligence General Santo Vito, General Walter
   Perusi, General Raffaele Giudice, director of the Finance Police. Anti-
   terrorist experts resigned in protest against the incompetence and
   sloppiness. They claimed it was all a play to the gallery.
   Corrado Guerzoni, who was a close associate of Moro, testified in
   Rome on 10 November 1982 at the trial of the alleged killer that
   Moro was under great threat. During an official visit to the United
   States, Henry Kissinger showed up at Moro’s hotel room and
   threatened him: “Either you change your policies or you will pay for
   your opposition with your life.”
   Aldo Moro was upset and immediately went home to Italy. His wife
   Eleonora confirmed this in her testimony. Moro stuck to his policy.
   The American press did not report this, but in Italy it was widely
   published.
   The plan to kill Moro was co-ordinated at the highest level. This is
   shown by the fact that his police protection was withdrawn,
   although it was known that many infamous red terrorists were
   gathered in Rome at the time. The abduction and murder was a co-
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   operation between the CIA, the KGB, the Mafia, the Red Brigades and
   the freemasons. At the interrogation many Red Brigades members
   admitted that they knew the CIA was involved.
   The Italian writer Lionardo Sciascia and the film director Giuseppe
   Ferrara were convinced that the police knew exactly where Moro was
   hidden, but that they had orders not to find him (Bjorn Kumm,
   “Terrorismens historia” / “The History of Terrorism”, Lund, 1998, pp.
   172-173).
   The journalist and P2 member Mino Pecorelli was the owner of the
   weekly L’Osservatore Politico, and had many contacts within the
   Italian intelligence service. He told his lodge brother Giulio Andreotti
   of his intention to publish an article about the role of Andreotti in
   the abduction and murder of Aldo Moro. Soon thereafter Pecorelli
   was murdered by order of Andreotti. The defected mafia boss Tom-
   maso Buscetta revealed this 15 years later. Not until 17 November
   2002 was 83-year old Andreotti sentenced to 24 years in prison for
   commissioning the murder of Mino Pecorelli in 1979. The Supreme
   Court acquitted him, however, on 30 October 2003.
   Gelli took the opportunity to get rid of other objectionable P2
   members: Giorgio Ambrosoli, Antonio Varisco, and Boris Giuliano.
   They knew far too much and could threaten Gelli’s safety and
   position (David Yallop, “In God’s Name”, London, 1985, p. 440).
   One of the prosecutors against P2 declared later: “The P2 Lodge was
   a covert sect, which connected businessmen with politics in order to
   destroy the constitutional order of Italy.”
   In early July 1981, Licio Gelli’s daughter Maria flew to Italy. At
   Rome’s airport Fiumicino she was arrested and her bag was searched.
   In a hidden compartment was found secret P2 documents from the
   State Department in Washington, D.C., among these “The Plan for the
   Democratic Renaissance”.
   The authorities disclosed that Gelli also was a KGB agent, who had
   secret affairs and hidden connections to communist countries, among
   them Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who according to Pier
   Carpi (?The Gelli Case?, Bologna, 1982) was a freemason.
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   It was evident that P2 was indirectly linked to the assault on Pope
   John Paul II and that the lodge organized the explosion at the
   railway station in Bologna, the foremost communist central in Italy,
   on 2 august 1980, where 85 people died and 200 were wounded. Gelli
   himself financed this bombing.
   The Italian weekly Panorama disclosed in September 1984 that
   Stefano delle Chiaie, the Italian freemason and terrorist leader who
   in 1982 had been named by the ex-freemason Ciolini as the brain
   behind the Bologna bombing, later became a consultant to the
   communist terror group Sendero Luminoso in Peru. At the end of the
   1960s he was the leader of the neo-nazi group Avanguardia Nazionale
   in Rome. In the mid-1980s he worked with Alianza Argentina Anti-
   comunista, an organization of 2000 men, financed with drug profits.
   Later he led a South American private army (an assassination group).
   Panorama stated that the decision to place the bomb in Bologna
   actually was made by the Swiss Grand Lodge Alpina together with
   lodges in Lausanne and Monte Carlo. P2 only served as a middleman
   in organising the bombing.
   In October 1984, General Pietro Musumeci, head of the domestic
   department within the Italian military intelligence (SISMI), was char-
   ged with covering up the Bologna incident. The General was also a
   member of P2 (David Yallop, “In God’s Name”, London, 1985, p. 465).
   P2 was from the beginning financed by the KGB as well, which had
   recruited Gelli early on. The aim of the KGB was to destabilise Italy
   and to weaken NATO’s southern flank. At the same time P2 was, of
   course, also financed by the CIA.
   The British writer Stephen Knight published a secret document,
   dated 4 June 1981, which he had received from the intelligence
   service MI6. In the document it shows that KGB was behind P2 and
   that they used masonic lodges to infiltrate Western nations with
   their agents. Communist agents that were freemasons in the West
   received substantial aid in their careers from their lodge brothers.
   One could mention, Georges Ebon, who was arrested in France in the
   1950s (Terry Walton, “KGB in France”, Moscow, 1993, pp. 67-68).
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   This document stressed the fact that within the intelligence
   services freemasons more easily reach top positions. KGB’s greatest
   success was when their agent Sir Roger Hollis was named director of
   MI5, where he served from 1955 to 1965. The official investigation
   did not reach this conclusion, however. Hollis was a freemason, and
   according to the above-mentioned document, high officials that also
   were freemasons usually were never exposed when suspected of
   wrong-doing. Either the case was closed or it was dropped for lack of
   evidence. Therefore the author of the document demanded that the
   heads of intelligence services should not belong to a masonic order.
   Stephen Knight pointed out that the freemasons in Great Britain
   have a very great influence. Prince Charles is the first in modern
   times to break the tradition that male pretenders to the throne be
   freemasons.
   In 1980, the chekist Ilya Dzhirkvelov who was stationed in Italy
   defected to the West and disclosed that the KGB was using the
   masonic lodges for their own purposes. Especially successful were the
   Soviet agents in Great Britain (as well as in Italy), since they mana-
   ged to infiltrate the most powerful lodges. Dzhirkvelov explained
   how the KGB gave instructions to its British agents to become free-
   masons, since society was ruled from these lodges.
   Licio Gelli plundered Italy’s largest private bank, Banco Ambro-
   siano, of a billion dollars in 1982. He used 200 million dollars to buy
   arms for Argentina to use in the coming war for the Falklands. The
   Argentine General Carlos Suirez and Admiral Emilio Massara, who
   participated in planning the invasion, were also P2 members. The
   swindle put the bank in liquidation soon thereafter. The Vatican-
   owned Banco Ambrosiano left a deficit of nearly a billion dollars. It
   was the greatest banking scandal in Italy in modern times.
   The manager and chief owner of Banco Ambrosiano Roberto Calvi,
   his masonic bodyguards Florio Carboni and Sylvano Vittot, went from
   his home in Rome first to Switzerland on 10 June and arrived in
   London on 15 June 1982. He told the press: “Sono massone, ma della
   loggia di Londra.” (“I am a freemason, but belong to the lodge in
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   London.”, La Nazione, Rome, 11 December 1981) He was, however,
   also a member of P2. On 18 June, he was found hanged beneath
   Blackfriars Bridge on the Thames in London, four miles from Chelsea
   Cloister, where he was staying – not far from London Freemasons’
   Hall. The official verdict, published by Scotland Yard, was suicide. He
   suffered badly from vertigo, however, and would never have arranged
   to climb down under the bridge to hang himself. In addition, it was
   concluded that he had first been strangled.
   The freemason Calvi, called God’s banker, had just prior threatened
   to expose the P2 role in the bank crash. He was accused of 65
   different crimes, including money laundering, fraud, falsifying of
   documents, and perjury. It is interesting to note that P2 members
   used to dress up as blackfriar monks (Dominicans) for their magic
   rites. Later on the ordinary police took over the investigation and
   concluded that it was murder.
   The day before Calvi’s “suicide”, his secretary Graziella Corrocher
   threw herself out the window on the fourth floor of the bank’s main
   office in Milan. She had also kept the books for P2. And on 2 October
   1982, another bank employee, Giuseppe Dellacha, jumped out the
   window of the bank and committed “suicide” (David Yallop, “In God’s
   Name”, London, 1985, p. 436).
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   Supposedly Mafia black money (from robberies and kidnappings)
   were laundered at a financial centre in London with the aid of Calvi.
   This financial centre was also in close connection with the Grand
   Lodge in London, which was led by the Duke of Kent. In 1981, Calvi
   confessed before Judge Guido Viola in Milan: “I became a member of
   the Grand Lodge in London because Gelli and Umberto Ortolani talked
   me into it. If I had not done so, it would have been impossible for me to
   do business in London.”
   The banker, mafioso and freemason (P2) Michele Sindona, who was
   a financial adviser to the Vatican and the Mafia, was arrested in 1980
   in the United States, charged with ordering the gangster William
   Arico to murder the accountant Giorgio Ambrosoli in Italy.
   Sindona was sentenced to 25 years in prison in the United States.
   He was originally from Sicily. In 1986, he was extradited to Italy, to
   stand trial for commissioning murder, and sentenced to life in prison.
   In September 1986, he agreed to talk to investigators of the role of
   others in the Banco Ambrosiano case. Before he could do that,
   cyanide was slipped into his coffee in his TV-monitored cell in the
   Voghera prison. His killer was never found (Brian Freemantle, “The
   Octopus: Europe in the Grip of Organized Crime”, London, 1995, p.
   18). Sindona’s last words were: “They have poisoned me.”
   When Stephen Knight’s book “The Brotherhood” was published in
   London in 1985, the British Parliament demanded an investigation of
   P2 connections to the British freemasonry.
   Gelli returned to Italy in early 1988, but he preferred to still live
   in Switzerland and France. Eventually he was rearrested in Switzer-
   land and extradited to Italy. He was sentenced to 12 years for fraud,
   but was soon released on probation. His fourteen masonic “brothers”
   were sentenced to long prison terms for complicity in the terror
   attack at Bologna, but were released in summer of 1990 for “lack of
   evidence”.
   In May 1998, Gelli escape to the French Riviera, even though he
   was not allowed to leave Italy, but in September 1998 he was
   arrested in France. At a new trial Gelli’s criminal role within P2 was
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   also investigated. P2 continued undauntedly to conspire against the
   Republic of Italy.
   In addition P2 was suspected of having taken part in the murder of
   Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. Licio Gelli sent a telegram on 25
   February 1986 – three days before the murder – to one of George
   Bush’s associates called Philip Guarino: “Tell our friend Bush that the
   Swedish palm will be felled!” Guarino admitted that he knew Gelli
   but could not remember such a telegram. This information was leaked
   from the CIA to President Ronald Reagan’s associate Barbara Hon-
   egger, who used it in her book “October Surprise”. It was confirmed
   by the CIA agent Ibrahim Razin in an interview for Italian TV in May
   1990.
   Razin said: “During the summer of 1986 I interrogated a very im-
   portant leader of the American Mafia, whose name I cannot mention, who
   told me that such a telegram was sent from Gelli to Philip Guarino, at that
   time one of the most outstanding members of the Republican circle
   around Bush.”
   RAI journalist Ennio Remondino: “Do you have any precise indication
   about the existence of the telegram?”
   Razin: “At present the FBI has opened an inquiry on this story. The
   existence of the telegram is also indicated by the archives of the National
   Security Agency.”
   Remondino: “From where was this telegram sent precisely and who
   got it?”
   Razin: “It was received with the signature of Licio Gelli and was
   addressed to Philip Guarino. It was sent from South America, from one of
   the southernmost regions of Brazil. According to the most reliable
   information, it was sent by a man called Ortolani on behalf of Licio Gelli
   or in any case on Gelli’s instructions.”
   This mafia boss had close contact with Licio Gelli.
   The most bewildering thing was that a Soviet diplomat and KGB
   agent knew of this plan a few days in advance, when he mentioned it
   to his wife in their bedroom.. His home was bugged by the Swedish
   secret police (SAPO).
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   How could a Soviet diplomat know in advance that Olof Palme was
   to be murdered? The translator, who translated the tapes, realized
   that Moscow had initiated the murder (Expressen, 24 August 1989).
   The chief prosecutor Anders Helin of the case on the other hand
   thought: “It meant nothing.” The information was considered non-
   sense. The chief prosecutor Jan Danielsson discovered the bugging
   tapes, but the Swedish government did not let him use them because
   of the sensitive relations to the Soviet Union (Svenska Dagbladet, 17
   September 1990).
   In 1987, not far from the site of the murder a total of five obelisks
   were erected to “ornament” the area. One obelisk is just a few metres
   from where Palme was shot.
   In 1994, P2 was again declared illegal. It had thoroughly infiltra-
   ted the Grand Lodge and the Grande Oriente d’ltalia. Giuliano di Ber-
   nardo, grand master of the Grande Oriente, failed to weed out the
   worst criminals. In 1993, he went through the secret documents of
   the lodge and left the order with the statement: “I have seen a
   monster.” (Brian Freemantle, “The Octopus”, London, 1995, p. 14)
   The present grand master is Gustavo Raffi.
   Giuliano di Bernardo moved from Rome to Milan. There he founded
   a new lodge independent of the Grande Oriente d’ltalia. He began co-
   operating with the police in the investigation of the ties between the
   freemasonry and mafia.
   On 16 April 1994, Licio Gelli was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
   During the trial of P2 he was only accused of exercising undue
   influence, and the spreading of state secrets. Eleven of the other
   freemasons charged were acquitted.
   Leoluca Orlando, the mayor of Palermo and member of the Euro-
   pean Parliament, founded the Anti-Mafia Party La Rete (The Net-
   work). Orlando realized that organized crime gets its strength from
   its ties to freemasonry. To the writer Brian Freemantle he pointed
   out that “never think of Mafia without freemasonry, the two are
   connected”. 15 armed bodyguards constantly guarded Orlando’s
   family.
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   P2 has been involved in enormous financial rackets, arms trading,
   illegal art dealings, drug trafficking, terrorism and political assassi-
   nations. Despite all that was revealed, the lodge members still kept
   their key positions in Italian society.
   In his memoirs, “My truth”, Gelli claimed that P2 merely was “a
   club for friends with good intentions”.
   The French freemason Jean-Christophe Mitterrand (Grand Orient),
   son of former president Franeois Mitterrand, was involved in illegal
   arms trading to Angola. A French court of enquiry in January 2001
   demanded that the Swiss authorities freeze his bank accounts there.
   Tina Anselmi, chairman of the P2 commission, complained that:
   “P2 is by no means dead. It still has power. It is working in the insti-
   tutions. It is moving in the society. It has money, means and instruments
   still at its disposal. It still has fully operative power centres in South
   America. It is also still able to condition, at least in part, Italian political
   life.” (David Yallop, “In God’s Name”, London, 1985, p. 446)
   Leoluca Orlando was of the opinion that through freemasonry the
   Mafia is going all over Europe. He considered that this is a serious
   international problem (Brian Freemantle, op. cit., p. 15).
   Much less has been written about the sister lodge of P2, Iside 2 or
   A2, which was founded by Licio Gelli’s associates. A2 became a
   sophisticated centre for various criminal activities. The lodge was in
   the early 1980s involved in the murder of Judge Carlo Palermo, who
   was the first to verify the ties between the Mafia, freemasonry and
   the Bulgarian and Syrian spy organizations.
   Several investigations by Judge Ciaccio Montaldo have carefully
   verified the connections the Mafia in Trapani, Sicily, had to A2.
   Among the members of the secret lodge A2 were also employees of
   the Bulgarian Embassy in Rome (Antonio Caspari, “Freemasonry,
   Mafia, and Communism”, Stoppa Knarket, No. 4, 1988, pp. 8-9).
   In June 1993, Iside 2 Grand Master Giuseppe Mandalari in a Trapani
   court was sentenced for founding a secret society (Claire Sterling,
   “Crime without Frontiers: The Worldwide Expansion of Organized
   Crime and the Pax Mafiosa”, London, 1994, p. 230).
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   Freemasons all over the world are morally responsible for the
   crimes lodges such as the Grand Orient of France, P2, A2, P1, P3, and
   Albert Pike in Calabria have committed.
   The Parliamentary Investigative Commission in Rome concluded
   that Italian freemasonry became the principal victim of Gelli’s activi-
   ties, not the Italian society. What was to be expected? Freemasonry
   in Italy is very powerful. There are more than 500 lodges.

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