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Some kind words
“Yes, I remember him. He was all you say he was, and much more. My hope for a more just church and a better world died with him.”
Archbishop Bruce Simpson
“Watch as one beautiful life explodes into a trail of death and destruction in the Roman Catholic Church.”
Howard Jason Smith, Boston Globe
“Like ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ it will enrage the devout and draw low marks from Vatican pawns. Yet, unlike Brown, Gregoire has the proof.”
Dean Webster, historian
“In revealing the dark secret that must have haunted him all his life, Gregoire forces the transformation of Christianity.”
Toby Johnson, White Crane Journal
“A monumental work of twentieth century capitalism as it was jointly embraced by the Vatican and the United States and those caught up in it. Top-shelf CIA-Vatican intrigue.”
T. Francis Elliott, The Times
Table of Contents
Foreword to Murder
Chapter 1 The Murder of John Paul
Chapter 2 The Worst of Children to the Best of Men
Chapter 3 The Minor Seminary at Feltre
Chapter 4 The Tyrant of Feltre
Chapter 5 The worst of People
Chapter 6 The Seminary at Belluno
Chapter 7 The Politics of Albino Luciani
Chapter 8 His Ministry
Chapter 9 Murder in Fatima
Chapter 10 The Marxist Movement in the Church
Chapter 11 How a Pope is Elected
Chapter 12 The Murders of Cardinals Filipiak and Gracias
Chapter 13 The Murder of Cardinal Yu Pin
Chapter 14 The Good Guys vs. the Bad Guys
Chapter 15 His Papacy
Chapter 16 The Murder of Metropolitan Nikodim
Chapter 17 Milan
Chapter 18 Vittorio Veneto
Chapter 19 Murder in the Veneto
Chapter 20 Albino Luciani and General Patton
Chapter 21 The Mud in the Street
Chapter 22 The Winning Card
Chapter 23 To the End of Time
Chapter 24 The Scene of the Crime
Chapter 25 Testament to Murder
Chapter 26 The Murder of Jack Champney
Chapter 27 Motive and Opportunity
Chapter 28 A Conspiracy Buff’s Delight
Chapter 29 The Murder of Paul Marcinkus
Chapter 30 The Swiss Guard Murders
Chapter 31 The Murder of Aldo Moro
Chapter 32 The Murder of Paul VI
Chapter 33 The Murder of Cardinal Villot
Chapter 34 The Vatican Bank Murders
Chapter 35 The Vatican-Contra Affair
Chapter 36 The Ides of March
Chapter 37 The Murder of Cardinal Suenens
Chapter 38 “…by the grace of God.”
Appendix The Vatican Deception
Author
Foreword to Murder
In 1988, the world’s foremost authority on The Vatican in World Politics,1 Avro Manhattan, wrote, “The lack of importance the United States gave to the election of a Pope after the death of pro-American Pius XII through the election of John Paul II has become paramount in the thinking of subversive elements in America. The lingering evidence is too striking to be ignored.
The failure of the United States to influence the election of a pro-American Pope in 1963 was a lesson not to be repeated. The adverse consequence of that failure enormous, the price astronomical in terms of lost opportunity and the deployment of United States policies and billions spent in counteracting Paul VI’s subversive operations.
Paul disseminated his pernicious and anti-American principles via encyclicals condemning the basic capitalistic tenets upon which the United States had been founded. He repeatedly condemned the imperialism of money and condemned private property claiming to give wealth and land to the poor was to give them God’s province…
Paul’s doctrine ‘Liberation Theology’2 took on horrendous roots where the poor were collectively dominant in Latin America, the stability of which was severely threatened. When they reached Central America, military and undercover operations had to be undertaken by the United States to halt his revolution of the poor.
Paul’s doctrine ‘Populorum Progressio’3 fueled the movement toward communism in Europe forcing American intervention in Italy where his ally Aldo Moro’s ‘Historic Compromise’4 threatened to bring about a communist state. In the spring of 1978, Moro was kidnapped while enroute to the House of Representatives where he was about to move communist ministers into control of Parliament.
On the heels of the Moro murder, Paul’s sudden and unexplained death was wrapped with subtle speculations and vague rumors. His deterioration had been so extremely unusual whispers concerning the acceleration of his demise circulated.
These suspicions were well justified when his death was met with delight in the United States, specifically the headquarters of the CIA and the Pentagon which had labeled him the ‘pro-Communist Pope.’
Nevertheless, his providential death gave the CIA the opportunity to carry out its scheme—to force election of a pro-American Pope. The CIA joined factions inside the Church backing the Opus Dei anti-Communist candidate Polish Cardinal Wojtyla. When Albino Luciani, an avowed Marxist in every sense of the word, was elected, it struck a nerve of shattering proportions in the United States…”5
Immediately after the election of John Paul I, Chicago’s Cardinal Cody, a CIA subversive agent, accompanied a disturbed Cardinal Wojtyla back to Krakow where they spent a week together. 6
His first order called for a review of the Vatican bank including an accounting of the Church’s worldwide assets in the interest of liquidating dead assets to support the struggle of the poor in Central America. The image of children starving gnawed at his conscience.7
On his first venture outside Vatican walls, he hugged Rome’s communist mayor in an embrace one reserves for one’s father.
His first audience with a foreign dignitary was with the youthful leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Nikodim, at the time believed to be—and today known to have been—a KGB affiliate. Right wing factions in the United States suspected the Pope sought Soviet financial/arms assistance for his friend Oscar Romero who was struggling against American backed dictators in Central America. Yet, nothing came of the meeting as Nikodim fell dead at John Paul’s feet after sipping coffee.8
A week later, Enrico Berlinguer, head of the Italian Communist Party, showed up at the Papal Palace—perceived by the CIA as an attempt to resurrect the Historic Compromise which had been sidelined by the murder of Aldo Moro.9
On September 13th Cardinal Wojtyla flew back to
Italy10 where he spent a week with two bishops who shared the papal palace with the new pope—Agostino Casaroli and Giovanni Caprio—men he had spent three weeks with at the conclave which elected Luciani—two men he would soon promote past two hundred others that outranked them to the 2nd and 3rd most powerful positions in the Church.
In early September, it was no surprise appraisers showed up in the Vatican Museum as the new pope had threatened the hypocrisy of the Vatican treasures for years. The surprise came when a real estate outfit showed up on September 17th to survey the papal retreat at Castle Gandolfo—a resort of five sprawling palaces sitting on the Mediterranean—among the most valuable real estate in the world.
On September 20th came the most controversial statement of his brief papacy, “Ubi Lenin, ibi Jerusalem.” “Where Lenin is, there is Jerusalem,“ Jerusalem synonymous with Paradise in the Bible.11
A few days later, the Bolshevik Pontiff changed the theme of the upcoming Puebla Conference in Mexico from Liberation Theology to Liberation of the Poor and announced he, himself, would preside over it. The man who had once led the revolution of the workers which had given rise to the socialist movement in Italy would now lead the revolution of the poor in Central America against the coalition of the United States and ruling juntas. Whereas Paul had fed them faith, he would feed them food. In the United States revolution of the poor was then—and still is today—communism.12
On September 26th, John Paul scheduled an all-day private audience for October 24th with The Scheuer Group, an American group that supported the ‘pill’—he would bring an end the driving force behind worldwide poverty and starvation—overpopulation.13
The next day, the most influential man in the world threatened the United States and its capitalistic allies, “It is the inalienable right of no man to accumulate wealth beyond the necessary while other men starve to death because they have nothing.”14
John Paul’s last words to his long time ally in his struggle to rid the world of poverty, Cardinal Colombo, demonstrates the extreme confidence he had in accomplishing his lifelong dream, “Sadly, Giovanni, when we have finally completed our work and everyone has enough; there will always be those who want too much.”15
The threat of communism in Europe had resurfaced. The perils of a swell of multi-Cubas driven by the will of the people loomed on the horizon in America’s backyard. The dangers to the security of the United States had become real…
Author’s note
Prime Minister Andreotti’s disclosure on October 24, 199016 of his involvement with the CIA and Operation Gladio in covert operations intended to terrorize the Italian population and turn its mindset against communism in the 1970s which confirmed Judge Casson’s findings earlier the same year gave great credence to what until then had been not much more than Manhattan’s suspicions.
The Baron Avro Manhattan photo on page 4 accompanied a leak the historian was in the process of writing a book linking the CIA and right wing factions in the Church to the deaths of Aldo Moro, Paul VI, John Paul and other Marxist leaders in the western world.17
This is the book Manhattan was writing when his wife returned after a week at the couple’s London Kensington Park apartment to find him hanging from the rafters in their South Shields home.18
1 Manhattan wrote his best seller The Vatican in World Politics in1949.
2 Paul’s Liberation Theology in 1969 ignited a clergy-led revolution of the poor in Central America
3 Paul’s Populorum Progressio in 1967 ignited the priest-worker movement in Italy which gave rise to the overwhelming success of the Communist and Socialist Parties in the polls
4 On Paul’s encouragement, Moro united his Christian Democratic Party (38.8%) with the Communist Party (34.4%) in the ‘Historic Compromise’ giving the coalition overwhelming control of Italy.
5 Avro Manhattan’s The Dollar and the Vatican 1988 pgs 130-142, paraphrased by the author. Manhattan’s observations are repeated in several of his books in the 1980s.
6 Malopolska Silesia 7 Sep 78 . Cody, a friend of CIA Director William Colby and a frequent visitor to CIA headquarters is believed by most historians to have been a CIA subversive agent
7 L Osservatore 30 Aug 78. Intended liquidation to support revolution of the poor in Central America
8 See Chapter 16
9 La Stampa 14 Sep 78
10 Genova Secolo XIX 13 Sep 78
11 Realizing his use of the word ‘Lenin’ might be misconstrued, he told his listeners what was going on in the Soviet Union at the time was not paradise—it had never been a free communist society.
12 L ‘Osservatore 23 Sep 78
13 Washington Post 27 Sep 78
14 See film-clip of John Paul saying this on www.JohnPaul1.org
15 Corriere della Sera Milan 30 Sep 78. In a phone conversation just before he retired for the last time.
16 The document The Parallel SID was published in the December 1990 issue of Panorama
17 18 Nov 90 The Times. Manhattan’s body was discovered by his wife eight days later.
18 To keep quiet the nature of his death his wife used her influence and no obituary appeared in any local or world newspapers despite he had spent his life in the public eye appearing on the covers of many magazines including TIME. For example, no obituary ever appeared in Milan where he was born or in London where he spent most of his celebrated life. A small notice appeared in the Shields Gazette the day following interment ‘…sudden and unexpected … A service held yesterday at St. Adrian’s attended by a half-dozen friends was followed by immediate interment at Benfieldside cemetery …” Nature of death was never made public, yet, the most credible whispers claim he hung himself. Less reliable stories claim he shot himself. Nevertheless, lack of viewing suggests damage to the head or neck. At this late date, one cannot prove murder, yet, one has to assume he killed himself at the precise time he was in the process of bringing his lifelong work to fruition. As the date of death is unknown, most sources list it as ‘Dec’ or ‘Nov’ ‘90. The body was discovered by the baroness Nov 26, 1990. Because it was kept so quiet, many literary societies still list him as a living author. Despite she spent her last decade confined with stroke, the baroness’ death in 2008 garnished world obituaries.
Preface to Murder
For those of us who remember him, I bring nothing new. Yet, for those of us who have allowed the Vatican’s misrepresentations of what he was all about, who have allowed its falsehoods to distort his legacy, I bring a treasure trove of yesterday.
In the crypt beneath St. Peter’s Basilica is a granite slab,
Like its counterpart in Arlington across the pond, it, too, marks an unknown tomb, The Tomb of the Unknown Pope.
Not even his period of reign marks his place in time. The Church would rather his life remain a secret, The Secret Life of John Paul I.
The Missing Will
In the fall of 1978, I had scheduled a vacation to visit my friend Jack Champney in the Vatican. The nature of my visit would change when John Paul died. I would console Jack who had been so close to the Pope. A couple of days later, it would change again. Jack was killed by a hit-run driver and shipped back home.
Though I had suspicions at the time, I have no evidence to this day other than coincidence Jack’s murder was linked to that of his long term friend and confidant, Albino Luciani.
Nevertheless, I kept my date. When John Paul II—the CIA-Opus Dei candidate—rose to the papacy, I grew concerned. I flew to the Veneto country where Luciani had spent his ministry.
I visited my friend Antonio Cunial, bishop of Vittorio Veneto. I hoped to secure some of Luciani’s records that I might someday put them to print. He told me agents from the Vatican foreign minister’s office had shown up the week before and had taken everything with them. I asked him why he had surrendered the records.
During his installation a pope undergoes intense legal counseling as his legal status changes dramatically when he becomes pope.1 As part of these procedures, a
pope is required to file his will with the Vatican. Often a new will is drafted. Yet, at the very least, a proviso is added to accommodate the change in legal position.
Although Cardinal Felici insisted he had filed the will together with an appropriate rider, the Vatican Clerk reported it lost in the Vatican offices. After Luciani’s death, his lawyer in Venice was asked to send another copy of the original will to Rome. At first he complied. A few days later, he sent a message he had discovered Albino Luciani’s will missing from his files; he would secure a copy from the Venice office. The next day, he sent another message—the will was missing from the City Clerk’s files.
When confronted, Cunial called Luciani’s lawyer and was told the will had provided his records pertaining to his ministries as a priest and as a bishop had been willed respectively to the Belluno and Vittorio Veneto dioceses. Yet, as it could not be found, he had no right to resist and surrendered the records.
He told me something else. There had been a breakin at the local newspaper and some of its archives stolen. This did not mean much to me as when he was a bishop most of the important things he did reached notoriety and were recorded in many newspapers.
This is why what I have to say about his twenty years as a bishop is so well documented: irrefutable references from Italian and world periodicals and other public records which survived the Vatican’s attempt to annihilate the controversial life of Albino Luciani.
Yet, even newspapers can often be misleading depending on which side of the aisle they represent. For example, when he said, “God is more our Mother than She is our Father,” L’Osservatore Romano and other right wing newspapers did not report the incident at all while other right wing publications dropped the inference of the superiority of the fair sex: “God is the Father, but also the Mother.”2 Middle-of-the-road journals like La Repubblica may have come closer to what had actually been said: “God is our Father, more so, our Mother.”3 Left wing papers La Stampa and Il Mondo went so far as to speculate an imminent change in the Holy Trinity.4
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