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[music playing]
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What did you see?
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I saw a complete body hanging
by the neck from a length
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of string, tied to the top
horizontal scaffolding tube.
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His feet were
dangling in the water.
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The hurried British
investigation
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was very badly handled.
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They hadn't investigated
the scene properly
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because the police
suspected it was suicide.
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Roberto Calvi was certified
dead at Waterloo Pier.
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The cause of death?
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Asphyxia due to hanging,
and that he killed himself.
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To be frank about it, it
wouldn't have been done.
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But then the family hired
their own investigators.
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Question isn't,
who killed Calvi?
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It's, who didn't kill Calvi?
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It could have been the mob,
P2, the Vatican, the CIA,
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even the KGB.
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This man had so many enemies.
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If you wanted to come up with a
suspect list, it's a long list.
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Calvi was somebody
whose time had come.
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[music playing]
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The family hired an
investigative agency, Kroll,
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which is run by former
FBI agents at the time.
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And there's a fellow that
really came on the case
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for two years, Jeff Katz.
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He was somebody who was
a superb investigator.
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He didn't want to
do it the wrong way.
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He didn't like dumpster
diving, illegal phone taps,
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cutting the corners that many
private investigators had
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before Kroll came around.
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He viewed investigations
as intelligence gathering,
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shoe leather work,
meticulous details,
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trying to piece things
together that might
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unearth the truth of
Roberto Calvi's death.
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Your assertion is
that your husband
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was murdered to keep him
from naming people involved
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in international fraud.
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We want to prove, not
only that he was murdered,
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but that he was the victim
of forces out of his control,
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forces that ultimately
controlled him.
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We need to look again
at the crime scene.
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We need our own
forensics expert.
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10 years later, what
can we expect to find?
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We need to review what exists.
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We need to understand
all the possible ways
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he could have ended up
hanging from that bridge.
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How did he get there?
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I hear a lot of conjecture,
but what's actually
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scientifically plausible?
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Anyone in mind?
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Angela Gallop.
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She's the best.
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In 1992, Jeff Katz
of Kroll Associates
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got in touch with me.
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Gallop is a forensics expert.
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She resolved the question
of whether Princess Di was
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pregnant when she died by taking
a part of her stomach lining
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and being able to show that
didn't have the right chemical.
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Angela?
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Jeff Katz from Kroll.
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How can I help you, Jeff?
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I'm asking you 10 years
later than I should,
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but I have a job for you.
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The original crime
scene was botched.
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I need you to take a look at
the evidence that still exists.
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Jeff wanted me to look at
the forensic science aspect.
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I'm known for setting
up and running
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full-scale forensic
laboratories and also
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my particular interest,
which is leading teams
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for cold-case investigations.
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I was very aware that this
high-profile Italian banker
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had been found hanging
from scaffolding
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underneath Blackfriars Bridge.
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Everybody had assumed
it was suicide,
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and so they hadn't investigated
the scene properly.
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I remember saying, well,
this is a very unusual case,
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and I don't know at this stage
whether I will be able to help.
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I spent some time down
at Blackfriars Bridge.
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It was a little bit different.
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There was no scaffolding
there in 1992.
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But I was very much looking
at the foreshore there
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and under low tide,
when it got exposed.
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I must admit, sometimes, as
I started to get into it,
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I thought, my goodness.
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What have I bitten off here?
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It's a bit more than
maybe I can chew.
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You always have to understand
the context of the case
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that you're investigating.
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It's within that
context that you look
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for certain types of evidence.
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It's about the crime
scene, but it's
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about everything that went on
around the crime scene as well.
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Details like that can
be really important.
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The web of players is complex,
each with a strong motive
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to want Calvi disappeared.
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Suspects span Italy's
vast centers of power.
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The Vatican, a secret Masonic
lodge, the American CIA,
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and Cosa Nostra.
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One of the problems
with the Calvi case
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was the excessive
number of suspects,
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starting with the
Vatican itself.
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He was potentially a source
of major embarrassment
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and reputational harm to them.
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The Vatican is an
extraordinary power
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behind the scenes which
mustn't be ignored.
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How does the Vatican get
so caught up in something
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like this?
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You mean, out millions,
marred by scandal,
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and accused of murder?
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I have books for you.
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The reputation of the
Vatican has really taken
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a hit for decades, particularly
when Archbishop Paul Marcinkus
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dragged it into the whole
problem of the Banco
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Ambrosiano.
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The chairman is found hanging
under a bridge in London.
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It was an extraordinary moment
of crisis for the reputation
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of the church.
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Pope Paul VI named Marcinkus
secretary of the IOR
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in 1969, around the time
he became an archbishop.
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Why a priest from Chicago?
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Didn't you want a banker?
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He's not even Italian.
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Paul VI wanted someone he knew
he could trust, someone loyal.
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And that was Marcinkus.
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[music playing]
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He is Archbishop
Paul Marcinkus, who
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climbed from the blue-collar
churches of Cicero, Illinois
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to this tower in the outer
walls of Saint Peter's, where
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he heads the Vatican Bank.
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He was very unlike
the typical priest,
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who might be small and meek.
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He was a big, macho man.
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[music playing]
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The nickname for Marcinkus
inside the Vatican
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was The Gorilla, and it was not
said as a term of affection.
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Because of his size--
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6 feet 5 inches tall--
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he became the unofficial
bodyguard to the pope
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as they went around on trips.
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He didn't have any sort
of financial training
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or background at all.
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Although I will look
at that and say, boy,
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did they pick the wrong guy
to run the Vatican Bank,
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from Sindona's
perspective, the pope
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picked exactly the right person.
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Marcinkus was the perfect
person for the other two
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to use because they
had, by him, the stamp
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of approval of the Vatican Bank.
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The Vatican Bank
could handle money
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and it could be distributed
around the world
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in a confidential manner.
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The operation that brings
these three key players
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together is when they set up
the Banco Ambrosiano Overseas
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Limited.
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In the Bahamas.
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It was believed to
be the only example
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of a Catholic bishop
in the world who was
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serving on the board of a bank.
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By having untraceable
funds, they
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could be used for any
ideologically driven projects,
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as well as moneymaking projects.
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The Vatican Bank has
no balance sheets.
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There's no advisory board.
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There's no independent board.
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It has one
shareholder, the pope.
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So therefore, you
don't have to worry
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if you happen to
take a few dollars
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on the side for yourself.
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But that wasn't Marcinkus.
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He was interested,
though, in power.
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He did, at times, take
off millions of dollars.
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An example was when they
did this backdoor deal
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on this Catholic bank.
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Calvi wanted to acquire
a Catholic bank in Venice
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called Banca
Cattolica del Veneto.
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With Banca Cattolica del
Veneto, Banco Ambrosiano
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would be the largest
private sector bank
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in the Italian banking system.
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Marcinkus actually
sold them 50%.
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The deal was that Calvi would
buy, through Ambrosiano, 37%.
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And you know what
happened on the side?
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The extra 13%.
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That money comes back into
the Vatican Bank as cash
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that Marcinkus uses
for other things.
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$6 and 1/2 million to buy
himself a Cardinals position.
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But the top Catholic
official in Venice, Luciani,
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who was opposed to the deal--
and he objected to Marcinkus.
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This deal is against the
church's long-term interest.
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And excuse me, but I don't think
Calvi has the best interests
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of the parishioners in mind.
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Eminence, no disrespect,
but don't you
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have anything better to do?
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This is a conversation
no number of Hail Marys
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will fix for Marcinkus, a
conversation he will live
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to regret.
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I have been an investigating
judge in the '70s and '80s.
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Through our investigations,
relationships
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came out that the Vatican Bank
was related with the finance
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affairs of Michele Sindona,
Roberto Calvi, and the Mafia.
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[gunshots]
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The new Mafia-- ruthless and
acting without compassion.
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The gangs control the
food markets and almost
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every form of commerce, but
they make their big money
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in the drug racket.
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From the port in Palermo,
between two and four tons
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of heroin are shipped
to the US each year.
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[phone ringing]
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He specialized in
money laundering.
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Signor Calo!
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From what we know
from Mafia witnesses,
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Sindona was the main banker
for the older Palermo families,
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who were the ones who were
first involved in the heroin
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trafficking.
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People would say, don't
cross Michele Sindona,
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because he's connected.
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You'll have nothing
but problems.
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[music playing]
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Mafia operatives could have
been just the kind of personnel
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that you needed on the ground to
park Mr. Calvi under the bridge
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with a noose around his neck.
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Looking back, we all know
where the downturn starts.
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[music playing]
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When Sindona's at his height,
he's now a storied success
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because he's gone on to
make it big in America.
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Sindona acquired
an American bank
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which was one of the
largest banks in the US.
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He's buying a stake in
Franklin National Bank
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to use that bank to
further his transfers
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and his offshore
accounts and to run it
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through Franklin National.
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This empire that he's
built has hundreds
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of millions of
dollars in loans that
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aren't going to be paid back.
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It's not, will it fall apart?
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What will fall apart first?
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[music playing]
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1973 dramatized
dependence on foreign oil.
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All countries that were heavily
dependent on foreign oil
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imports, such as Italy, their
currency plummeted in value.
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This caused havoc for Sindona.
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At the same time,
the currency traders
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inside Franklin National
made the wrong bet
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on the lira and the dollar
and got creamed by the market.
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Franklin National becomes
the largest bankruptcy
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in American history
at that point.
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The man Fortune magazine
pegged the previous year
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with a $450 million net worth
now holds huge paper losses
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on foreign currency trades.
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Plummeting stock prices mean
he cannot raise enough money
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to cover his bad bets.
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He had lost money
for powerful people.
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He had lost money
and put the Vatican
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into a terrible position.
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With a financial empire that
is on the edge of collapse,
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Sindona thinks, I will
call in all the favors
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that I gave in the past.
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Calvi was very nervous.
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He turned to the P2
lodge for protection.
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They claimed to have
political influence,
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so he asked them to help him.
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P2 was extremely powerful
in Italian business.
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It was an elite club to be
part of to advance your career.
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P2.
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Propaganda Due.
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That's right.
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In the '70s, we knew this
strange Masonic lodge existed,
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but our knowledge
was not complete.
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P2 was really run by one man.
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He was connected to everybody.
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Licio Gelli, the head of
the secret Masonic lodge,
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is the other partner in
their illicit laundering.
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Was he, too, complicit
in Calvi's murder?
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Jeff Katz told me a lot about
the background to the story.
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And there were some
connections, I understand,
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with Blackfriars, and
therefore Blackfriars Bridge.
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It's certainly enough
to wonder about.
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In the late 1960s, to make
Freemasonry important again,
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the grand master decides to
revive an old lodge called
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Lodge Propaganda.
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This lodge is now
called Propaganda Due,
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or P2 for short.
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And at the same
time, there happens
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along a man called Licio Gelli.
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And he's soon master
of this P2 project.
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Gelli is a convinced fascist.
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He fights in the
civil war in Spain,
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and after fighting,
got to meet Mussolini.
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Gelli is very good
at capitalizing
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on his reputation as a fascist
to build his power, to build
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his connections.
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How'd they all know each other?
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Gelli and Sindona
met in the mid '60s.
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Their relationship was
mutually beneficial.
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Gelli had political connections,
and Sindona had banks.
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Money.
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Sindona was financing extreme
right-wing organizations
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for Licio Gelli.
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It also brings him into
contact with the CIA.
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Gelli was a recruit and ended
up being a good recruit.
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The key to P2's power was its
usefulness for the Cold War
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and for Italy's
American masters.
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The key cement
justifying everything
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was commitment to the
anticommunist cause.
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The idea was to prevent
communists from taking power.
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Anything was justified to win.
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[rioting sounds]
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[rioting sounds]
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This attempt at spreading fear
and terror across the country
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by staging bomb attacks.
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Now, behind this
strategy, there were
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rightist, neofascist
paramilitary groups and also
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state intelligence agencies.
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NATO and CIA was involved.
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Many of these
right-wing bombings
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were staged to
look as though they
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were the work of
left-wing extremists
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with the plan of
scapegoating people.
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These fascists wanted to be able
to create enough instability
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that the average
Italian says, whoa,
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we don't like any of this.
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Let's get a strong leader
like Mussolini again.
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People like Licio Gelli believed
that they can be that leader.
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And so as more and
more people are
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nervous about the country
moving toward revolution,
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Gelli's power rises.
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If you are engaging in
dodgy financial practices,
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it's a good thing to
have political friends
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in high places.
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[choir chanting]
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He was very gullible, very
willing to accept claims
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of other people who
said that they could
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help him and protect
him and support him
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in one way or another.
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They extracted a
very high price.
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Gelli's power depended, to a
large extent, on blackmail.
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It was one of the key
instruments of the P2 regime.
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Even the membership
forms said, do you
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have any useful information
on people that we can use?
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Gelli wanted to tap
that information
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to make blackmail
part of his toolkit.
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Once you get into the
system, you're bought.
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You do one deal, you're stuck.
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All they have to do is
turn you in for that deal.
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The P2 membership lists and
a lot of important documents
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are then spirited away
and kept in the safe.
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Gelli used his position in the
P2 to get money out of Calvi.
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He was certainly using
this for self enrichment,
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along with whatever
political program he
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may have had in mind.
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Three months after his
initiation into P2,
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Calvi achieves his
career ambition.
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In 1975, Calvi becomes
one of the most important
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financial men in all of Italy.
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Ambrosiano is no longer
just a small regional bank.
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It is one of a handful of
the largest banks in Italy.
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With regional banks
across the country,
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with relationships with
corresponding banks
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in nearly 20
different countries,
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Ambrosiano is
reporting big profits.
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Calvi is living his
dream, his rise now
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complete as Sindona's fortunes
continue their tumble.
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Their career trajectories
crossing at that time--
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Calvi on his way up,
Sindona on his way down.
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After the collapse
of Sindona, Calvi
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stepped into Sindona's
shoes as a financial advisor
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to the Vatican, and he
became increasingly close
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to Archbishop Marcinkus.
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By the mid '70s, the church has
an active banking relationship
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with almost a dozen
Calvi-controlled shell
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companies.
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After his losses that he
has with Sindona, Marcinkus
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makes the amateur
investor mistake of,
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I lost that money on Amazon.
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I'm going to make it up
double here on Facebook.
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Increase the risk to get back
the money that had been lost.
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And that's what Marcinkus
does with Calvi.
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Gives Calvi tremendous
power, but for Marcinkus,
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it's a dangerous move
further down the rabbit hole.
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[rioting sounds]
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Italy is in real crisis.
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The lira is now worth 40%
less than three months ago.
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The economy in Italy
continues to sputter.
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Safe financial havens abroad
for the wealthy's money
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become more
attractive than ever.
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Italy, in the 1970s, had
incredibly strict laws
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against currency exploitation.
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For Calvi and his
clients, the IOR
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becomes instrumental in
hiding their capital.
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And where does the money go?
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Ambrosiano's branch in
Lugano, Switzerland.
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It becomes the safe
haven for the rich.
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Hm.
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But not legally.
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No.
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And now the penalty, if
caught, is prison time.
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So the stakes are
rising for Calvi.
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And Sindona.
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Sindona is already screwed.
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Sindona gets into deep trouble.
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He's wanted on both
sides of the Atlantic.
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The mafiosi want
their money back.
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[phone ringing]
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He's in a desperate situation.
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At a certain point,
the Italian state
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puts an investigator
on the trail
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00:23:47,927 --> 00:23:50,897
of what's happening to
his Italian operation.
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It's a guy called Giorgio
Ambrosoli in Milan.
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That means the beginning
of the end for Sindona.
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Giorgio Ambrosoli is not
prepared to cut Sindona
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any slack.
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Of course, Sindona hated him.
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As Sindona becomes
increasingly desperate,
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he decides to use
blackmail to put pressure
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on people who might be in
a position to help him.
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And Calvi is one of
the first targets.
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Sindona hires this
blackmail artist.
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[music playing]
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[engine revving]
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On a certain day of
1977, Luigi Cavallo
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puts posters in the
streets of Milan
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00:24:53,459 --> 00:24:57,597
bearing the words,
"Roberto Calvi in jail,"
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and accusing him of fraud,
false accounting, embezzlement,
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and other crimes.
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Well, the giant posters
really drew Banco Ambrosiano
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to the attention of the Bank
of Italy and to the magistrates
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in Milan.
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Giulio Padalino is an
investigating magistrate
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who decides that he's
investigating Ambrosiano.
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00:25:24,256 --> 00:25:25,658
That's bad for Calvi.
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00:25:25,758 --> 00:25:29,228
Calvi doesn't know how bad it is
until his offices are actually
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raided.
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A group of investigators
pick up paperwork,
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00:25:32,932 --> 00:25:34,466
they pick up files
and everything else.
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00:25:34,567 --> 00:25:38,671
So Calvi goes to Licio Gelli,
and he asks for assistance
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00:25:38,771 --> 00:25:41,140
on doing something on this
fellow called Padalino.
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00:25:53,552 --> 00:25:56,889
Calvi was already
deep into a web
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where he would take money
from your bank account
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00:26:00,326 --> 00:26:03,963
and put it into a Calvi thing,
so that when a bank audit was
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00:26:04,063 --> 00:26:06,799
taking place, his
books would look
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better than they really were.
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00:26:08,601 --> 00:26:10,402
Every time you're
doing stuff like that,
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there's a kind of
tax to be paid.
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00:26:12,404 --> 00:26:14,707
You need to keep people
happy and keep them quiet,
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00:26:14,807 --> 00:26:18,010
and so you're making worse and
worse decisions as a banker.
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00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,951
Calvi's offshore dummy
companies had borrowed dollars,
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00:26:25,051 --> 00:26:29,355
but the shares that
they bought were lira.
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00:26:29,455 --> 00:26:31,791
The problem is that there
was another currency
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crisis in the '70s.
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I want to have a frank talk with
you tonight about inflation.
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As a way of fighting
inflation, the Federal Reserve
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decided to sharply
push up interest rates.
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And this caused the value of
the dollar to rise sharply.
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So imagine you have
a debt that you
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have to pay that's
in dollars, and you
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00:26:53,579 --> 00:26:56,683
have an asset which is in lira.
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And suddenly, the burden
of the debt is doubled.
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That led to the collapse
of Calvi's scheme.
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00:27:05,391 --> 00:27:07,894
If things continued this
way, there was a real risk
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that Calvi could lose control
of the bank, the chairmanship
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of Banco Ambrosiano.
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He knows that if someone like
Roberto Rosone, his deputy,
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gains control, they will
uncover all of his shell games,
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and he'll be finished.
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00:27:21,908 --> 00:27:24,376
So that's when he starts
buying up shares of Ambrosiano.
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00:27:24,476 --> 00:27:25,945
Oh, yes.
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It was a bank that had a very
diffuse shareholding structure,
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so he didn't need to
have anywhere near 50%
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to control it.
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00:27:34,787 --> 00:27:36,622
And the offshore
dumping companies
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that he controlled
collectively owned 20%.
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00:27:39,625 --> 00:27:40,659
And that was enough?
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Yes, that was enough
for him to have
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voting control of the bank.
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And when Bank of
Italy supervisors
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00:27:47,867 --> 00:27:51,670
found that these obscure
offshore companies collectively
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00:27:51,771 --> 00:27:55,607
owned 20% of the bank,
that was a red flag.
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00:27:55,708 --> 00:27:56,342
Why?
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Who are these companies?
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[music playing]
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In 1979, Sindona and Calvi's
legal troubles increase.
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They begin a string of
events that will bring Calvi
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00:28:10,056 --> 00:28:13,726
ever closer to his doom.
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00:28:13,826 --> 00:28:19,098
In New York, Sindona is indicted
in a 99-count indictment
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00:28:19,198 --> 00:28:22,902
from federal prosecutors that
charge fraud, misappropriation,
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00:28:23,002 --> 00:28:25,171
conspiracy.
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00:28:25,271 --> 00:28:28,274
Two weeks after Sindona
was indicted in New York,
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00:28:28,374 --> 00:28:32,745
Giorgio Ambrosoli came out with
a 10-pound, 2000-page report
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00:28:32,845 --> 00:28:33,612
that was stunning.
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00:28:44,456 --> 00:28:47,226
The entire Ambrosoli
report, it essentially
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00:28:47,326 --> 00:28:52,298
shows how Sindona has used
Franklin National as a conduit
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00:28:52,398 --> 00:28:55,768
to pass through millions of
dollars in his paper phantom
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00:28:55,868 --> 00:29:00,739
ghost bank empire and ran
Franklin National down
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00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,242
to the bare bones, having
really looted the company.
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00:29:03,342 --> 00:29:05,677
[music playing]
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It is a devastating
report and is
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00:29:07,780 --> 00:29:11,117
a major obstacle to getting
Sindona out of the trouble
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00:29:11,217 --> 00:29:12,618
that he's in.
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00:29:12,718 --> 00:29:18,124
Ambrosoli knew exactly that
he might have been killed.
500
00:29:18,224 --> 00:29:23,062
But he did his
duty nevertheless.
501
00:29:23,162 --> 00:29:26,565
[music playing]
502
00:29:33,873 --> 00:29:35,241
[striking match]
503
00:29:35,341 --> 00:29:38,544
Sindona was kind
of a loose cannon.
504
00:29:38,644 --> 00:29:41,848
He begins first
threatening Ambrosoli
505
00:29:41,948 --> 00:29:45,484
and then, eventually, actually
contracts to have him killed.
506
00:29:51,090 --> 00:29:54,493
[gunshots]
507
00:29:59,832 --> 00:30:05,737
Sindona is becoming a liability
to his former friends.
508
00:30:05,838 --> 00:30:09,675
If you are the Mafia,
looking to recycle money,
509
00:30:09,775 --> 00:30:12,411
Pippo Calo was a
shrewd character
510
00:30:12,511 --> 00:30:15,882
who sensed which way
the wind was blowing.
511
00:30:15,982 --> 00:30:20,686
And so because Sindona is
beginning to fall apart,
512
00:30:20,786 --> 00:30:25,591
the Corleonesi begin using
Calvi's bank as their money
513
00:30:25,691 --> 00:30:26,792
laundering vehicle.
514
00:30:53,986 --> 00:30:56,889
He was being drained of
huge amounts of money
515
00:30:56,989 --> 00:31:00,759
by Licio Gelli and his
lobbyists and fixers.
516
00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:03,562
[music playing]
517
00:31:03,662 --> 00:31:04,330
Angela?
518
00:31:04,430 --> 00:31:07,099
Jeff Katz from Kroll.
519
00:31:07,199 --> 00:31:09,068
I look forward to joining
you at the crime scene
520
00:31:09,168 --> 00:31:12,939
today and seeing you
work some of your magic.
521
00:31:13,039 --> 00:31:14,873
We were quite a
good pair, really.
522
00:31:14,974 --> 00:31:17,009
Jeff was absolutely amazing.
523
00:31:17,109 --> 00:31:20,512
He had an encyclopedic
knowledge of this case.
524
00:31:20,612 --> 00:31:24,283
His passion for
investigation matched mine
525
00:31:24,383 --> 00:31:27,753
for forensic investigation.
526
00:31:27,853 --> 00:31:30,189
When I first started
to get into it,
527
00:31:30,289 --> 00:31:34,526
I thought long and hard
about what I could do,
528
00:31:34,626 --> 00:31:39,198
how I could use the scientific
knowledge I had to help.
529
00:31:39,298 --> 00:31:44,136
Forensic science is all
about physical evidence,
530
00:31:44,236 --> 00:31:49,375
looking for tiny traces
of material or marks.
531
00:31:49,475 --> 00:31:52,878
I was very keen to look at
the items that were available
532
00:31:52,979 --> 00:31:54,913
and that the original
scientists had examined.
533
00:31:55,014 --> 00:31:57,216
And they had notes on
them, and there were people
534
00:31:57,316 --> 00:32:00,052
I could talk to about it.
535
00:32:00,152 --> 00:32:03,956
They had compared the five
stones or part bricks that
536
00:32:04,056 --> 00:32:05,891
had been recovered
from his pockets
537
00:32:05,992 --> 00:32:09,128
with similar bricks and
stones on a building site
538
00:32:09,228 --> 00:32:11,397
fairly near to
Blackfriars Bridge.
539
00:32:11,497 --> 00:32:14,866
And they decided
that these items had
540
00:32:14,967 --> 00:32:18,604
come from that building site.
541
00:32:18,704 --> 00:32:20,839
I also had a look
at the items that
542
00:32:20,939 --> 00:32:23,875
had been examined originally.
543
00:32:23,976 --> 00:32:26,478
One of the watches
was a wristwatch
544
00:32:26,578 --> 00:32:29,181
that was very badly corroded.
545
00:32:29,281 --> 00:32:33,419
The other one, a pocketwatch,
wasn't so badly affected.
546
00:32:33,519 --> 00:32:37,823
You couldn't see that
water had flooded into it.
547
00:32:37,923 --> 00:32:39,825
Under Blackfriars
Bridge, the water
548
00:32:39,925 --> 00:32:42,228
sort of rushed to either
side of the supports
549
00:32:42,328 --> 00:32:46,398
as the tides were
coming in and out.
550
00:32:46,498 --> 00:32:49,335
But you also had
the wash created
551
00:32:49,435 --> 00:32:51,937
by passing river traffic,
which could raise
552
00:32:52,038 --> 00:32:55,141
the level of the river
locally by about two
553
00:32:55,241 --> 00:32:57,276
or three feet a night.
554
00:32:57,376 --> 00:33:00,279
So the less badly damaged
watch was probably
555
00:33:00,379 --> 00:33:03,615
in the upper pocket, and
the wristwatch was probably
556
00:33:03,715 --> 00:33:05,984
on his wrist, which would
have been under water
557
00:33:06,085 --> 00:33:07,653
at a certain period of time.
558
00:33:07,753 --> 00:33:10,856
And it had stopped
at 1:52, which
559
00:33:10,956 --> 00:33:13,625
might have been important.
560
00:33:13,725 --> 00:33:15,361
I was particularly
interested in the shoes
561
00:33:15,461 --> 00:33:18,630
because they could reflect
some of the last things Calvi
562
00:33:18,730 --> 00:33:20,766
had walked over,
including, for example,
563
00:33:20,866 --> 00:33:22,601
the stones on the foreshore.
564
00:33:22,701 --> 00:33:24,803
The scaffolding-- he'd
have to have walked
565
00:33:24,903 --> 00:33:27,005
along or up the scaffolding.
566
00:33:27,106 --> 00:33:30,476
And I needed some help from
a forensic chemist, who's
567
00:33:30,576 --> 00:33:33,045
a specialist in footwear
and marks in footwear
568
00:33:33,145 --> 00:33:36,715
and the marks footwear makes.
569
00:33:36,815 --> 00:33:39,118
We were interested
in paint because some
570
00:33:39,218 --> 00:33:43,222
of the bars of the scaffolding
had yellow and green paint
571
00:33:43,322 --> 00:33:44,456
on it.
572
00:33:44,556 --> 00:33:47,359
And so the soles and the
lower parts of the uppers
573
00:33:47,459 --> 00:33:48,894
would have been
of great interest.
574
00:33:51,830 --> 00:33:55,167
This was an incident about
which there were still
575
00:33:55,267 --> 00:33:58,670
questions to be answered.
576
00:33:58,770 --> 00:34:00,972
The framework I
constructed consisted
577
00:34:01,073 --> 00:34:05,677
of thinking about the
routes by which Calvi could
578
00:34:05,777 --> 00:34:07,613
have got on the scaffolding.
579
00:34:07,713 --> 00:34:11,550
And I decided there were
probably four main routes--
580
00:34:11,650 --> 00:34:14,953
two suicide routes
and two murder routes.
581
00:34:15,053 --> 00:34:17,389
And these were the ones that
I was going to focus on.
582
00:34:27,998 --> 00:34:30,001
Pope Paul VI is dead.
583
00:34:30,101 --> 00:34:32,704
The great and the humble
come to pay their respects
584
00:34:32,804 --> 00:34:35,107
as Pope Paul lies in state.
585
00:34:35,206 --> 00:34:40,312
August 1978, Marcinkus faces
his greatest crisis to date
586
00:34:40,411 --> 00:34:43,315
when he loses his
ally at the Vatican.
587
00:34:43,415 --> 00:34:46,118
Obviously, this is
a cause for concern
588
00:34:46,217 --> 00:34:49,755
for Marcinkus's consolidated
position of power
589
00:34:49,855 --> 00:34:51,757
within the Vatican.
590
00:34:51,857 --> 00:34:53,759
Everything could
change depending
591
00:34:53,859 --> 00:34:55,793
on who the new man is.
592
00:34:55,893 --> 00:34:58,297
The vast numbers waiting
outside St. Peter's Basilica
593
00:34:58,397 --> 00:35:00,299
confidently expected
a conservative
594
00:35:00,399 --> 00:35:01,867
to occupy the papal throne.
595
00:35:01,967 --> 00:35:06,538
The choice of a new pope
is bad news for Marcinkus.
596
00:35:06,638 --> 00:35:09,741
Albino Luciani, patriarch
of Venice, was a surprise.
597
00:35:13,011 --> 00:35:14,846
[applause]
598
00:35:14,946 --> 00:35:17,883
The person who's elected
is Albino Luciani,
599
00:35:17,983 --> 00:35:21,387
this man that he'd quarreled
with over the Banca Cattolica
600
00:35:21,487 --> 00:35:24,223
del Veneto.
601
00:35:24,323 --> 00:35:26,658
He's known as The Smiling Pope.
602
00:35:26,758 --> 00:35:29,561
He seems like a loose
cannon in the Vatican
603
00:35:29,661 --> 00:35:36,134
and a man who's known for his
hard line on financial probity.
604
00:35:36,235 --> 00:35:40,472
Things are not looking
good for Marcinkus.
605
00:35:40,572 --> 00:35:44,976
And then, after 33 days,
there was a scandal
606
00:35:45,076 --> 00:35:47,646
that broke the church.
607
00:35:47,746 --> 00:35:51,950
A faithful nun would bring him
a cup of coffee in the morning.
608
00:35:52,050 --> 00:35:56,255
He failed to pick up the
coffee from outside his door.
609
00:35:56,355 --> 00:36:03,429
She knocked and entered and
discovered the dead body
610
00:36:03,529 --> 00:36:05,497
of the pope.
611
00:36:05,597 --> 00:36:06,798
[glass shattering]
612
00:36:06,898 --> 00:36:09,801
The almost incredible news
is released to the world.
613
00:36:09,901 --> 00:36:12,137
Pope John Paul I is dead.
614
00:36:15,006 --> 00:36:17,643
In order not to
admit the possibility
615
00:36:17,743 --> 00:36:20,679
that a woman might have gone
into the pope's bedroom,
616
00:36:20,779 --> 00:36:25,351
the Vatican officially announced
that the body had been found
617
00:36:25,451 --> 00:36:28,019
by one of his male secretaries.
618
00:36:28,119 --> 00:36:30,889
So from the very beginning,
you had contradictions
619
00:36:30,989 --> 00:36:33,725
in the official account.
620
00:36:33,825 --> 00:36:36,228
It's not just a comedy of
errors, it's a disaster.
621
00:36:40,432 --> 00:36:43,969
The idea that has
emerged is that, given
622
00:36:44,069 --> 00:36:47,873
that it's a serious sin
for Catholics to lie,
623
00:36:47,973 --> 00:36:50,709
if the Vatican was
lying officially
624
00:36:50,809 --> 00:36:55,013
on so many of these details,
they would only be doing it
625
00:36:55,113 --> 00:36:56,882
for a very important reason--
626
00:36:56,982 --> 00:36:58,917
to cover up something
that was even worse
627
00:36:59,017 --> 00:37:02,754
than a lie, such as murder.
628
00:37:02,854 --> 00:37:06,057
If he was murdered,
the financial motive
629
00:37:06,157 --> 00:37:07,526
is the most plausible one.
630
00:37:07,626 --> 00:37:10,662
If he was threatening
to clean up,
631
00:37:10,762 --> 00:37:15,667
people think Marcinkus could
well have objected strongly.
632
00:37:15,767 --> 00:37:18,003
Whatever caused
Luciani's passing,
633
00:37:18,103 --> 00:37:20,872
it is a fortunate turn
of events for Marcinkus,
634
00:37:20,972 --> 00:37:24,042
one that could not have
happened at a better time.
635
00:37:24,142 --> 00:37:26,512
A month later,
Giulio Padalino, who
636
00:37:26,612 --> 00:37:28,146
had been leading
the investigation
637
00:37:28,246 --> 00:37:30,982
into Roberto Calvi and
the Banco Ambrosiano,
638
00:37:31,082 --> 00:37:32,884
goes public with his report.
639
00:37:32,984 --> 00:37:37,055
Marcinkus and the IOR find
themselves implicated.
640
00:38:14,025 --> 00:38:18,597
The extreme right-wing forces
present in Latin America
641
00:38:18,697 --> 00:38:20,832
and engaged in the
struggle against communism
642
00:38:20,932 --> 00:38:26,237
and in these dirty wars
involving human rights
643
00:38:26,338 --> 00:38:28,640
abuses and torture and murder.
644
00:38:28,740 --> 00:38:31,343
[drill instruction]
645
00:38:32,143 --> 00:38:34,613
P2 is part of that story.
646
00:38:34,713 --> 00:38:39,651
It is a part of the global
reach of the organization
647
00:38:39,751 --> 00:38:43,755
and an indication of
how important it was.
648
00:38:47,058 --> 00:38:52,163
Gelli had drained millions
of dollars out of the bank.
649
00:38:52,263 --> 00:38:54,065
And there had also
been some bad loans
650
00:38:54,165 --> 00:38:59,337
that Calvi was forced to
make by the P2 leaders.
651
00:38:59,438 --> 00:39:03,008
They would basically
extort him or pressure
652
00:39:03,108 --> 00:39:06,478
him to lend to certain parties
who should not have been
653
00:39:06,578 --> 00:39:07,813
allowed to borrow that much.
654
00:39:28,033 --> 00:39:31,002
[music playing]
655
00:39:46,752 --> 00:39:50,789
Marcinkus is basically an
officer of the Vatican state,
656
00:39:50,889 --> 00:39:54,893
and therefore, Italy has
no jurisdiction over him.
657
00:39:54,993 --> 00:39:58,730
With Calvi, they certainly do.
658
00:39:58,830 --> 00:40:04,302
This was the first serious
major investigation that said,
659
00:40:04,402 --> 00:40:05,837
something stinks in Ambrosiano.
660
00:40:05,937 --> 00:40:09,340
[music playing]
661
00:40:11,309 --> 00:40:14,613
With Sindona and Calvi
both now compromised,
662
00:40:14,713 --> 00:40:18,049
the stakes could not be higher.
663
00:40:18,149 --> 00:40:18,850
Or could they?
664
00:40:18,950 --> 00:40:22,087
[music playing]
665
00:40:23,955 --> 00:40:26,658
Enter into this
tinderbox John Paul
666
00:40:26,758 --> 00:40:30,195
II, a cold warrior
driven to defeat
667
00:40:30,295 --> 00:40:32,030
the communists at all costs.
668
00:40:35,767 --> 00:40:39,170
The arrival of a new pope
will have unseen and deadly
669
00:40:39,270 --> 00:40:41,172
consequences for Roberto Calvi.
670
00:40:45,010 --> 00:40:48,480
[music playing]
671
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,450
[bell ringing]
672
00:40:54,953 --> 00:40:58,356
[thunder rumbling]
673
00:40:58,456 --> 00:41:03,161
[music playing]
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