ACT IV DID THE VATICAN BANK COORDINATE SECRET MURDERS?

It should only be a simple search warrant— for the villa of the fascist Licio Gelli. But in the end, none of the investigators could have anticipated what would fall into their hands. It was a list of 962 high-ranking members of a Masonic Lodge that secretly ruled Italy: Propaganda Due (P2). The difference between P2 and other lodges: P2 is purely political. Its goal is an authoritarian state— and unrestricted rule by the powerful. Its tools: bomb attacks, for which leftist groups are blamed. Nearly 1,000 people from the world of politics and business are members of P2— including ministers, judges, and generals. The Lodge is also supported by the CIA— with an annual payment of $10 million. Furthermore, 121 members of the Church are connected with P2— even though membership in a Masonic Lodge is punishable by excommunication. And among the 121 Church representatives in the secret society are almost all the leaders of the Vatican Bank— as well as its main adviser and financial manager, Mafia man Michele Sindona, and his successor, Roberto Calvi, who’d come to be known as “God’s banker.” It is an unholy trinity: The Vatican Bank, the CIA, and Mafia influence the politics of nations in the Lodge. When P2 implodes in 1981, the public finds out for the first time that a secret society ruled them. P2 is outlawed. But the Vatican Bank fears no fallout. It has even survived a rebellious pope…