Operation Gladio
The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia by Paul L. Williams
This one is all verifiable and historical but reads like the wildest of all global political thrillers: Sicilian Gagsters, Secret Agents, the P2 Masonic lodge with priests and bankers in the mix too, talk about a cast of characters… of course they are up to no good.
The CIA are helping push Mafia drugs in lower income neighborhoods and countries so that they can fund their anti-Communist operations in Italy and Southern America off the books since obviously the American taxpayer would never go for it.
Every time the “communists” attack, its always when their party is gaining ground in polling and the attacks always reek of CIA methods. Godfather Part III is largely inspired by the Vatican’s role in this scheme to funnel the Mob’s money through un-auditable Vatican banks which in real life as discussed in this book was the infamous in Italian Banco Ambrosio scandal.
It’s a shame Godfather Pt III didn’t reach critical acclaim because otherwise more people might be aware of the real life implications of that alliance which in the film doesn’t even reference the CIA’s role interestingly.
Williams, on the other hand, does not miss and covers every fascinating & sinister detail of this dangerous dalliance between spys, mafioso & the Catholic Church headquartered in an Italian Masonic lodge. If the facts of that book were put into a movie it would be said to be far too fantastical but this is real life and you know what they say about truth and fiction I’m sure.
This disturbing exposé describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Europe.
Journalist Paul L. Williams presents evidence suggesting the existence of “stay-behind” units in many European countries consisting of five thousand to fifteen thousand military operatives.
According to the author’s research, the initial funding for these guerilla armies came from the sale of large stocks of SS morphine that had been smuggled out of Germany and Italy and of bogus British bank notes that had been produced in concentration camps by skilled counterfeiters.
As the Cold War intensified, the units were used not only to ward off possible invaders, but also to thwart the rise of left-wing movements in South America and NATO-based countries by terror attacks.
Williams argues that Operation Gladio soon gave rise to the toppling of governments, wholesale genocide, the formation of death squads, financial scandals on a grand scale, the creation of the mujahideen, an international narcotics network, and, most recently, the ascendancy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a Jesuit cleric with strong ties to Operation Condor (an outgrowth of Gladio in Argentina) as Pope Francis I.Sure to be controversial, Operation Gladio connects the dots in ways the mainstream media often overlooks.