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Financial corruption, murder, and a bizarre kidnapping leads Calvi down an ever more desperate path.
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00:03Sindona and Calvi's legal troubles increase. They begin a string of events that will bring Calvi
00:09ever closer to his doom. Sindona crashed. The largest bankruptcy in American history. Sindona
00:18wanted on both sides of the Atlantic. The mafiosi want their money back. Calvi turned to the P2
00:27Lodge for protection. They extracted a very high price. Jelly used his position to get money out
00:35of Calvi. It was clear that Calvi was in serious trouble. It's not every day in London that you find
00:43a body swinging under one of the great old story bridges. It's a dramatic death. In 1992, I was
00:51approached by Jeff Katz of Kroll Associates to see if I could help. He had been charged with
00:56reinvestigating the case on behalf of the family. Jeff wanted me to look at the forensic science.
01:03I didn't make any assumptions about whether it was likely to be murder or suicide. I was
01:07just very interested in the circumstances by which this high profile Italian banker had
01:13come to be in this position, hanging from a rope under one of the big London bridges. How
01:19on earth did that happen? I don't think I've ever done a case quite like this one.
01:23And the high profile of the brotherhood of all, and I just want to see with the
01:41people who are following the drama. And I don't think that they've burned down a
01:41little bit too. I don't think that I can't believe that this was the only way that
01:41happened. But needless to understand the hearing, because I know it's the only way that
01:42to be a new life, you've taken to say that I have learned what we've done. And the way it's
01:48been a
01:48long, and the way it's been a hard time ago this was to but I have to be the same
02:13This model is something that we created to explain the results of all our experiments
02:19and observations and findings in relation to the conclusions that we finally came to.
02:25The framework I constructed consisted of thinking about the routes by which Calvi could have got
02:32onto the position on the scaffolding in which he was found.
02:36I decided in the end that there were probably four main routes.
02:42Two suicide routes and two murder routes.
02:50There was a fixed iron ladder on the river wall from which the people who wanted to get access to
02:56the scaffolding
02:57and repair the gate from the river fleet used to get down onto it.
03:01Calvi would have climbed down this near vertical ladder.
03:04There was a two-foot, eight-inch gap that he would have negotiated across to the back of the scaffolding
03:12up against the river wall.
03:13He would have stepped across onto the two scaffolding planks, which were always apparently very slippery.
03:21And then he would have had to have climbed up one pole's distance,
03:26traversed to the other end of the scaffolding,
03:29and then tied the rope of the scaffolding through an eyelet, not onto the pole.
03:36We worked out that it was between 1.50 and 2.45 that night.
03:42The lights along the embankment there are set to light the path and not set to light the river.
03:49So he would have to have done that in darkness.
03:54You have to bear in mind his age and his physical condition.
03:59Roberto Calvi had vertigo, and he had a weakness in one of his little fingers that tended to get disturbed,
04:08you know, if he used his hand too roughly.
04:10The other thing is that he was weighted down with these stones and half-bricks.
04:17So that was one of the suicide routes.
04:20Any tribunal could make up its own mind as to whether that was likely or not.
04:30At 18 minutes past six on this warm Rome evening,
04:34just a few cups of smoke, but unmistakably white.
04:39On October 16th, 1978, the arrival of a new pope
04:44will have unseen and deadly consequences for Roberto Calvi.
04:50Wojtyla.
04:51Karo Wojtyla of Poland.
04:53The first non-Italian pope in more than four and a half centuries.
04:57The papal name he had chosen, John Paul II.
05:09John Paul II is very keen on the battle against communism,
05:13and absolutely the front line is in his own homeland in Poland.
05:21After World War II, the Soviet Union institutes a new communist government
05:26in an unwilling Poland.
05:30Karol Wojtyla, who will become Pope John Paul II,
05:34begins a 20-year rise through the church,
05:36working tirelessly to undermine Soviet control.
05:40He was very successful in defending the Catholic Church in Poland.
05:46His ascension as pope alarms the Soviets.
05:51Poland at this time has a communist government,
05:53but also has a thriving Catholic community underneath.
05:59John Paul II, I think, was the fiercest anti-communist
06:04in the last part of the 20th century,
06:07and had his own agenda,
06:10which was to bring religion back to Eastern Europe.
06:16Bishop Marchinkus sees this as a good way
06:20to ingratiate himself with his new boss.
06:24John Paul II is inclined to turn a blind eye
06:27to financial malpractices.
06:30It was more important to cover up the dirty details
06:33in order to preserve the reputation of the church,
06:37and that's exactly the spirit that Marchinkus lived and espoused.
06:41They were kindred spirits, let's say.
06:46Bishop Marchinkus, his willingness to do things
06:50that the pope finds useful creates a relationship of trust
06:53that allows Marchinkus not only to hold his position,
06:57but to reinforce it.
06:59Roberto Calvi also understands
07:01how the new pope can be useful for Banco Ambrosiano.
07:05Calvi was shrewd enough to do things for the church,
07:10to donate money to causes.
07:12Those things would soon include the pope's homeland.
07:18Pope John Paul II became the first pope
07:21to venture behind the Iron Curtain,
07:23kissing the tarmac on his arrival at Warsaw Airport.
07:26He was at the start of an historic nine-day visit.
07:31This was extremely significant for Polish Catholics.
07:35It was confirmation that they had the support
07:40of an influential, crucial world institution
07:44in their battle against the Soviet domination.
07:48There has been mixed in all these events
07:51fierce Polish nationalism.
07:52After he leaves,
07:54that may prove much harder to dampen down.
08:01Shortly after that, in Poland,
08:03a small union formed.
08:05The Solidarity Trade Union
08:07were fighting the communist regime.
08:10Union members lock themselves into shipyards
08:13and stage a strike.
08:15The pope, the CIA, and others
08:18start to see Solidarity as a potential partner
08:21for destabilizing the communist government.
08:24And Marchinkus is then keen to have
08:28banking experts who can help him do that.
08:36Do you know what's happening in Poland?
08:42Yes.
08:43Come see us at the Vatican, Roberto.
08:47There are few things better
08:49than being quote-unquote God's banker
08:54and being summoned to the seat
08:57of the Catholic Church Vatican City.
09:06This drags Calvi ever deeper
09:08into the vortex of the pope's
09:10obsessive battle against communism.
09:21The whole of my report was based on this framework
09:25of what seemed to me to be the most likely routes
09:28that Calvi could have taken.
09:32The other suicide routes that we consider
09:35was he had climbed down onto the foreshore
09:38some distance away.
09:44Further downstream, not that far away,
09:47there was another ladder that led directly onto the foreshore,
09:50so at low tide you could climb down that.
09:53Calvi could have walked along the foreshore,
09:57but he still would have had to walk through water
10:00to get to the scaffolding.
10:02The water would have been several feet deep,
10:04would have had to swum to it, really.
10:07Then he would have had to have climbed onto the scaffolding
10:09and then climbed all the way up to where he was found,
10:12which was reasonably near the top,
10:14and then tied the rope.
10:16And of course, still, this is weighted down
10:19with bricks and everything on his body.
10:21We did a range of experiments.
10:23We actually re-enacted climbing down the ladders at the scene,
10:27or particularly the one that led down onto the foreshore,
10:30and having a look at the damage you get in the shoes from that.
10:34Secondly, the pole's very rusty as well,
10:36and also the yellow and green paint.
10:38Then inspected the shoes afterwards,
10:40compared them with what was found on the original shoes.
10:44We then put the shoes in a bucket of swirling water
10:48for a certain period of time,
10:52and then looked at them to see how much of the paint
10:55and the rust that had been transferred had then been removed.
11:00We had enough physical evidence here,
11:02along with all of these other suppositions,
11:06to leave one really convinced
11:08that neither of the suicide routes were really possible.
11:16That left the very strong conclusion
11:19that he must have been murdered.
11:22And I think the circles that he moved in
11:24invites that kind of speculation.
11:41Just five weeks after the Pope's visit to Poland,
11:46prosecutor Giorgio Ambrosoli,
11:48who had been delving into banker Michele Sindona's fraudulent dealings,
11:52is assassinated.
11:57Who wanted Ambrosoli dead?
11:59It's a long list.
12:02He was shot and killed in Milan by three men,
12:04in what Italian sources called a typical mafia execution.
12:08But who wanted him dead,
12:10that also had connections that might relate to Italian-Americans?
12:16Michele Sindona.
12:18So it turned some of the attention toward him.
12:22Sindona was furious.
12:30Sindona, who's out on bail pending this trial,
12:33is suddenly missing.
12:3659-year-old Michele Sindona is under indictment
12:39in the failure of the Franklin National Bank,
12:42the largest bank collapse in U.S. history.
12:44He disappeared in New York City last week.
12:49Hello.
12:50We now have Michele Sindona as our prisoner.
12:53You will be hearing from us.
12:55So here you have a person charged in a criminal trial
12:58about to take place in New York,
13:00and he's been kidnapped.
13:04The FBI's brought in...
13:06One of their specialties is kidnapping.
13:09They are worried enough
13:11to put Sindona's assistant
13:14at Franklin National
13:15and knows a lot of the secrets
13:17in protective custody.
13:19But the FBI refuses to classify it as a kidnapping
13:22because from the get-go,
13:23they are suspicious about it
13:24and they think it's a setup.
13:28Ding-a-ding-a-doom-doom
13:29Ding-a-ding-a-doom-doom
13:31Guess what?
13:31The FBI was correct.
13:33Sindona had put on a disguise
13:35and he had staged a fake kidnapping.
13:39He didn't do it in a chintzy way.
13:41He decided to do it in a big way.
13:43So he disappears
13:45and he travels to Sicily.
13:50Sindona had business to do
13:53that he had to do in Italy.
13:57Sindona needed help from the mafia
13:59because it was, of course,
14:02pursued by Milan persecutors
14:05as a result of his bankruptcy.
14:08He had to make commitments to mob bosses
14:12that he would repay them.
14:13Millions and millions of dollars.
14:15These were people who would take kindly
14:18to being bilked by their bankers.
14:21He was a guest,
14:23a special guest
14:24of the Palermo mafia
14:26who helped him.
14:28He was living together with our bosses.
14:31During this stay in Palermo,
14:35Sindona wrote many, many letters
14:38pretending that the letters
14:42were dictated to him
14:44by the people
14:45who kidnapped him.
14:49As Sindona becomes increasingly desperate,
14:52I think there's possibly
14:54an element of madness.
14:57He's losing contact
14:59with reality at that point.
15:00The members of the secret
15:05Masonic Lodge P2
15:07were arriving to the conclusion
15:11that there was not a possibility
15:14to trust Sindona any longer
15:17because his discipline was so bad.
15:21At that time,
15:23they decided
15:24that their financial man
15:27was only Calvi.
15:37Michele Sindona
15:38turned up in New York today
15:40just as mysteriously
15:41as he disappeared
15:42last August 2nd.
15:43He was taken to a Manhattan hospital
15:45with what was thought
15:46was a bullet wound
15:47in the leg.
15:51Unbelievably to many,
15:53Archbishop Marchinkus
15:54agrees to act
15:55as a character witness.
15:57People have asked,
15:58do you think Sindona
15:59had something on Marchinkus?
16:00Did he get some blackmail
16:00that forced him to do it?
16:02Absolutely not.
16:03That was Marchinkus.
16:05Loyalty was his DNA.
16:08Marchinkus says,
16:08you know what?
16:09I'll go over
16:10and be a character witness.
16:12Wait, it gets worse than that.
16:13So will a couple of people
16:15work with me
16:15in the Vatican Bank
16:16as senior lay officials
16:17who have been here forever.
16:19The Vatican Secretary
16:20Secretary of State of Kassaroli
16:21is absolutely shocked at this.
16:23Enough of this.
16:24This is just ridiculous.
16:25I'm putting a stop to this.
16:26It's vetoed.
16:27You're not going.
16:29Marchinkus was too much in bed
16:30with Sindona.
16:32So when Sindona fell apart,
16:34they said,
16:35all right,
16:35time to get rid of Marchinkus.
16:37Cardinal Kassaroli
16:38tried to find a way
16:41of ousting Marchinkus.
16:43The Secretary of State Kassaroli
16:45goes to a friend of his
16:47who's running
16:48Italian intelligence
16:48and says,
16:49will you get me some dirt
16:50on Marchinkus
16:51so I can force him out?
16:53They put this fellow
16:54Francesco Pazienza
16:56on the case.
16:58I am Francesco Pazienza.
17:01But everybody
17:02called me Frank.
17:07I found
17:08embarrassing documentation
17:10on Marchinkus
17:12in Switzerland.
17:13Financial information.
17:16Money from the Vatican Bank
17:17that's taken out
17:18that's illegal.
17:19Now,
17:19he doesn't know
17:19what it's being used for.
17:20It's not ending up
17:21in Marchinkus' pocket.
17:22But what does he do with it?
17:23Does he go back
17:24to Italian intelligence
17:25and tell them
17:26this is so Italian?
17:28Pazienza says,
17:29I've got information
17:30on Marchinkus.
17:31Great.
17:31I'll meet with him.
17:33He was smoking.
17:34I said,
17:35can I smoke too?
17:36I said,
17:37yes.
17:38So I had a Cuban cigar.
17:40I got the tip.
17:43They were watching me.
17:44Hey.
17:45But it's true or phony.
17:49Cuban cigar.
17:49Monte Cristo.
17:51Give me one.
17:52Give me one.
17:56I put the documentation
17:58on his table
17:59and he told me,
18:01what is this paper?
18:03He said,
18:04Monsignor,
18:05these are documents
18:06I found.
18:07Because I only wanted
18:08to have.
18:09I didn't give him.
18:10I'm giving you.
18:12I have no copy.
18:14It's for you.
18:17Marchinkus told me,
18:20listen,
18:21remember one thing.
18:22I come from Cicero.
18:23You know who was
18:25the boss of Cicero?
18:26Al Capone.
18:28He said,
18:28you know what my father
18:29was doing when he was young?
18:31I don't know.
18:31I don't know.
18:32He was the preferred
18:34driver of Al Capone.
18:36I swear to God.
18:39So I say,
18:40listen,
18:41I understand.
18:43With me,
18:44there was no problem
18:45because I never
18:46betray anybody.
18:47And at that moment,
18:49he knew Marchinkus
18:50owed him a favor
18:51and that was worth it.
18:53At that period,
18:54I was completely
18:55anti-communist.
18:56So I said,
18:57why have to ruin
18:59Marchinkus?
19:00I know what
19:01you are doing now
19:02with his holiness
19:03and the war
19:04against international
19:05communism.
19:06I would rather
19:07be part of your war
19:08than not the war
19:10against you.
19:14Meanwhile,
19:16investigators close in
19:17on the truth
19:17about Sindona's
19:18disappearing act.
19:22The Italians
19:23pick up a fellow
19:24coming into the country.
19:26He is a senior
19:28member of the
19:29Gambino crime family
19:30and they give him
19:31a full first.
19:32They find out
19:32that he has a piece
19:33of paper on him
19:34that's actually
19:34in his shoes.
19:37It means something.
19:38So they took
19:39all the names
19:40of the people
19:40on that flight,
19:41over 180 of them.
19:43The FBI went through
19:44one by one
19:45and they found
19:45one of them
19:46was a person
19:46who didn't exist.
19:47It was a false
19:48identification.
19:49They then pulled
19:50out of the files
19:52from immigration
19:53the actual
19:54declaration card
19:55and on that
19:56they find
19:57Sindona's
19:58fingerprint.
20:01He's coming in
20:02back from Italy
20:03at a time
20:04when he's supposed
20:05to be kidnapped.
20:06He's traveling
20:07back and forth
20:08in the company
20:09of mobsters.
20:10It's the end,
20:11as far as the FBI
20:12is concerned,
20:13of Sindona
20:14having been
20:14the innocent
20:15victim.
20:16A judge
20:17in New York
20:17today sentenced
20:18Italian financier
20:19Michele Sindona
20:20to 25 years
20:22in prison
20:23and fined him
20:23$207,000.
20:27And that was
20:28the end
20:29of the scenery
20:29because he
20:31was arrested
20:32and never
20:33was released
20:34anymore.
20:52after I was
20:54able to
20:54eliminate
20:55the two
20:55suicide routes
20:56which left
20:57the very strong
20:58conclusion
20:59that he must
21:00have been murdered.
21:02That left
21:03the two
21:03murder routes
21:04really.
21:07The two
21:08murder routes
21:09we considered
21:09was first of
21:10all that
21:11one of his
21:12murderers
21:12had lowered
21:13him perhaps
21:14on a rope
21:15over the
21:15parapet and
21:16down the
21:17front of the
21:17river wall
21:18to be caught
21:19by someone
21:19else who
21:20was on
21:20the scaffolding
21:22and then
21:22pulled the
21:23body towards
21:24him and
21:24he then
21:25attached the
21:26rope and
21:27then Calvi
21:27was suspended.
21:32You have
21:33to think
21:33somebody's
21:33going to
21:34night work
21:34somebody's
21:34peddling
21:35by.
21:37Somebody's
21:37going to
21:37see a
21:38group of
21:39people and
21:39later just
21:39tell the
21:40police the
21:41whole thing
21:41is over
21:42you've got
21:42a murder
21:42from the
21:42get-go.
21:43There's a
21:44risk to
21:44doing it
21:44in public.
21:48The other
21:49route was
21:49simply by
21:50being brought
21:51by boat.
21:53The boat
21:53theory might
21:54be the more
21:55likely.
21:55That was
21:56where we
21:57ended up.
22:07At the
22:09beginning of
22:091981, we
22:13were investigating
22:15the fake
22:16kidnapping.
22:18It came
22:19out that
22:20Mr. Joseph
22:22Michelli Crimi
22:23was also in
22:24Palermo with
22:26Sindona.
22:28This
22:28doctor,
22:29Joseph
22:29Michelli
22:30Crimi,
22:31Ito
22:31American,
22:32being a
22:33doctor,
22:33was able
22:34to shot
22:35Sindona's
22:35leg in a
22:36way not
22:37to kill
22:37him.
22:38It was
22:39only a
22:39cover-up,
22:39but he
22:40shot
22:40Sindona's
22:41leg.
22:41Unbelievable.
22:43The
22:43prosecutors,
22:44the judge,
22:45the police
22:45discovered
22:46this and
22:48interrogated
22:49Crimi.
22:51Michelli
22:52Crimi,
22:53the doctor,
22:54kept
22:55traveling
22:56between
22:56Palermo
22:57and
22:58Arezzo.
22:59Arezzo is
23:00where
23:01Licio
23:01Gelli had
23:02his main
23:03headquarters
23:04and office.
23:06Licio
23:06Gelli,
23:08head of
23:08the secret
23:09lodge
23:09Propaganda
23:10Due,
23:10or P2.
23:15We
23:16already
23:17knew
23:17that
23:18this
23:18strange
23:19secret
23:20Masonic
23:21lodge
23:22existed.
23:23And
23:24we knew
23:24that
23:25Licio
23:25Gelli
23:26was the
23:26head
23:27of
23:27this
23:28Masonic
23:29lodge.
23:30Licio
23:30Gelli
23:31seemed
23:32to be
23:32a
23:33very
23:33powerful
23:34person
23:35protected
23:36by
23:37several
23:38circles.
23:42So now
23:43that
23:44there
23:44was
23:44this
23:45connection
23:46between
23:47Sindona
23:48and
23:48Licio
23:48Gelli
23:50We
23:51decided
23:52to
23:52search
23:53all
23:54the
23:54known
23:55addresses
23:56of
23:57Licio
23:58Gelli.
23:59We
24:00found
24:00out
24:01that
24:02Gelli
24:03had
24:03a
24:04secret
24:04office
24:05inside
24:06a
24:07textile
24:07company
24:08in
24:09the
24:10province
24:10of
24:11Arezzo.
24:13Stiglion
24:14Fibocchi
24:14that's
24:16the
24:16name
24:16of
24:17the
24:17small
24:17town.
24:19The
24:20search
24:20was
24:21managed
24:22by
24:23the
24:24Guardia
24:24di
24:25Finanza
24:25the
24:26financial
24:26police.
24:29That's
24:29a
24:29military
24:30organization
24:31that
24:31belongs
24:31to
24:31the
24:32treasury
24:32department
24:32and
24:33they
24:33were
24:33created
24:34to
24:35fight
24:35corruption
24:36and
24:36money
24:36laundering.
24:37We
24:39sent
24:40Francesco
24:41Carnuccio
24:41he
24:43was
24:44a very
24:44very
24:45brave
24:46and
24:46clever
24:46investigator.
24:50All
24:50I
24:51had a
24:51degree
24:51of
24:52official
24:52I
24:53was
24:53a
24:53mayor
24:54I
24:55was
24:55part of
24:56the
24:56first
24:56special
24:57of the
24:59public
24:59police
25:00and the
25:01Guardia
25:01of
25:01Finanza
25:02Milano. In this special section, it was exclusively interested in
25:07indagini of the judicial police at a high level.
25:20When he told me that I had to go to Arezzo, I knew that I had to operate in front
25:26of Gelli.
25:27We took the car and went to Castelio Fibocchi and I chose a collaborator in the name of The Sanfis.
25:37We identified where were the seats of this company.
25:48I presented the custodian and told me to accompany me in the office of the administrator.
25:56At that point, from the staircase, there was a lady who called Carla and is the secretary of the administrator.
26:07I told her to have a decree of the acquisition office of Gelli.
26:14She said to accompany me.
26:31The lady's bag was on a chair in the office.
26:36I said to The Sanfis, if the lady comes out and takes the bag, follow her.
26:42And next to the newspaper, there was a huge valise.
26:46It was just a flame.
26:49I remained impressed with the stamp of the white paper where there was a jury of the masonry.
26:55She was immediately aware of the gravity of the question.
27:00At a certain point, the lady said to me, I said to me, I'm going to send you because I
27:05have a appointment in the atrium with a gentleman.
27:08She said to me, okay, she said to us all.
27:14She said to us.
27:24Then the officer went there and took that object.
27:32It was the keys of the safe.
27:46The lady said to me, look, the commander is a very powerful person.
27:51Be careful to what he does.
27:54We began to see buses.
27:56Group Rizzoli, Cassandini, other buses that made me nervous.
28:01There were some sector files.
28:05For example, the Guardia di Finanza, the army, the police, the bank, and so on.
28:12I was curious, especially after all, the Guardia di Finanza.
28:17When I opened it, there were hundreds of officials, all superior officials.
28:22The Major, the Colonel Colonel, Colonel Colonel, General.
28:25There was the name of my General General.
28:39Everybody was involved.
28:42It's the holy grail of secret relationships.
28:45This is a who's who of Italy.
28:47There were ministers, prominent politicians.
28:50Leaders of Italian intelligence agencies.
28:53Famous journalists, editors, publishers of the most important Italian newspapers.
29:00Prominent business people, bankers, media figures.
29:04The owners of Corriere della Sera, the most important Italian newspapers,
29:08like the New York Times for the USA.
29:11Silvio Berlusconi was a member of P2.
29:13He was a young guy who was on the way up in the media business.
29:16He ends up being the Prime Minister of Italy afterwards.
29:18One of the richest men in the country.
29:23And of course, Sindona was a member of P2.
29:26Calvi also was a member of P2.
29:33Regulano was a member of P3, equals one of the most important things.
29:37to understand what happened in this country.
29:42We brought to light the lists of the P2
29:46and therefore all the documentation of the great affairs
29:50that the Stato strisciante has brought forward
29:54in place of the Stato Real.
29:57...repercussions after the publication of the name of 962
30:02presumed to the P2 P2...
30:04...the scandal of the scandals has been discovered.
30:06Italy was shocked, completely.
30:10It was a shock.
30:12Having the P2 lists made public
30:16was a political earthquake.
30:20It was really a shock for all the Italian citizens
30:23to discover that, oh, but this minister
30:27was secretly obeying a person like Liciogelli.
30:32And Liciogelli was really criminal.
30:36It seemed to be the incarnation of the kind of Masonic conspiracy
30:41that everybody had always expected the Freemasons of being.
30:45The Forlani government resigned after allegations
30:48that nearly a thousand prominent Italians in all walks of life
30:51belonged to a secret Freemasons' Lodge.
30:54Government ministers quit.
30:56The parliament outlawed P2,
30:58but even now still debates how enduring
31:00the influence of the Lodge has been.
31:02The Forlani government
31:03The Forlani government
31:34And in the crudely created false bottom of her suitcase,
31:40she has, among other things, blackmail materials.
31:45A document was found,
31:47the name of which is Piano di Rinascita Democratica,
31:52Plan of Democratic Rebirth.
31:55Which is a political manifesto, to put simply.
31:59This Piano di Rinascita Democratica
32:02non è altro che il regolamento di un colpo di Stato strisciante.
32:09È come se fosse la Costituzione
32:12che dà tutto il regolamento di questo piano di colpo di Stato
32:18sotterraneo, strisciante.
32:20This was a plan for a sort of authoritarian conservative turn
32:26in Italian politics.
32:29Shutting up criminals and left-wing troublemakers,
32:33more intervention in the press,
32:35tighter control over trade unions.
32:39The document also had a kind of Masonic flavour to it,
32:43because he talked about a secret group within P2,
32:49which would be kind of a rigorous moral elite to lead society,
32:54reform society from within, take over the Christian Democrat Party,
32:59which was too corrupt to be of use in the anti-communist struggle.
33:04That is what Gelli is really interested in.
33:08And the whole plan for democratic rebirth,
33:12indeed the whole sort of Cold War climate of fear of communism amplified when necessary,
33:20allows a lot of rot under the surface,
33:24and Gelli wants to operate in that rot.
33:27That is his natural environment.
33:29This is part of a creeping coup d'etat,
33:35which went on in this country during a good part of the second part of the last century.
33:48We went through this coup d'etat more or less between the sixties and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
34:05The main points of this creeping coup d'etat are the massacre of Piazza Fontana in Milan 1969,
34:19Brescia in 1974.
34:23All through the massacre of Bologna.
34:30In 1980, in Bologna, there is a slaughter for a bomb put in a railway station.
34:40Bologna station bombing was the worst terrorist atrocity that has been seen in Italy since the war.
34:48At the time, it wasn't at all clear what really was behind it.
34:5385 people dead and 202 people seriously injured.
35:00Nobody in Italy can forget that day.
35:03It was something like September 11 for the Americans.
35:07The number of claims for responsibility for the bombing from several groups.
35:12The most likely being the extreme right wing, the neo-fascists.
35:15There was this sense that this might have been the last gasp of the fascists paving the way for a
35:23military coup.
35:24The only thing was that by 1980 that didn't seem to be a very plausible scenario.
35:30So it was rather mysterious.
35:33Also, it came out that the Vatican Bank was related with the finance affairs of Michele Sindona, Banco Ambrosiano, and
35:46Roberto Calvi.
35:47How they were hiding money abroad, and there was a whole file folder on Calvi.
35:52On Calvi, it didn't disclose illegal behavior.
35:55It was a story of Gelli's intercessions for him over the years to help him to try to stop investigations,
36:02to get them thwarted, to get them pushed off to the side.
36:05How he had helped Calvi and Ambrosiano to a point where eventually he couldn't do it any longer.
36:11And Gelli fled down to Argentina, where he has a home.
36:17When Gelli disappeared, Calvi was completely out of any political connection.
36:26Suddenly, he doesn't have the coverage, and he feels naked.
36:32And then it gets even worse for Calvi.
36:36Milan's tough, chief investigating magistrate, armed with the new information, takes charge of the ongoing probe into Calvi.
36:44He was at desperate straits.
36:48For the first time, God's banker has nowhere to turn.
36:57The armed forces now rule in Poland with martial law and the threat of execution for those who break it.
37:03Crackdown was aimed at the independent trade union solidarity.
37:08But the end of 81, General Joralski of Poland did crack down.
37:13In Gdansk, they arrested nearly all the union's leaders gathered there for a conference.
37:18They cut the telephone line communications between Poland and Vatican City.
37:25They knew that they had to cut off that Vatican support.
37:33The president of the United States.
37:37The pontiff finds an enthusiastic ally in the newly inaugurated Reagan administration.
37:44Under Ronald Reagan.
37:47The CIA was reinvigorated.
37:49William Casey, the head of the CIA, wants the Pope as a partner for destabilizing the communist government.
37:57If the CIA is involved in the plot to silence Calvi, there's an enormous array of things that Calvi could
38:04have spoken about that might have been embarrassing for the CIA.
38:08The Pope was getting American intelligence briefings inside the Vatican.
38:14The CIA sent an emissary over would show him photographs from satellites of what was happening inside Poland.
38:21John Paul II loved those.
38:23He took real interest in it.
38:25Any message for America?
38:26Well, God bless America.
38:29The head of the CIA wants to funnel money through a willing partner, the Pope and Vatican.
38:35And guess what?
38:36There's only one American over there.
38:42Casey sort of likes the idea that he's talking to an American.
38:45Somebody who has this outgoing, direct nature.
38:48He feels comfortable with Martinkus himself.
38:51And as a result, it gives Casey an extra level of confidence that everything is going to go smoothly through
38:57the Vatican.
39:00Getting money there was always risky.
39:02Somebody like Calvi to do money laundering was always needed.
39:05But after General Jurowski had cracked down, getting money there was even riskier.
39:14And Martinkus got Francesco Pacienza to go ahead and put together a shipment of gold to Poland.
39:22Everybody's a mercenary.
39:24Even if you work for a company, you are a mercenary because at the end of the week, you receive
39:30your money.
39:32We transferred $3 million in a small ingot.
39:36We put all the ingots in a double fund of the car.
39:42And then Monsignor, he started.
39:47According to Pacienza, a priest then drove the vehicle loaded with millions in gold ingots from Switzerland to solidarity representatives
39:56in Gdansk, Poland.
39:59The code was, Doctor, have a nice birthday.
40:04It was the code message that the money arrived in Gdansk.
40:09This pope will do whatever to undermine the international communism.
40:20And then Calvi's worst fear comes true.
40:25Calvi was at home with his family and there's a knock on the door.
40:30And it's the police.
40:32And they arrest him for illegal capital exports, for moving money abroad.
40:37It was humiliating, shocking.
40:42He was taken to prison.
40:44Gerardo D'Ambrosio, il giudice, lo vediamo mentre esce dal carcere di Lodi, è entrato ieri in carcere dove Calvi
40:50è ritenuto alle 16.
40:51Ed è uscito a tarda sera, dopo le 22.
40:54Ha detto che avrebbe reinterrogato Calvi e lo farà oggi pomeriggio.
40:59Two days after Calvi's arrest, magistrates began interrogating him.
41:05They confronted him with a series of questions about Jelly and his relationship with Jelly and business deals he had
41:12been involved in.
41:14Calvi was evasive, lying, not knowing that his interrogators had documents to back up what they were asking him about.
41:23And so with each answer, they would confront him with a document that showed that he was lying or being
41:30evasive.
41:30This happened again and again, and it was wearing him down.
41:34It was clear that he was in serious trouble.
41:39Calvi felt he was being treated like a common criminal.
41:42It was very demoralizing to him.
41:44That was sort of the beginning of the nosedive, because it sort of shattered his confidence.
41:51One year before his death, Calvi's trial begins.
41:56To Calvi, time feels merciless.
42:01Over seven weeks, his blood pressure, anxiety and depression increase.
42:07The experience of prison makes him incredibly nervous and fearful,
42:13because it made him feel extremely vulnerable.
42:19His vertigo escalates.
42:21So, he agrees to talk to the magistrates.
42:25He's a bit of a drama queen at this point.
42:27He's going to paint himself as a victim, much as Sindona did.
42:31So, he goes from being one of the most important financial men in all of Italy,
42:34to now it's all out of my control, I'm just being used as a pawn.
42:37And I'm not sure how much of that was real.
42:40With the P2 out of commission, the Vatican is his last chance.
42:45His wife, Clara, and his daughter, Anna, visited Calvi in prison.
42:51He confided in them that the share transactions that were the basis for the criminal case against him
42:58were actually done to benefit the Vatican Bank.
43:02So, Calvi says, really the Vatican Bank is the one asking me to do all these things.
43:07There's no doubt that there were people who were petrified about what Calvi might say.
43:14When you talk, you die.
43:18It's one of the rules, it's a very basic rule, you don't talk.
43:34It's been six long years since careful forensic reanalysis ruled out suicide.
43:41But in that time, Calvi's family hasn't been able to convince a judge to reopen the case.
43:47Until now.
43:51An investigating judge in Rome orders Calvi's remains exhumed.
43:57He wants to start from scratch in analyzing the death of Banco Ambrosiano's chairman.
44:06They brought the remains to the Forensics Institute of Pathology in Milan,
44:11one of the most prestigious medical examining institutes in all of Italy.
44:15It was excluded from the tests that the gloves and the gloves and the sub-ungual apparatus
44:27have never been in contact with the gloves that were returned to his vestments
44:35when he found a cadavere.
44:47They come to these conclusions, but it's not persuasive for a prosecutor to go ahead and start a case and
44:52get anybody indicted.
44:57It's been 20 years since Roberto Calvi's lifeless body was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge.
45:04The pathology lab that tested Calvi's exhumed remains two years earlier is relocating to a new office across town.
45:16The movers are packing up and they find what looks like body parts.
45:21It turns out to be Calvi's tongue, part of his neck, part of a shirt that had been left in
45:26as well, and part of his intestines.
45:30Even though it's a gruesome moment, it gives them a chance to do another test.
45:35They're able to determine with what's left of the neck that the vertebrae snapped before he was hanged from Blackfriars
45:45Bridge.
45:47That's the moment in which you have the absolute conclusion from science.
45:51It's time to open up a murder probe in Italy.
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