Word: sindona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sindona's fortunes fell (his Banca Privata Italiana collapsed in 1974, the same year that his American operation fell apart), Calvi's rose. He was named president of Banco Ambrosiano, and acquired more and more companies. The press dubbed the publicity-shy Calvi "God's banker" for his ties to the I.O.R. He became known as the man who had taken over the disgraced Sindona's role as the Vatican's lay financial partner...
...born businessman with financial and right-wing political links to South America who served as Grand Master of a Masonic lodge known as Propaganda Due, or P2. Police found Calvi's name, along with those of other prominent Italian and South American politicians, military officers and businessmen (including Sindona), on the secret membership list. P2 was trying to support anti-Communist movements in South America and subvert the Italian state by taking control of its institutions through the lodge's influential membership. The discovery of P2 and its flock of politicians helped to topple the government of Prime...
...rented apartment in London's Chelsea section. On June 17, Banco Ambrosiano's board of directors voted to strip Calvi of his powers, and the Bank of Italy appointed a commission to run Ambrosiano. That same day, Graziella Corrocher, 55, Calvi's longtime secretary-who, says Sindona, also kept the books for P2-plunged to her death from the fourth floor of the bank's Milan headquarters. She left behind an apparent suicide note saying, "May Calvi be double-cursed for the damage he has caused to the bank and its employees...
...hanging in London. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, British authorities ruled Calvi's death a suicide. But some Italians saw sinister significance in the fact that he was dangling from Blackfriars Bridge: members of P2 dress in black and address each other as "friar." Both Sindona and Calvi's son Carlo, 30, believe that the banker was killed. So does Franco de Cataldo, a member of an Italian parliamentary commission investigating P2, who declared last week on the floor of the Chamber of Deputies: "It appears ever more probable that Calvi was murdered...
...What, if any, was the extent of church officials' knowledge of P2? Lodge Grand Master Licio Gelli, who has gone into hiding, was a business associate of Calvi's. Sindona claims that Gelli had long championed the practice of funding opponents of Communism in order to help the cause of Catholicism, and that Calvi was the paymaster for Gelli's activities...