
              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 6  Num. 65
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")
 
 
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VATICAN BANK MONEY LAUNDERING RING SUSPECTED
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A Reuters wire service story (Sat, 2 Dec 1995 8:50:06 PST) and an 
Associated Press wire service story (Sat, 2 Dec 1995 17:00:06 
PST) both tell of a suspected Vatican Bank money laundering ring.
 
According to Reuters, the allegations have been highlighted by 
the arrest Saturday, December 2nd, of a 72-year-old retired CIA 
agent, Roger D'Onofrio, near Naples, Italy. It is suspected that 
D'Onofrio "used his CIA contacts to help an international ring 
launder money and traffick in arms, drugs and radioactive 
materials." The Associated Press story adds that Italian police 
have linked him to various Swiss bank accounts.
 
Also implicated in the affair has been Cardinal Ricard Maria 
Carles, the archbishop of Barcelona, Spain. Articles in Italian 
and Spanish newspapers have charged the Cardinal with helping 
supervise "the laundering of some $65 million in lire into 
dollars through the Vatican bank." Although both Cardinal Carles 
and the Vatican have denied these allegations, Prosecutor Alfredo 
Ormanni casts doubt on their denials: he says that an Italian 
financial expert, Riccardo Marocco, in a wiretapped telephone 
conversation, specifically named Cardinal Carles "as the Spanish 
contact for the money laundering ring."
 
Chicago researcher Sherman Skolnick adds additional elements to 
the story. He says that not only have they grabbed the ex-CIA 
agent, but that, according to foreign journalists he has talked 
to, D'Onofrio "has confessed that he is the head of a team that 
[has done] the work arranging the money laundering on behalf of 
the Mafia and the CIA through the Vatican Bank, and that his team 
were the ones that poisoned [the late Pope] John Paul I."
 
Skolnick is pursuing leads that may show a link between the 
arrest of D'Onofrio and the tragic assassination recently of 
Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. The Chicago investigator 
says that Israeli journalists have confided in him that Israeli 
intelligence appears to be behind D'Onofrio's arrest. States Mr. 
Skolnick: "My Israeli sources claim that the Mossad is gloating 
over it; that they arranged it because of this thing about the 
Pope and this whole business I was telling you about." [See CN 
6.45 at ftp.shout.net pub/users/bigred for background.]
 
Now looking into what he sees as a possible Chicago-Israel-Italy 
connection to the Rabin assassination, Skolnick questions an 
under-reported visit to Chicago this week by Ariel Sharon, a 
prominent Israeli. Why was Sharon in Chicago? Was it just to give 
a speech, as reported? Or was there another reason?
 
Why too, wonders Skolnick, was Jonathan Pollard's father also in 
Chicago this week?
 
Mr. Skolnick, editor of Hotline News (312-731-1100) and co-host 
of a highly popular public access cable TV program in Chicago, 
admits that this is a story he is still at work developing. 
Still, one wonders why the American press hasn't paid more 
attention to at least some aspects of it -- at least to the 
arrest of the retired CIA agent and the charges of Vatican Bank 
money laundering. Says Skolnick: "If there was an honest press, 
you know how *big* that story would be?
 
       Senior CIA Official Arrested In Naples!
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       Confesses He's Part Of Team That Poisoned The Pope!
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       And Has Been Doing The Money Laundering on 
       Behalf of the Mafia and the Vatican Bank!
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That should make headlines! Nothin'. It's on National Public 
Radio. And even the story on National Public Radio was not 
complete."
 
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