The Italian police officials were now aware that US political leaders, including the vice president, the secretary of state, and the US ambassador to Italy were intricately involved in the inner workings of the lodge. All of these discoveries were made possible by John Paul II’s failure to provide assistance to Sindona—a failure that led to the fake kidnapping, the visit to Arezzo, and Sindona’s incarceration in a New York prison, where he was beginning to break out in song.
