Early in April 1981, Abuzer Uğurlu received word from Gladio: Kill the pope and blame the Communists. It was to be the ultimate false flag attack. The message came with a payment of $1.7 million.44 The arrangements had been made by members of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, P2, and the Safari Club, a covert organization that had been established by Henry Kissinger. The gunmen would be Çatlı and Ağca.