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The three Vatican bankers remained safe from extradition within the sanctity of the Sovereign State of Vatican City.48 Marcinkus remained under papal protection until 1991, when he took up residence in Sun City, Arizona. Italian authorities throughout the next decade attempted to persuade US officials to return the Archbishop to Italy so he could face a jury. But such efforts proved fruitless. The US Justice Department made the strange ruling that Marcinkus possessed a Vatican passport and could not be extradited to Italy even though his crimes took place on Italian soil. No one in the CIA ...more
Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the Cia, and the Mafia
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