Who, then, was directing the killings, the terror attacks, and the coup d'états? Who was sanctioning the transactions with the mafias and the drug cartels? Who was creating the secret armies, the neofascist societies, and the bogus banks? The answer, in part, resides in the strange story of Michele Sindona's purchase of the Franklin National Bank in 1972. Sindona purchased the controlling interest in the bank from Laurence Tisch.
