The Threat of Freemasonry

P2 Masonic rituals
St. Peter's Banker, Italian journalist Luigi Difonzo

In interviews two former members have described the oaths they took. They were taken to a compound, a Villa hidden in the Apennines in the region of Tuscany. A 12-foot wall seals the neatly manicured grounds from view. In the centre of the main courtyard stands a fountain shaped like a tree trunk. The cobra-like sculpture, with its inflated hood, watches over the compound in a protective posture, as if ready to strike. The cobra's head is twice the size of a human skull. It has a single eye, which is blue during daylight and red after nightfall, for inside the cobra's hood and behind its eye there is a closed-circuit camera that follows a visitor, invited or unwelcome, as the fountain rotates in the direction the intruder moves. The fountain-camera is controlled from a room within the villa where eight monitors, each with five stations, cover eight guest rooms, patio, pool, dining room, sitting room, and party room. Approximately ten cameras, including the one inside the cobra, have infrared lenses. All of the exterior cameras are camouflaged by the landscaping. The Villa's interior is magnificent. Every room has marble floors and is furnished with antiques. Observing the high ceilings, the finely crafted gold-leaf moldings, the portraits of Mussolini, Hitler, and Peron, the visitor experiences a feeling, a sort of living, breathing odor of danger and power that penetrates the soul and cell by cell contaminates the mind with fear. The year is 1964

In the meeting room, twelve members of P-2, dressed in satin ceremonial robes and wearing black hoods reminiscent of those worn by members of the Ku Klux Klan, sit in leather chairs at a red marble conference table. They are the elite members of the Wolf Pack, Gelli's disciples -- some say his execution squad. None of the black-clad disciples knows the identity of any of his eleven brothers. Grand Master Licio Gelli is the only one who bares his face. Two Masons stand post at the entrance to the meeting room. Their faces are also covered ... They are ... personal bodyguards, some say his death squad -- former Mussolini Fascists whose job is to protect the Grand Master and kill any of the twelve disciples who betray the cause "Il Momento di Passare all" (The Time for Real Action) ... Each bodyguard carries an axe; they also bear automatic weapons
http://www.american-buddha.com/darkhistory3.htm

During closed-door testimony before Judge James R. Carrigan, Brenneke told the Denver court that both he and Rupp had worked for the CIA on a contract basis since 1967, including flying planes for Air America, a CIA-owned front company in southeast Asia.[citation needed] In his Denver deposition, Brenneke testified that on the night of October 18, 1980, Rupp had flown Reagan-Bush campaign director William Casey from Washington's National Airport to the Le Bourget Airfield north of Paris for a series of secret meetings. According to Brenneke, it was at these meetings— held on October 19 and 20, at the Waldorf Florida and Crillon hotels—that members of the Reagan-Bush campaign secretly negotiated an "arms-for-no- hostages" deal with representatives of the Ayatollah Khomeini. The Iranians allegedly received $40 million with which they could purchase American-made weapons and military spare parts which they needed for their war with Iraq.[citation needed]

For his role in the Rupp trial, Brenneke was tried for perjury. On May 4, 1991, after only five hours of deliberation, the jury found Brenneke "not guilty" on all five counts. Following the trial, jury foreman Mark Kristoff stated, "We were convinced that, yes, there was a meeting, and he was there and the other people listed in the indictment were there...There never was a guilty vote...It was 100 percent."[14]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise_conspiracy_theory#Jury.27s_Findings_at_Brenneke.27s_Trial

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{Excerpts from the TG1 interview with ex-CIA
agent Richard Brenneke, translated from the Italian
transcript. The interviewer is Ennio Remondino.}

Q: Do you know the P-2 directly?

Breneke: Naturally I have known the P-2 since
1969 and I had deals with the P-2 in Europe since that
time and I had contact with it also recently, till the
beginning of the 1980s. The U.S. government sent money to
P-2. In some periods the sum was about Breneke0 million a
month.

Q: For what purpose?

Breneke: The CIA money for the P-2 had several
aims. One of them was terrorism. Another aim was to get
P-2's help to smuggle dope into the U.S.A. from other
countries. We used them to create situations favorable to
the explosion of terrorism in Italy and in other European
countries at the beginning of the 1970s.

Q: Excuse me, but your statements are very
serious. You say that the P-2 was a creation, the financial
and organizational arm of the CIA to destabilize, to
run cover operations in Europe?

Breneke: There is no doubt. The P-2 since the
beginning of the 1970s was used for the dope traffic, for
destabilization in a covert way. It was done secretly to
keep people from knowing about the involvement of the U.S.
government. In many cases it was done directly through the
offices of the CIA in Rome and in some other cases through
CIA centers in other countries.

Q: In what operations was the P-2 (as an extension
of the CIA) involved?

Breneke: The P-2 was involved in the operation
for which I ended up in court, that is the delay in
the liberation of the American hostages in Iran in 1980.
Members of P-2 participated in the operation and even
attended meetings in Paris and other European cities. The
same people were involved in the arms smuggling into Iran
which took place after these meetings while there was
still an embargo against Iran. The P-2 collaborated with
agencies of the American government in sending weapons to
Iran after the meeting of 1980.

Q: Do you know Gelli personally?

Breneke: I met him for the first time in 1969-70
and the subject of the discussion was the financing of his
organization. I met him several times in the 1970s. I met
him in Paris in October 1980 on an important occasion:
There was a meeting....

Q: ``October Surprise''...

Breneke: ``October surprise.'' The aim of the
meeting was to organize the freedom of the hostages after,
not before, the elections. The meeting was important
because there were Mr. Casey, who later became the
head of the CIA, at that time manager of the
Reagan-Bush electoral campaign and Donald Gregg, who
became ambasssador to South Korea and at that time worked
for the CIA and the National Security Council. At the
meeting I attended Bush was not there, but Bush was...

Q: President Bush?

Breneke: The present President Bush was at that
time a vice presidential candidate. From the information I
had, I know that Bush was in Paris in the same days for
meetings dealing with the freedom of the hostages and the
payment of a ransom for their freedom. Gelli took part in
these meetings. I do not know if he attended the same
meetings with Bush but he definitely attended the same
meetings I attended.

Q: Do you have documentation to prove these very
serious accusations?

Breneke: My accusations are very serious and I
would not do it without evidence.... Some of these
documents were given to the court on the occasion of the
trial against me. They are still in the trial record. Some
documents I gave to members of the inquiry commission of
the U.S. Congress....
http://www.skepticfiles.org/socialis/cossiga.htm



Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti confirms Gladio's existence, 1990
After the discovery by judge Felice Casson of documents on Gladio in the archives of the Italian military secret service in Rome, Giulio Andreotti, head of Italian government, revealed to the Chamber of deputies the existence of "Operazione Gladio" on 24 October 1990, insisting that Italy has not been the only country with secret "stay-behind" armies. He made clear that "each chief of government had been informed of the existence of Gladio". Former Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi claimed that he had not been informed until he was confronted with a document on Gladio signed by himself while he was Prime Minister.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladio_in_Italy#Giulio_Andreotti.27s_revelation

Michele Sindona
Michele Sindona (May 8, 1920 - March 22, 1986) was an Italian banker and convicted felon. Known in banking circles as "The Shark", Sindona was a member of Propaganda Due (#0501)[1], an Italian lodge of Masons, and had clear connections to the Mafia.

He soon moved to Milan and his skill and dexterity in transferring money to avoid taxation soon became known to the Mafia bosses. By 1957 he had become closely associated with the Gambino family and was chosen to manage their profits from heroin sales.

Within a year of the Gambino family choosing him to manage their heroin profits, Sindona had bought his first bank. He also became friend with future Pope Giovanni Battista Montini who was at the time Cardinal of the Archdiocese of Milan. By the time Montini became Pope, Sindona had acquired, through his holding company Fasco, many more Italian banks and his progress continued right up to the beginning of his association with the Vatican Bank in 1969. Huge amounts of money moved from Sindona's banks through the Vatican to Swiss banks, and he began speculating against major currencies on a large scale.

According to the Mafia turncoat (pentito) Francesco Marino Mannoia, Sindona laundered the
proceeds of heroin trafficking for the Bontade-Spatola-Inzerillo-Gambino network.

Licio Gelli
Licio Gelli (born April 21, 1919) is an Italian financier, chiefly known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal. He was revealed in 1981 as being the Venerable Master of the clandestine Masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2).

A Fascist volunteer
During the 1930s, Licio Gelli volunteered for the "Black Shirts" expeditionary forces sent by Mussolini to Spain in support to Francisco Franco[1], and subsequently became a liaison officer between the Italian blackshirts government and the Third Reich, with contacts including Hermann Göring. He participated in the Italian Social Republic with Giorgio Almirante, founder of the neofascist Italian Social Movement (MSI)

After World War II
Gelli collaborated with American and British intelligence agencies after World War II.

During the 70's, Gelli brokered three-way oil and arms deals between Libya, Italy and Argentina through the Agency for Economic Development, which he and Umberto Ortolani owned

As grand master of Propaganda Due, Gelli allegedly assumed a major role in Gladio's "strategy of tension" in Italy, starting with the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing. Gladio was a clandestine "stay-behind" operation sponsored by the CIA and NATO to counter communist influence in Western European countries; it has been involved in terrorist false flags operations in Italy

On November 23, 1995, the Court of Cassation (Corte di Cassazione) convicted Licio Gelli (grand master of P2), Francesco Pazienza and SISMI officers Pietro Musumeci and Giuseppe Belmonte of diverting investigations in relation to the Bologna Massacre.


Roberto Calvi
Roberto Calvi (13 April 1920 – 17 June 1982) was an Italian banker dubbed "God's Banker" by the press due to his close association with the Vatican. A native of Milan, Calvi was the chairman of Banco Ambrosiano which collapsed in one of modern Italy's biggest political scandals, and his death in London in June 1982 has been the source of enduring controversy.

At 7:30 AM on Friday 18 June 1982 a passing postman found his body hanging from scaffolding beneath Blackfriars Bridge in the financial district of London. Calvi's clothing was stuffed with building bricks, and he was carrying around $15,000 of cash in three different currencies.[4]

Calvi had been a member of Licio Gelli's illegal masonic lodge, P2, and members of P2 referred to themselves as frati neri or "black friars". This has led to a suggestion in
Roberto Calvi was the chairman of Italy's second largest private bank, Banco Ambrosiano, when it went bankrupt in 1982. In 1978, the Bank of Italy had produced a report on the Banco Ambrosiano which found that several billion lire had been exported illegally.

Banco Ambrosiano collapsed in June 1982 following the discovery of debts (according to various sources) of between 700 million and 1.5 billion US dollars. Much of the money had been siphoned off via the Vatican Bank (strictly named the Istituto per le Opere Religiose or Institute of Religious Works), which was Banco Ambrosiano's main shareholder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Calvi

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I definitely don't think that Freemasonry itself is conspiratorial.. there's lots of Freemasons though, and that means a lot of scope for its members to form bonds and share ideals etc

it's not like a regulated organisation.. they're pretty much free to form whatever groupings they want to, and that's inevitable really given the size of it

I just tried to show two things.

1. The freemasons aren't necessarily a harmless old boys club. This masonic gruoup were connected to some of the most outrageous crimes imaginable from child abuse rings to ritual murders.

2. That governments, can and have harmed and killed their own citizens to push a hidden agenda.