From: Bruce.Scott@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Scott)
Subject: Re: Executive Orders
Summary: how might this be related to P2?
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:07:23 GMT

>                         WARRIORS IN THE WINGS
>
>        California is training and arming a state militia to quell
>          domestic disturbances in the increasingly likely event
>            that the National Guard is sent to fight overseas.

This reminds me very much about the secret armies in European countries
we briefly heard about during the collapse of eastern Europe in 1990.
What bothers me is that the gist of these organisations--right-wing
groupings of "ordinary citizens" with cell-formations answerable to
unknown and secret leaders--was promptly printed (I was reading this in
The Herald Tribune, published in Paris, which may or may not be more
on the ball than US papers, including its progenitors, NY Times and
Washington Post). For example, Flora Lewis wrote an op-ed piece on this
which included the line "We are only seeing the beginnings of this".

Afterwards, silence.

I wonder if those European groups are the same as the "Propaganda Due"
Masonic Lodge which was uncovered in Italy in 1982 [1,2]. For those who
may not have heard, this was all mixed up in the Banco Ambrosiano
scandal which ended with the Bank President, Roberto Calvi, hanging
from Blackfriars' Bridge in London. Calvi and one Michele Sindona had
been using the bank to rip off the Milan stock market and several of
the world's largest banks through some "creative financing". The
scandal broke when a 1.3 billion dollar hole was discovered by Italian
regulators in Banco Ambrosiano in 1981/2. About this same time Sindona 
was doing the same with the Franklin (?) Bank in New York--this one was
a 2+ billion dollar blowout, then the largest bank collapse in US
history, which sent Sindona, after years of process, to prison where he
still is. One of Calvi and Sindona's biggest customers was this "P2"
Lodge put together by one Licio Gelli in the late 60's. Gelli had
joined Freemasonry and used it to form his original cell from many of
the Prominent of Italy--including the Generals, Ministers, Parliament
members, Journalists, etc, who were exposed and forced to resign their
posts when P2 was discovered. Gelli was imprisoned in Switzerland after
a raid by Italian police on one of his villas in 1983, but later
escaped. His original purpose in forming P2 was stated to be an
insurance policy against communists coming to power through the ballot
box in Italy, sound familiar? More likely, the idea was to effectively
control the "system" in Italy, ensuring riches and influence, and to
control who was admitted to top echelons.

Gelli escaped to South America and now is in whereabouts unknown. It is
claimed [1] that his P2 had branches in other countries, including many
in S America (one of his bases was Argentina, which he helped arm before
and during the Falklands War), and including the US.

This group in California has the same ring to it. Of course, there is
no scent of P2, but even if this is just another unrelated occurrence
of the same general type, it is well worth the best investigative
reporting can throw at it.

Those interested can read about P2 in

[1] D Yallop, "In God's Name", presenting evidence that Pope John Paul I
    was murdered by P2 because of his intention to blow open the links
    between Banco Ambrosiano and the Vatican. Many of the principals
    are now fugitives from Italian justice under protection by the
    present Pope. Time magazine had a piece on the working of the US
    and the Vatican to destabilise Poland using Solidarity in the 80's,
    early in 1991.

[2] S Knight, "The Brotherhood", an account of Freemasonry in England,
    with two chapters on P2 near the end.

Gruss,
Dr Bruce Scott                             The deadliest bullshit is
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bds at spl6n1.aug.ipp-garching.mpg.de                 -- W Gibson



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