True account of Lucky Luciano, working with OSS and CIA rescuing Italy from the clutches of German Wehrmacht and from Communist Soviet Union threat during Cold War. Includes Papal State, founded in 786 AD and refounded by bombastic Benito Mussolini in 1929 as Vatican City State. Includes startling post World War II Vatican adventure in which Vatican profited from alliance of CIA, Sicilian and Corsican Mafias, and Turkish opium farmers, and how hypocritical Vatican supplied super-metal Tungsten to Nazi war machine during World War II, and birth control products to post-war Italian population. Shocking true account of Vatican Bank follies leading to kidnapping and murder of two schoolchildren, and explaining how Roman mafia boss Enrico De Pedis wound up entombed in a crypt reserved by Roman Catholic canon law for dead Popes, cardinals and full bishops. The heroic activities of Polish Pope John Paul II following outrageous breaches of promise committed by arch-Communist Joseph Stalin.
- ISBN10 1458391221
- ISBN13 9781458391223
- Publish Date 9 February 2011
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 140
- Language English