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pressure medicine called Effortil that John Paul was said to have kept at his bedside. Yallop wrote that these inconsistencies in the Vatican’s account of the papal death and the absence of an autopsy pointed to a cover-up.
    “It was abundantly clear,” he wrote, “that on September 28th, 1978, these six men, Marcinkus, Villot, Calvi, Sindona, Cody and Gelli had much to fear if the Papacy of John Paul I continued. It is equally clear that all of them stood to gain in a variety of ways if Pope John Paul I should suddenly die.”
    Conspiracy theorists were quick to find a prediction of John Paul’s murder in the writings of the ancient prophet Nostradamus:
    The one elected Pope will be mocked by his electors,
    This enterprising and prudent person will suddenly be reduced in silence,
    They cause him to die because of his too great goodness and mildness.
    Stricken by fear, they will lead him to his death in the night.
    All that could be said with certainty was that John Paul had been Pope for thirty-three days
    EVENTS AFTER JOHN PAUL’S DEATH:
    October 1978: Election of Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyła to the papacy. He takes the name John Paul II in honor of the dead Pope. None of John Paul I’s instructions or edicts are carried out.
    January 21, 1979: Judge Emillio Alessandrini, a magistrate investigating the Banco Ambrosiano activities is murdered.
    March 20, 1979: Nino Pecorelli, an investigative journalist, exposing membership and dealings of the Freemason’s P-2 group, is murdered.
    July 11, 1979: Giorgio Ambrosioli, following his testimony concerning Sindona and Calvi in Vatican business circles, is murdered.
    July 13, 1978: Lt. Col. Antonio Varisco, head of Rome’s security service, is murdered. Varisco was also investigating the activities of the P-2 group; he was seen speaking with Giorgio Ambrosioli two days before Ambrosioli’s death.
    February 2, 1980: The Vatican withdraws an agreement to provide videotaped depositions of Sindona in his trial in the U.S. on charges of fraud, conspiracy and misappropriation of funds in connection with the collapse of Franklin National Bank.
    May 13, 1980: Sindona attempts suicide.
    July 8, 1980: Roberto Calvi, also jailed for fraud, attempts suicide.
    September 1, 1981 : The Vatican Bank acknowledges its controlling interests in a number of banks fronted by Calvi—for more than one billion dollars of debt.
    January 2, 1981: Shareholders in Banco Ambrosiano send a letter to John Paul II that expose the connections between the Vatican Bank and Roberto Calvi, P-2 and the Mafia. The letter is never acknowledged.
    April 27, 1982: Attempted murder of Roberto Rosone, General Manager of Banco Ambrosiano. Rosone was reportedly trying to clean up the bank’s operations.
    October 2, 1982: Giuseppe Dellacha, executive of Banco Ambrosiano, dies after a fall out of one of the bank’s windows.
    March 23, 1986: Michele Sindona, in the Italian jail for which he was serving time for ordering the death of Giorgio Ambrosioli, is poisoned to death.
     
    The most sensational of these events occurred on June 17, 1982. On that date, Roberto Calvi was found hanging by the neck from a bridge in London.

CHAPTER 6
The Mystery of the Pope’s Banker
    O n June 21, 1982, a postal clerk on his way to work in London glanced over “the parapet of the embankment of Blackfriars Bridge and noticed orange nylon rope lashed to a scaffolding pole under the bridge.” Hanging from it was the body of a man, “suavely dressed in his own topcoat and expensive Patek Philippe watch on his wrist, loafers by the same firm were on his feet…. In his wallet were about 10,000 pounds sterling, Swiss francs and Italian lira. Stuffed into the pockets and down his flies were bricks and stones that the police believed came from a nearby building site.
    “The presence of the money and the watch appeared to rule out a mercenary murder. At the same time, a coroner found no marks on Calvi’s body indicating he had [not] been