- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; First edition edition (Jun 1984)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0224020897
- ISBN-13: 978-0224020893
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 16.3 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 236,323 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A thriller without an ending...Yallop has surely proved there is a case to answer. --Guardian
An astonishing book...a story of corruption, lies and disinformation. --Daily Mail
Excellently done.......An engrossing and disturbing book. --Economist --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
An astonishing book...a story of corruption, lies and disinformation. --Daily Mail
Excellently done.......An engrossing and disturbing book. --Economist --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Denounced by the Vatican as fanciful and absurd , this classic of investigative reporting has been updated with incontrovertible new evidence that shows that Pope John Paul I was murdered. Yallop s ground-breaking investigation into Pope John Paul I s death just 33 days after his election is a tale of intrigue,murder and corruption. It reveals the dark heart of the Vatican via a trail of evidence that connects the papacy, the masons, Opus Dei and the mafia. New evidence has been gathered from John Paul I s doctor, who states that the Pope was not ill at the time of his death; from the priest that discovered the Pope s death; the ongoing Calvi murder trial.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In 1984, David Yallop's `In God's Name' did a riveting job in establishing the case for murder. Yet, I have a problem with Yallop's `motive.'
I have trouble accepting three men of the cloth - Cody, Villot and Marcinkus - would involve themselves and Mother Church in swindling investors out of $1.3 billion to the personal gain of three private men - Calvi, Gelli and Sindona. If these priests were involved, they would have known from the start the money would disappear. Yallop concludes John Paul was murdered because an audit of the Vatican bank he ordered would have uncovered the scandal transactions.
In 1987, John Paul II commissioned John Cornwell to write A Thief in the Night: Death of Pope John Paul I intended to prove the Pope died of natural causes. In exchange for access to witnesses (Yallop interviewed), Cornwell would make the case for natural death. Cornwell presents documentary proof the earliest bank scandal transaction took place a year after John Paul was murdered. Though he fails to prove natural death, he does give us an important fact: the audit could not have uncovered transactions which had not yet taken place.
A more comprehensive book - Lucien Gregoire's Murder in the Vatican: The CIA and the Bolshevik Pontiff`Murder in the Vatican' capitalizes on things that occurred since Yallop and Cornwell wrote their efforts and answers the question that escaped Yallop and the others: Who actually killed the Pope? To get at that answer one has to consider what happened to the missing money in the bank scandal?
At the risk of being over-methodical, Gregoire employs the analysis and deduction techniques which lifted Sherlock Holmes to the top of his game in determining just who killed the Pope and host of others. Included are the actual court transcripts which tried the bank scandal, detailing each of the multi-million dollar transfers from the Vatican bank to ghost affiliates in Central America - the first $383 million directly to Nicaragua (Contras).
CIA-Vatican intrigue? You'd better believe it. The role of the Contras was to suppress the `revolution of the poor' in Central America. John Paul I had, a week before his death, announced to the world he would personally lead them out of poverty.
Gregoire presents powerful evidence the `conception' of the Vatican bank scandal was a part of the same conspiracy that planned the murder of John Paul I.
Yet, anyone interested in this subject should read `In God's Name.' There is a reason why it sold six million copies. It's the tops, you know!
Get them both. Yallop for the general outline. Gregoire to fill in the empty spaces.
I have trouble accepting three men of the cloth - Cody, Villot and Marcinkus - would involve themselves and Mother Church in swindling investors out of $1.3 billion to the personal gain of three private men - Calvi, Gelli and Sindona. If these priests were involved, they would have known from the start the money would disappear. Yallop concludes John Paul was murdered because an audit of the Vatican bank he ordered would have uncovered the scandal transactions.
In 1987, John Paul II commissioned John Cornwell to write A Thief in the Night: Death of Pope John Paul I intended to prove the Pope died of natural causes. In exchange for access to witnesses (Yallop interviewed), Cornwell would make the case for natural death. Cornwell presents documentary proof the earliest bank scandal transaction took place a year after John Paul was murdered. Though he fails to prove natural death, he does give us an important fact: the audit could not have uncovered transactions which had not yet taken place.
A more comprehensive book - Lucien Gregoire's Murder in the Vatican: The CIA and the Bolshevik Pontiff`Murder in the Vatican' capitalizes on things that occurred since Yallop and Cornwell wrote their efforts and answers the question that escaped Yallop and the others: Who actually killed the Pope? To get at that answer one has to consider what happened to the missing money in the bank scandal?
At the risk of being over-methodical, Gregoire employs the analysis and deduction techniques which lifted Sherlock Holmes to the top of his game in determining just who killed the Pope and host of others. Included are the actual court transcripts which tried the bank scandal, detailing each of the multi-million dollar transfers from the Vatican bank to ghost affiliates in Central America - the first $383 million directly to Nicaragua (Contras).
CIA-Vatican intrigue? You'd better believe it. The role of the Contras was to suppress the `revolution of the poor' in Central America. John Paul I had, a week before his death, announced to the world he would personally lead them out of poverty.
Gregoire presents powerful evidence the `conception' of the Vatican bank scandal was a part of the same conspiracy that planned the murder of John Paul I.
Yet, anyone interested in this subject should read `In God's Name.' There is a reason why it sold six million copies. It's the tops, you know!
Get them both. Yallop for the general outline. Gregoire to fill in the empty spaces.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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In 1984, David Yallop's `In God's Name' did a riveting job in proving this Pope was murdered. No one is going to walk away from this book without the firm conviction this man was murdered. Nevertheless, through the years, Yallop's best seller has ignited a mass of `papal murder' literature, most of which like Paul Williams' `The Vatican Exposed' adhered to Yallop's convincing hypothesis John Paul was murdered because of his involvement in the Vatican Bank. There are a few like `A Thief in the Night' by John Cornwell which try unsuccessfully to prove Yallop wrong - this Pope died a natural death. It is a tall order to challenge Yallop's contention this Pope was murdered, as the facts as published in the world press prove his case. Yet, whereas Yallop proves murder, he falls short of proving just who murdered the 33-day Pope other than offering generalities.
Concerning `why' the Pope was murdered and 'who' specifically murdered the Pope only one author, Murder in the Vatican: The CIA and the Bolshevik Pontiff proves the case. A snip of its foreword: "The providential death of the pro-Communist Pontiff Paul VI gave the CIA the opportunity to force election of a pro-American Pope. The CIA joined factions both inside and outside the Church sponsoring the Opus Dei anti-Communist candidate Polish Cardinal Wojtyla. When Luciani (John Paul I), an avowed Marxist in every sense of the word, particularly in his driving ambition to rid the world of poverty, was elected, it struck a nerve of shattering proportions in the United States. Particularly so, that, as a cardinal, Luciani had supported the priest-worker revolution which had given rise to the Communist Party in the polls in Italy and had during his brief papacy motioned to give Vatican financial support to the revolutionaries in their uphill struggle against the coalition of the ruling juntas and the United States in Central America. The perils of potential multi-Cubas in America's backyard became imminent. The dangers to the security of the United States had become real..."
In his last public audience before worldwide television cameras, John Paul told the United States and its capitalistic allies "It is the inalienable right of no man to accumulate wealth beyond the necessary while other men starve to death because they have nothing." See the clip on u-tube.
Yet, no one should read any book concerning the revolutionary life and mysterious death of this Pope without reading `In God's Name', the Blueprint for Murder of a Pontiff.
If you get In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I get this latest edition as earlier editions don't include an important interview with John Paul's doctor Da Ros which demolishes the supposition the Pope could have died of natural causes.
Of these books only Murder in the Vatican: The CIA and the Bolshevik Pontiff is available as an ebook.
Concerning `why' the Pope was murdered and 'who' specifically murdered the Pope only one author, Murder in the Vatican: The CIA and the Bolshevik Pontiff proves the case. A snip of its foreword: "The providential death of the pro-Communist Pontiff Paul VI gave the CIA the opportunity to force election of a pro-American Pope. The CIA joined factions both inside and outside the Church sponsoring the Opus Dei anti-Communist candidate Polish Cardinal Wojtyla. When Luciani (John Paul I), an avowed Marxist in every sense of the word, particularly in his driving ambition to rid the world of poverty, was elected, it struck a nerve of shattering proportions in the United States. Particularly so, that, as a cardinal, Luciani had supported the priest-worker revolution which had given rise to the Communist Party in the polls in Italy and had during his brief papacy motioned to give Vatican financial support to the revolutionaries in their uphill struggle against the coalition of the ruling juntas and the United States in Central America. The perils of potential multi-Cubas in America's backyard became imminent. The dangers to the security of the United States had become real..."
In his last public audience before worldwide television cameras, John Paul told the United States and its capitalistic allies "It is the inalienable right of no man to accumulate wealth beyond the necessary while other men starve to death because they have nothing." See the clip on u-tube.
Yet, no one should read any book concerning the revolutionary life and mysterious death of this Pope without reading `In God's Name', the Blueprint for Murder of a Pontiff.
If you get In God's Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I get this latest edition as earlier editions don't include an important interview with John Paul's doctor Da Ros which demolishes the supposition the Pope could have died of natural causes.
Of these books only Murder in the Vatican: The CIA and the Bolshevik Pontiff is available as an ebook.
23 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
true story about corruption within the Vatican. A book I have read several times and each time I pick up on something different.
The accusations he makes against the Vatican are frightening and unbelieveable: corruption, money laundering & murder amongst other things. He started the book at the request of an unnamed source within the Vatican to investigate the murder of Pope John Paul I, Albino Luciano, known as "The Smiling Pope" who was found dead 33 days after his election in 1978.
It was the author's conclusion that the Pope was murdered and the evidence for this is presented in this book.
This book is frightening, fascinating and disturbing. At times it is very detailed but this is a measure of the research that has gone into it.
Originally released in 1984 and to date not one singular accusation by the author has been disproved. All accusations he has made remain undisputed. Is this because the evidence he presents points to the truth??
Whatever your views on the Vatican before reading this book then there is a strong chance your views will change afterwards.
The accusations he makes against the Vatican are frightening and unbelieveable: corruption, money laundering & murder amongst other things. He started the book at the request of an unnamed source within the Vatican to investigate the murder of Pope John Paul I, Albino Luciano, known as "The Smiling Pope" who was found dead 33 days after his election in 1978.
It was the author's conclusion that the Pope was murdered and the evidence for this is presented in this book.
This book is frightening, fascinating and disturbing. At times it is very detailed but this is a measure of the research that has gone into it.
Originally released in 1984 and to date not one singular accusation by the author has been disproved. All accusations he has made remain undisputed. Is this because the evidence he presents points to the truth??
Whatever your views on the Vatican before reading this book then there is a strong chance your views will change afterwards.
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READ THIS AND BE AFRAID.....BE VERY AFRAID.....Ive had HORRIBLE nightmares since finishing this.URGH!ITS TRULY BRILLIANT !!!!This has been SO well researched.
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Published on 10 May 2010 by Ms. Maria C. Ferritto
Plenty of 'cui bono' but no 'in flagrante delicto'.
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One sided and far from conclusive
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