Was Pope John Paul I assassinated within the Vatican?
By all accounts, yes. The scandal you are referring to is known as the P2 or Propaganda Masonica Due. Pope John Paul I had found out that around 48 officials in the church, government, intelligence and the military community were laundering money through various offshore entities to fund the Solidarity movement in Poland. This scandal involved a Vatican banker named Roberto Calvi, better known as “God’s Banker.” Calvi was a financial wizard that used the church’s funds to bring about the collapse of communist economic control of Poland’s labor unions. This revelation also included the Italian mafia as major participants in what is best described as a fascist takeover within the church and the Italian government. Other major contributors to the P2 scandal included Archbishop Marcinkus, Roberto Craxi, Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig. Calvi was indicted in this conspiracy. He was about to implicate others and give details that would have exposed the church’s involvement in this sordid