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| | THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Vatican Politics, the Calvi Murder and Beyond... |
 | | Calvi was only one of a cast of characters in that story that included organized crime interests, political groups, secret societies, drug dealers, major financial institutions, and perhaps most stunning of all, a little-known entity identified as the Institute for Religious Works, or IOR, the official bank for the Vatican. |
 | | Calvi, who eventually rises, with the help of Marcinkus, Gelli and Michael Sindona, to be the head of the bank, begins diversifying and investing bank monies, and simultaneously seeks to acquire control of stock by establishing offshore dummy corporations. |
 | | Calvi was also moving capital outside of the country on such a scale that it violated Italy’s banking laws. |
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