By Greg Szymanski

If the truth ever is fully known about the strange case of Dr. Francesco Pazienza, the lid should be finally blown sky-high off the White House, blowing a hole so deep and wide that every President since Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan will be nabbed for treasonous high crimes against humanity and the civilized world.

And according to observers in Italy when the dust finally settles, the reason why Pazienza is being held as "a political prisoner" should finally put the finishing touches on despicable men like Michael Ledeen, Karl Rove and President George W. Bush, to name a few.

Although Pazienza claims he doesn't know much, the powers that be think otherwise, keeping him locked away for more than 20 years in a jail in Livorno, Italy.

And according to his last written communication one month ago, as he is prohibited from speaking on the phone or having visitors other than his immediate family, he is being held under maximum security conditions in solitary confinement.

Concerning his legal troubles, it doesn't take a legal scholar to understand what happened to Pazienza, even though the many charges and cases filed against him in the U.S., Rome and Bologna have left the truth confused and smothered under thousands of pages of legal mumbo jumbo, most of the pages obviously an orchestrated smokescreen to protect the guilty parties.

And in layman's lingo, after sifting through the legal minutia, what happened to the Italian insider working for his Washington and Vatican masters is simple.

Pazienza in the mid 1970's was first hired by Ledeen, who now is one of the diabolical brains behind Rove and Bush, as a covert Italian operative. Although Pazienza denies the allegations, Italian authorities and court records suggest he provided inside information on the infamous "Billygate Scandal," for the GOP, a scandal involving President Jimmy Carter's brother and Libya, in order to insure Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush a clear path to the White House.

According to Italian authorities and political observers, Pazienza also was assigned to shift attention to Libya and Carter while, at the same time, making arrangements for George H. Bush to covertly pull off the infamous "October Surprise," also assuring  Reagan the White House.

Besides 'Billygate,' Pazienza allegedly was deeply involved in many other CIA activities in Italy, including the 1980 Bologna train bombing blamed on terrorists but orchestrated by Washington, the behind the scenes activities of the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, the inner-dealings of the Vatican Bank scandal and the Jesuit Order and the involvement of the P2 Masonic Lodge tying Ledeen, Reagan and others like Licio Gelli, the P2 leader.

Whether he was knowingly involved or made a patsy by higher-ups, according to observers, Pazienza had "to be shut up and put away for life" to protect people like Ledeen, Reagan, Bush and others.

And according to Pazienza, his Italian lawyer and others fighting for his release, he was set up for a fall and illegally extradited from America to Italy in 1987 by a corrupt ruling by federal judge Stephen Trott of the 9^th Circuit, paving the way for a bogus Italian trial, far away from U.S. public scrutiny.

Marco Saba of the Observatory on Organized Crime(OCO) in Geneva, Switzerland, one man who has extensively researched the case and fighting for justice for Pazienza, said this week in a phone conversation from Milan:

"Francesco Pazienza was a consulting of the Italian Intelligence Service and a friend of the Reagan Administration. You may recall the "Billygate", when the brother of Jimmy Carter was exposed as being a good friend of Gheddafi of Libya . It was Pazienza who collected the evidence about Billy Carter being close with Gheddafi.

"The Reagan-Bush candidates used this scandal to gain support in their  election,

while Michael Ledeen took the merit of this operation "Billygate". In  fact,

'Billygate'was useful to cover up the 'October Surprise,' where the elder Bush  was in Paris negotiating with the Iranians to maintain the American hostages until after he and Reagan were elected.

"Francesco Pazienza was framed for extradition from the US with the help of a

corrupt judge who was useful also to frame CIA agent Edwin Wilson just released from U.S. prison last September. This judge, Stephen Trott, is now in the federal court 9th circuit."

Recently Saba and the OCO, also working on cases regarding Osama bin Laden's financial network in Switzerland and bank accounts of international corrupted and bribed judges held in Swiss Banks, wrote a strongly worded letter to Judge Trott seeking answers for his decision in the Pazienza case, as well as highlighting OCO's investigation in the chain of killings involved in what has come to be known as "Operation Gladio'.

The following is a copy of the Saba's letter recently sent to Judge Trott:

Dear Judge Stephen Trott,

It is because of the esteem and respect that I devote to the 9th Circuit that I write to you....

First of all, some few words about me. I am Marco Saba, a member of the Observatory on Organized Crime in Geneva. The OCO was involved in the working out of the "2002 OCO Report on the OSAMA BIN LADEN Financial Network in Switzerland. The report we are now working on is titled: "Banks accounts of international corrupt and bribed judges held in Swiss Banks".

The OCO members comes from the international judiciary system - as many lawyers and judges and from special police teams from all over the world as many are former undercover officials and members from the intelligence apparatus.

In my country, Italy, I have investigated the affair of depleted uranium weapons and I reported to the Italian parliament and to the Foreign Affairs Commission in the year 2000.

But my more important investigation was on the chain of killings of many Italian officials from the Stay-Behind organization - here called GLADIO that occurred in the '80s and '90s. I was able to discover still living members from that organization - survivors - that were not included in the official propaganda-list of Gladio officers published by the Italian media which was a damage-control list created by the NATO officer Francesco Giranda. One of the unlisted survivors - Antonino Arconte - was able to publish an electronic book where he speaks about the subversion he did - under U.S. orders - on foreign states like Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, etc. For your information, the U.S. liaison officer in Rome was Charles Bernard Moses linked to James Jesus Angleton.

By the way, you may know that subversion of foreign governments was the first account at the Nazi-crime Court of Nuremberg. The killings of former Stay-Behind officers - the killings of the state sponsored killers - occurred under orders for which was responsible the former Italian president Francesco COSSIGA - among others. Those killings were done in a "Kennedy Form" style: to shut-up some possible witness. But - unfortunately for someone - not all the witnesses were killed or jailed on false accounts.

And here you come. This letter is for asking to you to revert precisely the unjust jailing of a former intelligence officer who happened to become an inconvenient witness.

Another of those jailings that happened on the basis of false accounts that condemned some intelligence people to more than 18 years of prison - just to shut-them-up. From deep inside the Italian secret service come the new that it was you (are you?) the liaison officer between the US Judiciary system and the CIA. It was in those clothes that you happened to be the key member of the conspiracy against some individuals - maybe the most notable case in the US is the case of Edwin Wilson.

The Day Court Throws Out Ex-CIA Officer's Conviction After 20 Years In Prison published on 10/30/2003 - Houston (AP) - A federal judge threw out the conviction of a former CIA operative who has spent 20 years in prison for selling arms to Libya, saying the government knowingly used false evidence against him. Edwin P. Wilson, 75, was convicted in 1983 of shipping 20 tons ofC-4 plastic explosives to Libya - something he said he did to ingratiate himself with the Libyan government at the CIA's request...

The name of the Italian Edwin Wilson is FRANCESCO PAZIENZA. He is serving an UNLIMITED term because of the manipulation of extradition papers and documents done by YOU in accord with corrupt Italian judges that I don't want to mention here because You know well who they are. The same wrong doing as in the case of Wilson, the same Judge - you. On September 18, 2002 you told: "The principles that distinguish us from the rest of the world, principles from which we must not stray, are engraved in the Bill of Rights."

Yes Sir, but looking closely in the Bill of Rights I don't find the right to do "unjust persecution of people "whose work was devoted to the Institutions. Am I right? If so - please, do something to revert the unjust - at least confess the wrong done - you will be given immunity. Citing your own 2002 words: "The suspect would be given immunity from prosecution based on information elicited by the torturer. The warrant would limit the torture to non-lethal means such as sterile needles stuck under his fingernails, inserted to cause excruciating pain without endangering life." Do what it is in your power to correct the wrong and I will stop writing about this disgusting and outrageous issue.

Regarding international law violations committed by the Italian and U.S. governments against Pazienza, a statement released by his Italian legal team is well worth reading, as it explains exactly how the "corrupt system" has kept him behind bars all these years.

In 1987, the then Government of the Republic of Italy decided to seal under the STATE SECRET restraining order the whole extradition file of Dr. Francesco PAZIENZA D. from the U.S. kept in the Italian Ministry of Justice to forestall s request for consultation submitted by the International Law Department of the Rome University of Tor Vergata.

The STATE SECRET classification is still in force nowadays.

From March until December 2004 the U.S. Department of State, following a request submitted by a researcher of a Geneva based N.G.O. as per the U.S. Law called F.O.I.A. (Freedom of Information Act), consented to declassify and deliver all such documents that were, and still are, unavailable in Italy.

The unmentionable reasons that determinated such a sealing under the Italian law nr. 801 of 1977 were stripped bare.

After perusing the documents delivered by the U.S. Department of State including a set of them originally classified as "SECRET" or "CONFIDENTIAL" by the U.S. it came out that the then Government of Italy had willfully perpetrated multiple violations of the provisions of the U.S. - Italy Extradition Treaty of 1983.

Breaches of the Rule of Specialty foreseen into Art. XVI as well the violation by omission of the mandatory obligations included into Art. X and having furthermore proffered to the American counterpart a rendition of the facts and alleged proof of evidences being unfaithful if not openly false.

It is today understandable that such behavior of deception had been implemented by the Italian Government after having previously received several communications by both the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Justice that were qualifying the reasons for the extradition demands and related documentation previously submitted as being legally baseless.

To this purpose is interesting to read a message classified as "SECRET" of Nov. 14, 1984 dispatched by the U.S. Ambassador in Italy Mr. Maxwell Rabb to the U.S. Department of State where the diplomat was informing that he had met the director of the Italian spy agency SISMI on his demand and who, on behalf of the then prime minister, solicited the rendition of Pazienza no matter if there was no legal justifications for a legitimate extradition.

To facilitate this scheme the Italian spy chief even traveled to Langley (VA) asking for the help of the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

To a F.O.I.A. request submitted to the C.I.A. for the releasing of documentation related to its involvement in the Pazienza extradition and as well of its relationship with an Italian magistrate very active in that matter the Agency refused to consent calling the exemptions listed as obligations to protect intelligence's sources and methods.

Further messages declassified and delivered by the U.S. Department of State show how the Italian Ministry of Justice was highly recommending the American counterpart to do its best for finding the way to skip U.S. Judges and Courts who might have realized, in the matter of the extradition of Dr. Francesco Pazienza, how the charges were openly trumped up.

It is not by a coincidence that even the Italian Supreme Court in 1993 stated that the extradition of Pazienza from the U.S. had been extremely equivocal confirming his acquittal after being charged and prosecuted for slander after having publicly stated that his extradition from the U.S. had been obtained with "phony papers".

On March 10, 2005 Dr. Francesco Pazienza readied a memorandum in English of 66 pages sending it from the prison of Livorno, where he is detained, to the head of the legal affairs of the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Mr. Nicolas Acker.

In this document he was outlining how the effects stemming from the blatant violations committed by the then Italian Government were rendering his detention openly illegal and illegitimate.

The parcel sent via registered mail mysteriously disappeared from the circuit of the Italian Postal Service and never reached the address of the U.S. Embassy in Rome.

More than a month later Mr. Acker would eventually receive that same document because delivered by Pazienza's defense counsel in Rome.

Mr. Acker having ascertained the extreme seriousness of what asserted by Pazienza decided to dispatch the document along with the annexed exhibits to the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington.

Presently Dr. Francesco Pazienza firmly believes that he is no more a person legally detained in a prison of a democratic Country but a kidnapped person by a State where does not exist the Rule of Law.

Editor's Note: To date no action has been taken on the Pazienza case, all his pleas essentially being ignored. Read tomorrow in Part II about his 2005 hunger strike and his lengthy letter sent to Secretary of State Condaleeza Rice who has not responded. Also read how his case links America and the CIA to major terrorist activities abroad, as well as the Vatican Bank scandal, the 1980 Bologna train station bombing and the shooting of Pope John Paul II.

Greg Szymanski

By Greg Szymanski

The incarceration of Dr. Francesco Pazienza cannot be discussed intelligently without discussing his connection with Washington neo con insider, Michael Ledeen.

As Italian court documents suggest, the pair were tied together at the hip regarding "Billygate," the 1980 Bologna train station bombing and the plot behind the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II.

And there are probably many other sordid affairs Ledeen help orchestrate that will remain forever under the radar screen.

But one thing is for sure he was involved up to his eye balls in the infamous Vatican Bank scandal, the sponsorship of terrorism through the "Red Brigade," an extremist group tagged for blowing bombs off in Italy during the 1980's like firecrackers on the fourth of July, and a general climate of fear and mass confusion aimed at controlling, disrupting and destroying the Italian culture.

So the big question remains why is Pazienza in solitary confinement, rotting away in a Livorno, Italy, jail while Ledeen is still strutting his pompous behind in Washington and acting as a consultant for President Bush and his right hand man, Karl Rove?

Further, why has the Italian and American judiciary protected Ledeen from even testifying in the Pazienza case after defense lawyers repeatedly wanted him called to the witness stand?

The answer appears quite simple: political clout and muscle comprised the judiciary in order to protect higher-ups in the U.S. government, leaving Pazienza out of sight and out of mind to take the rap as the low-level patsy.

And since Ledeen was working for Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, Ronald Reagan and the Bush crime family, any testimony may lead to the doorstep of the big boys, incriminating the so-called untouchables who are living in what looks like a private demonic world above the law of the common man.

As Pazienza still clings to the hope he will someday be released from jail, it is important to understand exactly who is Ledeen and where did this political neo con animal come from?

An excerpt paraphrased and taken from Edward Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan's book, The "Terrorism" Industry," written in 1989, provides an adequate description of Ledeen, his Italian connection and on the payroll of the Italian Secret Service and his long time association with Pazienza.:

While Ledeen still hides behind the cloak of the neo con power structure's phony war on terror, it's obvious from Italian court documents he was working to facilitate terrorism in Italy, not stop it. And this is essentially why Pazienza still sits rotting in jail, a move designed by the corrupt elite to protect Ledeen and other higher-ups from the true nature of their role as terrorist facilitators and war mongers.

"I do not like this man, Ledeen," said Marco Saba, of the Organized Crime Observatory in Geneva, Switserland, a group trying to get Pazienza released as well as seriously trying to track down money laundering and international bank scandals stemming from the corrupt Federal Reserve system and the Vatican Bank.

"The powers in Washington want to pin the Vatican bank scandal n part on Pazienza, which just isn't true. They are essentially holding him illegally as a political prisoner in order to protect the real criminals.We are working hard for his release and his legal counsel in Rome has sent Condaleeza a detailed letter in March 2005, discussing the true facts behind the Pazienza jailing.

"She has not responded, but we are still holding out hope that one day the full truth will be known about his case. What is going on in Washington is terrible and I think many Americans do not fully understand what has transpired in Italy, revealing the corruption.

"After World War II, the American people elped the Italians. May be it's time that we return the favor and help you now before it is too late."

Besides Pazienza's involvement with Ledeen, court records and an article written in the Wall Street Journal in 1985 show he may also have strong ties to the inner workings of the powerful P2 Masonic Lodge.

The articles document how after Pazienza was removed from SISMI, he was then picked up by a more sinister covert group called P2. Originally an Italian Masonic Lodge established in 1877, it grew in the 1960's to become an organization whose membership included Italy's most rich and powerful. In March of 1981, the head of the organization had his house raided and the Italian police found a complete roster of P-2 in his home. One of the names on that roster was Silvio Berlusconi, who would become the Italian Prime Minister that supported the Bush Administration in its drive for war in Iraq.

This fact is one that is well documented in the Wall Street Journal article. Another prominent member of P2, uncovered in the article, was Rocco Martino, recruited out of SISMI and who also had connections with Pazienza.

Although Pazienza was in jail by this time, according to foreign news reports, nefarious activities and the same Italian connection continue today, as Martino was allegedly tied to the Niger forgery and its Rome Embassy.

In 2000, according to reports, Martino contacted, "a SISMI source, a 'lady' who worked at the Niger Embassy in Rome, could provide Martino with information in exchange for which Martino pays the Nigerian 'lady' 500 euros/month." It isn't entirely clear if Martino was working for SISMI, P-2, both or on his own. On January 2nd, 2001, the Nigerian embassy was broken into. All that was taken was some letterhead and seals.

By late 2001, around the time of the secret Rome meeting, Martino has the fully forged documents from the Nigerian lady, then hands them over to an Italian reporter, Elisabetta Burba. She worked for the magazine Panorama, which just happens to be owned by Silvio Berlusconi.

According to an internet post on Daily Kos, "Burba shows the documents to her boss and requests to arrange a visit to Niger. Her boss, editor-in-chief Carlo Rossella, who is known to have ties with the Berlusconi government, insists that she first turn copies over to the U.S. Embassy, which she did on October 9th. Burba's trip to Niger proved that the documents were fake and even that the companies allegedly involved were too small to make a transaction of that size. Something the French would have known had they been behind the forgeries."

Seymour Hersh then published an article in The New Yorker of what happened next, saying:

"Two former C.I.A. officials provided slightly different accounts of what happened next. "The Embassy was alerted that the papers were coming," the first former official told me, "and it passed them directly to Washington without even vetting them inside the Embassy." Once the documents were in Washington, they were forwarded by the C.I.A. to the Pentagon, he said. "Everybody knew at every step of the way that they were false - until they got to the Pentagon, where they were believed."

According to political observers commenting on connections on a post at the Daily Kos, "this account would make sense if one were to believe that the forged documents came from Vice-President Cheney. The neo conservatives were housed in the Pentagon and, as we now know, they used everything they could to justify war. The C.I.A. was skeptical the entire time. When former CIA director George Tenet took responsibility for allowing those sixteen words to be included in Bush's State of the Union, in fact he was taking the fall for something he doubted in the first place.

"Cheney could have very easily created the documents with the help of his "cabal", given them to Michael Ledeen so that he could give them to the clandestine group of Rocco Martino, Francisco Pazienza and Antonio Martino (no relation to Rocco). We know that it was Rocco Martino who gave the documents to the Italian reporter, who then gave them to the U.S. Embassy in Rome. Our embassy then forwarded them to the CIA, the and the CIA put the documents back on the desk of Vice-President, Dick Cheney. Finally, in today's La Republica, an Italian newspaper, Martino is quoted as saying, 'It's true - it's my hand in the dissemination of those documents (on the Niger uranium), but I have been tricked. Behind this story there are Americans and Italians together. It was a case of a disinformation operation'.".

Besides the current Niger affair, tied to the same Italian connection, a legal synopsis sent in March 2005 by Pazienza's attorney, Renato Borzone, president of the Rome Bar Association, details in the highly explosive and politically damaging letter to Rice, facts showing corruption at the highest levels of the U.S. and Italian governments, dating back to the 1980's.

Although Rice has not responded, the letter kicked off a hunger strike by Pazienza, who is still trying to alert the world he is being held as "nothing more than a political hostage."

Editor's Note: Tomorrow in Part III, the details of the Rice letter are exposed, as well as an update on Pazienza's current situation.

Greg Szymanski

By Greg Szymanski

For those who look deep below the surface, it's easy to see the wet blood still dripping off the hands of every neo con warlord taking the podium in Washington D.C. or appearing on national television.

In fact, these cold blooded killers, masquerading as public servants and politicians, are easy to spot since blood is still dripping from one side of their mouths as they talk nonsense out of the other.

And nonsense is the name of the game for these Illuminati deceivers, as they shift attention from their "killing fields" to their deceptively false political, academic and social agenda.

It's happening right now, as the masters of deception and trickery are playing the American population for fools, spinning lies on a daily basis as the bloodshed flows all over the world like an out of control river of death.

And this death, deception, shifting of attention and silencing of detractors is abundantly clear in the strange case of Dr. Francesco Pazienza, the Italian operative jailed by high ranking members of the Illuminati working in the U.S. government and in the Bush administration.

Observers may question and say:

Why focus on Pazienza? Why focus on one drop of blood in a sea of red when so many other people are dying all over the world from Illuminati terror?

The reason is Pazienza's story highlights how Washington bigwigs lock people away and how they kill for sport, setting-up terrorist bombings and disasters around the world like normal people set-up weekend getaways or Saturday afternoon barbeques.

As Pazienza's case makes clear, if they would kill 83 in the 1980 Bologna bombing, don't you think they would kill innocent children at Waco, hundreds at Oklahoma City and more than 3,000 on 9/11?

This, of course, is only the tip of the ice berg, as millions of innocents are slated to unknowingly walk a direct path into the 21^st century's rendition of the Illuminati guillotine.

For centuries, they have been doing this and for centuries they have been the driving force behind war, famine and death, killing millions along the time line of history as easily as swatting flies in a horse barn during the dead of summer.

So, in the case of Pazienza, as we look at one drop in the larger bucket of Illuminati blood, we see a pattern of deception, corruption and killing that played out in Italy in the 1980's and playing out today in a similar manner on the streets of America

As we speak, Pazienza, who may hold the key to how U.S. Illumunati minions sponsored death, destruction and terrorism in Italy, sits locked away in solitary confinement in a Livorno, Italy, jail.

And according to Marco Saba of the Observatory of Organized Crime (OCO) in Geneva, Switzerland, Pazienza was illegally extradited and framed by the U.S. government, a pattern of judicial corruption used by the Illuminati masters time and time again.

In the case of Pazienza, lock him away so the big boys in the White House, as well as the network of the Masonic Illuminati, posing as Jesuit priests and Zionist Jews, are protected.

As the old saying goes, there is no honor among thieves. But in the Pazienza case, his last ditch effort to free himself from a lifetime of prison based on an illegal extradition from the U.S. to Italy, may serve to expose more pieces in the Illuminati's killing puzzle.

In a sharply worded, extremely revealing and lengthy legal analysis, Pazienza's legal counsel, Renato Borzone of Rome, drafted a March 2005 plea sent to Secretary of State Condaleeza Rice, who failed to respond.

However, in the lengthy letter many revealing facts surfaced, showing how the Illuminati works undercover by using the CIA and the Italian Secret Service, as two more useful tools in their killing machine.

The following are excerpts from the Rice letter pointing out how the "New Underworld Order" really works:

The Italian citizen Francesco Pazienza Donato was arrested on March 4 , 1985 for extradition purposes on demand of the G.o.I. in the city where he was officially living : New York . His American address was officially registered in the list of the Italian foreign resident citizens kept , as per the Italian law regulating such an issue , both in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( the A.I.R.E. list ) and the registry office of the Italian Town Hall where he was previously residing : Rome . The G.o.I. was perfectly aware that Mr. Pazienza was living in New York at least since Jan. 13 , 1983 ( Exh. 3 ) .

Notwithstanding the G.O.I. had submitted numerous requests for extraditions to the American counterpart and that at that time Mr. Pazienza had never had previous problems with the Italian Justice it was decided that the only case that could stand before a U.S. Judge was that of his involvement with the failed Italian bank Banco Ambrosiano . The documents released by the D.o.S. show how on Jan.23 , 1984 the D.o.S. had already rejected an extradition request for the same case for the total lack of probable cause that he could have committed the crime . There are several communications between the G.o.I. and the D.o.S. where it is mentioned that the only case that could have been brought before a U.S. Court with some hopeful expectation was again that of the Banco Ambrosiano affair already rejected : amount of the money involved 250.000 U.S. dollars .

The documents freed thanks to the F.O.I.A. show the very questionable strategy suggested by the G.o.I. and unfortunately abetted by the D.O.S. and the Department of Justice : avoiding the maximum possible a U.S Court of Justice , getting an extradition order for whatever it could be by a U.S. Judge , shipping back the extraditable in Italy and then granting all the further extraditions through the bureaucracy of the D.o.S. with waivers of the rule of specialty . On charge of the extradition hearings was appointed the U.S. Judge Hon. Charles L. Brieant of New York - South Manhattan - who issued a favorable extradition decision on Sept. 25 , 1985 for two counts related to the bank's failure in Italy .

It is a matter of fact that on Judge Brieant it had been exerted the heaviest political pressure from Washington to consent to extradition through Hon. Stephen Trott of the Department of Justice and nowadays judge of the 9^th Circuit of the Court of Appeals in San Francisco (CA) .

Nevertheless, quite disgusted, Hon. Brieant could not restrain himself from writing in his opinion that "All such tales of intrigue , suspicion , undercover police work , and internecine political warfare appear sincerely expressed ( by Dr. Pazienza ) " .

The intrigues were going on even over the extradition proceedings. On Aug. 7, 1985 Mr. Jonathan Kwitny of the Wall Street Journal , who attended at the hearings , wrote on the front page of the newspaper : " A U.S. Customs Agent has testified in extradition proceedings that an ' unidentified group of people ' who he said might be Italian agents , want Mr. Pazienza dead ' ( Exh. 4 ) . Title of the article " Tale of intrigue - How an Italian Ex - Spy Who Helped America Landed in U.S. Prison " .

Eventually the minutes of the July 15 , 1985 hearing were unbelievably doctored to shield the G.o.I. and its intelligence agency changing the expression " Italian agents " into " international organized crime " .

When Dr. Pazienza realized such an abuse on Febr. first , 1986 he officially wrote a second letter from the Metropolitan Correctional Center of New York where he was still detained to Mr. David Denton, U.S. Deputy Attorney , and to Mr. Rudolph Giuliani, U.S Attorney for the Southern Manhattan District , stating that :

" Following my letter of Dec. 13,1985 , I am in the position to definitely confirm that the minutes corresponding to the cross - examination of the U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE Galligan has been edited and forged on the section of pag 18 and 19 related to the hearing of July 15 , 1985 . the meaning of such a forgery has been to protect the Italian intelligence organization S.I.S.M.I " .* ( Exh. 5 )

Frankly speaking it is quite astonishing that such kind of forgery could have been implemented in a Federal Court of Justice of a democratic Country as the United States of America .

Previously , on May 4 , 1985 , the journalist Mr. Massimo Jaus had written on the New York Italian daily newspaper " Il Progresso " :

" But here we have even verified that prosecutor Denton had warned Pazienza that a ' contract ' had been put on him as per the mafia parlance meaning when there is the decision to hire someone for killing somebody ells , in this case Pazienza . Actually Mafia and Italian intelligence seem to be intertwined ". * ( Exh. 6 )

Also very illuminating , regarding the intrigues mentioned by Hon. Brieant , it is what reported in a memorandum of 1984 of the US. Customs Service ( ref. : NY05PR320015 - Exh. 7):

" On Monday June 18 , 1984 we met in Rome with Judge Misiani who was investigating Francesco Pazienza . Misiani stated that he had knowledge of Pazienza and Dominico Lombino ( who has been associated with Salvatore Patafio, Cesare Bonventre, Bonanno family in Brooklyn etc. ) having smuggled 2.1 billion dollars into the United States by air . When asked for documentary evidence the judge alluded to the fact that he could not disclose the evidence at the present time because of Italian law " .

This Italian magistrate , Francresco Misiani , had solicited a meeting in Rome with the U.S. Customs Service and the U.S. Assistant Attorney for the District of Brooklyn , Mrs . Reena Raggi , with the only prearranged purpose to deliberately deceive through lies having never existed and never would eventually exist any case concerning what he referred to the American delegation . The only aim was that of the harassment of Pazienza.

Prior to Misiani a different magistrate had intervened in Italy : Mr. Domenico Sica , at that time a close friend of Mr. Misiani .

With a deceptive operation masterminded with the Italian intelligence agency S.I.S.M.I. , with whom he was in a very cozy relationship , he prepared a phoney documentation aimed at the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation that received it from the U.S. Embassy in Rome on April 1983 . Such a document was alleging that Mr. Pazienza was " involved in the refining of narcotics and money laundering for organized crime organizations of U.S. , Italy , Spain , Montecarlo and France " .

All such alleged criminal activity was carried out from Pazienza ' s office in New York City ( Exh. 8 ) .

On Dec. 19 , 1983 the U.S. Embassy in Rome addressed a letter to Mr. Sica that ended saying that : " No further investigation is being conducted by our New York services at this time due to the lack of apparent criminal violations in the United States - signed : Frank J. Walburger - legal attach� - " ( Exh . 9 ) .

Again such activity was aimed only at the harassment of Mr. Pazienza and demonstrates how both magistrates Misiani and Sica were perfectly aware that Pazienza was living in U.S. . We will see how this detail is highly relevant from the legal point of view .

We are before two Italian public officials having cooperated with the Italian intelligence to fabricate fake proofs of evidence , lying to U.S. Federal Agencies that had even to sustain a financial burden for investigations of alleged crimes in the U.S. while , since the beginning , the two Italian magistrates were perfectly knowing that the information they were providing were completely bogus .

Furthermore to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted to the Central Intelligence Agency on March 11 , 2004 for the releasing of " Documentation or internal memorandums mentioning the Italian magistrate Domenico Sica ( . . . ) on the years 1984 to 1986 " , on Sept. 16 , 2004 ( Ref.: F - 2004 - 01050 ) , C.I.A. officially refused to consent calling the exemptions listed as (b)(3) : " Obligations to protect from disclosure intelligence sources and methods " ( Signed : Scott A. Koch . Secr. Agency Release Panel ) .

Therefore we can logically speculate that the Italian magistrate Domenico Sica at that time was also a "source " of the Central Intelligence Agency .

Once arrested on March 4 , 1985 Mr. Pazienza in vain asked that all the cases filed for extradition by the G.o.I. before the D.o.S. and the Department of Justice had to be brought before a U.S. Court of Justice ( Exh. 10 ) .

Repeatedly over the previous year - as per the documents released by the D.o.S. - the " requested party " , i.e. the United States , had communicated to the G.o.I. that the documents filed were legally worthless being not able to show that Dr. Pazienza was responsible of the alleged offenses for which extradition was requested due to a lack of probable cause and therefore there were no chances to obtain an extradition order issued by a U.S. Federal Court .

It is worth to mention just few of those communications emanating from the D.O.S. :

( P R 102312Z JAN 84 - FM SECSTATE TO AMEMBASSY - LIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 007482 ) - " ( Pazienza ) will not be arrested on Milan Charges because of documentary deficiencies . D.O.S. is extremely doubtful that G.O.I , even by revising documents , can present acceptable probable cause evidence to support its extradition request on Milan charges " .

( CONFIDENTIAL - 0 100812Z NOV 84 - FM SECSTATE to AM EMBASSY ROME - STATE 336134 ) - " The vast majority of the material perused so far is comprised of rambling , hearsay information , etc. , which adds up to virtually no hard evidence which could be persuasive to a U.S. Court of probable cause that Pazienza committed crimes for which Italy states it wants him extradited ".

( SECRET - 0 141606Z - FM AMEMBASSY ROME TO SECSTATE - ROME 27861 ) - In this dispatch the U.S. Ambassador to Italy Mr. Maxwel Rabb informs the D.o.S. that on Nov. 14 , 1984 he met with the italian chief of the military intelligence agency S.I.S.M.I. Mr. Fulvio Martini and that on behalf of the Italian prime minister Mr. Bettino Craxi he asked for Mr. Pazienza to be extradited even if there were non proofs of evidence.

( CONFIDENTIAL - FM AM EMBASSY ROME TO AM CONSUL MILAN 0 091009Z FEB 85 ZFF4 ) On Febr. 9 , 1985 the U.S Embassy in Rome informs the U.S. Consulate in Milan that the extradition papers landed on the D.o.S. for the extradition of Mr. Pazienza were legally worthless .

( CONFIDENTIAL - FM AM EMBASSY ROME TO SECSTATE PRIORITY 5588 - DEPT JUSTICE WASHDC - ROME 09571 ) On April 16 , 1985 the U.S. Embassy in Rome informs the D.o.S. that following the arrest of Mr. Pazienza in New York on March , 4 a close aide of the Italian Minister of Justice , Mr. Rocco Palamara , was very worried that a U.S. Judge might be called to decide on all the cases filed by the G.o.I ; that such a possibility had to be avoided at all costs and adding that the only suitable option was that only Italian magistrates had to decide on the fate of Mr Pazienza once sent back to Italy . Therefore it was primarily important , for the G.o.I. , to find a way for an extradition decided by the administrative body of the D.o.S. and not by a U.S. Court . It is a matter of fact that on June 14 , 1985 Hon. Brieant had before him all the cases filed by the G.o.I. . Once he expressed the opinion that the " bunch of cases " ( as per his words ) were worthless all the documentation was withdrawn and eventually extradition consented by the D.o.S. through waivers of the rule of specialty ( Exh. 11 ) . Frankly speaking a very questionable behavior .

It is however noteworthy too that that G.O.I. over the same period of time did not reciprocate U.S. with the same generosity and complacency over the " Achille Lauro - Klingoffer affair " abetting the escape of the Palestinian terrorist Abu Abbas highly sought by U.S. .

THE TRUE UNMENTIONABLE REASONS THAT PRODUCED THE CASE Nr. 1 AND WHY PAZIENZA HAS BEEN FRAUDULENTLY STRIPPED OF HIS DEFENSE RIGHTS AND TRIED IN ABSENTIA .

As far it concerns the magistrate Domenico Sica .

Mr. Sica had been a friend of Pazienza soliciting favors for his career advancement . The relationship between them turned sour when Pazienza refused on his demand to release a false testimony against a former magistrate colleague of Sica turned politician with the Christian Democratic Party and when the same political party refused to back him who was aiming at the chairmanship of the Italian civil intelligence agency S.I.S.D.E. . Hereto again it is what Mr. E. Morrison Esq. wrote to Hon. Trott in the above mentioned letter of Febr. 11 , 1986 (see Exh.15) : " Incredible to be sure , but nevertheless true , is the fact that the promoter of this so called Super - SISMI investigation and prosecution of Dr. Pazienza is Magistrate Domenico Sica . This is the same Domenico Sica who has had a personal animosity against Dr. Pazienza since 1981 when he lost his bid for the Chairmanship of the Italian Civil Secret Service called SISDE ( See Attachment 6 ) and apparently blamed Dr. Pazienza for not securing the appointment to this position " . The U.S. Embassy in Rome confirmed with bafflement to the D.o.S. such a previous personal relationship between Pazienza and Sica and the SISDE affair as well with the following message : " R 301303Z APR.85 - FMAMEMBASSY ROME TO SECSTATE WASHDC 6192 - DEPT JUSTICE WASHDC - LIMITED OFFICIAL USE ROME 10845 - JUSTICE FOR ASST. ATTORNEY GENERAL TROTT " .

During the investigating stage Magistrate Sica forced the former fianc� of Pazienza to have a sexual relationship with him under threat of a possible indictment . The young woman , Ms. Marina De Laurentiis , was the niece of a famous Hollywood movie producer , Mr. Dino De Laurentiis (see Exh. 4 ) , thus she had to give in to avoid a possible scandal . A heinous blackmail . Mr. Sica knew that Pazienza had been informed of such a highly despicable and unlawful behavior and he could not run the risk to have him in a Court of justice in Italy revealing this kind of niceties . The habit of Mr. Sica to solicit sex from female witnesses and defendants was indeed business as usual and not an exception . Almost everybody was knowing his unsavory habit in Rome institutional circles but nobody ever acted or objected .

On August 26 , 2003 the daily International Herald Tribune reported on pag. 5 that a judge from Santa Fe ( New Mexico ) was sentenced to nine years in prison ( six years suspended ) because found guilty of offering female defendants lighter sentences in exchange for sex .

Italy is a different planet in a different galaxy . . .

The Super - Sismi trial was meticulously prearranged by Mr. Sica and the S.I.S.M.I. spy agency as introductory and instrumental to the Case nr. 2 described hereinafter and whose aim was to cover up the Libyan criminal responsibilities in the Bologna ' s train station bombing of Aug. 2 , 1980 . Pazienza had to play the scapegoat .

Once Pazienza was set free in Italy, on Dec. 1 , 1988 the magistrate Sica , freshly promoted by the G.o.I. to the post of High Commissioner for organized crime investigations , implored Pazienza to keep his mouth shut on what he was knowing about him not to ruin his career . The meeting between them took place in the office of the official legal counsel of the Christian Democratic Party , Mr. Giuseppe De Gori , Esq. as per Sica's begging .

All the above mentioned disgusting facts have been thoroughly described in a book written by Pazienza while sitting in jail ( title " Il Disubbidiente " - publishing house : Longanesi of Milan ) and released in Italy on Sept. 1999 . Mr. Sica neither filed any complain nor took any legal action whatsoever against Pazienza and the publishing house ( Exh . 18) .

As far it concerns the then Prime Minister Mr. Bettino Craxi :in 1980 Mr. Craxi had received a multimillion dollar slush fund in Switzerland by the banker Roberto Calvi , chairman of the Banco Ambrosiano , and he was believing Pazienza was actually knowing the illicit transaction . Such a secret , were it unveiled , could have been devastating for him . Mr. Craxi was eventually betrayed in 1993 by one of his closest confidant over the " Clean Hands " criminal investigations of the Milan judiciary with the disclosure of that story , the so called " Conto Protezione " affair . Because of it he was prosecuted and convicted by the Milan Tribunal to eight years prison term and compelled to escape from Italy . He died in exile in Tunisia in 2000 . Mr. Craxi thought that such a secret , that Pazienza was not even knowing , required that Pazienza deserved to be neutralized or debunked at all costs .

On Dec.10 , 1983 Pazienza wrote an official letter to Mr. Craxi from his N.Y.C. office asking him to be freed by a possible ' State Secret ' obligation for what he did and knew as a consultant for the Italian spy agency S.I.S.M.I. between 1980 and 1981 . Pazienza knew, among other deeds, that a faction of the Italian military intelligence S.I.S.M.I. was illegally passing very delicate information to the Libyan secret service ( Exh.19) . Hereto an excerpt of the letter : " I was personally taking care of the relationship with the director general of the French intelligence agency S.D.E.C.E. Mr. Alexandre De Marenches because even having the French a representative in Italy and the Italian S.I.S.M.I. one in France the french did not trust to communicate through the official channels . I had been informed that the French had discovered how some top S.I.S.M.I. officers were on the payroll of the Libyan intelligence " . Once received the letter and put it under the ' SECRET ' restraining seal Mr. Craxi immediately dispatched a copy to Mr. Sica.

It is a matter of fact that such information allowed the Libyan secret service goons to know the hideouts of Libyan political refugees in Italy they were chasing for and to carry out their assassinations . The first assassination took place on June 11 , 1980 . Almost eighteen years after this lewd story would be eventually discovered by the roman prosecuting district attorney office that was investigating the DC9 plane downing near the Ustica island of Sicily . The name of the informant was precisely identified with that of a Col. Demetrio Cogliandro of the Rome ' s Counter Espionage Center of the S.I.S.M.I. spy agency , Center being part of the First Directorate that is mentioned in the Pazienza ' s letter to Mr. Craxi of Dec. 1983. Notwithstanding that , contrary to the U.S. judicial system , the Art. 112 of the Italian Constitution foresees that the prosecution is a compulsory obligation whenever a crime is noticed no charges had been ever brought against the officer for complicity in murders. We will see however how prominent the above name will be in the case Nr. 2 . The problem was that such a treason was perpetrated with the full accord of certain Italian political circles not to damage the oil interests of the Republic of Italy . On January 2005 the former French ambassador in Italy , Mr. Gilles Martinet , has confirmed in his book of memoirs published in France this unbelievable plot and how the G.o.I. even abetted the assassins allowing them to safely return to Libya ( See the Italian daily Corriere della Sera of Jan. 9 , 2005 pag. 35 ) . So scared was the then G.o.I. that Pazienza might unveil those kind of unsavory secrets that the documents released by the D.o.S. show how the G.o.I. refused even to consent that the Iran-Contras U.S. congressional committee might meet Pazienza once repatriated in Italy while kept in solitary confinement in a Turin jail for years . The committee wished to interview Pazienza on his relationship with Mr. Michael Ledeen ( See the message " CONFIDENTIAL - 0 311626Z JUL 87 FM AM EMBASSY ROME TO SEC STATE WASH DC IMMEDIATE 7429 " ) . All that explains too what the Wall Street Journal published in the front page on Aug. 8 , 1985 about the need to eliminate Pazienza

The entire document sent is located for reading at www.pazienzahungerstrike.info/ricorso_amb_usa.htm

However, one interesting paragraph worth noting shows control of P2's criminal activities directly in U.S. hands:

It is very interesting to precisely pinpoint what it is stated on pag. 441 of the conviction sentence of Pazienza, " It has to be remembered that the America ' s sponsorship is an hypothesis whose credibility has been largely substantiated by S.I.S.M.I. officials . In relation to that it is well-founded to believe that Gelli had been compelled to accept the U.S. imposition with no possibility to argue " . What that actually means ? Hereto is the answer : the Bologna Court and prosecution alleged that the P2 Masonic Lodge and its criminal activities were strictly controlled and directed by U.S. . In 1978 the Americans , being highly unsatisfied of the actual Grand Master of the Lodge Mr. Licio Gelli , anointed Francesco Pazienza Donato as the new chief shipping him back to Italy to replace Mr.Gelli . Pazienza in 1978 was only 32 years old .

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Greg Szymanski