Ambrosiano Bank: fraudulent bankruptcy in 1982. CEO Roberto Calvi
CD: Christian Democracy (leading political party in Italy)
CIA: Central Intelligence Agency (USA)
CIO: Chief Executive Officer
COSA NOSTRA: Sicilian mafia
CRYPTO AG: Swiss manufacturer of encryption machines that are supposed to be tamper-proof and sold to more than 120 countries since 1955. The CIA installed a "back door" there from the beginning.
CS: Credit Suisse (a bank)
CUPOLA: meeting of Sicilian mafia bosses
DOW JONES: US stock index
FENDINEBBIA: Italian magazine of reflection and analysis
ICP: Italian Communist Party
IOR: Istituto per le Opere di Religione, the Institute for the Works of Religion, usually called the Vatican Bank
KGB: Komitet Gossoudarstvennoï Bezopasnosti (State Security Committee of the former USSR)
NSA: National Security Agency (USA)
OCTOPUS: one of the nicknames of the mafia
P2: Propaganda Due, occult lodge of fascist tendency
SNB: Swiss National Bank (central bank)
USSR: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union)
VATICAN BANK: common nickname of the IOR
ZUGZWANG: chess forced blow
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The Octopus at the Vatican
Fiksi SejarahItaly 1978, years of lead. Alessa, the young journalist, investigates frequent crimes at her own risk. The Vatican is laundering money for the mafia. Against all odds, Albino becomes pope. He will clean up the mess. But Cosa nostra wants him dead an...
