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The Confessions of Anthony Raimondi

Episode 2: Exodus

The Confessions of Anthony Raimondi

USG Audio

Society & Culture, #Truecrime, Mob, Pope John Paul I, #Investigativejournalism, True Crime, #Investigativereporting, #Internetcrime, Pope, Vatican, Mafia, #Truestory, Documentary, Anthony Raimondi

4.4653 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Anthony grows up with his large Italian family in 1960s Brooklyn dominated by the mafia. At 16, he joins The Colombo Crime Family.

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0:00.0

The youngest pope that died in 400 years.

0:03.0

John Paul won.

0:05.0

This is George Lucian Greg Warr, and we traveled many miles to Baltimore, Maryland, to ask him a question.

0:12.0

Could Pope John Paul I have been murdered?

0:15.0

When he died, they had said he died of a heart attack, but was challenged by the Italian Medical Society.

0:23.9

He died on witness, and he had no heart problems.

0:29.8

The reason we're asking George this question is because he knew Pope John Paul I first.

0:38.0

The first time I saw him, it was probably a mile or two from the Bishop's Castle,

0:42.9

it was halfway up a mountain.

0:44.6

He was in his 50s, early 50s, and he was a mountain clamor.

0:49.5

He scaled his last mountain outside of Trento about six or seven months before he died.

0:56.0

So he was a fit guy.

0:58.0

Right.

0:59.0

When George met the future Pope, he was the bishop of a mountainous region in northern Italy,

1:04.0

and he still used his birth name, Albino Luciani.

1:09.0

What was he like? He said, a regular guy, Schwarzen Sandals and wine.

1:14.6

That's in 68.

1:16.6

When Luciani got involved with the priest working movement.

1:20.6

And that movement had ties to Italy's growing Communist Party,

1:24.6

one of the largest communist parties in Europe,

1:26.6

second only to the Soviet

1:28.6

Union. George says he visited Luchiani at a time when the West was trying to stop the spread

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