Edvige Antonia Albina Maino alias Sonia

Gandhi

SONIA GANDHI WAS PLANTED BY

archbishop of Rome Paul Marcinkus

Edvige Antonia Albina Maino’s goondas physically thrown out

the previous congress president and occupied the chair.
Sonia has no respect for any democratic norms and that is
why she appointed emergency tainted Chawla as the EC. The
most reverend archbishop of Rome Paul Marcinkus, who was
close to Pope Paul VI and president of the Pope’s bank IOR
for 18 years, planted Sonia Gandhi in India. Gorilla Marcinkus
through his mobsters kidnapped a15 year old girl Emanuela
Orlandi on 22-6-1983, killed her and thrown her body in to a
cement mixer. Marcinkus used to enjoy young girls in his flat
in Via Porta Angelica and used to receive bags of drug
money. Under Marcinkus, the Vatican Bank was in to drug
money laundering, terrorist funding along with Sicilian Mafia
lord Michele the Shark sindona and Banco Ambrosiano's
chairman, Roberto Calvi.In 1982 Marcinkus was implicated in
Banco Ambrosiano collapse, in the murder of its
President,Roberto Calvi, who was killed and hung under
Blackfriars Bridge in London.

Marcinkus was member of Propaganda Due or P2. P2 is a

Masonic organization and is a secret sect that had 953
persons from the top echelons of Italy and a state within a
state. Its members included Marcinkus, future PM silvio
Berlusconi, heads of of all three Italian intelligence services
etc. P2 was sponsored by KGB with an aim to destablizing
Italy and the world. The P2 was more than a subversive
political organization and was a kind of full-service
international organization influencing everything from arms
sales to purchases of crude oil to planting persons in
powerful families all over the world. P2 is so secret and was
run like Al Qaeda that even its own members did not know
who belonged to it. During the P2 Lodge and the Vatican
Banking Scandal, CIA through its priest 'assets' in Vatican,
had placed six bugging devices in the Secretariat of State,
the Vatican Bank and the Apostolic Palace, where the Pope
actually lived and worked.

Vatican was involved in money laundering with the Mafia. P2

Masonic Lodge corruption was revealed when several Italian
and French publications disclosed how more than 150 high-
level Catholic priests, bishops, and cardinals were practicing
members of Freemasonry, many of whom were tagged as
being Satanists. Pope John Paul I was killed after serving only
33 days in office as he wanted to clean up the Vatican Bank
as well as expose the Masonic involvement of many high-
level bishops and cardinals. Archbishop Paul Marcinkus was
given a clean slate and protection from the next Pope John
Paul II. Archbishop Marcinkus was also a CIA / Nazi spy who
worked underground in Poland to sell out his people, along
with liberal priests who were sent to concentration camps
and killed. Paul Marcinkus was best known for his
involvement in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal, a banking
crash that cost the Vatican $700 million and untold damage
to its prestige and the Indian suffering from its plant Sonia.

Marcinkus was indicted by the Italian government and this

decision was backed up by the Italian Supreme Court.
Vatican removed him as head of the Vatican Bank and
demoted to the level of a lay priest. The archbishop had
ties with Michele Sindona, a mafioso, who paid good
donations to the Nixon election fund. The Italian Masonic
Lodge P2 provided a means of furnishing anti-Communist
institutions all over the world with both Vatican and CIA
funds. Calvi who was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge
in London in 1982 personally had arranged the transfer of
$20 million of Vatican money to Solidarity in Poland out of
the $100 million sent to Poland by Vatican. Michele Sindona
was P2’s financier. He was also Vatican’s investment
counselor. Sindona distributed CIA funds to its agents
worldwide. The archbishop was investigated by the
Organised Crime office of the US Justice Department after
they found a request for $950 million of counterfeit bonds
made on Vatican notepaper.

Sindona was responsible for Franklin National Bank collapse.

He was found guilty in 1980 on 65 counts, misappropriation
of $45 million and sentenced to 25 years in USA. Later he
was extradited to Italy and jailed for life for bank fraud and
murder of Giorgio Ambrosoli. From jail Sindona started
blackmailing all his political contacts to get out of jail.
Sindona accused the Vatican of planting Sonia Gandhi in
India and threatened to spill the details. Sindona was
silenced by the former PM Giulio Andreotti who arranged the
cyanide poisoning of Shark Sindona on 18-3-1986 in his
coffee.in his prison cell. In 1986, at a time when when
Marcinkus could not set foot in Italy or USA as both Italian
police and US justice department were looking for him,
Marcinkus was a state guest at 10 Janpath by Sonia. Paul
Marcinkus brought the good news that Shark sindona is no
more a threat to Sonia Gandhi and that there will be no more
stories of Sonia Gandhi planting in India by Rome.

Rajiv Gandhi was paid by the KGB of Soviet Union kickbacks

of about $2 billion in numbered Swiss bank accounts. Sonia
inherited this upon the assassination.of Rajiv Gandhi. This is
stated in the the book ‘The State Within a State: THE KGB
By Ms.Yevgenia Albats. Dr. Yevgenia Albats, Ph.D [Harvard],
is a noted Russian scholar and journalist, and was a member
of the KGB Commission set up by President Yeltsin in August
1991. She was privy to the Soviet intelligence files that
documented these deals and KGB facilitation of the same. In
her book—"The State Within a State: The KGB in the Soviet
Union", she even gives the reference numbers of such
intelligence files. Dr.Subramanian Swamy’s letter to
Director, CBI dated, May 23, 2003 containing references to
Intelligence Files relating to receipt of funds from KGB as
quoted in Ms.Yevgenia Albats’s book “The State Within a
State: The KGB”

Russian government confirmed the bribe to Rajiv Gandhi

and Sonia Gandi. Russian spokesperson defended such bribe
to Sonia Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi as necessary in Soviet
ideological interest saying that part of the funds were for
Antonia Maino family and part to fund elections of Congress
party loyal candidates. Times of India dated 27-6-1992
reported that Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi received bribe
from KGB of USSR. KGB Chief V.Chebrikov’s secret letter to
the Central Committee of Communist Party of Soviet Union
regarding payment to Rajiv Gandhi’s family is public after
the disintegration of Soviet Union 1991 to 16 countries.
Upon Dr. Manmohan Singh's government taking office,
Russia called back it's career diplomat Ambassador in New
Delhi and immediately posted in his place, as the new
Ambassador, a person who was the KGB station chief in New
Delhi during the 1970s.

Archbishop Paul Casimir Marcinkus alias Paul the Gorilla

Marcinkus, planted Edvige Antonia Albina Maino in India.She
was presented in front of Rajiv Gandhi, while she was
working as a baby sitter/barmaid, in Cambridge.She later
worked in London with Pakistan’s ISI operative Salman Tassir.
Edvige Antonia Albina Maino is now known as Sonia Gandhi,
and Sonia is not a legal name. Edvige Antonia Albina Maino
was born on 9 December 1946, in Orbassano, Italy and she
was also born on 9 December 1946 in Lusiana, Veneto, Italy.
Everything about this Italian christian spy who was planted
in India is suspect and fictitious. She installed Manmohan
Singh as PM. He has permitted the opening of the Paki bank
BCCI in 1983 while he was RBI governor. BCCI was a CIA ISI
outfit.

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In Maino country
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In pursuit of the Italian connection, a trip to a tiny, dusty

industrial town on the suburbs of Torino where Sonia Gandhi
grew up.

VAIJU NARAVANE
recently in Orbassano

THE car hurtles down the dangerous and ageing motorway between
Milan and Turin at 170 km an hour. The motorway, Italy's first, was
converted from a two-lane road to a three-lane highway to cope with
the ever-increasing traffic between the country's two largest industrial
cities. The third lane was created by carving out a certain width each
from the security lane and the two existing lanes, with the result that
the width of the lanes now do not conform to European Union norms.
So when an agitated and reckless driver overtakes me, horn blaring, at
some 190 kmph on the right (wrong) side, I begin mentally saying my
adieux.

It is a big car, a powerful Alfa Romeo 155 Turbo 2.5, 16V injection,
loaned to me by a friend (how else will you get to that godforsaken
place, he had said rhetorically, tossing me the keys), and it eats up the
kilometres effortlessly. The cherry trees are in bloom and the
paddyfields that make up the flat monotonous landcape of the plains of
the Po river are thirsting for water after a mild but very dry winter.

This is my third foray into the land of Sonia Mainoputri. Late for a
"photo appointment" with Avtar Singh Rana, the director of design and
development of Fiat's Lancia cars, who is also a municipal councillor for
Orbassano, I step on the accelerator pedal.

The first time I went to the tiny, dusty industrial suburb on the outskirts
of Torino where Sonia Gandhi grew up was just after Rajiv Gandhi's
assassination in 1991. The town of 22,000 inhabitants then talked of
nothing but the "tragic end of the fable of our local Cenerentola"
(Cinderella). Now that Sonia has seized the reins of the Congress party,
the comments are more caustic, especially from people who knew her
as a child and as a young girl.

In the small unpretentious first-floor office of Orbassano's Mayor

Graziano Dell'Acqua, an overly pink picture of Rajiv Gandhi smiles
down from the wall that he shares with a silver crucifix and a photo of
Italy's President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. The bespectacled, mild-mannered
man who sits at the functional but cluttered desk gives a faint smile.
"Yes, I know that photograph looks like one of the holy pictures of the
saints issued by the Church. It seems apt here somehow, for in India
you do tend, don't you, to give a divine aura to your defunct political
leaders," says Dell'Acqua. "Sonia's mother Paola Predebon came to see
me after the assassination with a message from Sonia asking if we
would honour the memory of her husband. I was very happy to oblige."
V.SUDERSHAN

At the Rajiv Gandhi samadhi on his first death anniversary,

Sonia Gandhi with Priyanka, Rahul, mother Paola Predebon and
sister Nadia.

The municipal building sits cheek-by-jowl with the church in

Orbassano's main square, a small crossroads with a bar at either end
where the locals meet to raise a glass or two after Mass. Most of
Orbassano's inhabitants either work at nearby Fiat factories or are in
some way dependent on the automobile giant. With the exception of
the church square which has a certain distinction, albeit dubious,
Orbassano is a muddle of ill-constructed apartment blocks and
individual houses, hurriedly slapped together in the early 1950s when
industrial suburbs mushroomed overnight in the wake of the post-War
boom in northern Italy. There is no beauty and little charm. Orbassano
is resolutely low brow, resolutely middle class.
"This is not a rich town despite the fact that it has always been at a
crossroads. When I came here in 1961 there were only 6,000
inhabitants. We have had three successive waves of "immigration" -
first from Calabria, then Sicily and then Sardinia. Sonia's father came
here even before that, in the 1950s. I remember Sonia as a young girl.
She was like any other teenager enjoying dancing, dressing up and
going out. She hasn't been back since I have been Mayor, or if she has,
we haven't known of it. Just as well, it would present a serious security
problem we wouldn't be able to handle. We are proud of her for she is
the daughter of the soil who has made good. We have two celebrities
from Orbassano. The first is Cardinal Martini, the Archbishop of Milan,
and the second is Sonia Gandhi. I know she has renounced her Italian
nationality, but I would gladly make her an honorary citizen of
Orbassano. I don't know what she's like now, but I think if he chose
her," says Dell'Acqua, throwing an arch look at the picture of Rajiv
Gandhi, "then she must be a very special person."

"Even so, I wonder if we in Italy would accept a foreigner, and a woman

at that, to take over a party which has symbolised the country's
struggle against foreign rule and which continues to enjoy great, if
diminished, support across the land. That a certain section of Indians
have trusted her with their destiny speaks volumes for the tolerance of
India," concludes Dell'Acqua.

IN the church square, the sun is shining. It is a hot, brilliant day,

unusual for this time of the year. A funeral is in progress. A 67-year-old
man has died and almost all the mourners are above 50 years of age.
Many of them know the Maino family. Paola Predebon is a devout
Catholic and a regular churchgoer. "She wasn't like this when her
husband was alive. She had too much on her hands in the house; there
were her three girls to bring up; and then Eugenio was a demanding
husband, an authoritarian man. Now with Nadia and Sonia away and
only Anushka here, she has a lot of time for herself. Although she does
go away quite a lot to visit her daughters, especially the younger one
whose diplomat husband is now posted in London, I believe," says a
silver-haired woman, who, with a coquettish and conspiratorial glance
at her companion, a shocking bottle blonde, identifies herself as
Giuseppina. She refuses to give her family name, and says she cannot
tell me more. "I haven't seen Paola in a while, you know," she confides.

The old gentleman carrying a cane and downing a glass of Fernet

Branca in the bar around the corner from the municipal office is
loquacious. "I knew Stephano, or Eugenio Maino as he liked to be
called, quite well. He has been dead these past ten years or more.
Came here penniless as a mason and made good. Started a small
construction business. Brought up his daughters in the old traditional
way - church, confirmation, communion. Suspicious of foreigners, he
was. I don't think Sonia's marriage pleased him very much. He
certainly didn't go for it and the girl was given away by her maternal
uncle Mario Predebon."

I ask him about Eugenio Maino's alleged Fascist sympathies. "That

shouldn't surprise you. He came from Asiago not far from Vicenza in
the Veneto region where nationalism was strong. He fought in the
Russian campaign alongside the Germans and remained true to Fascist
Nationalist ideology all his life. I have even heard it said that he
belonged to the Salo Republic that Mussolini set up in 1943 after he
was ousted by his son-in-law. That is what people say but I have no
confirmation of it. He even gave his three daughters Russian names in
honour of the campaign in which he fought. He venerated the Duce.
Many still do," says Giovanni, referring to Italy's war-time Fascist
dictator Benito Mussolini.

I set off for the Maino residence. The last time I visited, it was closed
and shuttered. Now the windows are open and there is a large metal
blue car parked in the driveway behind the high gate with its
prominently displayed "Beware of Dog" sign. Number 14 Via Bellini is a
large two-storey house painted a dull, dark ochre with chocolate brown
shutters. In a generally poor and run-down area, the house is
conspicuous by its neat and well-kept appearance. The neighbourhood
is a mixture of Sardinian, Sicilian and Calabrese with a sprinkling of
north Italian names: Podda, Eroe, Bertorino, Gallino.

There are three names on the interphone outside. Maino A., Maino N.
and Maino Predebon. I know that Anushka, Sonia's elder sister, is in
town. I ring the bell.

"Who is it?" a querulous voice answers.

"An Indian journalist. I would like to speak to someone from the

family," I answer.

The voice immediately becomes tough, aggressive. "There is no one

here. Go away," it says peremptorily.

"When will they be back?" I persist.

"I don't know, not for a while. I am just the maid. I can't tell you
anymore." I know that voice. It bears an uncanny resemblance to Sonia
Gandhi's. The reaction does not surprise me.
As I walk away from the house I bump into two teenage girls, Serena
and Sylvia. "Do you know who lives there?" I ask.

"Oh, that's the Maino residence," they say in unison. "Our mothers
both know Sonia very well. They were in class together. Why don't you
come with us?" Serena is 18, pimply, bespectacled and jolly. Sylvia is
blonde, 21, serious and intellectual-looking. They are both studying at
the local agricultural university.

Serena's house, at 36 Via Gramsci, is within a stone's throw of the

Maino residence. I step out of the lift and into a virtual menagerie;
there is a cat, a dog, a fish bowl, a canary cage, a hamster and a
singing blackbird. "He's called Biagio, named after the Saint Protector
of Throats," says Serena's mother, Innocenza Nocentini. She is a warm,
ample woman with a heaving bosom and a ready smile. As if on cue,
the bird first imitates my cough, then politely says good morning and
follows it up with a most convincingly warbled version of "O Sole Mio",
a perennial Italian favourite.

"He never does this for outsiders. He seems to trust and like you,"
Innocenza tells me. I am touched and flattered. "My son is getting
married and I am making lace doilies for the wedding," she tells me
proudly. "I was not well off like the Maino girls. I had to leave school
and start working at the age of fourteen. I was at school with Sonia
until the age of 12. After that she went to the more fashionable college
of Maria Ausiliatrice in Giaveno, 15 km away, run by the nuns. Sonia
was a year older than I - I was born in 1947, she in 1946. She was nice
but always aware of her social superiority. But Anushka, her sister, is
not nice. She is a nasty piece of work, that one. We were very upset by
Sonia's husband's death. We were touched by her dignity and admired
her for it. I think age and the tragedy have made her kinder. It shows in
her face. Her son is the best-liked in the family. He seems to be a real
gentleman. And so goodlooking! But the daughter takes after her aunt
- tough, arrogant and stubborn. I remember the tantrums Priyanka
threw when she came visiting with her mother - a typically rich, spoilt
brat. We were all very disappointed when Sonia decided to enter
politics. I'm sure she did it for her daughter. They also say there are
corruption charges against the family, that Rajiv took a lot of money.
But somehow I cannot believe he did it for himself. He was such a
prince of a man. In any case no one who enters politics remains or
emerges unscathed. Even the most honest person becomes a thief. So
it was inevitable, I suppose. Whatever happens, I wish her well."

The Nocentini household in extremely modest. Innocenza's husband

Nino has not studied beyond the third standard. He is now out of work
and earns a living making metal pins for car headlights. "Each pin
requires three different manipulations," he explains. "I get a pittance
for making a thousand. This is how our black economy works."

"How many do you manage to make per day?" I ask.

"Oh thousands," he replies with a nonchalant shrug. "It's habit. I work

at it for about eight hours a day."

Innocenza gives me a final hug. She presses a book into my hands as a

parting gift. It is a political memoir by Giulio Andreotti, seven times
Italy's Prime Minister and one of its longest-serving post-War Ministers
who now stands charged with having links with the mafia. "See what
politics does to you," she laments as she closes the door.

Serena and Sylvia take me to Anushka's shop in Gerbola di Rivolta.

They want to be photographed among the Indian artefacts there and I
am happy to oblige. I remember my last trip to Orbassano. "Try
Anushka's shop at the Pyramid commercial centre down at Rivolta. It's
just a couple of kilometres away," a helpful neighbour had advised me.

The shop called Etnica is located in a lonely and depressing

commercial complex a couple of km from Orbassano. It is a monstrous
concrete structure topped by five scalloped wooden pyramids painted
green. The shop itself is an oasis of good taste in a desert of semi-
urban kitsch. There are some rare old pichwais. A couple of exquisite
silver pieces from Bikaner. The display is an intelligent mix of old and
new, antique objects and recent Indian artefacts. The prices are
astoundingly high. I noticed goods like Shatoosh shawls, the export and
sale of which is banned.

"I can't tell you the exact price of the Shatoosh. I received it a few days
ago and the price has not been finalised. But it will certainly be
between four and six million lire (between $2,000 and $3,000)," the
shop assistant had told me on my last trip. A wooden cupboard from
Kerala was selling for three million lire - $1,500 - while thepichwais
were priced even higher.

I had found the horsey-looking young woman minding the shop a little
bizzare. She boasted about her trips to India to buy stuff for the shop
but denied she or the shop had any connection with the Nehru-Gandhi
family. "I'm told Sonia comes from somewhere around here," she said,
trying to look vague, "but the shop has nothing to do with her. The
owner is someone from Torino." I had persisted and she had once more
vehemently denied any connection. I had found it strange that a shop
assistant out in the Italian boondocks should speak fluent English and
be so knowledgeable about Indian antiques. She must have a very
generous employer indeed, I had mused, pondering over the mystery.

Now seeing me in the company of Serena and Sylvia, she blanches. We

have walked into the shop and I have my camera ready. They turn
around to greet her but she is already throwing us out
unceremoniously. The shop assistant is none other than Aruna,
Anushka's daughter and Sonia Gandhi's niece. The girls apologise
profusely for her rudeness. "We knew she was arrogant and nasty, but
not this nasty," they say.

Aruna and I exchange knowing looks. I am tempted to challenge her

earlier claims. Then, feeling sorry for her, I take a picture of the shop
from the outside and leave.

The shop continues to nibble at the edge of my consciousness like a

buzzing bee that won't go away. There is something not quite right
about it. It is incongruous, like a strange, exotic orchid blooming in the
desert. It is miles away from anywhere, for to go to Orbassano one has
to get off the motorway and drive a good 20 km or so up the road to
Vicenza. And then who in Orbassano has the money to buy such very
expensive things which, in any case do not appeal to an average
Italian. A shop like this would do well in Rome or Milano. But
Orbassano? Its like setting up an expensive store selling Swedish
furniture on the outskirts of Faizabad.
 PABLO BARTHOLOMEW/GAMMA/LIAISON
At the death anniversary of Indira Gandhi, with Rajiv Gandhi
and Rahul.

Sylvia and Serena in tow, I drive up to the Convent of Maria Ausiliatrice

in Giaveno, some 15 km from Orbassano. The school, a large, austere
building with pale yellow shutters, is located on an incline on the
Giaveno hill. This is a very special occasion for Sylvia whose mother, a
classmate of Sonia's, studied here. We are received by a plump, ageing
nun with gold fillings in her mouth who identifies herself as Sister
Domenica. "I was only an assistant when Sonia studied here, but I
remember her well. She was vivacious, but not particularly exuberant
or effervescent. She studied just enough to get by. What mattered was,
above all, having a good time, I think. How can a teacher ever divine
the destiny God has in store for her pupils?" sighs Sister Domenica.
Sister Anna Maria is more forthright, blunt, ironical. She is a thin,
austere looking nun. I imagine her to be a demanding and passionate
teacher. We are standing in the entrance hall that leads into the upper
courtyard. "I remember it like it was yesterday. Sonia was 20 years old.
We were having a school reunion and she had come here with some
old pupils. Dinner was being served when she suddenly announced she
had to leave. "Why," one of us asked, "you've been away in England
and we haven't seen much of you. Why don't you stay for dinner?"

"No," she said, "I can't stay. I have a special guest coming to dinner
tonight." When we asked her who it was that was so special, she said
with a peculiar toss of the head: "It's the son of Indira Gandhi, India's
Prime Minister." I can still see her standing there. A little later she went
to India. She had turned 21 by then. And then one day we opened our
newspapers and saw the headlines. She had married Rajiv Gandhi. She
had sent a telegram home to her father from India informing him of her
decision as soon as she turned 21. She was always a little
manipulative. She should do well in politics," adds Sister Anna Maria
with a wry twist to her lips.

I visit the chapel with its murals and air of quiet repose. Sylvia can no
longer contain her tears. "Can you imagine," she says, "my mother
passed so many years of her life here. In a certain sense a part of me
lurks in these walls." Sister Domenica puts a comforting arm around
her shoulders.

Shyly Sister Domenica asks me if I would mind carrying a little

memento for Sonia to India. She gives me a small olive wood carving of
Santo Spirito, a representation of the Holy Spirit, that can be worn
around the neck like an amulet.

My attempts to look into the Maino family fortunes draw a blank.

Italians love showing off their cars, furs, jewels and clothes but they
hate to tell you how much they earn or where their income comes
from. Enquiries at the chamber of commerce lead nowhere.

Understandably, Sonia Gandhi has become something of a heroine in

her home town. Gianlucca Gobbi who works for Radio Flash, an
independent radio station in Turin says: "Of course people here have
heard of the financial scandals surrounding Rajiv Gandhi. But Italians
are so used to corrupt politicians that they tend not to hold that
against her. And then the amount involved is not very big. Billions of
dollars were stolen by Italian politicians as the Clean Hands
investigation revealed. We all know about the links between the mafia
and politicians. So all that talk about corruption does not bother us.
However, I am surprised at what they told you at the shop. Why should
they deny links with the Gandhi family, with Sonia? What do they have
to hide?"