Mario Platero
Appearances
Shadow Kingdom
God’s Banker I 8. The Train Station
Well, it's good that it came to an end, and it must have been quite an interesting and long journey in the end.
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God’s Banker I 8. The Train Station
Behindology, which is the theory of what's behind something. And you don't have proofs. You can only use your imagination. And your imagination can carry you very far in thinking, what's behind that? Why did they do that? Was there a conspiracy of people that decided to kill Calvi. This was the perfect example.
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God’s Banker I 8. The Train Station
I mean, you know, nobody knew why he was killed or why he was dead, but there were all these dealings with the Vatican and with the Pitou and Calvi and the Pope and Solidarnosc. And, you know, there was a whole thing that, you know, so people had to be imaginative and, you know, they didn't come to an answer. You said Dieter Loggia gives you an answer when you can't have one. I like that.
Shadow Kingdom
God’s Banker I 8. The Train Station
It tries to give you an answer, yes. Tries to give you an answer, and many people believe it.
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God’s Banker I 8. The Train Station
So there were many things that happened in Italian history that created a situation that was a little bit opaque, if you see what I mean. And therefore people like to, you know, to conject, you know, to make assumptions or hypotheses. And that is what is an actual science of dietrologia. But then it sort of took a life of its own, so it was applied to everything and everywhere.
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God’s Banker I 8. The Train Station
Yeah, it was a very, very particular situation. You know, and Italy was a democracy. It was a fragile democracy.
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God’s Banker I 8. The Train Station
uh the fear that communists would come in was was was there and uh and and there were things that were happening in secret this is the atmosphere in which we lived uh we just recently had a high school reunion and it turned out that one of our schoolmates in the class was with us in the class for many years had been arrested for the Dozier kidnapping, General Dozier. It was an American general.
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God’s Banker I 8. The Train Station
General Dozier had been kidnapped by the Red Brigades. So it was pervasive. It was everywhere.
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God’s Banker I 8. The Train Station
So it's everywhere, it's anywhere, it changes. But human nature is always such that we'll try to find an answer to something that it's unexplicable. And that was the atmosphere in which we were living back then.
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God’s Banker I 8. The Train Station
It's up to you. You know, there are other interesting stories. This one, for example, could be an interesting one. A union case of a union leader that had been murdered somewhere years before in America.
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God’s Banker I 1. Death of a Banker
So the 25 year old Mario, who wanted to interview Calvia, never did.
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God’s Banker I 1. Death of a Banker
Exactly, I give you the baton so that you can do a nice story about it, but now it's much more complete in a way.
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God’s Banker I 1. Death of a Banker
Und ich sagte mir, oh mein Gott, was ist da los? Was ist das für eine Aufregung?
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God’s Banker I 1. Death of a Banker
Ist das korrekt? Ich wünsche dir aber auch danke für das Advertisement. Es ist nicht so, dass ich alles weiß. Zunächst einmal, ich weiß es nicht. Er weiß es.
Shadow Kingdom
God’s Banker I 1. Death of a Banker
Ja, ich habe Reagan in der White House interviewt. Und ich war in Moskau. Als er die Leute beantwortete und sagte, Herr Gorbatschow, ich bitte Sie, teilt diesen Weg.
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God’s Banker I 1. Death of a Banker
Aber für einige Gründe war ich an einem bestimmten Moment, an einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt sehr nah an diesem Mann, der viel mit dem Vatikan handelte, der plötzlich irgendwie tot war.
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God’s Banker I 1. Death of a Banker
So the editor in chief calls me up. und sagte, wir haben Gerüchte gehört, dass Kalvi in New York sein wird. Jeder sucht nach ihm. Wir suchen nach ihm. Wir möchten ein Interview mit ihm haben. Wenn Sie ihn finden können, wäre das eine große Interview.
Shadow Kingdom
God’s Banker I 1. Death of a Banker
The moonlighting journalist side of him took over.
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God’s Banker I 1. Death of a Banker
And she says, uh, Calvi residence. And I say, yes, I'm looking for Mr. Carlo Calvi. She says, he's not here. So I said, well, let's go for the full multi, as they say. May I talk to Mr. Roberto Calvi? But you're in luck, the housekeeper told Mario.
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God’s Banker I 1. Death of a Banker
But I kept my cool and I said, oh really, I think I have the number, but I'm not sure. Ich habe es. Würdest du mir das so kindlich geben? Oh ja, natürlich. Kein Problem.
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God’s Banker I 1. Death of a Banker
Und ich ging schlafen, mit dieser Enttäuschung, dass ich meinen ersten großen Wunsch bekomme. Und ich wachte am nächsten Morgen auf.
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God’s Banker I 1. Death of a Banker
Und die Leute waren ein wenig... Sie sprachen, sie sprachen, sie hatten ein Stück Papier in ihren Händen. Und ich sagte, oh mein Gott, was ist los? Was ist das für eine Erwartung?
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God’s Banker I 1. Death of a Banker
The wire said, Calvi found dead in London under the Blackfriars Bridge. Suicide? My answer was immediate, no.
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God’s Banker I 1. Death of a Banker
Suicide? But the kind of evidence I had was not leaning in that direction.
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God’s Banker I 1. Death of a Banker
Das betrifft den Vatikan, die Mafia, den russischen Geheimdienst, die USA und den Popen Wojtyla. Also sagst du, oh mein Gott. Ja, klar. Warum nicht?
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God’s Banker I 1. Death of a Banker
There was also the Mafia involved. Sure, of course.