Philip Willen

Trudy was a kind of fixer and assistant to Gelli over a number of years.

Trudy was a kind of fixer and assistant to Gelli over a number of years.

The suspicion is that Cerruti may have been the person who actually passed on the money directly to the bombers.

The suspicion is that Cerruti may have been the person who actually passed on the money directly to the bombers.

The sensitive documents that Calvi carried around with him in a briefcase could have related to the Bologna bombing. And it's possible that he realized that some of that money that sort of flowed out from the coffers that he was in charge of had gone to financing the Bologna station bombing and possibly other terrorist activities.

The sensitive documents that Calvi carried around with him in a briefcase could have related to the Bologna bombing. And it's possible that he realized that some of that money that sort of flowed out from the coffers that he was in charge of had gone to financing the Bologna station bombing and possibly other terrorist activities.

My idea would be that he was possibly unwitting about all of that when he came to understand it, and he was desperate to recover the money to prop up the bank and avoid bankruptcy.

My idea would be that he was possibly unwitting about all of that when he came to understand it, and he was desperate to recover the money to prop up the bank and avoid bankruptcy.

The prosecutors in the murder trial, the Calvi murder trial, were very clear that they felt that the motive for his murder was the blackmail that he was conducting at the end of his career to try and save the bank.

The prosecutors in the murder trial, the Calvi murder trial, were very clear that they felt that the motive for his murder was the blackmail that he was conducting at the end of his career to try and save the bank.

The fact that that really alarmed him fits into the idea that he knew there was a dangerous connection there for him, and therefore he panics and he knows he's got to run.

The fact that that really alarmed him fits into the idea that he knew there was a dangerous connection there for him, and therefore he panics and he knows he's got to run.

Jelly could well have organized an operation where people kind of cluster around Calvi and say, look, your life is in danger, you've got to get out of the country, we'll help you, let's go to... initially Switzerland, and then change their minds and then go to London and, you know, we'll take care of things for you.

Jelly could well have organized an operation where people kind of cluster around Calvi and say, look, your life is in danger, you've got to get out of the country, we'll help you, let's go to... initially Switzerland, and then change their minds and then go to London and, you know, we'll take care of things for you.

Yes. His reaction, I think, would tend to confirm suspicions that there was something nasty and dangerous underlying it for him.

Yes. His reaction, I think, would tend to confirm suspicions that there was something nasty and dangerous underlying it for him.

It was quite a kind of nerve-wracking experience to speak to this man who had a reputation of being the puppet master who'd pulled the strings behind many very terrible events in Italian history.

It was quite a kind of nerve-wracking experience to speak to this man who had a reputation of being the puppet master who'd pulled the strings behind many very terrible events in Italian history.

Because he knew how to organize himself.

Because he knew how to organize himself.