Subject: Paese Sera on CMC/Permindex - II
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 01:03:13 GMT
From: 6489mcadamsj@vms.csd.mu.edu (John McAdams)
Newsgroups: alt.assassination.jfk

March 5, 1967

(Page 1)
The mysterious activity in Rome of the businessman prosecuted for the
Kennedy assassination

CMC (CLAY SHAW'S COMPANY) WAS IN THE HANDS OF THE U.S. ESPIONAGE

Major Bloomfield, former officer of the American secret service and
currently a banker in Montreal, owned fifty per cent of shares of the
Centro Mondiale Commerciale

The Italian protagonists: the lawyer of the Savoy family, a Christian
Democrat and a Social Democratic member of the Parliament, and a
Sicilian prince – Ministers and authorities were present at the
inauguration of the head office.

(Caption for two pictures) The head office of the Centro Mondiale
Commerciale in EUR (in the board of directors was also Clay Shaw,
prosecuted for the Kennedy assassination) was inaugurated at the
presence of ministers and various authorities.  Top, a moment of the
ceremony.

(Page 3)
George Mandel has apparently found new funds in the U.S.A.

THE SAVOYS WILL SELL CAPOCOTTA
to the group of firms to which the Centro Mondiale Commerciale belongs
        ·CMC was clearly an instrument of the CIA
        ·The capital arrived at Banca Nazionale del Lavoro through
some Swiss credit institutions
        ·Hon. Crocco, currently a PSU city Counselor, has been
president of the Italo American Hotel Corporation, the company that
was to build Hotel du Lac
        ·The links with Italian political agents

        What was the purpose of the Centro Mondiale Commerciale, the
financial organization constituted in Italy in 1958 and in which Clay
Shaw, the man that has been arrested in New Orleans with the
accusation of having organized the Kennedy assassination, was involved
with a role of primary importance?  "Paese Sera" has revealed
yesterday the connections of Shaw with Ferenc Nagy (the former
Hungarian president who died few months ago,) with a group of Swiss
bankers, with Giorgio Mantello, alias George Mandel.  With them he had
constituted in Switzerland "Permindex," a smoky company that was to
organize industrial trade exhibitions (Permanent Industrial
Exhibitions.) The Centro Mondiale Commerciale was, indeed, one of its
branches.  There are now no doubts that this Permindex had no other
purpose than to bring to certain European countries funds coming from
the CIA (the American espionage agency,) destined to well-identified
political organizations.  Obviously, to widen the possibilities of
financial support, the company's money was also invested in a series
of speculations, with the complicity of influential politicians.

        Permindex was born in Switzerland, created by Mandel.
President of the company was Ferenc Nagy, the former Hungarian
president who, through Permindex (and this news is certain,) financed
Soustelle, OAS, and all right wing movements. The purpose of
Permindex, however, was to establish itself also in other European
countries, in particular in Italy, where the existence of a strong
Communist party did not leave the CIA to sleep quiet dreams. So, then,
Centro Mondiale Commerciale moves to Rome, with George Mandel at he
head of it.  In our country, though, Mandel, a Hungarian refugee, born
in S. Lechnitz, (Hungary) on December 11, 1901, Austrian citizen,
changes name an Italianizes it into Giorgio Mantello. It is not
difficult for him to find "Italians" to manage his enterprise, also
because it does not ask for money, but it distributes it.

        CMC's money, in fact, comes all from America or Switzerland.
One of the minutes of a meeting, held in July 1961 at the presence of
the Roman notary public Luigi Napoleone, reads that the 500 millions
of the capital of the company were divided as follows: Doctor Enrico
Mandel Mantello (brother of George): 74,500 shares, 1000 liras each;
Giorgio Mantello: 50,000 shares; major L. M. Bloomfield Q. C. 250,000
shares (equivalent to half of the total number of shares); Hans
Seligman-Schurch, 25,000 shares; Fellender Erwin, 12,000 shares;
attorney Carlo d'Amelio, 500 shares.

        The most important of the shareholders was, therefore, major
Bloomfield, currently a banker in Montreal, who, in the last war, was
in the American secret service (OSS), that later became the CIA.

        Other people involved in CMC are Hon. Corrado Bonfantini,
Social Democratic member of the Parliament, Hon. Mario Ceravolo,
Christian Democratic member of the Parliament, prince Gutierez of
Spadafora, Sicilian landowner, former fascist under secretary in the
Agriculture Department.  These are the Italians.  Among the foreigners
are, according to an official document of the company, Ernest Feisst,
Swiss minister and president of Wander A. G., a company of Bern; Max
Hagemann, editor and owner of the violently anti-Communist newspaper
"National Zeitung;"  Edgar Salin, chairman of the Department of
Economics in Basel; the Swiss banker Hann Seligman Schurch; Ferenc
Nagy; and, finally, Clay Shaw, the man that has been arrested for
having participated to the Kennedy assassination.

        Suddenly, considering that certain connections had already
been made in Italy, that it seemed that even the police was going to
be interested in the activities of some of these people, and, finally,
that a series of news published in "Paese Sera" had caused a series of
deals to fail, like the Villa Savoy and the Capocotta ones, the
purpose of which was to find more money to support the gigantic
organization that, on behalf of the CIA, Mandel had created, the
Center was dissolved in 1963.  At the same time, though, another of
Mandel's companies, Italo American Hotel Corporation, with head
offices in Rome, was further developed.  With its 350 million capital
Hotel du Lac was to be built in Eur, in front of the ENI (Ente
Nazionale Idrocarburi) building.  Hotel du Lac had to be a large hotel
complex in competition with the other American colossus, recently
built in Rome: Hilton.

        Italo American Hotel Corporation has had several presidents,
but Mantello was always member of the board.  It obtained funds
through Centro Mondiale Commerciale and it had the same shareholders.
In fact, the money came from Bank of Geneva, from De Famaco Anstaldt
Vaduz, from Miami Anstaldt Vaduz, and from Seligman Bank in Basel, all
through Banca Nazionale del Lavoro.

        A detail shows the weigh that this mysterious Centro was
destined to have: when the EUR head office was inaugurated, numerous
members of the government were present at the ceremony (among them,
Hon. Pella, then a Minister) and the English, American, and Canadian
ambassadors.

        Going back to the Italo American Hotel Corporation, one of its
presidents was the Social Democratic Hon. Alfredo Crocco, member of
the Council of the city Rome.  The office is currently held by the
former questor of Rome, Musco.

        Mandel did not cease his activity with the end of the Center
and with the tearing down of the foundations of Hotel du Lac, as
ordered by the Council of State.  In these last months he has gone
twice to America, where, it seems, he has found more financing for his
activity and, most of all, where he has done the deal he had been
pursuing for the past five years: the purchase of Villa Ada and of the
Capocotta estate, which belong to the heirs of the House of Savoy.
Mandel is a good friend of Count Pier Franco Calvi of Bergolo, one of
the heirs of the former king, and he has convinced him not to divide
up the property, as the other heirs would like, but to keep it in one
piece since, in a few days, he, Mandel, will be able to buy the whole
thing for a very good price.

        This is quite a large picture, even though, in some areas, it
is still obscure, of the activity of this financial and political
institution that operates all over the world.

        The whole issue becomes mysterious when two more people come
into the picture: Farouk Courbagi, murdered in via Lazio few days
after having paid 200 millions as a subscription to CMC and close
friend and business partner of Monir Spahi, another Egyptian closely
linked to Centro; and, finally, Cristha Wanninger, the young German
woman also killed in mysterious circumstances in via Veneto, who, it
was said at the time, was strictly connected to some Swiss
industrialists.

        It is self evident that, with this, we are going off the solid
ground of Centro Mondiale Commerciale, of its millions of liras, of
Italo American Hotel Corporation, with its board meetings, of Hotel du
Lac, of the Capocotta estate, and of Villa Ada, and we enter in the
realm of hypotheses that might even sound absurd.  It is to be kept in
mind, however, that, among the people involved in the Centro, the one
who stood out was that same Clay Shaw who is accused of having
organized the conspiracy that lead to the Kennedy assassination.

By Mario Ugazzi


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