Philip P. Willan
Italian 
Philip Willan is an author and freelance journalist specialising in Italian parapolitics. He has worked in Rome for more than 20 years and is the author of Puppetmasters, The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy, first published by Constable in 1991. His latest book, The Last Supper, The mafia, the masons and the killing of Roberto Calvi, was published by Constable & Robinson in April 2007. In the past he has contributed research to David Yallop’s best-selling In God’s Name, about the alleged murder of Pope John Paul I, and Charles Raw’s The Moneychangers, an analysis of the relationship between the Banco Ambrosiano and the Vatican bank.
NEW BOOK
The Last Supper
The mafia, the masons and the killing of Roberto Calvi
The death of Roberto ‘God’s Banker’ Calvi, found hanging from scaffolding under Blackfriars Bridge days before his bank’s collapse, lies at the centre of one of the most extraordinary criminal puzzles of all time. Straight from the dark heart of Italy, the story involves the largest bankruptcy in European history, complex forensics, and secret masonic rituals, with a cast of characters to put The Da Vinci Code to shame – including Opus Dei, the mafia, the Vatican and the governments of Italy, the USA and the UK.
NEW! Prosecutor’s request to shelve murder investigation into Licio Gelli and Hans Kunz. Request subsequently approved by GIP Maurizio Silvestri. (In Italian)
ARTICLE BY THE AUTHOR FOR MICROMEGA (N. 5 2008 -- in Italian)
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Puppetmasters. The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy
Puppetmasters reveals how US intelligence services exploited the P2 masonic lodge to prop up friendly Christian Democrat-dominated governments and counter the growing political influence of the Italian Communist Party. It was a ruthless strategy involving coup plots, right wing terrorist bombings and the manipulation of the Red Brigades. And gave Italy one of the bloodiest and most protracted periods of terrorist violence ever seen in a modern, industrialised society.
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