Razin's TV statements {Excerpts of the interchange between Ibrahim Razin and RAI journalis

Razin's TV statements 

{Excerpts of the interchange between Ibrahim Razin
and RAI journalist Ennio Remondino, as translated from the
Italian transcript:} 

Q: Can you give us more details on the telegram from
the P-2 announcing the assassination of the Swedish leader
Olof Palme? 
   Razin:  During summer 1985 I interrogated a very
important leader of the American mafia, whose name I
cannot mention, who told me that such a telegram was sent
from Gelli to Philip Guarino, at that time one of the
most outstanding members of the Republican circle around Bush. 
        
Q: Do you have any precise indication about the
existence of the telegram? 
   Razin:  At present the FBI has opened an inquiry
on this story. The existence of the telegram is also
indicated by the archives of the National Security Agency. 

Q: From where was this telegram sent precisely and
who got it? 
   Razin:  It left with the signature of Licio Gelli
and was addressed to Philip Guarino. It was sent from
South America, from one of the southernmost regions of
Brazil. According to the most reliable information it
was sent by a man called Ortolani on behalf of Licio
Gelli or in any case on Gelli's instructions.

Q: What was the exact text of the telegram? 
   Razin:  The telegram said: ``Tell our friend that
the Swedish palm will be felled.''

Q: Why would the Italian P-2 have been involved,
interested in the assassination of Palme? 
   Razin:  Sweden was one of the main protagonists of
the illegal weapons traffic at the time of the Iran-Iraq
war when Palme was prime minister and thus Palme was
surely aware of what was happening. 

Q: And P-2 was part of this operation? 
   Razin:  Yes, P-2 was at the center, one of the
main participants in the illegal arms traffic, which
was connected to the drug traffic from the
outset. P-2 also made a substantial contribution to the
recycling of large amounts of money used for this arms
and drugs traffic from one country to another. 

Q: And what about the CIA-P-2 relations? 
   Razin:  Suffice it to see how the P-2 was involved
with Banco Ambrosiano and with Michele Sindona and how the
CIA was involved with them in several financial
manipulations. For example, in the United States the big
scandal involving the S&L banks is big news. The Texas
state prosecutor has found evidence of CIA involvement in
the bankruptcy of many of these banks which used illegal
funds for their operations. The man who knows a lot about
this is Richard Brenneke, a former CIA agent from Oregon. 

Q: Do you have more details which could help to
clarify why Palme was assassinated? 
   Razin:  I am sure that there are documents on this
but it is a different story to see if they are going to
come out into the open. I can give you some other
collateral details. For example, a week before Palme's
death, an agent named Michael Townley was in Stockholm.
Townley was involved in the assassination of the Chilean
Orlando Letelier, some years ago in Washington. Townley
was a political dirty tricks specialist.... It is a
definite fact that the weapons traffic had a lot to do
[with Palme's death.]