[…] German’, said Helen. And in the same summer he was involved in the vain attempt by HMG to enlist the support, even covert and discreet, of the Vatican to halt the persecutions and exterminations in Nazi-occupied Europe. In his book Who Is My Liege? Young gives an authoritative account of this approach through Monsignor […]
[…] Circle’s present members include Giulio Andreotti, former Italian Prime Minister; Portuguese putschist General Antonio de Spinola; former Franco minister and senior Opus Dei member Silva Munoz; and Vatican prelate and BND agent Monsignore Brunello. Paul Violet, Jean Violet’s son, is one of Chirac’s closest advisors, nicknamed ‘the adjutant’ by Canard Enchaine. Langemann also reports […]
[…] of Baghdad revered by Sunni and Shi’a alike, who located their greatest religious shrines in the city. ‘Assume for a moment that across the road from the Vatican is the shrine of Martin Luther, and then you can imagine what Baghdad means for both Shi’a and Sunni Muslims.’ US/UK invaders deviously encouraged fear among […]
[…] The Treasure Maps of Rennes, Stanley James (Seven Lights, US, £9.95) concentrate on the ‘buried treasure ‘ theory concerning Abbe Sauniere who was paid millions by the Vatican after he unearthed some ancient coded scrolls in his church which may have led him to Visigoth gold. Both books add little in the way of […]
[…] Democrats (some of which was provided by the CIA), and similar sums for the Mafia – in the main, profits from the heroin trade. As expected, the Vatican, the SID (Italian secret police), generals, judges and politicians also feature in this book (including some interesting Nixon connections). Another very interesting claim that Di Fonzo […]
[…] Special Branch. Thomas also referred to ‘high level’ sources in Washington when he told McCarthy that Gerrit was a member of the CIA, and, hinting that the Vatican was involved, mentioned that the present Pope was “the most political of all Popes”. Magill doesn’t make it clear whether Thomas actually got his grubby paws […]
[…] reporter’, either. Papa! Kevin Koogan e-mailed me about the new Pope, Ratzinger, quoting the New York Times to the effect that Ratzinger had been brought to the Vatican Council at the age of 35 by Cardinal Joseph Frings of Cologne. In Koogan’s book Dreamer of the Day (NY: Autonomedia, 1999), which was reviewed in […]
[…] the French counter-intelligence chief had received advance warning of an attempt on the Pope’s life by East European agents and had sent two ‘senior officers’ to the Vatican to carry the message. The head of French CI at the time is quoted as saying that the warning wasn’t taken seriously. None of this is […]
[…] Iraq.’ 3. I shall return to the role of NED later, but would mention now the important material on it and the CIA in relation to the Vatican and the Cold War by Carl Bernstein in Time magazine 24 February 1992. 4. It will be remembered, in passing, that MacShane was the name chosen […]
[…] the Soviet aggressiveness and ideology”. It was later admitted that Heim had been in correspondence with Edward Leigh, and that Francis Holihan had sent him and other Vatican envoys around the world material on Mgr Bruce Kent. (Guardian 3rd May 1983) The action backfired though, as Cardinal Hume disliked the ‘smear’ tactics and was […]
