A small section of this appeared in Lobster 12. Although this is incomplete and under researched, we thought it worth putting out now. The origins of IRD 1947 saw the creation of the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD). It is generally accepted that IRD was the brain-child of the then Labour M.P. Christopher Mayhew, […]
[…] and Russian Orthodox believers. Its members refer to the New Mass as an “unspeakable abomination” and take violent exception to the “infidel marauders” who have corrupted the Vatican in recent years. The order’s former grand master, Col. Thourot Pichel, said the foundations of Christianity were “about ready to face destruction” from the “world menace […]
[…] because the Soviet state was afraid of the Pope’s influence in Poland. But there was another drama rumbling away parallel to the Solidarity story: the whole P2/Calvi/Ambrosiano/Gelli/ Vatican finances mess was just coming to the surface at the same time. Again, to her credit, Sterling doesn’t duck this entirely. On p. 142, for example, […]
[…] town in Middle America but for readers of this journal it won’t be of much interest. Sort of Greg Palast lite; Gore Vidal without the style. The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder and the Vatican Paul L. Williams Prometheus Books, New York, 2003 h/b, $27.00 www.prometheusbooks.com A short (200 pages, large print) and sharp history […]
[…] part of Yugoslavia. This opening in Mills’ legal career occurred in 1981 at about the time that the body of Roberto Calvi, a central figure in the Vatican Bank scandal, was found hanging under Blackfriers Bridge. (4) Mills quickly became a partner in the new law firm, and the London end was renamed Carnelutti-McKenzie-Mills […]
[…] the head when the United States swung round to the Soviet view. The scheme, or a similar one, continued a ghostly, post-war existence for a while. The Vatican supported it. There was an active branch of Intermarium in Rome and senior Vatican priests and bishops became officers of the organisation. Intermarium was one of […]
[…] repetition of Francoist propaganda regarding the Spanish Civil War; and it contains the following statement regarding the war in the former Yugoslavia, on p. 201 ‘Naturally, the Vatican feared Serbia as a predominantly Muslim nation, its threat was far greater than “Christian” Croatia’ (emphasis added). Now the author is here discussing a theory […]
[…] The Population Bomb (1970) saying there were too many people in the world, advocating a tax on children and the UN breaking off diplomatic relations with the Vatican because of its teachings on birth control. Extracts from this had – apparently – been serialised in the UK edition of Playboy, where they came to […]
[…] Brussels speaks and thinks at political level in English. This has enabled Roman Catholic countries of Eastern Europe seeking entry to find other patrons. These include the Vatican which, anxious about Jewish/Muslim polarisation in the Middle East, is also trying to develop its influence in Islamic countries on the Mediterranean Sea, including their possible […]
[…] Birch Society in the 1950s and 1960s. Nor has there ever been an all-encompassing International Capitalist Conspiracy, a Jewish World Conspiracy, a Masonic Conspiracy, or a Universal Vatican Conspiracy. And nowadays, contrary to the apparent belief of millions, neither a vast Underground Satanist Conspiracy nor an Alien Abduction Conspiracy exists. This reassuring knowledge should […]
