[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] and Giovanni Ventura), Argentine fascists, the hard-liners of the Spanish Falange (the Fuerza Neuva of deputy Blas Pinar), the Cristi Rey Guerillas of the right-wing and anti- Vatican Spanish Catholic Mariano Sanchez Covisa, Cuban exile terrorists, the remnants of Aginter Press (now known as the ELP, or Portuguese Liberation Army, but still headed by […]
[…] Communist Party, capitalising on its role in leading partisan activity against the Germans after 1943, threatened to win power at the ballot box. The Catholic collaborators, with Vatican help, sought exile in Argentina where President Peron raised the banner of the ‘third way’.() Angleton, whose father had worked as an executive for the Rome […]
[…] DINA, whose national security advisor, Walter Rauff, was a Nazi war criminal wanted for the murder of 97,000 Jews in gassing vans. Rauff, who escaped via the Vatican monasteries of Bishop Hudal in 1947, became a leading representative of the Skorzeny network in Chile. (108) In late 1974, junta Ambassador Julio Duran, a long-time […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] was the chief post-war theorist of Nazism in Latin America, Peron’s friend, Johannes von Leers, a wanted war criminal who, like Rudel, had escaped to Argentina with Vatican help. After the fall of Peron, Von Leers temporarily left his Argentina Nazi paper Der Weg and, under the alias of Omar Amin, directed Nasser’s propaganda […]
[…] had been one. (76) Originally arriving in Latin America thanks to networks like Die Spinne with the collaboration of such eminences as Gustav Frupp von Bohlen and Vatican titular Bishop Alois Hudal, a few of these in situ anti-Communist ‘assets’ turned to narcotics and gun running. (77) Of these, a ringleader was the wanted […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
