top secret - Eric Frattini

top secret
THE CIA IN THE VATICAN IS AN EXTENSIVE AND
RIGOROUS NON-FICTION TITLE WHICH NARRATES THE
VATICAN’S MAJOR POLICY ISSUES AS ANALYSED BY THE CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY OF THE UNITED STATES (THE CIA).
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JOSEF
MENGELE
POPE
PIUS XII
THE OBAMAS WITH
POPE BENEDICT XVI
CHILD ABUSE
JOHN PAUL II
WITH CASTRO
THE CIA IN THE VATICAN contains
over 350 secret documents: cables, correspondence, reports, and photographs from the
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the
CIA which for the very first time reveal uncomfortable Vatican matters that were kept
“secret”. Thus, the issues discussed in the
book affirm the reality described by a former agent of the papal secret service, known
as 'The Entity'. He said: «At the Vatican,
everything that is not sacred is secret».
THE CIA IN THE VATICAN clearly demonstrates the involvement of the Holy See in the
internal affairs of countries such as Mexico,
Italy, Ireland, Russia, Germany, Hungary,
Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Portugal,
Vietnam, Guatemala, Poland, the Dominican
Republic, Chile, the United States, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, El Salvador, Bulgaria,
Cuba, Angola, Mozambique, Iraq, Rwanda,
Honduras, Timor, Palestine and Iran.
The book, which spans from September 1943
to September 2012, discusses, among other
topics: the embargo on Cuba; the United
States-Vatican relations; President Obama;
global terrorism; the scandal of the sexual
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POPE JOHN XXIII
SADDAM'S
EXECUTION
abuse of children in Ireland; the Iranian
nuclear program; the mistakes made by the
information policy of the Vatican; GM foods
(Genetically Modified foods); interreligious
dialogue; the collaboration between the United States and the Vatican in the fight against the Mafia; Benedict XVI's speech in the
German city of Regensburg; Pope Benedict
XVI's trip to Turkey; the election of Ratzinger;
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
WITH JOHN PAUL II
the Union Solidarity in Poland; the Dianna
Ortiz Case; the execution of Saddam Hussein; Russian nationalism; the nuns killed by
Argentina's dictatorship; papal objections to
First Gulf War; secret talks between John Paul
II and Mikhail Gorbachev; Opus Dei; the controversial Paul Marcinkus, head of the Vatican
Bank (IOR); Opus Dei and the spy Robert
Hanssen; Communists in the Italian government; Gorbachev dealing with the changes in
Christianity; Poland-USSR-Vatican; Soviet religious propaganda; the trial for the attack on
John Paul II; the Vatican as an intermediary
for the release of hostages in Lebanon; Bulgaria and its reaction to the attack on John Paul
II; the end of the Christian Democracy (DC);
the Antonov Case; the Vatican and Poland;
John Paul II and his visit to Poland; the in-
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PRESIDENT KENNEDY
WITH POPE PAUL VI
MONSIGNOR
ROMERO'S KILLING
VATICAN GOLD
fluence of the USSR and the Vatican in Poland;
Cardinal Wyszynski; the political scandals in
Italy; the murder of Archbishop Romero; the
P2 Masonic Lodge; the demonstrations of
workers against the communist government in
Gdansk; Vatican gold at the Federal Reserve;
Church-State relations in Poland; the Catholic
religion in Hungary; the case of Cardinal Mindszenty; the dictator Trujillo and the Catholic
Church; Hungary and the Catholic Church;
the Catholic Church and Gomulka in Poland;
Vatican funding from the CIA; the Vatican and
Karl Arnold; the Vatican and the overthrow of
Arbenz in Guatemala; war criminals who found
refuge at the Vatican; Paul VI and the CIA;
the crisis in Indochina; the Church in Eastern
Europe; the Vatican and the Italian communists; Pius XII rejecting Italian communists;
the request of Pius XII to president Eisenhower
detailing that Allied troops occupying Rome
not be people of color; Krunoslav Draganovic
and the Vatican Hall; the Vatican and Ustasha
war criminals; the Vatican and Czechoslovakia;
Franciscans who helped war criminals flee; war
criminals such as Adolf Eichmann and Josef
Mengele; the Croatian dictator Ante Pavelic;
the Catholic Church in areas dominated by
the Soviets; the Vatican administration; the
Catholic Church and the Christian Communist
Movement; and the Vatican's relations with
the National Synarchist Union, the Mexican
right-wing movement.
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ATTACK ON
JOHN PAUL II
DRAGANOVIC
HOSTAGES IN LEBANON
WYSZYNSKI
POPE
JOHN PAUL I
EICHMANN
MARCINKUS
PAVELIC
MINDSZENTY
The original documents, over 350,
are written by agents and analysts of
the OSS, the CIA station in Rome, the
Europe Division of the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security
Council (NSC) of the White House,
and the Intelligence Division of the Department of State, and cover the pontificates of five popes, Pius XII (19391958), John XXIII (1958-1963), Paul VI
(1963-1978), John Paul II (1978-2005)
and Benedict XVI (2005-2013).
PRESIDENT
EISENHOWER
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POPE
JOHN PAUL II
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AUTHOR
ERIC FRATTINI was a correspondent
ERIC FRATTINI
in the Middle East and lived in Beirut and Jerusalem. He has authored more than twenty essays,
translated into fifteen languages and published
in 42 countries, including: Osama bin Laden, the
Sword of Allah (2001); Mafia Inc. 100 Years of
Cosa Nostra (2002) Vatican Secrets (2003), The
Entity, Five centuries of secret vatican espionage
(2004), The UN, A History of Corruption (2005);
CIA Family Jewels (2008), Mossad, The Wrath
of Israel (2009), the tetralogy about the history
of the most famous secret intelligence services,
CIA, History of the Company, KGB, History of the
Center, Mossad, History of the Institute and MI6,
History of the Firm and The Crows of the Vatican
(2012), the book which predicted the resignation
of Pope Benedict XVI.
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POPE
BENEDICT XVI
Frattini has been the director and writer of nearly
twenty research documentaries for the leading
Spanish TV networks and collaborates regularly
on various radio and television programs. He has
given courses and lectures on Islamic terrorism
security to various police forces as well as
security and intelligence units in Spain, the
UK, Portugal, Romania and the United States.
In 2013 he received the National Award for
Investigative Journalism awarded by the Italian
press for his research on the 'Vatileaks' case
included in his book THE CROWS OF THE
VATICAN and in July of the same year he received
the Annual Award Strillaerischia (Italy) for the
Best Special Envoy for his work in Afghanistan.
He is the author of four novels: The Fifth Commandment, The Labyrinth of Water, Mephisto’s Gold and
The Slow Agony of Fish, published by Editorial Espasa
(Planeta Group) and translated into several languages.
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