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Pope Pius XII person

also: Pius XII, Pope Pius XII, the Pope

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Claims (3)

Pope Pius XII funded Joseph McCarthy documented
“43-year-old Senator Joseph McCarthy married his office aide, a 29-year-old former college beauty queen named Jean Kerr, with great pomp and ceremony at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Pope Pius XII bestowed his apostolate blessi…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 3:21
Pope Pius XII recruited Ildefonso Schuster book_quoted
“Stepping stone for Dulles' post-war intelligence career was his covert diplomacy, bringing together Western intelligence agencies, fugitive Nazis, and certain leading Vatican officials of the day. In late 1944, Pope Pius XII and Cardinal Sc…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 26:12
Pope Pius XII funded Ustasa documented
“but the defeated anti-Tito faction in Yugoslavia had powerful friends abroad, not the least of whom was Pope Pius XII. For the Pope, the militantly Catholic Ustasis seemed to be a viable alternative to Tito, and the Pope and leading Croatia…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 52:09

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The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio
▶ 28:05 stood on the brink of losing everything. You've got to realize that before the Lateran Treaty and the ascent of Mussolini, the church, the assets of the Roman Catholic Church, amassed a little more than a million dollars. It's dirt poor. An…
The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio
▶ 56:49 the affairs of the Vatican are laid to rest and Pope Pius XII is happy because, you know, there's no longer this awful threat facing him. Well, but there's, you know, Donovan and company and Dulles say, you know, there's one thing that we c…
The Colonels Corner Safe for Democracy Part 34 (36)
▶ 37:22 Several thousand of them went out every day. Hundreds of thousands of copies of a pastor's letter by Pope Pius XI, written years before, was reproduced with the annotation printed by citizens without political affiliation. Except that wasn'…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10
▶ 3:21 43-year-old Senator Joseph McCarthy married his office aide, a 29-year-old former college beauty queen named Jean Kerr, with great pomp and ceremony at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Pope Pius XII bestowed his apostolate blessi…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5
▶ 17:22 But he had another mission as well, to organize the Italian front in the Cold War, i.e. Operation Gladio. Angleton, who was wired into the Vatican, helped arrange a secret meeting for Dulles and Pope Pius XII, who had mutually beneficial ar…
The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12
▶ 26:12 Stepping stone for Dulles' post-war intelligence career was his covert diplomacy, bringing together Western intelligence agencies, fugitive Nazis, and certain leading Vatican officials of the day. In late 1944, Pope Pius XII and Cardinal Sc…
The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12
▶ 52:09 but the defeated anti-Tito faction in Yugoslavia had powerful friends abroad, not the least of whom was Pope Pius XII. For the Pope, the militantly Catholic Ustasis seemed to be a viable alternative to Tito, and the Pope and leading Croatia…