https://anotepad.com/note/read/xie4222w
Notable anecdote^
The CIA is the best known of the 17 agencies that comprise the American intelligence community. It has earned itself nicknames like “Catholic Intelligence Agency” and “Catholics In Action”. It’s worth exploring why.
https://spyscape.com/article/gods-spies-the-vatican-the-holy-alliance-the-entity
Even today, the CIA is referred to as the ‘Catholic Intelligence Agency’ while the Vatican’s ties to espionage date back more than five centuries. With the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, Washington and Vatican City quietly made strategic contact - so too did CIA Director William Casey and special envoy Monsignor Luigi Poggi, otherwise known as the ‘Pope’s Spy’.
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The Holy Alliance’s powerful chieftains - some call them ‘spymasters’ - range from Ludovico Ludovisi and Bartolomeo Pacca to the ‘Pope’s Spy’ Luigi Cardinal Poggi, a diplomat who started in the Secretariat of State in 1945 and worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1946 to 1994. Poggi is said to have modernized the spy service and taken full advantage of his contacts with Israel’s Mossad.
dastin' stuff..
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https://anotepad.com/note/read/xie4222w
Notable anecdote^
The CIA is the best known of the 17 agencies that comprise the American intelligence community. It has earned itself nicknames like “Catholic Intelligence Agency” and “Catholics In Action”. It’s worth exploring why.
https://spyscape.com/article/gods-spies-the-vatican-the-holy-alliance-the-entity
Even today, the CIA is referred to as the ‘Catholic Intelligence Agency’ while the Vatican’s ties to espionage date back more than five centuries. With the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, Washington and Vatican City quietly made strategic contact - so too did CIA Director William Casey and special envoy Monsignor Luigi Poggi, otherwise known as the ‘Pope’s Spy’.
...
The Holy Alliance’s powerful chieftains - some call them ‘spymasters’ - range from Ludovico Ludovisi and Bartolomeo Pacca to the ‘Pope’s Spy’ Luigi Cardinal Poggi, a diplomat who started in the Secretariat of State in 1945 and worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1946 to 1994. Poggi is said to have modernized the spy service and taken full advantage of his contacts with Israel’s Mossad.
dastin' stuff..
u/ashlanddog u/ameteurexpert u/mysterybabylonnomore u/bubble_bursts
https://anotepad.com/note/read/xie4222w
Notable anecdote^
The CIA is the best known of the 17 agencies that comprise the American intelligence community. It has earned itself nicknames like “Catholic Intelligence Agency” and “Catholics In Action”. It’s worth exploring why.
https://spyscape.com/article/gods-spies-the-vatican-the-holy-alliance-the-entity
Even today, the CIA is referred to as the ‘Catholic Intelligence Agency’ while the Vatican’s ties to espionage date back more than five centuries. With the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, Washington and Vatican City quietly made strategic contact - so too did CIA Director William Casey and special envoy Monsignor Luigi Poggi, otherwise known as the ‘Pope’s Spy’.
...
The Holy Alliance’s powerful chieftains - some call them ‘spymasters’ - range from Ludovico Ludovisi and Bartolomeo Pacca to the ‘Pope’s Spy’ Luigi Cardinal Poggi, a diplomat who started in the Secretariat of State in 1945 and worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1946 to 1994. Poggi is said to have modernized the spy service and taken full advantage of his contacts with Israel’s Mossad.
dastin' stuff..