states, among other things, that the candidate is sworn to “
plant the seeds of
jealousy and hatred between communities, provinces, states that were at peace,
and incite them to deeds of blood, involving them in war with each other, and to
create revolutions and civil wars in countries that were independent and
prosperous, cultivating the arts and the sciences and enjoying the blessings of
peace. To take sides with the combatants and to act secretly with your brother
Jesuit, who might be engaged on the other side, but openly opposed to that with
which you might be connected, only that the Church might be the gainer in the
end, in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the end justifies the
means
.”
At the conclusion of this oath, the candidate is questioned through a series of
direct interrogations regarding his motivations and his obligations that is
strikingly reminiscent of Masonic oaths (perhaps the latter being a perversion of
pre-existing Jesuit obligations?) including being received by a mysterious
“
venerable man with white hair
” (itself, reminiscent of the Templar oath to
Baphomet), and concludes with the charge, “
Go ye, then, into all the world and
take possession of all lands in the name of the Pope. He who will not accept him
as the Vicar of Jesus and his Vice-regent on earth, let him be accursed and
exterminated
.”
The Catholic Church and the CIA have long enjoyed a mutually respectful
relationship; and some say, a mutual vying for power. This relationship dates all
the way back to the 1940s in the midst of WWII when General William
Donovan, then head of the Office of Strategic Services (the precursor of the
CIA), was received by Pope Pius XII to be granted the Grand Cross of the Order
of Saint Sylvester, the oldest and most prestigious of papal knighthoods, on
accounts of his alliance with the Catholic intelligence service Pro Deo.
Since then, the links between the CIA and the Vatican have been marked by a
pronounced, if at times competitive, alliance, particularly in regions such as
Latin America and Eastern Europe where Catholicism has garnered an
unwavering popularity, especially in the face of documented CIA activity during
the 1970s and 1980s. Both Vatican funding of covert CIA operations as well as
CIA sponsorship of the traditionalist “Opus Dei” movement, which helped
infiltrate and combat Communist sympathies during the Cold War, has been ably
documented; and the relationship between the Vatican and Licio Gelli’s Masonic
“Propaganda Due” lodge has been linked
to discretionary CIA funding, with a
number of unanswered questions regarding Gelli’s dismissed criminal charges
and CIA involvement still lingers for many.
Former CIA director William Casey as well as his close colleague, former
Secretary of State Alexander Haig, were both noted members of the Knights of
Malta, a Jesuit-allied military order who also were responsible for the smuggling
of thousands of Nazi war criminals into South America immediately following
WWII through Catholic Bishop Alois Hudal’s “underground railroad”, including
noted Jesuit father Martin Bormann (despite the fact that Jesuits were a frequent
target for Gestapo persecution in WWII, this appears only on account of
Catholicism’s popularity in Germany at the time. The truth of the matter is that
the Nazis openly cooperated with the Vatican, and by default Jesuits, as
documented evidence has proven time and time again. Benito Mussolini, the
Fascist Italian dictator and close ally of Hitler, as well as the openly-Fascist
admirant and Nazi criminal harborer Argentinian President Juan Peron.) Other
members of the Knights of Malta have included Nixon-era CIA Director
William Colby, Lee Iacocca, William F. Buckley, Pat Buchanan, J. Patrick
Grace, Cold War-era CIA Director John A. McCone and Cardinal John Joseph
O’Connor; all of whom have had noted ties to the Council on Foreign Relations.
Certainly, adherence to the Jesuit faith does not imply nefarious or
conspiratorial intent anymore than adherence to Catholicism implies pedophilia
or Nazi war crime-support. But it is curious how a supposedly secular (and
some would argue Masonically-derived) nation
such as America and an
allegedly secular (and unquestionably unethical) nation such as that of Nazi
Germany could openly cooperate with the Vatican , and by default, their own
“Secret Service”, the Society of Jesuits? Unless there was another, perhaps
“hidden”, mechanism at hand…
That mechanism will be better left for the more astute reader to ascertain.
Members
Other members of the Society of Jesuits and allied Vatican organizations have
included: Mathematician (and peer of Galileo) Luca Valerio; St. Francis Xavier;
author
Garry Wills; former Senator Frank Lausche (Knight of Malta); political
pundit John McLaughlin; Prince Laurent of Belgium (Knight of Malta);
controversial author Father Malachi Martin; Belgian physicist Georges
LeMaitre; French Minister of Defense Patrick Levaye (Knight of Malta); Hitler
biographer Franz Jetzinger;
linguist Peter Hans Kolvenbach; scientist, mystic
and discoverer of microbes Athanasius Kircher; writer Augustin Barruel; former
German Chancellor Franz von Papen (Knight of Malta); philosopher Yves Marie
Andre; philosopher Joseph de Maistre; Cardinal Avery Dulles; King Juan Carlos
I of Spain (Knight of Malta); former Congressman Robert Drinan; physicist and
astronomer Francesco Maria Grimaldi; philosopher Baltasar Gracian; Crown
Prince Otto von Habsburg (Knight of Malta); author John Powell; Congressman
Gabriel Richard; poet Gerald Manley Hopkins; Bloomingdale’s
founder Alfred
Bloomingdale (Knight of Malta); philosopher Martin Heidegger; explorer Simon
le
Moyne;
philosopher
Pierre
Teilhard
de
Chardin;
former
CIA
Counterintelligence Chief James Angleton (Knight of Malta); Gregorian
calendar architect Christopher Clavius; former Secretary of the Interior Walter
Hickel (Knight of Malta); labor activist John Corridan; scientist Louis Bernard
Castel;
author James Martin; mathematician Andres Tacquet; former Senator
Rick Santorum (Knight of Malta); Belgian political leader and SS officer Leon
Degrelle; artist Andreas Pozzo; former Inspector General of the Department of
Defense Joseph Schmitz (Knight of Malta); poet Robert Southwell; and former
U.S. Secretary of Energy James D. Watkins (Knight of Malta).
