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THE CIA IN THE VATICAN IS AN EXTENSIVE ANDRIGOROUS NON-FICTION TITLE WHICH NARRATES THE

VATICAN’S MAJOR POLICY ISSUES AS ANALYSED BY THE CENTRALINTELLIGENCE AGENCY OF THE UNITED STATES (THE CIA).

CONTACT: MARU DE MONTSERRAT | [email protected] JENNIFER HOGE | [email protected]

THE CIA IN THE VATICAN contains over 350 secret documents: cables, corres-pondence, reports, and photographs from the O� ce of Strategic Services (OSS) and the CIA which for the very fi rst time reveal un-comfortable Vatican matters that were kept “secret”. Thus, the issues discussed in the book a� rm the reality described by a for-mer 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 demons-trates the involvement of the Holy See in the

internal a� airs 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 Afri-ca, 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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abuse of children in Ireland; the Iranian nuclear program; the mistakes made by the information policy of the Vatican; GM foods (Genetically Modifi ed foods); interreligious dialogue; the collaboration between the Uni-ted States and the Vatican in the fi ght aga-inst the Mafi a; Benedict XVI's speech in the German city of Regensburg; Pope Benedict XVI's trip to Turkey; the election of Ratzinger;

the Union Solidarity in Poland; the Dianna Ortiz Case; the execution of Saddam Hus-sein; 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 con-troversial Paul Marcinkus, head of the Vatican Bank (IOR); Opus Dei and the spy Robert Hanssen; Communists in the Italian govern-ment; Gorbachev dealing with the changes in Christianity; Poland-USSR-Vatican; Soviet re-ligious propaganda; the trial for the attack on John Paul II; the Vatican as an intermediary for the release of hostages in Lebanon; Bulga-ria 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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fl uence 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 Mind-szenty; 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 commu-nists; 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 fl ee; 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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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 Intelli-gence Agency, the National Security Council (NSC) of the White House, and the Intelligence Division of the De-partment of State, and cover the pon-tifi cates of fi ve popes, Pius XII (1939-1958), John XXIII (1958-1963), Paul VI (1963-1978), John Paul II (1978-2005) and Benedict XVI (2005-2013).

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ERIC FRATTINI was a correspondent in the Middle East and lived in Beirut and Jerusa-lem. He has authored more than twenty essays, translated into fi fteen languages and published in 42 countries, including: Osama bin Laden, the Sword of Allah (2001); Mafi a 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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Frattini has been the director and writer of nearlytwenty research documentaries for the leading Spanish TV networks and collaborates regularlyon various radio and television programs. He has given courses and lectures on Islamic terrorism security to various police forces as well assecurity and intelligence units in Spain, theUK, Portugal, Romania and the United States.

In 2013 he received the National Award forInvestigative Journalism awarded by the Italian press for his research on the 'Vatileaks' case included in his book THE CROWS OF THEVATICAN and in July of the same year he received the Annual Award Strillaerischia (Italy) for theBest Special Envoy for his work in Afghanistan.

He is the author of four novels: The Fifth Command-ment, 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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