Unholy Trinity The Vatican’s Nazis, Soviet Intelligence and the Swiss Banks Mark Aarons and John Loftus CONTENTS About the Authors Also by the Authors Glossary and Abbreviations Note on Serbo-Croatian Pronunciations Quotes Preface PART 1: The Church’s War against Communism 1. A Spectre Was Haunting Europe 2. Bishop Hudal and the First Wave 3. A French Spy in the Vatican 4. A Staggering Blow to the Holy See 5. Ratline 6. The Golden Priest PART 2: Communism’s War against the Church 7. The Vatican’s Black Orchestra 8. The Catholic Army of Ukraine 9. Diplomacy and Deceit 10. The Philby Connection 11. Barbie and the American Ratlines 12. Conclusions Acknowledgements Bibliography Copyright About the Authors Mark Aarons was an investigative reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, whose exposé of Nazi war criminals prompted major changes to Australian law. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including War Criminals Welcome, an account of the recruitment of Nazi war criminals by Australian intelligence, and their deployment in domestic politics. John Loftus was an attorney in the US Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, which pursued Nazi war criminals who illegally settled in America after World War II. He is the author or co-author of six books, including America’s Nazi Secret, an exposé of the recruitment of Nazi war criminals by US intelligence. Their collaboration on exposing war criminals led to a major investigation of the Vatican’s role in Nazi-smuggling, which is the subject of this book. Their sequel, The Secret War Against the Jews, expanded this work, also uncovering the duplicity and treachery of Western nations towards Israel. Also by Mark Aarons Sanctuary! Nazi Fugitives in Australia East Timor: A Western Made Tragedy (with Robert Domm) War Criminals Welcome The Family File The Show Also by John Loftus The Belarus Secret L'affreux secret Valhalla’s Wake America’s Nazi Secret Also by Mark Aarons and John Loftus The Secret War Against the Jews Note on Serbo-Croatian Pronunciations We have used the Croatian characters for key words in the text. To assist the reader to understand the English pronunciations we provide the following explanations: Serbo-Croatian Character v. English Pronunciation Ć/ć Soft ‘ch’, as in Draganović/Draganovich Č/č Hard ‘ch’, as in Simčić/Simchich Š/š ‘Sh’, as in Ustaše/Ustashe Ž/ž ‘Zh’, as in Križari/Krizhari For Susan and Robyn ‘In any case I long ago realized that it is almost impossible for a layman and a non-Catholic, and indeed for most Catholics and ecclesiastics outside the Vatican City, to form a valid judgment or express an authoritative opinion on Papal policy. The Pope’s decision may, or must be influenced by so many imponderable or invisible elements. Moreover, not only is the atmosphere of the Vatican supranational and universal ... but it is also fourth-dimensional and, so to speak, outside of time ... for example, they can regard the savoy dynasty as an interlude, and the Fascist era as an incident, in the history of Rome and Italy. They reckon in centuries and plan for eternity and this inevitably renders their policy inscrutable, confusing and, on occasion, reprehensible to practical and time-conditioned minds.’1 Sir D’Arcy Osborne, British Ambassador to the Vatican, March 1947 ‘I gather that … some arrangement has been worked out with Vatican and Argentina … protecting not only Quislings but also (those) … guilty of terrible crimes committed in Yugoslavia. I presume we must protect our agents even though it disgusts me … we are conniving with Vatican and Argentina to get guilty people to haven in latter country.’2 John Moors Cabot, American Ambassador to Belgrade, June 1947
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