Murder in the vatican
By: Lucien Gregoire
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9781449023041; 9781449023058
Subjects: Assassination; Popes; Election; Papacy; History; Papes; Élection; Papauté; Histoire
Other titles: Murder in the Vatican, the CIA and the Bolshevik pontiff
Description: "Driven by Paul VI's edicts 'Populorum Progressio' and 'Liberation Theology, ' there were two fronts on which the CIA was confronted by communism as a democratic society - Italy and Central America. If Italy fell to communism, all of Europe would surely follow. If Central America fell to communism, all of Latin America would surely follow. It was in these parts of the world communism was raising its head as the will of the people that was so dangerous to the United States and its capitalistic allies. Henry Kissinger sounded the alarm, "Domination by Moscow is not the issue. Communist control of Italy and Central America is the issue. It would have terrible consequences for the United States and it is the number one threat to its national security." On the afternoon of March 13, 1978, fifteen men sat around a table in a sidewalk caf̌ in a remote mountain village in northern Italy. In casual clothes, they went unnoticed, though one was the reigning Pontiff, and another Aldo Moro, and the others ranking cardinals of poverty stricken countries who comprised the leadership of the Marxist movement in the Church and the western world. They left at four o'clock. Aldo reserved the table "for this time next year." On March 13, 1979, Cardinals Benelli and Felici decided not to travel to Vittorio Veneto that day. After all, all the others were dead. They, themselves, unaware of their impending doom, were, too, as good as dead."--Publisher website
Notes: "Based on the life of John Paul I"--Jacket