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Chapter 13
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THE MAFIA, THE VATICAN AND THE USA. WHY THEY ENLISTED
WAR CRIMINALS, STALIN AND ONE-THIRD OF EUROPE
By Avro Manhattan |
One of the major agencies connected with the
operation was the Mafia. The Mafia had been revitalized by the USA, even
before the Allies invaded Sicily. The USA in fact "recruited" the Mafia
altogether into the U.S. Army. It became part and parcel of the USA
command. Mafiosi became the principal strategists of the inexpert
Americans.
The Mafiosi exploited the Americans with the cunning
of Sicilian foxes and the alertness of keen businessmen, ready for any
opportunity to make money. They "advised" American officers who knew
nothing about local or Italian politics, making them commit blunders of
the greatest magnitude.
The "Mafiosi" never let a golden opportunity to make
money pass. Once they heard of the passports and visa factories, they
entered into the field with a vengeance. Their expertise in the subtle
art of falsification was second to none. They worked for the Vatican and
even for the USA itself.
Thanks to the protection of the USA and their
historical cunning, the Mafia eventually prospered to such an extent
that in the process it built itself into the mighty Mafia Empire of the
future, which spanned the Atlantic for decades to come.
It had political results of far reaching importance
for Italy itself. It helped mightily to render Sicily a semi-autonomous
island where the Mafia ruled supreme, affecting Rome and the Italian
Administration, including Italian foreign policy. The relationship of
the Mafia with the Vatican remained very closed during many years, not
only after the war but also during the war itself. Indeed, the Mafia, on
more than one occasion, acted as a fairy god-mother for the Vatican. The
most striking case was when it helped the Vatican transfer tons of pure
silver from Naples to Rome to avoid the Germans melting it down, to pay
for expenses of the German occupation.
The present author, who during the war had been
broadcasting daily to the partisans, advising them to harass the Germans
who were then in Italy, went to Naples in 1975 and visited the
cathedral. There he was struck by an altar, seemingly made of what
appeared to be pure solid silver. Upon asking whether that was so, he
was told by the altar's guardian that it was solid silver. The tons of
silver, the man then explained, had been saved from the Germans then
occupying Naples, thanks to the Mafia. To the present author's
stupefaction, the individual then told a tale.
The Vatican, having heard rumours to the effect that
the Germans, then occupying Italy, had made plans to melt down the
silver of the altar of St. Januarius to pay for their occupation of
southern Italy, contacted the Mafia and asked for their cooperation. The
Mafia, whose members besides being keen businessmen are also immensely
religious, accepted the Vatican's proposal with pious alacrity. Since
they were cooperating with the Germans in sundry secret operations, they
were permitted by the latter to transport their wares, food,
black-market items and the like, to the North, that is to Rome. The
result was that the silver of the altar was transported in Mafia lorries
to the very entrance of the Vatican where it was safely deposited.
The present author made inquiries as to the veracity
of the story. (During the war he had made many broadcasts about the
Germans having experimented with the "liquification" of the blood of the
Saint which, according to the Catholic Church is a "miracle." This is
taken as such by the Neapolitan populace. The latter, take it as a good
omen if the "miracle" occurs; as a bad one if the "blood" does not
become liquid.)
He discovered that the Mafia, true to its reputation,
had worked for all three employers, the Germans, the Vatican and the
USA, simultaneously. A masterpiece of "international cooperation."
The recruitment of the Mafia would have been
reprehensible on the part of both the USA and the Vatican, had it not
been for the fact that both wished to help the flight of war criminals
from Europe, each with its own objectives.
Whereas the USA wanted to rescue them to carry out
political operations against Soviet Russia and the oncoming Cold War,
the Vatican, while thinking upon the same lines, had been motivated by
an additional objective. Namely to help former political and religious
supporters whom it had blessed during, the reign of terror under the
Nazi imperium. The Vatican protective attitudes had been prompted not
only by seemingly Christian charity, but also by the
consolidation of its newly born secret alliance with Washington.
The basic motivation of such strange Vatican-USA
fellowship, which at first sight seemed to be a most improbable
partnership, would have appeared incomprehensible, had not the
motivation of both been taken into account. Their joint motivations were
derived by the necessity of their part to recruit, as energetically and
as quickly as possible, trustworthy anti-Russian, anti-Communist
battalions ready to fight against Bolshevik Russia. And where could the
Vatican and the State Department find such ready, dedicated,
anti-Communist recruits, if not in the rank and file of the defeated
anti-Communists of Europe, namely in the fleeing war criminals now
seeking asylum in the Americas and the USA? Had they and their comrades
not attacked, occupied and almost defeated the Russian hordes, almost
single handed, while America was sending billions to help Stalin?
Perhaps now the USA, who had come face to face with Stalin, had realized
at last her mistake. The fugitives from a defeated Europe were now ready
to help the USA rectify her error; that is help the USA fight Soviet
Russia, her former ally.
Thousands, not necessarily pro-Nazi, sympathized with
such thoughts. Many in the USA openly said so. Churchill himself agreed.
The general consensus was that Stalin had become a menace no less
horrendous than Hitler. The consensus was supported not by speculation,
but by menacing facts. The reality facing the victorious Allies was that
Stalin had swallowed up whole regions. Indeed, in addition to
extinguishing former independent countries, like Estonia, Latvia and
others, he had occupied one-third of Europe proper. He had turned
previous sovereign nations, like Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia,
Bulgaria, and Hungary, into Russian satellites. Moves were made by
Moscow to do likewise in Asia, the Near East, Africa, and even in the
Western Hemisphere, as Cuba was eventually to prove, not long
afterwards.
The USA and the Vatican were alarmed and decided to
act in unison. The results were the first secret moves which, within a
very brief period, became known as the Cold War. That culminated with
the Korean War of the fifties and the Vietnam War of the sixties and
seventies. The recruitment of proven anti-Communist individuals, from
the fleeing war criminals, therefore became part and parcel of the USA
Vatican grand postwar strategy. More than charity or compassion, or even
ideological sympathy, it became a positive strategic campaign by both.
They wished to recruit the right material for the oncoming anti-Soviet
crusade of the near future. The battalions composed of the war
criminals, still rabidly anti-red and anti-Russian, would have become
the spearhead of a new grand crusade against not Hitlerite Europe, but
against a Stalinized Soviet Russia and the third of Europe now under the
Soviet yoke of control.
Editor's Note
Russia only occupied countries that were
on the direct invasion route to Moscow. Austria was liberated by the
Soviets but that country was handed back to them right after the war and
did not become a Russian satellite!!
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