| KGB Was Behind the Smear Campaign against Pope Pius XII in the 1960s |
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It Now Turns out that the Kremlin and Its Communist KGB Was Behind The Deputy Which Started a Smear Campaign against Pope Pius XII in the 1960s. Actually, Pius XII Was an Enemy of Hitler from His First Encyclical. Current Pope Benedict is appointing Communist spies as church archbishops, and now it is coming to light that it was the Kremlin and its Communist KGB (Committee for State Security, the Soviet Intelligence Agency) that was behind the "smear campaign" in the 1960s against the Catholic Church. "The main target was Pope Pius XII," says a former high-ranking officer with the KGB. You may have wondered why Pope Pius XII, who was highly praised by one and all for his courageous actions during World War II was, suddenly became, in the 1960s, the subject of virulent character assassination. Well, KGB Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa, who defected from the former Soviet bloc, recounts how the Kremlin and its KGB designed the deliberate campaign to portray Pope Pius XII "as a coldhearted Nazi sympathizer." In February 1960, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev approved a super-secret plan for destroying the Vatican's moral authority in Western Europe," writes Pacepa. "Eugenio Pacelli, by then Pope Pius XII, was selected as the KGB's main target, its incarnation of evil, because he had departed this world in 1958, [and] dead men cannot defend themselves." The KGB used against him the fact that Archbishop Pacelli had served as the papal nuncio in Munich and Berlin when the Nazis were beginning their bid for power. "The KGB wanted to depict him as an anti-Semite who had encouraged Hitler's holocaust," says Pacepa. To do this, the KGB wanted some original Vatican documents to "slightly modify." So they called in Pacepa, who was working for the Romanian intelligence service. The KGB used these documents to produce a powerful play attacking Pope Pius XII, entitled The Deputy. It eventually saw the stage in Germany in 1963, under the title The Deputy: A Christian Tragedy. It deceitfully charged that Pius XII had supported Hitler and encouraged him to go ahead with the Jewish Holocaust. The play ran in New York in 1964 and was translated into 20 languages to smear Pius XII's saintly reputation. KGB chairman Yury Andropov, the unparalleled master of Soviet deception, told Pacepa: "People are more ready to believe smut than holiness." Pacepa says that the truth has finally begun to emerge. "Witnesses from all over the world have compellingly proved that Pius XII was an enemy, not a friend, of Hitler," says Pacepa. "At the start of World War II, Pope Pius XII's first encyclical was so anti-Hitler that the Royal Air Force and the French Air Force dropped 88,000 copies of it over Germany." [Source: CNA]