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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 86
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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KNIGHTS OF MALTA
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(Source for the following is an article from Covert Action,
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Winter 1986, "The Sovereign Military Order of Malta," by
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Francoise Hervet.)
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"Already in existence at the time of the first Crusade in 1099,
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in 1113 the Order of St. John was given its independence by Pope
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Pascal II, permitted to elect its own Grand Master, and soon the
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Order began military participation in the Crusades along with the
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Knights Templar and Teutonic Knights. The Order of St. John
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recruited successfully among the European aristocracy and soon
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controlled extensive estates throughout the continent,
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assimilating those previously belonging to the Knights Templar
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which it had helped crush during the first two decades of the
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14th century, with the Templar leadership burned alive as
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heretics."
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The Order was driven from Jerusalem in 1187, fled to Acre,
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Cyprus, and finally to Rhodes. At Rhodes they set up a military
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dictatorship and for the first time were a sovereign territory.
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By 1530 they were driven from Rhodes and moved their headquarters
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to Malta. On that island they built a powerful naval force and
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fought many naval actions. The Sovereign Military Order of Malta
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(SMOM) was a major military force in the Mediterranean until
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their defeat by Napoleon in 1789. The Order was given protection
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by Russian Emperor Paul I, and by 1834 had moved its headquarters
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to Rome with help from Pope Leo XIII.
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The American Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
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(Knights of Malta, SMOM) was founded in 1927. "By 1941 Francis
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Cardinal Spellman was listed as the 'Grand Protector' and
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'Spritual Advisor' of the Order, with John J. Raskob as
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Treasurer. Members included John Farrell, then President of U.S.
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Steel, Joseph P. Grace, and John D. Ryan. In 1934 Raskob,
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inspired by the French fascist Croix de Feu, and working closely
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with Morgan Bank's John Davis, had been a principal financier in
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the plot to organize a fascist coup in the U.S. The plan failed
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when General Smedley Butler, who had been set up to lead the
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project, denounced it."
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His Eminence Cardinal Spellman, "Grand Protector" of the Knights
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of Malta, worked with Pope Pius XII to help Nazi war criminals
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escape justice. According to Frederic Laurent (*L'Orchestre
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Noir. Pairs: Editions Stock, 1978),
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All studies [of the post-WWII nazi networks] have shown the
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determining role played by the Catholic Church in the
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flight of war criminals. Since April 1943, following
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negotiations between Pius XII and the ultra reactionary
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American archbishop Francis Spellman, the Holy See became
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the clandestine center of Anglo-American espionage in
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Italy. This collaboration in fact had begun the previous
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year... between Earl Brennan, a veteran of the American
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State Department and Gian Battista Montini, at the time a
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bishop and Under-Secretary of State at the Vatican. This
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close collaboration between the future [Pope] Paul VI and
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the American secret services continued after the war
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through the [CIA] intermediary James Angleton...
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When the victorious Americans entered Rome in June of 1944,
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chief-General Mark Clark was made a Knight Grand Cross of the
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Sovereign Military Order of Malta. On December 27, 1946 James
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Angleton received the Croci Al Merito Seconda Classe from the
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Knights of Malta. "On November 17, 1948 SMOM awarded one of its
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highest honors, the Grand Cross of Merit, to Reinhard Gehlen, the
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nazi chief of intelligence on the Soviet front. He was
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subsequently installed by the Americans as the first chief of
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West Germany's equivalent of the CIA, the
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*Bundesnachtrichtdienst* (BND: federal secret service), under
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West German Chancellor Adenauer, a devout Catholic who had
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received the Magistral Grand Cross personally from SMOM Grand
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Master Prince Chigi." In 1956, Clare Booth Luce of the *Time*
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magazine empire became a "Dame of Malta." (Clare Booth Luce is
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on the board of the Rev. Sun-Moon's Washington Times newspaper.)
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Former CIA Director John McCone is shown to be a member of the
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Knights of Malta by their 1980 list. (The article by Hervet,
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used as the source for this information, has many other
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noteworthy persons listed as belonging to the Vatican military
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order of SMOM. The article should still be available from
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Prevailing Winds Research. I have their phone number as
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805-566-8016 or write to PO Box 23511, Santa Barbara, CA 93121.)
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"Freemasonry generally purports to be hostile to Catholicism, and
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conversely, the Vatican has at various times forbidden Catholics
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to join Masonic organizations. Nevertheless, in December of 1969
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an exclusive meeting was held in the Rome office of Count Umberto
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Ortolani, the Ambassador of the Order of Malta to Uruguay, who
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has been called 'the brains' behind the fascist P-2 Masonic
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Lodge, which had been established in the mid-1960s. In addition
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to Ortolani, the meeting included only Licio Gelli, Roberto
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Calvi, and Michele Sindona."
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The article from which the above has been taken is several pages
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long. Interested readers are referred to that article, "The
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Sovereign Military Order of Malta" by Francoise Hervet. (Covert
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Action, Winter 1986; or article may be available from Prevailing
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Winds, see phone and address listed previously in this issue of
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CN.)
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