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There was a person who said that the Communists had infiltrated the Church and provided details. That person, Bella Dodd, said they had recruited numerous people. I found an article mentioning Bella Dodd:
Bella Dodd & the Communist Infiltration of the Catholic Church (Guest: Paul Kengor)
Bella Dodd is one of those mysterious figures who often comes up in discussions of Catholic conspiracy theories. But who was Bella Dodd and why should Catholics care?crisismagazine.com
I discussed this earlier. An issue with claims that Bella Dodd said they infiltrated and she was a part of it is that all such accounts are secondhand of a few people saying they heard Bella Dodd said it, and all of the ones that people point to are from decades after her death (allowing for a greater period of time for people's memories to shift). But the bigger issue is that we have Bella Dodd on record (not secondhand hearsay, in an actual recording) saying she never met any member of the Catholic clergy she knew was a communist. This article goes over all of it in pretty good detail:
Rethinking Bella Dodd and Infiltration of the Catholic Priesthood - Homiletic & Pastoral Review
Dr. Bella Dodd, the famous one-time Communist lawyer who reverted to the Catholic Faith of her youth, has been the subject of much discussion over the
www.hprweb.com
It does discuss some ways her statement could be reconciled with the secondhand testimony, some of which I do see as possibilities. But people should be aware that Bella Dodd's alleged claims about infiltration, until someone happens to find a recording or something in which she says it, come only to us secondhand.
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