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JFK Files Mystery: What Exactly Were CIA Director’s ‘Dealings’ with the Vatican?

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A newly released memo alludes to eyebrow-raising but unspecified actions by the agency’s former director, who was Catholic.

A Catholic CIA director had previously unknown back-channel dealings with two popes during the 1960s, according to a memo in the newly released JFK files.

But what those dealings were isn’t clear.

The revelation, reported by The New York Timeson Friday, turned up at the end of a June 1973 seven-page memo from a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency employee that is part of the thousands of documents pertaining to President John F. Kennedy. President Donald Trump ordered the documents released shortly after taking office in January 2025.

The missive was produced at a time when the agency was under fire for activities that some members of Congress and others considered illegal and immoral.

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I think it will be a storm in a teacup considering the tensions of the Cold War at the time. The Cuban missile crisis alone would have been sufficient for the CIA to pull all stops to get it resolved.

If hardline Protestants want to make a kerfuffle because the head of the CIA spoke to the pope that's their problem.

The other side had access to Pope John XXIII as well. So what??

 
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