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JJames Rollins is the author of six thrillers in the bestselling Sigma Force series (Sandstorm, Map of Bones, Black Order, The Judas Strain, The Last Oracle, and The Doomsday Key); the blockbuster movie novelization, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; and six individual adventure thrillers. Rollins is also writing the Jake Ransom series for kids and adults.
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Truth or Supposition: the Vatican employs an elite cadre of spies
around the globe?
That would be true. Like any government, the Vatican does indeed maintain
a sophisticated intelligence-gathering operation, even employing full-time
agents. One of its most notable and heroic missions took place during the
Cold War, when the Vatican attempted to smuggle priests into the Soviet Bloc
to act as spies.
And even today, such clandestine operations continue. During the Iraq
war, the Vatican maintained detailed intelligence of conditions on the
ground -- gleaned not from individual spies, but from its community of two
hundred thousand Iraqi Catholics. And perhaps therein lies the Vatican's
greatest strength: Between its diplomatic ambassadors, its worldwide
charitable organizations, and its millions of parishioners and lay persons,
the Vatican certainly maintains a sophisticated global network of eyes and
ears.
How did you learn of this, if indeed true?
Despite the Vatican's code of silence on this matter, painstaking
research by David Alvarez resulted in a detailed treatise on this subject:
Spies in the Vatican: Espionage & ...
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