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The Vatican Spy’s Plot to Kill Hitler

Cloak & Dagger

Files on Nazi war crimes show the godfather of the E.U. was not only a CIA agent, but a Vatican spy who linked Pope Pius XII with dissident Germans plotting to kill Hitler.

Mark Riebling
Mark Riebling
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Mark Riebling

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