The Entity: Five Centuries of Secret Vatican Espionage

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St. Martin's Publishing Group, 25 нояб. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 448

The International Bestseller

"A true story that surpasses any novel by John le Carré."—El País (Spain)

For five centuries, the Vatican—the oldest organization in the world, maker of kings and shaper of history—has used a secret spy service, called the Holy Alliance, or later, the Entity, to carry out its will. Forty popes have relied on it to carry out their policies. They have played a hitherto invisible role confronting de-Christianizations and schisms, revolutions and dictators, colonizations and expulsions, persecutions and attacks, civil wars and world wars, assassinations and kidnappings.

For the first time in English (following the bestselling Spanish and French editions), Eric Frattini tells the comprehensive tale of this sacred secret service. The Entity has been involved in the killings of monarchs, poisonings of diplomats, financing of South American dictators, protection of war criminals, laundering of Mafia money, manipulation of financial markets, provocation of bank failures, and financing of arms sales to combatants even as their wars were condemned, all in the name of God. The contradiction between God's justice and Earth's justice, Christian beliefs and Christian power all fall before the motto of the Entity: With the Cross and the Sword.

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Introduction
1
Between the Reformation and a New Alliance 15661570
21
Dark Years 15701587
28
Times of Action 15871605
50
New Horizons 16051644
65
Era of Expansion 16441691
81
Time of Intrigue 16911721
96
Some Brief Reigns 17211775
110
Rise of the Terror 19341940
229
The End of the ThousandYear Reich 19401945
247
Odessa and the Vatican Ratline 19461958
268
New Alliances 19581976
285
Vatican Inc and Gods Business 19761978
302
Time of the Assassins 19791982
318
The Polish Years 19822005
335
The Years to Come Benedict XVI
352

The Rise and Fall of Eagles 17751823
124
An Era of Spies 18231878
140
The League of the Impious 18781914
160
The Horseman of the Apocalypse 19141917
177
Intriguing Toward Peace 19171922
197
Era of the Dictators 19221934
211
List of Popes Since the Creation of the Holy Alliance
373
Notes
375
Bibliography
399
Archives Consulted
407
Index
409
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Eric Frattini has written books on the FBI, the UN, and the CIA, and is the author of Mafia Inc.: 100 Years of Cosa Nostra. He is a TV correspondent and lives in Spain.

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