Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- Vatican Slander Allegation Unwarranted For Immediate Release August 8, 2001 Vatican spokesman Rev. Peter Gumpel has accused Jewish historians
on a special Holocaust commission of ``clearly incorrect behavior,'' charging
that they have helped mount a ``slanderous campaign'' against the Catholic
Church. Gumpel said several of the Jewish members of the commission had
``publicly spread the suspicion'' that the Holy See was trying to hide
documents ``that in their judgment could be compromising.'' However, World War II era documents in possession of attorneys
suing the Vatican Bank for laundering Nazi gold tell a different story.
According to Jonathan Levy, co-counsel for plaintiffs in the class action
lawsuit, Alperin v. Vatican Bank, plenty of evidence already exists to tarnish
the reputations of both Pope Pius XII and his successor Paul VI. "I don’t
understand the Vatican position," said Levy, "Army
counterintelligence documents from 1945-1947 period document Nazi war criminals
from the Balkans being sheltered at the Vatican. The then Vatican Secretary of
State Montini, later Paul VI, met regularly with Ante Pavelic, known as the
"Butcher of the Balkans." The lawsuit against the Vatican Bank and Franciscan Order is based
in part on a 1998 US State Department report that implicates the Vatican in the
laundering of Nazi gold. The Vatican is widely believed to have destroyed
incriminating documents. "Pius XII and Paul VI were in bed with the Nazis
acting as their landlord, travel agent, and banker," said Levy, referring
to the Vatican sheltering of Nazi war criminals in safe houses, Vatican
provided escape routes or ratlines to South America, and use of the Vatican
Bank to launder Nazi funds. Levy says he will make available on his firm’s web site copies of
the most damning documents including one authored by Special Agent William
Gowen, one of the few remaining witnesses to Vatican complicity with former
Nazis. www.vaticanbankclaims.com/press.html
www.vaticanbankclaims.com/pavelic.htm www.vaticanbankclaims.com/paul.htm
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