A Chill Wind From the North: the US Returns to Latin America

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2. from Mother Jones...

"Since World War II, the CIA has:

subsidized a Catholic lay organization that served as the political slugging arm of the pope and the Vatican throughout the Cold War;
penetrated the American section of one of the wealthiest and most powerful Vatican orders;
passed money to a large number of priests and bishops -- some of whom became witting agents in CIA covert operations;
employed undercover operatives to lobby members of the Curia (the Vatican government) and spy on liberal churchmen on the pope's staff who challenged the political assumptions of the United States;
prepared intelligence briefings that accurately pre-dicted the rise of liberation theology; and
collaborated with right-wing Catholic groups to coun-ter the actions of progressive clerics in Latin America."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1983/07/their-will-be-done