The Vat­i­can, the Nazis, and the Swiss Banks
by John Lof­tus and Mark Aarons
1998, St. Martin’s Press
ISBN:031218199x
432 pages.
Pub­lisher Com­ments:
Writ­ten in riv­et­ing fash­ion by the coau­thors of The Secret War Against the Jews, Unnholy Trin­ity tells one of the dark­est tales of World War II. After the war had ended, fear­ing a surge of Soviet growth, the Papacy entered into an espi­onage alliance with British and Amer­i­can intel­li­gence agents. Sub­sum­ing jus­tice to the nascent Cold War ide­ol­ogy, these three pow­ers fer­reted Nazi crim­i­nals out of Europe so that they could be used in the sup­pos­edly greater fight against Com­mu­nism. The Vatican’s Nazi smug­gling net­work was pen­e­trated by Prince Anton Turkul, the great Soviet dou­ble agent who turned the oper­a­tions into a sting for his mas­ters in the Krem­lin. Unholy Trin­ity exposes Turkul’s “Red Nazi” oper­a­tion for the first time and shows how Kim Philby, the infa­mous British-Soviet dou­ble agent, and his net­work were nearly sac­ri­ficed to pre­serve Turkul’s Vat­i­can operation.

Explor­ing the Vatican’s role in aid­ing Nazi crim­i­nals to escape pun­ish­ment for their crimes, this book, orig­i­nally pub­lished in 1991, first revealed the Vatican—Swiss bank con­nec­tion to Nazi gold and doc­u­mented the hid­den links to West­ern investors in Nazi Ger­many. Since 1991, major rev­e­la­tions about the role of Swiss banks have con­firmed Unholy Trin­ity’s expose of the flight of the Nazi’s stolen trea­sures; the new intro­duc­tion and new final chap­ters, writ­ten by Aarons and Lof­tus for this edi­tion, bring the book com­pletely up to date and show how the media have missed the vital Vat­i­can con­nec­tion in the Swiss-bank story. Among other things, the authors demon­strage that U.S. and British code-breakers were fully aware of the Holo­caust as early as 1941 but lied to the West­ern press; that the code-breakers bugged the Swiss banks and then buried secrets of Nazi gold trans­fers to pro­tect U.S. intel­li­gence chief Allen Dulles; and that the Aus­tralian, British, and Cana­dian gov­ern­ments are still wag­ing a cam­paign to keep their cit­i­zens igno­rant about the Nazi war crim­i­nals liv­ing among them.

Cov­er­ing all these top­ics and more, Unholy Trin­ity is the defin­i­tive his­tory of a series of pro­foundly dis­turb­ing cover-ups invol­ing the Holy See, Allen Dulles, the Swiss banks, and the rem­nants of the Third Reich.

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