After WWII, many
Europeans realized that the war that devastated Europe entirely, was nothing
but a capitalist ambitions in expanding markets. This knowledge frustrated
people to the point of checking socialist doctrines, especially considering the
heroism witnessed by communist organizations in many countries involved in the
useless war. The Predecessor of CIA fearing expansion of socialism in Europe became
very active in every Western European country. Many of the fascists, or fascist
sympathizers became agents of CIA: “Then
there was the case of Cardinal Battista Montini, another beneficiary of CIA
largesse. The payments made to him reveal something of the Agency’s mechanistic
thinking about why people become radicals. It seems that the good Cardinal was
promoting orphanages in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s and, says Victor
Marchetti, ‘The thinking was that if such institutions were adequately
supported, many young people would be able to live well there and so would not
one day fall into Communist hands.’ The Cardinal, as a Monsignor, had been
involved with the Vatican’s operation to smuggle Nazis to freedom after World
War II. He had a long history of association with Western governments and their
intelligence agencies. In 1963, he became Pope Paul VI, (P. 121).”
