The Third Secret: The CIA, Solidarity and the KGB’s Plot to Kill the Pope - Hardcover

West, Nigel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002571293 ISBN 13: 9780002571296

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2000

Synopsis

The inside story of how the CIA combined with the Vatican under the Polish Pope John Paul II to launch a massive campaign to destabilise Warsaw – and how the KGB reacted by trying to kill the Pope in 1981.

The rise of the Solidarity movement in Poland in the 1980s, which began the undermining of the Soviet Bloc and the defeat of international communism, was essentially funded by the CIA covertly, through the Vatican.

Pope John Paul II (elected in 1978) had a deep interest in mysticism and long believed in ‘the third secret’ – the third piece of advice given to the eldest of the three children at Fatima (Portugal) in 1917 by an apparition of the Virgin Mary. This secret, written down by the last surviving child, who became a nun, was revealed by the Pope in 1980 and described an avoidable apocalyptic catastrophe in Europe. Thereafter the Pope began his ideological offensive against the Soviet Bloc.

About this title

About the Author:

Nigel West is a military historian specialising in intelligence and security issues, author of some 20 titles including A Matter of Trust: MI5 1945–72, MI6: British Secret Intelligence Service Operations 1909–45, GCHQ: The Secret Wireless War, Molehunt, Secret War: The Story of SOE, The Secret War for The Falklands and The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB’s Archives (HarperCollins, 1998)

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0002571293
• ISBN 13: 9780002571296
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272