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S.M.O.M. The actual smallest sovereign entity in the world is the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (S.M.O.M.). It is located in the city of Rome, Italy, has an area of two tennis courts, and as of 2001 has a population of 80, 20 less people than the Vatican. It is a sovereign entity under international law, just as the Vatican is.

http://www.canadastreetnews.com/vol%209%206%20Aug%2031%20to%20Sept%2013/Page14Sept.pdf

Identity of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta


From Bill Cooper's - Behold a Pale Horse, we read:

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The Knights of Malta is a world organization with its threads weaving through business, banking, politics, the CIA, other intelligence organizations, P2, religion, education, law, military, think tanks, foundations, the United States Information Agency, the United Nations, and numerous other organizations. They are not the oldest but are one of the oldest branches of the Order of the Quest in existence. The world head of the Knights of Malta is elected for a life term, with the approval of the Pope. The Knights of Malta have their own Constitution and are sworn to work toward the establishment of a New World Order with the Pope at its head. Knights of Malta members are also powerful members of the CFR and the Trilateral Commission. (p.86)

The Knights of Malta ALL have diplomatic immunity. They can ship goods across borders without paying duty or undergoing customs check. Does that ring any bells? In any case, that is power. The Knights of Malta is held up by a backbone consisting of nobility. Nearly half of the 10,000 members belong to Europe's oldest and most powerful families. This cements the alliance between the Vatican and the "Black Nobility." The Black Nobility is mostly the rich and powerful of Europe. The head of the Black Nobility is the family that can claim direct descendancy from the last Roman emperor. Maybe now you can see that things are beginning to fall into their proper place. Membership in the Knights of Malta entails obedience to one's superior in THE ORDER and ultimately to the Pope. Therefore, a U.S. ambassador who is also a member of the Knights of Malta faces a conflict of interest. Why is this fact ignored? President Bush appointed Knight of Malta Thomas Melledy to the post of U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican. (pp.88-89)

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In their investigations of the SMOM, LaRouche's associates "discovered to their surprise that the mere mention of its name inspires awe and terror in the minds of highly placed government officials, central bankers, senior military and business leaders, and senior diplomatic and intelligence executives," as recorded in a pamphlet issued by the LaRouche organization at the time, "The `Black International' Terrorist Assassination Plot to Kill Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr." The pamphlet further reported, "The power that the Order concentrates is primarily financial, through direct control of most of the Western world's leading investment houses" and far, far more. The pamphlet also noted, "A second source of power is an absolutely unmatched intelligence capability." Which is to say, the SMOM is a leading organizational arm of the Synarchy, bringing together the world's leading aristocrats, financiers, and particularly military and intelligence officials. Its members yearn for the ultramontane world which existed before the rise of sovereign nation-states during the Renaissance, which meant a loss of power and privilege of their families. To them, that vanished world is as if yesterday. Indeed, it has by no means entirely disappeared, but lives on, centered—like the Knights themselves—on the Venetian-descended "independent central banks" of virtually every nation in the world, as LaRouche has emphasized.

http://larouchepub.com/other/2005/3205_italy_black_prince.html

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KNIGHTS OF DARKNESS

THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA

INTRODUCTION

The Sovereign Military and Hospitaler Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, known also as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, or SMOM, is juridically, politically, and historically unique in the world today.

Representing initially the most powerful and reactionary segments of the European aristocracy, for nearly a thousand years beginning with the early crusades of the Twelfth Century, it has organized, funded, and led military operations against states and ideas deemed threatening to its power. It is probably safe to say that the several thousand Knights of SMOM, principally in Europe, North, Central, and South America, comprise the largest most consistently powerful and reactionary membership of any organization in the world today.

Although an exclusively [Roman] Catholic organization, in this century it has collaborated with, and given high awards to non-Catholic extremists in its current crusade against progressive forces in the West, the national liberation movements, and the socialist countries.

To be a Knight, one must not only be from wealthy, aristocratic lineage, one must also have a psychological worldview which is attracted to the "crusader mentality'' of these "warrior monks." Participating in SMOM Ñ including its initiation ceremonies and feudal ritual dress Ñ members embrace a certain caste/class mentality; they are sociologically and psychologically predisposed to function as the ''shock troops" of Catholic reaction. And this is precisely the historical role the Knights have played in the wars against Islam, against the Protestant "heresy,'' and against the Soviet ''Evil Empire."

[...]

SMOM's Sovereign Diplomacy

As its name suggests, SMOM is both a ''sovereign'' and, historically, a "military" organization. Its headquarters, occupying a square block in Rome at 68 Via Condotti, enjoys the extra-territorial legal status granted to an embassy of a sovereign state. The Italian police are not welcome on its territory, it issues its own stamps, and has formal diplomatic relations and exchanges ambassadors with a number of countries.

On November 13, 1951 Italian President Alcide de Gasperi recognized the diplomatic sovereignty of SMOM, although he held off formal exchange of diplomatic envoys.2 On January 11, 1983 the New York Daily News announced that,

"The Vatican and the order of the Knights of Malta, believed to be the smallest sovereign state in the world, have agreed to establish full diplomatic relations, a joint statement said today. "

President Reagan's Ambassador to the Vatican, William Wilson, is, coincidentally, a Knight of Malta.3

On September 5, 1984 French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson signed a formal protocol with SMOM for various cooperative projects includlng "aid to victims of conflicts."4 (See below on Americares.)

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/caqsmom25.1.html



From Illuminatinews.com we read:

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The Knights of St. John were founded in the late 11th Century, and rose to prominence in the First Crusade of 1095. In 1120, Pope Urban II officially recognized them as a military religious order, and for centuries they remained one of the most powerful military forces in Christendom, first from their headquarters on the island of Rhodes, and then on Malta, from which they were finally driven by Napoleon in the late 18th Century. The Knights were recognized as a sovereign state by a Hapsburg Emperor in the 16th Century. They remain a sovereign state, run from their headquarters at 68 Via Condotti in Rome. They maintain their own fleet of aircraft, have diplomatic relations with 92 nations as well as the United Nations and the Holy See, and enjoy diplomatic immunity. The order is entirely Roman Catholic, and its higher ranks must document an aristocratic lineage and coat-of-arms of at least three centuries. The Grand Master of the order is both a secular prince, and a cardinal of the Church. Reflecting its history, its membership is still heavily comprised of individuals with a military or intelligence background. Pope Pius XII ordered an investigation of this nominally Catholic organization in the 1950s. The Papal Commission charged, among other things, that the Order should not have the sovereignty of a state, and ordered modifications of the SMOM "to bring them into conformity with decisions of the Holy See." However, Pius XII died before the Order could be fully reined in.

In addition to the Roman Catholic SMOM, there are four Protestant orders of the Knights, all founded within the last 150 years or so, and all run by ruling houses of Europe. The Roman Catholic and Protestant orders effectively merged on Nov. 26, 1963, four days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The Sovereign Head of the British Knights is Queen Elizabeth, while the Netherlands Knights were headed until his death by the former SS official, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, consort of Queen Juliana.

http://www.illuminati-news.com/112606b.htm

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From: An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences," etc. by Albert G. Mackey, M.D., Thirty-Third Degree, Volume I, published by the Masonic History Company, Chicago, New York, & London, 1925, Volume One, pp. 392-95:

"This Order, which at various times in the progress of its history received the names of Knights Hospitalers, Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of Rhodes, and lastly, Knights of Malta, was one of the most important of the religious and military orders of knighthood which sprang into existence during the Crusades which were instituted for the recovery of the Holy Land. It owes its origin to the Hospitalers of Jerusalem, that wholly religious and charitable Order which was established at Jerusalem, in 1048, by pious merchants of Amalfi for the succor of poor and distressed Latin pilgrims....
[big section on its history over nine centuries]

"The Organization of the Order in its days of prosperity was very complicated, partaking of both a monarchial and a republican character. Over all presided a Grand Master, who, although invested with extensive powers, was still controlled by the legislative action of the General Chapter....

"...There are now two bodies-one Catholic and the other Protestant, but each repudiates the other....
"The degree of Knight of Malta is conferred in the United States as "an appendant Order" in a Commandery of Knights Templar. There is a ritual attached to the degree, but very few are in possession of it, and it is generally communicated after the candidate has been created a Knights Templar...."
[end of quote]

The Knights of Malta are the militia of the Pope, and are sworn to total obedience by a blood oath which is taken extremely seriously and to the death. The Pope as the head of the Vatican is also the head of a foreign national power.

As a member of the Knights of Malta, and by virtue of your blood oath of obedience to the Pope, you are required to support to the death the desires of the head of the Order of the Knights of Malta-in this case, Pope Benedict XVI -over and above any other allegiance you may feel or pretend to feel toward any other loyalty-such as a loyalty to the Constitution for the united States of America.

Those who are presently members of the Knights of Malta must on penalty of death support those policies advocated by the Vatican. It is not hard for them to do this. They BELIEVE in these policies and principles. The polices which are espoused and proclaimed by the office of the Pope are as follows:
1. End of sovereignty for the United States and other countries.
2. End of absolute property rights.
3. End of all gun rights.
4. The new international economic Order (world government).
5. The redistribution of wealth and jobs.
6. Calls for nations to trust the United Nations.
7. Total disarmament.
8. Promote the United Nations as the hope for peace.
9. Promote UNESCO, the deadly educational and cultural arm of the United Nations.
10. Promote interdependence.
11. Support sanctions honoring Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-the New Age Humanist Priest.
12. Support the belief that the economic principle of traditional Christian or Catholic social doctrine is the economic principle of communism.
13. Promote the Pope as the acting go-between for the United States and the Soviet Union.

It doesn't really matter what kind of religious or political affiliation a member professes, when they take an oath as a Knight they are obligated by that blood oath of obedience to follow the political lead of the Vatican and will do so to their dying breath-as all good Knights of Malta do. Their first loyalty is to the Vatican, anything else is secondary.
Each and every member is under complete and total obedience to the Vatican's political ambitions.

The "Knights of Malta" are the militia of the Pope. In the book "Behold a Pale Horse" you will find research into this. It is one of the NWO SECRET SOCIETIES that are determined to overrun and destroy America. The Pope is not innocent of this either. The Pope wants to be the leader of the world. He meets with world leaders to promote "peace" as his means of public acceptance. It's a conspiracy of darkness.

Members include: Paul Cain, Mark Joyner, Benny Hinn, Bob Dole, William Casey, former director of the CIA, George H.W. Bush, Pat Buchanan,

http://www.alaskafreepress.com/msgboard/co.../reply/304/2085

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The American Association of SMOM

In Europe SMOM's membership had been traditionally limited to those who could prove a requisite purity of noble blood for several generations. Nevertheless, as a concession to the rising political, economic, and military power of the United States, in 1927 SMOM agreed to incorporate an American National Association whose members were not obliged to prove their genealogical pedigree.

When the American Association of SMOM was created in 1927 the founding members included Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Edward L. Hearn, Nicholas F. Brady, Howard F. Carry, Patrick E. Crowley, James A. Farrell, James A. Fayne, Edward N. Hurley, James J. Phelan, Morgan J. O'Brien, John J. Raskob, and John D. Ryan.

By 1941 Francis Cardinal Spellman was listed as the "Grand Protector" and "Spiritual Advisor" of the Order, with John J. Raskob as Treasurer. Members included John Farrell, then President of U.S.Steel, Joseph P. Grace, and John D. Ryan. In 1934 Raskob, inspired by the French fascist Croix de Feu, and working closely with Morgan Bank's John Davis, had been a principal financier in the plot to organize a fascist coup in the U.S. The plan failed when General Smedley Butler, who had been set up to lead the project, denounced it.

The 1941 list also included Joseph J. Larkin. According to Charles Higham's Trading With the Enemy (see review in this issue),

Joseph J. Larkin . . . [vice-president of Chase Manhattan Bank in charge of European affairs] kept the Chase Bank open ....... in Nazi-occupied Paris throughout World War II. .... [He] had received the Order of the Grand Cross of the Knights of Malta from Pope Pius XI in 1928. He was an ardent supporter of General Franco and, by extension, Hitler. Morgenthau first suspected him as a fascist sympathizer in Octoher 1936. ..... With the encouragement of Schacht, Larkin took on the Franco account and the Reichsbank account, though the Reichsbank was under the personal control of Hitler. ..... 7

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/caqsmom25.2.html


http://www.pehi.eu/AppendixA.htm

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With headquarters in Rome, the group is recognized by some 40 countries as the world's only landless sovereign nation. In that role the Knights mint coins, print stamps and issue passports to their diplomats. American network.

The U.S. membership of about 1,OOO-70 percent men - accounts for one tenth of the worldwide total. Nearly all are prominent in business, government or professional life and include such well-known figures as Chrysler Chairman [color=#B03030]Lee Iacocca and Central Intelligence Agency Director William Casey.[/color]

At least two U.S. senators also are members: Republicans Jeremiah Denton of Alabama and Pete Domenici of New Mexico.

Other members active in conservative politics include former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, former Treasury Secretary William Simon and columnist William F. Buckley.

The president of the Knights' American branch is J. Peter Grace, chairman of the W.R. Grace Company, which provides a national focus for the organization by including seven other Knights on its board.

The main purpose of the Knights is to honor distinguished Catholics and raise money for charity, especially hospitals. But the close personal ties among members contribute to what some observers call a potent old-boy network of influential decision makers dedicated to thwarting Communism.

The annual induction ceremony for new members at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City is the only function of the U.S. chapter open to nonmembers.

Because many Knights and recipients of the Orders honors have worked in or around the CIA, critics sometimes suggest a link between the two.

But members deny any connection, noting that the pattern of conservative members with overseas ties emerges naturally from the order's role as an international defender of the church.

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/usnewsmar84.html

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The three Classes

According to the Constitutional Charter, the members of the Order are divided into three Classes. The members are to conduct their lives in an exemplary manner in conformity with the teachings and precepts of the Church and to devote themselves to the humanitarian assistance activities of the Order.

Members of the First Class are Knights of Justice, or Professed Knights, and the Professed Conventual Chaplains, who have made vows of "poverty, chastity and obedience aspiring to perfection according to the Gospel". They are religious for all purposes of Canon Law but are not obliged to live in community.

The members of the Second Class, by virtue of the Promise of Obedience, are committed to living according to Christian principles and the inspiring principles of the Order. They are subdivided into three categories:

- Knights and Dames of Honour and Devotion in Obedience
- Knights and Dames of Grace and Devotion in Obedience
- Knights and Dames of Magistral Grace in Obedience

The Third Class consists of lay members who do not profess religious vows or the Promise, but who live according to the principles of the Church and the Order. They are divided into six categories:

- Knights and Dames of Honour and Devotion
- Conventual Chaplains ad honorem
- Knights and Dames of Grace and Devotion
- Magistral Chaplains
- Knights and Dames of Magistral Grace
- Donats (male and female) of Devotion

The requisites for admission to the various classes and categories are determined by the Code.

http://www.orderofmalta.org/knights_malta.asp?idlingua=5

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[...] most knights insist that SMOM is simply a charitable organization. The knights raise money for various philanthropic endeavors, particularly in areas of health care and international relief efforts. They still direct some of the infirmaries and hospitals they established centuries ago, in addition to running modern clinics, research centers, leprosariums and schools for the deaf and blind. SMOM administers a first aid station in St. Peter's Square and has sent volunteer medical personnel to the Muslim and Christian sections of war-torn Beirut.

But charity typifies only the public face of SMOM. In private ceremonies, the knights have decorated Nazi spies and CIA operatives.

Certain SMOM members have been involved in a litany of questionable activities, ranging from secret deals with organized crime to bloody coups in Latin America that have destroyed democratically elected governments.

They have played a significant role in spearheading the cold war revival and the emergence of the New Right in the U.S.

When Casey, Buckley, Luce and others dress in medieval garb, these modern crusaders rekindle the mystical mission to defeat all enemies of their notions of the church.

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/ncrdateunknown.html

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n their investigations of the SMOM, LaRouche's associates "discovered to their surprise that the mere mention of its name inspires awe and terror in the minds of highly placed government officials, central bankers, senior military and business leaders, and senior diplomatic and intelligence executives," as recorded in a pamphlet issued by the LaRouche organization at the time, "The `Black International' Terrorist Assassination Plot to Kill Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr." The pamphlet further reported, "The power that the Order concentrates is primarily financial, through direct control of most of the Western world's leading investment houses" and far, far more. The pamphlet also noted, "A second source of power is an absolutely unmatched intelligence capability." Which is to say, the SMOM is a leading organizational arm of the Synarchy, bringing together the world's leading aristocrats, financiers, and particularly military and intelligence officials. Its members yearn for the ultramontane world which existed before the rise of sovereign nation-states during the Renaissance, which meant a loss of power and privilege of their families. To them, that vanished world is as if yesterday. Indeed, it has by no means entirely disappeared, but lives on, centered—like the Knights themselves—on the Venetian-descended "independent central banks" of virtually every nation in the world, as LaRouche has emphasized.

http://larouchepub.com/other/2005/3205_ita...ack_prince.html

Present Grandmaster of SMOM:


78th Frà Andrew Bertie 1988-

http://www.maltezerorde.nl/gesch_vorst_grootmeesters.htm

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The Prince & Grand Master of the Order of Malta, Fra Andrew Bertie, meets with young pilgrims during the Order's annual pilgrimage to the Marian shrine of Loreto in the Italian Marches.

http://www.andrewcusack.com/blog/smom/

Bertie in Poland May 2007

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He is English, from London. He is "only" 59 years old, young for his post. He is of the highest nobility: in fact, he has royal blood in his veins. His mother, Lady Jean Crichton Stuart, is a descendant of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, the "Catholic" par excellence, and he is therefore distantly related to Elizabeth II. His father James, a nobleman of ancient British aristocratic stock, with the title of the counts of Lindsay and Abington, was a broker on the London Stock Exchange who, in both world wars, served as an officer in the British Navy. The sister of his father married the brother of Sir Winston Churchill.

This noble geneology belongs to Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie, elected April 8 as the 78th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta. ["Knights of Malta" .... JP] He succeeds the Italian Brother Angelo de Mojana di Cologna, who died January 18 after 26 years of rule.

Descended from families and individuals used to governing, this "king without a kingdom" will guide 12,000 Knights scattered throughout the world, and a religious, military and hospital Order inspired by St. John the Baptist, of whom Christ said numquam surrexit maior: "Never has a greater man arisen. "

Brother Bertie was included in a brief list of "outsiders" with a chance to be elected in the period before the Grand Electors of the Order, 35 in all, closed themselves inside the splendid villa designed by Piranesi on Aventine Hill in Rome. His election, as is known, was not a unanimous one, even if, in hindsight, one cannot say he did not fit the requirements that the Holy See had indicated through the Order's Cardinal "patron," Sebastiano Baggio: a young Grand Master, to give the Order a younger character and greater stability. [...]

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/thirtydays.html

Previous Grandmasters of SMOM:


77th Frà Angelo de Mojana di Cologna 1962 - 1988


76th Frà Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere 1931 - 1951


75th Frà Galeas von Thun und Hohenstein 1905 - 1931


for more see:
http://www.maltezerorde.nl/gesch_vorst_grootmeesters.htm

SMOM Insignia, Formal Attire, Flag and Coinage


SMOM insignia, the "Maltese Cross" + Lt. Col. Bogle wearing the insignia (src: http://www.andrewcusack.com/blog/smom/ )

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The insignia of the Order symbolizes the character of the Knights and Dames, and the work they perform on behalf of the Order.

* THE SHIELD with a white cross on a red background from which the insignia hangs represents the ensign of the Order.
* TWIRLED RIBBON represents fidelity.
* SMALL CROSS just above the crown – the wooden cross upon which Christ died.
* THE CROWN directly below the cross – the sovereignty of the Order.
* THE MALTESE CROSS hanging below the crown – the badge of the Order.
* THE FOUR ARMS OF THE CROSS – the virtues of temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude.
* THE WHITE IN THE ARMS OF THE CROSS – purity of deed.
* THE EIGHT POINTS OF THE CROSS – the eight Beatitudes as proclaimed by Christ in his Sermon on the Mount

The photograph is the insignia of a Knight of Magisteral Grace, a member of the third class which is the predominant class.

http://www.maltausa.org/worldwide_insignia.php


The insignia of a Serving Brother of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Order of Saint John or OSJ)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maltese_Cross (Protestant Branch of SMOM)
For the profession of a OSJ Knight see:

http://vaticanassassins.org/knight_of_justice.htm


SMOM Formal Attire
http://bloggingyoungfogey.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html


SMOM Flag

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Knights Of Malta - Life Of Pope John Paul II - Proof Crown - Homecoming To Krakow/Arrival Of The Pope In Poland - 10 Liras - 2005

http://www.blackmountaincoins.com/p/BMC/c-EUROPE-COINS/2005_KOM_00250.html

For older coins, check out: http://coins.mos.net.au/firstpage.htm

Evidence versus Proof


In the search for evidence of SMOM membership of some candidate I use the following guidelines:

• The more evidence the merrier. And unless I find satisfactory proof of membership for one particular candidate I will stick to the virtue of multiplicity. The more evidence I am able to find, the more likely membership will be. The reason I am not satisfied with only a couple of references claiming membership is that these sources may be dependent on eachother. With that I mean that these sources may derive their information from the same ancestral source (you could call this externally dependent sources). Another possibility could be that some group of researchers rely on eachother's credibility while the source of a claim of membership is ultimately based on mere speculation by some member of that group. You could call these cyclically dependent sources and, as it ultimately is based on conjecture, this is the weakest and most unreliable form of evidence. Another reason for striving to find as much sources as possible is that Internet references are not as robust as book references since Internet sites tend to be taken down after a while, all the more so if it concerns listing incriminating evidence.
  
  Therefore, since it is typically not known how reliable any set of sources is, the game is to find as many, ideally independent, sources as possible.
  
  
• If I find satisfactory proof of membership, the need to find more evidence ceases of course. The amount of evidence I will have gathered to that point in time will thus be corroborated by the proof found. Therefore I will not omit any already procured evidence as it lends credibility to the articles in which they were found, a virtue which may come in useful regarding establishing membership of other candidates. It would also be a waste to throw away research already done.
  

What is admissible proof for membership?

• Admission of membership on official SMOM websites or through official documents.
  
  Example:
  

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  Korte geschiedenis van de Orde
  Rang van Grootkruis van Eer en Devotie van de Nederlandse Afdeling van de SMH Orde van Malta (tot 1970)
  
  (klik op de namen voor foto's)
  
  1911 J.J.G. baron van Voorst tot Voorst, Baljuw, Voorzitter 1911-1931
  
  1911 H.M. Koningin Wilhelmina
  
  1911 Z.K.H. Prins Hendrik, Hertog van Mecklenburg, Baljuw
  
  1931 Mr E.O.J.M. baron van Hövell van Wezeveld en Westerflier, Baljuw, Voorzitter 1931-1936
  
  1936 L.F.J.M. baron van Voorst tot Voorst, Baljuw, Voorzitter 1936-1939
  
  1943 Z.T.J.F. baron van Dorth tot Medler, Baljuw, Voorzitter 1942-1953, Wnd Voorzitter 1939-1942
  
  1946 Zijne eminentie dr J Kardinaal de Jong, Baljuw
  
  1949 S.K.H. Prins Bernhard, Prins van Lippe Biesterfeld, Baljuw
  
  1952 Mr E.H.J. baron van Voorst tot Voorst, Baljuw, Voorzitter 1953-1964
  
  1952 Ir J.B.G.M. ridder de van der Schueren, Baljuw, Kanselier, Voorzitter 1964-1970
  
  1953 Mr E.L.M.H. baron Speyart van Woerden, Coadjutor, Baljuw
  
  1960 Zijne Eminentie dr B. Kardinaal Alfrink, Aartsbisschop, Baljuw, Grootkruis van Magistrale Gratie
  
  1960 H.K.H. Beatrix, Prinses der Nederlanden, (>1980; H.M. de Koningin)
  
  1970 Mr E.T.M. baron van Voorst tot Voorst, Baljuw, Voorzitter 1970-1992

  
  http://www.maltezerorde.nl/gesch_rang_grootkruis.htm
  
  
• Admission of membership on official government websites (or affiliated, or government sanctioned).
  
  Example:
  

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  Emilio T. González
  Under Secretary of Homeland Security
  Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
  [...]
  A graduate of the University of South Florida in Tampa with a B.A. in International Studies, Dr. González also earned MA degrees in Latin American Studies from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana and in Strategic Studies and National Security Affairs from the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree in International Relations from the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Miami, where he also received the Graduate School Award for Academic Achievement. He has been awarded numerous decorations from the United States and has also been decorated by the governments of El Salvador, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Nicaragua. Dr. González is a Knight of Malta.
  

  
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/egonzalez-bio.html
  
  
• Pictures of Knights or Dames wearing official SMOM regalia or ornamentation.
  
  
  Charles Burke Elbrick
  
  
  Benito Mussolini
  

Any listing of incontrovertible proof of the above three kinds will be provided with the addendum: (Proof Positive), so as to indeed confirm SMOM membership with certainty.

All other citations I will regard as evidence and thus ideally, in order to minimize uncertainty, require verification of as many independent sources as possible.

Sometimes I will include evidence that does not directly claim SMOM membership but, given the context is alludes to, (strongly) suggests it. I will introduce these passages with the phrase circumstantial evidence.

Searching the Internet

I use the following basic format for seeking the Internet:

Search String = <alias1> (OR <alias2> (OR <alias3> ...)) <SMOMTail>

where <aliasX> is any name that refers to the SMOM candidate at hand,
and where <SMOMTail> denotes the string of a user specified OR-connected combination of the following search terms:
"knights of malta" SMOM "knight of malta" "Order of Malta" "Ordo di Malta" "Ritter von Malta" "Ridder van Malta" "Caballeros de Malta" "Cabellero de Malta" "Dame of Malta" "Dames of Malta"

Examples:

Gustavo A Cisneros:
Search String = "Gustavo A. Cisneros" OR "gustavo cisneros" OR "G A Cisneros" "knights of malta" OR SMOM OR "knight of malta" OR "papal knight" OR "Order of Malta" OR "Ordo di Malta" OR "Chevaliers de Malte" OR "Ritter von Malta" OR "Ridder van Malta" OR "Caballeros de Malta" OR "Cabellero de Malta" OR "cavaliere di Malta" OR "Cavaler de Malta"

Clare Boothe Luce:
Search String = "Clare Boothe Luce" OR "Clare B Luce" OR "Clare Luce" OR "C B Luce" "Knights of Malta" OR SMOM OR "Dame of Malta" OR "Dames of Malta"

N.B. Although until recently my favorite search engine had been Google, it now turns out that Yahoo comes up with significantly more usable hits than Google. Since Yahoo nowadays is pretty much a Google clone in a lot of respects, I had little trouble in making the switch to Yahoo. In addition, and this is at least as annoying, Google had this stroke of brilliance to limit any search query to 32 terms - thus pretty much rendering incapacitated the bulky queries as submitted using the procedure listed above.

These were enough reasons for me to believe Google has been compromised and so I decided to trade it for Yahoo.

Social Network Diagrams

In all retrievable cases, I will use graphical gadgets called social network diagrams in order to estimate, based on predefined source-material, the group people most associated with some person or some group of people (such as the Knights of Malta). You can find information on the type of social network I use, here:
http://www.namebase.org/instruct.html
http://www.namebase.org/zipdir/mdssoft.html

As an example consider the Social Network Diagram of the Knights of Malta:


http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_KNIGHTS_MALTA_

A network that has been generated from the following list of sources:

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KNIGHTS MALTA
El Salvador 1982-1984 Nicaragua 1985 Honduras 1985 Philippines 1987

* Anderson,S.& J. Inside the League. 1986 (183)
* Chasey,W. Pan Am 103: The Lockerbie Cover Up. 1995 (78-9)
* Cooney,J. The American Pope. 1984 (62-3, 99)
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1986-#25 (3, 13, 27-3
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1988-#29 (22)
* Covert Action Quarterly 1994-#49 (22, 24)
* Guardian (New York) 1985-03-13 (3)
* Gurwin,L. The Calvi Affair. 1984 (181)
* Honegger,B. October Surprise. 1989 (235)
* Intelligence/Parapolitics (Paris) 1988-05 (17)
* King,D. Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism. 1989 (223, 225)
* Lernoux,P. People of God. 1989 (283-301)
* Levenstein,A. Escape to Freedom. 1983 (59)
* Mother Jones 1983-07 (22-4)
* National Reporter 1986-W (56-61)
* New York Times 1988-04-07 (A7)
* Parapolitics/USA 1982-03-31 (19, 31-7)
* Parapolitics/USA 1983-03-01 (31, 35, B12, 13-4, 17-
* Reese,M. General Reinhard Gehlen: The CIA Connection. 1990 (86)
* Resource Center. GroupWatch 1991-SMOM (1-3)
* Resource Center. The New Right Humanitarians. 1986 (55-6)
* Russell,D. The Man Who Knew Too Much. 1992 (528-9, 676)
* Sklar,H. Washington's War on Nicaragua. 1988 (239-40)
* Sojourners Magazine 1985-10 (16)
* Thomas,E. The Man to See. 1991 (389-90)
* Vankin,J. Conspiracies, Cover-ups, and Crimes. 1991 (174-6)
* Vistica,G. Fall From Glory. 1997 (149-50)
* Washington Post 1984-12-27 (A1, 25)
* Washington Post 1985-05-03 (A22)
* Washington Post 1990-03-18 (B2)

pages cited this search: 97

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?_KNIGHTS_MALTA_

Here's another example, the social network surrounding the Stay-Behind post WWII terror network known as "Gladio":

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_OPERATION_GLADIO_

Quote:

OPERATION GLADIO
Italy 1956-1972

* Covert Action Quarterly 1994-#49 (20-7, 62-3)
* Dorril,S. MI6. 2000 (32)
* Dorril,S. Ramsay,R. Smear! 1992 (225-6)
* Executive Intelligence Review 1999-06-04 (27-
* Executive Intelligence Review 2006-05-26 (69, 71)
* George Magazine 1997-10 (7
* Intelligence (Paris) 1995-11-20 (1)
* Intelligence (Paris) 1996-09-23 (4
* Intelligence Newsletter (Paris) 1990-11-21 (4-5)
* Intelligence Newsletter (Paris) 1990-12-05 (1, 3)
* Intelligence Newsletter (Paris) 1990-12-19 (5)
* Intelligence Newsletter (Paris) 1991-07-03 (6)
* Lee,M. The Beast Reawakens. 1997 (206)
* Lies Of Our Times 1991-06 (21-2)
* Lobster Magazine (Britain) 2005-#49 (44-5)
* NameBase NewsLine 1994-04 (9)
* Ostrovsky,V. Other Side of Deception. 1995 (5, 289)
* Vankin,J. Conspiracies, Cover-ups, and Crimes. 1991 (189)
* Village Voice 1993-04-27 (8 )
* Washington Post 1990-11-14 (A19, 20)
* Willan,P. Puppetmasters. 1991 (146-59, 357-

pages cited this search: 54

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?_OPERATION_GLADIO_

And of course we cannot forget the SMOM invested irregular freemasonic organised crime conglomerate known as "Propaganda Due" or simply P2:

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_PROPAGANDA_DUE_%28P%32%29

Quote:

PROPAGANDA DUE (P2)
Greece 1967 Italy 1971-1986

* Bellant,R. Old Nazis. 1989 (26-
* Christie,S. Stefano Delle Chiaie. 1984 (110-3, 162-3)
* Cornwell,R. God's Banker. 1984 (44-8, 72-3)
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1986-#25 (34-5)
* Covert Action Quarterly 1994-#49 (24)
* DiFonzo,L. St.Peter's Banker. 1983 (65-74, 98-100)
* Executive Intelligence Review 1999-06-04 (27-
* Executive Intelligence Review 2006-10-06 (49)
* Friedman,A. Spider's Web. 1993 (85)
* Gurwin,L. The Calvi Affair. 1984 (xvi, 15, 50-4, 61-7, 74, 180-3, 187)
* Herman,E. Brodhead,F. Rise and Fall of Bulgarian Connection. 1986 (xvi, 4, 6, 81-5, 89, 94, 98, 101-2, 108, 113, 134, 188, 208)
* Honegger,B. October Surprise. 1989 (14, 124, 201, 210-1, 229-44)
* Intelligence (Paris) 1996-05-13 (72)
* Intelligence (Paris) 1999-01-11 (22)
* Intelligence Newsletter (Paris) 1988-11-30 (8 )
* Intelligence/Parapolitics (Paris) 1987-11 (1-6)
* Italian Parliament. Licio Gelli's List of P2 Members. 1981
* Lernoux,P. People of God. 1989 (289-90)
* Mantius,P. Shell Game. 1995 (102-3)
* Marshall,J... The Iran-Contra Connection. 1987 (24, 69-76)
* Nation 1987-04-25 (539-40)
* National Reporter 1986-W (60-1)
* Naylor,R.T. Hot Money and the Politics of Debt. 1994 (84-8, 100, 124, 135, 140)
* Ostrovsky,V. Other Side of Deception. 1995 (289)
* Parapolitics/USA 1982-03-31 (18-9, 25)
* Richelson,J. Foreign Intelligence Organizations. 1988 (118-22)
* Scheim,D. Contract on America. 1988 (321-5)
* Scott,P.D. Marshall,J. Cocaine Politics. 1991 (43)
* Sterling,C. Octopus. 1991 (192)
* Sterling,C. Thieves' World. 1994 (74, 235)
* Syrokomsky,V. International Terrorism and the CIA. 1983 (221-5, 254-6)
* Thomas,K. Keith,J. The Octopus. 1996 (77, 86-7)
* Top Secret (Germany) 1990-F (21)
* Tosches,N. Power on Earth. 1986 (3-4, 166)
* Vankin,J. Conspiracies, Cover-ups, and Crimes. 1991 (175-6, 189)
* Vankin,J. Whalen,J. The 60 Greatest Conspiracies. 1998 (115, 117, 342)
* Walter,I. The Secret Money Market. 1990 (146-7)
* Willan,P. Puppetmasters. 1991 (48-86, 95, 135, 230-1)
* Yallop,D. In God's Name. 1985
* Yallop,D. Tracking the Jackal. 1993 (193-4)

pages cited this search: 218

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?_PROPAGANDA_DUE_%28P%32%29

And why not throw in the holiest of holy (ahum): the "Bank of God", the infamous Vatican Bank (IOR):

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_VATICAN_BANK_%28INSTITUTE%20RELIGIOUS%20WORKS%29

Quote:

VATICAN BANK (INSTITUTE RELIGIOUS WORKS)
Italy 1942-1988

* Christie,S. Stefano Delle Chiaie. 1984 (43, 112)
* Cornwell,R. God's Banker. 1984 (50-8, 71, 208-9, 225-33, 237)
* Covert Action Information Bulletin 1986-#25 (35)
* DiFonzo,L. St.Peter's Banker. 1983 (5)
* Gurwin,L. The Calvi Affair. 1984 (11-3, 25-6, 69, 132, 134, 167-78, 208-9)
* Intelligence (Paris) 1998-07-13 (9)
* Intelligence (Paris) 1999-01-11 (22)
* Intelligence (Paris) 2000-10-23 (35)
* Lernoux,P. In Banks We Trust. 1984 (191-222)
* Lernoux,P. People of God. 1989 (290)
* Loftus,J. Aarons,M. The Secret War Against the Jews. 1994 (62-3)
* Mantius,P. Shell Game. 1995 (101-2)
* Marshall,J... The Iran-Contra Connection. 1987 (69)
* Naylor,R.T. Hot Money and the Politics of Debt. 1994 (52, 80, 118-20, 126-7, 250-3, 265)
* Seagrave,S.& P. Gold Warriors. 2003 (105)
* Sterling,C. Octopus. 1991 (191)
* Stich,R. Defrauding America. 1994 (419, 533)
* Tosches,N. Power on Earth. 1986 (42-6, 123-7, 172, 246-7)
* Vankin,J. Whalen,J. The 60 Greatest Conspiracies. 1998 (114-5, 117)
* Walter,I. The Secret Money Market. 1990 (135-46)
* Washington Post 1989-06-21 (A16)
* Washington Times 1996-06-02 (A7)
* Yallop,D. In God's Name. 1985

pages cited this search: 136

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?_VATICAN_BANK_%28INSTITUTE%20RELIGIOUS%20WORKS%29

[size=x-large]Member Index of SMOM Movers and Shakers of the 20th-21st Century[/size]

In no particular order:
PAGE 1

1. Major General William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan - Wartime head of the OSS and co-founder of the CIA
   
2. Baron Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen - Politician who Helped Adolf Hitler to power; Reichskonkordat Negotiator
   
3. General Reinhard Gehlen - Nazi Chief of Intelligence over Russia; Head of Gehlen Org; Head of BND
   
4. J. Peter Grace - CEO of W.R.Grace and Company; Head of the American branch of SMOM
   

PAGE 2

1. Prince Junio Valerio Scipione Borghese - Italian Elite Naval Commander and Leader of the Fascist Terrorist Outfit: X-MAS
   
2. Allen Welsh Dulles - Lawyer; OSS Top Officer; First Head of the CIA
   
3. Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini - Italy's Fascist Wartime Prime Minister
   
4. Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman - Archbishop of New York; Grand Protector of the American Branch of SMOM
   
5. John Jakob Raskob - DuPont and GM Top Executive; Builder of the Empire State Building; Political Mover and Shaker
   
6. Myron Charles Taylor - Head of the United Steel Company; Businessman and Diplomat
   
7. James Jesus Angleton - CIA Chief of Counterintelligence and Head o/t ‘Vatican Desk’ &/t ‘Israel Desk’
   
8. Count Licio Gelli - Arch-fascist and Grandmaster of the Italian P2 Fringe Masonic Lodge
   
9. Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. - Patriarch of the Kennedy Clan, Businessman and Ambassador; Political Figure
   
10. Joseph J Larkin - Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank European Affairs
    

PAGE 3

1. William Joseph Casey - CIA Director
   
2. Lee Iacocca - CEO of Chrysler; President of Ford Motor Company; Chairman of Lee Iacocca & Associates, Inc.
   
3. Francis X Stankard - Director of LXE Inc.; Vice Chairman American Express Bank; Chase Manhattan Top Executive
   
4. James Augustine Farrell - President of US Steel
   
5. Dr. Hermann Josef Abs - "Hitler's Paymaster" as Head o/t Deutsche Bank; Board-member of IG Farben, Daimler Benz, Siemens
   
6. Konrad Hermann Josef Adenauer - First Postwar German Federal Chancellor
   
7. Thomas Bolan - Top Lawyer; partner in Saxe, Bacon and Bolan
   
8. Francis J. Shakespeare - Catholic Right Wing Propaganda Top Executive; Ambassador
   
9. Francis Vincent Ortiz, Jr. - Foreign Service Officer; Ambassador
   
10. Patrick J. Frawley, Jr. - Heir to the Schick razor fortune
    

PAGE 4

1. Admiral James David Watkins - Chief of Naval Operations; US Secretary of Energy
   
2. Maxwell M. Rabb - US Businessman, Politician, Lawyer and Ambassador
   
3. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands; Bilderberger; Club of Rome; Major Shareholder of Shell
   
4. William Barron Hilton - Head o/t Hilton Hotel Chain
   
5. John Alexander McCone – CIA Director
   
6. William Egan Colby – CIA Director
   
7. General Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. - US Secretary of State; White House Chief of Staff; Vice Chief of Staff of the Army; Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR); Supreme Allied Commander of NATO
   

PAGE 5

1. George H. W. Bush - 41st President of the US; Skull & Bonesman; CIA Director
   
2. William Edward Simon - Secretary of Treasury; Administrator of the Federal Energy Office; President of the John M. Olin Foundation
   
3. Prince Bernhard - Consort to the Queen o/t Netherlands; Cofounder of the Bilderberg Club, 1001 Club, Rotary International; Inspector General of the Dutch Air Force, Army and Navy
   
4. Nicholas Frederick Brady - 68th Secretary of the Treasury; CFR; Chairman of the Board of Dillon, Read & Company, Inc.; Corporate Polymath
   
5. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing - French Centre-right Politician; President of the French Republic
   
6. Clare Boothe Luce - Editor; Playwright; Social activist; Politician; Journalist; Diplomat; CFR
   
7. General Mark Wayne Clark - Commander of Allied Forces in Italy during WWII
   
8. Charles Burke Elbrick - Career US Ambassador
   
9. Frank Joseph Fahrenkopf, Jr. - President and CEO of the American Gaming Association (AGA); New York Stock Exchange Boardmember (6x)
   
10. L. Francis Rooney III - US Ambassador to the Holy See; CEO of Rooney Holdings, Inc.; Corporate Polymath
    

PAGE 6

1. General Joseph Edward Schmitz - Inspector General o/t Dept. of Defense; COO Blackwater USA
   

Updating history:
2008-01-21 (added page 1-3)
2008-01-24 (added page 4)
2008-01-26 (added page 5)

Major General William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan - Wartime head of the OSS and co-founder of the CIA

Quote:

Major General William Joseph Donovan, KBE United States Army (January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959) was an American soldier, lawyer and intelligence officer, best remembered today as wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). He is also widely known as the "father" of today's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

In June 1941, Donovan received what would be his most important assignment: Roosevelt named him Coordinator of Information (COI). This made him the first overall chief of the United States Intelligence community, which at the time was fragmented into Army, Navy, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), United States Department of State, and other interests. The FBI retained its independence, and control of intelligence in South America, at the insistence of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

It was Donovan who crucially organised the COI's New York headquarters in Room 3603 of Rockefeller Center in October, 1941 and asked Allen Dulles to head it; the offices Dulles took over had been the location of the operations of Britain's MI6.

In 1942, the COI became the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and Donovan was returned to active duty in his World War I rank of colonel (by war's end, he would be promoted to major general). The OSS was responsible for espionage and sabotage in Europe and in parts of Asia. The OSS was kept out of South America by Hoover's hostility to Donovan, and out of the Philippines by the antipathy of Douglas MacArthur.

For many years, the exploits of the OSS remained secret, but in the 1970s and 1980s, significant parts of the OSS history were declassified, making Donovan a household name to a new generation.

After Roosevelt's death, Donovan's political position, which depended on his personal connection to the President, was substantially weakened. He argued forcefully for the retention of the OSS in the years after the war, but President Harry S. Truman was not interested (although the subsequent formation of the CIA did generally follow a related proposal initiated by Donovan).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joseph_Donovan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Knights_of_Malta

Quote:

Allied commanders in Southeast Asia plot the war, late 1944. Standing: Major General Wedemeyer, commanding China theater; seated, left to right: Lieutenant General Daniel I. Sultan, commanding Burma-India theater; Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied commander, Southeast Asia Command; and Major General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, chief of U.S. Office of Strategic Services.

http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3475716.html

Quote:

The founding fathers of the CIA William "Wild Bill" Donovan and Allen Dulles were knights, as were many other CIA hierarchy including Ronald Reagan's director William Casey and JFK's director John McCone. According to "Watergate" journalist Carl Bernstein, Casey gave Pope John Paul II unprecedented access to CIA intelligence including spy satellites and agents.

In fact, one could blame the start of the Cold War upon "Wild Bill" Donovan personally. At the end of the First World War Donovan led a secret mission to Siberia to observe the Russian Revolution. Due to his reconnaissance an American unit was sent to fight the Russian Bolsheviks who were broadly considered Allies, as they were still fighting the Germans alongside the British and the French in the trenches of Europe. The American troops could not understand why they were being ordered to burn the villages and kill "these poor and hungry peasants, who've been treated so terribly by their rulers", as one "doughboy" wrote to his wife. It is historically un-American to side with the aristocratic powers of Europe against the common man. Donovan's motives for fighting the Bolsheviks could only have been due to his Vatican/Knights of Malta allegiances, as at this time the Russian Revolution was no threat to the American Republic. As a consequence in July 1944 Pope Pius XII awarded Donovan the 'Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sylvester', the oldest and most prestigious of papal knighthoods, and the highest Catholic award ever received by an American. Less than one hundred men have received this award throughout history.

The Knights of Malta's key spheres of control are Africa and Latin America, and include many dictators such as mass murderer General Pinochet in their ranks.

Membership in Latin America includes Masonic lodge "P2" fascists and many surviving Nazi players, who are directly responsible for the formation of the modern neo-Nazi movement. Knight and Nazi escapee Otto "Scarface" Skorzeny, who led a commando raid on the Cathar region of France in search of occult artifacts including the Holy Grail, played a major role in the Vatican's "Rat Run". He was a close friend of Argentinian president and knight Juan Peron, who recent CIA documents prove was also involved in the laundering of Nazi gold through the Vatican Bank. Conveniently for Nazi members who did not escape Europe, William Donovan served as chief aide to the American prosecutor at the post-war Nuremberg trials, after handing over the reigns of the OSS/CIA to fellow knight Allen Dulles.

As Roman Catholic author Penny Lernoux reveals in her "People of God": "After the war, the Vatican, the OSS, the SS, and various branches of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta joined to do battle against the common Soviet enemy - and to help Nazi war criminals escape... Baron Luigi Parrilli, an Italian aristocrat and Knight of Malta/papal chamberlain, took part in negotiations between SS leaders and the CIA's Allen Dulles."

[...]

As the Cold War intensified, former Vatican agent and knight Joseph H. Retinger, acting on behalf of the Vatican and the Priory of Sion, effectively forged ties with the European Council of Princes (the respectable name for the Dragon Sovereignty), the CIA, and Britain's MI6 to create the New World Order think-tank "The Bilderberg Group", of which Henry Kissinger is a permanent member. It's first chairman was Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who held that position for the next 22 years, until a financial scandal forced him to resign. His daughter, Shell Oil co-owner Queen Beatrix regularly attends meetings, as do ample other European aristocratic players. The undemocratic "Bilderberg Group" continues to play a major part in international affairs, and remains closed to public scrutiny and participation.

Documents show that New York's Cardinal Francis Spellman was directly involved in the 1954 right-wing military coup of Guatemala, which led to the murder of thousands, and of which the CIA has acknowledged complicity. He has also been linked to neo-Nazi group "P2" and the Mafia by his long involvement with "P2" member Archbishop Paul Marcinkus of Chicago, former head of the Vatican Bank, who was under serious suspicion by Italian authorities for the untimely death of Pope John Paul I. Cardinal Spellman was not only an old friend of CIA creator "Wild Bill" Donovan (who previously had a law firm in New York) but was the actual head of the Knights of Malta in America throughout the 40's, 50's and 60's, and was responsible for vast sums of money raised from its members, who have to pay thousands annually to remain in the order.

http://www.geocities.com/newworldorder_the...htsofmalta.html


Donovan depicted by DeNiro in movie "The Good Shepherd"

Vatican Awards:

Quote:

# Lateran Medal (Vatican)
# Order of St. Sylvester (Vatican)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joseph_Donovan

Quote:

Knight William Donovan served as chief aide to the American prosecutor at the post-war Nuremberg trials, after handing over the reigns of the OSS/CIA to fellow Knight Allen Dulles.

http://www.voxfux.com/features/knightsofmalta.html

Circumstantial evidence:

Quote:

When Rome was liberated in 1944 Morlion and Pro Deo relocated there. In recognition of Donovan's good works on behalf of Pro Deo, Pope Plus XII knighted him with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sylvester. And before he flew off to Washington to cut his deal with the CIA, Reinhard Gehlen received the Sovereign Military Order of Malta award from the Pontiff. So did James Jesus Angleton, a Donovan operative in Rome who became the CIA's chief of counterintelligence.

http://www.prouty.org/brussell/nazi-1.html

Circumstantial evidence:

Quote:

During and after WWII, Roman Catholic William ["Wild Bill"] Donovan headed the OSS [American forerunner of the CIA]. Donovan was decorated in July 1944 by Pope Pius XII with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sylvester, "the Vatican's highest award, for a lifetime of public and secret service to the [Roman] Catholic Church".

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/ut8387.html

Circumstantial evidence:

Quote:

William “Wild Bill” Donovan, founder of the OSS, which was the predecessor to the CIA. They didn’t call him “Wild Bill” for nothing; his legend is well-deserved. Pope Pius XII awarded Donovan the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sylvester; less than 100 of these have been given out throughout history.

http://www.branchfloridians.org/wdu84.html

Circumstantial evidence:

Quote:

Most of his adult life, G.H.W. Bush had been a member, and for a while director, of the Central Intelligence Agency, an organization founded in 1947 by William J. (“Wild Bill”) Donovan for the purpose of providing “special means” to insure Vatican influence over the secular world and subsidized by American taxpayers. Donovan was a devout Roman Catholic, decorated in July 1944 by Pope Pius XII with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sylvester, “the Vatican’s highest award, for a lifetime of public and secret service to the [Roman] Catholic Church.”

http://continuingcounterreformation.blogsp...09_archive.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/papal-orders-of-chivalry

Other sites mentioning Donovan was a Knight of Malta:
http://www.politicalfriendster.com/rateCon...5338&id2=54
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/kmlst1.htm
http://inpursuitofhappiness.wordpress.com/...s-army-in-iraq/
http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv....m/msg06090.html
http://www.vaticanassassins.org/hitlers_papal.htm
http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/know/read.php?itemid=5479
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-overclass.html
http://www.declarepeace.org.uk/captain/mur...te/naziMOD.html
http://www.oss.net/dynamaster/file_archive/060107/e4e35f8c34df03e4e142cc71de860af7/New%20Epilogue~1Jan2005.pdf
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/smokemirrors.html

Social Network Diagram:

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_DONOVAN_WILLIAM_JOSEPH
Sources:

Quote:

DONOVAN WILLIAM JOSEPH
USSR 1943 Thailand 1953-1954

* Aarons,M. Loftus,J. Unholy Trinity. 1992 (278)
* Adams,J. Secret Armies. 1988 (21-3)
* Anson,R. They've Killed the President! 1975 (291)
* Bamford,J. Body of Secrets. 2001 (7)
* Bird,K. The Chairman. 1992 (129-30)
* Bledowska,C. Bloch,J. KGB/CIA. 1987 (6-7)
* Blum,W. The CIA: A Forgotten History. 1986 (26)
* Blumenthal,S. Yazijian,H. Government by Gunplay. 1976 (163)
* CIA. Studies in Intelligence: Index 1955-1992 (2
* CIA. Studies in Intelligence: Website Index. 2006 (52, 61, 91)
* Chernow,R. The House of Morgan. 1990 (211)
* Chester,E. Covert Network. 1995 (5, 61, 64, 77, 107, 123-4, 149-50, 154, 197-8, 242)
* Cockburn,A.& L. Dang