Religion: Cope-and-Dagger Stories

Businessmen, students, journalists, even Mafiosi have all, it seems, been used by the CIA for its various overseas operations. Has the CIA also extended its reach to the church? Many missionaries, particularly in Latin America, have regularly, and falsely, been accused of having CIA ties. Last week religious periodicals around the U.S. were carrying new allegations that certain churchmen had either given information to the CIA or received money from it for propaganda purposes. Most of the charges came from two articles, distributed by the National Catholic News Service, written by an inveterate...

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