The supposed 'mole' on TV:
The stories do not add up
Translated from
February 24, 2012
On Wednesday, the La7 TV program 'The Untouchables' featured an interview with one of the supposed Vatican employes responsible for Vatileaks.
The person, very well camouflaged to avoid any identification point, claimed there are about 20 persons like him engaged in disclosing confidential files from the Vatican.
He did not appear to be a priest, and one must ask which documents he has access to as a lay employee.
But what struck me most was that he spoke very little about the episodes referred to in the letters and notes that have been made public so far but concentrated on two 'dramatic' crimes that took place during the previous Pontificate.
The first case, which has remained unresolved, is the abduction of Emmanuela Orlandi, age 15, and the daughter of an assistant in the papal antechambers (he died a few years ago), who was abducted from a street in central Rome 29 years ago.
The second was the May 1998 killings of Swiss Guard commandant Alois Estermann and his wife, apparently at the hands of a young Guard, Cedric Tornay, who then was thought to have killed himself.
The Orlandi case remains a black hole in the recent history of the Vatican, as expressed in a private note written by Fr. Federico Lomardi, presumably to Benedict XVI, which was made public recently on another TV program,
Chi l'ha visto? (Who has seen him/her?) about missing persons. In the note, Lombardi refers to the unresolved aspects of the case and the unanswered questions.
[Presumably, Lombardi wrote it after Orlandi's brother sent a petition to Benedict XVI asking him to re-open the investigation of the case. However, unlike the Estermann case, the Orlandi case took place in Rome, not at the Vatican, so the investigation was handled by the Rome police. Has anyone checked whether the Orlandi family has asked the Rome police to reopen the case?]
The presumed mole cites the two episodes to justify his anger and toexplain why he decided to leak confidential files. But he adds not an iota of new information about these cases - he appears to know absolutely nothing new about them. As little, in fact, as he has to say about the more recent episodes cited in the leaked documents.
Watching the video, I wondered why ever would such a 'mole' risk leaking those documents and then expose himself in this way, at a time when the Vatican's internal security apparatus is actively investigating how the leaks could have occurred and who was/were responsible in order to catch the culprits.
[[If he isn't really a mole, but only someone the TV producers groomed to claim to be one - which is not an unlikely scenario - then he wasn't really risking anything! It sounds more and more like a dishonest gimmick used by the producers to keep up interest in their program. - since, after the Vigano letters, the disclosures they have made so far really amount to a pile of crap.]]
Another question which lingers after watching the program is who could possibly be 'directing' this behind the scenes. If this is a genuine power struggle in the Vatican - the assumption is, between the Old Guard loyal to Cardinal Sodano and the men answerable to Cardinal Bertone - it would seem strange that the supposed 'mole' should be pushing the Orlandi and Estermann cases which both took place and were handled by the previous administration in John Paul II's Pontificate - and in which Bertone and his people were certainly not involved.
So why did the disguised mole bring up these cases? Was he sending some signal, was he intentionally throwing out red herrings, what is his game?
Another new element in this matter is a 50-line anonymous note published today in
La Repubblica, said to be circulating in the Vatican about the existence of a P4 in the Vatican.
[P4 would be a Masonic lodge, like the infamous P2 - for Prooaganda Due - a secret Masonic lodge exposed in 1981 when its Grand Master Licio Gelli was found to be responsible for about $1.4 billion unaccounted funds in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal, as well as the 1980 bomb killing of 85 persons in the the Bologna train station. A list of 962 prominent P2 members in the Italian civil and military service was found. Like everywhere else, the Masons have managed to keep their affairs very secret, and although many speculative stories circulate about them and the great secret influence they have on every major government in the Western world, they remain mostly 'mysterious'.]
This P$ is supposed to be *the lay support structure of the Vatican Prime Minister" (i.e., Cardinal Bertone), discussed in a January 28 unsigned article in
Il Giornale.
The point about this latest note (which has a value close to zero, since it is anonymous, and does not contain anything new) is that it continues the intention of the Vigano letters to imply outside interests and machinations involving that 'lay structure' attributed to Bertone.
But one gets the impression, after watching the camouflaged presumed mole, is that the architects of this intrigue are truly scraping the barrel.
[See, "there really is no there there".]
If there is anything that emerges from all this that could help in any way to clear up the fate of a girl who disappeared 29 years ago, or if it could reduce the influence of any member of the business underbrush angling for Vatican contracts and claiming to be acting for some high-ranking Vatican officials, then perhaps all these tales
will amount to something more than just scorched earth.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 25/02/2012 02:27]