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Identity of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM)

This is what the Knights of Malta or Order of Malta or SMOM in brief, says about itself:

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Mission of the Order

The Order of St John of Jerusalem is one of the oldest institutions of Western and Christian civilisation. Present in Palestine in around 1050, it is a lay religious Order, traditionally of military, chivalrous, noble nature. Its 12,500 members include Professed Friars and others who have made vows of obedience. The other Knights and Dames are lay members, devoted to the exercise of Christian virtue and charity. What distinguishes the Knights of Malta is their commitment to reaching their spiritual perfection within the Church and to expending their energies serving the poor and the sick.
The Order of Malta remains true to its inspiring principles, summarised in the motto "Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum", defence of the Faith and assistance to the poor and the suffering, which become reality through the voluntary work carried out by Dames and Knights in humanitarian assistance and medical and social activities. Today the Order carries out these activities in over 120 countries.

Characteristics of the Order

The Sovereign Order of Malta is a sovereign subject of international law, with its own constitution, passports, stamps, and public institutions. The 78th Grand Master, Fra' Andrew Bertie, was elected Head of the Order for life in 1988.

The Order has diplomatic relations with 100 countries - many of which non-Catholic - and missions to major European countries, as well as to European and international organisations. The Order of Malta is neutral, impartial and non-political, which is why it can successfully act as a mediator between States.

The Order and the Republic of Malta

The Order has recently returned to Malta, after signing an agreement with the Maltese Government which granted the Order the exclusive use of Fort St. Angelo for a term of 99 years. Located in the town of Birgu, the Fort belonged to the Knights from 1530 until the island was occupied by Napoleon in 1798. Today, after restoration, the Fort hosts historical and cultural activities related to the Order of Malta.

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

The hierarchy of the SMOM is as follows:

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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_malt...idlingua=5

Unfortunately for the SMOM, its self-image is not shared by everybody. Let's address what more impartial and critical researchers say about the SMOM:

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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.

William Cooper's - Behold a Pale Horse (pp88-89)

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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 [b]world's leading aristocrats, financiers, and particularly military and intelligence officials. [/b]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_i...rince.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."

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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 including "aid to victims of conflicts."4 (See below on Americares.)

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

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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...."
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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 Lee Iacocca and Central Intelligence Agency Director William Casey.

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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[...] 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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Who Are The Knights Of Malta?

The Knights of Malta are a Roman Catholic organization with quasi mystical practices used mainly to advance Vatican influences in the political sphere. It is more exclusive than the Roman Catholic 'Knights of Columbus' and is rooted somewhat in the ethos of the barbaric Knights Templar of the Crusader Period (so too are St. John's Ambulance service, but they are more secular and benign).

Unlike the OPUS DEI cult founded by the fascist Jesuit Jose Marie Escrive, the Knights of Malta confer honorary membership on non Catholics in certain circumstances as a means of forging relationship with persons of power and influence. Moriel and Jacob Prasch of course warn against this organization and we regard both it and the ecumenical agenda it fronts for as being sinister and incompatible with biblical Christianity.

http://www.moriel.org/articles/discernme..._balta.htm

Present Grandmaster of the SMOM:

78th Frà Andrew Bertie 1988-2008

http://www.maltezerorde.nl/gesch_vorst_g...esters.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_g...esters.htm

EDIT: Bertie died in February 2008 and was succeeded by Matthew Festing:

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Profile of His Most Eminent Highness the Prince and Grand Master
Fra' Matthew FESTING

Fra’ Matthew Festing, an Englishman, was elected Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta on 11th March 2008 by the Council Complete of State of the Order of Malta. He succeeds Fra’ Andrew Bertie, 78th Grand Master (1988-2008), who died on 7 February.
Born in Northumberland on 30 november 1949, educated at Ampleforth and St. John’s College Cambridge, where he read history, Fra’ Matthew, an art expert, has for most of his professional life worked at an international art auction house. As a child he lived in Egypt and Singapore, where his father, Field Marshal Sir Francis Festing, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, had earlier postings. He is also descended from Sir Adrian Fortescue, a knight of Malta, who was martyred in 1539.

Fra’ Matthew Festing served in the Grenadier Guards and holds the rank of colonel in the Territorial Army. He was appointed OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) by the Queen and served as her Deputy Lieutenant in the county of Northumberland.

He became a member of the Sovereign Order of Malta in 1977, and took solemn religious vows in 1991, becoming a Professed Knight of the Order. Between 1993 and 2008 he was the Grand Prior of England. In this capacity, he has led missions of humanitarian aid to Kosovo, Serbia and Croatia after the recent disturbances in those countries, and he attends the Order’s international annual pilgrimage to Lourdes.

As well as his passion for the decorative arts and for history, his encyclopaedic knowledge of the history of the Order of Malta is well known.

http://www.orderofmalta.org/site/granmae...idlingua=5

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 SMOM "Knight of Justice" see:

http://vaticanassassins.org/knight_of_justice.htm

For an excellent overview of the various medals and insignia of SMOM, visit:
http://www.vaticanassassins.org/ODM-SMOM1.pdf
One to keep in mind is the Cross of Merit:

SMOM Formal Attire
http://bloggingyoungfogey.blogspot.com/2...chive.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/...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 not be independent from each other. Two sources are independent if their respective authors are not the same and one is not derivative of the other. The likelihood of something being true increases with the number of independent affirming sources. Therefore, unless unshakable proof can be found, in order to maximize the certainty of SMOM membership, it is necessary to find as much evidence as possible, supported by as many independent sources as possible. Another reason for striving to find as many sources as possible is that Internet references are not as robust as book references since websites tend to be taken down after a while, all the more so if it concerns listing incriminating evidence regarding certain powerful parties.

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 SMOM documents. In addition, I will also admit proof brought forward by other official Catholic channels.

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)
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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
Admission of SMOM membership of some candidate on official company websites or documents to which the candidate is confirmed to belong to or be affiliated with.

Example:

http://www.hsifilms.com/steven-saxton.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 four 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. Unless I can establish proof of SMOM membership of some nominee, the threshold for publishing will be set at two ideally independent sources of evidence.

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 "Order of Malta" OR "Ordo di Malta" OR "Chevaliers de Malte" OR "Cavalieri di Malta" 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 "Order of Malta" OR "Ordo di Malta" OR "Chevaliers de Malte" OR "Cavalieri di Malta" 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:

Quote:

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, 27-38)
* 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, 17-8)
* 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 (27-8)
* Executive Intelligence Review 2006-05-26 (69, 71)
* George Magazine 1997-10 (78)
* Intelligence (Paris) 1995-11-20 (1)
* Intelligence (Paris) 1996-09-23 (48)
* 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, 357-8)

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?_PR...%28P%32%29

Quote:

PROPAGANDA DUE (P2)
Greece 1967 Italy 1971-1986

* Bellant,R. Old Nazis. 1989 (26-8)
* 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 (27-8)
* 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?_PR...%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?_VA...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?_VA...20WORKS%29

Member Index of SMOM Movers and Shakers of the 20th-21st Century

In no particular order:
PAGE 1

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

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

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

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Admiral James David Watkins - Chief of Naval Operations; US Secretary of Energy
Maxwell M. Rabb - US Businessman, Politician, Lawyer and Ambassador
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands; Bilderberger; Club of Rome; Major Shareholder of Shell
William Barron Hilton - Head o/t Hilton Hotel Chain
John Alexander McCone – CIA Director
William Egan Colby – CIA Director
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
Edward Cardinal Egan - Archbishop of New York; Principal Chaplain of the American Association o/t SMOM
John J. Danilovich - Ambassador; CEO Millennium Challenge Corporation; CFR
Patrick Joseph Buchanan - Columnist; Pundit

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George H. W. Bush - 41st President of the US; Skull & Bonesman; CIA Director
William Edward Simon - Secretary of Treasury; Administrator of the Federal Energy Office; President of the John M. Olin Foundation
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
Nicholas Frederick Brady - 68th Secretary of the Treasury; CFR; Chairman of the Board of Dillon, Read & Company, Inc.; Corporate and Political Polymath
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing - French Centre-right Politician; President of the French Republic
Clare Boothe Luce - Editor; Playwright; Social activist; Politician; Journalist; Diplomat; CFR
General Mark Wayne Clark - Commander of Allied Forces in Italy during WWII
Charles Burke Elbrick - Career US Ambassador
Frank Joseph Fahrenkopf, Jr. - President and CEO of the American Gaming Association (AGA); New York Stock Exchange Boardmember (6x)
L. Francis Rooney III - US Ambassador to the Holy See; CEO of Rooney Holdings, Inc.; Corporate Polymath

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General Joseph Edward Schmitz - Inspector General o/t Dept. of Defense; COO Blackwater USA
Prescott Bush Jr. - US Businessman and Politician
Craig J Neumann de Paulo - Religious Philosopher; Senior Editor; President of St.Peter's Institute
General Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank - Chief o/t Defense Staff; Chief o/t General Staff; Non-executive Director of NM Rothschild & Sons
General Vernon A. Walters - Deputy Director of Central Intelligence; US Ambassador to the UN, Germany; Roving Ambassador
Patrick Cardinal Hayes - Archbishop of New York; First Chaplain of the American Branch of SMOM
Patrick E. Crowley - President of the New York Central Railroad
Spyros S. Skouras - Chairman, president, and CEO of Prudential Lines, Inc.
Gustavo A. Cisneros - Venezuelan Billionaire; Chairman and CEO o/t Cisneros Group of Companies; Media Mogul
King Juan Carlos I of Spain - Club of Rome; Order o/t Garter; Order o/t Golden Fleece; 1001 Club

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Ion Cioaba - Self-Proclaimed King of the Gypsies
Elmer Holmes Bobst - President Hoffman-LaRoche & Company; Chairman Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co.; Head of The American Cancer Society
Prince Massimo Spada - Italian Banker & Businessman
Martin F. Shea - Executive vice president of Morgan Guaranty Trust; Vice Chairman of the St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center
Otto Erzherzog von Österreich (Dr. Otto von Habsburg) - Crown Prince of Austria; Honorary President of the International Paneuropean Union; Member o/t European Parliament; Order of the Golden Fleece; Grand Master, Military Maria Theresia Order
William H.G. FitzGerald - US Ambassador to Ireland; Vice chairman of Financial General Bankshares; Investor
Edward Bennett Williams - Washington Superlawyer; Founder of law firm Williams & Connelly; Knights of Malta National President
Richard St. John Harris - Grammy Award-winning Irish Actor of International Acclaim
William Frank Buckley Jr. - Author; Commentator; Founder of National Review; Hosted TV show Firing Line; CIA Agent; Skull & Bonesman
James Lane Buckley - US Senator New York; Vice-President and Director of Catawba Corporation; Undersecretary of State for Security Assistance; President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc.; Federal Judge; Skull & Bonesman

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Queen Wilhelmina - Queen of the Netherlands; The World's Richest Woman
Emilio T. González - Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS); Under Secretary of Homeland Security; Executive Secretary Task Force on New Americans
Baron Luigi Gedda - Rightwing Idealogue; Head of CIA Funded Catholic Action; Served o/t Advisory board of Gayre and Pearson's Mankind Quarterly
Colonel James J. Phelan - Banker; First President of the American Chapter of SMOM
Lewis E. Lehrman - Founder o/t Investment Firm L. E. Lehrman & Co; Chairman of The Lehrman Institute; Managing Director of Morgan Stanley & Co.; Teacher, Author and Businessman
Count Alexandre de Marenches - Head o/t Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE, French Intelligence); Founder o/t Safari Club (private Intelligence); Author
Lt. Col. Robert Gayre of Gayre and Nigg - Editor-in-Chief o/t Racist Magazine Mankind Quarterly; Cofounder o/t Augustan Society; Founder of the British branch of St Lazarus
Joseph H. Retinger - Polish Socialist; Founder o/t European Movement; Cofounder of the Bilderberg Club
George J Tenet - CIA Director
Rear Admiral Jeremiah Andrew Denton, Jr. - US Senator from Alabama; Founder o/t National Forum Foundation

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General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther - Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (SACEUR); Chief o/t Advanced Planning Group; Director of US Joint Defense Staff; President o/t American Red Cross
Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou - Pretender to the Crown of France
George Macdonald - Oil and Utilities Entrepreneur; Head of the American Chapter of SMOM
Rear Admiral Ellery W. Stone - Chief Commissioner o/t Allied Commission for Italy; US Ambassador to Italy; Vice-president of ITT
Peter S. Lynch - Manager o/t Fidelity Magellan Fund; Fidelity Mutual Fund Whiz; Director of Morrison Knudsen and W. R. Grace & Company; Wall Street Stock Investor; Advisory Committee AmeriCares
Geoffrey T. Boisi - Chairman and Senior Partner of Roundtable Investment Partners LLC; Vice Chairman J.P. Morgan Chase; Partner Goldman Sachs; Investment Banker; Trilateral Commission
Field Marshall Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis - Commander-in-Chief o/t forces i/t Middle East 1942; Commander-in-Chief of Italy 1943-1944; Supreme Allied Commander o/t Mediterranean 1944-1945
Prince Cyril Toumanoff - Russian-born Historian and Genealogist; Georgetown Professor
Nicholas Frederic Brady - Owner, Director, or Chairman of over 100 Corporations (!); Cofounder of the American Chapter of SMOM
Major Louis Mortimer Bloomfield - Lawyer; Canadian Zionist; Trained Haganah; Major Shareholder Permindex

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William J. Flynn - CEO & Chairman o/t Board for the Mutual of America Insurance Co.; President o/t American Association o/t SMOM
Joseph P. Grace - President of WR Grace & Co
John J. DeGioia - President of Jesuit Georgetown University
Michele "The Shark" Sindona - Banker; Money Launderer; Financial Whiz; Member of P2
Paul-Louis Weiller - Board of Directors of Renault; Former Head of Air France
Baron Luigi Parrilli - Fascist Italian Aristocrat; Intermediary between SS and Allan Dulles
Otto "Scarface" Skorzeny - Waffen SS Colonel; "Hitler's favorite commando"; Arch-fascist and Unrepentant Nazi
Edward L. Hennessy, Jr. - Director o/t New York Stock Exchange; Director Federal Reserve Bank; Chairman and CEO of AlliedSignal Inc.; President, CEO & Clerk Machias Savings Bank
J. Edgar Hoover - FBI Director
Count Umberto Ortolani - Intelligence Officer of OVRA (Opera Volantario per la Regressione Dell’ Autifasismo, Mussolini's fascist secret police); SMOM Ambassador; Italian Banker & Financier

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5-Star General Dwight David Eisenhower - Supreme Commander o/t Allied Forces in Europe; Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army; Supreme Commander of NATO; 34th President o/t United States
James A. Fayne - Hornblower & Weeks, investments; Founding Member o/t American Association of SMOM
Morgan J. O'Brien - New York State Supreme Court Justice; Founding Member o/t American Association of SMOM
John D. Ryan - Leader of Montana's Copper Dynasty; Head o/t Anaconda Copper Company; Formed Montana Power; Founding Member of the American Association of SMOM
Terence Cardinal Cooke - Archbishop of New York; SMOM's U.S. Advisor
General Juan D. Péron - President of Nazi Safe-haven Argentina
Admiral Giovanni Torrisi - Chief of the General Staff of the Italian Army; P2 Member
General Giovanni Allavena - Former Head of SIFAR (Italian Military Intelligence); P2 Member
William Randolph Hearst - Founder of the Hearst Corporation; "Father of Yellow Journalism"; Media Mogul
Henry Robinson Luce - Creator of Time-Life Magazine Empire; Media Mogul; Skull and Bonesman

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Al Barber - Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of NBC and President of CNBC; President of Corporate Lodging Holdings; President and COO of Catholic Charities
Raymond J. Petersen - Trustee of The Hearst Family Trust; Member of the Board of Directors of Hearst Corporation; Executive vice president of Hearst Magazines; Advertisement Mogul
Joseph F. D'Angelo - Chairman of King Features Syndicate Unit of the Hearst Corporation; Board of Advisors of St. John's University College of Business Administration; Trustee of the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation; President and Chairman o/t Cowles Syndicate and News America Syndicate
Bob Danzig - Nationwide head of The Hearst Newspaper Group and vice president of The Hearst Corporation; Author; Motivational Speaker
Alfred E. Smith IV - Managing Director of Bear Wagner Specialists LLC; Chairman o/t Government Relations Committee for the New York Stock Exchange; Chairman of the Wall Street Division of the Cardinal’s Committee of the Laity; Director and Secretary of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation
George K. Cooney - President and CEO EUE/Screen Gems Ltd.; Vice Chairman of the New York Medical College; Media Mogul
John D. J. Moore - Lawyer; US Ambassador to Ireland; Chancellor of SMOM; Board of Directors of WR Grace & Co.; OSS and CIA agent
Felix E. Larkin - Lawyer; Department of Defense General Counsel; Chairman of the W. R. Grace Executive Committee
Frank Keating - Governor of Oklahoma; Chairman of the National Review Board; Assistant Secretary o/t Treasury; CEO of American Council of Life Insurers; FBI Agent
Prince Rainier III of Monaco

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William A. Schreyer - President of Merrill Lynch; Vice Chairman New York Stock Exchange; CFR; Businessman
General Giovanni De Lorenzo - Head of SIFAR/SID (Italian Secret Service); Head o/t Carabinieri (Italian Paramilitary Police)
Richard Vincent Allen - Reagan National Security Advisor; Mover and Shaker in US Politics
Dr. Thomas Melady - Ambassador to the Vatican, Uganda, Burundi; Senior Adviser to the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations; Executive Vice President of St. Joseph's University (Jesuit); President of Sacred Heart University
John Anthony Volpe - Governor of Massachusetts; US Ambassador to Italy; US Secretary of Transportation; President Associated General Contractors of America
Ray H. Siegfried II - Chairman o/t board of The NORDAM Group; Chairman of the Board for the General Aviation Manufacturers Association
Prof. Luigi Vittorio Ferraris - Ambassador; Member o/t Italian Council of State and Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs; President of the Italian Centre for International Conciliation Studies and the Diplomatic Studies Association, Rome, Italy
General Fred Butler - US Supervising Infrastructure Engineer during WWII; Manager o/t San Francisco International Airport; Commissioner for the SF Fire Dept
Dr. Margaret B. Melady - President of The American University of Rome; Chair of the Board of Regents and Marymount International School, Rome; Director of Corporate Communications of United Illuminating
Prof. Dr. Peter Beyerhaus - Leader o/t Masonic Lausanne Movement; Director of the Institute of Missiology and Ecumenical Theology at Tübingen University; Chairman of the Executive Committee o/t International Christian Network

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William R. Burleigh - Chairman and CEO of E.W. Scripps; National Review Board Member
James M. Moroney Jr. - COO, CEO and Chairman of Belo; President and CEO of The Dallas Morning News; Director and Founder of Cistercian Preparatory School in Irving (Jesuit)
Bernard Dorin - French Ambassador to Haiti, South Africa; President o/t Amitiés Francophones
William A. Wilson - Reagan's Ambassador to the Vatican; Member o/t Board of directors of Pennzoil Co.; Member o/t Board of directors and Member o/t Audit Committee o/t Earle M. Jorgensen Company
Paul Henkels - Chairman of Henkels & McCoy, Inc.; Chairman of the REACH Alliance; Member o/t Executive Committee o/t Board of Governors of Temple University Hospital, Lejeune Institute, Vatican Observatory Foundation, American College of Louvain University in Belgium
Melquíades Rafael "Mel" Martínez - Junior US Senator from Florida; General Chairman of the Republican Party; 12th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Edward L. Hearn - Fifth Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus; President o/t Insurance Firm the Casualty Company of America
Frederic V. Salerno - President of NYNEX Worldwide Services Group; Chairman and Senior Advisor to Gabelli Group Capital Partners; Verizon CFO; Bell Atlantic CFO; President and CEO of New York Telephone; Corporate Centipede
John Donald Rauth, Sr.- CEO Martin Marietta (now: Lockheed Martin)
Marie Corinne Morrison Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs - US Ambassador to the Vatican; US Congressman, Louisiana; Smithsonian Institution Regent; Close Up Foundation Board of Advisors; Council of American Ambassadors

PAGE 15

Frank Charles Carlucci III - US Secretary of Defense; White House National Security Advisor; CIA Deputy Director; US Ambassador to Portugal; Chairman o/t Carlyle Group; Director of Wackenhut and United Defense; Corporate and Political Centipede
Joseph Brennan - Chairman of the executive committee of the Emigrant Savings Bank of New York
Angus Daniel McDonald - President o/t Southern Pacific Company; Bohemian Grover; Trustee of Notre Dame
William Edward Simon, Jr - Assistant United States Attorney; Co-founded William E. Simon & Sons, a global merchant bank; Co-chair o/t William E. Simon Foundation
Robert James "Jim" Nicholson - US Secretary of Veterans Affairs; US Ambassador to the Vatican; Republican National Committee Chairman
Phyllis Schlafly - American Conservative Political Activist; Widely-published Author and Commentator; Founded the Eagle Forum; Members o/t Council for National Policy
Robert Ferdinand Wagner, Jr. - Three term Mayor of New York City; Ambassador to Spain; US Representative to the Vatican; Member of Scroll and Key
Carl Nicholas Karcher - Founder, Chairman and CEO o/t Carl's Jr. Hamburger Chain
Senator Claiborne Pell - Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Delegate to the 25th and 51st United Nations General Assembly; Author

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Marine Corps General Anthony Charles Zinni - Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM); Distinguished Advisor for Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); Military Educator
John Cardinal O'Connor - Archbishop of New York; Rear Admiral and Chief of Navy Chaplains
Ronald Wilson Reagan - 40th President of the United States; Actor
"Pizza Pope" Thomas Stephen Monaghan - Founder and CEO of Domino's Pizza; Founder of Strictly Catholic Town: Ave Maria
Jefferson Caffery - U.S. ambassador to El Salvador, Colombia, Cuba, Brazil, France, and Egypt
Robert Henry (Bob) Abplanalp - Aerosol Inventor & Magnate
Richard R. Shinn - Chairman Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Executive Vice Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange; Member of the Board of Directors of Chase Manhattan
Senator Pietro Vichi "Pete" Domenici (R-NM)
Joseph A. Unanue - President of Goya Foods; Member of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic University of America, the Advisory Board of Banco Popular of New York, the Board of Directors of the American Cancer Society Foundation, Casita Maria, Inc.
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. - 38th President of the United States

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Joseph J. DioGuardi - American Accountant and Politician; Author of the Chief Financial Officer's Act; Established the Nonpartisan Foundation: Truth In Government
Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) - Chairman o/t Senate Republican Conference; Joined Lawfirm Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC; Senior Fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.; Contributor to Fox News Channel
Gene F. Jankowski - President and Chairman of the CBS Broadcasting Group; Founder of Jankowski Communications Systems; Member of the Board of Advisors of and Advisor Managing Director Veronis Suhler Stevenson; Chairman of the Board at the Trans-Lux Corporation
Boutros Boutros-Ghali - 6th United Nations Secretary-General; Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Egypt; Vice- President of the Socialist International
Sir Miles Dewey Davis III - Jazz Icon
Terence J. Gallagher - Vice-President for Corporate Governance at Pfizer Inc.
John Sylvester Drum - President American Trust Company; President o/t American Bankers Association; Board Member Pacific Gas & Electric
Lanfranco Amato - Manager of Olivetti Canada
William F. Gorog - Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Affairs; Executive Director of the Council on International Economic Policy; Cofounder, Chairman and CEO of InteliData Technologies Corporation; Corporate and Banking Centipede
Joseph E. Spinnato - President and CEO of the Hotel Association of New York City, Inc.; Treasurer International Hotel & Restaurant Association (IH&RA)

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Louis J Cappelli - Chairman and CEO of Sterling Bancorp; Active in Numerous "Charitable" Organisations; Zionist
Philip Allen Lacovara - Senior Partner in the law firm of Mayer, Brown, Rowe, & Law in New York City; President of the District of Columbia Bar and Chairman of the American Bar Association Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities; Deputy Solicitor General
Dr. Robert Prantner - Lecturer at the Theological Seminary at the Heiligenkreuz Monastery; Member of Engelwerk, a Right-Wing Catholic organization; Director of Studies at the Political Academy of the Österreichische Volkspartei; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the SMOM
Col. Stefano Giovannone - Italian Military Intelligence (SISMI) Officer; P2 Member
Samuel Jayson LeFrak - Chairman of The Lefrak Organization (Housing Development); Political Centipede
Col. Albert J. Wetzel - Director o/t Atomic Program for Guided Missiles for the Army, Navy and Air Force; Technical Executive to the Assistant to the President; Director of Guided Missiles; Director of the Titan Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Program
Steven Saxton - Chairman, Founder, and CEO Hollywood Studios International
Paul Dietrich - Attorney with Law Firm of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue; President o/t Catholic University of America's Institute for International Health & Development; Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Saturday Review; TV Producer for CBS and Public Broadcasting; Board of Directors of Federal Association of SMOM
INTERJECTION - The Alliance Between the Orders of Saint John of Jerusalem

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Geraldine Frawley - Publisher of the Conservative 'National Catholic Register'
Dr. Roger Pearson - President o/t World Anti-Communist League; Editor of Western Destiny and Mankind Quarterly; Board Member o/t French Neo-Nazi Journal Nouvelle Ecole; British Eugenicist; Neo-Nazi
(OSJ) Nelson Mandela - 11th President of South Africa; 18th Secretary General of Non-Aligned; Anti-apartheid activist; Leader of the African National Congress Movement and its Armed Wing: Spear of the Nation (MK)
(OSJ(+SMOM?)) Sir Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild - MI5 Agent; Chairman o/t Agricultural Research Council; Worldwide head of research at Royal Dutch Shell; Security Adviser to Margaret Thatcher; Head o/t Central Policy Review Staff
Seán Patrick Cardinal O'Malley - Archbishop of Boston; Member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin; Founded Centro Catolico Hispano; SMOM Honorary Chaplain
Joseph Michael Pigott - President of Pigott Realty Ltd.; President o/t Canadian Construction Association and Hamilton Chamber of Commerce; Vice President & Director of the Toronto Dominion Bank and North American Life Insurance Company; Director of Canada Permanent Trust, Artlas Steels Ltd, and United Fuel Investments Ltd.
George Raymond Rocca - Deputy Chief of CIA Counterintelligence under Angleton; Head of CIA section: Research and Analysis, CI/R&A.
Hanna Siniora - Co-CEO o/t Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI)
Dr. Paul McHugh - Head of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medine; Founder and First Director, Bourne Behavioral Research Laboratory of New York Hospital; Member o/t Presidential Council on Bioethics (Eugenics)
Bob Hope - Actor and Comedian
Vittorio Emanuele IV - Prince of Naples (Last Crown Prince of Italy)
George William Cardinal Mundelein - Archbishop of Chicago
Conrad N. Hilton - Chairman and Director o/t Hilton Hotels Corporation and Hilton International Company
Michael Novak - American Catholic Philosopher, Journalist, Novelist, and Diplomat
Daniel Imperato - Presidential Candidate 2008 (Libertarian Party); American Businessman; Chaplain for the Latin/African American Chaplain's Association
Roberto Alejos Arzú - Guatemalan Sugar Industrialist; Rightwing Anti-Communist Revolutionary; CIA Asset; Leader of SMOM Guatemala
Sir James Augustine Gobbo - Supreme Court Jurist; Governor of Victoria; Chairman Australian Multicultural Foundation; Chairman Council of the Order of Australia; Chairman Council o/t Electricity Industry Ombudsman
Sir Adrian James Andrew Denis FitzGerald - Conservative UK Politician; Editor of the Monday World (o/t Conservative Monday Club); Honorary Alderman o/t Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea; 24th Knight of Kerry
Charles I of Austria - Last Emperor of Austria; Last King of Hungary; Last Monarch of the Habsburg Dynasty; Generalfeldmarschall in the Austro-Hungarian Army
Prince Rupert zu Löwenstein - President of the British Association of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta; London Based Merchant Banker; Chief Financial Adviser to the Rolling Stones

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Delano Eugene Lewis - President and CEO of Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company; President and CEO of National Public Radio (NPR); Director, Chairman of Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee; Director of Colgate-Palmolive Co.; Director of Africare and Foundation Schools; etc, etc...
George William Strake - Pioneering Texas oilman; Director o/t Mercantile-Commerce Bank and Trust Company in St. Louis; Chairman o/t Board and President o/t Aluminum Products Company in Houston; Founder o/t Houston Tribune
Fred Monroe Zeder II - Ambassador; Chairman and CEO of Hydrometals Corporation; Chairman o/t board of Paradise Cruise Corporation in Hawaii; Director of the Office of Territorial Affairs; President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC);...
Burton Gerber - CIA Case Officer; CIA Station Chief in Moscow during the Cold War; CFR and Royal Society for Asian Affairs Member; Board of Directors of SHARE (food network)
Baron Jacques G. Jonet - Fascist Ultra-Conservative Anti-Communist Belgian Lawyer; Political Secretary of Otto von Habsburg; President o/t Belgian French holding company Média Participations
Cmdr. John P. "Jack" Fitzpatrick - Naval Intelligence Officer; Vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Spain; Vice president and Director of International Affairs of Gulf Oil Corp.
Prof. Dr. Mark J. Wolff - Assistant Dean at St. Thomas University School of Law; Member o/t Board of Directors o/t Human Rights Institute at St. Thomas University; Head o/t Delegation for the SMOM to the UN International Consultative Conference Social Education in relation to Freedom of Religion or Belief, Tolerance and Non-Discrimination

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

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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

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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

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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:

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

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

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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/re...temid=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_archi...an2005.pdf
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/smokemirrors.html

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Baron Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen - Nazi Vice-Chancellor; Helped Adolf Hitler to Power; Reichskonkordat Negotiator

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Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen (help·info) (29 October 1879 – 2 May 1969) was a German nobleman, Catholic politician, General Staff officer, and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of Germany (Reichskanzler) in 1932.

To many historians, Papen was also a key member in the small clique of right-wing politicians who "jobbed Adolf Hitler into power by backstairs intrigue" [1]. He has been called a "stirrup holder" (Steigbügelhalter) for Hitler.

The central role that Papen played in Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in January 1933 was reflected by Papen's indictment at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, though he was acquitted on formal reasons, the tribunal deciding that his "political immoralities" were not under its jurisdiction.

[...]

In 1923 Papen had received the honorary title of Papal Chamberlain from Pope Pius XI.[9] After Pius XI died in 1939, his successor Pope Pius XII did not renew this appointment, probably in the light of Papen's political role for the Hitler régime. As nuncio, the future Pope John XXIII, Angelo Roncalli, was acquainted with Papen in Greece and Turkey during World War I. He restored this title on July 24, 1959. Papen was also a Knight of Malta.

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

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The Catholic Right and the Knights of Malta, in particular Baron Franz von Papen (see sidebar), played a critical role in Hitler's assumption of power and the launching of the Third Reich's Twentieth Century Crusade.

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/caqsmom25.1.html
http://pawcreek.org/articles_pcm/end_times...orld_order1.htm

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FRANZ von PAPEN

A leading figure in Hitler's coming to power was SMOM Franz von Papen, known as "the devil in a top hat." A devout Catholic aristocrat from an old family of Westphalian nobility, a former military attache and spy against the United States in 1915, von Papen became Chancellor in May 1932, with the support of the Nazis. In June he ordered the dissolution of the Reichstag, calling for new elections in July, in which the Nazis emerged as the largest party in the new Reichstag. After a meeting with Hitler, von Papen persuaded President von Hindenberg to offer Hitler the Chancellorship, which he assumed on January 30, 1933. Von Papen became his Vice-Chancellor.

In April 1933 von Papen was elevated to Knight Magistral Grand Cross of SMOM. After the murder of Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss in Vienna in July 1934, von Papen became Hitler's Ambassador to Austria, and, in March 1938 stood by the Fuhrer's side at his triumphal entry into Vienna. From 1939 until August 1944 he was the Nazi Ambassador to Turkey, and at the Nuremberg trials he was charged with conspiracy to wage aggressive war. He was one of several Nazi leaders acquitted, and subsequently received a generous pension from the first postwar Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer.

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

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Franz von Papen, a [Roman] Catholic aristocrat from the Westphalian nobility and Knight Magistral Grand Cross of SMOM, paved the way for Hitler's assumption of power after von Papen became chancellor with the support of the Nazis.

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/ncrmay890910.html

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Fascist members of the SMOM
Grand Master Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere awarded the Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. He was also awared a knighthood prior to World War II.

On Dec 4, 1932 Franz von Papen was succeeded as Chancellor of Germany by Kurt von Schleicher. Determined to gain revenge on Schleicher, von Papen came to terms with Hitler (Jan. 4, 1933) and persuaded Hindenburg to appoint Hitler Chancellor. In April 1933 von Papen was elevated to Knight Magistral Grand Cross of SMOM.

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Sover..._Order_of_Malta

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Sinister Nazi and Devout Roman Catholic, Knight of Malta Franz von Papen (Front Left) heads Catholic Mass Procession.

http://www.spirituallysmart.com/nazi.html
You can see von Papen wear the SMOM "Maltese cross" insignia (see above), hence SMOM membership is proven, of and by itself. (Proof Positive)

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“In the early days of May (1936), [German Knight of Malta Franz] von Papen entered into secret negotiations with Dr. Schussnigg (Austrian Chancellor) working on his weak point [i.e., he was a devout Roman Catholic] and showed him how advantageous a reconciliation with [Nazi leader Adolph] Hitler would be as far as the Vatican’s interests were concerned; the argument may seem odd, but Schussnigg was very devout, and von Papen was the pope’s [German] chamberlain [i.e., a high official in certain royal courts].

Not surprisingly, it was the [pope’s] secret chamberlain [in Germany – i.e., Knight of Malta Franz von Papen] who led the whole affair, which ended, on the 11th of March 1938, with the resignation of the pious Schussnigg (pupil of the Jesuits), in favor of Seyss-Inquart, chief of the Austrian Nazis. The following day [March 12, 1938], the German troops entered Austria and the puppet government of Seyss-Inquart proclaimed the union of the country to the [Nazi German Third] Reich. The event was welcomed by an enthusiastic declaration of Vienna’s archbishop, Cardinal Innitzer (a Jesuit).”

http://calltodecision.com/qct.htm

Other sites mentioning Franz von Papen as being a KoM:
http://www.vaticanassassins.org/hitlers_papal.htm
http://www.gordoncomstock.com/eberhart/S...mazing.htm
http://www.spectrezine.org/war/Mendes3.htm
http://www.bookrags.com/Franz_von_Papen
http://www.illuminati-news.com/2007/1014.html
http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/masters_o...uasion.pdf
http://www.bilderberg.org/bildhist.htm http://copy_bilderberg.tripod.com/bildhist.htm
http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/pope-die.html

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General Reinhard Gehlen - Nazi Chief of Intelligence over Russia; Head of Gehlen Org; Head of BND

(in the last picture you can clearly see Gehlen wearing the Cross of Merit of SMOM, Proof Positive)

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Reinhard Gehlen(April 3, 1902 - June 8, 1979) was a Generalmajor (Major-General) in the German Army (Wehrmacht Heer) during World War II.

Gehlen held the position of chief of intelligence-gathering on the Eastern Front. He was subsequently recruited by the United States military to set up a spy ring directed against the Soviet Union.

Gehlen ran the West German intelligence apparatus until 1968, and is considered one of the most legendary Cold War spymasters. He organized the Gehlen Organisation, and later became President of the German Federal Intelligence Bureau.

Reinhard Gehlen was born into a Roman Catholic family, the son of an owner of a bookstore. He joined the Reichswehr in 1920 and entered the German Staff College in the 1930s. He was promoted to captain and was attached to the Army General Staff.

In 1940, Gehlen was promoted to Major and he became the liaison officer to Army Commander-in-Chief Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch. He was then transferred to the staff of Army Chief of Staff General Franz Halder.

In July 1941, Gehlen was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Gehlen worked extensively on the Eastern Front and, because of his superior talents and expertise, was promoted to senior intelligence officer with the German General Staff on the Russian front.

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Bundesnachrichtendienst

In April 1956, control of the Gehlen Organisation was turned over to the (West) German government and it became the nucleus of the newly-created Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND or Federal Intelligence Service). Gehlen held the top leadership post (President of the BND) until forced out due to a political scandal in the ranks. He retired from the BND in 1968 and died in 1979, aged 77.

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He received the Deutsches Kreuz in silver during WWII and the Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz am Schulterband in 1968. He also was a Knight of Malta.

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

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SMOM's influence in Germany survived World War II intact. On November 17, 1948 SMOM awarded one of its highest honors, the Grand Cross of Merit, to Reinhard Gehlen, the Nazi chief of intelligence on the Soviet front. He was subsequently installed by the Americans as the first chief of West Germany's equivalent of the CIA, the Bundesnachtrichtdienst (BND: federal secret service), under West German Chancellor Adenauer, a devout Catholic who had received the Magistral Grand Cross personally from SMOM Grand Master Prince Chigi.

http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/caqsmom25.1.html
http://www.io.com/~patrik/malta.htm
http://www.geocities.com/area51/3471/knights.htm

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On November 17, 1948 SMOM awarded one of its highest honors, the Grand Cross of Merit, to Reinhard Gehlen, the Nazi chief of intelligence on the Eastern Front who took part in the failed bomb plot of July 20, 1944 to assassinate Hitler, and was later recruited by the United States military to set up a spy ring directed against the Soviet Union.

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Sover..._Order_of_Malta

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The Order has particularly close links with the security services like the CIA. In 1948, it gave one of its most prestigious awards of honour to General Reinhard Gehlen, who was Adolf Hitler's head of anti-Soviet espionage. After the war, Gehlen was hired by the newly created CIA to organise its operations in Europe!

http://static.scribd.com/docs/fiej1cyribi4l.pdf

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Reinhard Gehlen was one of Adolf Hitler's chief intelligence officers, solely in charge of espionage against the Soviet Union. In 1945, Gehlen offered the United States his considerable experience, expertise and archives on Russia and satellite countries in return for immunity from prosecution as a war criminal. The newly established Central Intelligence Agency formed the "Gehlen Organisation" which was Gehlen's former network for anti-Soviet espionage. Located in West Germany and funded by the CIA, the Gehlen Organisation became the most powerful espionage establishment in Western Europe.

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