Confession to the Jesuits No. 28: Alperin v. Vatican Bank Shows Vatican Involvement in Genocide

But most astonishing in recent federal hearings in the Alperin case, attorneys for the Serbian and Jewish genocide survivors are outraged that the Vatican Bank suggests that genocide and plunder are permissible acts under international law.

By Greg Szymanski, JD
May 12, 2007

Hidden court documents prove the Vatican through its Jesuit Order
henchmen organized the hit team to kill President Abraham Lincoln.

New York police detectives have documented that the pedophile rings
ravaging American children were orchestrated by former New York Cardinal
Spellman with full knowledge and complicity of the Vatican hierarchy.

Further, police documentation shows without question New York County
District Attorney, Robert Morris Morgenthau, has covered up for Spellman,
Cardinal Egan and other higher ups in the U.S. government, as the dirty
cover-up trail leads all the way to the doorstep of the White House.

The cover-up, according to investigators, includes knowledge and
complicity of the Bush family and one of its minions, Karl Rove, known as
Miss Piggy in the Washington D.C. gay-bar circles.

Besides all the Vatican connections to the destruction listed above,
there is much, much more, including the murder of Pope John Paul I for
trying to clean-up the Vatican Bank and the pedophile rings  in America.

Further, court documents in the case of Alperin v, Vatican Bank now
pending in a San Francisco federal court show how The Vatican Bank stands
accused of the post war laundering of the profits of genocide - including
dental gold taken from the victims of the Nazi backed Croatian regime
known as the Ustasha.

The case also has provided evidence of the Vatican connections and
backing of Hitler and the Nazi Party with help from American intelligence
officers in Rome.

But most astonishing in recent federal hearings in the Alperin case,
attorneys for the Croatian genocide survivors are outraged that the
Vatican Bank suggests that genocide and plunder are permissible acts
under international law.

"On the one hand the Vatican is quick to condemn Israel and Serbia in
recent years but in essence says its OK to butcher 500,000 people, steal
their belongings and stash it in the Vatican Bank," said Jonathan Levy,
one of the attorneys for the genocide survivors. "Pope Benedict should be
concerned that the moral integrity of his Papacy is being undermined in a
Federal Court."

However, with all the hard evidence pinning to the wall the Vatican and
Jesuit Order's assault on the free world, including America, it remains a
mystery how the U.S. government and all factions of the media ignore the
hard facts.

In fact, it appears every last Congressman and Senator and all factions
of the mainstream and most of the alternative are involved in the
cover-up up to their dirty necks.

And in this Confession to the Jesuits No. 28, we present just a small
portion of the evidence in the Alperin case, showing how the Vatican has
been complicit with the genocide of more than 800,000 Serbs and Jews in
an ethnic cleansing campaign.

What Americans need to consider is that if the Vatican was involved in
the genocide of the Serbs and Jews, what is stopping them from doing the
same thing here?

Here is a portion of the Alperin evidence as compiled by attorney Levy:

Alperin v. Vatican Bank was originally filed in Federal Court in San
Francisco in November 1999. The plaintiffs are concentration camp
survivors of Serb, Jewish, and Ukrainian background and their relatives
as well as organizations representing over 500,000 Holocaust victims.

The plaintiffs seek an accounting and restitution of the Nazi Croatian
Treasury that according to the US State Department was illicitly
transferred to the Vatican Bank, the Franciscan Order and other banks
after the end of the war.

Defendants currently include the Vatican Bank and Franciscan Order. These
defendants combined to conceal assets looted by the Croatian Nazis from
concentration camp victims, Serbs, Jews, Roma and others between
1941-1945.

Levy v. CIA was a lawsuit filed under the Freedom of Information Act
seeking release of US Intelligence agency files regarding the notorius
Vatican spymaster, Fr. Krunoslav Draganovic. New records on Draganovic
were released as a result of the successful conclusion of that lawsuit in
2001 in favor of Levy, clearly showing Vatican ties to U.S. intelligence
officers and the Nazi Party.

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Sex, Fraud, Money Laundering: All Roads lead to Rome

Attorneys in the Vatican Bank lawsuit (Alperin v. Vatican Bank) seeking
restitution of Nazi loot laundered through the Vatican Bank after World
War II have asked the United States District Court in San Francisco to
coordinate all pending lawsuits against the Vatican. This includes
another WWII era lawsuit against the Vatican Bank, three sex abuse cases
filed in Missouri, Oregon, and Florida alleging a Vatican cover up of
pedophile priests and a $600 million dollar RICO (Anti Racketeering)
lawsuit filed by five state insurance commissioners for insurance fraud
aided and abetted by top Vatican officials in conspiracy with convicted
swindler, Martin Frankel.

According to plaintiffs’ attorneys Jonathan Levy and Tom Easton, the
threshold issue in all these cases is whether the Vatican, which is the
world’s smallest country, can continue to hide behind sovereign immunity
for criminal acts committed by its financiers and officials. Sovereign
immunity is a legal doctrine that permits the Vatican to avoid civil
lawsuits in the United States. Easton and Levy expect the US State
Department will sooner or later weigh in on the issue of Vatican immunity
and when it does, it makes more sense that all the cases are coordinated.

Furthermore according to the attorneys, the RICO lawsuit involves issues
of fact, which contradict pleadings already on file in the Vatican Bank
cases. In the Vatican Bank cases, the Vatican Bank’s Italian attorney
asserted the bank’s “fundamental purpose is to promote pious acts.” On
the other hand the RICO lawsuit filed by the state insurance
commissioners alleges top Vatican officials including the Vatican
Secretary of State Cardinal Sodano, were involved in a massive insurance
fraud and money-laundering scheme with Martin Frankel utilizing the
Vatican Bank and the Vatican itself as a front for their illegal
activities.

“Americans have not yet put together all the pieces, ” said Levy, “they
need to know the Vatican is being used as a haven for crooks, pedophiles,
and financial corruption. By combining these cases temporarily and
forcing the issue of Vatican immunity we are actually helping the honest
clergy who are trying to clean up an appalling situation.”

But, the Vatican faces another legal time bomb that has been quietly
wending its way through the federal court system since November 1999 and
may be just as financially devastating. In November 1999, Ukrainian
Holocaust survivors later joined by Serb and Jewish plaintiffs filed a
class action lawsuit against the Vatican Bank, alleging complicity in the
laundering of Nazi World War II loot including the proceeds of genocide
from several Croatian run concentration camps where upwards of 500,000
Serbs were liquidated between 1941 and 1945.

The Vatican Bank has claimed sovereign immunity to the lawsuit declaring
that it is an arm of the Holy See. However, the lawsuit persists and the
thorny question of whether a US Court can hear a lawsuit against a
Vatican organization remains unresolved. Plaintiffs’ attorneys claim
immunity is not available for the Vatican Bank which is no stranger to
scandal; Federal Judge Maxine Chesney has yet to rule on the case.

Jonathan Levy, one of plaintiffs’ counsels, suggests the Vatican is
particularly vulnerable to legal process since it is both a Church and a
quasi state, but has only enjoyed United States recognition since 1983 as
a sovereign entity. Levy said, “Many of the Vatican’s activities fall
outside the traditional actions of a state, particularly when it comes to
financing the Church. In the case of the pedophilia cover up, a Vatican
policy of protecting guilty priests violates customary international law
as well as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.”

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has been ratified by over
190 nations including the Holy See and expressly prohibits sexual
exploitation of children. According to Levy, “Some in the Vatican feel
they are above temporal laws, there is a parallel here, after World War
II the Church assisted Nazi war criminals and helped them escape justice,
now it is pedophile priests who have escaped punishment with help from
Rome. In my opinion these are the actions of a rogue state and subject to
full legal process in our courts.”

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Vatican Lawyers Claim Nazi Regime Violated No Law in Genocide
of 500,000 Serbs, Jews, & Roma

San Francisco:

Lawyers for the Vatican Bank including Pope Benedict's personal attorney
have argued that genocide committed in Croatia during the Second World
War by a Nazi regime was permissible under international law.


In the ongoing lawsuit Alperin v. Vatican Bank, the Vatican Bank has
filed a motion set for hearing in November that argues in part that the
Vatican Bank is immune because the Nazi backed Croatian regime did not
violate international law by slaughtering 500,000 of its own citizens -
Serbs, Jews, and Roma in an ethnic cleansing campaign.

The Vatican Bank stands accused of the post war laundering of the profits
of genocide - including dental gold taken from the victims of the Nazi
backed Croatian regime known as the Ustasha.

Attorneys for the Holocaust survivors are outraged that the Vatican Bank
suggests that genocide and plunder are permissible acts under
international law. Jonathan Levy, one of the attorneys for the Holocaust
survivors, questions whether the Pope is even aware of what the bank's
attorneys are proposing: "On the one hand the Vatican is quick to condemn
Israel and Serbia in recent years but in essence says its OK to butcher
500,000 people, steal their belongings and stash it in the Vatican
Bank…Pope Benedict should be concerned that the moral integrity of his
Papacy is being undermined in a Federal Court."

The lawsuit has been ongoing since 1999 and despite growing evidence of
the Vatican Bank's complicity in criminal acts has been resisted
tenaciously by the Vatican Bank.

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Pius XII – The Tainted Saint

While the debate about proposed sainthood for Pius XII rages between the
Vatican and its critics, a lawsuit pending since 1999 against the Vatican
Bank and its ultimate disposition may prove the case for or against Pius.

The pending lawsuit, Alperin v. Vatican Bank (USDC ND CA No. C99-4941),
filed in federal court in San Francisco and backed by a coalition of
Serbian, Jewish, Roma and Ukrainian individuals and organizations seeks
compensation for Axis plunder from Yugoslavia laundered through the
Vatican Bank in 1946, well after the atrocities of the Second World War
were revealed in full.

The funds in question were the proceeds of genocide by the Ustasha, Nazi
allied Croatian forces, who murdered over 500,000 Jews, Serbs, and Roma
in former Yugoslavia 1941-1945 and plundered their possessions. In
addition to the money and gold in question, the Vatican also sheltered
the top Ustasha leadership including wanted war criminals.

So far, testimony in the Alperin case by a former US Army
counterintelligence agent, William Gowen, who investigated the Ustasha in
Rome in 1947 for the US Army, has stopped short of directly implicating
Pius, instead pointing to Montini, Pius’ Undersecretary of State, who
later became Pope Paul VI. According to the witness, a top Vatican
official tasked with overseeing Croatian affairs in Rome, Monsignor
Draganovic, who reported directly to Montini, admitted being the
mastermind behind the smuggling and deposit of the Ustasha “treasure” at
the Vatican bank.

To date, the Vatican attorneys have taken a hard line with the case,
insisting that the Vatican Bank’s money laundering scheme for Axis
plunder violated no international law since the Ustasha’s victims, mainly
Orthodox Christian Serbs, were technically citizens of “Independent”
Croatia. The unrepentant tone of the Vatican bodes poorly for Pius XII
and the current controversy involving his elevation to sainthood.

While Jewish organizations like The Anti-Defamation League have
concentrated on Pius’ wartime record, the Vatican’s sheltering of the
perpetrators of genocide and their funds after the Second World War may
be even more significant.

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About the Attorneys fighting the Vatican

Dr. Jonathan Levy is licensed in California and the District of Columbia
and has represented organizations and individuals in a variety of
Holocaust and Second World War related lawsuits including banking,
insurance, and slave labor matters. Jon is also a member of the
International Criminal Bar in The Hague and has a PhD in Political
Science.

Tom Easton is a veteran California civil rights attorney. Tom has
traveled extensively in Russia and Europe and holds a Masters degree in
History.

Windle Turley is a nationally recognized plaintiffs' attorney and is
responsible for the first multi million dollar jury verdict against a
Roman Catholic Diocese for sexual abuse of children in 1998.

About the Writer

Dr. Greg Szymanski has a law degree and has been a journalist since 1976. He left the mainstream media in disgust over censorship and feels the same way about most of the alternative media. He will be sitting for the California Bar later this year and plans to practice law as well as continue his radio and journalism work.