[CTRL] Knights Of Malta

[William Shannon]

http://www.geocities.com/newworldorder_themovie/knightsofmalta.html Knights of Malta This closed fraternity is a military order of the Roman Catholic Church. Its initiated members must be Catholic, and have served in the military. They participate in secret ceremonies and feudal ritual dress, and embrace a strong class/caste mentality as part of their initiation into Rosicrucian dogma. The upper grades are fastidiously aristocratic and must be able to display a family coat-of-arms dating back at least 300 years in unbroken succession from father to son.  The Grand Master of the order is recognized as a head of state, and his authority is ensured by his secular ranking as a Prince, and his ecclesiastical ranking as a Cardinal.  Under international law this organization has independent Sovereign principality, which assures nationalistic loyalty from its members, above and beyond allegience to their own country.  They also have Permanent Observer status at the United Nations. The order has been proven to be linked with the "Rat Run", the post-WWII escape route used by high-ranking Nazis and death camp scientists from defeated Germany to the Americas.  Sovereign Knight of Malta passports were issued with false identities which allowed escape from prosecution for war crimes.  Perversely, after the war the order's highest decoration, the Grand Cross of Merit, was awarded to General Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's head of intelligence. The brotherhood's strong Catholic roots made the modern knights fervently anti-communist.  The order has been largely responsible for the construction of the CIA, and many of its global covert operations.  The founding fathers of the CIA William "Wild Bill" Donovan and Allen Dulles were knights, as were most other heads of the CIA including Ronald Reagan's director William Casey.  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 William 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 Catholic Knights of Malta allegiances, as at this time the Russian Revolution was no threat to the American Republic. 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 had 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".  Conveniently for Nazis members who did not escape, 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.  Prior to working for the OSS (he headed the OSS station in Switzerland during the war) Allen Dulles and his law partner John Foster had served as business managers and lawyers to John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.  They personally brokered the partnership between Standard Oil and I.G. Farben chemical corporation.  I.G.Farben not only produced gasoline for the Nazi war machine, it manufactured "Zyklon B", used slave labor before and during the war (including their huge petro-chemical factory adjacent to Auschwitz death camp), owned Bayer Pharmaceuticals which according to a current lawsuit was directly involved in Dr. Josef Mengele's horrific Auschwitz experiments, and was spared from Allied bombings due to its Rockefeller interests.  Leading war-time journalist George Seldes attempted to reveal this "unholy alliance" through his newspaper articles, but was rarely published at the time, and efforts were made to kill him.  Joseph Heller's satirical novel "Catch 22" made light of this insanity with his "we agreed to bomb our own bases in return for the Nazis buying our chocolate covered cotton". As the Cold War intensified, Knight of Malta Joseph H. Retinger, acting on behalf of the Vatican and the Priory of Sion, forged ties with the European Council of Princes (the respectable name for the Dragon Court), 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 Queen Beatrix attended the year 2000 meeting, as did 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 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 involvement with "P2" member Archbishop Paul Marcinkus of Chicago, former head of the Vatican Bank, who was under 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 American Knights of Malta 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. The "Sovereign Military Order of Malta" is directly allied with international Freemasonry, from where they recruit their new elite brethren. Hence, the Knights of Malta and the Knights Templar are the Rosicrucian upper-degrees of Freemasonry. Ironically, in recent years a belief in the Catholic faith has not been an essential prerequisite for potential members who have the right connections.  Non-aristocratic parties can now be initiated by the "Magistral Grace" of the Grand Master, although not in Britain, Germany and other European countries with a strong tradition of nobility.  However, this has allowed many Americans to join, and an "Order of Merit" is bestowed upon those who have outstandingly served the Knights or their works.  Past Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush are such honorary initiates, and Reagan was the toast of an extravagant dinner held by the Order in 1989.  With more than 11,000 knights worldwide, the Grand Master and Sovereign Council remain based in Rome.  Their goal of political Feudalism is clearly seen in the actions of Prince Hans Adam II, the Habsburg ruling monarch of Liechtenstein, and a prominent Knight of Malta and member of the Vatican's Opus Dei, who in October 1999 was reprimanded by the European Court of Human Rights for claiming he had final constitutional authority over his country's Supreme Court, which is perhaps a sign of things to come in Eastern Europe. Past Grand Masters of the Knights of Malta, including Manuel de Fonseca, have been initiates of the Templar tradition, and according to the Dragon Court's current Sovereign Grand Master Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg, who is a direct descendant of the originator of the Knights Templar Godfroi de Vere de Bouillon, the Templars were "a Satanic order, whose rituals included infanticide, sodomy and witchcraft".