" The key Administration players were all devout Roman Catholics -- CIA chief William Casey, Allen, Clark, Haig, Walters and William Wilson, Reagan's first ambassador to the Vatican.
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Late Pope John Paul "met CIA head in anti-communist offensive"
dpa German Press Agency
Published: Monday October 16, 2006
Warsaw- The late Polish-born Pope John Paul II held talks with then US Central Intelligence Agency head William Casey during the 1980s during the West's Cold War with the Soviet bloc, according to a former senior US Reagan administration official. "CIA director William Casey travelled incognito to the Vatican and briefed the pope by showing him, for example, our satellite pictures," Richard V. Allen, former national security advisor to US republican president Ronald Reagan, told Poland's Dziennik daily.
An interview with Allen published Monday marked the 28th anniversary of the election of Polish-born Pope John Paul.
"John Paul also knew about secret CIA aid for Solidarity," Allen reveals. John Paul felt a huge sense of responsibility for the fate of Poles, Allen told Dziennik adding that on the other hand Ronald Reagan saw Poland as a tool to bring down the Soviet Union.
Solidarity's legendary leader Lech Walesa still maintains he knew of no CIA help for the union.
Pope John Paul is seen as having played a key role in the demise of communism in Eastern Europe through his outspoken support for the Poland's grass-roots Solidarity trade union - the first and only such independent organisation in the Soviet bloc.
Born in the southern Polish town of Wadowice on May 18, 1920, Karol Wojtyla was elected the first Polish-born pope on October 16, 1978. He died at the age 84 at the Vatican on April 2, 2005.
His successor, German-born Pope Benedict XVI has put the process of his beatification and canonisation as a saint on a fast-track, but Roman Catholic Church officials heading the process do not expect it to be concluded this year.
© 2006 dpa German Press Agency
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