HIGH-LEVEL FAKE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201160017-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: August 6, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/19: CIA-RDP90-00806R000201160017-3
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6 August 1980
Have you heard about Virgilio terial was faked. The spy, though,
Scattolini, the Italian the United was kept on the payroll until the
States hired to spy on the Vatican end of World War ? II. He sold
;d-u i ing World War II? bogus reports' to other nations.
Scattolini' gave the Office of - after the war.
Strategic Services, forerunner of = ' , The OSS dispatched two agents
today's ' : Central Intelligence to bury its Scattolini file on a
Agency t, transc p s`~of s ret mee't`= Maryland farm in about 1945. The
ing5'"Setween Pope Pius. XII-and