Aristide Brunello
  Aristide Brunello  (spook) | |
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| Nationality | Italian |
| Member of | Le Cercle, Stauffenberg Service |
Aristide Brunello was a Vatican prelate. At the same time, he was a spy/agent of influence in the Vatican on behalf of West-German interests.
His participation in Le Cercle presumably was connected to his Vatican (intelligence) work in Eastern Europe.
Spy for Gehlen's BND in the Vatican
He became a BND agent in Operation Eva, a West-German intelligence attempt to infiltrate the Vatican executive apparatus[3]. For the price of 2500 D-Mark, he spied for the BND from 1964 onward, under the agent name Eva-901. Concentrating on Italy, Eastern Europe and South East Asia, he had 15 sub-agents reporting to him[4]. Given "his special importance", he received a 20,000 D-Mark bonus for his services in 1967, formally for the book The Silent Church he wrote 13 years earlier, but in fact to pay gambling debts.[5]
He was a member of the Italian Catholic Association for the Christian Orient, working on wooing the Orthodox Churches. He was the translator of the first Italian version of the LXX Bible in 1963. This work, which began in 1941-45, ended at the vigil of Vatican Council II. He thought that his effort could be a point of convergence and union with the Orthodox Churches.
Brunello later worked for the 'private' West-German intelligence service the Stauffenberg-Dienst, connected to the CDU party when it was in opposition, and financed by (mostly Bavarian) conservative industrialists figures.[6]
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References
- ↑ https://www.stasi-mediathek.de/medien/schulungsfilm-der-mann-aus-camp-nikolaus%7CMinute 52:32
- ↑ https://isgp-studies.com/Le_Cercle_membership_list
- ↑ Jefferson Adams: "Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence" (under keyword Operation Eva)
- ↑ https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/bnd-spionierte-waehrend-des-kalten-krieges-in-italien-typisch-teutonisch-a-1144622.html
- ↑ Erich Schmidt-Eenboom; Spionage unter Freunden: Partnerdienstbeziehungen und Westaufklärung der Organisation Gehlen und des BND; p 97
- ↑ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stauffenberg-Dienst
