MI5: Nazis Planned to Infiltrate Vatican with Spies Dressed as Monks

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Germany hatched a plan during World War Two to infiltrate the Vatican with spies disguised as monks, according to secret MI5 intelligence reports.

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Six agents were sent to the cloister to pose as monks and seminarians but they aroused the suspicion of Vatican officials for their lack of knoweldge on Catholic doctrine - and their interest in women.
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They really must have done poorly on that picky chapter on “how to blend in”. 😛
 
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They really must have done poorly on that picky chapter on “how to blend in”.
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According to the 1997 book "Nothing Sacred: Nazi espionage against the Vatican, 1939-1945, the six guys showed up at the Vatican unannounced and traveling from Germany. They were surly and uncommunicative. Three of the guys were sent back because it was obvious from their interest in women that they didn’t have vocations, but three were taken into seminary training. However, two of the three decided after a couple weeks that seminary life wasn’t for them. The last remaining guy lasted the entire summer before he called it quits.
books.google.com/books?id=ZhTRkcx5DvYC&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=%22Operation+Georgian+Convent%22&source=bl&ots=awHSLuqiGa&sig=Avy7IRwEGCIQ8M6jlLXKVj5bIL0&hl=en&ei=50ikS4WxHo6MNvyBsckI&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22Operation%20Georgian%20Convent%22&f=false
 
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