HUNGARIAN CONNECTION OF STASI IN VATICAN

One day after the burial of Pope John Paul II the Berlin office preserving the records of the secret police of the German Democratic Republic found a STASI agent in Vatican, too. From the documents returned from the USA it turns out that in the ’80-es a certain Alfons W. (a German employee of the Catholic KNA news agency) informed East Berlin about the Pope’s ’anti-commmunist activities’. The informer operating under the code name Antonius paid a great attention to the connection between the Pope and the Polish Solidarity movement and sent 100 reports. Markus Wolf, head of the East German intelligence said the survellance of the Pope was mainly assigned to Warsaw and Budapest. The Hungarian National Security Office said to Magyar Nemzet that if Wolf’s claims were true the documents should be found in the historical archives of the state security.

Transleted by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó