The US Doctrinal Warfare Program and its Fruits
The connection between Sedevacantism, the SSPX, and the CIA
On June 29, 1953 the CIA launched its doctrinal warefare program. This information was reported in David Wemhoff’s book: John Courtney Murray, Time/Life and the American Proposition: How the CIA Doctrinal Warefare Program Changed the Catholic Church1. It was elaborated upon by Brother Bugnolo in his article The CIA Plan for the Destruction of the Church, June 29, 1953 where he published the actual CIA memorandum that AJ Baalman from www.ordo-militaris.net had managed to find in a Freedom of Information Act file dump. The program was developed mainly to combat communism, but was applied against all societies hostile to American interests.
The document states that its psychological objective “will seek by providing permanent literature and by fostering long term intellectual movements, which will appeal to intellectuals, including scholars and opinion forming groups, to:
1. Breakdown worldwide doctinal thought patterns which have provided an intellectual basis for communism and other doctrines hostile to American and Free World objectives
2. Foster a worldwide understanding and sympathetic acceptance of the traditions and viewpoints of America and the Freeworld”
As stated by President Roosvelt in his Four Freedoms speech of January 6, 1941 Americanism promoted 1. freedom of speech, 2. freedom of every person to worship God in his own way, 3. freedom from want, and 4. freedom from fear. Since truth is foundational to the Faith, the Catholic Church did not accept concepts of freedom of speech or freedom of religion that would put truth at the same level as lies, so it was considered hostile to Americanism, and a prime target for the US Doctrinal Warefare Program. Being founded on June 29th, the feast day of St Peter and St Paul, is of particular significance as it suggests that the undisclosed prime target was the Catholic Church, who commemorates the founders of the Roman Church on this day.
The document continues by laying out the results it intends to achieve:
“3. Pave the way for deviations from, and schism in, totalitarian thought patterns by stimulating intellectual curiosity and free thought on political, scientific and economic subject.
4. Weaken objectively the intellectual appeal of other doctrines which may be hostile or inimical to American objectives...”
From an Americanist point of view, the Catholic Church was and is a totalitarian organisation. She has a topdown heirarchical structure and teaches a fixed doctrine, quite the contrary to American democratic values and freedom of speech.
But what have been the fruits of the US Doctrinal program and how was it implemented? It is sufficient to say that since Vatican II we have seen its fruits: all types of deviations and divisions both on the liberal side and the traditional side. And it is obvious that the Catholic Church has lost its appeal in the world; one just needs to look around at the empty pews. Wemhoff’ book does a good job of documenting the heretical liberal reforms which were pushed at Vatican II. But I suggest the US Doctrinal Program also promoted a rebellious overreaction. Not initially, but the seeds were planted at Vatican II by the Coetus Internationalis Patrum.
The steering committee was run by bishops who all had masonic episcopal lineages: meaning their episcopal ancestors were freemasons. For evidence of this please read Archbishop Lefebvre’s Freemasonic Affiliations where I analyse Archbishop Lefebvre`s episcopal lineage and those of the Coetus steering committe. Furthermore the Coetus did not really oppose the council but allowed the documents to be infused with ambiguous statements that allowed for both a liberal and a conservative interpretation. Liberals would accept novelties while conservatives didn’t, leaving the post Vatican II Church more divided than before. This clearly was not a strategy for resistance. So while the liberals implemented their heretical theology leading to a drop in all visible elements of the faith (vocations, mass attendance, marriages, baptisms etc,) some traditional groups were used or formed to implement the division outlined in the US Doctrinal warefare memorandum.
One group was Los Tecos, who were a catholic right wing Mexican secret society established in the early 1930’s in the aftermath of the Cristeros War, at the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara. They recieved 20 million USD between 1962 and 1974 from the Rockefeller Organization et alia2. This organisation fits the US Doctrinal Program perfectly: they were anticommunist and questioned Pope Paul VI’s legitimacy. In 1971 Father Joaquin Saez y Arriaga, the spiritual director of los Tecos wrote a book declaring him an antipope, and was excommunicated that same year.
Another was Archbishop Lefebvre, who denounced the council and founded the SSPX seminary at Econe, Switzerland. He had a number of freemasonic affiliations: His father had joined British Intelligence (founded by the mason Vernon Kell) during WWI in a role that was of utmost confidence : spymaster for all Belgian agents, a role likely reserved for freemasons. He was also ordained and consecrated by the freemason Cardinal Lienart and led the Coetus, that did not block the changes at the Council. Because he had resigned as Bishop of Tulle in 1962, he had no jurisdiction to appoint bishops when in 1988 he caused division by illicitly consecrating four of them. Since then, the SSPX continue their semi-solation within the Church, even refusing to collaborate with other Eclesia Dei communities.
Bishop Thuc was another3. He was part of the family regime that came to power in South Vietnam in 1955 supported by the US government and the CIA, but ousted in 1963. It is highly likely, therefore, that he had strong ties to U. S. and French Military Intelligence (Vietnam used to be a French colony) during his life. He had been Archbishop of Hue, Vietnam but was asked to resign by Pope Paul VI in 1968 while in exile in Rome. With his own personal discontent building, he noticed others who questioned the liberalising changes in the Catholic world following the Council. In 1974 he visited the SSPX Seminary in Econe, Switzerland where he gave a speech, recasting himself as an ardent traditionalist. Having lost his jurisdiction his consecrations of a number of bishops, first for the Palmarian Catholic Church, then for the sedevacantists of the Tridentine Latin Rite Catholic Church, were illicit. He was excommunicated in 1983 for declaring Pope John Paul II an antipope. He was pardoned before he died in 1984 after having recanted his views.
So Sedevacantism and the SSPX show all the hallmarks of being CIA funded because they allign with the objectives of the US Doctrinal Warefare Program whose objective is to Americanise the Catholic Church while also creating division. The masonic Rockefeller Organisation funded Los Tecos, the first group after Vatican II to propose the Sedevacantist thesis while Archbishop Lefebvre took a midway strategy, acting as a semi-dissenting voice, isolating informed and traditional catholics from the rest of the Church. Bishop Thuc began by allying himself with Archbishop Lefebvre but then supported groups that alienated themselves even further from the rest of the Church.
Before offering Himself up as a spotless victim upon the altar, Christ prayed to God the Father for all who believe in Him “That they all may be one” (John 17:21). This was a call to all his disciples to unity. Sedevacantism and the SSPX´s less rebelious cousin have been efforts of division rather than unity although in a different way than the liberalism that spread after Vatican II. So, it is difficult to believe that these groups are fulfilling the words of the Jesus`s prayer to the Father, even if they justify their actions on heretical statements from past popes or a state of emergency in the Church.
It can be difficult to accept that one has been the victim of the deception spread by the US Doctrinal Program. Trying to be an informed Catholic and stay faithful to Jesus Christ while dealing with the disorientation is difficult. Who do you trust? Who do you believe? It can be very attractive to look to Sedevacantism or the SSPX as an easy solution rather than practicing the Faith in communities that are so obviously in decline. But disobedience to a legitimately elected Pope, whether he be a holy man or not, is never justified, unless he is obliging that evil be done. None of these groups offer a truly Catholic response, since this is only found in imitation of Our Lord by suffering meekly, trusting in God’s providence, being relentless in the search for Truth, and above all being willing and humble enough to accept to change course when one has been proven wrong.
Read my other articles about Archbishop Lefebvre:
Archbishop Lefebvre's Freemasonic Affiliations
Archbishop Lefebvre’s Obituary by the Holy Ghost Fathers
I encourage everyone to watch this series prepare by AJ Baalman from www.ordomilitaris.net that studies the David Wemhoff`s books John Courtney Murray, Time/Life and the American Proposition: How the CIA Doctrinal Warefare Program Changed the Catholic Church, in their entirety:
Inside the League: The Shocking Expose of How Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League by Scott Anderson states that This information is on page 78 in case you want to check it on archive.org
Sedevacante: The Life and Legacy of Archbishop Thuc, Edward Jarvis