The Vatican and the Wikileaks Cablegate Situation -It's Coming

I will give a more full overview of what I think about this wikileaks cablegate mess. HINT- I don't think it is a great day for Democracy as I see being parroted around.

Still the cables are interesting to some degree though they basically tell us what we already know.

That being said expect the VATICAN to make an appearance and big time. These cables go back actually a few decades. From the mid 1800's American Diplomats in Rome were begging to have more money sent so they could upgrade their operations and have more dinners. As they said ROME had more worldwide information than any other place in the world.

This was in large part because the worldwide operation of the Catholic Church is "headquartered" there of course. The Catholic Church has had access to places many Governments do not. Henry Kissinger once noted the Vatican is the best intelligence agency in the world for information but has no idea what to do with 80 percent of the info.

Our most recent former Envoy to the Holy See said recently the Vatican/ Holy See has always been regarded as an important world wide listening post. That is one reason why FDR had an unofficial operation there (how that was funded we are not sure) and why Truman was screaming he needed an official envoy to the Holy See. Of course the United States had to wait till 1984 for that to happen.

We have some indication that cables regarding the sad Sex abuse scandal are included in the cable grab. See here where it is confirmed.

I have a feeling that many of the Cables will confirm what we already know. That because of the health of the John Paul the II and the Vatican being on death watch Rome was paralyzed from acting in a more quick fashion.

However I don't expect that to be the real meat. It all depends all far back these cables pertaining to the Catholic Church go back as to the ROME and the later Holy See embassy. It also depends what is caught in this illegal document grab. Needless to say not every diplomatic cable was grabbed thank God.

I was reading a quite entertaining and informative cable dated 1979 from the Iran embassy on having to deal with Persian EGOTISM. So we know some of this stuff goes back to a great degree.

Further information could be coming from our Diplomatic staff in such place as Eastern Europe and especially Central America. We do know that all these regions have been mentioned in the first batch released.

While there is a lot of emphasis on the newer cables the older cables appear to be out there .

Things of interest to watch are many. The John Paul II shooting, the Cold War and the Vatican, Central and South America in the 80's, etc.

Since it appears the "majority" of cables focus on more recent matters traffic regarding both Gulf Wars/ Conflicts , Vatican concern over U.S. involvement with planned parenthood abroad, The Mexico City protocol and their views on the EU might be there too.

We shall know I guess what comes out after what appears to be a orchestrated release of info for the next month.