In 1972, a book purported to tell the tale of a Communist infiltrator at the Vatican dedicated to bringing down the Church. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss who this mysterious agent was, where he came from, and whether he really did what the books says.
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Links for this episode:
- Marie Carre’s book AA-1025: The Memoirs of an Anti-Apostle
- Sandra Miesel’s article “Swinging at Windmills”
- Alice von Hildebrand and Sandra Miesel’s exchange
- Marie Carre (French biography)
- Marie Carre (problematic biography)
- The Touch of Death
- Stylometry
- Nikolai Yezhov
- Venona Project
- Chire’s page on AA-1025
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