How the Traditionalist Movement was infiltrated, to lead Catholics into Apostasy

by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

French Version HERE

Most Catholics do not even know a brief summary of the real facts which lead the Catholic Church into the state She presently finds herself. If you want to know more in detail, you need to read several books, among which the most important is former JAG Attorney, David A. Wemhoff’s book, “John Courtney Murray, Time/Life and the American Proposition: How the CIA’s Doctrinal Warfare Program Changed the Catholic Church.”

A Brief History of how the CIA seized control of the Vatican and destroyed the faith and life of many in the Catholic Church

The sequence of events is this: In 1953, the Department of War, in the United States, drafted and initiative a program called, “Ideological Warfare” and launched it against the Catholic Church. They collaborated with the World Council of Churches to write up an outline for Vatican II which would include alterations of doctrines and practices to make the Catholic Religion collapse from within and becomes a religion amendable to the Skull and Bones’ Lodge’s view of the world.

Backed by the nascent CIA, they recruited Roncalli and promoted his candidacy to the Papacy in the Conclave of 1958, about which Gary Giuffre has been gathering information since the 80’s. As John XXIII he received 1-2 million dollars to pay for an Ecumenical Council to initiate the changes. After his death, Paul VI was installed to carry this project of “aggiornamento” forward. Time/Life Magazine coined the term, “Spirit of Vatican II” to make sure the most destructive interpretations of the Conciliar texts would prevail.

Under Paul VI, the CIA and Sicilian Mafia got control of the Vatican Bank and orchestrated the quick demise of John Paul I, who was going to clean it up. In 1976, during his trip to the United States, Karol Wotyla disappeared for a few weeks in Montana, and was likely there recruited to the CIA. His candidacy was supported in the second conclave of 1978, and the U. S. Ambassador to Italy confirmed this, in his cable to the U. S. Secretary of State immediately afterwards, in which he wrote, “We got our man!”

While the CIA used the Vatican under John Paul II to launder money and fund the Solidarnosc movement in Poland, they told John Paul II whom to nominate as Cardinals and Bishops, so that the Mafia of St. Gallen could gain control of the Vatican, with their P2 Lodge leader, Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Failing to win the Conclave of 2005, the CIA and USAID funded media worldwide began to incessantly attack Pope Benedict XVI, who after reading the secret report by 3 Cardinals about the corruption and sex-trafficking in the Vatican, was pressured to resign, though he foiled their plains by resigning only the ministerium not the munus, thus making Bergoglio’s election in March of 2013 null and void.

We all know the history of how Bergoglio systematically destroyed the faith and life of the Church, and aimed at making this process of self-demolition permanent with the Synodal Process.

To ensure this legacy of evil would continue, Bill Clinton and Alex Soros visited Pope Francis secretly at the Vatican in July of 2023, and told him to pick Robert Francis Prevost, one of Hilary Clinton’s relatives, as his successor, afterwards he was made a Cardinal in the consistory in the autumn of  2023, and promoted to Cardinal of Albano in January of 2025. — This is probably because, as the Haverford College official Newsletter on its Oxbridge server said, in May of 2025 — and captured on Google, Bing. and Duckduck go, but subsequently erased — Prevost was an alumni of their college (= he took some courses there), who was recruited by the CIA and went to work for them after graduation. Even leading journalists admit that the CIA is now in control of the Vatican.

A Short History of how the Traditionalist Movement was infiltrated to guarantee the success of this CIA operation

To prevent the CIA Doctrinal Warfare Program’s operation, known as “Vatican II” from failing, they organized the opposition into a group called, the Coetus Internationalis Patrum, the ruling council of which included Cardinals, Archbishops and Bishops, each of whom had masonic episcopal lineages tracing back to Cardinal Cunha, at Fatima, Portugal. It was a “raise complaints but surrender strategy” of the most devious and deceitful kind.

The reaction of Catholics against the obvious and patent heresies and errors at Vatican II led also to a number of Catholic priests starting apostolates to defend the Catholic Faith. Soon, however, understanding that controlling the opposition would be necessary to make their project succeed, the CIA tasked Skull and Bones members, such as William F. Buckley, to infiltrate the movement in the United States and asked French Intelligence to begin a controlled opposition group in Europe. The latter was led by the son of the MI6 Agent, Rene Lefebvre. The history of the SSPX explains the operation: recruit all the vocations who oppose Vatican II and put them in an ideological gulag, so as to destroy anyone who opposed the agenda; take control of all traditional chapels in the world and shut 90% of them down, and shift the goal posts from opposing Vatican II because it was heretical, to taking control of traditional Catholics and making them feel unfaithful unless they are faithful to the SSPX, keeping the narrative on the liturgy and “not being in schism” from the CIA controlled Vatican; and instilling the fear of “sedevacantism” as a distraction from the Catholic Solution, which would have been what St. Hildebrand did in the election of Pope Nicholas II in 1058.

The Sedevacantist movement for its part was begun, in Mexico by the Jesuit Padre Joaquín Sáenz y Arriaga, who wrote with others under the pen-name of Maurice Pinay, “The Plot Against the Church”, a book which quoted extensively from the 1924 work, by Zionist Rabbi Louis Israel Newman, “Jewish Influence in Christian Reform Movements”, and which was distributed to all the Council Fathers at Vatican II, apparently in conjunction with the efforts of the Coetus Internationalis Patrum, led by Archbishop Lefebvre, whose father was a MI6 agent. Despite having a doctorate in Canon Law Arriaga waited until 1971 to declare the Apostolic See vacant by reason of the post election heresies of Paul VI.

In the English speaking world, Sedevacantism was begun by a thrice convicted pederast in the United States, and then spread round the world, as different priests, either out of ambition or to have a quick fix, sought consecration as Bishops from various Bishops, in and out of communion with the Catholic Church.

In Argentina, the Sedevacantism movement was founded by Carlos Alberto Desasndro, close friend of Juan Peron, the Dictator, whom Licio Gelli, founder of the CIA P2 Lodge, claimed to have personally inducted to Freemasonry, during his visit to Madrid in 1973.

To achieve the destructive goals of the CIA, most Sedevacantists have invented their own novel doctrine regarding sacramental validity and thus excuse themselves of any effort to oppose the CIA project, because “You know, none of them have ever received valid sacraments, and the Catholic Church no longer exists except in our chapels”.

The latest flip-flop of Trad Inc. in accepting Francis 2.0, is now being attacked by the Neo-Sedevacantists, so as to psychologically debilitate and distract Catholics from the invalid election of Prevost and encourage them to run into the wilderness and give up all hope of restoring the Church at Rome, so as to have a Catholic Pope.

The Traditional Catholic Movement has gone from denouncing line by line of Vatican II, to closing their eyes about the difference between “munus” and “ministerium”, and refusing to read the Papal Law on Conclaves, to see if the rules were followed in the Conclave of May, 2025.* — They have become a know-nothing, despair and surrender operation, which constantly abandons the faithful and insists they do nothing, and urges them at least to embrace the errors of the Vatican, in the hope that someday they will get a few more Latin Masses, while urging that everyone remain calm and “work with” the CIA selected Bishops and Popes.

The common ideological position of all these groups is juridical positivism, a masonic error which is absolutely necessary to keep Catholics from reacting as they did in the Middle Ages when civil powers attempted to install their own antipopes.

As for the Traditionalist Movement, after observing their behavior for 45 years, I am convinced that the leadership are all Freemasons and Intelligence assets or agents, because they have achieved the wildest dreams the CIA might have contemplated when they aimed in 1953 to destroy the Catholic Church and convince Catholics to accept that.


** For example, they can read a 50+ page report on the TLM Mass worldwide, but not 4 paragraphs in the Papal Law on Conclaves. They can hail and report of how Westen’s ousting at LifeSite News is “null and void”, but they cannot even suffer to hear that Francis 2.0’s own election was null and void. — Thus it should be obvious that they are gaslighting you and distracting you from reality, with their games and theatrical acts.

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11 thoughts on “How the Traditionalist Movement was infiltrated, to lead Catholics into Apostasy”

  1. This is the most succinct telling of the diabolical state of the evil that has and continues to permeate the Church, Chris Jackson is another iteration of the resist and do nothing movement. When I asked him to explain why he accepts Prévost as pope he responds not.. And he takes trad inc along in his wake. E Michael Jones and Wemhoff see the CIA infiltration at VII, but don’t see where it has led today. Our Lady of Fatima pray for us!

  2. Fra Alexis, your light is on a lamp stand and shining with dazzling rays into the whole Catholic world and beyond. It will surely penetrate darkened souls and intellects. Forward in the name of Jesus Christ!

  3. If it were not for my extensive involvement with other religions ( long story ) I might be so sickened by the sickening behaviour being modeled by Rome , that I would feel compelled to never attend another Catholic Mass. though I am new to the TLM .
    fascinating to me is how all other religions, have remained under the radar of sexual predation and sexual perversion . Because perversion is equally rife in them .
    Slowly understanding informs me . But only after much study and …through the grace of God.
    By God I refer of course to the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit.

  4. When we finally are able to have our true Pope. The CIA version will have all the buildings and wealth. The 2 versions will run side by side…at least that’s what I think will happen. We have to be prepared that they will immediately take measures to totally destroy our restoration.

  5. Bro, what are real Catholics with families to do in the mean time; before the 80 days arrive 9/24?A novena to St. Louis 8/25? Mary 8/15? Padre Pio 9/23?

    Where do you suggest we go for the sacraments? Confession and mass.

    1. I suggest you keep going where you were going before May 8th. And pray especially to Saints Peter and Paul and of course Saint Joseph.

      1. That might just be great insight on your part, as we are lay canons of the Shrine of St. Martin of Tours; a place where pope Leo XIII sent (not one but two) 3rd century martyrs to be displayed in their final repose on our two side altars. St. Magnus and Bonosa. Our priest offers the traditional form of the mass every Sunday at noon. May these two intercede in the Save Rome effort; with all of the holy martyrs and saints.

        https://www.shrineofstmartin.org/ssmagnusandbonosa

  6. It is indeed an infernal mess that is well-described by this essay. That is a first step, which is not to downplay it at all, but to highlight its necessity because no follow-up steps are possible without the clear vision of a well-done first step.

    I’m sure many others have realized and expressed: what the first step makes clear is that this is well beyond any human solution. On the other hand, that’s not a justification for doing nothing, which this essay’s author takes to heart as well as or better than anybody.

    As this website has said many times, spread the message.

    We must also fast and pray because “this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting” (Matthew 17:20; Douay), and though flesh and blood are involved, “we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:12).

    And to that we add the primary weapon of spiritual warfare par excellence, Our Lady’s Rosary. Satan tries every clever ploy to stop the Rosary, from convincing people not to pray at all, to praying something that looks like a Rosary, but is not, namely, the Marian Psalter.

    The Marian Psalter is a venerable prayer, but Our Lady asks for a Rosary, and history and the Church teach us what a Rosary is, and how it is distinct from and superior to a Marian Psalter. A Rosary is vocal prayer that is ALTERNATED with SILENT, INDIVIDUAL, SPONTANEOUS MEDITATION that ASSESSES, CONCLUDES and RESOLVES goals and ways that eliminate sin and increase virtue (see Rev. Simler, Catechism of Mental Prayer), which is “the soul of the Rosary”. History tells us this through St. Dominic and Blessed Alan de la Roche, as attested by St. Louis de Montfort in The Secret of the Rosary. Church-approved revelation tells us this in the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima and Our Lady of the Rosary of Cuapa (Fr. Calloway, Champions of the Rosary, 2016). Papal teaching tells us this, such as Pope Paul VI’s Marialis Cultis, nos. 47, 49-50.

    We must pray the Rosary daily as Our Lady requests repeatedly, and we must pray it correctly — with meditation –to speed the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart and reduce the power of anti-Christ.

    Let us do so because Our Lady speaks wisdom from God in Her solicitation for our souls. God will hear our prayer by seeing our obedience which Jesus says is His measure of our love for Him (cf. John 14:21).

    Godspeed to all.

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