Editing Opus Dei (section)

===Alleged Espionage and Intelligence Operations===
A 1980s surveillance center in Bogotá, Colombia, reportedly connected to the Vatican, registered data on Latin American clergy, allegedly aiding “death squads” in assassinations like those of Ignacio Ellacuría and Oscar Romero in El Salvador. Opus Dei’s involvement is claimed but unproven, with critics citing its conservative networks as facilitating intelligence-sharing with the CIA.

During John Paul II’s reign, Opus Dei allegedly facilitated the sale of Exocet missiles to Argentina’s dictatorship during the Falklands War, a covert operation with potential CIA awareness, though evidence is speculative.

The Vatican’s Holy Alliance (1566) and post-WWII arrests of Catholic officials for espionage in Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria suggest a long history of Vatican intelligence activities, with Opus Dei as a modern extension in some narratives.