In his review of God’s Bankers (12 September), John Pollard points out that Gerald Posner’s accusation that Bernardino Nogara (the Vatican’s wartime financial director) was an Abwehr spy is refuted by documents in the National Archives, Kew, which identify the Nogara in question as Bruno Nogara, a Venice schoolteacher.Posner has amended his text in a new edition, but now claims there were two Abwehr agents named Nogara: Bruno Nogara and a “Branch Nogara”, listed in a file in the National Archives in Washington DC, whom Posner attempts to identify as Bernardino Nogara. But in the very same file this “Nogara” is identified as a small town where an Abwehr unit maintained its supply depot. There is no second Abwehr agent called Nogara. Will Gera
08 October 2015, The Tablet
The wrong Nogara
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