When the #CIA was founded in 1947, #Catholicism was still outside the mainstream, even alien: it was, as Graziano shows, something to be studied. But in an irony that would please Wild Bill Donovan, the CIA has had so many #Catholic (or formerly Catholic) directors since the 1970s - William Casey, Leon Panetta, Michael Hayden and John Brennan - that it is now sometimes referred to as the "Catholic intelligence agency".

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-truth-shall-make-you-free-catholicism-and-the-cia/