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Four CIA operatives undergo intensive training at a Jesuit seminary in Maryland—learning Catholic liturgy in Latin, Vatican protocols, and clerical mannerisms—then infiltrate Rome posing as American priests on sabbatical studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University. For eight weeks they wear black cassocks and Roman collars, attending Vatican functions and monitoring the Russian community while tracking Karpov's movements through electronic surveillance and paid informants. On the Feast of St. Michael, during evening Mass at Sant'Andrea delle Fratte where Karpov attempts his assassination, they corner him in the sacristy, neutralize him with suppressed .22 pistols during organ music, then escort his body out as a "drunk homeless man" before disappearing into America's extensive network of Catholic institutions across Rome.

so, what better way to slip in some intel peeps under cloak of "religion" and let them acquire some really good Humint