Discovery of the new documents has also generated new questions about whether similar materials may be gathering dust in the Vatican’s own archives, despite repeated denials from Vatican spokespersons that such a file exists.
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ROME – Confidential documents from forty years ago suggest that at the time of the 1983 disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, the so-called “Vatican girl” whose fate has become the premier contemporary Vatican mystery story, Italian security officials believed the Vatican might already have paid a ransom to secure her release, while a senior Vatican official denied it.
The documents have been unearthed as part of a bipartisan probe in the Italian parliament into both the Orlandi case and that of Mirella Gregori, another Italian teenager who vanished around the same time.
