FATHER JANSSENS, LED JESUITS FOR 18 YEARS

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000400200006-3
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December 14, 1998
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October 6, 1964
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? Special tote Herald Tribune Meal to go, our er r, se Since many of our members man as one of the key figures tiste Janssens. 74, leader; of dangerous secrets but never, against Soviet-bloc countries. the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) did the Qestapo find any." . fihe accusation, voiced by a for 18 years, died at the Jesuit; Father Janssens Was born , Communist ? 'newspaper ' in headquarters yesterday'; 12 in Malines, Belgium, on Dec.' Czechoslovakia, talked of "the minutes after .Pope :Paul' VI 22, 1889. He studied at Lou-' Vatican _ espionage service,'., had visited him and given him vain University' and at., the which ?l1s directed, by the a special blessing. ? Gregorian University?.'i'. in General of the Jesuit order,, Father Janssens, a Belgian, Rime. In 1'f"0, a year after. 'Janssens," Neither, he nor; eneral' 'his ordination, he was sent to' the Vatican dignified the was the 27th superior general.., of Roman Catholicism's larg- Istanbul to work among the "charge with a reply. eat religious order. He suffered White ;tus."ans who. escaped ` Father Janssens' suffered ".t a stroke which partly para-? -f from the 13olshevic revolu. for' many years from rata-1; lined him Wednesday and his tion. He Icarned to speak- -raets and asthma. Finally, he,'. condition worsened yesterday ; Russian during his stay, lost the sight of one eye. He as heart and lung complica- He returned to Louvain in accepted,' grudgingly, the,; tions set in. . ; , ? 1'1923 and taught, canon law necessity fora Vicar General Upon his death, the Rev: there iuntil he became head of' to help him but continued to John L, Swain, a Canadian, ?'the Jesuit Institute at the work unsparingly at themany, became acting head of the so-.I university in 1020, He never tallk3 Imposed by his , posI6. ciety until representatives of thought much of his ability, tion in the society; Jesuit provinces from through= ` In the, Russian language but' Sanitized - Approved F9C eI&a9N: CIA= NEW YORK 1 -LD TRIBUNE elect a new father' general. ' considered himself fluent in Father Swain served as Vicar"Flemish, French., German, of Father Janssens 'for some, '% Italian and. Latin., lie ad= years. !'.,mitted to a "passable knowl-,,:;" The Jesuits grew from about : edge" of `En,lish and Span- 28,000 to 36,000 under , his 3sh.: leadership. Its members staff ' EL[CTED . many U. S. Catholic educate tional establishments, includ-;;,` Father 'Janssens was elec- ing Fordham University; Newted Superior General of the 'prk; Marquette University,'; Society of Jesus - (Jesuits)'- '-Milwaukee, Wis,. and Loyola on Sept.' 15, ,1946. The elect 7,; University, Chicago. tion was' held In Rome at a": FOILED GESTAPO meeting of 164 delegates from..: "all, parts ?j . the world. He `' Father Janssens was an + succeeded; the' Very Rev.`? ustere man noted for his;.'Vladimir Ledochopwsky,'' of .. ,rv PnlAnd , w1nn; A9nr7 ' 7n , 1 nv) uaa.u?o?-,awrv nUU~wc:o UU - - +. .'. e had a talent also for mis- 1: after ruling ,the Order' 27 years. CPYRGHT II VATICAN CITY. were Joining the under in a secret "Organization x,"' The Very Rev. John Bap= ; ground action he knew men- alleged to have been plotting ' tupied by the Nazis during ` ? Loyola, a' Spanish soldier Vorld War Ii, who was later canonized, ar He was head of the Jesuits Primary ' aim of the order ridden In his office was a; might be required. 'It was,,' ),The, atlas m. which he pin-,,suppressed in 1773 under' . oin:ted Allied advances. He pressure from European kings ti new much about the Bel- ,, who complained that . the erman agents-called at the t J' peace. - It was restored in).; ig Jesuit House : in the cen- ,` 1814. r of Brussels, they learned', . ' As the leader of the group,,,! ot.hing, departed bewildered. Father Janssens exercised "You should have seen what amounted to military is when the Gestapo came powers of command over ere" .one of his associates, some 36,000 members, about,' Id after. the war. "The 20 per cent of! whom are';'; ignity of his reception, and 'Ampriran . 1, Tt tftcAtppfd kaF-454 i?iib0ieh v ' -RDP75-0Q149R0'0040G2Q0006-3.