You find he's a Knight of Malta (remember all of his Rome World Trade Mart interests ?). Prescott Bush is one too.
Now it gets interesting: South Vietnam and Catholics from the North resettled into South Vietnam mainly in the Mekong delta area--helps foment resentments of locals vs. the resettled (Fletcher Prouty mentions this in his book 'JFK'); anyway, Cardinal Cody and others pushing very anti-communist agenda without regard for US ability to pay the price, as French did and US was funding around 90% of the French war in Indochina.
James Jesus Angleton, also a Knight of Malta...Wild Bill Donovan, the OSS/CIA superstar, also a Knight of Malta, and also set up as an Ambassador to Thailand in 1953 (read Golden Triangle drug trade)
John McCone CIA DCI 1962-63 also a Knight of Malta... getting the picture yet ? And Angleton's messing with Mary Meyer's papers after her murder makes you think too.
"In God's Name" shows a lot of these connections plus about 10 to 20 years but you can piece together what was going on. David Yallop speculates we were using the drug trade money laundering to shore up NATOs southern flank. If JFK was going to pull us out or scale down the SE Asian war plus 'break the CIA into a thousand pieces' he was jeopardizing his own life (plus JFK's dad Joe Kennedy was a Knight of Malta too, who pulled strings with the mafia to get the son elected). The Mafia figured large in the CIA's plans for moneylaundering and drug trade exploitation of Cuba too. When Cuba was lost to Castro in 1959 the whole drugmoney laundering etc operation HAD to go to SE Asia. Again, if JFK was 'messing' with their 'moneymaker' he was toast.
Nowadays, even spy Robert Hansen is outed as being an member of Opus Dei - see
http://www.mdep.org/sect19.html Opus Dei and the Knights of Malta are 'extremely close'--see
"THE MAFIA, THE CIA, AND THE VATICAN'S INTELLIGENCE APPARATUS" at
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/smokemirrors.htmlIs our current CIA penetrated via this religious organization ?