That short sighted policy is biting us in the @$$ to this day, 30 years later ! Also consider what happened in Nicaragua with the Somoza administration. One thing. I went to a Jesuit H.S. in Indianapolis in the first hald of the 1980’s. The Religion Department was not a department that supported the Word of God but instead supported the religious left (liberation theology). They promoted Marxist viewpoints such as the Sandinista. Also at the time when Solidarity in Poland was at the height before the crackdown, the religion department supported the Soviet led crackdown in how comments were made that people should obey the gov’t. One of the most liberal teacher’s from that department left the school two years after I graduated from there (1987) and became professor at Humboldt State in Arcata, CA in the Women’s Study and Political Sci departments.
At least in France the Jesuits were iron rod anti-communists during the earlier part of the 1900s. I wonder at what point did that change and if they were targeted for infiltration. Its funny that Le Monde, today a super leftist socialist news media, was the primary right-wing Catholic paper prior to WWII.