Rome, Italy - (AssoCIAted Messerschmitts): Italian prosecutors have confirmed that Pope Joseph Ratzinger has been spied on for the last twenty years by Interpol tax experts looking for the Nazi-stolen gold ingot bars that have suddenly turned up in his old pal General Pinochet's Riggs Bank account safety deposit box in Hong Kong - as reported in the press yesterday.
A spokesman for the Rome investigating magistrate in charge of the case has said that "it seems the old Nazi couple's tax affairs were raked over hundreds of times until the bullion was found".
Rome prosecutors say 666 people are now under investigation in the Vatican.
Meanwhile, the Pontifical Office for Insults, Smears, Inuendos and Slander (ISIS) has issued a terse statement saying: "This is a dark page in the history of the P2 Lodge".
