Pope’s butler found with thousands of secret papers – FOCUS Information Agency.

Vatican City. Vatican police have revealed how they found thousands of documents, some of which Pope Benedict had marked to be destroyed, hidden in the quarters of the pontiff’s former butler during a raid in which he was arrested and charged with theft, The Independent writes.
The officers were testifying yesterday in the trial of the ex-servant Paolo Gabriele, 46, who faces up to four years in prison if found guilty of aggravated theft of sensitive reports and passing them to the Italian media.
Some of the leaked documents, including embarrassing claims about Vatican corruption and the Church’s tax affairs, have already been widely publicised.
But just as intriguingly, details to emerge yesterday of the huge haul of papers suggest the Vatican’s interest in some of the more lurid and obscure subjects associated, rightly or wrongly, with the Vatican is as great as that of the conspiracy theorists.
Many of the papers were about spies, secret services, the occult, scandals involving the Vatican bank, and P2, a shadowy Masonic lodge whose members numbered many prominent Italian politicians, including Silvio Berlusconi.