 A former high @-@ ranking KGB officer , Securitate General Ion Mihai Pacepa stated in 2007 that Hochhuth 's play and numerous publications attacking Pius XII as a Nazi sympathizer were fabrications that were part of a KGB and Eastern bloc Marxist secret services disinformation campaign , named Seat 12 , to discredit the moral authority of the Church and Christianity in the west . Pacepa indicated that he was involved in contacting eastern bloc agents close the Vatican in order to fabricate the story to be used for the attack against the wartime pope . 
