"So, Russia is in the plan.. Why ?...that would take me too far afield into papal secrets... why Russia and Kiev are involved in the final solution of this problem... but they are. They're part and parcel... and it's really.. God's choice.. it's purely and simply God's choice...", "I wouldn't have chosen the Russians, or Kiev"... salvation is to come from the East for us all".

1996, Fr. Malachi Martin interview with Bernard Janzen.

Kiev was not even politically relevant in the mid 1990s.

In 1960, Fr. Malachi Martin was outside the Papal apartment while John XXIII and his advisers were opening the contents of the Third Secret. Cardinal Bea, Malachi's boss, was one of the Cardinal's who was there as the envelope was opened. Then they discussed it with translators, one of whom was Fr. Martin.

In the interview, Fr. Martin is talking about John Paul II, however, the Third Secret may not have said who the Pope would be by name, merely that he was "the bishop in white".