Kissinger was counselor not just to presidents, but to popes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The other party to the conversation was Henry Kissinger, at the time still the U.S. Secretary of State as well as the National Security Advisor, and perhaps the most celebrated, and controversial, statesman of the 20 century.
50% : As part of the Wikileaks releases, for instance, we know of an October 1973 conversation between Kissinger and then-Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, at the time the sostituto, or "substitute," of the Secretariat of State, in which the two discussed the recent coup in Chile that brought down the government of Salvador Allende.

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