I posted this on X in respose to Lifesite's post about the book and interview with Marro:

So ... I've got serious problems with his credibility here, either that or of Fr. Martin.  If you see this interview (linked below) with Fr.(?) Coomaraswamy on Art Bell's show, he relates that Fr. Martin told him a completely different story about how he had allegedly read the Third Secret.  According to Coomaraswamy, Fr. Martin told him that he had been riding in a car with John XXIII, when the latter directly gave him the Third Secret, after having sworn him to silence about it.  Now, according to Marro, Fr. Martin said it was Cardinal Bea who gave him the Secret, after having left a meeting behind closed doors during which heating argument could be overheard.  So, which one was it?  Both really can't be true, since if Fr. Martin had already read the Third Secret from John XXIII, he could have just said to Cardinal Bea, "oh, I've alredy seen this, from John XXIII".

We have only a few options here.  Either Fr(?) Coomaraswamy was lying, or Marro is lying, or Fr. Martin was lying, and unable to keep his lies straight.  I don't think Coomaraswamy would lie, as he has always been regarded as a man of high character, even if I don't agree with all his positions.  So in my mind either Marro is making all this up to sell a book, or Fr. Martin was lying.  Now, if this was some story from Fr. Martin, why had he not told this to other people with whom he was close?  Fr. Martin was known to have had a very close relationship with Coomaraswamy, but this is the first time I had heard of Marro, and how is it that he's evidently the ONLY one to whom Fr. Martin would have told this story?  And some of Marro's story seems nonsensical.  Between that and this never having come out over all these many years ... I am highly suspect that this book is largely fictional (like many of Fr. Martin's books) and just a ploy to make money ... and it appears to be working.

How come that nobody in the Traditional movement has ever heard of this Marro character before, or that Fr. Martin had never told some of these stories to anyone else with whom he had been in close association, and that it's just coming out now, many decades later?

It's hard for me to conclude anything other than that Marro made it all up, or made most of it up, in order to make money by seeling his book ... and it appears to be working.

 I can't imagine how someone could know what the third secret says and not publish it.

He was sworn to secrecy, which you would know had you ever listened to him yourself, instead of relying on third-hand misinformation from online posts.

Do you think he was being honest about Martin being a bishop and conditionally ordaining him? Or do you think Martin may have deceived him?

I believe that he's telling us what he believes to have been true, based on what Fr. Martin told him.  Unfortunately, with Father Martin, since he's made a veritable career out of mixing fact with fiction, it's hard to know what's true and what isn't.

I find myself most skeptical of this Marro character.  So, just now, over 25 years after Fr. Martin's death, we're finally hearing about his having been made a Cardinal?  Sounds really fishy.  Has anyone heard of this guy before as having been connected with Fr. Martin?

Fr. Coomaraswamy was known to have been very close with him, and yet Fr. Martin didn't tell HIM about the whole Cardinal thing?  Then Fr. Coomaraswamy told the story he heard from Martin about how the latter had read the Third Secret, directly from John XXIII ... vs. Marro's story about how Cardinal Bea had given it to him.  Which one was it?

Least likely ... Fr(?) Coomaraswamy lied about J23 Third Secret Strory.
Most likely ... Marro is making it all up 25 years after his death to make some money off the book.
In Between ... Fr. Martin was lying about having read the Third Secret and lost track of the lies, telling two contradictory stories.

with Father Martin, since he's made a veritable career out of mixing fact with fiction, it's hard to know what's true and what isn't.

Oh please. "Veritable career"? Malachi Martin wrote one book which, for health reasons no doubt, he choose to label as fiction as high Vatican hierarchy were called out. It is well-known that Malachi Martin had circulated a paper with a list of the real enemy hierarchy along with their fictionalized names. 

That is not a "veritalbe career out of mixing fact with fiction." 

Please stop engaging in calumny and if you just can't help yourself, at least tone down accusing others of what you are doing.

He was sworn to secrecy, which you would know had you ever listened to him yourself, instead of relying on third-hand misinformation from online posts.

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A promise of secrecy is not binding if it will be the cause of grave spiritual and possibly physical harm to millions and millions of people. This is common sense.

There's so much strange things about Fr. Malachi Martin that even if he was alive, giving interviews and writing books himself, I would believe none of it without solid evidence.

I can understand conservatives giving him attention, but not Traditionalists, who should know better.

Please explain "strange things" keeping in mind that the tactics of the enemy include creating falsehoods about a person, attacking their character and muddying the water so people throw their hands in the air and give up on learning the truth. This is only done to those who are in their way.