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The link between the KT and Switzerland is well documented and not secret at all. There are huge statutes to the KT in Swizterland in basically every town square.

I don't know if you recall the history, but the King of France owed the KT a bunch of money. The KT were vulnerable at that time because they jsut lost a major battle to the Muzzies. The pope was similarly in a bind and living in Paris.

The pope was a nice guy, but weak, and the King pressured him into allowing "examinations" (torture) of the KT leadership. They tortured out some B.S. that was subsequently recanted publically, but the damage was done, and the King had an excuse to order a round-up of the KT one Friday the 13th.

(The RCC has since apologized for this and admits it screwed up, BTW. The confessions were clearly B.S.)

Anyway the KT were tipped off, presumably by people in the RCC, and largely scattered. The fleet went to Scotland and mixed in with a powerful trade union of the time that happened to be bankrolling a rebellion -- the brick masons union, which we now know as the York Rite Freemasons (NOT the Scottish Rite, incidently, they're French.)

One group went to Portugal and became the Knights of Christ.

And the last group went to a local disputed mountain area. Just so happens that the same French King who just pissed off the KT wanted those mountains for his own. Well, he was met by calvary and the farmers had been organized into modern troops. The French were soundly defeated.

The knights in the mountain group were wearing the KT uniform (either the white on red or red on white. Red on white was for the "officers.")

Suddenly also banks sprung up there. The KT were, at heart, bankers. They developed a system of cyphers that were essentially travelers' checks that pilgrims could safely carry to the Holy Land and only they could use by use of secret number.

And thus the KT founded Switzerland.

And provide the Swiss guards today to the pope, all being forgiven on both sides.

(The bit about the Int. Red Cross is a coincidence; although the founder (a York Rite Mason, himself) no doubt drew on the symbol on purpose.)