[Theosis]

"Because many of the men in S.America had been falsely slandered and were innocent. Archbishop Lefebvre was aware of this and so accepted the men--conditionally, advising that they were to be closely watched. They were--and were booted out subsequently."

Tsk..tsk... you're not admitting that SSPX clergy falsely slander one another now, are you? That being said, after all your griping against the Novus Ordo bishops, excuse if I sound suspicious that rather than transfer him to an administrative position, the appointed him as a seminary professor, which essentially places him in a position of authority in a private setting over a number of single young men, at a seminary overseen by a conspiracy theorist. As good as each of them is at spinning a yarn, I'm not even sure that Malachi Martin or Andrew Greeley could write a novel that would allow me to suspend my disbelief long enough to accept such a plot line...

[ultima ratio]

You mischaracterize what happened. The SSPX has had its internal divisions from the beginning. There were those to the right who were sedevacantists and who eventually broke with SSPX; and there were those who pined for Rome at any cost and broke with the SSPX to form the FSSP. Both groups, in my opinion, were misguided and had axes to grind. The interesting facts are that Archbishop Lefebvre was willing to give the two men in question the benefit of a doubt--but prudently. They were carefully watched and very quickly dismissed for conduct that seemed suspicious. Bishop Fellay then acted prudently by advising Bishop Timlin--who behaved imprudently by taking in the two men in question.