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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, DECEMBER 17, 1982
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assassination attempt--deserve praise for persevering with the
investigation in the face of Communist hostility and indifference
by practically everybody else.
Why was Mehmet Ali Agca, a notorious right-wing terrorist in Turkey,
selected, trained and funded for purposes of carrying out the orders? (In
addition to expenses, Agca was reportedly offered $1 million.) The READER'S
DIGEST article referred to in the quote above reports:
There is reason to believe that Mehmet Ali Agca was not only used
but betrayed, that he was counting £!! his two accomplices to
create a diversion at the Vatican so he could slip aw � y.
Instead, , they ran away themselves, on orders. His right-wing
persona firmly established, Agca was meant to be caught. "He was
not in much of a position to bargain after that,
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said a high
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talked he would j
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ust be left to rot in
jail. If not, maybe his patrons would spring him again."
However, Agca, abandoned by his ertswhile cohorts, finally decided to
reveal all.
The Agca case has all but disrupted Italian-Bulgarian relations. The
two countries have recalled their ambassadors. Italian investigators
are uncovering new evidence everyday concerning "the Bulgarian
connection." Italian trade union leader Luigi Scricciolo has admitted
that he worked for the Bulgarian secret police under orders to spy on
Lech Walesa the Polish union leader.
He visited Poland, got the
confidence of Walesa, and personally organized his visit to Rome in
1981. It is believed that the information Scricciolo obtained on
Solidarity's leadership was instrumental in helping General Jaruselski
to so swiftly shut down the union's operations in December, 1981.
Scricciolo also acted as liaison between Bulgarian agents and Italy's
notorious Red Brigade terrorists. He admitted to supplying Bulgarian
agents with texts of interrogation of U.S. Brigadier General James L.
Dozier, who had been kidnapped by the "Rosso Brigate.
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Italian authorities are convinced that Bulgarian agents have been
involved for several years in a communist conspiracy to undermine the
Italian democratic state.
The growing Italian-Bulgarian crisis,
including the scandal over the attempt on the pope's life, reports the
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR in its December 15, 1982 edition, "may have
wider repercussions in East-West relations."
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau