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Defector ties Bulgarians to pope assassination plot
A Bulgarian defector in France, Iordan Mantarov, 48, alleges the 1981 plot to kill Pope John Paul II was devised by the KGB and Bulgaria’s Durzhavna Sigurnost. He named Dimiter Savov as a key counterintelligence official and claimed U S officials viewed the pope as an attack on Poland. The Bulgarian government and Soviet authorities deny involvement. The NYT investigation across seven countries found inconsistencies in Italian and Bulgarian testimonies and noted Turkish smugglers tied to Bulgarian authorities financed Agca’s travels.
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