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...Turkish escaped prisoner named Mehmet Ali Agca, there have been vague reports that one or another Soviet-bloc intelligence agency might have been involved in the crime. With an arrest sure to fuel such rumors, Italian police last week seized a Bulgarian citizen named Sergei Ivanov Antonov, 34, head of the Rome office for Balkan Airlines. The charge: that Antonov was an active accomplice of Agca...
...investigation of the case, Italian Magistrate Ilario Martella had previously requested the arrest of two other Turks. One of the two has been extradited to Italy from Switzerland, and the other is being held in West Germany. Martella's office had tittle to say about the arrest of Antonov last week, acknowledging merely that it was possible that Agca "had acted in criminal agreement with other persons... through various meetings in Italy and elsewhere...
Exactly what role Antonov may have played in the conspiracy is not clear. Nor is much known about Antonov himself, beyond the fact that he had worked in Rome for four or five years, and left his family at home in Sofia. His job would have given him easy access to passenger planes at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport, freeing him from some of the limitations of immigration and customs controls. According to some reports, he is suspected of having provided Agca with information, money and a hotel room at the time of the shooting, and may even...
...Bulgarian embassy in Rome protested indignantly against the "unfounded" arrest of Antonov...
Commercial air traffic, what little is still operating, moves in and out of Kabul airport normally, but the Soviet Ilyushin and Antonov military transports that use the same runway bank sharply after takeoff and climb to a safe altitude in a tight spiral. There is rising concern that rebels armed with hand-held SA-7 antiaircraft missiles may be hiding in the hills around the capital...