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...whose clients had included Franchino Restelli, the northern Italian city's leading Mafioso. Jailed briefly in 1978 for his Mafia associations, Lombino fled to the U.S. in July 1981 when Italian authorities suddenly seized his passport, a signal that they were preparing to indict him. The Italian military attaché told Lombino that he could make a lot of money if he would help with the Dozier case. On Dec. 22, only five days after Dozier had been abducted, Lombino phoned the Fat Man and then Armando Sportelli, chief of SISMI's foreign operations in Rome. The word...
...weight and status with objectively provable reality. The commissioners record that witnesses characterized the massacre as "a disaster which no one had imagined and which could not have been-or, at all events, need not have been-foreseen." They then make this extraordinary announcement: "We are not prepared to attach any importance to these statements." When one says something like that, he can mean only two things. First, I do not believe your account of the circumstances. Second, I know, or strongly suspect, what really occurred...
...human nature is that one cannot escape his own knowledge; he cannot be baptized innocent on a moment's notice; nor may he be born again whenever difficulties make rebirth convenient. What this says about the comprehensiveness of reality is more far-reaching. "We are not prepared to attach any importance to these statements [of self-exoneration]," wrote the commissioners, adding, "and not necessarily due to the fact the this evaluation was refuted by reality"-that is, by the reality of the massacre. In other words, the commission saw an other, deeper reality in the works, the reality...
...crisis began when Garcia, who was jealous of Ochoa's increasing prominence as a successful antiguerrilla fighter, ordered the 40-year-old officer to resign his command in the northern province of Cabañas and assume duties as military attaché in Uruguay. Ochoa refused. He declared his province a "free territory," and phoned a San Salvador radio station to demand that Garcia resign as head of the armed forces because he had shown himself incompetent in handling the country's three-year-old civil...
Italian authorities arrested Antonov earlier this month in Rome, and at Italy's request, West German police picked up another suspect in Frankfurt. The Italians also put out an arrest warrant for a former secretary to the Bulgarian military attaché and for an accountant at the Bulgarian embassy. The Bulgarian connection is further corroborated by telephone numbers that Agca gave to Italian authorities, which match those of Antonov's airline office and the Bulgarian embassy in Rome...