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...largest East-West spy swap since World War II, the result of talks among six nations: the U.S., East and West Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and the Soviet Union. Negotiations began after Polish Spy Marian Zacharski was sentenced to life in prison in 1981 for buying classified documents from a Hughes Aircraft Co. radar engineer. Poland let the U.S. know it wanted him back. In 1983 Alfred Zehe, a Dresden physicist, was arrested in Boston for buying classified information from a Navy employee cooperating with the FBI. East Germany then entered the talks through Wolfgang Vogel, an East German lawyer...
...Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, the U.S.-financed radio stations in Munich. When he was shown photographs of St. Peter's Square taken moments before he shot the Pope, Agca identified Bulgarian Defendant Sergei Antonov. It was the first time he had claimed that the former representative of Bulgaria's Balkan Airlines was in the square at the time of the shooting. Agca also accused Propaganda Due, a / secret Italian Masonic lodge, of the 1983 kidnaping of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee in hopes of winning Agca's freedom through a prisoner exchange. He insisted...
...conspiracy to assassinate the Pope, also told presiding Judge Severino Santiapichi how he had purchased the weapon that was at one point passed to Defendant Omer Bagci and eventually used in the shooting. Agca refused to discuss previous claims of Bulgarian complicity in the plot, beyond assertions that "Bulgaria is guilty" and that he had been "threatened by the secret services of the Soviet Union and Bulgaria...
...Soviet Union, where a national committee has been formed to issue statements in defense of Sergei Antonov, the former representative in Rome of Bulgaria's Balkan Airlines and the only Bulgarian defendant present in the courtroom, the press leaped on Agca's outbursts as evidence that his story was worthless. Prosecutor Marini disagreed. "When (Agca) begins to talk about facts," he said, "he is extremely reliable." Still, Marini was relieved when Bagci calmly, albeit reluctantly, held up under intense questioning...
...Salvador, where the government last week revealed documents that, if authentic, back Washington's charges of strong leftist Salvadoran guerrilla ties to the Soviet bloc and Nicaragua. The papers indicate that several guerrillas have attended military-training courses in the Soviet Union, Viet Nam, East Germany and Bulgaria. The letters, diaries and other documents also suggest that relations between the Salvadoran rebels and the Sandinistas have been strained at times, particularly in the months following the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada. The papers, said one U.S. official, "tend to confirm rather than reveal." After Reagan's troublesome week...