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...cooperating with the FBI. East Germany then entered the talks through Wolfgang Vogel, an East German lawyer who helped engineer the 1962 swap of American U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers for Soviet Master Spy Rudolf Abel, also across the Glienicker Bridge. Soon Vogel was dealing as well for Bulgarian Penyu Kostadinov, indicted in 1983 for buying nuclear weapons secrets in New York City, and for Alice Mickelson, an East German arrested last year at New York's Kennedy Airport in a smuggling attempt...
...Agca continued his revelations. He said that the Soviet Union had commissioned Turkish terrorists to blow up 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...
...often contradictory testimony in a Rome courtroom, Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981, gave the first courtroom explanations last week of where he learned his deadly skills. Agca declared that in 1977 he had been trained by "Bulgarian and Czech experts" in a camp in Latakia, Syria. He said that he and other Turkish terrorists, together with trainees from France, Italy, Spain and West Germany, were instructed in the use of guns and bombs. Then he added: "I affirm with certainty that the Soviet Union is the political...
...with seven other defendants faces charges related to a 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...