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Embattled Boston Mayor Kevin White is indicted on 37 counts of bribery and misuse of public funds. Blaming Bulgarian operatives for "smearing me," the four-terns Hub leader takes to the airwaves to clear his name. In one commercial, White is shown purchasing 200 cans of Ajax, "just to show I'm still Mr. Clean...
...allegations about Bulgarians could be proved, they would point strongly toward Soviet complicity. Not only is Bulgaria the Soviet Union's staunchest ally but, according to most experts, the Bulgarian secret service is run directly by the KGB. The allegations could implicate Andropov, who headed the KGB at the time, as well as former President Leonid Brezhnev. Says Stefan Sverdlev, a former colonel in the Bulgarian secret service who defected to Greece more than three years ago: "I do not doubt for one instant the role of the Bulgarian secret service in this attack. But if they...
...director of Bulgaria's state news agency charged the West with a frame-up "aimed at influencing the sentiments of millions of Catholics." The Soviet news agency TASS rejected "absurd insinuations" linking Moscow to the plot. Even many Western analysts, while convinced that the Soviets often act through Bulgarian proxies, believe the assassination attempt was too sloppy to have been directed by the KGB. Says a West German intelligence official: "I cannot believe that the KGB would do something so slipshod and unprofessional. Why would the KGB be so stupid as to leave Bulgarians who were closely involved...
...other Italian cases, however, strengthen the Bulgarian connection. Luigi Scricciolo, 34, a former Italian labor official arrested in February on charges of spying for Bulgaria and aiding the terrorist Red Brigades, has reportedly named as his contact one of the Bulgarians implicated in the papal plot. In Trento, 200 people have been jailed on charges of smuggling arms and drugs into Western Europe under the direction of a man reputed to have close ties to Bulgaria. In Israel, intelligence officials have long asserted that Bulgaria has trained Palestine Liberation Organization terrorists...
...only the leads but the lesser players as well are perfect, each one a small, vivid miracle of type. Fetching up their names is an old game for the trivialist: Sam (Dooley Wilson), the bartender Sascha (Leonid Kinskey), the waiter Carl (S.Z. Sakall), the jilted Yvonne (Madeleine LeBeau), the Bulgarian couple (Joy Page and Helmut Dantine), the pickpocket (Curt Bois), the croupier (Marcel Dalio...