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...seriously wounded 18 months ago by a 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...
...Bulgarian embassy in Rome protested indignantly against the "unfounded" arrest of Antonov...
...silence onstage was matched by that in the audience, but there was loud applause when an opera official announced that Bulgarian Spas Wenkoff would step into the role. Wenkoff had been hurriedly flown in that very day after Goldberg's cover caught the sniffles. When Wenkoff too seemed unsteady during the third act, the ailing understudy was summoned to the opera house. Nonetheless, Wenkoff made it to the end. It was just as well. "Three tenors in one performance" mused one dedicatee fan, "That would have been the end of the world...
...thriving drugs-for-guns trade with the cooperation of Bulgaria's hard-line Communist regime. It was in Bulgaria, Kalb speculates, that the Soviets may have indirectly recruited the young killer. Kalb reasons that Agca could not have operated freely in Sofia without the complicity of the Bulgarian secret service-and, by extension, the Soviet KGB, which controls...
...other terrorist groups, including the Palestine Liberation Organization and West Germany's Red Army Faction. He also provided a fascinating, if as yet inconclusive, link between the Red Brigades and the Soviet bloc. In prison depositions, he claimed that the Red Brigades had been in contact with the Bulgarian embassy in Rome. One of the supposed intermediaries was Luigi Scricciolo, 35, an official of the Unione Italiana del Lavoro, one of Italy's largest trade union federations, and an alleged Red Brigades undercover agent. After Dozier was kidnaped, the embassy reportedly was willing to offer assistance in exchange...