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...Bulgaria denies charges that it sent its navy to supply Nicaragua with arms, claiming that all three of its rowboats have never left domestic waters...
...Defense Minister Lelio Lagorio last week described new revelations concerning the attempt by a Turkish terrorist to assassinate Pope John Paul II 19 months ago. Lagorio was one of four ministers who, in the space of ten hours, appeared in Rome's ornate, 17th century Parliament to accuse Bulgaria, and by implication the Soviet Union, of standing behind Gunman Mehmet Ali Agca's failed effort...
Stung by the speculation, Bulgaria for the first time has explicitly denied involvement. At an unusual Sofia press conference, the 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...
...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...
...years it has been no secret in Western Europe that Bulgaria's secret service has tolerated the shipment of billions of dollars worth of arms from Turkey, much of it for use by terrorist organizations. The new allegations, however, raise fears that Soviet-directed terrorism and subversion reach farther, and with far less restraint, than had previously been believed. Italy's relations with Bulgaria are already badly frayed. But with so much at stake, Italy and its Western allies are prudently waiting for more solid evidence before making any additional charges public. -By Kenneth W. Banta. Reported...