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...prison for his attempt on the Pope's life. According to accounts of his confession that were leaked to Rome newspapers, Agca says that he escaped from a Turkish jail in 1979 with the aid of a Turkish terrorist who allegedly worked for the Bulgarians. Agca went to Bulgaria and then to Rome, where he met three Bulgarians, including Sergei Ivanov Antonov, the head of the local office of Bulgaria's Balkan Airlines. Later, apparently, he was offered $ 1.25 million to kill the Pope...
...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...
...expressed dissatisfaction with a previous U.N. probe that yielded inconclusive results last year. The latest report concludes lamely that the investigators "could not disregard the circumstantial evidence" indicating "possible" use of biochemical weapons. But the team led by Egyptian Military Physician Esmat Ezz included "political officers" from Bulgaria and Iran. It did not enter combat zones in Laos, Cambodia and Afghanistan to collect evidence, relying instead on samples and accounts from refugees...
Shortly after the assassination attempt, Agca told Italian authorities that following his 1979 escape from an Istanbul prison, where he was being held on charges of murdering a prominent Turkish journalist, he had stopped in Bulgaria on his way to Western Europe. While in Bulgaria, he said, he had bought the Belgian-made Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol that he used in his attempt on the Pope's life...
...Communist bloc, the right to work has long been indivisible from the obligation to do so. The Soviet Union, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria even have laws on the books making it a crime to remain without a job. Draft versions of similar laws against "social parasitism" have been circulating in Poland's Sejm, or parliament, for more than a decade, but none has ever made it out of committee. The Roman Catholic Church has opposed the idea for fear it would be abused for political, anti-religious or personal purposes. The Academy of Sciences has argued that forcing...