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...Gray Wolves, an ultrarightist band of Turkish terrorists. It goes on to discuss his recruitment by the Bulgarian secret service and his bungled shooting and failed escape. While taking scrupulous pains not to mention the Soviet Union by name, the report recommends the indictment of three Bulgarians, including Sergei Ivanov Antonov, 36, who is already in Italian custody, and six Turks, Agca among them...
Down in the murkier reaches of the affair, meantime, Italian authorities seemed ready to make a decision about whether to pursue the "Bulgarian connection." Agca has insisted that he had three Bulgarian accomplices in the assassination plot. One of them, said the gunman, was Sergei Ivanov Antonov, once the Rome manager of Bulgaria's national airline. Agca has offered detailed but sometimes conflicting recollections of a labyrinthine plot involving the Bulgarians, right-wing Turks and, ultimately, the Soviet KGB. Agca claims that Antonov drove him to St. Peter's Square on the day of the shooting. Italian investigators...
...first it seemed like a standard spy story. Last April, six weeks after sweeping to power, the government of Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke expelled Valeri Ivanov, a Soviet diplomat, for espionage. To the government's embarrassment, however, the story refused to leave along with the diplomat. Two weeks ago, Special Minister of State Mick Young resigned when it was learned that he had talked to a lobbyist about confidential Cabinet security committee discussions concerning David Combe, a former Labor official who had become friendly with the Russian. Moreover, it was widely believed that similar information had been leaked...
...Prime Minister made the revelation himself before a Royal Commission appointed by his government to investigate the Ivanov-Combe connection and Australia's national security. It was the first time an Australian Prime Minister had ever testified in such a hearing. From a green-padded, tubular steel chair in the witness box in a converted government office in Canberra, Hawke responded to questions for four grueling days...
...Royal Commission, which began sitting on June 1 , is expected to continue its deliberations for several more weeks. So far, the spreading spy scandal has already claimed three casualties: Ivanov, Combe and Young. After last week's revelations, Australians were wondering if there might not be others...