Word: lordan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to an account published in the New York Times, the talkative official is lordan Mantarov, 48, who was last posted as deputy commercial attaché at the Bulgarian embassy in Paris. The Times said that Mantarov defected in July 1981, two months after the failed assassination. While being debriefed by French intelligence officials, Mantarov reportedly said that a close friend in the Bulgarian state security agency named Dimiter Savov had given him details about a KGB plan to murder the Pontiff...