Word: savov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Savov is said to have told Mantarov that the KGB concluded in 1979 that Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's Polish-born National Security Adviser, had somehow engineered the election of Pope John Paul II the previous year. Brzezinski's supposed purpose: to use the Pope to inspire further unrest in Poland and eventually to wrench the country out of the Soviet orbit. Mantarov claims that he was told that as the troubles in Poland mounted, and as the Pontiff came to be identified with the budding Solidarity movement, Soviet authorities gave the command to "eliminate" the Pope...
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