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...Italian officials have begun examining links between Agca and the Bulgarians in a second possible assassination plot. In "judicial communications" issued last week, a magistrate warned the Bulgarians, and four additional suspects that they are under investigation for participating in an alleged conspiracy to kill Polish Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa during his visit to Rome in January...
...Pope's life. Not only had Sergei Ivanov Antonov, the head of Bulgaria's Balkan Airlines office in Rome, and two embassy officials plotted the shooting of the Pope in May, Agca reportedly told investigating Judge Ilario Martella, they had also plotted the murder of Walesa when he journeyed to Rome four months earlier for his meeting with the Pontiff. Agca said an Italian union official was involved in the plan. That man, Judge Martella reasoned, may have been Luigi Scricciolo, an Italian labor union official who had helped plan Walesa's trip to Italy...
Martella passed on his suspicion that Scricciolo was also implicated in the Walesa plot to the magistrate in charge of the Scricciolo investigation, Judge Ferdinando Imposimato. After questioning Agca, he has now pieced together the details of the alleged plot to kill Walesa. In addition to naming Agca and the three Bulgarian officials implicated in the papal shooting, Imposimato issued official warnings last week to Scricciolo, Ivan Donchev, a former second secretary at the Bulgarian embassy who is now in Sofia, and Salvatore Scordo, a former union employee in the same union as Scricciolo. The seven alleged conspirators reportedly concluded...
...remarkable confirmation of Bulgaria's extensive clandestine network in Italy, Scricciolo's lawyer has told TIME that his client had frequent contact with Bulgarian officials, including one implicated in the shooting of the Pope. The Bulgarians, the lawyer added, quizzed Scricciolo about Walesa and about a number of sensitive military subjects. The Bulgarians also donated up to $7,200 to the newspaper of a left-wing Italian political party of which Scricciolo was a member. Scricciolo vehemently denies any part in a conspiracy to kill the Polish union leader and says he knows no military secrets. Dismissing...
Wiretaps of phone calls in which the Turkish gunman mutters that he received the money and says he will now carry out his assignment. Reports that the gunman met with a suspected Bulgarian agent at a small hotel in Rome to plot the murder of Polish Labor Leader Lech Walesa. Word that a key witness recants her testimony and thus threatens the alibi of the Bulgarian, who issues a denial that he aided the Turk...