MEDIA PIECES ON THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE POPE.

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
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• Publication Date: February 1, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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111. 30 Dec 82 U S S R I N T E R 2: A T 1 0 N A L A F F A I R S C
WESTERN EUROPE
ROPE MURDER ATTEMPT LEADS ANTIGOI iUM'3 rGA AXG#
"A-Aka Record. of Liar'
1,0292340 Aoscow TASS In Eng1ier'h .1949 OM?2t'~Dec 84
[Text] Moscow December 29 TASS -- "A new record of lies and slander, dirty sensation
and political provocation" -- this is how the newspaper IZVESTIYA views today the
propaganda hullabaloo, which is being kindled in the West; the hullabaloo, which, the
newspaper stresses, was launched in the past few weeks by certain circles of inter-
national imperialism, and special services of the United States, and a number of NATO
countries around the so-called "admissions" of extreme right-wing Turkish terrorist
Agea, who was convicted for the attempt on the life of Pope John Paul the Second. The
article stresses that on the basis of these "admissions" of the terrorist, who is now
in prison, arrested a month ago without any official charges against him was Bulgarian
citizen Antonov, employee of the representation of the Bulgarian air company Balkan in
Rome. His arrest was a suitable external pretext for launching two slander versions:
Antonov is an accomplice in the attempt on the life of the pope which was allegedly
arranged with "Bulgaria's knowledge," terrorism, which literally flooded Italy and
a number of other Western countries with blood is not at all an internal creation of
those states, but it is imported from outside, from socialist countries.
IZVES',lYA notes that most over-free are Italian press organs, controlled by right-wing
socialists, Social Democrats, liberals. These are being emulated by media in the
United States, Turkey, Britain, France, FRG, other West European countries.
"In the Soviet press it was already repeatedly noted that the provocaLive hullabaloo
around that, insinuations concerning Bulgaria's and the USSR's alleged 'complicity'
in the attempt on the life of the head of the Roman Catholic Church is pure fabrication,
which is absolutely unfounded. It is aimed at worsening relations between Italy and
socialist countries, sets the aim to cast thse relations back to 'cold war' times. It
should be remembered that it is not difficult to reduce to zero everything positive
which exists now in these relations if this tendentious campaign is not stopped without
delay. From history it is known that relations between states can easily be spoiled,
but it takes many years to restore good and mutually-beneficial cooperation.
'Coals' of 'Campaign'
LD300008 "cow TASS in English 2307 GMT 29 Dec 81R
["Slanderers at Work" -- TASS headline]
[Text) Moscow December 30 TASS -- The CIA and special services allying with it pursue
several goals in an attempt to breathe new life into the White House's slackening
drive to "fight international terrorism", writes the newspaper PRAVDA, exposing the
slanderous campaign launched in the West in connection with the assassination attempt
on the pope.
Firstly, that campaign is an attempt -- by stirring up fears around "international
terrorism", "controlled by the Communists" and "exported" to West European countries --
at covering up real terrorism practised by the United States itself and by its clients,
the kind of Israel and E1 Salvador, against whole peoples such as, for example, the
Arab people of Palestine, and against national-liberation movements.
Secondly, the new slanderous campaign is a large-scale provocation against the
People's Republic of Bulgaria and pursues the aim of casting aspersions on the
peaceful policy of socialist countries, including that of the Soviet Union, and thereby
to justify the drawing of Italy and other West European countries into the Pentagon's
rearmament plans aimed at preparing for a nuclear war.
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III. 30 Dec 82 G 2 USSR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
WESTERN EUROPE
Thirdly, the Italian authorities, not without prompting from U.S. special services,
if not in direct contact with them, make use of inventions about an "imported terrorism"
for their own political purposes.
The search for an "outside enemy" and allusions to a "communist threat" is nothing new
in the political life of Italy where the forces of reaction, including those of neo-
fascism, are still rather influential. On the wave of hysteria which is being stirred
up now, they would like to get the left-wing forces off to a political demise, which
was, in particular, one of the main aims of the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro in
1978, the murder which, as the Italian press itself admitted, was committed not without
participation of U.S. special services. At the same time NATO's "brain-washing" experts
try to cast aspersions on the anti-war movement and on the country's progressive forces
which come out against deployment of new U.S. nuclear missiles on Italian soil.
[Text] Moscow, 29 Dec (TASS) -- lf*ftrdft. setxAeei ahd b genizations of' the Y tieThn
V*ticau's 'Subversive Activity'
LD291426 M cow TASS,Intsrnat Dual Service in RussfMt`1318 GM'T'' 29 Dec 42
Attention is drawn to this fact by the