CIA HOPS TO PROBE OF PLOT TO KILL THE POPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91B00135R000500800067-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2008
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: February 28, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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28 , t ebruar}* 1983
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THE CLA. hi: by a storm
of criticism, has agreed
to put a high priority on
the investigation of
Soviet and Bulgarian,
L?nks to the plot to kill
Pope John Paul H.
CIA Director William
Casey, who was called on
the carpet by President
Reagan for his agency's
foot-draggutg - and later
acc-u. ed by Sen. Alf once
D'Ar..aio of covering up
the inves'4a? ,lon - has re-
ponedly assigned seven
agents to help Italian au-
thorities
Casey relayed the new
initiative to D'Amato at
a top-secret meeting last
week in his Langley. Va..
office.
The two feisty Long Is-
landers had a series of
acrimo:uous exchanges
but D'Amato emerged
L om the meet: ng saying
he was "salisfied" the CiA
was getting into the act
But the CIA - which
once stated privately it
believed Turkish gun.
man Mehmet All Agca
INSIDE DE : ~.4 WASHINGTON
BY NILES I?ATKEM
acted alone - has a long
way to go to catch up
with the Italians.
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