SON OF ANDROPOV REPLACED IN ATHENS POST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100610004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 11, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPPPRREDD NEW YORK TIMES
ON PAGE ._t:._. 11 December 1985
Around
the
World
Son of Andropov
Replaced in Athens Poss.
ATHENS, Dec. 10 (Reuters) - Igor
Y. Andropov, son of the late Soviet
leader Yuri V. Andropov, will not re-
turn to his post as Ambassador to
Greece, the Greek Foreign Ministry
said today.
A Ministry statement said..Viktor F.
Stukhalin, 68, had been named as Mr.
Andropov's successor.
Mr. Andropov has been absent from
Athens since mid-July. The Soviet Em-
bassy said last month that Mr. Andro-
pov, who arrived in Athens in October
1984, has been in Moscow for health and
personal reasons.
His departure came shortly after
Sergei Bokhan, a Soviet diplomat
based in Athens, defected to the United
States.
Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou
saiG' tact weeK mat Tive ree is a
been identified as s sec spies after
Mr. oS~snans defection.
Italian Is in New York,
Investigating Papal Plot
A Italian judge investigating the pur-
ported conspiracy to assassinate Pope
John Paul II came to New York yester-
day to interrogate a former Italian se-
cret service agent who is 'in Federal
custody here.
The judge, Ilario Martella, traveled
from Rome to question the former
agent, Francesco Pazienza, about as-
sertions that he prompted Mehmet All
Agca to confess that the shooting of the
Pope in 1981 was ordered by Bulgarian
officials.
Mr. Pazienza was ordered extradited
to Italy in September to face charges
'unrelated to the papal shooting. He has
been granted a stay pending appeal.
The allegations against Mr. Pazienza
,in connection with the papal shooting
have emerged from often-contradic.
-tory statements by Mr. Agca, the Turk-
ish gunman who shot and wounded the
Pope in 1981, and by Giovanni Pandico,
a convicted racketeer who turned,
state's evidence.
Judge Martella was assigned by the
Rome court to investigate allegations
that have been made in testimony
against a number of individuals, in-
cluding Mr. Pazienza, during the papal
shooting case to determine whether
any charges should be brought against
them.
STAT
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