AGCA CLAIM OF CIA LINK IS RECANTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505100047-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: August 6, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
6 August 1985
International
news in brief
Agca clam
of CIA Irk
' recanted
United Press International
ROME -- Pa al assailant Mehmet
-Ali A~ca recante is own sug es-
~ion o n s wit tre Z curing
uestiontn ester ay a ut a letter
in which e a wri en a e
ho ed his " rien s in t e wou d
help him saet transferred from ome
to another Qrison.
Agca is t 1e c lief ? rosecution wit-
ness in the trial of iour other Turks
and three Bulgarians accused of
helping -him in his attempt to kill
Pope John Paul II in 1981.. He is
serving a life sentence for the shoot-
ing, which he claims was carried out
on the orders from the Soviet and
Bulgarian secret services.
Judge Severing Santiapichi ques-
tioned Agca closely yesterday.about a
letter he allegedly wrote from his
prison cell and tried to slip past
prison censors. Santiapichi said the
env0lope bore the name and address
of an unidentified woman. Under
continuing questioning from antia-
vicl-ii vPCterdav A?ca acknowledee_d
that he "never had ties with the
CIA."
The trial, which is on summer re-
cess until mid?September, has recon-
vened in a special. session for several
days for questioning of Agca and
several key witnesses in Holland,
West Germany and Turkey.
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