CIA ORDERED REPORTER KILLED, SOVIET PUBLICATION SUGGESTS

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CIA-RDP90-00552R000505120006-4
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December 22, 2016
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September 15, 2010
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October 13, 1983
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/15: CIA-RDP90-00552R000505120006-4 ARTICLE Ap ON PAGE BALTIMORE SUN 13 October 1983 CIA ordered reporter killed, Soviet publication -su ests Moscow (Reuter) An official Her alleged kidnappers `have been Soviet journal yesterday suggested demanding the release of.Mehmet All one of its .reporters had been mur- Agca, the Turk convicted of shooting dered in Italy on the orders of the CIA '.Pope John Paul II. i n connection with the plot to kill the The weekly ;said the ,:kidnapping` pope. Literaturnaya Gazeta made the allegation in a statement by its edi- torial staff calling on the Italian au- thorities to provide. an explanation_ for the disappearance of journalist Oleg Bitov September S. Mr. Bitov was on a 10-day assign- ment to cover the'Venice film festival when be vanished. The journal discounted suggestions be might have! defected and. recalled that Mr. Bitov had been following the ,case of 'Emanuella Orlanda, kid- napped daughter of a Vatican official. was linked with the pope's attempted' assassination and noted that it had previously published proof of CIA in volvement.in the plot. "In Italy the CIA has- more than once done away -witb unwanted peo. ple, delivering them into?the hands of- hired terrorist-kidnappers, it said. '"Revenge against a -newspaper? Let's not forget Oleg Bitov represent-- ed Lfteraturnaya Gazeta, which; has recently carried out a: series of in- vestigations of a very: political nature' in Western countries, and the last was"': in Italy," it said. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/09/15: CIA-RDP90-00552R000505120006-4