ITALIAN MINISTERS TO ADDRESS BULGARIAN CONNECTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505130018-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: December 19, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
19 December 1982
Italian ministers to address "Bulgarian Connection"
By PHILIP PULLELLA
RO:M
Erv __/~ published Sunday in the Turin daily La Stampa, Ray C- 1-1-,E2
the CEnlter for Strategic and International Studley at Georgetown
and former deputy director for intelligence at the CIA, said he
tine Bulgarians were involved in a plot to kill the pope.
1 don't have any doubts that there was a plot to kill the pope and I think
`~-,E Eulgarian secret police took part, with the consent - instigation would be
to strong a word -- of that (secret police) of the Soviets." Cline was quoted
as saying.
The (6E is the coordination center of the spy system of Eastern Europe and
E",_arans could not have moved without a Soviet imprimatur," La Stampa
11uoted-Cline as saying.
I think the objective of Sofia and Moscow was Poland and not your country.
Italy 'gas become the unwilling stage of this drama,'' Cline was quoted as
:ay'ina.
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