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CIA CAN PROVE BULGARIA HAD NO INVOLVEMENT IN POPE JOHN PAUL II ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

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CIA CAN PROVE BULGARIA HAD NO INVOLVEMENT IN POPE JOHN PAUL II ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

US intelligence has proves that Bulgaria was not involved in assassination attempt targeting Pope John-Paul II on May 13 1981, a former CIA agent said in a documentary film aired by French Canal+ television.

CIA received evidence from spies working undercover in Bulgarian intelligence, French Le Monde reported.

A Bulgarian and a French shot the documentary.

The authors proved that Italian secret services officer convinced Ali Agca, who committed the crime, to blame the communist block for the assassination attempt.

Italy's secrets services reached Agca through a mafia boss, who was in prison with Agca.

The documentary shows Bulgarian Sergei Antonov, accused of organisating the attempted murder in 1985. Later, Antonov was found not guilty. Currently Antonov is just an old man with shivering hands who works for local air company as ordinary employee, Le Monde said.

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