The
question of exactly who ordered Turkish sniper Mehmet Ali Agca to make
an assassination attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II in Vatican
City on May 13, 1981, has long exercised the minds of conspiracy
theorists.
Mehmet Ali Agca, whose bullets seriously injured the Pope, was given a
life sentence but it has never been ascertained exactly who, if
anyone, he was working for.
Now, however, an influential Polish daily claims it can shed light on the affair.
Rzeczpospolita says its has discovered a hitherto unseen
document in the Institute of National Remembrance, which it says
“confirms” that the Soviets were involved in the assassination attempt.
According to the daily, a document from the Ministry of Interior of
the People's Republic of Poland quotes persons associated with West
German security services as saying that Mehmet Ali Agca was only a
puppet of the KGB, which they describe as the main “inspirational and
organizational force” behind the attempt.
The same document quotes sources who assert that the assassination
attempt was aimed at preventing the Pope from coming to Poland for the
funeral of the Polish prelate Stefan Wyszyński, who died on May 28,
1981.
"The visit of John Paul II in Warsaw for the funeral of prelate
Wyszyński would give a driving force to the national awareness of Poles
and this is why the Pope was supposed to be eliminated from the game," a
West German source was quoted as saying in the document, parts of which
were published by Rzeczpospolita.
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