| The weekly Wprost shows a politburo document, signed by Mikhail Gorbachev, which appears to warrant a KGB contract killing on John Paul II.
So claims Polish journalist John O. Kohler in a book, also released tomorrow, Chodzi o papieża. Szpiedzy w watykanie - (About the Pope: Spies in the Vatican). The politburo document says: "Use all available possibilities to prevent a new political trend, initiated by the Polish pope…"
The document, which dates back to November 1979, - one year after Karol Wojtyla became pope - is signed by eight top Party officials including Konstantin Rusakov, who coordinated action with the Polish communist party, and Mikhail Gorbachev.
In Rome, Pope John Paul II survived four bullets on May 13, 1981 shot by Turk Mehmet Ali Agca.
“If this information is true, Gorbachov should be brought to account,” said Zbigniew Chlebowski, head of the ruling Civic Platform’s parliamentary party.
Polskie Radio
29.04.2008
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Was Gorbachev really involved in attempt on John Paul II?
American journalist and writer John O. Koehler claims in his book It’s About the Pope: Spies in the Vatican, launched in Poland this week that in November 1979 in Moscow a group of nine prominent Soviet Communist Party (CPSU) leaders signed a secret document instructing the KGB to “use all available possibilities to prevent a new political trend, initiated by the Polish Pope,” and “if necessary - reach to means beyond disinformation and discreditation.” Polish weekly Wprost reached the author of the book, who said he was shocked when he found the order. Beyond disinformation and discreditation” meant only one thing: an approval to kill the Pope.
The CPSU document quoted by the author listed nine prominent Soviet leaders: the chief of the Soviet propaganda Mikhail Suslov, Politbureau members Andrei Kirilenko, Konstantin Chernenko, and CPSU Central Commitee secretaries Konstantin Rusakov, Dmitry Ponomarev, Ivan Kapitonov, Mikhail Zimyanin, Vladimir Dolgikh and Mikhail Gorbachev.
There is no direct proof that Gorbachev, the future father of perestroika wanted the Polish pope to be assassinated or that he had enough influence to put his consent to action, according to Koehler.
The Polish pope received a strong backing also from the American CIA, Wprost marks. CIA messages remain one of the many secrets stored in the Vatican archives, the weekly notes.
The Warsaw-based weekly recall that in the German archives Koehler found KGB documents with an order to hush up the participation of the Bulgarian secret services in the operation to kill John Paul II. In September 1982, General Markus Wolf, the then head of the GDR’s Stasi, received a sealed envelope with an inscription: “Operation Papst”.
The sender was the Active Operations Department of the Bulgarian intelligence. Soon some Western left-wing media supported by the KGB began to publish articles to divert attention from the participation of the KGB and the Bulgarian secret services in the attempt to kill the Pope. This could be an indirect confirmation that the Soviets had been seriously engaged in the organization of the attempt in 1981, according to Wprost.
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