Posted on 05/04/2017 5:00:50 PM PDT by marshmallow
Never-before-seen information reveals Reagan's “supersecret investigation” into the shooting and wounding of the pope.
Contrary to what “pragmatists” in U.S. government agencies concluded, top officials with the Soviet Union were behind the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, a biographer of Ronald Reagan told The Daily Signal in an exclusive interview.
Paul Kengor, a Grove City College political science professor and author, has acquired what he calls never-before-seen information about the Reagan administration’s “supersecret investigation” into the shooting and wounding of the pope.
The information details the role of the Soviet GRU, the Russians’ brutal foreign military intelligence unit, and KGB spy agency head Yuri Andropov in the attempt on John Paul II’s life, Kengor said.
President Reagan and his CIA chief, William Casey, had suspected from the outset that the Soviets had a hand in the shooting of John Paul II on May 13, 1981, in St. Peter’s Square in Rome, he said.
But their suspicions weren’t confirmed until after Casey organized his own secret probe spearheaded by two female researchers, according to Kengor’s just-released book, A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century.
“Their suspicions ran completely contrary to the establishmentarians in the institutional CIA, at the State Department, and among the White House pragmatists,” Kengor told The Daily Signal. “That being the reality, Casey, I learned, actually ordered a truly supersecret investigation into the shooting, researched by two impressive women in their 30s and 40s, known only to a handful of agency people.”
A Turk named Mehmet Ali Agca, 23, fired four bullets from a handgun at John Paul II, two of which struck him, as the pontiff entered the square. An Italian court eventually sentenced Agca, an escaped murderer, to life in......
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Not a surprise. Supposedly Bulgarian intelligence
worked with the assassin (a Turk).
But Bulgarian intelligence would never have acted without KGB approval.
Moscow saw a plot in having a Polish pope, and wanted to get rid of him, but in a way that did not lead straight back to them.
I also have my suspicions about the attempted assassination of Reagan (which would have made G. Bush senior president...)
Kengor is a good historian, but his shot at Trump is cheap.
If Reagan was so courageous about blaming the Soviets and he knew, why didn’t he say so?
“The C.I.A.” is not credible. Besides this is not an official position of the Agency but apparently a leaker, who may or may not know anything, or may be lying.
Also, Bulgaria was behind the hit. That’s all we know.
There is so much, too much, pressure from DC to re-start the Cold War
You can bet the Kremlin wasn’t too pleased to see a million Poles turn out to greet John Paul II when he made his emotional trip back to his homeland in 1979 when it was still a Soviet bloc nation.
Putin knows....
I’m reading Claire Sterling’s “The Time of the Assassins” published in 1983. She said the same thing.
Me too. I don’t think it was the Russians attempting the assassination of Reagan .... Bush, CIA, FBI, etc were successful in the JFK killing and thought they could get away with it again.
The liberal media doesn’t care about that. They’ll never report it.
They don’t have to worry now. francis’ destruction campaign tears apart more of the Church by the day.
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