[ripley]

does an “informal” death sentence mean that they really didn’t mean it?

(sounds suspiciously like the rhetoric of american, internationalist, liberals.)

imho

[popdonnelly]

The document is crafted so that the Politburo can deny responsibility if the Pope had an “accident”.

[Berlin_Freeper]

“does an “informal” death sentence mean that they really didn’t mean it?”

I think they were using language understood by the KGB but that could not be pinned on them as an order to kill the Pope.

What else did the KGB engage in “beyond disinformation and discreditation”...? What's left for the KGB to do?