Some will certainly recall Ali Agca, who attempted to assassinate John Paul II in 1979, and his alleged connection to Bulgarian Secret Service.
[novinite.com] A secret Bulgarian unit known as "Service 7" was set up to "execute death sentences" on opponents to the Communist regime, secret files show.
One of the executioners, code-named "Piccadilly" is said to be the agent who carried out London's notorious killing of Georgi Markov in 1978 by using an umbrella to stab a poison filled pellet into the Bulgarian writer's leg.
The existence of the death squad, long denied by former officials, came to light after Alexenia Dimitrova, a Bulgarian journalist, discovered files accidentally released by Bulgaria's intelligence service had released under a new law declassifying former state security archives.
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D'ya suppose that Service 7 got its name from Agent 007, who possessed a "license to kill?"
ReplyDeleteI was more surprised by their plan to assassinate George Papandreou. Wasn't he one of theirs, or had he gone rogue? If you recall, it was Theofanis Stavrou who'd replaced him back in the early sixties when he went to Greece to head PASOK. It's fascinating stuff.
ReplyDeleteThis should a t.v. mini series i just this episode on Forbidden History on AHC Like SPECTRE
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