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Article: KGB and Soviet Leadership Sought to Kill Pope.(Communist Party feared Pope John Paul II would ally with Russian Orthodox church)(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- November 29, 1999
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A KGB dossier from the files of the former Communist Czech secret service has surfaced in Rome after coming into the hands of Italian intelligence officials. The 600 pages of secret documents reveal that, with the election of Pope John Paul II in 1978, the KGB and the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Moscow became greatly alarmed. Milan's venerable Corriere della Sera reports that a directive to attack the new pope was signed on Nov. 13, 1979. Brezhnev at that time was in his terminal illness. The plan was prepared by the mysterious Mikhail Suslov, chief ideologist and one of the most powerful men in setting the grand strategy of the Communist Party and the ...