It’s been almost a quarter-century since the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. Many believe that the Soviet Union was behind the shooting. Now, an Italian Parliamentary Commission has reached the same conclusion:
A final draft of the report, which is due to be presented to parliament later this month, was made available to Reuters on Thursday by the commission president, Senator Paolo Guzzanti.
“This commission believes, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the leadership of the Soviet Union took the initiative to eliminate Pope John Paul,” the report said.
“They relayed this decision to the military secret services for them to take on all necessary operations to commit a crime of unique gravity, without parallel in modern times,” it said.
The report also says “some elements” of the Bulgarian secret services were involved but that this was an attempt to divert attention away from the Soviet Union’s alleged key role.
A 36-page chapter on the assassination attempt was included in a wider report by parliament’s Mitrokhin Commission, which probed the revelations of Vasili Mitrokhin, a senior Soviet archivist during the Cold War who defected to Britain in 1992.
It was obvious that Pope John Paul II’s election to the papacy in October 1978 had a tremendous galvanizing effect to those Poles who opposed Communism, as well as millions of other Roman Catholics and Christians living behind the Iron Curtain. Consequently, the KGB (and, by extension, the Soviet leadership) perceived him to be a threat to their order. Perhaps that is why, shortly thereafter, Soviet leaders started dropping like flies.
Besides, God had other plans for John Paul II….
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