Herman,E. Brodhead,F. Rise and Fall of Bulgarian Connection. 1986
Herman, Edward S. and Brodhead, Frank. The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian
Connection. New York: Sheridan Square Publications, 1986. 255 pages.
During the 1991 hearings for confirmation of Robert Gates as director
of the CIA, it was revealed that for years following the 1981 shooting of
the Pope, CIA analysts had been unable to find evidence of Soviet complicity.
In 1985 William Casey told Gates to try harder, at which point the issue
became more political than analytical and the waters got very muddy.
It may have always been political; professional propagandists were hard
at work after the shooting to lay the blame on the USSR. One was Paul Henze,
a long-time CIA officer, another was Michael Ledeen and his friends at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies, and then there was Claire
Sterling, who wrote an article on the shooting for Reader's Digest in 1982.
All appeared to be more interested in their crusade against "Soviet-sponsored
terrorism" than with presenting hard facts to support their case.
This book argues that the hard facts never existed. The authors analyze
the background of Mehmet Ali Agca and the evidence surrounding the shooting,
and trace the history of the "Bulgarian connection" as an example of Western
disinformation. Frank Brodhead is affiliated with Resist, a progressive
funding agency, and Edward Herman is an editor of "Lies Of Our Times" and a
professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
ISBN 0-940380-06-4
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- AGCA MEHMET ALI
- AHMAD FEROZ (49)
- AIVAZOV TODOR (17, 28, 32, 35, 107, 115, 140)
- ALBANO ANTONIO (6, 15, 36, 105, 109, 119-20, 122, 181, 190-92, 204, 210)
- ALTAYLI ENVER (64, 243)
- ANDRONOV IONA I (133, 141-2, 241-4)
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- ANTONOV SERGEI IVANOV
- APPLE R.W. (JOHNNY) JR (NYT) (217, 221, 223-4)
- BAGCI OMER (50, 54)
- BALESTRIERI LUCA (xiv)
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- BARBIE KLAUS (72, 88)
- BARRON JOHN (AUTHOR) (131, 134, 235-6)
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- BAYRAMIC (27-8, 110-1)
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- BELMONTE GIUSEPPE (91-3, 108, 122)
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- BREYTENBACH BREYTEN (129-30)
- BROWN IRVING JOSEPH (31)
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