NEW YORK, New York (May 13, 2021) — FoxNew.com today published author Patrick Novecosky’s opinion piece on the 40th anniversary of Turkish hitman Mehmet Ali Ağca’s attempt on the life of Pope St. John Paul II.
Drawing on his new book, 100 Ways John Paul II Changed the World, which honors Pope St. John Paul the Great’s remarkable legacy, Novecosky writes that the pope knew who was behind the attempted assassination. He posits that John Paul knew that Moscow was behind Ağca’s efforts. A recent finding shows that the GRU (Soviet military intelligence) order the hit on John Paul II in 1981.
The article is below:
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Patrick Novecosky: Pope John Paul II assassination attempt –
the secrets behind shooting 40 years ago
Like President Reagan, shot six weeks earlier, John Paul was seriously wounded.
Forty years ago on Thursday, the world reeled in horror as news broke that a gunman had shot Pope John Paul II at point-blank range in St. Peter’s Square.
It was May 13, 1981. Cold War tensions were at their height.
The shooting was even more shocking because only six weeks earlier John Hinckley Jr. had tried to kill President Ronald Reagan, critically wounding the 40th president in Washington, D.C
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