The World - News from Feb. 15, 1985
The 1981 papal assassination attempt is a classic case of state-sponsored terrorism, and the Soviet KGB almost certainly was behind it, a group of experts on terrorism said in Washington. They said terrorism sponsored by governments rivals arms control as the biggest world problem for the rest of the 20th Century. The conclusions were contained in a report by 18 experts in terrorism or in specific aspects of the papal plot. The group was led by former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Robert Kupperman, a senior associate at Georgetown University’s Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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