Lech Walesa on KGB hit list

14th May 2011

The KGB ordered the assassination of Solidarity leader Lech Walesa as well as Pope John Paul II in order to remove the Soviet Union’s “two greatest opponents”, a new book has claimed.

Plots against both Poles were hatched but in the end only one came to fruition when Turk Mehmet Ali Agca fired four bullets at the pope on May 13, 30 years ago.

Written by Ferdinando Imposimato, a retired judge who worked on the investigation into the assassination attempt on John Paul II, and journalist Sandro Provisionato, ‘Attack on the Pope’ argues the KGB regarded both men as a significant threat to Soviet hegemony in Poland and the Soviet bloc.

“The KGB took the decision to physically ...