Brezhnev - visionary

Thomas Joscelyn has a well-timed piece in the Weekly Standard on how the Western media and the CIA tried to quietly bury the story that the Soviet Union, through the Bulgarians who typically did their wet work, tried to assassinate the Pope.

A STUNNING REVELATION buzzed throughout Italy last week. According to two Italian newspapers, German government officials had found proof that the Soviet Union ordered the May 13, 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. The recently discovered documents--which are mainly correspondences between East German Stasi spies and their Bulgarian counterparts--reportedly discuss the Soviet assassination order as well as efforts to cover-up any traces of involvement by Bulgaria's spooks.

Leonid got it right - the Kremlin needed to get rid of that troublesome Polish priest.

According to Peggy Noonan though, Brezhnev might already have been too late.