Word: solomatin
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Seems President Reagan wasn't the only world leader with operatives in THE VATICAN. A story making the rounds in Europe has it that the kgb planted a mole in the Holy See. Boris Alexandrovitch Solomatin, the KGB's Rome chief from 1976 to 1982, claims that Soviet intelligence viewed the Vatican as a hotbed of diplomatic secrets. Trouble was, once the KGB had recruited its St. Peter's agent, it had a little difficulty controlling him: apparently his religious convictions interfered with his supersecret political mission...