Twenty years is a pretty good stretch for attempted murder, especially in a place like Europe.
Frankly, I wonder how long Agca will survive after he is released. He has managed to keep his mouth shut for 20 years in prison, but will the KGB trust him to run around the streets with the knowledge he has?
He would be well advised to enter some sort of witness protection program, or he will not be long for this world.
Barbra needs a gardner.
He would be well advised to enter some sort of witness protection program, or he will not be long for this world.
The KGB no longer exists--though the Belorussian state security agency is still referred to as the KGB. After the fall of the Soviet Union, it was broken up based on the directorates' missions. Its direct successor is the FSB.
I'm willing to guess his knowledge of KGB activity, modi operandi, and structure is grossly outdated, and I'd imagine some of what he knows is knowledge available to the masses. Because of this, I don't think the FSB and its other sister organization consider him to be that big a threat--he's peanuts.
Though, I agree with the premise he ought to have been at least permanently locked in prison, it isn't a reality with a weak-hearted European community. But his release evokes emotion from a great many people, and it wasn't because he was a KGB stooge in the late 70's. Most people in Europe wouldn't give a rat's rear end about that fact--KGB stooges in Eurasia were a dime a dozen in those days.
Rather, it's from his attempted murder of Pope John Paul and the raw emotional action it evokes from a great many people in the world.