(ANSA) - VATICAN CITY, DECEMBER 13 - Ali Agca, the author of the attack on Pope John Paul II in 1981, wrote a long letter to Pietro Orlandi, Emanuela's brother, recounting his umpteenth version of the events on the kidnapping of young Vatican citizen on June 22, 1983. According to what he writes in the letter - reported by Corriere della Sera -, Emanuela Orlandi would have been at the center of an all-Vatican intrigue, and her kidnapping was connected to that of Mirella Gregori.
"Emanuela Orlandi - Agca's words - was an entirely Vatican fact and was taken over by some nuns from the beginning, she understood the importance of her role and accepted it serenely. I know about her above all thanks to a Spanish father who told me visited in Italy and also here in Istanbul. A man, a religious,
Agca, who now lives in Turkey with his Italian wife, has already met Pietro Orlandi in 2010 during a secret meeting.
In the letter you also explain the Vatican's involvement in Emanuela's kidnapping.
"Pope Wojtyla deeply believed in the Third Secret of Fatima and also believed in the mission that God assigned him, namely the conversion of Russia - he claims -. (After the attack) Wojtyla himself wanted me to accuse the Bulgarian secret services and therefore the Soviet KGB. The award for my collaboration, which they offered me and which I demanded, was my release in two years. However, I could only be released on condition that the president Sandro Pertini granted me pardon and exactly for this reason Emanuela and Mirella were kidnapped".
Pertini, however, underlines Agca, "