Polish investigators are looking for evidence that links the JP II assassination attempt in 1981 to communist secret services.

The Institute of National Remembrance started translating the official transcripts from the interrogation process of Ali Agca, convicted for the assassination attempt of Pope John Paul II in 1981.

After examining the documents carefully, Polish investigators would like to interrogate Agca themselves in Turkey, where he is doing a prison term for a murder of a Turkish journalist.

The investigation of the John Paul II 1981 assassination attempt has been underway at the Katowice branch of the Institute of National Remembrance since 2006 and is examining whether there had been a secret service conspiracy behind Ali Agca, who shot at the Pope on the 13 May 1981.\

Agca himself has that the attempt on the life of the Polish Pope was masterminded by Bulgarian communist military attaché in Italy at the time.

In May, 2008, Ağca asked to be awarded Polish citizenship as he wishes to spend the final years of his life in Poland (jn/pg)