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BELARUS: KGB tried to use jailed priest to entrap nuncio?

KGB secret police officers offered to free jailed Catholic priest Fr Henryk Okolotovich if he agreed to plant material on the Vatican nuncio in an apparent attempt to compromise him. He refused. KGB officers said they would visit the priest again in prison "many more times, so that perhaps you will change your mind", released political prisoner Andrey Krylov recounted. KGB officers try to recruit informers in religious communities, both in Belarus and abroad. "The regime tries to incriminate the