On the 100th anniversary of the Virgin Mary Fatima revelations about Russia s threat to world peace we also learn from Dr Paul Kengor s new book that the Soviets were behind the May 13 1981 attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II The book A Pope and a President John Paul II Ronald Reagan and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century says Reagan s CIA director Bill Casey confirmed the Soviet role in the face of official CIA resistance to the finding 