The tag 'Stibam' is associated with 4 posts.

FTR #549 The Pan-Turkist Movement, the Underground Reich and the Earth Island

Oper­a­tional links between Islamist sep­a­ratist ele­ments in Xin­jiang, Pan-Turkist sep­a­ratist ele­ments in that province, and the milieu of the Dalai Lama.


AFA 17–21: Who Shot the Pope?

A major intelligence-related con­tro­versy of the late Cold War, the shoot­ing of Pope John Paul II in 1981 was widely and mis­tak­enly blamed on the Soviet Union.


AFA 24–28: The CIA, the Military & Drugs

The his­tory of the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity and the nar­cotics trade.


FTR #43 The Pope Shooting: Stibam

Lis­ten now: One Seg­ment The Stibam arms-for-drugs ring was one of the most impor­tant and least pub­li­cized ele­ments of U.S. and NATO covert oper­a­tions in the 1970s and 1980s. This pro­gram dis­cusses con­nec­tions between this operation’s drug busi­ness and the milieu of the fas­cist Grey Wolves, some of whose mem­bers shot the pope in May [...]