[#299] CONTRA IX: The Pope Must Die

At long last, Dimitri and Khalid return to the CONTRA meta-series well to answer two not-so-simple questions: who was behind the nearly successful 1981 assassination of Pope John Paul II by the shadowy Turkish hitman/Grey Wolf fanatic Mehmet Ali Ağca, and why did they do it? Western media at the time would have us believe that a shadowy “Bulgarian Connection”, masterminded by the Soviet KGB, put a hit on the anti-communist Polish Pope to terminate his disruptive influence in the Eastern Bloc - but this calls to mind CIA Director William Casey’s alleged 1981 declaration that “we’ll know our disinfo...