{"id":124697,"date":"2024-09-11T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/dikko-affair-boeing-707-diplomatic-pouch-smuggling-incident\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T05:00:13","slug":"the-dikko-affair-how-did-nigeria-try-to-smuggle-a-man-onboard-a-boeing-707-in-a-diplomatic-pouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=124697","title":{"rendered":"The Dikko Affair: How Did Nigeria Try To Smuggle A Man Onboard A Boeing 707 In A &#8216;Diplomatic Pouch&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1984 Dikko affair is one of the strangest stories in diplomatic-smuggling aviation history (its generally more common to         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2032139\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/former-american-airlines-mechanic-9-year-sentence-smuggling-cocaine-under-cockpit\/\" >hear about drug smuggling<\/a><\/span>). It was an attempt by             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"35347\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/nigeria\/\"  >Nigeria<\/a><\/span>, with the help of Israeli agents, to drug and smuggle a former Nigerian minister out of the UK back to Nigeria in a &#8220;diplomatic pouch&#8221; on a Nigerian Airways flight to face trial for corruption charges. At            <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"270132\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/london-stansted-airport\/\"  >London Stansted Airport<\/a><\/span>, the British uncovered the plot partly because the kidnappers had been sloppy with their paperwork. Note that Israel and Nigeria denied any role in the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"260140\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/smuggling\/\"  >Smuggling<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>40 years ago, the UK foiled a plot at London Stansted Airport to kidnap and smuggle an exiled Nigerian minister out in a &#8216;Diplomatic Pouch.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,868,408,1151,2963,5967],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-707","category-history","category-london-stansted-airport","category-nigeria","category-smuggling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124698,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124697\/revisions\/124698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}