Intel Today

“Without PT/35(b), there would have been no indictment.”

Richard Marquise — FBI agent who lead the Lockerbie investigation

“PT/35(b) was extremely, extremely dodgy. It was very, very suspicious. The way it suddenly appeared, embedded in a shirt collar, with the information on the page overwritten and changed, all police procedures were thrown out of the window.”

Reverend John Mosey

“Dr. Hayes seemed to have no real recollection independently of his notes of having found PT/35(b).  The sequence of the PT numbering and the absence from the notes of a drawing of the circuit board are unusual features.  The pagination of the notes was described by Hayes as ‘an unfathomable mystery’, for which he did propose an explanation, but unfortunately one that does not work. The memorandum of the 15th of September 1989 is difficult to understand if the fragment was indeed found on the 12th of May 1989. PT/35(b) is an important piece of evidence on which the Crown rely and in respect of which it is for the Crown to satisfy the court as to its provenance.  I submit that the irregularities and peculiarities which attend this item are some which the court ought to have some hesitation in being satisfied as to the item’s provenance.”

Defence counsel Richard Keen QC — Lockerbie trial (p. 9624)

“Please tell me what you do not believe about PT/35(b). (…) if anyone ever could show me one shred of evidence that anyone other than Megrahi and Libya did it, I would be willing to rethink my ideas. I have yet to see the one item of evidence.”

FBI Richard Marquise –Email to Intel Today (September 6 2008) 

July 6 2020 — PT/35(b) is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. PT/35(b) is a small fragment of a timer circuit that, according to the Lockerbie verdict, triggered an IED onboard Pan Am 103. PT/35(b) was allegedly found among the debris of Pan Am 103 near the town of Lockerbie. After many years of study and research, I have come to the conclusion that PT/35(b) is a forgery that was planted among the debris to implicate Libya in the bombing of Pan Am 103. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →

“That man did not buy any shirt, I am sure.”

Tony Gauci — Lockerbie top witness (January 30 1990)

“Even if we assume that the clothing in that bag was actually found on the crash site as claimed, I suspect that the clothing might therefore have been a ‘red herring’ placed there very possibly from Abu Talb’s stock of Maltese clothing, deliberately to mislead potential investigators. The clothing (with its labels) was quite easily identified as being Maltese in origin and so limited in its manufacture within Malta as to make the tracing back to ‘Mary’s house’ possible. Neat. Too neat.”

Dr. Jim Swire — Email to Intel Today (December 9 2019)

Q   — Well, I understood you to tell us that these were contemporaneous notes that you prepared as you were carrying out your examinations; is that right?

A   — Yes.  But presumably our definitions of “contemporaneous” are different.

Testimony of Dr Hayes at the Lockerbie trial (Page 2592)

“As an afterthought I think that had the original Scottish Police Investigators obeyed their political masters by introducing the fragment into the chain of evidence in or around December 1989 then they may have got away with the deception but due to the fact that they chose to alter Forensic notes and photographs and change production labels and attribute Memos in relation to other pieces of evidence to PT/35(b) it was fairly easy to pick holes in their case.”

Lockerbie Investigator George Thomson — (Email to Intel Today)

June 29 2020 — PT/35(b) — the infamous timer fragment linking Lockerbie to Libya —  was discovered in the collar (evidence PI/995) of a grey “Slalom” shirt. Lockerbie experts have long noticed that the story of this shirt is highly suspicious. After years of research, I have come to the conclusion that this item was planted among the evidence in the Autumn of 1989. The technical documents regarding PI/995 will be posted in Appendix A of this book. Follow us on Twitter:@INTEL_TODAY Continue reading →