“The [official] story of the Senegal timer is simply out of an American serialized novel.”
Jean Collin — Secretary-General to the Senegal Government and Minister of State 1981-90
“After the recent interview of Collin, it is now more clear than ever that the circumstances surrounding the recovery of the ‘boxed MST-13 timer’ in Senegal must be clarified beyond doubt. The whole essence of the ‘MST-13 timers’ is the sole manufacture by the Mebo company in world terms and the explicit distribution to the Libyan ESO. Unless we can consolidate the precise number of MST-13 timers circuit boards manufactured to fit the ‘boxed timers’ and confirm the fact they were distributed, solely to the Libyans, then we have serious problems with our direct evidence.”
Stuart Henderson — Lockerbie Senior Investigating Officer (MEMO March 1991)
Jean Collin — Secretary-General to the Senegal Government and Minister of State 1981-90
PT/35(b) — a small fragment of a timer circuit board found among the debris of Pan Am 103 at Lockerbie — was the critical piece of evidence that pointed the investigation towards Libya. As FBI Richard Marquise himself said:
“Without PT/35(b), there would have been no indictment.”
PT/35(b) may very well have been necessary to “solve the case”, but it was certainly not sufficient. It was also necessary to match PT/35(b) to the MST-13 timers which had “solely” been supplied by MEBO to Libya.
PT/35(b)
It turned out that the CIA was “fortunately” in possession of such a MST-13 timer (K1)which had been allegedly brought back to the US by some US Government employees following a visit to Togo in the fall of 1986.
Without the Togo timer, PT/35(b) could not have been identified and therefore there would have been no case, let alone an indictment, against Megrahi and Fhimah.
But it is the Senegal timer that made it possible — according to the official narrative — to connect PT/35(b) to MEBO and Libya. What do we know about this Senegal Timer? Can we trust this story? Short answer: Absolutely not!
The story of the two Togo timers is weird and murky. But the story of the Senegal timer — as Jean Collin, the number 2 man in the country at the time, once explained to the Lockerbie investigators — is simply out of an American “serialized novel”.
PS: A important follow-up will be posted next Wednesday (January 25 2018). Stay tuned!
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