“By all accounts, Frank Duggan was a good man, a man who recovered from years of alcoholism and who sincerely fought for the American victims of Pan Am 103. But he was perhaps rather naive when it came to the media, as demonstrated in a telling telephone interview with George Galloway MP for ‘Talk RADIO’ on 2009. ”
Obituary — The Herald ( December 5 2017)
“It named a carrier [Pan Am]. It named a route [Frankfurt to the United States]. And it covered a time period when many Americans in Moscow would be going home for Christmas. Here, it seems to me we have a moral obligation to let people know.”
Raymond F. Smith — Acting deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow
“Jennifer S. Young, who was Pan Am station manager in Moscow, said a reservations clerk told her of the posting [Moscow Warning]. Young, in turn, sent a telex to Pan Am officials in Frankfurt asserting that “approximately 80 percent” of Pan Am’s holiday traffic from the embassy was now re-booking to other flights.”
Washington Post — March 10 1990
Frank Duggan was the president of the organisation representing families in America who had lost relatives in the 1988 Pan Am terrorist bombing in which 270 people died.
Francis J. “Frank” Duggan (April 15 1938 – November 1 2017) — a lawyer and federal official who spent years as a pro bono advocate on behalf of families of the victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland — died last month at his home in Alexandria, Va.
Duggan and I did not agree on very much. For the first time, I will post today a message Duggan sent to Richard Marquise — The FBI agent in charge of the Lockerbie investigation — and myself regarding the many warnings of an imminent attack against a PAN AM airliner a few days before the Lockerbie tragedy.
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