Tag Archives: Lockerbie

TOP INTEL TODAY 2019 STORIES — #1  : Lockerbie — Dr Jim Swire : “Let this be the year when the Scottish criminal justice system gives clarity on Lockerbie.” [UPDATE : SCCRC Decision to be Announced March 11 2020]

Posted on March 9, 2020 by L

“More than 31 years after the atrocity the Government’s documents relating to it are still being sequestered in a special category of security in the National Archives where they are not accessible to requests under FOI [Freedom Of Information] nor … Continue reading →

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Flashback — Intel Today : “Lockerbie Witnesses Were Paid”

Posted on February 11, 2020 by L

‘”I can assure you that no witnesses were ever offered any money by anyone–including the CIA. This issue came up at trial and I spoke with the defense lawyers about it in Edinburgh in 1999 — before trial. No one … Continue reading →

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On This Day — The Lockerbie Trial Verdict (January 31 2001) [2020]

Posted on January 31, 2020 by L

“The case was largely based on this inside guy [Libyan defector Abdul Majid Giaka]. It wasn’t until the trial that I learned this guy was a nut-job and that the CIA had absolutely no confidence in him and that they knew … Continue reading →

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Three Years Ago — Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Takes Many Secrets to His Grave (January 8 2017)

Posted on January 9, 2020 by L

“With what is happening in the U.S. and the possible instability that is going to come in U.S. policy you needed a voice of reason and pragmatism that had some heft to it. He was that voice. Losing that voice … Continue reading →

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TOP INTEL TODAY 2019 STORIES — #1 : Lockerbie — Dr Jim Swire : “Let this be the year when the Scottish criminal justice system gives clarity on Lockerbie.”

Posted on January 2, 2020 by L

“More than 31 years after the atrocity the Government’s documents relating to it are still being sequestered in a special category of security in the National Archives where they are not accessible to requests under FOI [Freedom Of Information] nor … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Pan Am 103 Debris Show Evidence of Plastic Explosive (December 28 1988) [2019]

Posted on December 28, 2019 by L

“I need not go into the rest of the story and the explosion, except to say that some of us believe that, within hours, the Americans had guessed, at a very high level, what had gone wrong. It is a … Continue reading →

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INTEL TODAY — Top 10 Stories of 2019

Posted on December 26, 2019 by L

“The truth is replaced by silence, and silence is a lie. But the Russian people have a beautiful proverb: ‘A lie is like a bow. You hide the ends in water but the middle protrudes. You hide the middle, and … Continue reading →

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Remembering CIA Historian William Blum (March 6, 1933 – December 9, 2018)

Posted on December 9, 2019 by L

“The thesis in my books and my writing is that anti-American terrorism arises from the behavior of U.S. foreign policy. It is what the U.S. government does which angers people all over the world.” William Blum “William Blum was at … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Lockerbie Judges Under the Weather (Malta – December 7 1988) [2019]

Posted on December 7, 2019 by L

“There is no reasonable basis in the trial court’s judgment for its conclusion that the purchase of the items [clothes that were found in the wreckage of the plane] from Mary’s House [in Malta] took place on 7 December 1988.” … Continue reading →

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On This Day — Lockerbie : “The Helsinki Warning” (December 5 1988) [2019]

Posted on December 5, 2019 by L

“And he comes in early the next morning, 6 o’clock the next morning, and there is, obviously, confusion and concern. And he is asked to do a number of things. And he is asked to work on Weber’s desk with … Continue reading →

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