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• the Mebo MST — 13 timer fragment, which Thomas Thurman of the FBI's forensic laboratory said that he identified on June 15, 1990;
• Mebo's Swiss owner, Edwin Bollier, is interviewed at length;
• forensic scientist, Dr Michael Scott, describes DERA's 'forensic expert', Alan Feraday, as a technician without any formal qualifications as a scientist;
• solicitor, Alastair Logan, criticises DERA's Dr Thomas Hayes for the forensic evidence that was used to convict the Maguire Seven;
• former CIA operative, Oswald LeWinter says the appointment of 'Libyan dirty tricks expert', Vincent Cannistraro, to head the CIA's team investigating Lockerbie 'would be funny, if it were not an obscenity';
• Department of Defense Whistle Blower Lester Coleman linked the bomb to a terrorist cell trained by CIA operative, Edwin P. Wilson; and,
• best-selling author, David Yallop, reviews the available evidence and looks at who might have been responsible for the Lockerbie bombing.
• Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, former prime minister of Iran, discusses the idea that Iran took revenge for the shootdown by the USS Vincennes of Iran Air Flight 655 in July 1988.
In a 1991 book, Banisadr alleged covert dealing between the Ronald Reagan presidential campaign and leaders in Tehran to prolong the Iran hostage crisis before the 1980 U.S. presidential election
Mr. Bani-Sadr, who was Iran's President for much of the 444-day hostage crisis, is in Washington to promote a book originally published in France in 1988 that asserts that secret negotiations occurred. But in an interview today, Mr. Bani-Sadr said he had no firsthand knowledge of such talks.
In the book, "My Turn to Speak: Iran, the Revolution & Secret Deals with the U.S.," Mr. Bani-Sadr has written, "I have proof of contacts between Khomeini and the supporters of Ronald Reagan as early as the spring of 1980."
Pressed to provide such proof today, Mr. Bani-Sadr offered instead indirection. He referred to a series of political intrigues in Teheran detailed in the book that led him to conclude that such contacts must have been occurring.
In exchange, Iran was to receive arms from the Reagan Administration. Mr. Bani-Sadr does not have firsthand knowledge of the arrangement, he said, because the mullahs who consummated the deal were his political rivals and were simultaneously plotting to remove him from office.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/07/world/bani-sadr-in-us-renews-charges-of-1980-deal.html
The documentary disputes the conclusion reached by the official investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, instead advancing the theory that the bomb was introduced onto the aircraft by an unwitting drug mule, Khaled Jafaar, in what the filmmaker claims is a CIA-protected suitcase.
M-48 (ONE STEP BEYOND 12/16/90)
Explores the Arrow Air plane crash of December 1985 as an act of terrorism which may very well have been connected to Arrow's role as a major arms carrier in the Iran-Contra scandal.
(1989/01/08)
AFA 35 Apparent role of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in the cover-up of the Iran-Contra scandal, necessitated the dismissal of conspiracy charges against Oliver North. Evidence suggests that elements associated with North perpetrated the outrage on behalf of the players in the Iran-Contra scandal.
Artist/Composer: Dave Emory
(1995)
FTR #51 These segments examine allegations of the complicity of elements of Western intelligence in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in December of 1988. Although Libya has been fingered as the culprit for this terrorist act, there are numerous indications that some elements of American, British and West German intelligence may have aided and abetted the actual bombing and/or covered up aspects of the subsequent investigation.
Among the points covered in this program:
- Allegations that the bombers "piggy-backed" the bomb onto a DEA sting operation;
- German refusal to detain a member of the terrorist cell implicated in the bombing (who was being sought by British investigators for interrogation);
- American intelligence agents' intense interest in documents carried by a group of U.S. military intelligence operatives who died in the bombing;
- Apparent attempts to suppress a documentary film that discusses possible Western complicity in the bombing.
(Recorded in the fall of 1995.)
Artist/Composer: Dave Emory
(1997)
FTR #61 Previously recorded segments and archive programs analyze a growing and compelling body of information indicating complicity on the part of elements of Western intelligence agencies with the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 on 12/21/88.
This program updates that information by discussing the shoddy (and probably illegal) treatment of former Defense Intelligence Agency operative Lester Coleman. Coleman provided information alleging that a DEA sting operation went awry, permitting the Pan Am 103 bombers to carry out the act. Imprisoned in New York City, whistle blower Coleman has been denied access to treatment for the cancer that afflicts him, thus endangering his life.
In addition, the broadcast sets forth the alarming circumstances surrounding the death of documentary film-maker Alan Francovich, whose film The Maltese Double Cross accesses Coleman's allegations, as well as highlighting other evidence of the complicity American, British and German intelligence services with the bombing.
The film had been the focus of active attempts at suppression. Francovich died of an apparent heart attack while going through U.S. customs in Houston, with documents in his possession that would exonerate Coleman and implicate the Reagan and Bush administrations and the CIA in a number of unsavory and illegal activities.
Francovich's previous most famous documentary provided the first, comprehensive historic investigation of
Operation GLADIO
