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THE MALTESE DOUBLE CROSS -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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Grandfather Moostafa Jafaar. Khaled was his favorite grandson.
[Moostafa Jafaar] They arranged the visa for him and he left by plane for America. Then the accident happened. It was too painful, even if he was just my grandson, he was like my son. They arranged for his visa in the USA, and he then left Germany for America.
[Jafaar Family Member] When Khaled was about to board the plane, Mohammed Al-Hourani approached him at the airport and asked him to take a tape recorder as a gift. The recorder contained two kilos of heroin. In Germany, there were people waiting for him at the airport. They took the recorder from him and disappeared for a whole day. Then they came back and took Khaled to many places. Khaled always used to call his grandfather. Khaled's grandfather used to come and drink coffee with my father every day, and he used to give him Khaled's news.
[Lester Coleman, U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency] This was a controlled [inaudible] going through. It wouldn't go through passport control. It wouldn't go through Customs. It would just be passed through. It would be either carried through by the informant or by somebody who was a part of the local police constabulary.
[Michael Jones, Pan Am security, London] I received a telephone call from somebody I knew in British Customs advising me to, or suggesting that we look at the possibility that a bag may have been switched by Frankfurt Airport, by the Turkish workers because of known drug operation that's been run through Frankfurt Airport.
[Jim Renwick, Pam Am Security London] An H.M. Customs Officer involved in the investigation of Lockerbie had left a message for me and I subsequently contacted him, and I met with him, and he advised me that he'd been in Frankfurt at a meeting of drug enforcement agencies from Germany, America and Britain, and that it was well known and discussed at that meeting that Pan Am as an airline was being used as a drug conduit.
[Michael Jones, Pan Am security, London] To my knowledge, Pan Am had not been informed of any controlled drug shipments. Throughout my service with Pan Am at Heathrow, I was not notified of any drug shipments, and it would have been a requirement under the FAA regulations and the DOT regulations, all has to be notified if some outside agency was putting baggage onto our aircraft.
[Jim Renwick, Pam Am Security London] I certainly didn't know and I know of nobody else in the Pan American organization that I had contact with that was aware of it.
[Michael Jones, Pan Am security, London] Although I have not handled any drug shipments, I would assume that it would be normal procedures or practice to bypass the passenger searching stage and take the bag through other routes and take it directly to the aircraft thereby avoiding possible searches to prevent unauthorized people from knowing what was being shipped.
[Jim Renwick, Pam Am Security London] I was aware of some information with regards the possibility that passengers on board the 103 could have been involved with the illegal movement of narcotics. And some names were mentioned to me, particularly one passenger by the name of Jafaar.
[Lester Coleman, U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency] When I was working in Cyprus in 1988 at DEA, we were working at a penthouse apartment on top of a building down the road from the American Embassy.
We answered the phone, "EURAME Trading Company," which was a cutout, a proprietary company used by the CIA and the DEA for various and sundry purposes.
One was that these drug informants would come in on the Sunday boat from Jounieh, the Cypriot Police Narcotics people would bring them up to the apartment, they would all sit around the living room drinking coffee and chatting away while I was over at my computer working away. And then they would be called up one by one on the telephone to go over and meet with Hurley at the American Embassy. And one of the people that I observed there was this kid that we used to call, that was referred to as Nazzie, Nazzie Jafaar. I knew from the conversations around me in '88 that he was involved in controlled deliveries. And there's no doubt in my mind about that at all. So when I found out he was on 103 and he was killed and that there was a controlled delivery going through at the time, and the fact that I knew the security problems that the DEA had and the relationships that they were having with some people in Lebanon, that we had already raised as an issue as far as security is concerned, it was very simple for me to put 1 and 1 together and get the big 2, that the DEA's operation had a role in all of this.
[Narrator] In 1990, before a Congressional Committee, the Drug Enforcement Agency, Steven Green, Acting Administrator, will deny under oath that there were any controlled drug deliveries through Frankfurt Airport in 1988.
But in Virginia court documents, deliveries are documented. A DEA agent has testified being at Frankfurt Airport in 1989.
The drug traffic was so heavy by then that there was a full-time DEA liaison agent, Thomas Slovenky at the airport. One convicted Lebanese Bekaa dealer had even tried to contact a Pan Am pilot.
But Frankfurt had been used as a base for covert drugs in CIA operations long before.
[Oswald Le Winter, CIA 1968-85] In 1984, I was undercover, and my base of operations was in Wurzberg at the headquarters of the 3rd Infantry Division.
And I was contacted by a fellow who worked for Oliver North.
I was asked to develop an operation laying a trail which would lead back to Libya and make it look as though a Libyan effort was behind this to putting drugs into the United States.
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