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THE MALTESE DOUBLE CROSS -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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[Michael Jones, Pan Am security, London] It had been in July, 1989, our sales director in Oslo, Mrs. Barrett Sojlund? received some documentation and information from the local police, regarding a possible meeting or a definite meeting by a person called Goldberg and a man called Jafaar somewhere in Scandinavia.
And Mr. Goldberg had supplied details from his personal notebook and some handwritten notes which had been forwarded to the local police and then to us in London. On receipt of the information we notified the American Embassy, Mr. Bob Mahoney.
And at his request, on the 7th of July, 1989, the documents were forwarded to him at the U.S. Embassy in London, at which point we were told or advised that he would look into the matter.
I've never had any telephone conversation or any written information from the U.S. Embassy advising us the outcome of their inquiries.
[Narrator] In October, 1988, the German Federal Police had watched a white Volvo with Swedish plates load up in front of 16 Isarstrasse in Neuss. Bombmaker Khreesat had stayed there.
A raid on Abassi's apartment at that address in April, 1989, after Pan Am 103 had been blown up in the sky, had led to the discovery of three Khreesat bombs in electronic devices with a fourth and possibly a fifth airplane bomb missing.
Two men are driven in the Volvo to Uppsala, Sweden, the route by car ferry because of the laxer border controls.
In December, before he boards Pan Am 103 in Frankfurt, Khaled Jafaar is driven to Sweden by Faisal Jallousse, stopping at this address in Elmshorn, near Hamburg.
Jafaar takes the Kiel Gothenberg ferry.
One of the addresses in Goldberg's notes, 3A Storgatan, in fact Stortgatan in Gothenberg, a perfect address for a safehouse, two separate entrances off of two separate streets, a tramway, the highway nearby, the present occupant, Mohamed Drabouk.?
[Woman] Hello. [Man] Hello. Yes? [Woman] Can I speak to Mr. Mohammed, please. [Man] Mr. Mohammed speaking. [Woman] Mr. Mohammed, do you know someone called Khaled Jafaar? [Man] Who are you? I don't know you. [Woman] I am looking for him. [Man] Unless you tell me who you are I won't answer your question. [Woman] OK. Do you know someone called Said al Ja'far? [Man] If you tell me where you're call from and your name, I will answer you. [Woman] OK. I'll call you later. [Man] No. Talk to me now, not later on. [Woman] Why don't you want to answer me? [Man] Because I don't know who you are. [Woman] Do you know this person or not? [Man] I won't answer that. I'm sorry. [Woman] You won't answer me? [Man] I won't answer you. [Woman] OK. Have you lived here for long? [Man] I am very sorry. Goodbye.
[Woman] Hello. [Man] Hello. [Woman] Mr. Mohammed? [Man] Yes? [Woman] We know there was a man called Khaled Jafaar on the plane which exploded over Lockerbie, and that he passed through Sweden. That's why I want to know if you know him, or have just heard of him. [Man] Who are you? When you first called I was having dinner. The call surprised me. I don't like being called without an appointment. [Woman] A phone call without an appointment! [Man] Yes.
[Woman] How can I get an appointment without first calling you? [Man] That's not what I mean. I mean that your call really surprised me. [Woman] OK. Will you answer my question? [Man] Sorry. No.
[Narrator] Jafaar will go to Stockholm, according to Mr. Goldberg on the 1710 train on December 19. Mr. Goldberg, after a single furtive January 1989 meeting with a Pan Am sales agent in Oslo, leaves his precise notes behind and vanishes.
"Goldberg" -- such a common Jewish name -- is in fact an Israeli Intelligence operative still on active duty today.
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