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THE MALTESE DOUBLE CROSS -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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[Dr. David Fieldhouse, Police Surgeon] In particular, in the Tundergarth area, near the church, I identified several bodies, amongst which were those of McKee and Lariviere. I knew that McKee was absolutely correct because of the clothing that correlated closely with the reports and statements examined later on the computers which were linked to London and Washington. As far as Lariviere was concerned, he was in an area where there were only two or three people, and his detailed [inaudible] was also on the computer.
[David Johnston, Journalist Radio Forth] At the time I didn't know, I wasn't very sure exactly who they were working for but subsequently of course it turned out to be Major Charles McKee of the Defense Intelligence Agency and Ronald Lariviere and Matthew Gannon and several other people who had loose connections with the Intelligence side of things.
[David Ben-Arycah, Journalist] It's very strange. Considering some of them were traveling together, at least one of the bodies who should have been found in a location beside his colleagues was found in fact in a totally different location beside or very close to the body of a person who has been the subject of intense investigation and speculation. One is forced to wonder what somebody from the front of the plane was doing landing beside somebody who was in the second last row of seats in the aircraft.
[Narrator] Khaled Jafaar, in Seat 53K at the very rear of the aircraft, Matthew Gannon, in first class, near where the bomb exploded. Their bodies are found 100 yards from each other, the only passengers from opposite ends of the aircraft to be thus joined in death.
[David Johnston, Journalist Radio Forth] Well I heard early on that the bomb, that the investigators believed the bomb had been taken on to the plane by a U.S. Officer who has belonged to Military Intelligence, and the bomb had been planted on him in Beirut. Later on when I started doing the research into Lockerbie, it was puzzling me that the line was there wasn't any drugs on the airplane. It would seem that was the first transatlantic flight in a long time not to have any drugs on it. And just asking around people who had been involved in the investigation afterwards, and involved in moving the bodies from the hillside, they were able to tell me specific passengers and what they had on them, and one officer also told me how he had a farmer pass him with a tractor and trailer to help him take a suitcase full of what he presumed to be heroin away from Tundergarth and down to the [inaudible] factory where the luggage was being stored once it was recovered from the area around.
[Narrator] The farmer Jim Wilson lives in the farm facing Tundergarth Church, still traumatized by all the death in his fields and by the past treatment by the press. He refuses to talk.
Private Eye, however, had published an account. That terrible December, as bodies were still being found, Wilson told Pan Am 103 relatives -- they too will not appear publically -- that he was there when the drugs were found. How soon after the police found the drugs, Americans rushed to the scene in an all-terrain vehicle and took the stash away. The Americans were very angry that the drugs had not been found sooner.
A Scottish policeman, bound by official secrets and the draconian Scottish Police Disciplinary Act, and therefore not able to speak, has confirmed that there were drugs found near Tundergarth. The police were told to keep an eye out for drugs and Khaled Jafaar's name had been repeatedly mentioned as a drug courier. A mountain rescue man has separately confirmed the finding of drugs. He had been warned not to ever say anything.
[David Johnston, Journalist Radio Forth] This story was broadcast at 8:00 in the morning. By 9:00, two female policemen had arrived at my office, unannounced.
They knew I'd written this story by the fact that it wasn't my voice on it, and proceeded to ask me questions and repeated for about six hours, including the rather bizarre offer to take me to Mrs. Thatcher, who was then the prime minister at the time, to reveal the source of the story to her if I felt I couldn't repeat it to anyone else, such was the importance they had placed on finding out who had told me this information. [Narrator] Near the Kielder Forest, another secret find. This one never made public by police, FBI, or secret services.
[David Clark, volunteer searcher] The t-shirt that we found was a [inaudible], on just a plain white t-shirt, which we understand it had something to do with a Free Palestine Liberation group. And the police did come down separate to the time we were looking, actually it's in a hole, to take the statements about the location of the article, where it was found, with grid reference, who found it, and at the time the police went down they mentioned it was part of the Islamic group.
Daily Express
[Narrator] Daily Express, December 31, 1988, ten days after the bomb dropped down Pan Am 103. The cover photo, Khaled Jafaar. The sources for the headline: the FBI and Scotland Yard.
[Steve Donahue, DEA undercover agent] In the early months of 1989, I was contacted by Moostafa Jafaar, after quite a long period. And he was contacting me, and he was quite excited about some information and it eventually became clear over a number of conversations that it involved the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie. And the information was significant enough that he gave me, which is documented in letters that I've shown you, that I contacted my Congressman Larry Smith and I also notified the President because it was obviously a crime that was unsolved and this person said they had information. Moostafa Jafaar said that a relative of his had carried at some point a suitcase bound for Detroit which undoubtedly contained drugs. The information was extremely specific in that they had someone within the organization that had put the bomb on board that could give them some indications of where future terrorist attacks might be had.
Over the course of many calls and in direct contact with the FBI and a number of other people, State Department, every normal channel of authority, it became quite clear that he had significant information, and in fact had predictive information in terms of the attacks on the World Trade Center which was one of several attacks which he had said were staged, were going to be staged [inaudible], and this is well in advance of those attacks.
[Vincent Cannistraro, CIA head of Lockerbie Investigation] When you think of the painstaking investigation, the minute details that had to be dealt with, and when you think of the actual challenge to begin with, you had over 270 people killed, 11 on the ground, the remainder in the aircraft itself, every one of those people, excluding the people, the citizens of Lockerbie, had to be investigated for possible connection to the terrorist event itself. Several of the investigators, as well as some of the British Intelligence people involved in the investigation, were highly honored by the United Kingdom government.
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