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- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Pan Am 103-Four years after
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- Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
- References: <BzME8y.1nB@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:00:14 GMT
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- In article <BzME8y.1nB@acsu.buffalo.edu> v140pxgt@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Daniel B Case) writes:
- :
- : Last night CBS's 60 Minutes ran a report about the allegations that the
- :CIA knew about the bomb being put on Pan Am flight 103 four years ago today, and
- :did nothing to stop it, meaning that the deaths of 270 people, including a
- :friend of mine, could have been averted. The story goes that the CIA was running
- :a drug courier operation and the terrorists knew about it and put the bomb on
- :the plane to a) kill some CIA people who were planning a raid to free US
- :hostages in Lebanon, and b) embarass the CIA by the hoped-for revelation of the
- :drug operation.
- :
- : Well, I think 60 Minutes got the right conclusion, which is, to put it
- :simply: Bullshit.
-
- Don't be so quick to dismiss this one. British investigative magazine
- Private Eye has uncovered lots of circumstantial evidence that all points
- in the direction of the hypothesis outlined above. And some good concrete
- evidence to do with a suitcase belonging to the CIA passenger that was
- explicitly searched for first before the investigation took off properly.
- There's *something* fishy in this story and it will come out eventually.
-
- We may all be too old to give a damn of course, when it does.
-
- G
- PS Private Eye's analysis is that the reason for the bomb was primarily
- to scupper the peace process that was going on at the time and looking
- like making headway; that the 'diplomatic bag' of the CIA was a regular
- conduit for drugs for CIA dirty money to fund arms deals, and the people
- the CIA dealt with double-crossed them by supplying a bomb in the drug
- shipment.
-