Friday, 12 September 2008
A strange little tale
A strange item has recently been posted on the ken-finn blog. It asserts that on 28 August 2005, BBC TV on its 7pm news bulletin broadcast a story to the effect that the CIA had admitted planting the MST-13 circuit board fragment at the Lockerbie crash site. No trace of this story could subsequently be found on the BBC News website. Here is the current post from the blog; and here is the post from 2005.
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I am grateful to Peter Biddulph for sending me the following:
ReplyDelete"For some reason I can't get into the blog, so I'm sending it to you to see if you can assist.
The BBC story about the CIA admitting they planted a fragment has to be, surely, a mishear of radio segment, or a fantasy. Had it been said, it would have been headlines. Perhaps the guy misunderstood the Bob Baer contention that Iran paid for the Lockerbie attack. Vincent Cannistraro repeatedly claimed that the Hayes fragment pointed to Libya and only Libya. If, however, former CIA Middle Eastern specialist Bob Baer is correct about Iran and the PFLP-GC, then Libya didn't do it, and the fragment must have been planted.
Meanwhile, the real story about the CIA is more complex:
'One day after the bombing the Prime Minister walked the hills of Lockerbie, surrounded by two hundred and seventy dead of several nations. As a northern wind flicked her blond hair back and forth, powerless she stood as uninvited, across the fields, hills and forests roamed American agency search teams diligently seeking what history and the Scottish Justice system would later describe as sensitive material. Even as The Iron Lady posed for the cameras beside the stern face of American Ambassador Charles Price, much of that evidence considered dangerous for the public to know was being secretly removed, never to be seen again.
'Alongside the team of agents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, a team from the CIA would shortly be supervised by a former Director of Intelligence for America's National Security Council. Only two years previously he had been proven by the United States courts and media to have been active in the Iran-Contra scandal. In a programme stretching over three years (1983-86), he and his immediate colleagues had used CIA paid and trained mercenary soldiers to murder thousands of fellow human beings among the villages and farmsteads of Nicaragua. Their only crime? That their government favoured a political code opposite to that of the United States of America. And now, the blood of thousands still fresh on his hands, the man was somewhere in the background of the Lockerbie investigation, while his own special team was in Scotland.'
[Vincent Cannistraro, Task Force Officer in the Iran-Contra office of Colonel Oliver North. Sources: White House Emails. Pub 1995 National Security Archive of the United States; 1986/87 Findings of the Tower Commission in the trial of Oliver North and others; CIA Manual of Insurgency and Assassination - CNN Cold War - Historical Documents - CIA Manual Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare; Pirates and Emperors, Noam Chomsky, pub 2002 Pluto Press; How the Mass Media covers for Vincent Cannistraro, Terrorist and Creator of the Nicaraguan Contras - Historical and Investigative Research, www.hirhome.com/israel/mprot4.htm ]"
It was on 28 August 2005 that Marcello Mega published an article in Scotland on Sunday entitled "Police Chief - Lockerbie Evidence Was Faked". The Scotsman website no longer has the article but it can be read here: http://nationalexpositor.com/News/291.html.
ReplyDeleteI reckon that Ken Finn must have heard that day's BBC News reporting upon Marcello Mega's controversial article. QED?
Hi Ken Finn here...
ReplyDeleteI can confirm that I saw the bulletin and it wasn't a fantasy... Perhaps the BBC were taking their lead from the Scotsman article. The interesting thing is that the BBC carried a link to every news item on their website that evening for all the headlines and minor stories but nothing about the Lockerbie CIA story broadcast that evening.
Make of it what you will.
Best wishes. Ken
The Scotland on Sunday article has reappeared on the Scotsman website with a new url - http://news.scotsman.com/lockerbie/Former-police-chief-says-Lockerbie.2656612.jp - but with Monday 29 August 2005 as the publication date. Strange!
ReplyDeleteDear Mr.Black,
ReplyDeleteI anyone talking about the soldiers who got brutally killed in a gas station around Lockerbie in 1993 ? ten or eleven of them were brutally murdered in that old gas station.
A witness is waiting to testify the only one and greatly in danger.
Wishing you all the very best
and awaiting your reply
H.Vossough
p.s. please reply to h_vossough@yahoo.com