Lockerbie place
also: Lockerbie, Scotland, Scottish Isle of Lockerbie
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Lockerbie documented
“I like the fact that he's suspecting the CIA's involvement right off the bat. So go back in time. It's December 21st, 1988. And we're in Lockerbie, Scotland. There's a huge explosion. Those that went outside to see it just saw a big ball of…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 15 @ 1:04
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Lockerbie documented
“became the search teams. Within the next hour, things began to become very strange for the British participants in the search and investigative teams. Several things began to happen in various sections of the search area that were described…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 15 @ 2:38
Mentions (18)
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That a CIA agent died in the plane crash over Lockerbie, Scotland. I didn't know that. Didn't I post one of the things about that? What? I think I posted a thread about that. You did? I just learned about it. I believe you did. I just learn…
▶ 1:04
I like the fact that he's suspecting the CIA's involvement right off the bat. So go back in time. It's December 21st, 1988. And we're in Lockerbie, Scotland. There's a huge explosion. Those that went outside to see it just saw a big ball of…
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or a mechanical malfunction that ignited the fuel. With their extensive experience dealing with terrorists, they pretty much agreed right away that it was a terrorist act. The local emergency and police organizations organized quickly, set …
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I was started to get up a control room and by 11 o'clock in midnight, there was a member of the FBI in the office who came in, introduced herself to me and sat down and just sat there for the rest of the night. The unusual activity of this …
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350 miles from London, which was the nearest American FBI station. So how did they get there? To reach Lockerbie that night from London, even if traveling by air would have taken far more than one hour, considering the sequence of events th…
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would have had to have been tracked down considering the late hour, notified to pack up for an investigation, rush to Heathrow, board an aircraft, fly immediately to the nearest airport, land, get ground transportation to Lockerbie, then lo…
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In less than two hours, a Pan Am security officer interviewed later offered one piece of the puzzle regarding this rapid response. Quote, as far as I can recall, there were about 40 people excluding crew on board the Pan Am flight of person…
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I wasn't aware of their affiliations at all, unquote. The questions at this point, who were these people? How did they get to the airport so quickly? Where did they come from? Why were they in England in the first place? And what were their…
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They weren't pretending, saying that they were from the FBI or CIA. They were just Americans who seemed to arrive extremely quickly on the scene, he said. Dr. David Vilhaus, the local police surgeon, reported a strange series of events in h…
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British journalist and Pan Am 103 researcher David Ben-Ashian answered part of the puzzle. Quote, very strange people were at work very early on. Within a matter of three hours after the crash, there were American accents heard in the town.…
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At the crash site, as the sun came up, small pockets of Americans keeping to themselves wandered among the wreckage. There was bodies. They were poking them, looking at them, searching. They were searching for something. They had been there…
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to military intelligence and that the bomb had been planted on him in Beirut, unquote. Finally, there were stories of a large suitcase filled with heroin being recovered by American searchers. A local farmer, Jim Wilson, told relatives of P…
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of the investigation led to identification of a foreign role in an act of terrorism was forensic evidence recovered by the Scottish police at Lockerbie themselves. Investigators and townspeople on their hands and knees crawling over the cou…
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Didn't a whole bunch of companies use them? Yeah, but we want a timer one. Edwin Bouvier, the owner of the company in Switzerland that was MEBO, stated that Scottish and American FBI officers came to Switzerland. They showed us a photocopy …
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in a piece of a coat that had signed a paper to this effect. What? I later heard that it was the Scottish police who had found the piece in a shirt that came from Malta, unquote. The FBI was essentially telling Bollier that they had agents …
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Pan Am 103 at Heathrow, Major Chuck McKee, Linda Forthright, Pan Am ground hostess at Lockerbie remembered McKee because he had asked for an upgrade. He had a certificate for a program that was running at the time, and I moved him to first …
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At 7.02 p.m. on Wednesday, December 21, 1988, Pan Am 103 had reached 31,000 feet on a course across Britain. One minute later, over the Scottish Isle of Lockerbie, almost to the coastline, a bomb exploded aboard the plane. The combination o…
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But check it out if you're interested in Dave Emery's series at WFMU Archives. It's often a very, very good show. So bottom line is they burned up the evidence. How about that? I would like to say I'm shocked, but of course I'm not. So Alex…