Dick Marquise, who led the FBI’s Lockerbie task force, says that in the early days of the case he too believed the PFLP-GC were the “number one suspect”, but years of investigation found nothing to prove it.<\/p>\n
“There was not one shred of evidence that could be taken to court and get a conviction,” he says. “You couldn’t do it. There was nothing.”<\/p>\n
However, there are others, besides Swire, who still question the “official narrative” – including former CIA agent John Holt who also believes Iran was behind the bombing.<\/p>\n
Holt worked with Libyan intelligence assets in the 1980s and was the handler of double agent Abdul Majid Giaka, whose information became central to the investigation into the Lockerbie bombing.<\/p>\n
Holt now believes Giaka was a “BS artist” who was out for money and was feeding the CIA fake stories to get paid.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t think much of him at all,” he says.<\/p>\n
“He gave us some little tidbits about what was going on, but he never knew anything about the Pan Am bombing. And he knew a lot about Megrahi,” Holt says.<\/p>\n
Holt believes the fact the CIA bankrolled Giaka devalues him as an informant.<\/p>\n
“It makes it easier for somebody to say whatever the person who’s giving them money wants them to say,” Holt says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dick Marquise, who led the FBI’s Lockerbie task force, says that in the early days of the case…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-711449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}