'The Most Dangerous Man in America'
Conviction of Former CIA Agent Overturned on False Affidavit
April 27, 2005
... <Ed> Wilson, at age 54, was sentenced in 1983 to 52 years in prison. He was convicted of selling weapons and 20 tons of C-4 plastic explosives to Moammar Gadhafi's Libya. He was also convicted of trying to arrange a contract hit on the prosecutors.
Wilson's defense was that he was still working with the CIA and that the agency knew and approved of everything he was doing with Libya, including the shipment of the explosives ...
In Houston, Wilson's conviction was overturned by a federal judge, Lynn Hughes, who identified about two dozen government lawyers, including Greenberg, who participated in the use of a false CIA affidavit that sent Wilson to prison and the silence about the affidavit after serious questions were raised about its accuracy. And Hughes minced no words in his opinion.
"In the course of American justice, one would have to work hard to conceive of a more fundamentally unfair process," wrote Hughes, "than the fabrication of false data by the government, under oath by a government official, presented knowingly by the prosecutor in the courtroom with the express approval of his superiors in Washington" ...
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/LegalCenter/story?id=708779&page=1Is Lockerbie Iran Defector A Fake?
Paper Says CIA, FBI Conclude He's Not Who He Says He Is
WASHINGTON and LONDON, June 12, 200
(CBS) An Iranian defector who said he could prove Iran was responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing has been exposed by the CIA and FBI as an impostor, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.
CBS News 60 Minutes executive producer Don Hewitt said the allegations were not unexpected. "We expected the CIA and FBI to do this."
The man, who had given his name as Ahmad Behbahani and said he was a former Iranian intelligence officer, had told 60 Minutes associate producer Roya Hakakian that he had documents showing Tehran was behind the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/06/03/world/main202341.shtml Defense in Lockerbie Trial Undermines a Key Witness
By DONALD G. MCNEIL JR.
Published: September 28, 2000
... Two defense lawyers spent the day battering every important point made on Tuesday by Abdul Majid Giaka, a Libyan double agent who has been in a United States federal witness protection program for the last decade.
Mr. Abdul Majid's tentative performance today, coupled with his failure on Tuesday to link the two defendants firmly to the bomb, seemed seriously to undermine his usefulness to the prosecution and its effort to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the two Libyans on trial, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, blew up Pan Am 103 in 1988, killing 270 people.
Today the defense lawyers called Mr. Abdul Majid a liar at least 30 times, and only once the whole day did a prosecutor rise to object.
To question after question, Mr. Abdul Majid flailed for a response and often was reduced to answering: ''I do not remember,'' ''I am not lying,'' ''These things were many years ago,'' ''I did not see what the C.I.A. wrote,'' or ''Maybe I said it, or maybe I forgot'' ...
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E1D7113AF93BA1575AC0A9669C8B63Lockerbie witness 'lied' to CIA to secure life in US
Gerard Seenan at Camp Zeist
The Guardian
Thursday September 28 2000
The Libyan defector who has become the key prosecution witness in the Lockerbie trial is a desperate liar who exaggerated his status as a spy and fabricated key information when a disillusioned CIA threatened to abandon him, a court heard yesterday.
Under cross-examination from defence counsel, the credibility of Abdul Majid Giaka yesterday appeared to crumble. The Scottish court in the Netherlands heard Mr Giaka had consistently lied to US intelligence officers in order to achieve his dream of beginning a new life in the west ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/sep/28/lockerbie.gerardseenanLockerbie trial was a CIA fix, US intelligence insider claims PAN AM
The Sunday Herald
Nov 12, 2006
by Liam McDougall
Home Affairs Editor
THE CIA manipulated the Lockerbie trial and lied about the strength of the prosecution case to get a result that was politically convenient for America, according to a former US State Department lawyer.
Michael Scharf, who was the counsel to the US counter-terrorism bureau when the two Libyans were indicted for the bombing, described the case as "so full of holes it was like Swiss cheese" and said it should never have gone to trial.
He claimed the CIA and FBI had assured State Department officials there was an "iron-clad" case against Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and al- Amin Khalifa Fimah, but that in reality the intelligence agencies had no confidence in their star witness and knew well in advance of the trial that he was "a liar" ...
No-one at the CIA in Washington was available to comment.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20061112/ai_n16845641From The Sunday Times
July 1, 2007
Unpicking the Lockerbie truth
Our correspondent, who has covered the case for 18 years, explains why the conviction may be overturned
David Leppard
... Last week a Scottish judicial body ruled that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was sentenced to 27 years in a Scottish prison for his role in the attack, might have been wrongly convicted ...
... last week, after a three-year investigation, the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission announced that it was referring his case to the Scottish Court of Appeal.
It dismissed claims by lawyers for Megrahi that vital evidence, including the circuit board from the Mebo timer, had been planted among the debris by police. Some of the more excitable conspiracy theorists suggested that was part of a plot by the security services to implicate Libya and exonerate Iran and Syria at a time when their neutrality was required in the run-up to the first Iraq war.
But, crucially, the commission did say it had identified six grounds where it believed a miscarriage of justice “may have occurred”. While the commission has inexplicably refrained from publishing details of each of these grounds, it is clear that doubts about Gauci’s testimony form the core of its concerns ...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2009603.eceKey Lockerbie Witness Admits to Perjury
By Dr. Ludwig De Braeckeleer
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
... On Friday August 31st, I received .. a copy of a German original of an Affidavit. The document is dated July 18th 2007 and signed by Ulrich Lumpert, who worked as an electronic engineer at MeBo from 1978 to 1994 ... Lumpert was a key witness (N° 550) at the Camp Zeist trial ...
In his testimony, Lumpert stated that: "of the 3 pieces of hand-made prototypes MST-13 Timer PC-Boards, the third MST-13 PC-Board was broken and <he> had thrown it away."
In his Affidavit, certified by Officer Walter Wieland, Lumpert admits having committed perjury.
"I confirm today on July 18th 2007, that I stole the third hand-manufactured MST-13 Timer PC-Board consisting of 8 layers of fibre-glass from MEBO Ltd. and gave it without permission on June 22nd 1989 to a person officially investigating the Lockerbie case," Lumpert wrote ...
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/ludwig090507.htmRevealed: CIA offered $2m to Lockerbie witness and brother
October 03, 2007
... Recently discovered papers show Scottish police officers investigating the 1988 bombing were aware the US intelligence service had discussed financial terms and witness protection schemes with Tony Gauci and his brother, Paul.
They documented the talks and it would have been standard practice for such information to have been relayed to the prosecution team before the trial of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, the Libyan serving 27 years for the bombing.
However, his defence team was never told of the CIA offer, in what critics say is another example of non-disclosure that undermines the credibility of Mr Gauci and, in turn, the Crown's case against Megrahi ...
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