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To: SmoothSail who wrote (359360)	4/13/2010 7:55:48 PM
From: SmoothSail	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793782

Reza responds to FBI agent Marquise Washington Post Spy Talk and The Pan Am Bombing In an article posted by Jeff Stein on the Washington Post today, retired Special Agent Richard Marquise, who headed the FBI’s investigation into the Pan Am bombing, says that there is no credible evidence for my claim that Iran was involved in the Pan Am bombing. After reading my book, Marquise goes on to say that my information came from a “guy” I met in London. He fails to mention that while I was working in Europe, I met with Iranian agents (not some “guy”— one of them a close associate of the supreme leader’s office) who were shopping for parts, which I accommodated as a double agent. They informed me that the order to carry out the Pan Am bombing was given by Hashemi Rafsanjani in retaliation for the downing of the Iran Air flight 655 by the U.S. Navy over the Persian Gulf. This agent also spoke of the Palestinian’s cooperation in the act, the radio transmitter, and the bomb, along with information on an investigation of a Palestinian individual in a specific European country. The Iranian agent justified the act as an “eye for an eye.” The importance of that communication was that none of that information was publicly available at the time. The investigators had not even concluded the details of the bombing yet, let alone announcing it! I fully understand that my communication with the Iranian agents would not have been considered evidence, but it could have been enough for further investigation into Iran’s involvement in the Pan Am bombing. I also state in my book that after the Pan Am bombing, when Rafsanjani became the President of Iran and George H.W. Bush the President of America, there were serious contacts between the two to improve relations. This initiation had started during President Reagan’s administration when Rafsanjani, then the speaker of Iran’s parliament, had promised a normalization of relations once Ayatollah Khomeini was dead. President Bush picked up on that promise with the hope that Rafsanjani was sincere. I was even told by my handler to consider Rafsanjani the new king of Iran. Of course the U.S. administration was once again fooled by the Islamic leaders’ deceit and again, as I state in the book, a few years later my handlers asked me to find an Iranian who would testify that Iran was making a nuclear bomb. It became obvious the Bush administration realized they were led on by Rafsanjani. However, as to the Pan Am bombing, why was it that the Scottish authorities had Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi drop his appeal in exchange for his release to Libya just when his legal team was to present the court with documents from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) implicating Iran? Also documents that say some of the witnesses had been paid millions to testify and evidence on the timer used to detonate the bomb, which were withheld from the courts by certain intelligence agencies. I do not claim solid proof of Iran’s involvement, but I am revealing what I learned during my work as a CIA agent in the Guards and based on that, I honestly believe the order for the bombing of the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie was initiated in Tehran and that there is more about this incident than meets the eye. Also see an article published by TimesOnline.Uk in August of 2009 which covers some of the detail of the DIA’s memos. timesonline.co.uk Also 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. findarticles.com atimetobetray.com

To: SmoothSail who wrote (359360)	4/13/2010 8:02:32 PM
From: SmoothSail	Respond to of 793782

<There was an interesting comment following the article. I don't know anything about explosives, but this sounds interesting. The main and only positive point he makes is the timer fragment, aka PT/35(b), said to be found in the rubble. Two things about this fragment should be noted: 1) It fairly clearly points to Libyan JSO 2) It clearly wasn't involved in the explosion of PA103. Ask any explosives expert - look at the photos of it, 1cm perfect square, 450-680 grams Semtex H, 1.5 inches apart. Plausible? No. Therefore this point starts falling apart: “There is no evidence, nothing that could be used in court, that ties Iran to those timers.”