Dateline: December 24, 1999

CIA Classified Document
Links Pan Am 103 Bomb to Iran
By Graham K. Yost

For years the United States Justice Department, the FBI and the CIA have laid the blame for the Pan Am 103 bombing on Libya's doorstep. But a CIA FBI classified report gives a different view.

The report -- from the following web address ---- http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/5260/fbis.html is enclosed at the end of this article.

In shocking detail, the report describes an Iranian government hierarchy plotting with Palestinian terrorist, Ahmed Jibril. Pan Am investigator, Juval Aviv says Iran paid Jibril $10 million dollars to bring down a United States airliner. Jibril did it by infiltrating a United States drug running operation from Beirut Cyprus Frankfurt London to Detroit. The United States DEA regularly put Lebanese informants on United States bound flights carrying heroin to entrap stateside drug dealers.

DEA, FBI and CIA agents ruthlessly denied a United States Government operation was compromised. Instead, they pointed a finger at Libya. But all the time the CIA/FBI's 7 page report confirmed it was Jibril and Iran not Libya that set off the bomb which killed 270 people.

The following report details meetings, movements, names and places. It is evident that the United States government knew of the Jibril plot, and covered it up to protect their own bungling that allowed the bomb to be placed on a United States aircraft.

CIA/NSA Had Foreknowledge of Planning and Activities Leading to Pan Am 103 Bombing

The following report was obtained by defense counsel for Lester Coleman via an FOIA request. Mr. Coleman states that this message emanated from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), a US Government entity that monitors (with NSA support) foreign communications traffic and puts out a daily classified summary for interagency consumption.

In October 1997 the report was forbidden to be published by court verdict from the USA because it contains secret information not for public publishing.

JPRS-NEA-89-043
23 JUNE 1989 FBIS/NOFORN/

8JULY 1988>TEHRAN>0800
MEHRABAD> PRESENT> HAMID REZA NAQQASHAN/ MUHMUD HASHEMI RAFSANJANI OFFICIALS INFORMED OF ARRIVAL OF PRIVATE PLANE. NAQQASHAN IS SEEN SITTING IN A MERCEDEZ AT 0830 WITH AHMAD JIBRIL. THEY ARE FOLLOWED BY MAHMUD HASHEMI FAFSANJANI IN ANOTHER MERCEDEZ WITH THREE COMPANIONS OF JIBRIL. THEY SET OUT AT A CONSPICUOUS SPEED. 0930 THEY ENTER MANZARIYYAH CAMP WHERE THE GUESTS ARE ACCOMMODATED IN A SPECIAL SUITE.

9JULY 1988>MANZARIYYAH CAMP>0730>
THREE CARS LEAVE MANZARIYYAH CAMP AND TRAVEL TO JUMARAN, RESIDENCE OF AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI. WITHIN ONE HALF HOUR WALI AND HIS LEGAL EXPERT (FAQIH) RECEIVE THE USULI MUSLIM MARXIST PALESTINIAN FREEDOM FIGHTER (MUNADIL) COMRADE.

WHILE JIBRIL KNEELS DOWN TO KISS THE RIGHT HAND OF ROHOLLAH MUSAVI KHOMEINI, MOHTASHEMI, MINISTER OF INTERIOR, WHO WAS ACCOMPANYING JIBRIL IN HIS VISIT TO JUMARAN, SAYS: "OUR BROTHER AHMAD HAS COME TO INFORM YOUR EMINENCE THAT HE IS PREPARED TO SUPPORT US IN TAKING REVENGE ON AMERICA, THE GREAT SATAN."

THE MEETING LASTED NO MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES. JIBRIL IS INFORMED BY MOHSTASHEMI AFTER THE MEETING THAT ROHOLLAH WAS IMPRESSED BY HIM AND THAT HIS SPECIAL PROVIDENCE WOULD PERVADE THE POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE (GENERAL COMMAND).

12JULY 1988 >
JIBRIL RETURNED TO BEIRUT VIA DAMASCUS. HE REPORTS TO SYRIAN OFFICIALS THE MEETINGS IN TEHRAN.

28 JULY 1988 >
FIVE LEBANESE AND PALESTINIAN GROUPS ARRIVE IN TEHRAN ABOARD A PRIVATE IRANIAN PLANE FROM DAMASCUS.

THE GROUPS WERE COMPOSED OF SEVENTY INDIVIDUALS, SOME IDENTIFIED AS ABBAS MUSAVI, HUSAYN MUSAVI, ALI HAMADI, AHMAD AL-MEGNIYYAH, ALI AL-IFFI, IBRAHIM AL- AMIN, ALI SHAMS, BU FADI, AHMAD AL-UMLAH, ABU MUHAMMAD AL-NAJAFI.

AFTER A VISIT TO THE TOMB OF THE EIGHTH IMAM OF THE SHIITE IMAMAS, ALI IBN MUSA AL-REZA, IN MASHAD CITY, THE MEMBERS SET OUT BY BUS FOR VAKIL ABAD CAMP, LOCATED TO THE NORTHWEST OF MASHHAD CITY.

15 AUGUST 1988>
IRAN AIR FLIGHT 54 (747) TRANSPORTED A LEBANESE AND A PALESTINIAN TO DAMASCUS AFTER THEY HAD SPENT THEIR SPECIAL TRAINING PERIOD IN VAKIL ABAD CAMP, WHERE THE YOUTHS OF ALLAH ARE TRAINED IN THE ARTS OF HIGHJACKING PLANES AND BOMBING MILITARY AND INDUSTRIAL COMPOUNDS.

28 AUGUST 1988>
AHMAD JIBRIL RETURNED TO TEHRAN WITH FIVE SUPPORTERS. THEY WERE TRANSPORTED FROM MEHRABAD AIRPORT TO LALEH HOTEL ( FORMALLY INTERCONTINENTAL) WHERE THEY SPENT THREE DAYS DURING WHICH THEY MET WITH MINISTER OF INTERIOR AND THE COMMANDER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS, MOHSEN REZA I, AND HEAD OF INTELLIGENCE SERVICE NAQQASHAN.

JIBRIL SPOKE OF THE DIFFICULTIES FACING HIS GROUP AND GROUPS INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT OF HIGHJACKING AMERICAN PLANES, IN VIEW OF INCREASED SECURITY AT WORLD AIRPORTS. JIBRIL PROPOSES THAT THE PROJECT SHOULD BE REPLACED BY ANOTHER PROJECT THAT CALLED FOR THE HITTING AND BOMBING AMERICAN PLANES IN AREAS NEAR THE FOLLOWING AIRPORTS: ATHENS, LARNAKA, COPENHAGEN AND HELSINKI. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY A LONG DISCUSSION, AND A DECISION WAS MADE TO TAKE ON A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION OF HITTING AND BOMBING AMERICAN PLANES.

04 SEPTEMBER 1988>
JIBRIL MET WITH THE CHARGE D'AFFAIRES OF IRAN IN BEIRUT, HUSSEIN NIKNAM (ABU AHMAD), WHO INFORMED HIM THAT HIS FRIENDS IN TEHRAN PREFERRED BOMBING AMERICAN PASSENGER PLANES WITH THEIR PASSENGERS AND IF POSSIBLE, BY BOMBING THE AIRCRAFT WHILE IT WAS LANDING OR TAKING OFF.

07 SEPTEMBER 1988>
HUSSEIN NIKNAM, ACCOMPANIED BY MOHSEN ARMIN (HEAD OF IRANIAN INTELLIGENCE), SET OUT FOR SHEIKH ABDALLAH BARRACK IN BAALBAK FROM BEIRUT. THERE THEY MET AHMAD JIBRIL AND SHEIKH IBRAHIM AL-AMIN AND SHEIKH SUBHI AL- TUFAYLI AND THREE ARMENIANS FROM AMONG THOSE WHO WORK WITH JIBRIL,

IN ADDITION TO A TURKISH ENGINEER WHO ARRIVED IN BAALBAK TWO DAYS EARLIER VIA DAMASCUS ON A MOROCCAN PASSPORT. NIKNAM INTRODUCED THE TURKISH ENGINEER TO JIBRIL UNDER THE NAME RASHID MEHMET, AS HIS HIZBOLLA CONTACT IN WEST GERMANY AND A TECHNICAL ENGINEER AT FRANKFURT AIRPORT.

14 SEPTEMBER, 1988>
A MEETING WAS HELD AT THE HOUSE OF THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR ALI AKBAR MOHTASHEMI ON AFRIQIYA STREET IN TEHRAN. THIS MEETING WAS ATTENDED BY THE REPRESENTATIVE OF AHMAD JIBRIL, SALAH MUHAMMAD, IN ADDITION TO IMAD AL MEGHNIYYEH WHO HAD BEEN RESIDING IN TEHRAN SINCE HIS EXIT FROM THE KUWAITI AIRCRAFT HIGHJACKED TO MASHHAD IN IRAN THE PREVIOUS YEAR.

THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE TURKISH HIZBOLLA IN IRAN, NAMED MUHAMMAD AL HATIMI, ALSO ATTENDED THE MEETING TOGETHER WITH A MEMBER OF THE SECRET ARMENIAN ARMY "HAYRO KARBATIAN".

DURING THE MEETING, THE LATEST CHANGES REGARDING THE FIRST PROJECT WERE DISCUSSED. MOHTASHEMI REDIVIDED THE ROLES DURING THIS MEETING.

HIS PLAN WAS AS FOLLOWS: OPERATIONS COMMITTEE TO INCLUDE: HAMID REZA NAQQASHAN, MOHSEN REZA''L,AHMAD JIBRIL, ABRAHIM AL-AMIN.

COORDINATING COMMITTEE AMONG THE PARTICIPANTS TO INCLUDE: ABRAHIM ABU SAHLAN (PALESTINIAN), ''IMAD AL MEGHNIYYEH (LEBANESE), MUHAMMAD HATIMI (TURKISH), MOHSEN ARMIN (IRANIAN), ABU FADI (PALESTINIAN), ''ALI HAMADI )LEBANESE.

EXECUTING COMMITTEE: TO CARRY OUT THE OPERATION TO INCLUDE: THE TURKISH ENGINEER RASHID MEHMET, THE ARMENIAN HAYRO KARABTIAN, AHMAD AL MEGHNIYYEH AND REZA KHASKAR (HEAD OF REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS IN LEBANON ). INCLUDED WERE EIGHT LEBANESE AND PALESTINIANS WHO HAD BEEN TRAINED BEFOREHAND IN TEHRAN. THREE PERSONS WERE NAMED WHO WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR GIVING THE GREEN LIGHT FOR THE EXECUTION OF THE OPERATION: RASUL QASSAB QARA''I IRANIAN CONSUL IN FRANKFURT, MANOUCHEHER TALE'' MASULEH (PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR INTELLIGENCE IN SWITZERLAND WHO HAD BEEN EXPELLED BY THE SWISS AUTHORITIES TWO MONTHS EARLIER (JULY, 1988), AND BI AZAR SHIRAZI AMBASSADOR TO GREECE. ANOTHER NAME WAS LATER ADDED TO THE LIST: DANESH YAZDI, IRANIAN AMBASSADOR TO SWEDEN.

27 SEPTEMBER, 1988>
AHMAD JIBRIL INFORMED MOHSEN ARMIN (HEAD OF IRANIAN INTELLIGENCE IN BEIRUT ) OF THE ARRIVAL OF NINE SPECIAL GROUPS FOR THE EXECUTION OF THE "DIFFICULT TASK" IN THE FOLLOWING CITIES: FRANKFURT, HELSINKI, COPENHAGEN, LARNAKA, ATHENS, OSLO, BANGKOK, SINGAPORE, AND KARACHI. EACH GROUP WAS COMPOSED OF THREE PERSONS. THEY WERE TO CONTACT THE TERRORIST CELL IN PLACE IN EACH COUNTRY. HELSINKI CELL COMMANDED BY HIZB ALLAH. ATHENS CELL COMMANDED BY NURI MOFIDI (CHAUFFEUR OF BIAZAR SHIRAZI) MOHTASHEMI ANNOUNCED THE OPERATION WOULD BE INTEKAM (REVENGE).

04 OCTOBER, 1988>
DENMARK AUTHORITIES RECEIVED NUMEROUS REPORTS INDICATING THE PRESENCE OF A TERRORIST CELL AMONG THE IRANIAN REFUGEES AND SOME IRAQIS WHO TEHRAN HAD RECRUITED AND SENT TO DENMARK TO REQUEST POLITICAL ASYLUM.

08 OCTOBER, 1988>
AUTHORITIES IN BANGKOK DISCOVERED A LARGE QUANTITY OF EXPLOSIVES IN A PLACE NEAR THE AIRPORT

12 OCTOBER, 1988>
AN URGENT CABLE SENT BY MOHSEN ARMIN, ARRIVED FROM BEIRUT TO TEHRAN. IT CONTAINED A PIECE OF NEWS ABOUT THE ARRIVAL OF A SPECIAL SHIPMENT TO THE DESIGNATED AREAS:

15 DECEMBER, 1988>
THE IRANIAN EMBASSY IN BEIRUT HOSTED A CONFERENCE TITLED: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN SUPPORT OF THE PALESTINIAN INTIFADAH, AT THE CARLTON HOTEL. THE AMERICAN AGENTS IN BEIRUT FOLLOWED THE AGENDA OF THIS CONFERENCE CLOSELY AND SCRUTINIZED THE IDENTITY OF ALL ITS PARTICIPANTS, IDENTIFIED AS: AHMAD JIBRIL, ABU MUSA, ABU FADI, IBRAHIM AL AMIN, ABU MUHAMMAD AL NAJAFI, AHMAD HASSAN MEHNA, SA''ID SHA''BAN AND ''ALI ''AMMAR WERE AMONG THE PROMINENT FACES. THE CONCLUDING STATEMENT CONTAINED A SUBTLE REFERENCE TO THE APPROACHING OF THE ORDAINED REVENGE ON AMERICA FOR ITS CRIME AGAINST THE IRANIAN CIVILIAN PLACE OVER THE PERSIAN GULF IN THE BEGINNING OF THE PREVIOUS SUMMER.

20 DECEMBER, 1988>
ENGINEER RASHID MEHMET AND TWO OF HIS COMRADES RECEIVED A SPECIAL CARGO FROM HAYRO KARABTIAN IN FRANKFURT. ON THE SAME DAY RASID MEHMET RECEIVED THE GREEN LIGHT FOR EXECUTING THE OPERATION FROM RASUL QASSAB QARA''I.

THE MORNING OF DECEMBER 21 WAS CHOSEN, AFTER THE IRANIAN EMBASSY IN BEIRUT CONFIRMED THAT FIVE AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS WERE SETTING OUT FOR AMERICA VIA FRANKFURT VIA PAN AM. THE UNSUSPECTING COURIER HAD TRAVELED FROM SWEDEN THE PREVIOUS WEEK, AND WAS TO BE USED AS THE CONDUIT TO PLACE THE DEVICE ABOARD. THE SUITCASE CONTAINING THE DEVICE WAS ATTACHED TO THE COURIER'S BAGGAGE AFTER HE CHECKED IN.

IN THIS WAY, THE BAG WOULD NOT BE TRACEABLE. THE COURIER, A LEBANESE, CAME FROM A FAMILY OF HEROIN PRODUCERS IN HERMAL WHO OPPOSED HIZBOLLA. HE WAS TRICKED IN THINKING HE WAS ONLY A MULE FOR A NORMAL DRUG SHIPMENT TO BE USED BY HIS AMERICAN CONTACTS. HE HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED THAT HIS AMERICAN GUIDE WOULD MEET HIM ABOARD THE FLIGHT.

21 DECEMBER, 1988>
THE AMERICAN PASSENGER PLANE FELL OVER LOCKERBIE. WHILE AN UNKNOWN GROUP IN BEIRUT, UNDER THE NAME OF ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS ANNOUNCED RESPONSIBILITY. THE IRANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS VEHEMENTLY DENIED THE REPORTS THAT IRAN WAS BEHIND THE OPERATION. IN BEIRUT.

AMHAD JIBRIL RECEIVED THE FINAL PORTION OF HIS TEN MILLION DOLLAR PAYMENT. IN LARNAKA, CYPRUS, THE IRANIAN CHARGE D'AFFAIRES RECEIVED RASHID MEHMET WHEN HE ARRIVED WITH A GERMAN PASSPORT IN LARNAKA AFTER HAVING PERFORMED HIS MISSION.