The World - News from Jan. 8, 1989
U.S. intelligence agencies believe Iranian Revolutionary Guards aided by Libyan agents planted the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland on Dec. 21, killing 270 people, a London newspaper reported. The Sunday Telegraph quoted unidentified intelligence officials in Washington as saying hard evidence is emerging to show that Iranians blew up the Boeing 747 partly in reprisal for the shooting down of an Iran Air jetliner by the U.S. cruiser Vincennes in the Persian Gulf last summer. It said U.S. officials suspect Libyans acted as a conduit for the explosives and provided intelligence for the Iranian team.
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