World : Fatal Bomb in CIA Agent’s Bag?
The bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland, killing 270 people, was planted in the luggage of a CIA agent by Palestinian terrorists, a radio station said today.
Radio Forth in Edinburgh reported the CIA officer was returning from Beirut with five colleagues after a mission to negotiate release of the nine American hostages in Lebanon. The report said its information came from Scottish police sources.
It said investigators believe a three-pound charge of Semtex explosive and a timing device were slipped into the agent’s luggage by Palestinian terrorists who infiltrated the secret Beirut mission.
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