What I learned when I reopened the Lockerbie bombing files

Dick Marquise, who led the FBI’s Lockerbie task force, says he, too, believed PFLP-GC was the “number one suspect” in the early days of the case, but years of investigation found nothing to prove it.

“There was not a single piece of evidence that could be taken to court and convicted,” he says. “You couldn’t do that. There was nothing.”

But besides Swire, there are others who still question the “official narrative”; among them is former CIA agent John Holt, who believes Iran was behind the bombing.

Holt worked with Libyan intelligence services in the 1980s and was in charge of double agent Abdul Majid Giaka, whose information was at the center of the investigation into the Lockerbie bombing.

Holt now believes Giaka is a “BS artist” who is out for money and feeds fake stories to the CIA to get paid.

“I didn’t think much of it,” he says.

“He gave us little information about what was going on, but he didn’t know anything about the Pan Am bombing. He also knew a lot about Megrahi,” Holt says.

Holt believes Giaka’s funding by the CIA devalues ​​him as an informant.

“This makes it easier for someone to say whatever the person paying them wants them to say,” Holt says.