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US military intelligence, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer. Agent Coleman blew the whistle on convert operations that was compromised, allowing terrorist to place a 20 Gram, Symtex bomb aboard Pan Am flight 103, December, 1988. |
US military intelligence, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer. Agent Coleman blew the whistle on convert operations that was compromised, allowing terrorist to place a 20 Gram, Symtex bomb aboard Pan Am flight 103, December, 1988. |
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Lester Coleman
US military intelligence, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer. Agent Coleman blew the whistle on convert operations that was compromised, allowing terrorist to place a 20 Gram, Symtex bomb aboard Pan Am flight 103, December, 1988. Coleman fled the USA and was granted political sanctuary in Sweden in 1989. The US government indicted him for making a false statement in an a civil affidavit. He is the only person in US history to ever be accused of criminal perjury based on an affidavit in a civil case. In 2000 a US Court of Appeals through out the charges against him. He reached an undisclosed civil settlement with the US government. In 2003, former CIA intelligence agent, Edwin Wilson was freed after spending 27 years in prison. The court ruled the CIA had lied when they claimed Wilson was not working for the agency when he sold 2000 pounds of plastique explosives to Libya and trained Libyan intelligence to build bombs inside boom box radios. Wilson's freedom proved Coleman's original claims, that US intelligence had a role in the bomb manufacturing process that blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, December 21, 1988.