From: "Martin Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Haunted Scotland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Conspiracy Journal Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 18:04:00 +0100 Haunted Scotland - http://Hauntedscotland.listbot.com Does anybody want to buy a copy of Lester Coleman's Trail of the Octopus? Its a darn good read, I've got three copies. I will swap it for some plastic Star Wars stuff or magazines... (: Cheers Martin Mystery Magazine -----Original Message----- From: david ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21 August 1999 00:13 Subject: FW: Conspiracy Journal >Haunted Scotland - http://Hauntedscotland.listbot.com > > >Dear Mark F, > >There's a piece of news (if you scroll down) concerning your request for >info regarding recent talk of C.I.A documents released by Gerald K. Haines >(Official C.I.A Historian). >I subscribed to Conspiracy Journal Recently and find it rather informing. > >Hope this is of help to you, > >Regards, > >Christopher Ryan. > > > >---------- >From: "Timmy Swartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Subject: Conspiracy Journal >Subject: Conspiracy Journal >Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:09:06 PDT > > >====================== >* Conspiracy Journal * >====================== >http://www.members.tripod.com/uforeview > >WELCOME to another exciting edition of the email newsletter that "THEY" >don't want you to read! Once again it's time for CONSPIRACY JOURNAL. > >NOTE TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS- If you have been receiving multiple issues of >Conspiracy Journal, please let us know. Occasionally our email mailing >program creates a duplicate address within it's files. If this has happened >to you simply email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will happily remove any >second addresses that may have appeared. > >This weeks issue takes a look at the continuing mystery surrounding the >Lockerbie disaster - Problems that may appear this weekend with global >positioning receivers - PLUS weird outer space and UFO mysteries. > >And now - On With The Show! >===================================================================== > >Court Clears Lockerbie Conspiracy Whistle Blower > >A FORMER American intelligence officer convicted of perjury after alleging >United States complicity in the Lockerbie bombing has been cleared by a >court of appeal. Lester Coleman, who was convicted of perjury last year, had > >the verdict overturned last month. He is living with his wife and three >children in Kentucky and in the past few days has launched an action for >$10m against the American government. > >Three judges issued a sealed ruling, an unusual step which means that not >even Coleman and his lawyers can read why they quashed his conviction. >Reporting restrictions also ensured the case received little attention in >the United States. > >Coleman was dismissed as a conman by American investigators and the Scottish > >Crown Office when he expressed a theory that an American >intelligence-controlled drug-running operation had facilitated the loading >of a bomb on Pan Am flight 103. The bomb exploded over Lockerbie on December > >21, 1988, killing 270 people. Two Libyans are to be tried for the mass >murder by a Scottish court in Holland next year. > >Coleman was ostracized by his bosses and found himself facing charges of >applying for a passport in a false name and committing perjury in an action >heard some years before. The passport application, he said, had been made >under orders from his bosses at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). When > >he found he could not reach his superiors, he decided to flee the country. >He and his family were granted political asylum in Sweden in 1990. In 1994 >they moved to Spain. > >Coleman's story - that American agents were allowing deliveries of drugs on >transatlantic flights in a sting operation which allowed terrorists to >switch a case containing drugs for one holding a bomb - was widely >discredited. Coleman's credibility took a severe knock in 1993 when the >publishers of "The Trail of the Octopus," a book he cowrote about the >bombing, had to pay >substantial libel damages. > >The American authorities went to great lengths and huge expense to discover >his whereabouts and to seek his extradition. Eventually Coleman decided in >1996 to return of his own volition and face charges. After months of >imprisonment he was released last year after a guilty plea and a fine of >$30,000. > >=====================================================================
