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About the <strong>CIA</strong> <strong>Files</strong><br />

This set of files covers the practice of Libya supplying weapons to terrorist<br />

groups. The files contain <strong>CIA</strong> reports created in the years before the <strong>Pan</strong> AM <strong>103</strong><br />

bombing, covering Libya's methods of sponsoring terrorism. The files contain<br />

information on the assassinations of Libyan dissidents living abroad. One<br />

document contains a chronology of Libyan-sponsored assassination attempts<br />

from 1980 to 1985.<br />

Memos outline contacts with a Libyan intelligence agent working for Libyan Arab<br />

Airlines in Malta. He first contacted the <strong>CIA</strong> on August 10, 1988. He described<br />

Malta as "a primary launching point" for Libyan intelligence and terrorist teams<br />

en route to and from Europe. Two months before the bombing, a <strong>CIA</strong> memo<br />

mentions information from the informant about a Libyan intelligence officer,<br />

Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi, and the recent removal of explosives from<br />

storage in Malta. Al-Megrahi was eventually convicted of bombing <strong>Pan</strong> <strong>Am</strong> <strong>Flight</strong><br />

<strong>103</strong>.

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