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THE MALTESE DOUBLE CROSS -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY

directed by Allan Francovich

McKee's behavior before returning to the United States is strange.  He is initially booked on Pan Am 103 December 22nd, changing to Pan Am 103 December 21st.  His communications man from Beirut, through a secure link, had sent the travel details to McKee's operational control.  This same member of McKee's Special Forces Unit has confirmed that McKee hated drugs and had fired his Beiruit driver, before leaving Lebanon, when he caught him with drugs.  After McKee's death, there are stories that members of the hostage rescue team, among them McKee, had been very upset when they discovered that the agents they were asked to work with were drug dealers.  There are suggestions that McKee was on his way home to expose the drugs-for-intelligence operation.  The Drug Enforcement Agency are watching McKee.  Mike Hurley, separately, telexes McKee's final travel arrangements to the CIA Directorate of Operations in Washington, to MI-6, the British Secret Service, and to SPAG, the CIA Special Action Group in Germany, in overall control of the drugs intelligence operation. Every spook there is, will know that McKee is flying back on December 21st.

-- The Maltese Double Cross, directed by Allan Francovich


The announcer next dropped his bomb on me:

McKee's behavior before returning to the United States is strange.  He is initially booked on Pan Am 103 December 22nd, changing to Pan Am 103 December 21st.  His communications man from Beirut, through a secure link, had sent the travel details to McKee's operational control.  This same member of McKee's Special Forces Unit has confirmed that McKee hated drugs and had fired his Beirut driver, before leaving Lebanon, when he caught him with drugs.  After McKee's death, there are stories that members of the hostage rescue team, among them McKee [were outraged] when they discovered that the agents they were asked to work with were drug dealers. 

I immediately wondered what he meant by "agents":  CIA, DIA, DEA agents or snitches.

There are suggestions that McKee was on his way home to expose the drugs-for-intelligence operation.  The Drug Enforcement Agency are watching McKee.  Mike Hurley, separately, telexes McKee's final travel arrangements to the CIA Directorate of Operations in Washington, to MI-6, the British Secret Service, and to SPAG, the CIA special action group in Germany, in overall control of the drugs intelligence operation.  Every spook there is, will know that McKee is flying back on December 21st.

The outrageous gall.  The way I see this is that they just accused me of fingering Pan Am 103 to eliminate Major McKee because he was a threat to a drugs intelligence operation, which didn't exist.

As the film continued, the announcer bounced back to a disjointed telephone conversation ...

-- "I Solemnly Swear -- Conmen, DEA, the Media, and Pan Am 103," by Micheal T. Hurley and Kenton V. Smith


For example, silence was traditionally considered a tacit admission if a statement made in the party's presence was heard and understood by the party, who was at liberty to respond, in circumstances naturally calling for a response, and the party failed to respond.

--  JENKINS V. ANDERSON, 100 S. Ct. 2124, 447 U.S. 231 at 248-249 (1980.

The Maltese Double Cross, directed by Allan Francovich -- Movie
The Maltese Double Cross, directed by Allan Francovich -- Transcript
Trail of the Octopus:  From Beirut to Lockerbie -- Inside the DIA, by Donald Goddard with Lester K. Coleman
Abu Nidal, A Gun for Hire, by Patrick Seale
Spy vs. Spy:  To Be Onboard Was Not To Be Onboard, by Charles Carreon

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