Lester Coleman
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Lester Coleman Cmdr. USN (Ret.) 25 Sept. 1943 was a U.S. military intelligence, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer. Reportedly he was the shadowy "Mr. Benjamin" who ran a DIA covert operation backing Samir Ghea Ghea, and the Christian Milita in Lebanon, known as the Lebanese Forces. " Mr. Benjamin " worked closely with Israeli intelligence during the Lebanese civil war.
Cmdr. Coleman blew the whistle on a compromised American covert operation, that allowed Iranian backed terrorists, (Ahmed Jibril, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC) to slip a Symtex bomb aboard Pan Am flight 103, December, 1988.(Trail of the Octopus, Donald Goddard & Lester Coleman, Signet-Penguin Books, 1994. TIME 27 April, 1992. The Maltese Double Cross-Lockerbie A Allen Francovich film, Hermer Productions, London, UK )
Cmdr. 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 had provided to Pan American lawyers. He is the only person in US history to ever be accused of criminal perjury based on an affidavit submitted in a civil case. In 2000 a US Court of Appeals cleared him. He reached an undisclosed civil settlement with the US government in 2002. In 2003, former CIA intelligence agent, Edwin P. Wilson was freed after spending 27 years in prison. The federal 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 Libyans and the PFLP-GC terrorist cell 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.
In 1998 Film maker Allan Francovitch dropped dead while being questioned by U.S. Customs at Houston Hobby International Airport. The two key figures who appeared in his film about the Pan Am bombing, Oswald LeWinter and Lester Coleman suffered their own fate.
Court records show CIA operative, Patrick MacMillian snared former Operative, Oswald LeWinter in a devious trap to discredit and silence him. LeWinter, like Coleman, had been named in 1991 as a potential witness to appear in Zeist, Holland, in the case against two Libyans accused of blowing up Pan Am 103. MacMillian devised a scheme in 1998 using forged documents, provided to him by his handlers, that claimed the death of Princess Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi Fayad was a British Intelligence plot. He offered LeWinter a piece of the profits from the sale of the information to Dodi Fayad’s Father, Egyptian Financier, Muhammad Al Fayad. A meeting with Fayad was arranged in a Vienna, Austria hotel. During the meeting Viennese police, assisted by U.S. FBI Agents, under Oliver Revell’s direction, swooped down and arrested LeWinter. He was charged with possessing forged documents. Patrick McMillian returned to Las Vegas, but not before using a unique bank-book account from Katherein Bank, Acct. No. 50307495 ,and flying to Casablanca, Morocco.
Three months later, Lester Coleman was arrested in a hotel eight thousand miles away, in Lexington, Kentucky, July, 1999. Local police swooped down on him accompanied by federal agents, and charged him with possessing forged documents, mainly foreign bank checks that appeared in his account at Central Bank & Trust of Kentucky, cleared on deposit. Central Bank Founder, the late Garvis Kincaid had business connections in the Bahamas with Edwin P. Wilson and his boss at the CIA, Theodore G. Shackley.
Coleman's arrest was the work of confessed CIA Asset, James P. Vassilos a shady Dutch Financier living in Beirut, according to court documents. REF: US Dist Ct, Dist of Columbia Coleman et al v U.S. 1:04-CV-01688-EGS.
