In 1994 , Fuisz was introduced to Susan Lindauer , then a congressional aide to House Representative Ron Wyden , through their mutual contact Paul Hoven , an Army veteran who led a weapons procurement watchdog group , and was connected to the CIA during the Iran-Contra affair . In 1998 , Lindauer submitted an affidavit to the United Nations claiming that she had met with ' a former intelligence operative , ' naming Fuisz as her source , who disclosed that the Libyan government was wrongly accused of involvement in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing – she alleged that Fuisz had enlisted her help because he was being harassed by the IRS in retaliation for blowing the whistle on U.S. arms transfers to Iraq during the Gulf War . Although it was initially reported in various international media that a state secrets gag order barred Fuisz from speaking about Lindauer 's statement , documents released in December 2013 by a member of Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi 's legal team show this to be only partially true . In May 2000 , Megrahi 's lawyer Eddie MacKechnie wrote to Department of Justice Lockerbie prosecutor Brian Murtagh to determine whether Fuisz was indeed barred from testifying ; Murtagh replied that although Fuisz was still subject to a gag order related to the Terex libel suit , he was free to speak openly about the Pan Am bombing . Fuisz insisted that this was not true , that he was subject to a " statutory obligation of secrecy " independent of the Terex litigation , and that he had been specifically advised by Murtagh and another DOJ lawyer to remain silent about Lockerbie
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