Charles Dennis McKee
 Major Chuck McKee  | |
|---|---|
 Nicknamed Tiny by his Army intelligence friends | |
| Born | 3 December 1948 |
| Died | 21 December 1988 (Age 40) |
Charles Dennis McKee was born in Pennsylvania on 3 December 1948. Major Chuck McKee was killed in the bombing of the Pan Am Flight 103 on 21 December 1988.[1]
Mother's intuition
In June 2001, Time Magazine reported:
- "For three years, I've had a feeling that if Chuck hadn't been on that plane, it wouldn't have been bombed," says Beulah McKee, 75. Her bitterness has still not subsided. But seated in the parlour of her house in Trafford, Pennsylvania, the house where her son was born 43 years ago, she struggles to speak serenely. "I know that's not what our President wants me to say," she admits.
- George Bush's letter of condolence, written almost four months after the shattered remains of Pan Am Flight 103 fell on Lockerbie, Scotland, on 21 December 1988, expressed the usual "My heart goes out to you" sorrow. "No action by this government can restore the loss you have suffered," he concluded. But deep inside, Mrs McKee suspects it was a government action gone horribly awry that indirectly led to her only son's death. "I've never been satisfied at all by what the people in Washington told me," she says.[2]
American hostages theory
Major Charles Dennis McKee, called "Tiny" by his Army intelligence friends, was a burly giant and a superstar in just about every kind of commando training offered to American military personnel. He completed the rugged Airborne and Ranger schools, graduated first in his class from the Special Forces qualification course, and served with the Green Berets. In Beirut he was identified merely as a military attache assigned to the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). But his hulking physique didn't fit such a low-profile diplomatic post. Friends there remember him as a "walking arsenal" of guns and knives. His real assignment reportedly was to work with the CIA in reconnoitring the American hostages in Lebanon and then, if feasible, to lead a daring raid that would rescue them.[3]
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Lockerbie - The Syrian Connection | article | 1997 | David Guyatt | |
| Document:Lockerbie Lies | Article | 22 December 2017 | Steven Walker | The Lockerbie bombing remains a text book case of a terrible tragedy causing considerable pain and suffering to relatives whose search for answers and clarification about why and how their loved ones died have taken second place to geo-political manoeuvres, deliberate meddling in legal processes, and the murky world of secret service wheeling and dealing on behalf of governments with no respect for human decency. |
