and not only was tony gauci paid money, but his brother, paul gauci, was also paid money. one of the pieces of evidence that emerged later, that wasn't presented in court, was from notes from a scottish police officer, where tony gauci said that he wanted some form of compensation for his information. which... is not outwith the practice of the us department of justice to do that. and i believe that an fbi agent said, "we can get some money to help re-locate him after the court case was over, for his safety and protection." we didn't know what the threat to tony gauci was. interviewer: how much money are we talking here? they got millions. i think a million dollars. two million dollars, i think, for tony gauci, a million for paul. he was never called as a witness, so what was he getting one million dollars for? he didn't say anything at the trial. you can't have people being paid. it is totally contrary to the interests of justice. the trial period was a very difficult one for me because at the beginning of it, i still believed that our government had been telling us the t

tony gauci, the man who had a clothing store in malta, is significant, because he is the one who can identify megrahi. but he had changing recollections of the suspect. his testimony just didn't seem to stand up. phil: but we also came up with critical evidence from a double agent working at the airport. reporter: abdul majid giaka is the super-grass billed as the lockerbie trial's star witness. abdul majid told the court how libyan intelligence planned the bombing, and that the two accused were fully involved. today, he was a poor witness for the prosecution. i remember there being quite a laugh amongst the people that were watching the evidence. just because he was just so... he just seemed to be crazy. it like just watching a fantasist being given 20 minutes to speak in an uncontrolled way about their fantasies. the lack of credible evidence was what converted me to realizing the two accused men clearly could've had nothing to do with it. suse: i felt very apprehensive before the verdict. but based on the evidence i heard, i believed we had the right guys. we waited for the judges