Ulrich Lumpert, (Witness no. 550) ORIGINAL (censored) Binz, May 3, 2001
"AFFIDAVIT", ( written statement) Part 1
I, Ulrich Lumpert, witness no. 550 in the legal case against Mr. Abdelbasset Ali Mohamed Al-Megrahi and Mr. Al Amin Khalifa Fhima, in the Lockerbie case, testifies the following rebuttal:
1) The questions asked by the court have confused me, thus I testified the following "false statements".
2) My rebuttal is based on my former statements, made to the Federal Police (BUPO) Legal Aid Switzerland 1990-1991 and to the Federal Criminal Office (BKA) in Konstanz, 1993 in Germany.
3) During spring or during begin of summer (so far it has been impossible to get the exact date), the co-owner of the company MEBO AG, Edwin Bollier, gave me task to develop a timer device, later labelled type MST-13. Edwin Bollier added the specifications.
4) At this point of time, I did not knew for what and for whom this development was prepared for.
5) After I had drawn the blueprint, as well as built up the laboratory test device, I prepared a "blueprint-draft" for a future manufacturing PC-board production-film.
6) This first PC-board-film was fabricated by the Firm BUSAG in Zurich.
7) With this first PC-board-film, prepared by BUSAG, I handmade the first 3 pieces of prototypes MST-13 PC-boards. These 3 PC-boards were corrodet in an acid-solution in the laboratory of MEBO AG. In this way the copper tracks did not come out perfect, compared to the later machine manufactured pieces from the firm Thuring. The copper tracks were soldered by me with a soldering iron using tin solder. Also, the soldering of the lead tracks were far from perfect and were irregular, compared to the later machine manufactured PC-borads from the firm Thuring. These PC-boards contained no soldering sealing wax and the color was light brown.
(signed: U.Lumpert)
"Affidavit" part 2
8) Because the first handmade items of the MST-13 timer had to be built into to the sandproof "ROSE"- cover housings, as requested by Bollier, I had to saw out the four corners of the first PC-boards with a fret-saw. (And here too, there is a big difference between the sawed out parts compared to the Thuring-boards. The four corners of the Thuring-boards were all milled out perfectly smooth).
9) During the start of summer 1985, and not - as I have testified earlier - at the end of summer 1985, I gave Edwin Bollier the first of the handmade prototype MST-13 timers. He (Bollier) found out that the timer from time to time crashed out during setting. Bollier handed the timer back to be, probably on a Friday, in order to repair it and he asked me, whether it would be possible to repair the timer immediately, as he wanted to bring the timer with him into the GDR for showing off.
10) I explained to Bollier that I would come to the business premises on the otherwise free Saturday and repair the timer.
11) Saturday, in the firm MEBO, I prepared a second functining MST-13 timer device with the aid of second handmade MST-13 timer board. As I had plenty of time, I also repaired the first, broken MST-13 timer. Thus Bollier had access to two fully functioning, handmade prototype MST-13 timers on Saturday evening, that he could bring with him into the GDR.
12) I did not manufacture any functioning timer from the third handmade MST-13 PC-board. The soldering tracks on this board had detached themselves, and thus I threw the third MST-13 PC-board away.
13) When I had corrected the erroneous blueprint, a second production-film was prepared, used to order 20 pieces of MST-13 PC-borads from the firm Thuring on August 13, 1985, all without any soldering sealing wax. These PC-boards were manufactured by machine, containing green coating on the front, due to the green enamel. All ordered PC-boards from Thuring were 0.4 mm larger than the first 3 handmade MST-13 prototype PC-boards.
(signed: U.Lumpert)
"Affidavit" Part 3
14) I hereby declare, that the following important testimonies, made by me in court at Camp Zeist, are wrong:
- the first 2 pieces of MST-13 timers, which Bollier had brought with him into the GDR in 1985, were not equipped with machine manufactured Thuring MST-13 PC boards, and not equipped with soldering wax, rather than handmade by me, (lightbrown) prototypes MST-13 PC-boards.
- the deliverance (of the MST-13 timers) to the GDR did not happen at the end of 1985, rather than in July/early August 1985, since the handmade PC-boards were manufactured before the order of the Thuring-manufactured PC boards. The first order of the machine manufactured PC-boards to Thuring is dated August 13, 1985 ! Therefore, I have stated the date of deliverance (end of 1985) of the first two prototype MST-13 timers to the GDR, as wrongfully.
- I have not, as I have testified wrongfully, thrown away the first defectice handmade prototype MST-13 timer, but I repaired it. I have, however, thrown away the third handmade, light brown prototype MST-13 PC board. This MST-13 PC-board was not equipped with electronic parts and thus not functioning.
These important testimonies replace the wrong statments, made by me in Camp Zeist.These statements are the full truth and agree with my former statements, made to the police 1990-1993, (BUPO and BKA).
Binz, May 3, 2001 - Ulrich Lumpert
(signed)
(additionally document)
Deposition of Proof
This copy is in accordance with the original document (containing 3 loose pages).
Zurich, May 4, 2001
B. no. 1057
Fee: 30 Swiss Francs
Notary Altstetten-Zurich
(signed)
Walter Wieland, Public Notary Secretary
(stamped)