The Maltese Double Cross

The documentary presents in an emotional way the fact that apparently there is somewhere an agency that categorizes people as important, or non-important, referring to the fact that some politicians and secret service agents canceled their reserves in PanAm flight 103, which were taken by non-important persons, who found a premature death in that flight. One of the persons who canceled his flight was Pik Botha of South Africa. Yet, the documentary omits that on December 22, 1988, the day after PA 103 was sabotaged, apartheid South Africa was scheduled to sign an agreement in NYC handing over control of South-West Africa (Namibia) to the United Nations. The UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, was due to attend the signing ceremony in New York but his travel plans were changed at short notice and, as a result, he became one of PA 103's victims.

After the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) of Australia agreed to screen the film in its entirety, Channel 4 of UK reached a compromise with the director to broadcast a 92-minute version of the film on 11 May 1995, slimmed down to be shown to a wider public but editing out the portions deemed objectionable by American pressure groups.