Did the CIA kill my daughter in bungled hit on journalist over torture flights story?
WHEN her lifeless body was discovered on a Scottish beach, Annie Borjesson’s family were told she had committed suicide or drowned in a freak accident.
But her devastated mother always suspected foul play was involved.
Now, having compiled a compelling dossier of evidence, Guje Borjesson has come to the extraordinary conclusion that her beloved daughter may have been killed by the CIA in a shocking case of mistaken identity.
She has called on the Scottish authorities to investigate her theory that the vivacious 30-year-old was the victim of a botched execution to silence an investigative journalist - with a similar name and appearance – who had repeatedly embarrassed the White House.
‘We cannot give up the fight,’ Mrs Borjesson, 60, said last night. ‘We need to know what happened to Annie, and we are certain it was not suicide and no accident.
‘We find it very hard to even allow ourselves to think that Annie’s death had something to do with the CIA – or any intelligence agency. It would be like living in an action movie. But some very strange things happened.’
Swedish-born Annie Kristina Borjesson, who had been living and working in Edinburgh after falling in love with Scotland during a brief trip, was found dead under a sea wall at Prestwick beach, Ayrshire, on December 4, 2005. Her rucksack was at her side.
She had been due to fly home to the town of Tibro in western Sweden from Prestwick Airport that day for Christmas and close friends said she had been in good spirits. The day before she left for the airport, she called her hairdresser in Sweden and made an appointment for the following week.
She also paid the next month’s rent on her Edinburgh flat.
CCTV footage captured the blonde young woman in the overhead walkway which connects the railway station at Prestwick Airport with the terminal building at around 3.15pm but she never boarded her flight.
Police quickly decided there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding her death and classified it as suicide by drowning or accidental drowning, despite her being a strong swimmer.
However, a post-mortem carried out in Sweden threw up a number of disturbing inconsistencies.
Pathologists found signs of a severe head wound, which her family believe could be evidence she was attacked, or even murdered.
The examination also revealed tiny samples of freshwater algae in Miss Borjesson’s body, which raised the prospect that she had not drowned at sea, as Scottish investigators had assumed, but had been killed elsewhere and her body dumped on the beach.
Other experts explained that if she had drowned in the sea, they would have expected to find seawater diatoms (algae) in her body.
Her emails and phone records had also been wiped shortly before her death, her best friend found out.
In a further shock twist, the family discovered that just weeks before Miss Borjesson’s mysterious death, an investigative reporter with a very similar name had
exposed details of secret CIA rendition flights transporting terrorists to torture camps via Prestwick – something the US authorities had strongly denied.
On the day Kristina Borjesson broke the news the US spy agency was using the airport for the flights, Annie – whose middle name on her passport is also Kristina – had passed through arrivals. Seven weeks later she was dead. While she admits the theory may sound far-fetched, Annie’s mother feels she has a compelling case and has called on the Crown Office to reopen investigations or hand over all the information it holds.
She said: ‘We understand that we require evidence for anything to come of this. At the moment we only have creeping suspicions.’
Annie’s best friend, Maria Jansson, 46, is also campaigning for a fresh inquiry. She said: ‘If she drowned at sea and her body was washed back to shore, why was her bag found beside her? That would never happen.
‘Why were her telephone records scrubbed clean and almost all her emails deleted and impossible to recover through Hotmail? We tried to speak to the security department of her mobile provider and they refused to answer our questions.’
Last night US journalist Kristina Borjesson agreed that the case looked like a ‘cover up’.
She said: ‘I know the CIA and FBI can be colossally incompetent at times but in this case it probably has more to do with the Scottish authorities wanting to hide their own incompetence.’