In my opinion piece entitled Of bedfellows and lackeys, (TMIS, 4 September), I referred to a CIA document, published by il-Mument, which revealed that in one instance at least the Gaddafi regime had financed an MLP mass activity. Labour kept mum, their silence raising more questions and creating more doubts on the extent of the relationship between Labour and the regime.

But that was not the end of the story. Il-Mument published another document, this time confirming how damaging the bedfellow relationship between Labour and the Gaddafi regime was for Malta’s reputation. The document, entitled US Policy Towards Malta and signed by President Ronald Reagan, reveals damning evidence that the Labour Government’s blood-brother relationship with the regime was seriously worrying the US Government and its National Security Division. Malta was viewed as being too friendly with the Libyan dictator. Labour’s style of government was described as “increasingly authoritarian”, was referred to as “the present regime”, its behaviour described as “erratic” and that “it jeopardises Western interests and Malta’s democratic institutions”.

President Reagan agreed that the US Government would “make clear to the Government and people of Malta that the US and its Allies would consider the granting by Malta of military access to Libya, North Korea or to the Soviet Union and its allies as an unfriendly act and respond accordingly”.

Scary: in other words, the US government was ready to take all necessary action (nowhere is military action excluded) against Malta, should it consider granting military access to Libya, North Korea or the Soviet Union.

Labour was rubbing shoulders with dangerous regimes led by dangerous dictators and this was tarnishing Malta’s international reputation. The man responsible for these uncalled-for relationships was Alex Sceberras Trigona and Dr Sceberras Trigona still calls the shots on Labour’s foreign policy, having been appointed by Joseph Muscat as the party’s International Secretary.

Shamelessly, and despite such damning evidence, Alex Sceberras Trigona does not react – his silence deafening. If Joseph Muscat really and truly wants to prove that Labour has changed, he should order his PL International Secretary to come clean and apologise for Labour’s shameful past.

Mr Agius is Government’s Parliamentary Whip