{"id":76777,"date":"2026-08-16T08:53:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=76777"},"modified":"2026-08-16T08:54:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:54:03","slug":"oklahoma-city-bombing-was-really-another-gladio-operation-conducted-by-the-atf-fbi-and-u-s-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=76777","title":{"rendered":"

The Oklahoma City Bombing was really another Gladio Operation Conducted by the ATF, FBI and U.S. Military<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City Bombing:
\nWas Timothy McVeigh a Patsy in
\na Sinister Black Flag Operation?<\/h1>\n

By Jeremy Kuzmarov<\/p>\n

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Ruins of the Alfred A. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City after April 1995 bombing. [Source:\u00a0fbi.gov<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Could the detonation of a superbomb within the Murrah Federal Building have provided a blueprint for the destruction of the World Trade Center Buildings on 9\/11?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995\u201427 years ago today\u2014a bomb reduced to rubble the Alfred A. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, resulting in the deaths of 168 people, including 19 children at a second-floor day-care center, and injuring of hundreds more.<\/p>\n

The bomb was allegedly detonated in a Ryder truck rented by Timothy McVeigh, a former Army veteran from New York State, who was subsequently arrested 80 miles north of Oklahoma City after driving a Mercury Marquis with no license plate.<\/p>\n

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Most of the 168 victims of the attack. [Source:\u00a0crimesofempire.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

McVeigh\u00a0allegedly rented the truck under the alias Robert Kling, though McVeigh\u2019s lawyers at his trial tried to prove that Kling was not in fact McVeigh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A surveillance camera captures the image of a Ryder truck allegedly driven by Timothy McVeigh just minutes before the truck blew up in front of the Murrah Federal Building. [Source:\u00a0law2umkc.edu<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The motive for the bombing allegedly was anger over an assault by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) on the compound of the Branch Davidian religious sect in Waco, Texas, two years earlier which had resulted in the deaths of 85 people, many of them innocent children.[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"Survivors
Burning of Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, after U.S. government siege. [Source:\u00a0abcnews.go.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Murrah Building housed ATF offices, though the plan for the siege at Waco had been planned at the ATF office in New Orleans, and all the ATF agents were conveniently out of the office at the time of the blast\u2014they had been tipped off not to come into work that day.[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"McVeigh
Timothy McVeigh at Waco. [Source:\u00a0fbi.gov<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oddly,\u00a0numerous ATF employees were very close to the building and appeared on scene mere minutes after the explosion looking for bomb fragments<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This contradicts the\u00a0claims of ATF Agent Luke Franey that the agents were not in the office that morning because they had been working late on an unspecified criminal case the night before<\/a>\u00a0(another agent claimed they were all playing in a golf tournament in Shawnee).[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"Man
Image of Luke Franey trapped on the 9th<\/sup>\u00a0floor. Curiously, Franey was one of the few ATF agents in the building at the time of the bombing\u2014even though they were the alleged targets of the attack. The reason so many agents were absent has never been properly explained. [Source:\u00a09news.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The ATF claimed in a news release that Alex McCauley, Resident Agent in Charge, was in an elevator during the bombing and survived a five-story plunge.<\/p>\n

However, when Eugene Duane James searched for survivors in the elevators, he found the elevators frozen between floors, but empty, after blasting through them with a blowtorch.\u00a0The safety cables were intact and there had been no free fall\u2014which modern elevators do not do<\/a>.[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

An Inside Job?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Timothy McVeigh and his collaborator,\u00a0Terry Nichols, an old army buddy from Lapeer, Michigan<\/a>, supposedly used nothing more than a crudely constructed ANFO bomb (ammonium nitrate and fuel oil), which was detonated from the Ryder Truck they had rented parked across the street.<\/p>\n

\"Editorial:
This photo shows the rear axle of the bomb-carrying Ryder truck that was used in the Oklahoma City bombing, and the car the axle struck over 500 feet from the scene of the April 19, 1995, explosion. It was entered into evidence in the trial of bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh in Denver on April 29, 1997. [Source:\u00a0chicagotribune.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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[Source:\u00a0mlive.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, Brigadier General Benton K. Partin (USAF, Retired), after carrying out a detailed study, told members of Congress that\u00a0\u201cthe damage pattern on the reinforced concrete superstructure could not possibly have been attained from the single truck bomb without supplementing demolition charges.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

At most, the truck bomb would have taken out the flooring on the first and third floors. Partin, who was the U.S. Air Force\u2019s\u00a0top explosives expert<\/a>, believed that bombs were placed inside the building at key points to destroy its supports.[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"Obituary
Benton K. Partin [Source:\u00a0dignitymemorial.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A\u00a0subsequent series of Air Force test blasts on concrete structures corroborated General Partin\u2019s main contention<\/a>\u00a0that air blast from a truck bomb outside of the building could not possibly account for the pattern and magnitude of the damage to the Murrah Building\u2019s superstructure.<\/p>\n

\"ANFO
ANFO damage in reality, the aftermath of the\u00a0Sterling Hall<\/a>\u00a0(University of Wisconsin at Madison)\u00a0attack of August 1970 by the \u201cNew Year\u2019s Gang<\/em>\u201d shows broken windows and minor fire damage but no significant structural damage. [Source:\u00a0crimesofempire.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dr. Charles Mankin [Source:\u00a0digitalcommons.csbsju.edu<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This assessment was further corroborated by a) a study carried out in collaboration with one of the most respected bomb experts in the world, John A. Kennedy of Hoffman Estates, Illinois, who also investigated the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; b) a\u00a0seismic study carried out by Dr. Charles Mankin<\/a>\u00a0of the Oklahoma Geological Survey in Norman; c)\u00a0the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which determined that a truck bomb of 4,800 pounds of ANFO would have been insufficient to cause the destruction experienced at the Murrah Building<\/a>; and d) Army demolition manuals, which clearly state that ANFO is not good for destroying concrete or steel.[6]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Craig Roberts, a Tulsa police officer who investigated the bombing at the request of the FBI, found that much of the Murrah building was blown outward, not inward, and that the building had been built to be bomb proof from outside explosives.<\/p>\n

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Craig Roberts [Source:\u00a0prnewswire.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The biggest damage was not the small crater where the Ryder truck was parked, but a much larger hole and collapse in the rear of the building, which indicated explosive charges inside the building.[7]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Survivors of the bombing tellingly said they had trouble breathing after the blast(s) because of dust, but there was no gas or fire inside the building which would have been absolutely unavoidable after an ANFO bomb explosion.[8]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Samuel Cohen, inventor of the Neutron bomb, wrote to Oklahoma State Representative Charles Key that<\/p>\n

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\"Father
Samuel Cohen, father of the neutron bomb. [Source:\u00a0wsj.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cit would have been absolutely impossible and against the laws of nature for a truck full of fertilizer and fuel oil\u2026no matter how much was used\u2026to bring the building down.\u201d Rather, what did in that building was \u201can inside job.\u201d[9]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n

Blue Death<\/strong><\/h2>\n

CIA explosives expert Michael Riconosciuto\u2014who was framed by the government on drug charges\u2014said in a jailhouse interview that\u00a0the blast power of the bomb that destroyed the Murrah Building\u2014which also blew out the windows in many surrounding buildings and destroyed a restaurant 150 feet away\u2014was extraordinary. It could not have come out of a conventional weapon but rather had to have been a device developed out of the nuclear weapons program<\/a>.[10]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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\"Michael
Michael Riconosciuto [Source:\u00a0alchetron.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

As a young scientific prodigy in the 1980s working for Hercules Manufacturing in Silicon Valley, Riconosciuto had developed the A-Neutronic bomb, or \u201cElectro-Hydrodynamic Gaseous Fuel Device\u201d (aka barometric bomb), which he and other experts believed was the one used to take down the Murrah Building.<\/p>\n

Classified under the \u201cNuclear Weapon category\u201d by President Reagan\u2014its first test had occurred at the Pentagon\u2019s secret Area 51 in Nevada, where it resulted in the death of a technician and injury of several others because of the underestimation of its power.[11]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"The
Nevada Area 51. [Source:\u00a0wired.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

FBI agent Ted Gunderson, who independently investigated the bombing, reported that the government contract number for the bomb that destroyed the Murrah Building showed its manufacture by Dyno Nobel, Inc., in Salt Lake City\u2014a company previously connected with Hercules Manufacturing where Riconosciuto worked.[12]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

A key feature of the A-Neutronic bomb was its generation of an electrostatically charged cloud. Consistent with this, a victim in the Department of Housing and Urban Development office in the Murrah Building told National Public Radio (NPR) that she felt a heat wave and a static electricity charge immediately before the windows of the building blew in.<\/p>\n

Daina Bradley, who lost her mother and two children and one of her legs in the bombing, said she felt electricity running through her body right before the bomb went off. Ramona McDonald, who was driving about a block away, described feeling static electricity and seeing gold and blue flashes of light when the bomb went off. Riconosciuto had called his device \u201cblue death.\u201d[13]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Textbook CIA<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Chris Emery<\/a>, co-producer of the documentary\u00a0A Noble Lie<\/em>, said he learned from the Oklahoma County bomb squad that a \u201csubnuclear device\u201d had indeed been detonated, which caused an \u201cinvisible mushroom cloud\u201d to rise up over the Alfred P. Murrah Building, sucking up all the air for a two-block radius for about a second.<\/p>\n

According to Jack Goldman, a Vietnam War veteran who was working on the sixth floor of the Murrah Building at the time, this was \u201ctextbook CIA.\u201d It caused a momentary pressure imbalance that caused the gas tanks of vehicles parked in the lot across the street to explode like \u201cmortar rounds,\u201d setting vehicles on fire.<\/p>\n

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[Source:\u00a0vudu.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unexploded Bombs, Multiple Explosions, and the Smell of Sulfur<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Immediately after the attack, an unexploded bomb was found in the Murrah Building, delaying rescue efforts. Footage also showed unexploded bombs\u2014of potency levels obtainable only by military sources\u2014being carried out of the building by the bomb squad, suggesting that there were others that had destroyed the building.[14]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"The
Pentagon memo which plainly states that two extra bombs were found in the Murrah Building. [Source:\u00a0crimesofempire.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Journalist J.D. Cash interviewed witnesses who helped the ATF remove undetonated explosives and weapons, including TOW missiles, from the pit area where most of the victims were found, and who\u00a0said they had heard multiple explosions<\/a>.[15]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"A
J.D. Cash [Source:\u00a0maxmccoy.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bill Martin, head of public relations for the Oklahoma City police, said he believed workers found two or three five-gallon containers of mercury fulminate, a substance used in explosives, in the Murrah Building after the blast.[16]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Jim Ferguson, heating and air conditioning foreman in charge of the Murrah Building who was at Ground Zero less than a minute after the bombing, said that\u00a0he and \u201ceveryone in town heard two explosions.\u201d<\/a>[17]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Ferguson told ABC News in an unaired segment\u00a0that bullets were zinging by his ear as he worked to rescue victims<\/a>.\u00a0Ammunition that was being stored in the building had been set off by the explosion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joe Harp, a retired CIA operative who survived the attacks, said that he\u00a0smelled sulfur before the bombing<\/a>. This could not have emanated from the ANFO bomb, but rather must have come from gas-enhanced \u201cDaisy Cutter\u201d bombs like the ones that Harp had deployed when he served in the Vietnam War.[18]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"r\/OKCbombingconspiracy
[Source:\u00a0reddit.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other witnesses\u00a0smelled the sulfur too<\/a>\u00a0and said they felt rumbling and\u00a0shaking<\/a>\u00a0and that the windows began to shatter as if there had been an earthquake before the ultimate blast went off\u2014indicating that demolition charges had been placed inside the building.[19]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Strange Occurrences<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Tiffany Smith, a young emergency technician who was on the scene within five minutes of the explosion, said that the first person she saw on the scene was an FBI agent in raid gear, which seemed curious to her because the FBI office was fifteen minutes across town and no FBI agent would be able to change into raid gear and get to the scene within five minutes of the bombing.[20]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

The\u00a0local Sheriff\u2019s bomb squad oddly was seen by a witness<\/a>, Norma Joslin, a 30-year employee of the Oklahoma County Board of Elections, congregating in front of the Murrah Building at 7:30 a.m., an hour and a half before the bomb went off.[21]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Courthouse clerk Renee Cooper said he saw men in dark jackets with bomb squad markings outside the federal courthouse, right next to the Murrah Building, at 8 a.m, while a private investigator, Claude Criss, said he saw the same men rooting through the bushes.[22]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Between 2 and 3 a.m. on April 19, witnesses working in the courthouse across the street saw two people in the Murrah building with flashlights when there was no security personnel scheduled for duty that night (perhaps the were there planting bombs).<\/p>\n

After the bombing, the axle from the Ryder truck was found by Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating of all people in a location that defied the laws of physics unblemished with the VIN number visible; raising suspicion that someone had placed it there.<\/p>\n

Don Browning, a dog handler with the Oklahoma City police, met a woman during early rescue efforts wearing a red jacket from either the ATF or FBI who told him the building had been secured so the feds could recover some \u201ccrucial files.\u201d When he entered the building, he recognized boxes of small arms and ammunition and blocks of plastic C-4 explosives, which could have been used to bring down the building.[23]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Reckless Negligence Amounting to Manslaughter<\/strong><\/h2>\n

April 19 was coincidentally a training day for the Oklahoma County Sherriff\u2019s bomb squad. This brought bomb squad agents from as far as Ardmore Texas to Oklahoma City, providing a perfect diversion and cover if in fact there was a conspiracy. One of the agents, John Haynie, the head of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol\u2019s tactical team, had carried out surveillance operations in Elohim city, a white supremacist enclave which McVeigh had visited (discussed below).[24]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

A Customs agent assigned to the Murrah Building on April 19 told Kathy Wilburn (Sanders), whose two grandsons had died in the blast, that the ATF office on the ninth floor had received a threat that morning, which meant that the Murrah Building should have been evacuated.[25]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

The Fire Department also received a warning, and judge who worked across the street, Wayne Alley, had heard rumors of an attack on that day.[26]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0According to Randy Yount, a state park ranger who helped with the rescue effort, explosives experts spent all night looking for a bomb in response to a warning that one had been planted inside the federal courthouse.[27]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

April 19 was significant in the white supremacist\/right-wing anti-government movement: It was the anniversary of the a) burning of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco (1993); b) the aborted raid by U.S. Federal Marshalls on Randy Weaver\u2019s cabin at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, resulting in the death of Weaver\u2019s wife (1992); c) a 1985 FBI raid of the Covenant, Sword and Arm of the Lord (CSA\u2014a white hate group) compound in the Ozarks; d) the anniversary of the Nazis burning the Warsaw ghetto; and e) the date of the Battle of Lexington which started the American Revolution.<\/p>\n

On the day of the bombing, Richard Snell\u2014a convicted murderer[28]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0who had tried to blow up the Murrah Building in 1983\u2014stated in his last words before being executed by the state of Arkansas:\u00a0\u201cGovernor, look over your shoulder, justice is coming!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TIL
[Source:\u00a0reddit.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stephen Jones, Timothy McVeigh\u2019s lawyer, uncovered an FBI report of an interview with three Justice Department employees working in Washington, D.C., who said that they received a call from someone who said the Murrah Building had just blown up\u2014twenty-five minutes before the bomb actually went off. Jones believed that, if the government received a phone call and did nothing, it was the height of reckless negligence amounting to manslaughter.[29]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Strange Military Men and More Evidence of an Inside Job<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After the explosion, a fireman on the third floor of the building noticed two military ambulances pull up to the building and saw several men in dark fatigues carrying stretchers from the building to the waiting ambulances. What were on the stretchers were not bodies, but boxes, which appeared to contain documents. One of the stretchers also had a missile launch tube.[30]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

An FBI agent, David Hall, said that it was known that explosives had been delivered to the building beforehand, and that the ATF had a magazine inside the building which was found with a foot of concrete blown out of it, indicating it may have caused some of the damage.[31]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

General Partin said that the structure\u2019s building support had failed primarily at the third-floor level. The Department of Defense was on this level adjoining column B-3 of the building, which Partin believed contained the main detonation charge.[32]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

William Northrop, a former Israeli intelligence agent, told author David Hoffman that a friend in the CIA\u2019s Directorate of Operations informed him that there was plastic explosive residue on the Murrah Building\u2019s columns, giving further evidence of an inside job.[33]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Jane Graham, who worked in the Murrah Building, said she had seen three men in the garage days before the bombing who had plans of the building and were holding what looked like C-4 explosives. The men did not resemble Nichols or McVeigh:\u00a0one was in military gear, another resembled Andreas Strassmeir, a government informant who is discussed below<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They looked uncomfortable when they saw Graham and put the C-4 explosives away. They had been putting\u00a0grey putty on the building\u2019s columns and stringing wire there<\/a>, suggesting they were\u00a0stringing the C-4 with debt cords th<\/a>at could ignite them.[34]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Unmatched Leg<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There has been speculation that\u00a0an unmatched leg found at the bombing site may have belonged to an unidentified bomber<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"A
LaKesha Levy [Source:\u00a0wpafb.af.mil<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The authorities attempted to attribute the leg to a Black female Air Force officer named LaKesha Levy. However, the State Medical Examiner\u2019s Office originally claimed that the leg belonged to a white or light-skinned male, and later reported that all efforts to identify the owner of the leg had failed, despite the use of DNA testing.[35]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Advanced Preparation?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Five survivors of the blast attest that they saw three men in the parking garage of the Murrah Building with wires, tools, and what appeared to be building plans several days before the bombing<\/a>. Another witness saw men with plastic explosives and something resembling a TV remote control; and another, men in the garage sawing at the Murrah Building\u2019s support pillars.[36]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"A
Michael Loudenslager [Source:\u00a0the-office.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the weeks preceding the bombing,\u00a0Michael Loudenslager, who worked in the Murrah building, had become aware that large amounts of ordnance and explosives were being stored in the building and, as a result, he (along with the operator of the day-care center) strongly urged a number of parents to take their c<\/a>hildren out of the Murrah Building.<\/p>\n

On the day of the bombing, Loudenslager was spotted doing rescue work and then getting into a heated argument with someone about the ATF, though shockingly he was reported to have been killed in the bombing sitting at his desk, and is listed as one of the 168 bombing fatalities.[37]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

The Myth of the Mad Lone Bomber<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In McVeigh\u2019s military training (Primary Leadership Development, Fort Riley Infantry, Fort Benning, and Bradley Fighting Vehicles Transition, Fort Riley), he would not have been taught how to produce no-residue, high-end ammonium nitrate explosions\u2014thus, he could not have been the lone bomber.[38]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

To build a succesful ANFO bomb, a person would require some chemistry background, bomb-making experience and skills and access to uncommon components and an industrial size blender, which neither McVeigh nor Nichols possessed.<\/p>\n

Nichols\u2019 brother James reported that since early 1994, the ATF and Army Corps of engineers had been experimenting with ANFO\/car\/truck bombs and C-4 explosives at the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico under a\u00a0secret project named DIPOLE MIGHT<\/a>\u00a0funded by Clinton\u2019s National Security Council (NSC), which could have been linked somehow to the OKlahoma City bombing.[39]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

An ATF agent assigned to DIPOLE MIGHT, Harry Everhart, just happened to be working across the street from the Murrah building at the federal courthouse on the morning of April 19 and immediately reported that the building had been hit by an ANFO bomb before any samples were taken for laboratory diagnosis.[40]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Multiple eyewitnesses spotted McVeigh in the company of other people on the morning of the bombing. One witness, who saw McVeigh\u2019s yellow Mercury Marquis enter the Murrah Building parking garage with McVeigh and a woman in it, was threatened with court martial if he spoke about what he saw.[41]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Another witness (Gary Lewis), whom the FBI also tried to silence, claimed to have seen McVeigh get out of the Ryder truck, walk across the street, and jump into the driver\u2019s seat of a Mercury Marquis, which leaped over a concrete barrier. The license plate from the car was dangling on one bolt and McVeigh was accompanied by another man on the passenger side.[42]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Daina Bradley was accused of being mentally unstable after she said that she and her sister had seen a man jump out of the passenger side of the Ryder truck and take off running.[43]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0A U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) employee encountered McVeigh and an accomplice in an alley near the Murrah Building after the bombing standing and watching. McVeigh asked if any children had died and appeared sad when the employee said yes.[44]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Witness Daina Bradley weeps at funeral service for her daughter who died in the Oklahoma City bombing. [Source:\u00a0ocregister.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cover-Up
[Source:\u00a0amazon.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

These stories were all confirmed nine years after the bombing when an Associated Press investigation uncovered a Secret Service log entry referring to previously unseen \u201cvideo security\u201d footage of the detonation, which pointed to suspects (plural) exiting from the [Ryder] truck.[45]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Timothy McVeigh\u2014All-American Terrorist<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Born on April 23, 1968, McVeigh grew up as a typical American kid in western New York just outside of Buffalo. A fan of science fiction and comic books, he was named as his school\u2019s most \u201cpromising computer programmer as a senior in high school.\u201d[46]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Timothy McVeigh c. 1974. [Source:\u00a0tjm-realm1995.50megs.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After dropping out of community college, McVeigh enlisted in the military, where he appeared to have found his calling. His combat arms-proficiency scores were in the top five percent, and he received an army commendation medal and Bronze Star for his work as a gunner in the first Persian Gulf War, where he took out an enemy tank and killed two Iraqis.[47]<\/a><\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Timothy
Timothy McVeigh in the sands of Iraq. [Source:\u00a0reddit.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Three former soldiers said that McVeigh also killed four surrendering soldiers who had already been taken prisoner. Richard Cerney called McVeigh a \u201ccold blooded bastard.\u201d[48]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0McVeigh nevertheless claimed to have felt sorrow for the Iraqis because of all the death and destruction. According to his biographers, he felt as if he had become \u201cone of the bullies, one of a type he had reviled since childhood.\u201d[49]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Upon returning to the United States, McVeigh\u2019s anti-government sentiments allegedly radicalized following the siege of the Branch Davidian complex in Waco, Texas, in April 1993.<\/p>\n

Struggling to find meaningful well-paying work, he was\u00a0drawn to the gun-show culture<\/a>\u00a0and became inspired by\u00a0The Turner Diaries<\/em>, a novel by William Pierce (pen name Andrew MacDonald) and\u00a0classic among white supremacists and anti-government groups<\/a>, which\u00a0described the bombing of the FBI headquarters with a homemade truck bomb<\/a>.[50]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Manchurian Candidate?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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In a 1993\u00a0letter to his sister Jennifer published by\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0in 1998<\/a>, McVeigh claimed that, during his time at\u00a0Fort Bragg<\/a>,\u00a0he and nine others were recruited into a secret\u00a0black ops<\/a>\u00a0team that smuggled drugs to fund covert activities and \u201cwere to work hand-in-hand with civilian police agencies to\u00a0quiet<\/em>\u00a0anyone whom was deemed a\u00a0security risk.<\/em>\u00a0(We would be gov\u2019t-paid assassins!)\u201d[51]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Terry Nichols alleged in a 2001 deposition that McVeigh reported in December 1992 how he \u201chad been recruited to carry out undercover missions,\u201d and later told him that FBI official\u00a0Larry Potts<\/a>, who had supervised the\u00a0Ruby Ridge<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Waco<\/a>\u00a0operations, directed him to blow up a government building.<\/p>\n

An inmate in the SuperMax facility in Colorado responsible for sweeping Nichols\u2019 cell when he was in the yard exercising, saw a letter with reference to a $2.5 million payoff to be split between Nichols and McVeigh and said: \u201cSarge is going to take care of us.\u201d[52]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

McVeigh told other of his friends that a microchip was implanted in his body while he was in the Army\u2014a scenario not implausible given that the Pentagon had developed this capability through identification technology whose purpose was to track soldiers in the battlefield.[53]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

His personality was judged to be perfect for an undercover intelligence assignment since he was technically competent but not an independent thinker or leader. An FBI agent with the psychological profile unit told the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0after the bombing: \u201cthis is an easily controlled and manipulated personality.\u201d[54]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Ron Rice and Carol Moore of the American Board of Forensic Examiners characterized McVeigh in a personality profile as an\u00a0\u201cApollonian\u201d personality<\/a>\u2014\u201ca steady, unemotional, organized individual\u2026more apt to value reason over passion\u201d\u2014<\/a>and at his core\u00a0\u201ca military man\u2026 his heart and soul belongs to the military of the U.S. government.\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Back in Buffalo, McVeigh worked for the Calspan Advanced Technology Center\u2014a defense contractor that conducted\u00a0classified research in aerospace rocketry, electronic warfare<\/a>, bioengineering and artificial intelligence, and was a staging ground for an undercover operation that involved the National Guard, which McVeigh at the time belonged to.[55]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Founded as Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, Calspan had in the past provided a cover for the \u201cFund for the Study of Human Ecology,\u201d a CIA conduit for mind control experiments by \u00e9migr\u00e9 Nazi scientists and others working under MKULTRA director Sidney Gottlieb.[56]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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[Source:\u00a0<\/sup>calspan.com<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After his arrest, police found eerie McVeigh\u2019s calm and polite demeanor and lack of emotion\u2014as if he had been programmed or trained to carry out a preconceived order upon command.[57]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Terry Nichols\u2019 brother James, in his book,\u00a0Freedom\u2019s End<\/em>, stated that McVeigh was met in prison by the notorious MK-ULTRA mind-bender Dr. Jolyon West who had handled Sirhan Sirhan following the Robert Kennedy assassination, and was probably there to reinforce McVeigh\u2019s programmed brain.[58]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Dr. Jolyon West [Source:\u00a0alchetron.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Authorities suspected links between McVeigh and the Arizona Patriots\u2014described as \u201ccavemen with bombs\u201d\u2014whose leader Jack Oliphant claimed he was a former CIA mercenary who trained guerrillas from around the world in the use of explosives.[59]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"Clipping
[Source:\u00a0newspapers.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Roger Moore, another accomplice whom McVeigh knew from the gun show circuit in Arkansas and supplied him with explosive detonators, was rumored to be linked to Barry Seal and illegal arms sales to the Nicaraguan Contras out of Mena, Arkansas in the 1980s. Moore was a paymaster for a group organized to provide aid to the Contra guerrillas, and had a relationship with the CIA. McVeigh once delivered weapons on Moore\u2019s behalf to a group in the Florida Everglades training for a coup against Fidel Castro.[60]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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While on death row, McVeigh told fellow inmate David Paul Hammer that he had been recruited by a \u201cMajor\u201d who led a secret unit attached to the Defense Department for a special mission in which he was to infiltrate the right-wing, anti-government movement and ultimately help plan an act of domestic terrorism.<\/p>\n

To maintain his deep cover, he was instructed to cultivate a persona as a veteran with extreme anti-government views that would be believed even by his family.[61]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0When McVeigh was arrested by state trooper Charles Hanger, he turned in a security badge which McVeigh said was an official badge given to him by \u201cThe Major.\u201d[62]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Despite officially leaving the Army on April 7, 1991, medical records indicate that McVeigh was given a medical examination in Ft. Riley, Kansas\u2014which was known to have housed secret army psychological warfare experiments\u2014on August 22, 1991 at the request of two physicians who said that he was \u201cqualified for Special Forces.\u201d[63]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Filmmaker Bill Bean believes he filmed and briefly spoke to McVeigh<\/a>\u2014who was wearing military fatigues, on August 3, 1993\u2014while doing location scouting at Camp Grafton in North Dakota, and that this interview confirmed that McVeigh was still in the Army after he officially resigned.[64]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

See video here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.moddb.com\/groups\/government-corruption\/videos\/timothy-mcveigh-still-at-camp-grafton-03-august-1993-fbi-lied<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At 9:30 p.m. the night before the bombing, McVeigh met with ATF Agent Alex McCauley and two other men of Middle-Eastern descent at a McDonald\u2019s near the Murrah Building. Money changed hands. In the days preceding the Oklahoma City bombing, McVeigh had attended meetings with ATF and DEA agents.[65]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

This gives the further impression that he was a government agent, as does the fact that he stored equipment before the bombing in a military storage facility and was taken to Tinker Air Force Base after his arrest.[66]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Oklahoman State representative Charles Key (R) in a\u00a0critical report of the bombing<\/a>\u00a0cites Pentagon documents from McVeigh\u2019s attorney that reportedly contain McVeigh\u2019s confession to his initial lawyers that he was a secret military operative tasked with infiltrating domestic terror groups.<\/p>\n

McVeigh claimed he reported the bombing plot to his handlers and was instructed to participate in what he believed was a controlled sting designed to only \u201cblow out a couple of windows.\u201d He expressed shock at the actual devastation, wondering if the truck had been switched on him.<\/p>\n

McVeigh Doubles and More Than One Ryder Truck<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The use of doubles in espionage work is standard practice.<\/p>\n

Several people testified before the grand jury of seeing different Ryder trucks in different places and saw characters resembling McVeigh in different times and places that overlapped. Some of the McVeigh\u2019s acted out of character to the real Tim or wore things such as a backwards baseball cap that Tim never did.\u00a0[67]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

McVeigh also went out of his way to be noticed, which suggests the whole thing was staged.<\/p>\n

On the morning of the bombing, witnesses spotted a Ryder truck with a man resembling McVeigh at 8 a.m when McVeigh testified at his trial that he did not drive into Oklahoma City until 8:50 a.m. McVeigh allegedly purchased cigarettes before the bombing though did not smoke, and also asked for directions to the Murrah building elsewhere, when he had previously been known to have cased the building and the building was visible to anyone in the downtown vicinity.[68]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

McVeigh told David Paul Hammer that in the days before the bombing he rented a Ryder truck in Minneapolis using the alias Timothy Tuttle\u2014a claim supported in FBI files.[69]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0McVeigh also allegedly rented one in Junction City, Kansas, at Elliott\u2019s Body Shop, where employees described McVeigh\u2014who was accompanied by an accomplice[70]<\/a><\/sup>\u2014as being 5\u201910\u201d to 5\u201911\u201d and weighing 185 pounds with a rough complexion.<\/p>\n

The real McVeigh was 6\u20192\u201d, 160 pounds, and had a clear complexion. A shop employee said that the McVeigh who rented the truck there had a deformed chin, which the real McVeigh did not.[71]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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[Source:\u00a0historycommons.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The McVeigh who rented the truck listed his name as Bob Kling and gave an address in South Dakota, though at the motel where he stayed, The Dreamland, he listed his name as \u201cTim McVeigh\u201d and gave Terry Nichols\u2019 address in Michigan.<\/p>\n

The manager of the motel and the desk clerk\u00a0told the FBI that they had seen a Ryder truck in the motel parking lot the day before Robert Kling rented his Ryder\u2014which McVeigh was seen with at the motel the next day\u2014at Elliott\u2019s Body Shop<\/a>.[72]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Jeff Davis, a deliveryman for the Hunan Palace Restaurant who brought an order of moo goo gai pan and egg rolls to McVeigh\u2019s room, reported being paid by a man who was not McVeigh\u2014though the FBI tried to talk him into saying that the man was McVeigh.[73]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"The
Dreamland Motel where McVeigh stayed when he rented the Ryder truck. However, the motel manager and her son saw a Ryder truck there a day before McVeigh rented it. Another curious thing is that McVeigh registered in the motel in his own name but rented the Ryder truck as Robert Kling. [Source:\u00a0pinterest.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

McVeigh allegedly used a prepaid phone card under the name Daryl Bridges to call Elliott\u2019s to make the reservation, yet an early version of the FBI reconstructions shows two calls within two minutes from phones 25 miles apart, which implied involvement of someone other than McVeigh or Nichols since neither was then in the second location.[74]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Kling was wearing military fatigues when he rented the Ryder truck but when McVeigh was caught on surveillance footage an hour before at a McDonald\u2019s, slightly over a mile from the Elliott\u2019s Body Shop, he was not wearing military attire. The prosecution contends that McVeigh left McDonald\u2019s, walked 1.3 miles to Elliott\u2019s during a light drizzle extremely quickly, then showed up dry, wearing completely different clothes (where he would have got the new clothes or changed is uncertain).[75]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Surveillance footage of McVeigh in McDonald\u2019s wearing different clothing from the man who rented the Ryder truck. [Source:\u00a0geocities.ws<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another curiosity is that witnesses reported seeing a Ryder truck on April 10 at Geary State Fishing Lake in Kansas\u2014where McVeigh and Nichols allegedly built the ANFO bomb\u2014when McVeigh allegedly rented the Ryder truck at Elliott\u2019s on April 17. On April 10 also, McVeigh was in Kingman, Arizona, according to the FBI (though he was not seen where he was supposed to be staying), and Nichols was returning from a gun show in Michigan.[76]<\/a>.<\/sup><\/p>\n

One other telling thing is that\u00a0the U.S. Army had a clandestine base with a Ryder truck outside Oklahoma City in the months leading up to the bombing.<\/a>\u00a0This could very well have been the truck used in the bombing.<\/p>\n

\"Ryder
Ryder truck photographed at clandestine U.S. army base outside Oklahoma City. [Source:\u00a0nvestig8.life]<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Setting Himself Up to Be Caught<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On April 8th<\/sup>, McVeigh, in the company of Michael Brescia and Andreas Strassmeir (discussed below), told a stripper at the Lady Godiva strip club in Tulsa, \u201cyou\u2019re going to remember me.\u201d[77]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Perhaps this was not actually McVeigh, but an impersonator who wanted to set the real McVeigh up\u2014by telegraphing his crime. According to the FBI, the real McVeigh was in Arizona at the time.[78]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Another thing that is suspicious is how McVeigh set himself up to be caught\u2014by driving a car without a license plate as his getaway vehicle; by leaving alleged plans to bomb other buildings in the glove compartment of his car; and by leaving a business card from Paulsen\u2019s Military Supplies with a notation to pick up more TNT in the police cruiser after his arrest.[79]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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McVeigh\u2019s getaway vehicle parked in front of troopers\u2019 cars along an Oklahoma highway in April 1995. The car was nearly 20 years old and had many mechanical issues, which raises further questions as to why it was chosen. Also McVeigh was spotted by a witness fleeing the scene. of the bombing with a passenger in the front seat of his car who was no longer with him by the time he was pulled over by the police. Who that passenger was remains a mystery. [Source:\u00a0law2.umkc.edu<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A parallel is with Lee Harvey Oswald who, after purportedly killing JFK, walked into a movie theater house without paying, purposely attracting the attention of the police.<\/p>\n

Curiously, a brown pickup truck traveling with McVeigh, was pulled over along the highway at the time of his arrest. It was registered to Steven Colbern, a chemist wanted on federal firearms charges who allegedly carried out bomb-making experiments with McVeigh in the Arizona desert.<\/p>\n

The truck contained traces of ammonium nitrate believed to be the main explosive ingredient used in the bombing. Later, when the government released the arrest videotape to the Oklahoma City National Memorial, there was no image of the brown pickup truck on the tape.[80]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Terry Nichols [Source:\u00a0screiben10.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An all points bulletin broadcast by the Oklahoma police department to search for the brown truck was curiously withdrawn once McVeigh was apprehended slightly over an hour after the bombing\u2013even though McVeigh\u2019s initial arrest was on a gun charge.[81]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

When the FBI arrived at Nichols\u2019 home after he turned himself into authorities, they found detonator cords and receipts for bags of ammonium nitrate with McVeigh thumbprints\u2014raising the question as to why he would leave such incriminating evidence while feigning incredulity that he was a suspect.[82]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Unexplained Visits to the Philippines-Middle East Terrorist Connection<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Eyewitnesses placed McVeigh in the company of a man of Middle Eastern descent in the days before the bombing\u2014thought to be Hussain al-Hussaini, an Iraqi who immigrated to the U.S. in the wake of Operation Desert Storm.[83]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Middle-eastern men were also spotted hanging around the Murrah building on the day of the bombing.[84]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Previously, McVeigh and Nichols had traveled to Cebu City, which was home to terrorist groups such as the Liberation Army of the Philippines and Abu Sayyaf. The latter was formed by veterans of the anti-Soviet mujahadin in Afghanistan including World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef; its funding was traced to Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n

Witnesses swore they saw Yousef at a used car lot in Stillwater, Oklahoma, in November 1994 with a man resembling John Doe #2, and driving a yellow Mercury Marquis similar to the one McVeigh was caught driving after the bombing.<\/p>\n

The Oklahoma City bombing had some eerie\u00a0similarities to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed seven people. Yousef and his accomplices had detonated an ANFO bomb from a Ryder truck<\/a>, and the\u00a0terrorist cell that carried out the World Trade Center attack was known to have been infiltrated by the FBI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Wreckage from 1993 World Trade Center attack. [Source:\u00a0apjjf.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ramzi Yousef [Source:\u00a0nydailynews.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

According to Edwin Angeles,\u00a0a leader of the Abu Sayyaf and deep cover operative for the Philippines government<\/a>, Nichols attended meetings with Yousef and other terrorists in Cebu City\u00a0near a place Muslims were taught bomb-making<\/a>. At the meetings, Nichols referred to himself as a \u201cfarmer.\u201d[85]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Nichols meanwhile received a visit at his Cebu City residence from Jack Sapihi, an arms dealer and member of the Moro Liberation Front.[86]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Edwin Angeles [Source:\u00a0teskilatimahsusa.wordpress.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Abu Sayyaf flag. [Source:\u00a0wikipedia.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

Lana Padilla, Nichols\u2019 ex-wife, believed that Nichols\u2019 decision to marry a mail order bride from the Philippines\u201417-year old Marife Torres who spent part of the year in the Philippines even after their marriage\u2014\u2014provided him with a cover story for his visits.<\/p>\n

Padilla recalled that McVeigh was the one who bought his first tickets to Cebu City in 1989, just after the two had supposedly got out of the Army, which was suspicious because McVeigh was not making a lot of money at the time.[87]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"Graphical
[Source:\u00a0lonelyheroin.tripod.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nichols traveled to the Philippines dozens of times and made more than 200 phone calls to the Philippines. On one trip, he took a book on how to make a bomb with him there. On another, he carried two stun guns and left $20,000 taped behind a drawer for his son and a note to McVeigh saying, \u201cyou\u2019re on your own if I don\u2019t come back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elohim City<\/strong><\/h2>\n

McVeigh and Nichols visited Elohim City in the months before the bombing\u2014as phone and motel records and a speeding ticket confirm.<\/p>\n

Taking its name from the Hebrew \u201cCity of God,\u201d Elohim City was an enclave for the Christian identity movement and radical right in Adair County, Oklahoma, on the Arkansas border.<\/p>\n

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[Source:\u00a0wikipedia.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Founded in 1973 by Canadian Robert Millar, who preached a \u201choly war against the U.S. government\u201d but became a government informant, Elohim City housed members of the Aryan Republican Army, Covenant Sword, and Ku Klux Klan (KKK), who carried out\u00a0paramilitary training there<\/a>.[88]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Robert G. Millar [Source:\u00a0ontariomennonitehistory.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Informant John Shults told federal agents in 1997 that he was sure \u201cbeyond a shadow of a doubt\u201d he saw McVeigh at Elohim City in 1994 at a meeting about a mysterious delivery and use of a Ryder truck. Katina Lawson, who partied with McVeigh and some of his friends, described McVeigh as an ideological activist in the Aryan Nation movement\u2014which he appears to have infiltrated.[89]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

John Doe #2<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Michael Brescia, an FBI informant from Philadelphia who had resided at Elohim City,\u00a0admitted he had assisted McVeigh in loading explosives onto the Ryder truck and helped mix them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Michael Brescia [Source:\u00a0wikipedia.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The day before the bombing, a man thought to be Brescia\u2014identified by his good looks\u2014was spotted in McVeigh\u2019s company at an upscale hair salon in Junction City, Kansas.[90]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Several people suspected that Brescia\u2014who was arrested in a 1997 Wisconsin bank heist\u2014was a man police referred to as\u00a0John Doe #2. A witness identified him as having driven the Ryder truck to the Murrah Building before getting out to do something [relight the bomb?] in the back of the truck, before fleeing.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Police sketch of John Doe #2. [Source:\u00a0law2.umkc.edu<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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FBI official Weldon Kennedy holding the second sketch of John Doe #2. [Source:\u00a0rboothokc.medium.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

McVeigh told David Paul Hammer that John Doe #2 was Richard Lee Guthrie, an ex-Navy SEAL born to CIA parents who bragged about torching abortion clinics and shooting interracial couples as a member of the Aryan Republican Army. His fingerprints were found in an explosives cache seized by the FBI in 2005 at Terry Nichols\u2019 Kansas residence.<\/p>\n

Described as a \u201craving psychopath,\u201d Guthrie drove with McVeigh and Brescia to the Murrah Building in the Ryder truck on the morning of April 19, according to what McVeigh told Hammer.[91]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In November 1994, a man resembling Guthrie calling himself \u201cRobert Jacks\u201d was spotted with McVeigh and Nichols at a real-estate office in Caseville, Missouri. The trio aimed to purchase land in a remote location with a cave on it.[92]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Richard Lee Guthrie [Source:\u00a0wikipedia.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the bombing, Guthrie and Brescia were supposed to pick McVeigh up in an SUV, but abandoned him, leaving McVeigh to escape in the 1977 Yellow Mercury Marquis whose license plates had been stripped\u2014hence setting up McVeigh to be caught.<\/p>\n

Andy the German<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Eleven days before the bombing, McVeigh was seen in the company of Andreas Strassmeir\u2014Brescia\u2019s roommate<\/a>\u2014at the Lady Godiva strip club in Tulsa. McVeigh had first met Strassmeir\u2014who went by the nickname \u201cAndy the German\u201d\u2014at a Tulsa gun show.<\/p>\n

He admitted to calling him two weeks before the bombing to ask if he could use Elohim City as a hideout, and then called him again two days before the bombing.[93]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0When McVeigh was arrested, Strassmeir\u2019s card was found in his wallet.[94]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

A lieutenant in the West German Special Forces with training in military intelligence<\/a>,[95]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Strassmeir was the son of a top aide to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the grandson of a founding member of the Nazi Party.<\/p>\n

Strassmeir admitted that part of his work was to detect infiltration by foreign agents and then feed them disinformation, leading to belief that he was an agent for the German anti-terrorist unit, the GSG-9.<\/p>\n

During the early 1980s, Strassmeir had spent three summers living on a Kibbutz in the Jezreel Valley, near the Golan Heights, where he developed contacts with the Mossad, the Israeli secret service.[96]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Andreas Strassmeir [Source:\u00a0visupview.blogspot.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At Elohim City, Strassmeir was the firearms and paramilitary arms trainer.<\/p>\n

Journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard interviewed a member of the Texas Light Infantry who observed Strassmeir entering an ATF office after\u00a0successfully submitting an access code<\/a>\u2014indicating that he was an ATF employee.[97]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0ATF records indicate substantial intelligence gathering activities in which Strassmeir was a participant.[98]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Terry Nichols believed that Strassmeir was an FBI or CIA agent provocateur. When Glenn and Kathy Wilburn visited Elohim City in an attempt to gain information, their hostess told them that Strassmeir was not well-liked as \u201che was always trying to get [the people at Elohim City] to do bad things.\u201d This is precisely the job of a provocateur.[99]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Another photo of Andy the German. [Source:\u00a0law2umkc.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to a brief prepared by McVeigh\u2019s defense team, Strassmeir had\u00a0accompanied FBI Director Louis Freeh on a trip to Italy and Germany where he met with German internal security officials<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Louis Freeh [Source:\u00a0wikipedia.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His high-level connections were further evident when after his car was impounded, the highway patrol received calls from the state police, military and State Department who demanded the vehicle\u2019s release, stating that otherwise the \u201cgovernor\u201d would become involved.\u201d[100]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The highway patrol happened to have found bomb-making plans in a locked briefcase.<\/p>\n

Strassmeir claimed that he came to the U.S. to work on a special assignment for the Justice Department after being recommended by Vincent Petruskie, a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and CIA-man involved in off-the-record black budget operations who is believed to have been part of the Phoenix program in Vietnam and was stationed in Berlin during the height of the Cold War where his job was to \u201cassassinate Soviet agents.\u201d[101]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Vincent Petruskie [Source:\u00a0tributes.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

In an interview with\u00a0The Telegraph<\/em>, Strassmeir stated the \u201cright-wing in the U.S. is incredibly easy to penetrate if you know how to talk to them. Of course, it\u2019s easier for a foreigner with an accent, nobody would ever suspect a German of working for the Federal Government.\u201d[102]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

A bombing survivor identified Strassmeir as being in the Murrah Building wearing a maintenance or military uniform in the days before the bombing; another said he was was wearing black cowboy boots and was attaching putty and wires to the columns of the parking garage. Other witnesses identified him in Junction City, Kansas, with McVeigh during the days leading up to the bombing.[10<\/a>3]<\/sup><\/p>\n

McVeigh told David Paul Hammer that Strassmeir was an undercover operative with a different handler from him, though they worked together in planning the Oklahoma City bombing.[104]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Beauty Queen Informant<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Strassmeir himself admitted that the ATF had an informant inside the [OKC bombing] operation.[10<\/a>5]<\/sup>\u00a0The informant to whom he was referring was Carol Howe, the daughter of a prominent Tulsa family drawn into the white supremacist movement in her early 20s after having been the victim of a crime committed by a group of Black males.<\/p>\n

\"Carol
Carol Howe displays the swastika tattoo that helped her infiltrate Elohim City. [Source:\u00a0crimesofempire.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A one-time Miss Teenage America contestant, Tulsa debutante and award-winning equestrian, Howe briefly dated and was then raped by Ku Klux Klan (KKK) leader Dennis Mahon. Howe said she believed that McVeigh was in Elohim City prior to the bombing. She reported to her ATF case officer Angela Finley that Mahon and Strassmeir discussed \u201ctargeting federal installations for destruction,\u201d such as the Tulsa IRS office, the Tulsa federal building, and the Oklahoma City federal building.[10<\/a>6]<\/sup><\/p>\n

Howe warned specifically that \u201ca cataclysm was pending\u201d in the spring of 1995 and that federal buildings in Oklahoma City or Texas were being targeted for a bomb, that would coincide with the second anniversary of the Waco inferno on April 19, 1995 and would signal a racial holy war\u2014though inexplicably she was ignored and\u00a0according to Charles Key<\/a>, had false charges imposed on her.[107]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Dennis Mahon [Source:\u00a0tulsaworld.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Howe said that Strassmeir was a mastermind of the Oklahoma City bombing and that\u00a0she overheard Mahon take a phone call from McVeigh (who went under the alias Tim Tuttle).<\/a>[108]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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\"Jurors
Carol Howe in court sketch. Howe was acquitted on charges of possessing explosive devices and making a bomb threat while serving as a government informant at Elohim City. [Source:\u00a0tulsaworld.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Howe also said that she saw McVeigh walking with Strassmeir at Elohim City, and that the sketch of John Doe who rented the Ryder truck used in the bombing appeared to be Peter Ward, an Elohim City resident known as \u201cAndy\u2019s shadow.[109]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Deadly Secrets<\/strong><\/h2>\n

According to author David Hoffman, Elohim City was \u201cone great big government-run neo-Nazi training camp.\u201d FBI documents reference an FBI undercover operation (thought to be part\u00a0of Operation PATCON designed to infiltrate militia groups)<\/a>, and there were at least three government informants at Elohim City\u2014Howe, Strassmeir, and Millar.<\/p>\n

Brescia, Mahon and McVeigh along with a former Air Force captain named Roger Moore, who had provided McVeigh with explosives, appear to have worked with the Feds as well.[110]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

The CIA had\u00a0spy satellites over Elohim City<\/a>, so also knew of any bombing plots.<\/p>\n

For reasons that remain unknown, a planned ATF and INS joint raid on Elohim City was stopped in February 1995, at the direction of FBI Special Agent in Charge Bob Ricks of the Oklahoma City office\u2014probably to protect the undercover operation or even bombing plot, which had to have been known by the Feds in advance.[111]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Ricks had overseen the slaughter of the Branch Davidians at Waco and was subsequently promoted to Director of Public Safety in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

\"Bob
Bob Ricks [Source:\u00a0fbi.gov<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Andreas Strassmeier testified that the Ryder truck(s) had federal tracking devices on them placed by federal authorities the day of the bombing; people were also spotted in front of the Murrah building at 3:30 a.m. the morning of the bombing with antennae-like devices on their head for monitoring the location of the vehicle(s)\u2013which for some unknown reason were delayed.[112]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

A secret service agent, Alan Gerald Wichter, who was ordered to be at his desk at 9 a.m. the morning of the bombing, happened to have been on President Clinton\u2019s security detail and knew many things about the Clinton\u2019s they didn\u2019t want exposed.[113]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

The bombing plot was believed to have been financed through a string of bank robberies\u2014netting as much as a quarter million dollars\u2014carried out by Richard Guthrie, Peter Langan, a one-time secret service informant whose father was a CIA agent in Vietnam,[114]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0and McVeigh, whom Guthrie said he paid with money derived from the robberies.[115]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\n
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Peter Langan [Source:\u00a0wikipedia.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

McVeigh told Hammer that the night before the bombing, an accomplice named Poindexter\u2014with the help of McVeigh and Richard Guthrie\u2014built a 7,000-pound bomb laced with military-grade explosives. At a warehouse meeting where the bomb was inspected, a man named Roberto slit Poindexter\u2019s throat. \u201cThe Major\u201d told Tim: \u201cSoldier, he was only hired help, not one of us.\u201d[116]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"A
David Paul Hammer [Source:\u00a0geocities.rs<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At that point, McVeigh said he learned that other members of the elite unit run by \u201cThe Major\u201d had installed C-4 explosives inside the Murrah Building. McVeigh was given a hand-held transmitter to be used in detonating the explosives.[117]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

A Godsend for the Clintons and the Deep State<\/strong><\/h2>\n

For President Bill Clinton, the Oklahoma City bombing was a godsend. It gave him the moral high ground over his right-wing adversaries, an opportunity to regain his administration\u2019s footing after the disastrous 1994 midterm elections, and shifted focus away from the scandals that he and Hillary were implicated in.<\/p>\n

A congressional investigation was scheduled to begin four weeks after the bombing. The Murrah Building may have also housed documents incriminating to the Clintons, including ones that exposed their involvement in drug trafficking and money laundering operations at Mena, Arkansas as part of the Contra war.[118]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"A
[Source:\u00a0c-span.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On April 24, 1996, Clinton\u00a0signed the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act,<\/a>\u00a0which had been introduced in the U.S. Senate two months before the Oklahoma City bombing by Joe Biden. Designed to alter the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act which prevents the military from exercising police powers within the U.S., it provided a $500 million windfall for the FBI and curtailed habeas corpus rights by giving the feds more access to private bank accounts and empowering the Secretary of State with the ability to establish a list of foreign terrorist organizations. First proposed by CIA agent Theodore Shackley, the legislation, which set the groundwork for the USA Patriot Act, allowed \u201cno knock\u201d searches, expanded use of wiretaps, and made it easier for illegally seized evidence to be used in court and for the military to intervene in domestic situations deemed a national security threat.[119]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"Empire
Bill Clinton signing 1996 anti-terrorism bill with Joe Biden (far right) looking on. [Source:\u00a0theintercept.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

David Hoffman wrote that the bill \u201cgutted the First, Fourth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution, [laid] the framework for an entrenched police state, and [gave] the Federal government full power to target anybody deemed a threat to its authority.\u201d[120]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Section 328 amended the Foreign Assistance Act to bolster assistance in the form of arms and ammunition to certain countries, for the purpose of fighting terrorism.\u00a0This led in 1997 to the creation of a secret \u201cEyes Only\u201d liaison agreement between the CIA\u2019s Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC) and Saudi Arabia, followed by a subsequent CIA agreement in 1999 with Uzbekistan, whose president, Islam Karimov, had been accused of boiling political opponents alive.[121]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Cody\u2019s Story<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In 2025, a former CIA paramilitary operative going by the name \u201cCody,\u201d a petroleum industry geologist who had worked for a time undercover as a gun dealer, gave an\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0to Danish research Ole Dammegard in which he he claimed to have been given $500,000 by the late Harold Leonard of the CIA to carry out the bombing of the Murrah Building, which he refused.<\/p>\n

\u201cCody,\u201d who in the 1980s had carried out covert arms and drug smuggling operations to the Nicaraguan Contras in Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor, stated that the Murrah building bombing was a CIA black flag operation for which McVeigh and Nichols were set up as patsies.<\/p>\n

The Murrah building was targeted, he believed, in part because it housed the medical records of Gulf War I veterans who had been poisoned by depleted uranium and other military weapons tests in the war. A Congressional investigation was at the time being conducted and the records would have proven governmental responsibility, resulting in a huge financial settlement to the veterans that was averted by the Murrah Building bombing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey Killed Him\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Police Sergeant Terrance Yeakey, 30, was one of the first on the scene after the Murrah Building was bombed. He worked arduously for two days to find survivors. On May 8, 1996, only three days before he was to receive the Oklahoma Police Department\u2019s Medal of Valor, Yeakey was murdered. His death was ruled a suicide.<\/p>\n

He allegedly slashed his forearms, cut his throat, and then walked a mile and a half over rough terrain and climbed a fence before shooting himself. Yeakey, however, suffered from sickle-cell anemia, which meant he would likely have been too weak to walk the distance he traveled, particularly after losing two pints of blood.<\/p>\n

After his death, handcuff bruises were found on his wrists and muddy grass in his slash wounds. His face was bruised and swollen, and blood was found on his body and clothes that did not match his own type.<\/p>\n

Yeakey\u2019s wounds were consistent with him having been tortured and then executed. The fatal shot was fired with a pistol with a silencer, and there was strong evidence that he had been dragged through the mud.[122]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Yeakey had witnessed the explosion in the Murrah Building and had questioned\u00a0why the police were up behind the building before he arrived\u2014a mere two minutes after the bombing, and why so many ATF\/FBI agents descended on the building so quickly\u2014before even he had arrived<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the morning of his death, Yeakey was seen exiting his Oklahoma City apartment with nine boxes of videos and files and drove to the police station where he was told by his supervisor to \u201cdrop it\u201d or he would \u201cwind up dead.\u201d[123]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"A
Terrance Yeakey [Source:\u00a0the-office.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A
Oklahoma City Police Chief Sam Gonzalez, who began his career in the Dallas Police Department in 1963, played an important role in covering up Yeakey\u2019s death. As a reward, he was\u00a0made head of Project Megiddo and a liaison between the FBI and police departments around the country<\/a>. [Source:\u00a0the-office.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After Yeakey\u2019s death, the police inexplicably never dusted his car for prints, or performed a forensics investigation or autopsy. His car\u2019s seats were unbolted, the floorboards ripped up and the side panels removed, all in an apparent effort to find incriminating documents.<\/p>\n

There was no suicide note and the Oklahoma City Police Department\u2019s investigation remained sealed. Yeakey\u2019s brother-in-law discovered a bloody knife stashed underneath the glove compartment though, according to the responding officer, Yeakey had used a razor blade to slash himself.[124]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0When Yeakey\u2019s family was at police headquarters, an officer whom his ex-wife described as Yeakey\u2019s \u201conly true friend,\u201d pulled them off to the side and whispered: \u201cThey killed him.\u201d[125]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Two More Suspicious Deaths<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The same people may have killed Dr. Don Chumley, an osteopath who ran a medical clinic a half-mile from the Murrah building, who died in a mysterious plane crash five months after the bombing. Dr. Chumley never opened the landing gear after his plane went into free-fall and there were no distress calls. Dr. Chumley had been one of the first to arrive at the bombing site, helping many people, including seven babies whom he later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

\"Larger
Dr. Don Chumley\u2019s grave. [Source:\u00a0findagrave.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the time of the crash, Dr. Chumley was rumored to be about to go public with some damning information, namely, that he had been asked to bandage two federal agents who falsely claimed to have been trapped in the building\u2014and were not actually hurt.[126]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0What these agents were doing and why they wanted to be bandaged remains a mystery.<\/p>\n

Stripper Shawntelle Farrens, aged 23, was\u00a0found dead in her apartment after journalist J.D. Cash discovered a tape from the Lady Godiva club from the night when McVeigh bragged to her about being famous and was spotted with Strassmeir and Michael Brescia<\/a>.[127]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

When Tulsa police officer Craig Roberts studied the crime scene photos, he noticed a bloody hand print on a wall next to Farrens\u2019 patio doors, which gave the impression she had been murdered (and did not die from a pill overdose as was alleged).[128]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\u201cThem Good Ole Boys Killed Him\u201d\u2014Yet More Collateral Damage<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Kenneth Trentadue was killed after being mistaken by federal authorities for John Doe #2\u2014whom the FBI wanted to get rid of to sustain the lone-bomber theory. McVeigh stated that the first time he saw a picture of Trentadue and learned of his death, he \u201cknew instantly that someone thought he was Richard Guthrie and that them good ole boys in Oklahoma killed him because they thought he was involved in Oklahoma City.\u201d[129]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"A
Kenneth Trentadue [Source:\u00a0motherjones.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Trentadue, 44, allegedly hanged himself on August 21, 1995, in the Federal Transfer Center (FTC) in Oklahoma City, where he was being held on a parole violation.<\/p>\n

Trentadue\u2019s body, however, was found bruised and battered with a gash across his throat and wounds on the back of his head, biceps, foot, and anal verge, which could not have been self-inflicted or be explained by a hanging. An alleged suicide note was found on the cell wall, but without Trentadue\u2019s signature.<\/p>\n

\n
\"A
Wounds on Trentadue\u2019s head were inconsistent with a hanging. [Source:\u00a0accountabilityutah.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A
Wounds on Trentadue\u2019s body which were inconsistent with a hanging. [Source:\u00a0accountabilityutah.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

Alden Gillis Baker witnessed three guards in full riot gear go into Trentadue\u2019s cell, heard sounds of a violent struggle, and then saw the guards leave the cell covered with blood.[130]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

A year after giving this testimony,\u00a0Baker, 47, was found hanging by a bed-sheet rope in his cell at the U.S. penitentiary in Lompoc, California<\/a>. The Justice Department refused to disclose any of the evidence or acknowledge that he had been threatened if he continued to speak out about having heard FTC guard Rodney DeChamplain admit that \u201che killed Trentadue.\u201d[131]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

In a further twist, the real John Doe #2, Richard Guthrie, was found hanging in a cell in the Kenton County, Kentucky, Jail on July 12, 1996, while awaiting disposition on a federal bank robbery case. Held in isolation as a protected witness after making a plea deal to shorten his sentence, Guthrie at the time was supposed to be on 20-minute guard watch, though was found dead more than 40 minutes after his last check.<\/p>\n

The coroner\u2019s report said he had been last seen six minutes before his hanging\u2014which is suspicious because forensics experts say it takes at least six minutes to die from hanging\u2014meaning he should have been discovered and saved.<\/p>\n

Guthrie also was not reported to be taking any prescription drugs, yet the coroner\u2019s laboratory data disclosed high levels of acetaminophen in his blood and phenylpropanolamine and pseudoephedrine in his urine.[132]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

According to Matthew Moning of the Cincinnati police department, the FBI had questioned Guthrie about the bombing and threatened him with the \u201cdeath penalty\u201d if money from bank robberies he had carried out was ever tied to the financing of McVeigh\u2019s plot.[133]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Before his death, Guthrie had been in contact with a\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/em>\u00a0reporter whom he told about his manuscript on the Aryan Republican Army, which mentioned a driver named \u201cTim.\u201d The book would have likely disclosed key information on the Oklahoma City bombing plot, which the authorities wanted to be kept secret.<\/p>\n

Classic Cover-up<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Police and rescue personnel were told in no uncertain terms by one of the lead federal officials that it was necessary for security reasons to provide the public with \u201cmisinformation\u201d regarding certain aspects of the case, and that the \u201cofficial line\u201d was not to be contradicted by any one of those in attendance.[134]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

When Republican State Representative Charles Key tried to initiate a House investigation into the bombing, he was stymied by Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating\u2014an FBI agent during COINTELPRO where he investigated left wing groups such as the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and its radical offshoot, the Weather Underground.<\/p>\n

Adamant that \u201ctwo evil men did this [the Oklahoma City bombing] and two evil men paid,\u201d Keating said that Key and others who questioned the official narrative were \u201chowling at the moon\u201d and \u201coff on reservations.\u201d[135]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\n
\"Charles
Charles Key [Source:\u00a0Ballotpedia.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Frank Keating [Source:\u00a0wikipedia.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said that Key was proposing a \u201cwasteful witch hunt\u201d and was \u201cpushing the worst kind of paranoid conspiracy pandering.\u201d[136]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

The Daily Oklahoman<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Tulsa World<\/em>\u00a0published nine separate editorials viciously attacking him and others who stood up to demand the truth about the bombing.[137]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0Tulsa World<\/em>\u00a0called Key a \u201cdedicated hustler\u201d peddling \u201cgoofy theories\u201d to \u201cright-wing crank audiences.\u201d[138]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\n
\"Oklahoma
Drew Edmondson [Source:\u00a0Oklahoman.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

When\u00a0General Benton K. Partin sent letters to dozens of members of Congress, they were characteristically ignored<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FBI Special Agent Ted Gunderson, who arrived with a major investigative team before the dust had even settled from the explosion, faxed critical information on the two detonations to Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) and to the news media but never heard back from either. He suspected that the media were not interested in publicizing the story, only gauging what information he had.<\/p>\n

He said that the bombing was a pre-planned event designed to \u201cfrighten the public\u201d and force Congress to pass draconian anti-terrorist legislation that imperils constitutional liberties and civil rights. In his assessment, the existing anti-terrorism guidelines were more than adequate to investigate terrorist groups within the U.S.; there was, thus, no reason for any new terrorist legislation.<\/p>\n

\"Ted
Ted Gunderson [Source:\u00a0wikipedia.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The government\u2019s decision to demolish the Murrah Federal Building on May 23, 1995\u2014less than a month after the bombing\u2014prevented an independent forensic investigation of the bomb site and destroyed key evidence that could have helped to clarify the facts about what happened.<\/p>\n

The demolition occurred after Timothy McVeigh\u2019s attorneys reached an agreement with the government to permit the building to be destroyed.[139]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

General Partin stated: \u201cIt\u2019s a classic cover-up.\u201d[140]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"A
Demolition of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on May 23, 1995. What evidence and secrets went down with it? [Source:\u00a0commons.wikimedia.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

McVeigh\u2019s defense team, in a legal brief, previously attested that the\u00a0government had failed to follow up on investigations into Strassmeir and Mahon\u2019s involvemen<\/a>t\u2014which they said would have\u00a0led back to the government\u2019s foreknowledge of the attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At McVeigh\u2019s trial, the only bomb expert to testify for the prosecution, Robert Hopler, worked for a reputed CIA front, Dyno-Nobel (later Hercules Powder Company).[141]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Key witnesses who contradicted the government\u2019s official story were excluded, including Benton K. Partin, along with records pointing to McVeigh\u2019s connection to Elohim City.<\/p>\n

When Carol Howe informed her ATF handlers prior to April 19, 1995, that\u00a0residents of Elohim City\u2014led by Strassmeir and Mahon\u2014were planning attacks on federal buildings, including the Murrah building<\/a>, she was accused of being \u201cunstable\u201d and indicted on trumped-up charges\u2014which she successfully fought in court.<\/p>\n

Grand juror Hoppy Heidelberg came to the conclusion that the government was covering up key facts in trying to narrow the case to McVeigh and Nichols; he expressed his belief on talk shows nationwide that there was a John Doe #2\u2014and probably #3 and #4\u2014and that the government was refusing to share the information with the American people.[142]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\n
\"Hoppy
Hoppy Heidelberg [Source:\u00a0162.243.41.32<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Heidelberg\u2019s view was shared by Holly Hanlin, a juror in Terry Nichols\u2019 trial who felt the government had failed to prove its case, and jury forewoman Niki Deutchman, who criticized the FBI\u2019s sloppy crime lab procedures and claimed agents were \u201carrogant\u201d for failing to tape-record Nichols\u2019 initial nine-hour interrogation.[143]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\n
\"USA:
Niki Deutchman [Source:\u00a0aparchive.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

FBI Cover-up<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The FBI investigation was marked by a pattern of dishonesty and corruption. The FBI\u2019s first-on-scene commander, Weldon Kennedy,\u00a0claimed there were no eyewitnesses when 24 people interviewed by the FBI said they saw McVeigh on April 19th<\/sup>\u00a0with another person<\/a>\u00a0(s).[144]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

After the bombing, the FBI confiscated surveillance tape from a convenience store that showed McVeigh buying a homeless man two beers after he had provided him a pay-off.[145]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

The FBI also confiscated surveillance cameras located in the parking lot across from the Murrah Building that would have shown precisely who got out of the Ryder truck and the Murrah building collapsing\u2014and verified whether it collapsed by cutting charges or a truck bomb.[146]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The FBI further seized surveillance footage taken by Trooper Charles Hanger upon his arrest of McVeigh which captured a brown pickup just ahead; afterwards, Hanger was instructed by the FBI not to talk to anyone.[147]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\n
\"Hanger
Charles Hanger [Source:\u00a0stwnewspress.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A
Charles Hanger approaching McVeigh\u2019s yellow Mercury. [Source:\u00a0ivppa.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

At McVeigh\u2019s trial, witnesses who had seen McVeigh outside the Murrah Building with other suspects were not asked to testify. Other witnesses were convinced to retract previous statements, intimidated, or forced to make statements that were favorable to the prosecution.<\/p>\n

\n
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Michael Fortier [Source:\u00a0nbcnews.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

A primary example of the latter was Michael Fortier, who served 11 years in prison as an accomplice to McVeigh. Originally, he told investigators that \u201che did not believe that McVeigh had blown up any building,\u201d and that his friend (McVeigh) was \u201cnot the face of terror as reported in Time Magazine.\u201d<\/p>\n

But after the FBI raided his home, Fortier reversed his statement, saying that he and McVeigh \u201ccased\u201d the federal building, in response to an offer for a plea bargain.[148]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Special Agent John Hersley contended that traces of military-type detonation cord known as PDTN (pentadirythri tetranitrate), commonly known as Primadet, were found on McVeigh\u2019s clothing at the time of his arrest (in another report it was PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate). PDTN was allegedly used to wire the barrels of ANFO.<\/p>\n

\n
\"JOHN
John Hersley [Source:\u00a0oklahomaof.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Senior FBI chemist Frederic Whitehurst conducted a test on McVeigh\u2019s clothing but found no residue there, or in McVeigh\u2019s car either. Whitehurst came forward with allegations that the FBI was slanting results of forensic tests for years; and that the explosives unit and chemistry and toxicology unit inappropriately structured their conclusions to favor the prosecution.[149]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\n
\"Dr.
Frederic Whitehurst [Source:\u00a0whistleblowers.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Whitehurst\u2019s allegations were further elaborated on in a highly revealing report issued by the Department of Justice\u2019s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), which concluded that the bombing investigation was one of the most serious cases of evidence tampering it had ever seen; that FBI investigator David Williams repeatedly reached conclusions that incriminated the defendants without a scientific basis and that were not explained in the body of the report.<\/p>\n

It appears that Williams reached his conclusions based, not on empirical evidence, but on the fact that Terry Nichols allegedly purchased large quantities of ANFO. As the OIG report states: \u201cwithout the evidence of these purchases, Williams admitted he would have been unable to conclude that ANFO was used. Indeed, Williams stated that, based on the post-blast scene alone, it could have been dynamite.\u201d[150]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Michael Riconosciuto told former FBI Agent Ted Gunderson that the theory of drums of ANFO being detonated by PDTN-soaked loops of rope or \u201cdet\u201d cord is highly improbable, if not impossible. \u201cThe only way to obtain blast control is with volumetric initiations. This takes electronic circuits of similar sophistication as would be required in nuclear weapons. This sophistication is not available to the average person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, the OIG report states that \u201cWhitehurst questions Williams\u2019 conclusion that none of the structural damage evident within the Murrah building was caused by secondary explosive devices or explosions.\u201d[151]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"Fbi
[Source:\u00a0libertarianinstitute.org<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carting Off Documents<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ten hours after the blast, 40-50 federal agents began carting away boxes of files from the ATF and DEA offices. An angry rescue worker told the\u00a0New York Daily News<\/em>\u00a0\u201cyou\u2019d think they would have let their evidence and files sit at least until the last survivor was pulled out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Approximately ten days after the blast, two white trucks pulled up to the postal annex across from the Murrah Building that was being used to store emergency supplies and a dozen men in black unmarked uniforms, wearing ski masks and carrying submachine guns, jumped out and formed a protective corridor to the building.<\/p>\n

As a witness watched, he observed \u201cbox after box of what appeared to be files or documents in boxes [that] were loaded on the unmarked trucks that looked like Ryder rental trucks but were white.\u201d<\/p>\n

The witness, a Tulsa Fire captain who was filming the site of the explosion, was told by one of the agents to put down his camera. His film was later confiscated.[152]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

What was in the documents remains a mystery, but one speculation is that contained details of the Mena drug smuggling\/money laundering operation overseen by then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton as the boxes were carted off from a DEA office.[153]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Throwing McVeigh Under the Bus<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After his conviction, McVeigh accused his lawyer, Stephen Jones, of lying and succeeding only in \u201cgetting him the death penalty.\u201d At the trial, Jones failed to present the letter McVeigh had written to his sister Jennifer describing his recruitment into a secret government team involved in illegal activities. He also did not call Benton K. Partin to testify, seismologist Ray Brown or other military experts who would have pointed to a far more powerful bomb than the ANFO bomb in the Ryder truck McVeigh drove.<\/p>\n

Carol Howe was also excluded\u2014by Judge Richard Matsch, a Nixon appointee who had a\u00a0background in military intelligence<\/a>\u2014though she testified at Nichols\u2019 trial.[154]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

A lifelong conservative practicing law in Enid, Oklahoma, Jones had started his career working for Richard M. Nixon.[155]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Former Nebraska State Senator John De Camp, who investigated a child-abuse ring run by high government officials, believes Jones had made a deal with the Feds which enabled the demolition of the Murrah Building in order to destroy the forensic evidence. This led to the impression that Jones had helped throw the trial.<\/p>\n

\"Image:
McVeigh confers with his lawyer, Stephen Jones, right, who McVeigh believed threw him under the bus. [Source:\u00a0nbcnews.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jones for his part expressed his belief that McVeigh had not received a fair trial because of the prosecution\u2019s withholding of evidence, exclusion of witnesses, and Judge Matsch\u2019s refusal to allow Carol Howe to testify\u2014after government agencies had willfully covered up information she had provided.<\/p>\n

When Jones filed a motion to examine the bomb crater at the scene, it was granted, but when they went there, the crater had been filled in and the government refused to allow him to uncover it. Jones further pointed to stonewalling tactics by the CIA which refused to release any documents to him that might have had relevance to the case, including pertaining to Islamic terrorism in the Philippines.[156]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"Richard
Judge Richard P. Matsch, in 1995, arriving at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City. [Source:\u00a0nytimes.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Media Blackout<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After the bombing, Glenn and Kathy Wilburn worked with\u00a0Unsolved Mysteries<\/em>\u00a0producer Stanley Brown to develop an entire show about the cover-up surrounding the bombing.<\/p>\n

Brown was convinced that the government had prior knowledge of the attacks. The day before the camera crew was supposed to arrive at Glenn and Kathy\u2019s home, Brown called them to tell them that the show had been cancelled\u2014 executives at the network had decided to call it off out of fear that the ATF and FBI would no longer cooperate with them on producing future shows.[157]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

\"Someone
[Source:\u00a0bloody-disgusting.com<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ABC News later also cancelled a show about Carol Howe. 20\/20 producer Don Thrasher and researcher Roger Charles, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant, had planned for ABC News host Peter Jennings to interview her. In its place, ABC ran a high-speed car chase from New Zealand.[158]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Wider Pattern<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Oklahoma City bombing conspiracy and cover-up appear to bear some disturbing parallels to the JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King assassinations.<\/p>\n

In each case, high-level government authorities wanted the public to believe that a deranged lone assassin was responsible (Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, James Earl Ray, Timothy McVeigh) and then corrupted the police investigation and rigged the legal process.<\/p>\n

The media did its duty by failing to probe deeply into the facts of the case, while maligning those who did as conspiracy theorists. Afterwards, key witnesses turned up dead, and others were threatened.<\/p>\n

McVeigh had in common with Oswald and Ray his recruitment as a government agent during his army service. The three were clearly set up to take the fall for a wider conspiracy.<\/p>\n

One other disturbing parallel is with the 9\/11 terrorist attacks: Engineering experts believe that the World Trade Center towers came down on 9\/11 from internal explosives\/demolition\u2014with\u00a0witnesses testifying to large explosions and destruction of the basement\/lobby areas of WTC 1, WTC 2, and WTC 7 prior to the total disintegration of those buildings<\/a>.[159]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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Thus, the bombing of the Murrah Building may have served as a test case or trial run for 9\/11. Both appear to have been part of a \u201cstrategy of tension,\u201d[160]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0whose aim was to instill fear in the public and enable passage of draconian anti-terrorist legislation that has transformed the U.S. into more of a police and garrison state\u2014contrary to the so-called espoused principles upon which the U.S. was founded.<\/p>\n

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  1. Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck,\u00a0American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City Bombing<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Regan Books, 2001).\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Kathy Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City: A Grieving Grandmother Uncovers Shocking Truths About the Bombing\u2026and Herself<\/em>\u00a0(Arlington, TX: Master Strategies, 2005), ch. 9. The Executive Secretary\u2019s office at the Justice Department also received warning of the bombing 24 minutes before but warned no one.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. In early May, Franey, curiously, showed up at the home of Glenn and Kathy Wilburn\u2014whose two grandsons were killed in the daycare center\u2014with his hands bandaged from injuries he claimed to have received while clawing his way out of the bombing rubble. (Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 80, 81). The Sheriff\u2019s video from the day of the attacks, however, showed Mr. Franey shaking hands with law enforcement officials. He\u00a0told a local news reporter that he had been unharmed by the blast and escaped the ninth floor through the stairs<\/a>\u00a0after being trapped. A picture showed him at ground zero free of dust.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, ch. 9; Victor Thorn,\u00a0Hillary (and Bill): The Murder Volume, Part Three of the Clinton Trilogy<\/em>\u00a0(Washington, DC: American Free Press\/Sisyphus, 2008).\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Thorn,\u00a0Hillary (and Bill)<\/em>; David Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>\u00a0(Venice, CA: Feral House, 1998), 1. This theory is given credence by the fact that eyewitnesses and local news channels\u00a0reported on the existence of a second and third bomb within the first few hours of the explosion<\/a>. An ANFO bomb that detonated at the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, a U.S. army barracks killed 20 people, a non bomb proof building, when the Murrah building was bomb proof, the implication being the ANFO bomb would have done far less damage there.\u00a0Significantly, the columns remained standing directly across the sidewalk from the Ryder truck where the ANFO bomb allegedly detaonetd as opposed to those that had collapsed more than 50 feet away<\/a>, Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles believe that Partin overestimated the strength of the concrete pillars and failed to appreciate the powers of gravity to pull down part of the building once key support columns had been weakened. Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles,\u00a0Oklahoma City: What the Investigation missed\u2014and Why it Still Matters<\/em>\u00a0(New York: William Morrow, 2012), 53.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 2, 5, 19; John W. DeCamp,\u00a0The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska<\/em>\u00a0(Lincoln, NE: AWT Inc., 1992), 343, 344; Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 197; Jon Rappoport,\u00a0Oklahoma City Bombing: The Suppressed Truth<\/em>\u00a0(Escondido, CA: The Book Tree, 1995), 72, 73. Dr. Roger Raubach, a Ph.D. in physical chemistry who served on the faculty at Stanford University, said that his assessment as a scientist was that \u201call the AP, UPI type-stuff, what is bandied about by Dan Rather, all that is B.S.\u201d The kind of damage that was done to a heavy structure like the Alfred P. Murrah Building could only have been done by military explosives. Raubach also noted that the effect of explosives lessens dramatically with distance\u2014making further unlikely that the Ryder truck ANFO bomb could have taken down the building (it would have had to knock out a whole wall of the building first). Ammonium nitrate bombs were used in the past to loosen up dirt in mining operations, not destroy the whole mine. Sam Gronning, a licensed professional blaster in Casper, Wyoming, with 30 years\u2019 experience in explosives, told a journalist that \u201cthe Partin letter states in very precise technical terms what everyone in the business knows: No truck bomb of ANFO out in the open is going to cause the kind of damage we had there in Oklahoma City. In 30 years of blasting, using everything from 100 percent nitroged to ANFO, I\u2019ve not seen anything to support that story.\u201d Gronning added that the destruction of the Murrah Building very likely came from a demolition.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Craig Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II: The Politics of Terror and the Oklahoma City Bombing<\/em>\u00a0(Sydney Australia: Consolidated Press International, 2017), 38, 56.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. James D. Nichols, as told to Robert Papovich,\u00a0Freedom\u2019s End: Conspiracy in Oklahoma<\/em>\u00a0(Decker, MI: Freedom\u2019s End, 1997), 74.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 2, 18.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Riconosciuto had drugs planted on him and was sentenced to 30 years in prison after he became a whistleblower.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 12.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 12.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 13.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 24, 27. Employees suggested that planting the bomb would have been easy because of lax security in the late night and early morning hours, when nobody guarded the building.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. Chuck Harder, and Pat Shannan, \u201c\u2018OKC Bombing\u2019\u2014The Forerunner to 9\/11,\u201d\u00a0https:\/\/www.moddb.com\/groups\/government-corruption\/videos\/oklahoma-city-bombing-forerunner-to-9-11<\/a>\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Rappoport,\u00a0Oklahoma City Bombing<\/em>, 28, 71, 72.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 21.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. Thorn,\u00a0Hillary (and Bill)<\/em>.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 18.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 68; Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 287, 320. Smith\u2019s husband believed \u201cthey would have had to have had some kind of warning to respond that quick because they would have had to get in their gear and everything.\u201d\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 287, 320; Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 66, 67. Dan Adomitis, an Oklahoma City attorney headed downtown to a charity board meeting, also saw the bomb squad around the same time as Joslin. Joslin had her house broken into twice after her story appeared in a local newspaper. Frightened, she took early retirement and moved out of the state of Oklahoma. The bomb squad incidentally denied being there. Another witness, J.D. Reed, said the bomb squad was there before he ran down the street [to escape the blast], prompting more questions about how they could move so quickly.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  22. Gumbel and Charles,\u00a0Oklahoma City<\/em>, 33.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  23. Gumbel and Charles,\u00a0Oklahoma City<\/em>, 71, 72, 73; Nichols,\u00a0Freedom\u2019s End<\/em>, 134, 135, 314.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  24. Gumbel and Charles,\u00a0Oklahoma City<\/em>, 33. There are parallels with the\u00a0NORAD training exercise occurring on 9\/11.<\/a>\u00a0John Haynie told a Grand Jury in 1998 that he focused on honing his team\u2019s surveillance skills. Gumbel and Charles speculate that he may have been involved in a different operation, with the training session acting as a cover story\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  25. Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 245.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  26. Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 90.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  27. Gumbel and Charles,\u00a0Oklahoma City<\/em>, 33, 34, 39. Debbie Nakanashi, a window clerk at the center city post office across the street from the Murrah building indicated to a congressional investigator that she had seen sniffer dogs but was ordered by her superiors not to talk about them. There were rumors that the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, which inexplicably brought three out of town agents into Oklahoma City on the evening before the bombing, had also been forewarned. Republican Congressman Steve Stockman of Texas received a fax from a Michigan militia leader, Mark Koernke, specifying that a bomb had been set off in Oklahoma minutes before it actually had.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  28. Snell, a white supremacist leader in Arkansas,\u00a0had killed a pawn shop owner, William Stumpp, he erroneously thought was a Jew and a Black police officer<\/a>. He\u00a0purported to have video of Bill Clinton visiting the Mena International Airport<\/a>\u00a0where drugs and arms smuggling operations were carried out to the Nicaraguan Contras.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  29. Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 205.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  30. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 27.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  31. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 26.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  32. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 27.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  33. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 28, 361.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  34. Idem<\/em>.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  35. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 216; David Paul Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing<\/em>\u00a0(Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2010), 208, 209.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  36. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 25.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  37. Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 361.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  38. Rappoport,\u00a0Oklahoma City Bombing<\/em>, 82. The bomb afterwards did not give off a lot of soot\u2014implying it was made by a professional.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  39. Nichols,\u00a0Freedom\u2019s End<\/em>, 69, 70, 71. The\u00a0intent of the Dipole Might experiments in 1994 included making videos and computer models to be displayed in a courtroom to aid in the prosecution of defendants in vehicle bomb cases, according to government documents<\/a>. Investigator Pat Shannan writes: \u201cDespite only one known case in almost 25 years, why did Clintons NSC anticipate a need for detailed information regarding ANFO vehicle bomb attacks a few months prior to the Oklahoma City blast?\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  40. Nichols,\u00a0Freedom\u2019s End<\/em>, 71.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  41. Danielle Hunt, who operated the Stars and Stripes Child Development Center in the Murrah Building, told the FBI that, on December 16, 1994, McVeigh, wearing camouflage fatigues, approached her seeking to place his two children in the day care center but asked only questions about the day care center\u2019s security. This contradicted McVeigh\u2019s claim that he did not know that there was a child-care center in the Murrah Building. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 25.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  42. Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 91, 92.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  43. Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 150. Mike Moroz, who worked at Johnny\u2019s Tire Company,\u00a0and Danny Wilkerson who worked at a convenience store, identified McVeigh on the fateful morning in the company of other men. Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 89, 252.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  44. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 362.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  45. Stuart A. Wright,\u00a0Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 193. Terry Nichols himself admitted that others were involved besides McVeigh, himself and Michael Fortier. Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 412.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  46. Michel and Herbeck,\u00a0American Terrorist<\/em>, ch .1 (\u201cThe Boy Next Door\u201d). See also Brandon M. Stickney,\u00a0\u201cAll-American Monster\u201d: The Unauthorized Biography of Timothy McVeigh<\/em>\u00a0(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1996).\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  47. McVeigh\u2019s superior at Fort Riley, Kansas, Albert Warnement sad that McVeigh was\u00a0\u201cwithout a doubt the best soldier I have ever trained with.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  48. Gumbel and Charles,\u00a0Oklahoma City<\/em>, 169.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  49. Michel and Herbeck,\u00a0American Terrorist<\/em>, 75; Rappoport,\u00a0Oklahoma City Bombing,<\/em>\u00a039. McVeigh said that \u201cwe were falsely hyped up [to kill Iraqis], and they are normal like you and me.\u201d Gumbel and Charles,\u00a0Oklahoma City<\/em>, 170.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  50. Michel and Herbeck,\u00a0American Terrorist.\u00a0<\/em>Pierce was a\u00a0former member of the American Nazi Party<\/a>. In the novel, after the passage of a law called the Cohen Act makes gun ownership a crime, the Organization\u2014led by protagonist Earl Turner\u2014rises up against \u201cthe Jewish-liberal-democratic-equalitarian plague,\u201d slaughtering Jews and Blacks wholesale to establish an all-white \u201cNew Era\u201d at the end of the 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  51. Jo Thomas, \u201cMcVeigh Letters Before Blast Show the Depth of His Anger,\u201d\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>, July 1, 1998, https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1998\/07\/01\/us\/mcveigh-letters-before-blast-show-the-depth-of-his-anger.html.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  52. Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 108, 410.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  53. Rappoport,\u00a0Oklahoma City Bombing<\/em>, 23, 69.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  54. Kathleen Belew,\u00a0Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018), 211.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  55. Wendy S. Painting,\u00a0Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh<\/em>\u00a0(Walterville, OR: Trine Day LLC, 2016), 253. Some of the classified research was applicable to telemetrics, part of an ongoing military project to track soldiers on the battlefield. For a period, McVeigh set up a mailbox in Colorado where he may have gone to Executive Security International School (ESI) in Grand Junction, which provided training to Special Forces soldiers in executive protection, investigation, and intelligence operations, including anti-terrorism.<\/li>\n
  56. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 53; Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 419. Calspan was instrumental in REDCAP, an Air Force electronic warfare system that winds through every Department of Defense facility in the country. McVeigh worked for another defense contractor, Burns International Security services in Buffalo.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  57. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 56.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  58. Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 109, 110, 402; Nichols,\u00a0Freedom\u2019s End,\u00a0<\/em>350.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  59. Belew,\u00a0Bring the War Home<\/em>, 213. McVeigh spent time in Kingman Arizona with accomplice Michael Fortier who said he had wanted to start his own militia there.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  60. Gumbel and Charles,\u00a0Oklahoma City,<\/em>\u00a0240, 250-51; Boltzmann Booty, \u201cThe CIA Asset Who Funded the OKC Bombing,\u201d\u00a0Garrison: The Journal of History and Deep Politics<\/em>, January 2023, 20. Moore was never prosecuted, adding to the likelihood that he was being protected by the FBI or intelligence agencies. In 2005, the FBI raided the former Kansas residence Terry Nichols where they seized a cache of explosives. Nichols said that Moore and other bombing conspirators\u2019 (notably Richard Lee Guthrie) fingerprints would be found among items in the explosives cache, though the FBI never followed up on the lead and destroyed the evidence. Richard Booth, \u201cThe 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing: A Case Study in FBI Corruption and Failure,\u201d\u00a0Garrison: The Journal of History and Deep Politics<\/em>, March 2022, 77.\u2191<\/li>\n
  61. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets,\u00a0<\/em>30, 34, 35, 40. McVeigh was under the illusion that, afterwards, he would be protected. In the summer of 1993, McVeigh traveled to several U.S. Army bases where he engaged in maneuvers with U.S. troops, though his real purpose was to scout armories in the attempt to obtain large destructive weapons for the mission.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  62. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets<\/em>, 78.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  63. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets<\/em>, 31. When McVeigh was arrested after the bombing, the state trooper (Charles Hanger) who arrested and booked him into jail, turned in a security badge had in his possession, which McVeigh said was an official badge given to him by \u201cThe Major.\u201d (Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets<\/em>, 78).\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  64. Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 418.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  65. Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 109.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  66. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 341; Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets,<\/em>\u00a069, 70. There is speculation that McVeigh believed he was on a secret government mission and was told to deliver a truck and did not know he had killed anyone.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  67. Stephen Jones, and Peter Israel,\u00a0Others Unknown: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Public Affairs, 1998), 100; Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 235; Nichols,\u00a0Freedom\u2019s End<\/em>, 223, 224, 228, 230.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  68. Gumbel and Charles,\u00a0Oklahoma City,<\/em>\u00a034, 35, 36; Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 59, 62.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  69. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets<\/em>, 68.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  70. The Justice Department later advanced disinformation trying to discredit Eldon Elliott, the owner of the shop\u2019s observation that McVeigh was accompanied by another man. Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City,<\/em>\u00a0200.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  71. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 94\u00a0.Elliot\u2019s body shop was very visible off the main interstate, making it a poor place to rent a truck for a crime unless the culprits wanted to be identified and it was all a set up.<\/li>\n
  72. Jones,\u00a0Others Unknown<\/em>, 331; Penny Nolan and Nolan Clay, \u201cMotel Clerk Puts McVeigh with Truck,\u201d\u00a0The Oklahoman<\/em>, May 9, 1997; Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 118.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  73. Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 119. A maid saw a man in McVeigh\u2019s room who looked like he was Puerto Rican\u2014after she thought McVeigh had checked out.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  74. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 233, 234; Jones,\u00a0Others Unknown<\/em>, 358. Jones emphasizes that there is no way of knowing who made any of the calls charged to the Daryl Bridges credit card. McVeigh\u2019s fingerprints, curiously, were not found at Elliott\u2019s, in the Ryder rental paperwork, or in motel rooms where McVeigh stayed, or in the storage lockers where McVeigh allegedly stored the bomb-making materials. Afterwards, Eldon Elliott, who rented the Ryder truck to McVeigh, was told not to talk to anyone about the case. The FBI enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with Ryder Trucks; its CEO, Anthony Mitchell, was a member of the Trilateral Commission.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  75. Jones,\u00a0Others Unknown<\/em>, 100; Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 232.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  76. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 236.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  77. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 94.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  78. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard,\u00a0The Secret Life of Bill Clinton\u00a0<\/em>(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishers, 1997), 88.\u00a0\u2191<\/a>Note: It is suspicious that there were two yellow Mercury Marquis\u2019 1970s vintage model spotted in downtown Oklahoma City just before the bombing of the Murrah building. This could have been part of the staging of the crime scene and attempt to create an association in the public mind with McVeigh and the vehicle to make the public believe in the lone bomber scenario.<\/li>\n
  79. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 96. McVeigh at the time of the bombing was wearing a t-shirt featuring a picture of John Wilkes Booth on the front and a tree with red blood droplets on the back along with a quote from Thomas Jefferson that said: \u201cThe tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.\u201d Jon Rappoport speculates that McVeigh did not shoot officer Charles Hanger because he did not think he had done anything wrong; he may have been under the impression the bomb in the Ryder truck was a small one designed to set off symbolic fireworks to protest the Waco raid. Rappoport,\u00a0Oklahoma City Bombing<\/em>, 96. Another theory is that McVeigh was instructed to turn himself in by his handlers whom he believed would bail him out of jail.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  80. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets<\/em>, 78; Nichols,\u00a0Freedom\u2019s End<\/em>, 213; Richard Booth, \u201cAll Points Bulletin: Timothy McVeigh and the Brown Pickup Truck,\u201d\u00a0Garrison: The Journal of Deep History and Politics<\/em>, May 2023, 127-135. Colbert was later arrested in Arizona, but the FBI never investigated any link between him and the Murrah Building bombing. A brown pickup truck had been spotted in the vicinity of the Murrah Federal Building just before the bombing.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  81. Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 130.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  82. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 230.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  83. Jayna Davis,\u00a0The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing<\/em>\u00a0(Nashville, TN: Thomas Dunne, 2008), 57, 338.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  84. Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 130.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  85. Jones,\u00a0Others Unknown<\/em>, 152; Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 190, 191, 199; Davis,\u00a0The Third Terrorist,\u00a0<\/em>57, 242; Peter Dale Scott, \u201cSystemic Destabilization in Recent American History: 9\/11, the JFK Assassination and the Oklahoma City Bombing as a Strategy of Tension,\u201d\u00a0The Asia Pacific Journal<\/em>, September 22, 2012,\u00a0https:\/\/apjjf.org\/2012\/10\/39\/Peter-Dale-Scott\/3835\/article.html<\/a>. Nichols traveled to the country sometimes on his own, without Torres. He told his family he was bringing back paper butterflies\u2014curious merchandise for a man who had wanted to set himself up in the military surplus business.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  86. Davis,\u00a0The Third Terrorist<\/em>, 242. Nichols had renounced his U.S. citizenship and, with his brother, supported the defense fund of holocaust denier David Irving.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  87. Davis,\u00a0The Third Terrorist,\u00a0<\/em>57, 243, Lana Padilla, with Ron Delpit,\u00a0By Blood Betrayed: My Life with Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Harper\u2019s, 1995), 3.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  88. Though initially starting out as a pacifist enclave, Millar came to host numerous violent extremists at Elohim City, including Gordon Kahl and Chevie Kehoe who murdered an Oklahoma family, in his attempt to kick-start a revolution. Required reading was\u00a0Mein Kampf<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Turner Diaries<\/em>.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  89. Evans-Pritchard,\u00a0The Secret Life of Bill Clinton<\/em>, 86. Lawson considered McVeigh\u2019s political views repugnant. She said that he would make racial slurs and said that \u201cHitler would have been a great leader for the world. If he planned it better, it might have worked out, and we\u2019d have an Aryan world.\u201d This may have been part of his cover. The prosecution and media deliberately suppressed McVeigh\u2019s connection to the Aryan Nation, and instead created the impression that he was an anti-government radical out to avenge Waco.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  90. Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 119. Brescia was a part-time student at Lasalle University who came from a middle class family and joined or infiltrated the Aryan nation.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  91. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets,\u00a0<\/em>76; Wright,\u00a0Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing<\/em>, 188; Gumbel and Charles,\u00a0Oklahoma City<\/em>, 86, 87, 88; Booth, \u201cThe 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing,\u201d 77.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  92. Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 232; Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 103.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  93. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets,\u00a0<\/em>202. Strassmeir later removed tags with McVeigh\u2019s name from some army fatigues of his he had in his possession in order to try to disassociate himself from McVeigh.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  94. Belew,\u00a0Bring the War Home<\/em>, 236.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  95. In an interview with the\u00a0London Sunday Telegraph<\/em>, Strassmeir stated that part of his work was to detect infiltration by foreign agents and then feed them disinformation. It was widely believed that he was an agent for the German anti-terrorist unit, the GSG-9. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets<\/em>, 129.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  96. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets<\/em>, 129; Gumbel and Charles,\u00a0Oklahoma City,<\/em>\u00a097. Strassmeir was photographed in the company of General Rafael Eitan, the architect of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  97. Evans-Pritchard,\u00a0The Secret Life of Bill Clinton<\/em>. J.D. Cash reported in the\u00a0McCurtain Daily Gazette<\/em>\u00a0that a highly placed FBI official confirmed to him that Strassmeir was a paid government informant sent by the ATF to infiltrate Elohim City. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets<\/em>, 133. Evans-Pritchard suggests that Strassmeir may have also been simultaneously working as an undercover German intelligence officer infiltrating U.S. neo-Nazis\u2014as the Germans for many years felt that U.S. neo-Nazis were stirring up the German far right.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  98. Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 132.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  99. Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 135.\u00a0\u2191<\/a>\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  100. Gumbel and Charles,\u00a0Oklahoma City,<\/em>\u00a0266.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  101. Gumbel and Charles,\u00a0Oklahoma City,<\/em>\u00a098. Petruskie allegedly killed a Soviet spy in the 1950s and left him hanging in the Reichstag ruins. According to Craig Roberts, Petruskie interacted with a cabal of ex-military men and former and current CIA employees who were involved in gun running, mercenary action, espionage, drug trafficking, blackmail, subversion and money laundering. Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 95.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  102. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 133. The\u00a0McCurtain Daily Gazette<\/em>\u00a0reported on July 14, 1996, that a \u201chighly placed source at the FBI confirmed that Andreas Carl Strassmeir was a paid government informant sent by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to infiltrate Elohim City.\u201d\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  103. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>; Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 143.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  104. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets.<\/em>\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  105. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>. 137.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  106. Evans-Pritchard,\u00a0The Secret Life of Bill Clinton<\/em>, ch. 5; Jones,\u00a0Others Unknown<\/em>, ch. 12; Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma Cit<\/em>y, 131. Mahon was arrested in 2009 for the 2004 mail bombing of a state diversity official in Arizona. He allegedly told his cellmate at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago, Alan C. Scott, that he\u00a0had known Timothy McVeigh<\/a>, had\u00a0sold him the Anarchist\u2019s Cookbook<\/a>, and was the\u00a0\u201cnumber three anonymous person in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  107. Belew,\u00a0Bring the War Home,<\/em>\u00a0219.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  108. In the incident that led her into the white supremacist movement, Howe was forced to jump off a building to save herself and broke her ankles and legs. She\u00a0became a close personal associate of Mahon<\/a>\u00a0before becoming an\u00a0ATF informant in August 1994<\/a>. She was\u00a0indicted on a phony explosives charge in 1997 she believes as a signal to keep her mouth shut about what she knew about Strassmeir and Mahon<\/a>. (Howe was ultimately acquitted of the charge.)\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  109. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 231, 416.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  110. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 147; Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets<\/em>, 145, 146, 201. FBI documents reference an FBI undercover operation at Elohim City.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  111. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets<\/em>, 133; Ambrose-Pritchard,\u00a0The Secret Life of Bill Clinton<\/em>, 63; Wright,\u00a0Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing<\/em>, 12, 189. Ricks explained his reason for canceling the federal raid in this way: \u201cI do remember I told them I didn\u2019t want another Waco on our hands.\u201d ATF Director John McGraw said the decision to halt the raid came from higher up than Ricks. Gumbel and Charles,\u00a0Oklahoma City<\/em>, 275. McGraw said the ATF was not at the time prepared logistically to carry out the raid. Craig Roberts notes that the raid was scrapped after senior members of the ATF, FBI and U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office met. Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 114.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  112. Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 121, 426.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  113. Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 430.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  114. Gumbel and Charles,\u00a0Oklahoma City<\/em>, 86; Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 100. The Secret Service intervened and had Langan released after he was caught robbing a pizza hut in Georgia. After his capture in Cincinnati, Ohio, Langan\u2019s white van was shot up by the FBI, U.S. Marshal\u2019s and local police, though he survived. Langan is now a transgender woman named Donna who has renounced her previous racist views and was transferred to a female penitentiary, where she is serving a 240-year sentence. Langan was a high school friend of Guthrie\u2019s; the two grew up near each other in Wheaton Maryland.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  115. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets<\/em>, 42, 43, 202. Roberts in\u00a0The Medusa File II\u00a0<\/em>alternatively suggests that financing may have come from drug smuggling and as a result of collaboration of Mexican and\/or Colombian drug cartels that were in the pockets of the CIA.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  116. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets,\u00a0<\/em>74, 75.\u00a0<\/em>Poindexter\u2019s body was loaded onto the Ryder truck and obliterated when the bomb went off.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  117. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets,\u00a0<\/em>75.\u00a0<\/em>Craig Roberts suggests that McVeigh may not have actually been executed. In his book, he quotes Dr. Lorraine Day, former chief of orthapedic surgery at San Francisco General Hospital, who said that the execution was \u201ca farce.\u201d The government unusually flew in its own executioner complete with his own drugs. The IV that was supposed to deliver the lethal injection dose was placed in McVeigh\u2019s leg, rather than the arm, hand, foot or an area near the clavicle to gain access to a large vein directly to the heart, which was standard practice. A witness to the execution, Susan Carlson, a reporter for WLS-AM Radio in Chicago stated on air that McVeigh \u201cappeared to be still breathing or what appeared to be shallow breathing, even after being pronounced dead, and his eyes remained open.\u201d Afterwards, McVeigh\u2019s body was transported away in a government van allegedly to a funeral home where it was to be cremated and the ashes given to his attorney. Roberts wonders whether the \u201cMajor\u201d or \u201cSarge\u201d took care of McVeigh? Does he have a new identity, and is now somewhere living off his half of the $2.5 million dollars placed in a private account as described by Nichols. Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II,<\/em>\u00a0422.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  118. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror;<\/em>\u00a0Derick L. Hulme, Jr.,\u00a0The Domestic Politics of Terrorism: Lessons From the Clinton Administration<\/em>\u00a0(Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020), xii. Clinton performed masterfully after the bombing, with a mix of soothing talk for the victims and tough talk for the perpetrators while proposing new legislation against terrorism designed to prevent future attacks.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  119. James D. Boys,\u00a0Clinton\u2019s War on Terror<\/em>:\u00a0Redefining U.S. Security Strategy, 1993-2001<\/em>\u00a0(Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2018), 98; Rappoport,\u00a0Oklahoma City Bombing<\/em>, 47. Clinton complained when the bill was held up in Congress, stating that \u201cthe tools we need to fight terrorism have been shoved into a dark corner of the House of Representatives by an alliance of extremists on the left and right.\u201d Hulme, Jr.,\u00a0The Domestic Politics of Terrorism<\/em>, 52.<\/li>\n
  120. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 378, 386.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  121. Peter Dale Scott, \u201cSystemic Destabilization in Recent American History: 9\/11, the JFK Assassination and the Oklahoma City Bombing as a Strategy of Tension,\u201d\u00a0The Asia Pacific Journal<\/em>, September 22, 2012,\u00a0https:\/\/apjjf.org\/2012\/10\/39\/Peter-Dale-Scott\/3835\/article.html<\/a>. Secret liaison agreements\u2014with Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan\u2014may have provided the cover for the CIA to secretly withhold information before 9\/11 about the designated 9\/11 culprits Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar. In this way, 4\/19 in 1995 paved the way for 9\/11 and ascendant fascism in the U.S.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  122. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 288; Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, ch. 16; Thomas Lake, \u201cWhy Does This Cop Turn Up Dead?\u201d\u00a0CNN<\/em>, March 3, 2023, https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2023\/03\/us\/oklahoma-city-bombing-yeakey-death-cec-cnnphotos\/. The shot also came from a downward angle, ruling out suicide, because a large man like Yeakey would have had to have shot the gun at an upward angle, or at most level. The media claimed Yeakey was wracked with guilt about having survived the bombing and led a troubled family life, which led him to commit suicide. However, Canadian County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Mike Ramsey, who drove Yeakey home the day of his death said he did not appear to be suicidal. He had received death threats beginning days after the bombing, and members of his family were spied upon and had their homes broken into afterwards.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  123. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror,\u00a0<\/em>295. Yeakey also allegedly was demanding information from Oklahoma City Councilman Mark Schwartz, who was later appointed to a high-paying job in the Department of Energy\u2019s legal department in Washington, D.C. in December 1998, even though he had no previous legal experience in the energy area.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  124. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror,\u00a0<\/em>292, 293.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  125. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror,<\/em>\u00a0296. Sergeant Don Browning, a K9 unit police officer for OKC who himself pulled many living and dead out of the Murrah rubble that day,\u00a0stated that no autopsy should have been done and that the OKC police chief Sam Gonzales and the FBI had covered up the circumstances of Yeakey\u2019s death<\/a>.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  126. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror,\u00a0<\/em>297; Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 365, 366. In August 1997, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ted Richardson was found dead in a church parking lot with a shotgun wound to his chest. Oddly, the medical examiner found no powder residue on his chest when he had allegedly pushed the shotgun to his chest before pulling the trigger. Richardson was the bombing and arson specialist for the Western District of Oklahoma; a man with a good conscience who was skeptical of the government\u2019s case. He was inexplicably transferred to the bank robbery detail after the bombing\u2014an area about which he had no expertise.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  127. Evans-Pritchard,\u00a0The Secret Life of Bill Clinton<\/em>, 87, 88.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  128. Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 107, 108.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  129. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets<\/em>, 186, 187. The uncanny resemblance between Guthrie and Trentadue led the latter\u2019s brother Jesse, an attorney, to believe that McVeigh was right.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  130. James Ridgeway, \u201cIn Search of John Doe No. 2: The Story the Feds Never Told About the Oklahoma City Bombing,\u201d\u00a0Mother Jones,<\/em>\u00a0July\/August 2007; Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets,<\/em>\u00a0150-75; Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>, 273, 274. Trentadue\u2019s cell itself was covered in blood on the floor, ceiling and walls, requiring a mop to clean it all up (no blood was found though on the light fixture and air vent where he had supposedly hanged himself). A forensic pathologist, Miles Jones, ruled Trentadue\u2019s death a homicide, saying he died by strangulation. A lot of the evidence afterwards disappeared. The physician at the jail admitted to lying about performing CPR. The inmates in cells next to Trentadue were warned to keep silent and then sent into isolation, and the chief medical examiner for the state of Oklahoma was threatened by two guards while conducting an investigation of the holding cell where Trentadue died. Then Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder was considered a \u201cpoint man\u201d in the coverup of Trentadue\u2019s death.\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  131. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets<\/em>, 182. Another inmate had been warned that Baker would \u201cbe found swinging from a bedsheet\u201d if he continued to speak out.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  132. Hammer,\u00a0Deadly Secrets<\/em>, 194, 195, Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 232..\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  133. Gumbel and Charles,\u00a0Oklahoma City<\/em>, 301.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  134. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror,\u00a0<\/em>288.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  135. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, x, xi, 277. Keating served as Assistant Attorney General under Edwin Meese, who refused to investigate the firebombing of MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia in 1985 by the Philadelphia police in a raid that killed 11 people, including five children, and destroyed several square blocks of the city. Meese would later be implicated in the October Surprise scandal\u2014which put Ronald Reagan in the White House through a secret deal for the release of hostages in Iran after the defeat of Jimmy Carter\u2014and then helped cover up the Iran-Contra affair and Inslaw affair. Keating served in the first Bush administration as Assistant Treasury Secretary during the Iran-Contra investigations. Keating was connected to Bush as part of the old boy network at the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa\u2014with the word in Tulsa being that Bush was Keating\u2019s political godfather. According to the\u00a0Portland Free Press<\/em>, \u201cin his position, Keating could control both the investigative and prosecutorial side of any scandal that came his way.\u201d Keating was in perfect position to do damage control for the Oklahoma City bombing\u2014he could have halted the hurried demolition but did not. He was the one to stumble across the axle of the Ryder truck a block away from the bombing, allowing for identification of the VIN number that was used to identify the truck. Incredibly, Keating\u2019s brother Martin wrote a\u00a0book<\/a>\u00a0telegraphing that Oklahoma City bombing in 1991. The attack in Keating\u2019s book was carried out by a character named Tom McVey who is arrested by the Oklahoma Highway patrol because of a cracked headlight, very similar to the reason McVeigh was apprehended.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  136. Several months after his scandalous smear campaign against Key, Governor Keating was accused by the Oklahoma Ethics Commission of 32 violations of using state-owned vehicles for political fund-raising, including the state\u2019s $2.9 million airplane.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  137. Charles Key, foreword to Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, x, xi.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  138. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 269. The\u00a0Tulsa World<\/em>\u00a0further accused Key of profit-making from the sale of his bombing videos. Unmentioned by the\u00a0Tulsa World<\/em>\u00a0was the recent loss of Key\u2019s insurance business due to his ceaseless efforts to investigate the bombing and his attempts to support his wife and three children in a ramshackle house on a $33,000-a-year salary. Polls showed, however, that an overwhelming majority of Oklahomans supported Key\u2019s efforts.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  139. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 23; DeCamp,\u00a0The Franklin Cover-Up<\/em>, 345. General Partin, along with Senator James Inhofe and Charles Key, had asked Congress that the Murrah Building not be destroyed until an independent forensics team could be brought in. the official reason for demolishing the building was allegedly because of health concerns\u2014a similar reason why the Branch Davidian compound in Waco had been destroyed, hence covering up evidence that the Feds had fired from helicopters into the roof of the building during the early part of the raid, killing several people, including a nursing mother. The rubble from the Murrah Building was afterwards hauled by Midwest Wrecking to a landfill surrounded by a guarded, barbed wire fence, sifted for evidence with the help of the National Guard, then subsequently hauled off to BFI Waste Management and buried.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  140. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 23.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  141. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 253.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  142. DeCamp,\u00a0The Franklin Cover-Up,\u00a0<\/em>343, 344; Stickney,\u00a0\u201cAll American Monster,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0255.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  143. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 416.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  144. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 160, 161; Booth, \u201cThe 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing.\u201d The FBI ignored information from a federal informant, Gary Gagan, and Tulsa police veteran Craig Roberts about involvement of Mexican drug traffickers and Middle Eastern terrorists in the bomb conspiracy.<\/li>\n
  145. Rappoport,\u00a0Oklahoma City Bombing<\/em>, 75.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  146. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 262; Roberts,\u00a0The Medusa File<\/em>, 34; Painting,\u00a0Aberration in the Heartland of the Real,<\/em>\u00a051, 52. This was reminiscent of the confiscation of Abraham Zapruder\u2019s footage of the Kennedy assassination and confiscation of photographs taken by Scott Enyart at the Ambassador Hotel the night Robert F. Kennedy was shot.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  147. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 263, 280. The pickup was allegedly driven by Steven Colbern.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  148. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 264. Juror Hoppy Heidelberg said that \u201cthe FBI relied on a man, Fortier, who really couldn\u2019t provide anything important to them. You need to remember that. That\u2019s important.\u201d\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  149. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 6; Booth, \u201cThe 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing;\u201d Painting,\u00a0Aberration in the Heartland of the Real<\/em>, 52. As a whistleblower, Whitehurst was treated severely and fired by the FBI\u00a0<\/a>who ultimately settled in court, paying him $1.2 million and an undisclosed sum for damages. His complaint was verified by the Justice Department\u2019s Inspector General which found that the FBI\u2019s crime lab investigations contained \u201cserious flaws,\u201d used \u201cunscientific practices,\u201d and had made \u201cunjustifiable conclusions which lacked scientific foundations.\u201d\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  150. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 6, 7.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  151. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 7. The same report concluded that the FBI lab made \u201cscientifically unsound conclusions that were \u201cbiased in favor of the prosecution\u201d and that supervisors approved lab reports that they could support and that FBI lab officials may have erred about the size of the blast, the amount of explosives involved and type of explosives used in the bombing. The draft report shows the FBI examiners could not identify the triggering device for the truck bomb or how it was detonated. It also indicates that a poorly maintained lab environment could have led to contamination of critical pieces of evidence.<\/li>\n
  152. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 321. It has been speculated what was in the documents. Author David Hoffman asks \u201cwere the files records incriminating The Octopus (government-organized crime network) for its drug running at Mena or records incriminating the ATF for their actions at Waco? It may be more than a coincidence that the ATF agents who raided Waco wore black uniforms with no identifying badges.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  153. Robert,\u00a0The Medusa File II<\/em>\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  154. Hoffman,\u00a0The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror<\/em>, 415; Evans-Pritchard,\u00a0The Secret Life of Bill Clinton<\/em>, 73. Matsch served with a U.S. Army counterintelligence unit during the Korean War. He kept a portrait of General George Patton behind his desk. Sam Roberts, \u201cRichard P. Matsch, 88, Judge in Oklahoma Bombing Case, Is Dead,\u201d\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>, May 29, 2019; Nolan Clay, \u201cU.S. Judge Who Presided Over Oklahoma City Bombing Case Dies,\u201d\u00a0The Oklahoman<\/em>, May 30, 2019.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  155. Wright,\u00a0Patriots, Politics and the Oklahoma City Bombing<\/em>, 2. Jones had a libertarian streak and once represented a dissident college student who had been arrested for carrying a Vietcong flag into an ROTC gathering, and the famed activist Abbie Hoffman when Oklahoma State University refused to let the political activist speak on campus.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  156. Jones,\u00a0Others Unknown<\/em>, 353; Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 75, 166.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  157. Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City<\/em>, 161.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  158. Sanders,\u00a0After Oklahoma City,<\/em>\u00a0161.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  159. See David A. Hughes, \u201c9\/11 Truth and the Silence of the IR Discipline,\u201d\u00a0Alternatives: Global, Local, Political<\/em>, February 27, 2020,\u00a0https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/0304375419898334<\/a>\u00a0There are other parallels between the Oklahoma City bombing and 9\/11 criminal conspiracies, including the use of patsies and doubles, failure by police agencies to evacuate the buildings despite foreknowledge of the attacks, and official cover-ups afterwards.\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n
  160. Hughes, \u201c9\/11 Truth and the Silence of the IR Discipline.\u201d\u00a0\u2191<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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