The McVeigh as Dissociated Bomber scenario presents further linkages and intersections between Experimental and Guilty Agent stories, and recurrent narrative elements found in both. Dr. Jolly West, ace practitioner of all things creepy, was among the experts quoted in a 1985 Washington Post article about “the quirks of the modern spy” and other deep-cover operators who inhabit the “shadowy world of counterintelligence.”