While at the SFAS, McVeigh encountered a high-ranking official whom he referred to only as “The Major,” a man he said had befriended him during the Gulf War. The Major, who McVeigh said was dressed in civilian clothing and had an unkempt appearance in general, pulled him aside and told him he was currently working for the Department of Defense on ultra-secret, need-to-know “Black Ops,” whose agenda was “primarily domestic intelligence gathering and internal threat evaluations with an emphasis on direct counter action operations.” The Major then described a right-wing militancy spreading
...more
