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Archived computer bulletin board discussions posted immediately after the bombing illustrate that at least some of those on the fringe she supposedly represented viewed her OKC related antics as intentionally misleading distractions with proto-fascist undertones much like those of William Cooper. “Thompson and Bill Cooper are two peas in the same pod,” said one commentator. Still, while Cooper was depicted as McVeigh’s ideological father, Thompson was his “guiding light,” his paramilitary mother figure. Thomson herself bragged to the National Enquirer about how “The FBI told me that Timothy
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“the preeminent don of [the] CIA’s psychological warfare program”
But as numerous academics would later conclude, it was the type of rhetoric used by West and his cult-busting CAN colleagues that aided the FBI and ATF’s dehumanizing disinformation campaign against the Davidians and reinforced the unfortunate perception that the events at Waco had been necessary and the deaths there inevitable.
ATF Director John Magaw announced that federal agencies would be keeping close watch on groups suspected to be cults. If any of these groups had been on edge before, this could not have helped lessen their anxieties. For a number of people, both on the left and the right, the events at Waco represented, not a growing threat of brainwashing cults, but the willingness of federal authorities to use whatever means necessary to quell dissent and assert their authority, even if it meant murdering American citizens to prove a point. As with Ruby Ridge, the government’s actions at Waco proved more
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It is at this time, while in Kingman, that McVeigh began experimenting with methamphetamines and using the alias “Tim Tuttle.” He opened a P.O. Box at the Mail Room; a box that, according to the manager there, was also later checked by the militant Jew-hating, snake raising, methamphetamine chemist turned alien implant expert, Steven Colbern.
In August, the racist Spotlight newspaper carried an advertisement placed by Tim Tuttle who was selling what has been described as “a military-style antitank launcher replica” “a surplus rocket launcher” or just a “rocket launcher.”
ESI’s promotional material describes it as a “private school [that] provides training in executive protection, investigation and intelligence operations, including anti-terrorism.” Part of the privatized counter-terrorism and security industry, with many locations throughout Colorado, in 1990 Management Review described ESI as “the Harvard of bodyguard schools.’ For the most part, ESI instructors are ex-members of Special Forces, as well as former and current FBI, CIA, DEA, Secret Service, and local law enforcement agents; but other instructors have included editors of Soldier Of Fortune
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bank robberies at a time when legal proceedings and criminal trials related to the robberies were ongoing. The FBI and prosecutors chose not to make a big deal about the bank robbery connection, perhaps because, as was later learned, there was more than one federal informant embedded within the gang.
After all, a number of alternate or “double” McVeighs emerged in the Kingman area during his extended stays there and this would happen in many other locations at an increasing frequency in the months to come.
The FBI’s harassment of Matthews and their attempt to prevent him from testifying about this and other incidents is currently the subject of a Supreme
Court-appointed investigation into the FBI’s overall effort to silence key witnesses and withhold information about the bombing.
Imagine Bangerter’s surprise (or lack thereof) when Brinar appeared in a series of news articles for his involvement in an ATF sting operation run out of a Las Vegas gun shop. Brinar had gotten caught up in a sting operation very similar to the one Roger Moore was involved with in the late 1980’s. It was also similar to and running concurrent with a PATCON operation that involved a gun store in Phoenix named (no joke), “Lone
Wolf Guns,” which sold automatic weapons to right-wing extremists and outlaw biker gangs. More recently, the curiously named gun shop was implicated in the “Fast and Furious” scandal. Years after he disappeared, Brinar would write Bangerter and ask his forgiveness, admitting that he himself had been busted on a weapons charge and subsequently induced to entrap other people in exchange for leniency. During late 1994 and early 1995 though, Brinar was still busy trying to entrap Johnny Bangerter.
If nothing else, the bombing plot and its investigation may be best described as the most massive case of coincidences and mistaken identities ever. In late November 1994,
“A few agents of the thought Police moved always among them, spreading false rumors and marking down and eliminating the few individuals who were judged capable of becoming dangerous...” – George Orwell, 1984
vehicle had tried to run him off the road and caused him to total his car. Authorities later found, yes, mercury switches, blasting caps and boxes wrapped as Christmas presents, in an ARA bank robbery gang safe house in Ohio. The FBI had them destroyed, despite that they were evidence of the bank robberies and possibly the bombing; and criminal trials in both were ongoing. Also found in the safe house was an ID in the name of Roger Moore’s alias, Bob Miller, as well as surveillance footage of properties including Roger Moore’s, although nothing came of this either.
It was during this visit, in early January 1995, that McVeigh, in a conversation with Terry Nichols, accidently let it slip during “a fit of rage” that his “high level handler” was none other than Larry Potts, lead FBI agent at Ruby Ridge and the siege at Waco, Texas. Nichols said McVeigh was extremely angry and accused Potts of “manipulating him and forcing him to ‘go off script,’” which Nichols took to mean that the target of the bombing and the date it was to occur had been changed by someone other than McVeigh.
On February 17, 18 and 19, calls were placed from his room at the Hilltop Motel in Kingman to the Prescott, Arizona Veterans Medical Center.63 The following month, this ceaseless barrage of phone calls continued, among them calls to the nearby Kingman V.A. Medical Center.
In the months to come, the Jones Team learned that the government was actively conducting investigations in the St. George area, investigations they suspected related to Bangerter and his group. They couldn’t be sure though, because despite Judge Matsch’s orders that the Feds turn over information about their St. George probe, they refused to do so.
In fact, Dobyns wrote that he and his partner even “trained with Bangerter and the members of his Army of Israel.” When they got close to the real “shotcallers” however, they were instructed to “disengage the target” and end their investigations, an order Dobyns says originated with the “White House or CIA.”
On March 17, 1995, Gagan informed his handlers that he had met with some of the conspirators at a motel room in Las Vegas where they had reviewed drawings of the Murrah building. Based on this and other information, the U.S. Marshalls issued a general warning to their regional offices that federal courthouses and government installations may become targets of terrorist attacks.
McVeigh (or somebody using his calling card) placed a number of calls to the Coffman’s local National Alliance office; a Ryder rental shop in Lake Havasu, Arizona;
When he got closer to them, they “disappeared” but there were tracks on the ground and they had “obviously” hidden in some nearby brush. In retrospect, the man thought maybe he had witnessed a “test run” for the OKC bombing. Not long after this occurred, he returned to the area and saw “a large group of individuals clad in white robes with colored sashes” and a large trailer. He could not understand how they got the trailer so far out into that terrain. The area, he said, was filled with “isolationists, survivalists, paramilitary groups and some religious individuals all focused on Idaho”
On April 7, the flurry of telephone calls made from McVeigh’s motel room stopped; and then resumed on April 11. On those dates, he appeared at the Fortier family dinner in Kingman, Arizona, but also in Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma. An overwhelming number of multiple McVeighs (as well as multiple Ryder trucks and John Doe
2’s) appeared at critical times and locations throughout the weeks leading to the bombing and the frequency of such appearances increased as April 19 approached. Witnesses from different areas of the country and who didn’t know each other, reported that the McVeigh they saw made a point of announcing his name (McVey, McNey, McVeigh) and told them to remember it because they would hear it again soon.
Sightings of McVeigh inside the Murrah building began as early as December 1994, but became more frequent in the weeks immediately prior to April 19, 1995. Numerous McVeighs, sometimes alone and sometimes with other individuals, visited the Murrah daycare center, the Veterans Administration and Social...
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Approximately two weeks before the bombing, employees at the federal courthouse in downtown Oklahoma City were advised to be extra vigilant of suspicious people who might be wandering the building and a number of employees who worked in the federal complex downtown, including at the Murrah, began hearing rumors about bomb threats.
Although the FBI would deny it, Harvey Weathers, a deputy chief of the Oklahoma City Fire Department said that on Friday, April 14, 1995, his office received notice from the FBI that they were to be alert for “terrorist activity in the near future,”
For the first time in a long time though, he had failed to leave even a shred of paper in the paper trail he had so carefully laid throughout the previous two years.
An ATF spokesperson told a group of reporters that there had been an ongoing sensitive sting operation (the nature of which he left undefined) and, as part of that, the Murrah building was under surveillance throughout the night of April 18, but the stake-out was discontinued at around 6:00 am on the morning of April 19. He later retracted his statement, but that really didn’t matter because, even before he made it, several eyewitnesses reported that they saw bomb disposal units near the Murrah building and federal courthouse and members
the Oklahoma City bomb squad confirmed they searched the courthouse for bombs that morning.
multiple incarnations of McVeigh began appearing at different locations throughout Oklahoma City, driving very different vehicles; all of them accompanied by various unidentified companions. Despite this (or perhaps because of it) no eyewitness who saw a McVeigh that morning was called to testify in court and therefore, as the security footage from all of the cameras around the Murrah had gone missing, McVeigh was never conclusively placed at the scene at all.
About 90 minutes after the bomb exploded in OKC and about 60 miles north of there, Timothy James McVeigh was pulled over for driving without a rear license plate. He was arrested for driving an unregistered vehicle and carrying an unregistered concealed pistol.
expert Stephen Sloan that McVeigh’s arrest in Perry had actually been “detrimental to the federal investigation [of the bombing] because there [were] indications that the FBI had a lead on Tim the day of the bombing or perhaps the next day, [had already] tracked him to Perry and they wanted to wait until Tim bonded out to follow him and see where he went.” At the last minute, however, the ATF tracked McVeigh to the Perry jail, which really “screwed things up for the FBI.”
Terry Nichols’ ex-wife Lana Padilla told Diane Sawyer that the McVeigh she saw on television during the perp walk was “not the same person,” there was something off, something unrecognizable about his face.77 A handful of other people made similar statements.
While the FBI briefly conducted an investigation into the use of possible McVeigh “look-alikes” in the bombing plot, they discontinued this line of inquiry as early as May 10, 1995, even as reports of this type were still forthcoming.
All other narratives of the bombing (Guilty Agent and Experimental), purport that McVeigh, like Lee Harvey Oswald, was “an ordinary man who became caught up in a complicated web of intrigue and deception.” Here, the bombing plot involves any number of individuals watched over, guided or orchestrated by institutions who possessed both the motive and resources to commit the crime, and the ability to set up patsies and scapegoats to take the fall and protect certain individuals after the fact.
Like Oswald, McVeigh has the uncanny yet consistent ability to appear in two places at once, sometimes loudly identifying themselves by variations of his name and then making easily remembered spectacles of themselves. Like Oswald, McVeigh made connections to a number of groups and individuals whom the FBI had placed under systematic surveillance and was himself under surveillance by any number of intelligence agencies (military, ATF, FBI, private). Like Oswald, McVeigh was in constant contact not only with numerous potential bad guys but known intelligence assets and agents, like Roger Moore,
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addition, while Oswald can be placed near the scene of the crime, no direct evidence exists that he killed JFK. Similarly, no physical evidence and only dubious eyewitness evidence existed that McVeigh rented a Ryder truck and ultimately, although he was in Oklahoma City the morning of the bombing, nobody can quite say for sure where he was, when and what exactly he was doing there.
authentic self. But alongside of him, working concurrently, likely without his knowledge, are imposters implanted and controlled by shadowy intelligence agencies. Whether the real McVeigh went rogue, went off the reservation, or carried out his orders as directed, it matters little, as there is always another McVeigh ready to fill to his shoes. Three years before the assassination of John F. Kennedy, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover informed the State Department there was a possibility that an “imposter” was attempting to pass himself off as Lee Harvey Oswald and thanked them in advance for any
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Of Terrorism, he sought to conform his story to the FBI’s.
As outlined previously, McVeigh told Otto and Coyle that he had been recruited into an undercover operation and tasked with tracking neo-Nazis. Having discovered a bombing plot, his government handlers instructed him to embed himself in it.
However, the bomb was only supposed to blow out a few windows of the Murrah and because of this, he suspected that somebody switched the truck or the explosives in it without his knowledge. Later, when Jones Team investigator Richard Reyna asked McVeigh about his strange statements to Otto and Coyle, McVeigh became very angry and began “yelling, [and] cursing,” and exclaimed that Coyle had no business discussing their private conversations with anyone, and told Reyna that while some parts of the story were true, some were not.
As fate would have it, on the same day McVeigh arrived at Tinker, the villainous Dr. Jolly West, then head of UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute, showed up in Oklahoma City to coordinate a psychological trauma team for survivors and first responders on behalf of the American Psychological Association (APA). The trauma team, along with several other disaster relief initiatives, used Tinker as a coordinating and staging site.
In Experimental Wolf stories, West’s presence in OKC so soon after the bombing implied something much darker: his charitable activities there were simply a cover to manipulate the memories of critical eyewitnesses and shield his secret visits with McVeigh, whom he set about mind controlling until McVeigh, as obnoxiously as possible, confessed to being the Lone Wolf mastermind and (thanks to West) believed his own false confession wholeheartedly.
Seemingly imbued with psychic powers, on the evening
of April 19, (before anybody knew exactly what had happened in OKC and prior to McVeigh’s name being announced as a suspect, Dr. West appeared on Larry King Live to discuss th...
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Otto cryptically warned, “When you know everything I know – and you will soon enough – you will never think of the United States of America in the same way.”
compared McVeigh to Lee Oswald.
prison guards had taken pictures of his penis
