OKLAHOMA CITY – Late last week, Red Dirt Report featured a story about reports indicating that there was somewhat of a resurgence in Ku Klux Klan membership in Oklahoma.
That story, which was among the most-viewed stories on the site this past week, triggered some discussion online, on the radio and with me personally. It seems as though the story reminded some folks here in the state of Elohim City out in Adair County, Okla. and that white supremacist community’s connection to Timothy McVeigh and the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building here in Oklahoma City.
Of course federal infiltration of right-wing extremist groups like the KKK, is well-known and thoroughly covered via the COINTELPRO operation directed by the FBI four decades ago. The raid on the “Hutaree” militia in Michigan and surrounding states is a major red flag, considering the FBI involvement in the raid and their history.
With all that is going on with Tea Parties, militias, Republicans and Democrats at each other’s throats … it is starting to feel like 1994-95 all over again. There is a Democrat president extremely interested in government-run health care. A top official named “Janet” interested in cracking down on right-wing extremists … and then there are these comments from David Cid, executive director of the Oklahoma City-based Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, as reported Monday by the Associated Press …
Cid said there has been a “resurgence in the past year or two of ‘domestic militancy’ similar to what was seen before the Oklahoma City bombing.”
Indeed, Mr. Cid, who is also a former FBI counterterrorism agent is an expert on these sorts of issues. But one wonders who is really stoking the flames of ‘militancy’?
Continuing, Cid tells the AP: “It’s issues like eminent domain and immigration, and apparently national health care in some quarters. It’s increasing these people’s ire and their discomfort with their own government.”
One phone call to your Red Dirt Reporter was of particular interest. It was from a person I am familiar with and some of my readers are probably familiar with. This person had read my story on the KKK report connected to a site called Hatetrackers.com
The conversation went quickly from my story on the KKK in Oklahoma to the Elohim City connection and Andreas “Andy the German” Strassmeier, a foreign operative.
The caller said he believes the Southern Poverty Law Center, based in Montgomery, Alabama, is connected to figures linked to the bombing. Indeed, SPLC leader Morris Dees has previously told reporters about links to Elohim City and an informant that “If I told you what we were doing there, I would have to kill you.”
And this very week, SPLC is all over the news talking about the Hutaree militia and their alleged plans of waging war against the government and an “Anti-Christ.”
Back in 1995, this individual knew of a man who worked for a cleaning company that worked at the Murrah federal building in 1995. He was told how a young man working for the company happened upon two men – Timothy McVeigh and a Hispanic man – who were seeking a judge’s office wanting to “get married.”
It was after hours and on an upper floor of the Murrah building. They were wearing blue smocks, like those of the cleaning company workers. There had been reports of missing uniforms and equipment in the weeks leading up to the bombing and security, he told us, "was very lax."
As for the odd encounter with "McVeigh" and the "Hispanic man," it certainly alarmed the cleaning worker, who was reportedly interrogated for nearly an hour by federal officials in the days following the bombing.
Another thing he mentioned had to do with “John Doe 2” and his identity. The cleaning person identified the second man in the Murrah building in the days prior to the bombing as being the elusive “John Doe 2.” He was allegedly Hispanic, we were told, and had been a convict from California. The FBI, he said, had a photo of the Hispanic man and not just the famous sketch.
The person who called me shared more information about things he saw and heard in the following days, information related not only to the Murrah bombing but to 9/11, information that may be elaborated upon in future posts.
Talking to an Oklahoma City-based bombing researcher about this new information, he told Red Dirt Report that the deep source that contacted this online newspaper gave us information that corroborated information he has gathered in his many years of research and witness interviews. More on that in coming posts.
And don’t forget, as has been reported in recent years in the Salt Lake Tribune, things are not always as they seem.
Reported the Tribune in 2007: “Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking FBI official ‘apparently’ was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack.”
And on Monday, we see a story posted at KTOK.com by reporter Jerry Bohnen headlined “CIA documents suggest foreign involvement in OKC 1995 bombing.”
Bohnen’s story notes that Salt Lake City, Utah attorney, Jesse Trentadue, whose brother was murdered in prison in the wake of the bombing, “sought a dozen document s from the CIA and (the federal judge Clark Waddoups) ruled they were considered ‘national security’ and would not be made available to the public. It was the first such national security defense ever used by the government in denying records to Trentadue.”
Naturally, the question that arises is what would the CIA have to do with a domestic terrorist attack that focused solely on McVeigh and Terry Nichols, two Americans.
In the KTOK story, Bohnen lists 12 “exhibits” are featured, ranging from foreign operatives offering information to the CIA to a cable from a day after the bombing that was “relaying information about the Oklahoma City bombing that was provided to a U.S. ambassador by a foreign official.” Many of these are simply listed as “classified as secret.”
In the story, Bohnen asks if there was “foreign involvement in some manner in the bombing or the investigation?”
Trentadue responds in the story by saying “Without a doubt.”
He then adds: “If there was no foreign involvement, then why was the CIA asked to help federal prosecutors?” He concludes saying that Enid attorney Stephen Jones was never offered the information about the possible CIA connection.
And on Monday afternoon, Lee Matthews, sitting in for Mark Shannon on KTOK's "Mark Shannon Show," asked listeners to call in and share their thoughts on this new revelation pointing to CIA links to McVeigh and the bombing. Reactions were mixed, with one caller saying that some information is best left alone.
Undeniably, something is in the air and it isn't just a lot of pollen. We here at Red Dirt Report hope the government will do the right thing and put all the information out there related to the Murrah bombing and others who may have been involved in that horrible terror attack nearly 15 years ago.
