Iran-contra Connections to the OKC Bombing

Excerpt: Iran-Contra Connections to the Oklahoma BombingÊ
by Alex Constantine
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"[McVeigh's attorneys] said they believe the FBI
still has information that others helped McVeigh....
They have even suggested that some government
authorities might have known about the bombing
plot in advance." - Los Angeles Times, 6-7-01

The martinets of the OpEd pages and televised political banter
fests consider themselves sufficiently informed to dismiss out-of-hand the possibility that the government had anything to do with the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. But David Hoffman, a reporter in San Francisco, begged to differ. He wrote a dense book, The Oklahoma Bombing and the Politics of Terror (Feral House), noting numerous connections of Iran-contra's "Secret Team" to the bombing. Unfortunately, the FBI's Oliver "Buck" Revell sued Feral House when he found a single fact in the book about himself that was unsubstantiated. The book was recalled as a result of Revell's lawsuit and it is no longer available (although Amazon.Com still has a limited number of copies and scalps them for $100 apiece). Hoffman's investigation led him to conclude that elements of the "Octopus," or "Secret Team" (associated in a "small world" way with Buck Revell) were deeply involved in the bombing.

My own Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations in America (Feral House, 1997) has a chapter on the devastation in Oklahoma City. That book is still on the shelves but no major publication has ever reviewed it, and its contents on the bombing have been overlooked by the revisionist press at large. I also came to conclude that the Iran-contra crowd was responsible for the bombing and subsequent cover-up.

Enterprise ties to known terrorists are already thoroughly documented. The Iran-contra affair itself involved arms deals with terrorists. After the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland, Bob Woodward Ð a former Naval Intelligence officer assigned to the Pentagon - reported in the Washington Post (12-4-88) that sensitive documents aboard the plane would have linked Oliver North to Abu Nidal, the most dangerous terrorist operating at the time. Nidal had access to a quantity of Semtex H plastic explosive and air-pressure-sensitive detonation bombs sold to Libya by the CIA's Edwin Wilson (see: Los Angeles Times, 12-28-88). In
1989, Americans for Middle East Understanding reported in The Link, a newsletter, that Donald Gregg, an advisor to George Bush, Sr., was the administration's contact to the Mike Harari network. Harrari, an Isreali Mossad agent, led an assassination squad in the 1970s that targeted Palestinians. One of the Harrari group's most notorious acts was the murder of a Moroccan waiter in Norway - mistakenly identified as an agent of the Ali Salameh's Black Septembers.

There is a concerted attempt by Vincent Cannistraro, an Iran-contra
player, federal "experts" and CIA spin doctors to pin ultimate responsibility for the Alfred P. Murrah FB bombing on Osama Bin Laden's mystery terorists. Cannistraro ONCE blamed the murders In Oklahoma City on "ENVIRONMENTALISTS out to DESTROY all human life on earth." He NOW claims (see the June 11, 2001 issue of The New American, published by the crypto-fascist John Birch Society) that he had intelligence information BEFORE the blast concerning Middle Eastern terrorists. The contradiction is glaring: If his claim has any weight, if he indeed KNEW that Muslim extremists had designs on a major American target, WHY did he tell reporters immediately after the blast that ENVIRONMENTALISTS were responsible?

In The Boston Globe, on May 16, 1995, another CIA Iran-contra figure, anti-terrorism "expert" Neil Livingstone, also claimed that Middle Eastern terrorists engineered the Oklahoma blast. A veteran of Air America, the notorious CIA opium courier in Southeast Asia, Livingstone once publicly defended the Agency's assassination manual. He was recruited to Air America by James Cunningham, its founder - later a central participant in CIA "renegade" Edwin Wilson's arms sales to Ghaddafi. Livingstone has long-standing ties to Israeli intelligence and the fascist Popular Alliance Party of Spain. He was also an executive at Robert Keith Gray's public
relations firm Gray & Co. in the District of Columbia. He was brought into the firm by Charles Crawford, who ran the International Division that served as a branch office of Oliver North's civilian supply network.

Openly tying a Middle Eastern terrorists to the bombing, as faux reporter Laurie Mylroie, Fox News Network and others have done, diverts attention from possible CIA involvement: "There is a remarkable similarity between the methods used by Islamic terrorists in the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the attack on the World Trade Center, and the bombing in Oklahoma. The truckload of explosives is almost a signature or calling card and it is the weapon of choice among these groups." Livingstone noted: "Very typically, these terrorists have found homegrown radicals to
use as dupes in the actual bombings. They have supplied the money and the technical expertise and highly skilled operatives to guide a project and then get out of town before they can be apprehended." This is also the modus operandi of a certain American intelligence agency.

For the record, there may indeed a Middle Eastern connection - but like McVeigh and Nichols, the Muslim terrorists involved were linked to the Iran-contra players and other ranking Pentagonians who remained in the background of the 1987-88 congressional investigation of Irangate (it focused on Oliver North's civilain network almost exclusively and bent over backwards to avoid discussion of the core military and intelligence ties).

The following text includes complementary segments from Hoffman's book and my own dealinbg with participants in the Iran-contra scandals linked to the Oklahoma bombing. The original Hoffman chapter is featured here, and from Virtual Government I've included only segments that also explore the bleak, corpse-strewn wasteland of the "Octopus."

- Alex Constantine

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