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Subject: Long History of Covering for Informants and Provocateurs
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:35:13 -0400
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apfn@apfn.org This is a response to the recent item about OkC bombing provocateurs.
In 1972, I was arrested in an antiwar demonstration at Tinker AFB, east of Oklahoma City.
The demonstration was organized by the War Resisters League and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. We were arrested for trespass after crossing the base boundary and requesting an audience with the commander to read an antiwar statement. The regulation which was used for arresting us had been promulgated just the day before, after an informant advised them that the demonstration was going to happen.
The first person to suggest crossing the base boundary was William Lemmer, who was
an FBI informant and provocateur infiltrating the VVAW. He later confessed to his informant role, and an article about his activity was in the December 1972 issue of Harpers. One of the defendants' attorneys was Stephen Jones, who was very unsatisfactory, and who later gained fame as McVeigh's lawyer.
The attorneys did not pursue an entrapment defense, but they did request that Lemmer's address be disclosed in a pre-trial motion shortly before the August trial began. The government response, signed by William Burkett and Jerry Wilson, was to deny that Lemmer was an agent or informant of the government "in the instant case," and provided only his P.O. Box number in Fayetteville, Arkansas, for an address.
I believe that the government officials pursuing our imprisonment were guilty of obstructing justice by letting Lemmer slip away without bringing him to trial. In May I had gone to the court clerk and obtained the records of Lemmer's arrest and release on recognizance bond.
In the fall of '72 I went to the Oklahoma City U.S. Courthouse to confront Jerry Wilson, the ambitious young prosecutor assigned to our case, and waved the Lemmer records in front of him and demanded to know why Lemmer wasn't tried with the rest of us. Wilson became red-faced and furious. OU sociology professor Fred Silberstein was with me for this meeting.
Not surprisingly, we left without the benefit of hearing Wilson apologize for the government's reprehensible conduct.
Not long afterwards I read in The Daily Oklahoman that Lemmer had been brought in for a ritual procedure and was given six months' probation and a $100 fine after pleading guilty.
The government was trying to cover its tracks. The fact that they found it necessary to
go through with this little charade strikes me as implicit admission of misconduct by not
bringing Lemmer to trial in the first place, but no officials were ever made to account for it.
Readers can get the whole story and see links to the documents here:
http://members.aol.com/mpwright9/index1.html Michael Wright
Norman, Oklahoma
http://www.bushbusiness.com/Wright_OP.htm ===========
Category: News & Opinion (General) Topic: Crime & Corruption
Synopsis: the FBI was in up to its eyeballs in OKC
Source: Liberty Post
Published: June 22, 2005 Author: Patrick B. Briley
For Education and Discussion Only. Not for Commercial Use
It has been reported piecemeal in the media over the past ten years that at least 17 men besides Terry Nichols and McVeighˇ¦s neighbor, Michael Fortier, spoke to Timothy McVeigh about attacking a federal building before the OKC bombing. The reports show that all of these men had well established ties before the OKC bombing to one or more of the federal agencies, DEA, FBI, BATF, CIA, DOJ, and the US State Department. The 17 men include Roger Moore, Melvin Lattimore, James Rosencrans, Peter Ward, Tony Ward, Kevin McCarthy, Peter Langan, Sean Kenny, Ronald Greisacher (Laycock), Robert Jacques, Gary D. Hunt, Al Hussain Hussaini (Iraqi), Andreas Strassmeyer, Anas Siddiqy, Asad Siddiqy, Mohammed Chafti, Dave Holloway.
An analysis of the FBI and DOJ conduct to suppress evidence and witnesses in the OKC bombing case reveals a consistent pattern of actions designed to hide from the public and the courts and Congress that these 17 men had provocateur and/or informant roles that contributed to the OKC bombing, roles that included encouragement, training, providing explosive materials and in some cases assisting McVeigh in OKC at the scene of the bombing.
All of these men are known to have been seen by witnesses with McVeigh and are considered John Doe suspects by the public and witnesses. Yet the FBI and DOJ have insisted that McVeigh and Nichols had no help from John Doe participants and formally closed the OKC bombing case in early May 2005. OKC FBI senior case agent Jon Hersley has also insisted in his book ˇ§Simple Truthsˇ¨ and on the recent Fox News Special about the OKC bombing that McVeigh and Nichols had no help from John Doe suspects.
But the definition of John Doe used by the FBI and DOJ in courts, and before Congress and in the public media does not include informants and provocateurs since they and their roles were known to and sanctioned by the FBI, DOJ, BATF, etc. Although the 17 men had at least some foreknowledge from McVeigh of his plans to attack a federal building, the Federal government has not prosecuted them even though Michael Fortier was persecuted for not warning the government in advance about the OKC bombing.
Some notable examples of the actions taken by the FBI, DOJ and federal judges to conceal the roles of these 16 men are summarized below.
ˇP Refusal to either run or reveal the results of running over 1000 fingerprints taken in locations where McVeigh was known to be with one or more of these provocateurs. The results of fingerprints that may have been run on McVeighˇ¦s yellow Mercury have not been revealed anywhere. Yet McVeighˇ¦s yellow Mercury was seen with three of the provocateurs, James Rosencrans, Melvin Lattimore, and Sean Kenny at the Travelers Aid in OKC near the Murrah building on April 18, 1995.
Fingerprints taken from McVeighˇ¦s room #25 at the Dreamland motel in Kansas have not been matched against FBI provocateurs at Elohim City including Peter and Tony Ward. The Ward brothers closely resemble a man sketched by FBI sketch artist Jean Boylin with the help of Jeff Davis who delivered food to the man in McVeighˇ¦s Dreamland room a few days before the OKC bombing.
The BATF dusted the EZ Mart convenience store in Newkirk OK for fingerprints after the FBI and BATF interviewed very reliable witnesses telling them of a visit by Terry Nichols with a second Ryder truck and two John Does on April 18, 1995. The witnesses also identified one of the ME John Does in the FBI John Doe #2 sketch (CIA protected and Iraqi provocateur Al Hussaini).
ˇP Refusal to turn over all surveillance tapes and photos confiscated from public buildings and witnesses in downtown OKC on the day of the bombing, April 19, 1995. Federal trial judge Richard Matsch ordered that all the tapes be sealed and not be turned over to defense attorneys or the media. But it is known from court testimony and eyewitnesses that the tapes and photos do show John Does, men with McVeigh in OKC at the scene. Many of the tapes were confiscated by FBI agent John Hippard at locations where federal trial witnesses like Kerr McGee employee John Morris Kuper report seeing McVeigh with John Doe suspects being in front of fully operational (and loaded with film) surveillance cameras, such as the OKC public library, the southwestern Bell Telephone building, at the Regency Towers apartment and the Journal Record building.
McVeigh was filmed along with several other John Doe suspects including Gary Hunt at a Total gas station a mile south of the Murrah building and the FBI confiscated the tape at the Total gas station according to witnesses Ron Williams and KTOK radioˇ¦s Jerry Bohnen. Former Assistant Deputy FBI Director Danny Coulson publicly admitted to me in front of witnesses at his book signing that Coulson had seen McVeigh on the FBI confiscated surveillance tape from the Total gas station. Photos of McVeigh and Middle Eastern John Does taken by witness Leah Moore were confiscated and never revealed in court or to the public.
ˇP The FBI intentionally intimidated many John Doe witnesses in OKC not to talk to reporters or defense attorneys before, during and after the federal trials. And other John Doe witnesses were brow beaten and manipulated by FBI agents in an attempt by the FBI to make the witnesses either change their stories or discredit themselves. And almost all of the John Doe witnesses were not called to testify at the trials. The FBI and US prosecutors falsely and unfairly discredited the ones who did testify. Morris Kuper was falsely accused of not reporting his allegations to the FBI for months after the bombing only to have the prosecutors publicly admit they were wrong after the Federal trials. Dana Bradley and Germaine Johnston were falsely accused of being too traumatized to be credible even though their testimony was corroborated by other witnesses of seeing McVeigh with John Does at the scene and nearby.
Witness Leah Moore who took photos of the Ryder truck and a brown truck with John Does in front of Murrah was told by the FBI not to talk to reporters after the FBI confiscated her photos.
Witness Debbie Burdick was also threatened by FBI agent Odom from Denver twice, during and after the federal bombing trials, not to go to the press or to attorneys with her story. Burdick was asked by Odom to the effect, ˇ§You do not want to harm America by revealing your story, do you?
Debbie Burdick went to the FBI and told them of seeing McVeigh and John Does in McVeighˇ¦s yellow Mercury, a brown Chevy truck and a blue Cavalier parked in line north of the Murrah building. Burdick said the men were looking up at a helicopter over the Murrah building just moments before the Murrah building was bombed.
As a result of Burdickˇ¦s information three Middle Eastern men, Anis and Asad Siddiqy and Mohammed Chafti in the blue cavalier also associated with the 1993 WTC bombing were arrested on the day of the OKC bombing and then later released by direct intervention of the FBI.
Army recruiters Arlene Blanchard and Marilyn Travis were threatened with court martial by the FBI and Army CID within 72 hours after the bombing if they ever went to the press or defense attorneys about seeing McVeigh with John Does in the Murrah building.
At the Travelers Aid witnesses were taken into separate rooms and brow beaten over several months in an effort to intimidate and try to make the witnesses change their identifications of FBI informants with McVeighˇ¦s yellow Mercury, especially of Melvin Lattimore, Sean Kenny and James Rosencrans. Lattimore was also involved in the 1993 WTC bombing and roomed with 9-11 hijackers Moussaoui, AlHazmi and AlShehhi in Norman OK.
The FBI tried to trick snack shop operator Danny Wilkerson into changing his story that Wilkerson saw McVeigh with a John Doe parked in front of the Regency Towers Apartments surveillance camera. The surveillance tape showing the activity seen by Wilkerson in front of the Regency Towers is still under seal by federal judge Matsch.
ˇP Refusal to have the FBI sketch artist Jean Boylin do sketches of John Doe suspects seen with McVeigh by reliable witnesses in OKC. Boylin wrote in her book that FBI assistant Deputy Director Danny Coulson ordered Boylin not to make certain sketches because he said he did not want to help the defense. Boylin wrote that one sketch she wanted to make from an OKC witnesses would have matched a photo of a McVeigh Army associate Boylin saw at an FBI command center in Kansas. Boylin told the Kansas FBI center of the match but was ignored and told to forget about it. Boylinˇ¦s sketch of the man in room #25 of the Dreamland motel was not circulated by the FBI and was not made commonly available until Boylinˇ¦s book came out in 2001.
The FBI avoided having sketches made with numerous OKC witnesses seeing John Does including those at the Travelers Aid, Jane Graham, Sean Hogan and at the Total gas station described above. Graham also saw McVeigh associate and BATF operative Gary Hunt and an accomplice in the stairwell in the Murrah building on the morning of the bombing. Sean Hogan and her husband made sketches of two middle eastern men seen casing the Murrah building from the Journal Record building but the FBI ignored the Hoganˇ¦s sketches and had no sketches made with the Hogans by the FBI sketch artist.
The FBI intentionally did not have sketches made with witnesses who had seen McVeigh with John Does in the Murrah building including Jane Graham, Army recruiters Arlene Blanchard and Marilyn Travis, and two Goodwill Industries janitors interviewed by the FBI.
ˇP The FBI did not write up formal FBI 302 interview reports concerning key and very reliable witnesses the FBI did interview and who had seen John Does at the Travelers Aid in OK and at Newkirk OK. The FBI and US prosecutors never made their notes on these interviews available to the courts or the defense attorneys. In the case of the Travelers Aid, at least 6 different FBI agents interviewed the witnesses for over 9 months, took few notes and either never produced 302 interview reports or never made the reports available to the courts or defense attorneys.
No FBI 302 reports were given to the courts or to the defense of the sightings of McVeigh with John Does in the Murrah building by Jane Graham, the army recruiters Arlene Blanchard and Marilyn Travis, or by two Goodwill Industries janitors interviewed and shown sketches by the FBI. The FBI withheld from the defense, the courts and the public, the FBI interview with witness Darlene Watson who saw (and spoke with) McVeigh in the Murrah parking garage with the CIA protected and Iraqi provocateur Al Hussaini. The assistant prosecutor Vicki Bohemma withheld her interview with HUD employee, Ruth Schwab, who saw suspicious men with blueprints working on columns in the Murrah parking garage the week of the bombing. Jane Graham had also witnessed suspicious men with blue prints working on columns in the Murrah parking garage within a few days of Ruth Schwab sighting.
ˇP The FBI intentionally withheld FBI interview reports and lead sheets from the courts key and very reliable witnesses the FBI did interview and who had seen John Does with McVeigh.
At the appeals hearing for Terry Nichols, defense attorney Michael Tigar complained to federal judge Richard Matsch about hard evidence Tigar presented showing that the FBI had intentionally not written 302 reports, had hidden and withheld many 302 reports they did write, and withheld thousands of lead sheets from the courts and defense attorneys. Matsch did nothing about the Tigar evidence and did not sanction or reprimand the US prosecutors or FBI agents involved in the corruption. Two of the men identified in the FBI responsible for this practice were FBI agents Mark White and James Carlisle. Carlisle had done over 1000 interviews in the OKC bombing case including FBI 302 reports with two OKC deputy sheriffs who were told by OK Congressman Ernest Istook that the FBI had been specifically forewarned warned of a terror attack on the Murrah building by April 9, 1995.
In 2001 the FBI and DOJ claimed that they has misplaced thousands of documents relevant to the OKC bombing case and the revelation prompted a delay in McVeighˇ¦s execution. They also claimed that they had improperly destroyed many other documents relevant to the OKC bombing case. Some of these supposedly misplaced documents included FBI 302 reports concerning the arrest and then release of the three men seen by Debbie Burdick with McVeigh, the Siddiqys and Chafti, who had been involved as provocateurs for the FBI in the 1993 WTC bombing.
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