OKC Bombshell Implicates Feds In Murrah Blast
After nearly a decade, shocking, suppressed evidence emerges
By Pat Shannan
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Only moments after an enormous blast blew away most of the
facade and a full quarter of the eastern end of the Alfred
P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, the FBI
and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) began to
release evidence implicating two men, and two men only, who
they claimed were solely responsible. The evidence later
showed that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols had confessed
to the impossible.
At first, several independent investigators came forward to
complain that there was an obvious cover-up. Now they call
it the “ongoing cover-up of the cover-up.” And now, even the
new OKC museum contradicts the official theory of what
happened on April 19.
Officials in charge at the time still refuse to discuss
anything other than the manufactured spin: McVeigh and
Nichols, as convicted by the courts, mixed up a large batch
of ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO—a mild explosive used by
farmers to blow out stumps) and demolished several square
blocks of downtown Oklahoma City with a devastating blast
that could be heard miles away.
In reality, the ANFO story was born only 10 minutes after
the blast when a high-ranking BATF official by the name of
Harry Everhart witnessed the blast from nearby and called
the BATF office in Dallas to excitedly announce, “Someone
has just blown up the federal building in Oklahoma City with
a truckload of ANFO!”
Some reporters and investigators, who have looked
objectively at the bombing, now argue that neither Everhart
nor anyone else could have correctly deduced in such a short
time exactly what caused the explosion.
According to government documents released later, Ever hart
was experienced in loading large amounts of ammonium nitrate
fertilizer into a vehicle for use as a terrorist truck bomb,
and his presence in the midst of the second worst terrorist
attack in U.S. history looms suspicious to this day.
Records indicate that this ANFO explosives expert and his
associates had destroyed at least eight vehicles in “test
bombing experiments” at a secret range in the New Mexico
desert in the 12 months prior to the OKC bombing.
Everhart and his fellow specialists even photographed and
videotaped these truck bombs as they detonated.
Far from an anti government militia member, the vehicle bomb
expert was Special Agent Everhart, an employee of the Bureau
of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms. And, according to federal
government records obtained later, Everhart had been
instrumental in obtaining the government funding to perform
the ANFO bombing tests.
Everhart served on the National Response Team (NRT), a group
of experienced bomb and arson investigators who respond to
major bombing crime scenes throughout the United States.
He also served on a secret government project in 1994 that
conducted tests using ANFO and C-4 to blow up cars and vans
in a classified U.S. government experiment known as “Project
Dipole Might.”
According to files, reports and photographs obtained from
the Department of the Treasury through a Freedom of
Information Act request, the U.S. government initiated a
“comprehensive ANFO and C-4 vehicle bomb testing program”
about a year before the OKC bombing. Records show the
project was supervised and administered by the BATF, but was
actually funded through a National Security Council (NSC)
directive.
The Department of Treasury has confirmed the project was
initiated under President Bill Clinton’s NSC staff shortly
after he took office in 1993.
The intent of the Dipole Might experiments in 1994 includes
making videos and computer models to “be displayed in a
courtroom to aid in the prosecution of defendants” in
vehicle bomb cases, according to government documents. The
exact precedent and purpose of this activity is unclear.
BATF agents started blowing up vans and cars in the spring
of 1994 at the White Sands Missile Range in order to collect
test data for post-blast forensics computer software
packages to be issued out to National Response Team
personnel when they respond to truck bombings.
Why the NSC would fund such a BATF project—despite the
rarity of the crime—has not been explained.
Nor has it been explained as to what specific
threat-assessment information the government had when it
decided to engage in such a project, just a few months
before officials claimed a Ryder truck laden with ammonium
nitrate fertilizer exploded in front of the Murrah building.
The only major ANFO vehicle bombing in U.S. history, prior
to OKC, occurred in August 1970 at the University of
Wisconsin, in Madison, Wis.
Contrary to media reports, the World Trade Center bomb of
February 1993 was composed of urea nitrate, not ANFO,
according to the FBI.
Despite only one known case in almost 25 years, why did
Clinton’s NSC anticipate a need for detailed information
regarding ANFO vehicle bomb attacks a few months prior to
the Oklahoma City blast?
Treasury’s own official documents reveal the intensity of
interest. In fact, a brief summary of “Project Dipole Might”
is featured in BATF’s 1994 Annual Report to Congress.
There were enough clandestine characters hanging around
Oklahoma City to fill a James Bond movie during the days
prior to the crime.
BATF’s paid informant Carol Howe had provided information
that the Murrah building was one of three potential targets.
On April 6, Cary Gagan gave U.S. marshals in Denver the
information that “a federal building would be blown up in
either Denver or Oklahoma City within two weeks.” He had not
only personally delivered timers and blasting caps to a
Middle Eastern group, but had sat in on a meeting where the
blueprints of the Murrah Building were on display.
Then, 38 minutes before the blasts on April 19, the
Department of Justice in Washington received an anonymous
telephone call warning that the Murrah Building was about to
be blown up but took no action.
After a morning of reporting that “multiple bombs” had been
found in the Murrah debris—a report publicly confirmed by
the Gov. Frank Keating—and that rescue operations had been
halted for two hours while these unexploded bombs were
removed, news people suddenly began to spin the government
yarn about an ANFO bomb being responsible for the enormous
damage.
One of the problems with that theory was the fact that the
columns remained standing directly across the sidewalk from
the truck as opposed to those that had collapsed more than
50 feet away. A retired air force brigadier general with 30
years experience compiled an irrefutable report on this
subject, which showed exactly where the charges were placed
inside the building.
It was so irrefutable that the prosecution refused to allow
him to testify at the Denver trial as it would have
destroyed any ANFO theory that the government had already
sold to the American people.
On May 23, 1995, only 34 days after the explosions, the
federal government stonewalled all attempts to examine the
building’s remaining structure and carried out an ordered
demolition, destroying and burying forever what many
believed contained the evidence of many explosions.
In its issue of Oct. 11, 19, as well as other issues, the
now defunct weekly Spotlight newspaper fully covered the
Oklahoma City incident and conclusively proved the accuracy
of reporter Shannan’s above story. The bombing was
definitely a federal government operation; just why Nichols
and McVeigh confessed is a mystery that forbids the closure
of the case.
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The affidavit was filed in a lawsuit brought by attorney
Jesse Trentadue, whose brother Kenneth was tortured and
beaten to death in an Oklahoma City federal prison in 1995.
Authorities claimed Trentadue had committed suicide but he
was being held in a suicide proof cell at the time and
autopsy photos
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/OKC_Trentadue.htm of his body
showed he had been shocked with a stun gun, bruised, burned,
sliced and then hung.
Jesse Trentadue has amassed evidence that his brother was
mistaken for one of Timothy McVeigh's alleged bombing
accomplices and in attempting to get him to talk Federal
agents went too far and then tried to instigate a cover-up
of the murder.
Just like 9/11, the official story of the Oklahoma City
Bombing, that McVeigh alone carried out the attack using a
fertilizer truck bomb, is contradicted by a plethora of
eyewitness account as well as physical and circumstantial
evidence.
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