The Oklahoma City Bombing And The Politics Of Terror Part 47

867. (645) "Tested by Fire," People magazine, date unknown, quoted in, Gene Wheaton, "Another Bush Boy," Portland Free Press, July 1995. Keating stated, "The leftists I dealt with would never consider themselves patriots, and they had contempt for the government. The right-wing crowd has contempt for the government, and yet see themselves as patriots. It's a curious anomaly, but both of them are very similar."

868. (*) "Because of my youthful appearance, I did undercover work on the Berkeley campus," Keating said. The a.s.signment dissolved shortly after Keating attended a Black Panther rally. A federal informant who later identified people at the protest took one look at a photo of Keating and muttered, "That's a pig." (Oklahoma Gazette, 9/26/97) 869. (*) Keating also presided over the federal prison system. His wife, Cathy, is a consultant to U.S. News & World Report, a magazine that often serves as an organ of black propaganda.

870. (646) Gene Wheaton, "Another Bush Boy," Portland Free Press, July 1995.

871. (647) Ace Hayes, letter to author.

872. (648) Deposition of William C. Duncan, copy in author's possession.

873. (*) Interestingly, Mena/Iran-Contra player Raymond "Buddy" Young, the former Arkansas State Police Captain who told ADFA director Larry Nichols he was a "dead man" if he did not drop his suit against Clinton, was appointed director of FEMA's (Federal Emergency Management Agency) Region IV post by Clinton. FEMA played a significant coordination role in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. Was Young given the $90,000-a-year job to keep his mouth shut?

874. (**) In fact, Wheaton suggested that Keating is being groomed for the 2000 presidential [or vice-presidential] candidacy.

875. ( The same reason for demolis.h.i.+ng the Federal Building was given for demolis.h.i.+ng the buildings at Waco: "Safety concerns." Yet the Waco buildings were miles from anywhere. Furthermore, an architect who inspected the Federal Building soon after the bombing said there was no immediate danger. But, according to David Hall, owner of KPOC-TV in Ponca City, Oklahoma, this architect was later "persuaded" to change his opinion.

876. (649) William Jasper, New American, date unknown.

877. (650) Affidavit of Neil Hartley.

878. (651) Melissa Klinzing, interview with author.

879. (652) Ann Domin, interview with author.

880. (653) Rappaport, Op Cit.

881. (654) Hoppy Heidelberg, interview with Jon Rappaport.

882. (*) In fact, many times that I have spoken to Heidelberg, I could hear the distinctive clicks of a tapped phone.

883. (**) "They sent another team out on October 20," added Heidelberg. "Agents Marry Judd and Dave Swanson. "They said 'do you know how much trouble you're in?', and I said 'well, apparently not,' and I just laughed at them like I'm laughing now (bursts out laughing). And they don't know what the h.e.l.l to do with that. What do you do with a guy that just laughs at you?"

884. (655) Hoppy Heidelberg, interview with author.

885. (656) Timothy McVeigh's Pet.i.tion for Writ of Mandamus, 3/25/97, pp. 71-72.

886. (*) Jim Garrison, On the Trail of the a.s.sa.s.sins (Warner Books, 1988), p.252. In 1993, shortly before Vince Foster's body was found at Fort Marcy Park, Patrick Knowlton saw a car with a suspicious looking character. He informed the FBI, but later complained that the their rendering of his testimony was inaccurate. After he was subpoenaed by Kenneth Starr's Whitewater committee, he was stalked and intimidated by cars with license plates registered to the U.S. government.

887. (657) Newsweek reporter, confidential interview with author.

888. (658) Debra Burd.i.c.k, interview with author.

889. (659) Deposition of Jane C. Graham, 7/20/97; Statement of Jane Graham, 11/15/96.

890. (660) Sharon Cohen, a.s.sociated Press, 4/26/95; Brian Duffy, "The Manhunt: Twisting Trail," U.S. News & World Report, 5/8/95.

891. (661) Bill Jasper, interview with author.

892. (*) Mackey also accused Davis of telling a bartender in Denver that McVeigh was in the room. Davis denied it.

893. (662) Testimony of John Jeffrey Davis, U.S. v. McVeigh.

894. (663) Timothy McVeigh's Pet.i.tion for Writ of Mandamus, 3/25/96, p. 36.

895. (*) During the Pan Am 103 investigation, authorities attempted to coerce a civilian searcher into signing a statement that he had discovered a piece of microchip on which the government's theory hinged. In fact, the searcher was brought a bag of various unidentified components and asked to sign the statement, eventhough he wasn't sure he had found the items.

896. (664) J.D. Cash, McCurtain Gazette, quoted in B.C. Specht, "Ministry of 'Slick Justice' Scores Big Coup," posted on Internet, 5/26/97.

897. (665) Ryan Ross, "Final Witness Before Explosion - Two Men in Truck, Neither was McVeigh?" Digital City Denver News, 5/23/97; Adrian Croft, "Oklahoma City Bombing Trial Takes Dramatic Twist," Reuter, 5/23/97.

898. (666) Diana Baldwin and Ed G.o.dfrey, "Sighting Accounts Differ - Grand Jury Witnesses Put Bomber in 2 Places," Daily Oklahoman, 7/15/97.

899. (667) Rep. Charles Key, interview with author, account of interview with Gary Lewis.

900. (*) Heath called the agent's supervisor and complained, then, when he asked how he could fill out a Freedom of Information Act request to see what the FBI had said about him, was told they didn't know where he could get one. When he went to the FBI office, he was rebuffed once again. After he finally got the FOIA filled out, he received word 60 days later that his request was denied.

901. (668) Dr. Paul Heath, interview with author.

902. (669) David Keen and Connie Hood, interview by J.D. Cash, tape transcribed by author.

903. (*) This was originally reported on the major networks, then retracted as a "radar anomaly."

904. (670) Roberts, Op Cit., p. 311. Part of Roberts' current a.s.signment as a liaison officer to an Air Force Reserve fighter squadron entails a.n.a.lyzing surface-to-air threats.

905. (671) ABC World News Sunday, 07/21/96.

906. (672) New York Daily News, 11/09/96, quoted in Ibid.

907. (673) Elftherotypia, Athens, 08/23/96. Ian Williams G.o.ddard, "The Veracity of the Russell Report," 11/20/96, posted on Internet. G.o.ddard is the author of the book, The Downing of TWA Flight 800.

908. (674) Ibid.

909. (675) David Fulghum, "ANG Pilot: Jet by Object," Aviation Week & s.p.a.ce Technology, 3/10/96, quoted in G.o.ddard, "TWA 800 Missile Theory: Stonger Than Ever," 1997.

910. (676) "Report: Pilot Saw Projectile Near Jet," a.s.sociated Press, 7/29/97.

911. (677) E. Phillips, P. Mann, "Terrorist Fears Deepen with 747's Destruction," Aviation Week & s.p.a.ce Technology, 7/22/96, quoted in G.o.ddard, Op Cit.

912. (678) a.s.sociated Press, 7/20/97, quoted in William F. Jasper, "What Happened to TWA 800?" The New American, 10/8/96.

913. (679) David Fulghum, "ANG Eyewitnesses Reject Missile Theory," Aviation Week & s.p.a.ce Technology, 7/29/96, quoted in G.o.ddard, Op Cit.

914. (680) Joe s.e.xton, "Behind a Calm Facade Investigation Embodied Chaos, Distrust, Stress," New York Times, 8/23/96, quoted in G.o.ddard, Ibid.

915. (*) Lt. Comdr. Rob Newell, a Navy spokesman at the Pentagon, said the Navy's only aircraft in the area was a P-3 Orion anti-submarine plane, which does not carry missiles.

916. (681) Letter to David Hendrix, Riverside, CA, Press Enterprise from CINCLANTFLT (Commander in Chief Atlantic Fleet), Public Affairs office, 8/30/96, quoted in Roberts, Op Cit., p. 324-25.

917. (682) Pat Milton, "Salinger Sticks By Missile Theory While Feds Shoot It Down," a.s.sociated Press, 11/9/96.

918. (683) Minton, Op Cit.

919. (684) Bo Gritz, Center For Action Monthly Newsletter ,Vol. 6 No 11, June, 1997.

920. (685) "Sonar Finds Underwater Wreckage," Lexington Herald-Leader, 7/21/96, quoted in Ian Williams G.o.ddard, "TWA 800 Investigation Cover-Up: The Proof," 7/26/97, posted on Internet.

921. (686) Ronald W. Lewis, "Uncivil Air War" (The Shootdown of TWA Flight 800)," Air Forces Monthly, No. 104, November 1996, quoted in S.A.F.A.N. Internet Newsletter, No. 213, 12/21/96.

922. (*) Another story that circulated among the press for a time reported that the DEA, along with Customs, the National Guard, and the Coast Guard, were practicing how to shoot down drug-smuggling planes with SAMs (surface-to-air missiles). The P-3's job was to drop white phosphorous flares, called Willie Peters, to use as targets. According to some reports, the C-130 was seen dropping white phosphorous parachute flares before TWA 800 went down. If this is true, were the flares being dropped as part of a target exercise for heat-seeking missiles? Or had C-130 been alerted to a possible missile threat and dropped flares to divert missiles from targeting it and other aircraft in the area?

923. (687) Jasper, Op Cit.

924. (688) W. Michael Pitcher, "Fax Gives Glimpse of Crash Investigation,"The Southampton Press, 7/24/97, quoted in Ian Williams G.o.ddard, "Navy Missile Drone Debris Found at TWA Crash Site?" 07/28/97, posted on Internet.

925. (689) Indeed, a major terrorism summit sponsored by Tehran in June of 1996 saw delegates from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and other Mid-East and African states, as well as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, France, Britain, Canada, and the U.S. come together to form a joint working committee under the command of the new HizbAllah International - transforming that group into "the vanguard of the revolution" of the Muslim world.

926. (690) Murray Weiss, "TWA Probers: Missile Witnesses 'Credible,'" New York Post, 9/22/96.

927. (691) Michael D. Towle, "Missile Unlikely, but not Ruled Out in Crash," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7/20/96.

928. (692) "U.S. Worries Over Missiles it Gave Afghan Rebels: U.S. Concerned that Stinger Anti-aircraft Missiles Could Get into the Wrong Hands," New York Times, 4/27/92; "As Afghan War Funding Dries Up, Weapons Flood Pakistani Market," Christian Science Monitor, 1/8/92; "Afghan Rebel Bars Return of U.S. Stingers" (Islamic Party of Yunis Khalis), New York Times, 3/14/89; numerous other articles reported this.

929. (693) Letter from Rodney Stich to Senator Arlen Specter, 10/20/95, posted on Internet.

930. (694) In the late 1970s, two Rhodesian airliners were reportedly shot down by Russian SA-7s. In 1986, a Sudan Airways jet was shot down by a SAM. And in September of 1993, Abkhazian separatists of the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia shot down three Tu-134 and Tu-154 airliners using shoulder-fired SAMs from boats out on the Black Sea. The FBI was advised that small missiles such as the Russian SA-14 Gremlin, SA-16 Gimlet and SA-18 Grouse, are equipped with "proportional convergence logic" systems sensitive enough to home in on airframe radiation once it nears its target.

931. (695) Towle, Op Cit.

932. (696) Jasper, Op Cit.

933. (697) Weiss, Op Cit.

934. (698) Was.h.i.+ngton Times, 12/17/96.

935. (699) Allen, Op Cit.

936. (700) William Jasper, New American, date unknown.

937. (701) Ibid.

938. (*) He said they made up a bogus complaint about him threatening a reporter. I spoke to that reporter and discovered the complaint was false.

939. (702) Paul Queary "Oklahoma Hero Commits Suicide," a.s.sociated Press, 5/13/96.

940. (*) According to Rivera, the recalcitrant police officer was forced into making a public service announcement with Governor Keating. "He was told he'd make that or he was fired," said Rivera. The officer they sent to Was.h.i.+ngton to accept an award on behalf of the OCPD, he told Rivera, wasn't even at the site!

941. (*) Yeakey was also angry because he couldn't get access to his own report about the bombing (which numbered between 9-10 pages). "He was in a full-fledged rampage over the report," said Rivera, whom he wouldn't even show it to.

942. (703) Cpt. Ted Carlton, interview with author.

943. (*) Interestingly, Yeakey's superiors, Major Upchurch and Lt. Randall, according to Rivera, were claiming Yeakey was "delusional" from the back injury he sustained during his fall in the Murrah Building on April 19.

944. (704) Oklahoma City Medical Examiner's Report, copy in author's possession; Dr. Larry Balding and Dr. Fred Jordan, interview with author. They said the drug test costs between $400 and $500 dollars.

945. (705) Report of ME investigator Jeffrey A. Legg, CME-1 Report, copy in author's possession.

946. (*) Several Medical Examiners explained that it is not uncommon for an individual to attempt suicide by one method, then continue to take additional measures until they are dead. San Francisco's ME told me about a man who, upon discovering he had AIDS, tried to hang himself, then threw himself off the balcony. Perhaps Terrance Yeakey was not satisfied with his alleged attempts to slash himself. As Dr. Fred Jordan, Oklahoma's Chief Medical Examiner explained, "It hurts, and nothing much is happening."

947. (706) This was verified by school officials.

948. (707) The hara.s.sment and surveillance on Rivera and the rest of the family was confirmed by Vicki Jones, and her husband, Reverend Glenn Jones. Reverend Jones told me that Rivera had come to them several times "frantic" that she was being tailed and hara.s.sed. Vicki saw evidence of the break-ins at Rivera's apartment.

949. (708) Taylor recalled the incident for this author. "There's only a few times in my life that I remember that somebody had done something weird like that, and that's why I wrote it down."

950. (709) Tonia-Rivera Yeakey, interview with author. They had at one time been friends, she explained, but had a falling-out in 1992, and had remained apart ever since. Rivera attempted to hire an attorney to bring a Slander suit against Jim Ramsey, based on the false allegations of his death. No local attorney would accept it.

951. (710) OCPD Detective Mullinex, interview with author.

952. (711) Regarding Rivera's source, she claimed he knew things about her that no one could possibly have known. "He sat there and told me about stuff I hadn't told anybody," which included break-ins at her apartment.

953. (712) Officer Mike Ramsey, interview with author.

954. (713) This finding is based on the testimony of a former police officer and Marine sniper.

955. (*) This funeral home, curiously enough, has been mixed up in some rather strange incidents.

956. (714) Karen Von T., letter to author.

957. (715) The author knows the name of this individual, but cannot release it at this time.

958. (716) Shaun Jones, interview with author.

959. (717) FAA report, copy in author's possession. Investigators and pilots I've talked to indicated various ways a plane can be rigged to crash, including tampering with the fuel gauge so it reads full when empty, and putting a corrosive acid on the control cables.

960. (718) Mike Evett, interview with author.

961. (719) Clint Boehler, interview with author. Interestingly, Boehler would later discount the murder scenario of police officer Terrance Yeakey, despite overwhelming evidence that Yeakey was murdered.

962. (720) Christopher C. Lyons, "The Whitewater FAQ: Deaths & Injuries," 1996, posted on Internet.

963. (721) John De Camp, The Franklin Cover-Up; FAA report, copy in author's possession.

964. (722) Medical Examiner's report, 8/5/97, by Dr. Fred Jordan, copy in author's possession.

965. (*) He was wearing a t-s.h.i.+rt inscribed: "Nameless Saints We Give Our Thanks - The hundreds of people that give it their all without personal individual acknowledgment, April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City, OK"

966. (723) Dan Richardson, interview with author.

967. (**) His partner was ATF agent Harry Eberhardt.