The Oklahoma City Bombing And The Politics Of Terror Part 51

1288. (928) Frank Greve, Matthew Purdy, and Mark Fazlollah, "Firm Says U.S. Urged Covert Plots," Philadelphia Inquirer, 4/26/87, quoted in Christic, Op Cit., and Rodney Stich, Defrauding America (Alamo, CA: Diablo Western Press, 1994), p. 604. "Richard Meadows served for a time as Peregrine's president. Charles Odorizzo and William Patton, worked for the group. Peregrine's key contacts were retired Army Lt. Gen. Samuel Wilson (former Director of the DIA) and Lt. Col. Wayne E. Long, who as of April 1987 worked as a senior officer in the Foreign Operations Group, which is a part of the Army's intelligence support activity office."

1289. (929) Stich, Op Cit., p. 604; ANV had a contract with U.S. Military Central Command, the influential connection coming through USMC Major General Wesley Rice of the Pentagon Joint Special Operations Agency. Rice was a close friend of Bush, Helms, and Shackley, Wheaton, Op Cit.; Deposition of Sam Hall, 9/9/87, quoted in Christic, Op Cit.

1290. (*) Emphasis in original.

1291. (930) Gene Wheaton, "Secret Island Spy Base," Portland Free Press, July-October, 1996. Wheaton and Hunt both claims that an ABC news helicopter was shot down over the island in 1985, killing a female reporter. The incident was covered up for reasons of "national security."

1292. (931) Declaration of Plaintiff's Counsel, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey v. John Hull, et al., Civil Case No. 86-1146-CIV-KING, filed 3/31/88 by the Christic Inst.i.tute; It seems Whitlam was about to announce the truth of Pine Gap at a press conference. By November 7, 1975, the covers of three more CIA agents had been blown in the press.

1293. (*) This will be explored more fully in Volume Two.

1294. (932) Luigi DiFonzo, St. Peter's Banker, (New York, NY: Franklin Watts, 1983); NameBase NewsLine, No. 5, April-June 1994. According to Conspiracy Nation publisher Brian Redman, Gelli attended Ronald Reagan's inauguration and the accompanying ball in 1981; Mark Aarons and John Loftons, Ratlines (London, Heinemann, 1991), p. 89, quoted in Nexus, February/March, 1996.

1295. (933) Ibid.

1296. (934) "Staying Behind: NATO's Terror Network," Arm The Spirit, October, 1995, (Source: Fighting Talk - Issue 11 - May 1995; Thomas & Keith, Op Cit., p.77. According to Jonathan Vankin, Italian Journalist Mino Percorelli claimed the CIA pulled P2's strings. He was killed after publis.h.i.+ng the article.

1297. (*) One early result of this fear on the Right was a failed coup attempt in 1970 by Navy Commander Prince Valerio Borghese, a supporter of the main Italian Fascist party MSI.

1298. (935) Stuart Christie, Stefano Delle Chiaie: Portrait of a Black Terrorist (London: Dark horse Press, 1984), p. 32.

1299. (936) Ibid.

1300. (937) Christie, Op Cit.

1301. (938) Stuart Christie, "Stefano Delle Chiaie: Portrait of a Black Terrorist," (London: Anarchy Magazine, Refract Publications, 1984), p. 52.

1302. (939) Ibid.

1303. (*) This is similar to the release of Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch by George Bush.

1304. (940) David Yallop, In G.o.d's Name (London: Corgi Books, 1985), p. 172; "Il Gladio," BBC expose, June, 1995, quoted in Ibid.

1305. (941) Steve Mizrach, "Murder in the Vatican? The attempt on the life of John Paul II," posted on Internet.

1306. (942) Christie, Op Cit.

1307. (943) Edward S. Herman, The Terrorism Industry (New York, NY: Pantheon, 1989), p. 226.

1308. (*) It was also discovered by the Belgian press that Wackenhut guards had been luring immigrant children into bas.e.m.e.nts and beating them.

1309. (944) Reuter, 7/14/96.

1310. (945) New American, Op Cit.

1311. (946) Ari Ben-Menashe, Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network, (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1992), p. 122. Eitan was responsible for collecting scientific and intelligence information from other countries through espionage. (Art Kunkin: "The Octopus Conspiracy").

1312. (947) Patrick Seale, Abu Nidal: A Gun for Hire, (New York, NY: Random House, 1992), p. 158.

1313. (948) Ibid., p. 153, 214.

1314. (949) Ibid., pp. 265-66.

1315. (*) Abu Nidal did business at the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), a CIA proprietary which laundered drug proceeds for the North/Secord "Enterprise," the Mujahadeen, and catered to the likes of Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein, and Ferdinand Marcos.

1316. (950) Mike Levine, interview with author.

1317. (951) William Jasper, "The Price of Peace," The New American, 2/5/96.

1318. (952) Uri Dan and Dennis Eisenberg, A State Crime: The a.s.sa.s.sination of Rabin, (Paris: Belfond, 1996), quoted in Conspiracy Nation, Vol. 8 Num. 02.

1319. (953) New American, 12/25/95.

1320. (954) Roberts, Op Cit., p. 395.

1321. (955) Ibid., p. 369.

1322. (956) Ibid., p. 402.

1323. (*) In fact, Singlaub is known to control at least one airfield in Arizona.

1324. (957) "FBI accidentally faxes memo on Amtrak suspect," a.s.sociated Press, 9/4/97.

1325. (*) Chief Superintendent Job Mayo, head of the National Capital Region Command of the police claimed a group called the Paracale Gang apparently did the bombings after failing to rob the Citibank on Paseo de Roxas in Salcedo Village, Makati.

1326. (958) "Grenade blast Rocks Makati - 4 wounded: Rep Arroyo Accuses Military of Bombing to Justify Anti-Terrorist Bill," source: Manila dailies.

1327. (959) Husayn Al-Kurdi, "Libya: The Perpetual Target," News International Press Service, date unknown. Regarding America's reaction to Libyan independence, Kurdi notes: "The idea that emanc.i.p.ation from want, ignorance and injustice was to be actually implemented somewhere is unacceptable to an ent.i.ty that foments poverty and dependence everywhere."

1328. (960) Under the authority of the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act 1329. (961) John Goetz, "Ten Years Later: La Belle Dis...o...b..mbing," Covert Action Quarterly, Spring, 1996. (author's note: The Los Angeles Times reported that "Israeli intelligence, not the Reagan administration, was a major source of some of the most dramatic published reports about a Libyan a.s.sa.s.sination team allegedly sent to kill President Reagan and other top U.S. officials... Israel, which informed sources said has wanted an excuse to go in and bash Libya for a long time,' may be trying to build American public support for a strike against Qaddafi.") 1330. (962) Seymour Hersh, "Target Qaddafi," New York Times Magazine, 2/22/87, quoted in Covert Action Quarterly, date unknown.

1331. (963) Ibid.

1332. (964) Goetz, Op Cit. Faysal testified, saying: "I am not of the opinion that the attack against La Belle was done by those Libyans whom I know [the Nuri group], but rather by a different group Many of the Libyans behaved suspiciously. That was to hide the group that in reality did the attack."

1333. (965) Rick Atkinson, "US Delays Underlined As Dis...o...b..mbing Suspect Freed in Lebanon," Was.h.i.+ngton Post, 8/3/94; quoted in Ibid.

1334. (966) Goetz, Op Cit. "A week after the bombing, Manfred Ganschow, chief of the anti terrorist police in Berlin, "rejected the a.s.sumption that suspicion is concentrated on Libyan culprits."

1335. (*) Posey denied the allegations in an interview with the author. In an interview with the author, Federal Public Defender John Mattes felt the plot wasn't being seriously considered.

1336. (967) Christic, Op Cit.; Jack Terrell, interview with author. (Also: See the Village Voice, 9/29/87, and 13/30/86.) 1337. (*) Statements of Jesus Garcia to Federal Public Defender John Mattes; The plot is briefly mentioned in Jack Terrell's book, Disposable Patriot (Bethesda, MD, National Press Books, 1992), p. 321; Terrell also confirmed the plot in an interview on NBC nightly news; Peter Glibbery, a mercenary operating in Contra camps near Hull's ranch, recalled attempting to transport explosives from the ranch to Jones' ranch, and being told it was needed "for the emba.s.sy job."

1338. (968) Jack Terrell, NBC transcript, quoted in Christic, Op Cit. The Octopus would attempt to silence Terrell by informing the FBI that he had threatened the life of the President.

1339. (*) According to Jack Terrell, Contra leader Adolfo Calero complained that Pastora had described the FDN (Contras) as "homicidal, Somicista sons of b.i.t.c.hes."

1340. (969) c.o.c.kburn, Op Cit.

1341. (970) Deposition of Gene Wheaton; Deposition of Eden Pastora; testimony of Jack Terrell, quoted in Christic, Op Cit.

1342. (*) On June 22, 1984, Pastora met with Dewy Clarridge and Vince Cannistraro, who offered to help Pastora find the killers. (Sure.) Harper's explosives training was allegedly courtesy of John Singlaub and Robert K. Brown (publisher of Soldier of Fortune ).

1343. (971) c.o.c.kburn, Op Cit., pp. 56-57; Christic, Op Cit.

1344. (*) GArcia and his family were later threatened with a live 105mm mortar round placed on their front lawn.

1345. (972) Ibid., John Mattes, interview with author.

1346. (973) Jack Terrell, Disposable Patriot (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C: National Press Book, 1992).

1347. (974) As Col. Dan Marvin notes, that statement, written by White in a letter to a friend, was broadcast on ABC TV in 1979 in a doc.u.mentary produced by John Marks.

1348. (975) Sara McClendon, interview with author; Debra Von Trapp, interview with author.

1349. (976) V.Z. Lawton, interview with author.

1350. (*) Maroney's wife also told me Mickey was seconded to the DEA and FBI in Cyprus, who were investigating a counterfeiting ring (probably Iranian). As discussed previously, Cyprus is where DIA agent Lester Coleman worked with the DEA, and where he learned about Khalid Jaffer, the courier who allegedly carried the bomb onboard Pan Am flight 103. Maroney worked in Cyprus in 1993.

1351. (977) Daily Oklahoman, 8/14/97.

1352. (978) Mike Levine, interview with author.

1353. (979) Ace R. Hayes, "Sacrificial Goat," Portland Free Press, July/October, 1997.

1354. (*) "The prosecutors must pare down their case so that it does not bore the jury," legal a.n.a.lyst Kenneth Stern recommended in the American Jewish Committee's recent white paper on the trial. "In cases such as these, prosecutors too often present a 'Cadillac' when a 'Chevrolet' would do much better." (a.s.sociated Press, 04/18/97) 1355. (980) Steven K. Paulson, "Media Object to Sealed Doc.u.ments in Oklahoma City Bombing Case," a.s.sociated Press,12/13/96.

1356. (*) Also recall that former CIA operative Gunther Russbacher claimed that several Las Vegas casinos, including Binyon's Horseshoe, are slush-fund pay-off points through Shamrock Development Corp. The recipients collect their money in the form of gambling chips, which they then cash in. It is worth noting that the CEO of Shamrock, Donald Lutz, was on the management staff of Silverado Savings & Loan. "E. Trine Starnes, Jr., the third largest Silverado borrower, was a major donor to the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty (NEPL), directed by Carl "Spitz" Channell, which was a part of Oliver North's Contra funding and arms support network. Wayne Reeder, another Beebe a.s.sociate, a big borrower from Silverado, defaulted on a $14 million loan. Reeder was involved in an unsuccessful arms deal with the Contras. (Jack Colhoun, "The Family That Preys Together," Covert Action Quarterly, date unknown.) 1357. (*) As Jones explained in the Writ: "This issue arrives before the Court at this late date simply because the defense has repeatedly gone to the government with information and requests, had to then seek intervention from the district court, and the last district court order has been issued within the last two weeks...."

1358. (981) Jones' defense team member, confidential interview with author.

1359. (*) As McVeigh later explained to his hometown newspaper: "In the instant context, you could take [the statement] to reflect on the death penalty and the charges leveled against me. I was accused and convicted of killing - they say that's wrong, and now they're going to kill me."

1360. (982) a.s.sociated Press & The Hays Daily News, 8/14/97.

1361. (983) Bill Hewitt and Nickie Bane, "Humble? Forget It," People, 3/31/97.

1362. (*) Senior partner Brendon Sullivan represented Oliver North during the Iran-Contra hearings.

1363. (984) Janet Elliott, Mark Ballard, Robert Elder Jr., Gordon Hunter, "Nichols' Lawyers: The Odd Couple," Texas Lawyer, 3/22/96; Robert Schmidt, "Representing the Accused Bomber," Legal Times, 5/22/95; Constantine, "The Good Soldier," Op Cit.

1364. (985) Jim Bellingham, interview with author.

1365. (986) John DeCamp, The Franklin Cover-Up (Lincoln, NE: AWT, Inc., 1996), pp. 345-46.

1366. (987) Letter from Stephen Jones to author, 4/21/97.

1367. (*) As McVeigh's appeal brief stated: "Because the government's counsel attributed Mr. McVeigh's conduct to his anger at the Federal Government over Waco, Mr. McVeigh should have been ent.i.tled to show that the government had some culpability in provoking that anger," his attorneys said. "This evidence and argument would have provided a mitigating explanation for the otherwise inexplicable transformation of Mr. McVeigh from the thoughtful, responsible and playful person described by Mr. McVeigh's childhood friends, teachers and families... to someone who appeared bent on destruction.'" (AP, 1/16/98) 1368. (988) General Benton K. Partin, interview with author.

1369. (989) Stephen Jones, letter to author, 9/9/97.

1370. (990) Ibid.

1371. (*) "[Howe] said she saw McVeigh walking with Elohim City security chief Andreas Stra.s.smeir, who had advocated violence against the government. One juror didn't at first even recall Howe's testimony. Another, [juror Chris] Seib, said, "I don't know. We felt there was something there. You know, we kind of skimmed through that pretty quick."

1372. (991) Nolan Clay, "Some Jurors Convinced Others Involved - Nichols Trial Renews Speculation Concerning John Doe 2," Daily Oklahoman, 1/11/98.

1373. (992) Steven K. Paulson, "Jurors leave bombing sentence to judge, criticize prosecution's case, "a.s.sociated Press, 1/8/98.

1374. (993) Ibid.

1375. (994) Ibid.

1376. (995) Nolan Clay, "Some Jurors Convinced Others Involved - Nichols Trial Renews Speculation Concerning John Doe 2," Daily Oklahoman, 1/11/98.

1377. (*) The first man LBJ met with on Nov 29th, after he had cleared the foreign dignitaries out of Was.h.i.+ngton was Waggoner Carr, Texas Attorney General, to tell him. "No trial in Texas... ever." (Prouty) 1378. (996) John Greiner, "Court Asked to Ensure Macy Explores All Bombing Angles," Daily Oklahoman, 6/28/97.

1379. (*) Key's attorney Mark Sanford said the Supreme Court was willing to back Key up, by forcing Macy to do his job properly.

1380. (997) District Attorney Bob Macy, interview with author.

1381. (998) George Hansen, interview with author.

1382. (*) According to Oklahoma Statutes, t.i.tle 22, Section 331 (General powers and duties of grand jury), Notes of Decisions: "Grand jury functions as an inquisitorial body; once it is convoked by the court, its duty is to investigate law violations [Tweedy v. Oklahoma Bar a.s.s'n, Okl. 624 P.2d 1049 (1981)]... Investigation by grand jury or a preliminatry examination by magistrate is not a trial, and the rules of evidence are not to be applied as rigidly as in trial of case before court. [Magill v. Miller, Okl. Cr., 455 P.2d 715 (1969)]...."

1383. (*) In a letter hand-delivered to the Grand Jury, Representative Key asked to testify a second time to present evidence that the DA's office refused to allow a video of "contemporaneous news accounts" because it was considered to be hearsay. As Mike Johnston, Key's attorney, stated in the letter, "The objection or contention that a grand jury cannot use hearsay evidence is not well founded." Morgan responded by thereafter refusing to communicate with Key except through his attorney. So much for cooperation.

1384. (999) "Grand Jury Told Seismic Readings Unclear in Bombing," Daily Oklahoman, 9/19/97.

1385. (1000) Ibid.

1386. (1001) KWTV Channel 9 broadcast, 06/16/97.

1387. (1002) Lynn Wallace, posted on OKBOMB mailing list.

1388. (1003) Michael Rivero, posted on OKBOMB mailing list.

1389. (1004) Edye Ann Smith, Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Children, Chase Smith, Deceased, and Colton Smith, Deceased, Plaintiffs, vs. Timothy James McVeigh, Michael Brescia, Michael Fortier and Andreas Carl Stra.s.smeir and Other Unknown Individuals, Defendants, Case No. CJ-96-18.

1390. (1005) KFOR's information is currently in possession of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. As of this writing, Rep. James Traficant (D-OH) displayed an interest inholding OKBOMB hearings.