MLK Jr - murdered by the US Government

Guy Banister and Lee Harvey Oswald- Banister was Oswald's control. Not Clay Shaw.

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[[ by Martin Shackelford ]]


POSNER (p. 141):
"There simply is no credible evidence that Oswald ever had an office at
544 Camp Street or, much less, that he knew Guy Banister." 
Posner notes:

 1. The HSCA "questioned six other individuals who worked for Guy
Banister during the summer of 1963, and none of them recalled seeing
Oswald at 544 Camp." (p. 139). The HSCA (X p. 128) lists seven witnesses
who didn't see Oswald there: 4 worked there in the summer of 1963, one
left in 1958, one left in January 1962, and one was a visitor who visited
only through 1962. "Several witnesses recommended the Committee speak
with Jack Martin or Delphine Roberts since they were in most contact with
Banister." (HSCA X p. 129)Posner dismisses the following:    1. Oswald's
leaflets were stamped "544 Camp St.," the address of the building in
which Banister's office was housed. Posner correctly notes that Sam
Newman, the building's owner, told the FBI he never rented to Oswald
(HSCA X p. 123). This avoids the question of whether someone else rented
an office for him, which is what might be expected if Oswald was working
for Banister.     
2. The testimony of Jack Martin, who said he saw Oswald with David Ferrie 
in  Banister's office in 1963 (HSCA X p. 130). He was a
not particularly reliable drunk who worked as an investigator for
Banister. Sam Newman told HSCA that Martin was in Banister's office "90
percent of the time; every day almost" and he "kept up with all that
stuff."(HSCA X p. 135, note 104)    
3. The testimony of Delphine Roberts, Banister's secretary and 
mistress,   that Banister kept a file on Oswald
that "was kept out of the original files" (the Louisiana State Police
confirmed Banister had a file on the FPCC and Oswald: HSCA X p. 131),
that Banister was angry Oswald stamped 544 Camp St. on his leaflets, and
that Oswald came into the office "on several occasions."(HSCA X p. 129)
She also said Banister told her, when she reported Oswald's leafletting
to him, that "He's with us. He's associated with the office." (Anthony
Summers, Conspiracy, 1991 ed., p. 295) Posner notes that she is extreme
right-wing, a religious nut and was paid for her interview with Anthony
Summers (pp. 140-41), none of which proves she was lying. Banister friend
and associate Ivan Nitschke told HSCA:"If you were trying to explore this
to the fullest extent, I would say that Delphine would be No. 1."(HSCA X
p. 135, note 104). Roberts told Summers Oswald worked for Banister.
(Conspiracy, op. cit., pp. 294-5).He ignores the following:    
 1. James Arthus' statement to the Secret Service that a man whose name 
he didn't recall had tried to rent an office at 544 Camp Street. (HSCA X 
p. 125);
he gave them the name of the woman who had dealt with the man, but she
was never questioned. (Just as Banister was never asked about Oswald.)

 2. The statement of Ross Banister, Guy's brother, that he knew Guy 
had an interest in Oswald, though he didn't think they were connected 
(HSCA X p.128). 

 3. The statement of Ivan Nitschke, the Banister friend and
associate, that Banister had some of Oswald's handbills in his office
(HSCA X p. 128). 

 4. Banister's widow Mary confirmed this to Andrew
Sciambra of Jim Garrison's office (Anthony Summers, Conspiracy, op. cit.,
p. 292). She found a supply of the leaflets in her late husband's
storeroom (Warren Hinckle and William Turner, Deadly Secrets, p. 234).

 5. Banister employees Allen and Daniel Campbell. Daniel reported that
Oswald came into Banister's office and used the desk phone. Allen reports
that instead of reacting with his usual anger at pro-Castro activities,
Banister merely laughed when Oswald's leafletting was mentioned.
(Conspiracy, op. cit., p. 293). 

 6. Another young Banister employee,
George Higginbothan, said he kidded Banister "about sharing a building
with people papering the streets with leftist literature." Banister
responded:"Cool it--one of them is mine." (Hinckle and Turner, Deadly
Secrets, pp. 234-5) 

 7. Adrian Alba, whose office Oswald regularly
visited, reported seeing Oswald in Mancuso's restaurant, on the ground
floor of 544 Camp St. (Conspiracy, op. cit., p. 296). The restaurant was
frequented by Banister. The restaurant's owner described Banister, David
Ferrie and Jack Martin as regular customers.(HSCA X p. 125). 

 8. CIA operative William George Gaudet reported seeing Oswald with 
Banister. (Conspiracy op. cit., p. 444). 

 9. Southern Louisiana University
historian Michael Kurtz knew that Oswald and Banister twice visited the
Louisiana State University campus together and engaged in heated
discussions with students; he was, at the time, one of the students. He
also saw the two together at Mancuso's (Kurtz, Crime of the Century, 1993
edition, p. 203, xxxix). Witnesses he interviewed for an earlier article
reported seeing Oswald and Banister together at Mancuso's "with David
Ferrie and Carlos Quiroga"; Oswald was seen entering Banister's office
"several times"; one of Oswald's co-workers at the Reily Coffee Co. saw
Oswald and Banister walking together on Camp St.; another witness
reported the two attended a White Citizens' Council meeting (reminiscent
of the meetings Oswald is known to have attended in Dallas). (Kurtz, "Lee
Harvey Oswald in New Orleans: A Reappraisal," Louisiana History vol. 21,
Winter 1980). 

 10. Another intriguing confirmation comes from Chuck
Giancana, brother of Chicago Mafia boss Sam Giancana, who reported Sam
told him that Banister was affiliated with the Chicago Mob from his FBI
days in Chicago: "We know [him]...real well." (Sam and Chuck Giancana,
Double Cross, p. 211) He was transferred to Marcello in New Orleans
(ibid., p. 255), where the Chicago-affiliated roving Mob ambassador
Johnny Rosselli kept in touch with him and approved his manipulation of
Oswald (ibid., pp. 332-3). 

 11. Further confirmation comes from
Through the Looking Glass: The Mysterious World of Clay Shaw by William
Davy: New Orleans attorney Tommy Baumler, formerly an infiltrator of
left-wing college groups for Banister, told interviewers in 1981 that
"Oswald worked for Banister."

Jim Garrison and the verdict of history: How the Mighty Wurlitzer still maintains the insane lone gunman nonsense in the face of 50 years of evidence... And why they do so...

Other Garrison

More than any one person, Jim Garrison exonerated Lee Harvey Oswald—in the eyes of the American public—for the murder of President Kennedy. Garrison eloquently summarized his feelings about Oswald in an interview included in Nigel Turner’s 1988 documentary, The Men Who Killed Kennedy:

Lee Oswald was totally, unequivocally, completely innocent of the assassination. And the fact that history—or in the rewriting of history and disinformation—has made a villain of this young man, who wanted nothing more than to be a fine Marine, is in some ways the greatest injustice of all.1

Buell Wesley Frazier, Oswald’s friend and co-worker at the Texas School Book Depository, made the following comments, in The Men Who Killed Kennedy, about his deceased young friend:

The individual that I know as Lee Harvey Oswald, I don’t think had it in him to be a person capable of committing such a crime as murdering the President of the United States. I’ll always believe that. The side I saw [of] him was a very kind and loving man. And that’s the way I’d like to remember him.2

Garrison gave extensive interviews for The Men Who Killed Kennedy. That same year, 1988, Garrison wrote and published a book, On the Trail of the Assassins, which thoroughly exonerated Oswald through presentation of facts and deductive reasoning. The book focused on Garrison’s prosecution of Clay Shaw in 1969 and it provided many new facts about the assassination never before released to the public. Garrison was philosophical about the 1969 verdict that acquitted Shaw of conspiracy to murder President Kennedy. The following is an excerpt from the introduction of On the Trail of the Assassins:

History has a way of changing verdicts. Twenty-five years ago most Americans readily accepted the government’s contention that the assassination was a random act of violence. A lonely young man, his mind steeped in Marxist ideology, apparently frustrated at his inability to do anything well, had crouched at a warehouse window and—in six seconds of world class shooting—destroyed the President of the United States. … The assassination was an enormously important event. But even more important, in my view, is what happened after—ratification by the government and the media of an official story that is an absurd fairy tale. Immediately after the assassination, the federal government and the major media adopted the posture of two giant ostriches, each unyielding to reason, each with its head firmly lodged in the sand. Having ratified the lone assassin theory, they refused to acknowledge any facts that might discredit it and attacked anyone who offered a different explanation.

(Jim Garrison, On the Trail of the Assassins, pp. XII - XIII)

On the Trail of the Assassins was a best seller and became the basis for a Hollywood movie, JFK (1991), by Oliver Stone. Garrison’s words were prophetic indeed. History does have a way of changing verdicts. By the mid-1990s, the American news media essentially stopped blaming Oswald for the assassination. In fact, most modern documentaries about President Kennedy no longer mention Oswald at all. Few journalists or scholars will openly admit that they believe the Warren Report any longer for fear of losing credibility. Garrison provided so many facts exonerating Oswald that it became impossible for the various media outlets to continue supporting "the great lie." Consequently, the media adopted a paradoxical position regarding the assassination. While most media outlets no longer overtly endorse to the Warren Commission’s conclusion that Oswald alone killed Kennedy, they still support it indirectly by promoting "non-journalists" who write, disseminate, and proselytize archaic propaganda in support of what Garrison accurately labeled "an absurd fairy tale." Gerald Posner is a prime example.

The violent fight to grab JFK's body- much more effort went into that than into protecting him before his execution

Chapter 2: Inside Parkland Memorial Hospital

Senator Ralph Yarborough’s Account of the Assassination

On November 22, 1963 Senator Ralph Yarborough was in the Presidential motorcade that drove through Dallas. Yarborough road with Vice-President Lyndon Johnson and his wife Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson (aka, "Lady Bird"), two cars behind the Presidential limousine. In an interview years later, Yarborough described the following sequence of events right after the shots rang out:

The Secret Service in the car in front of us [the car behind Kennedy’s car] kind of casually looked around, looked up at the back of them and were rather slow to react. We went under the overpass and as we came up on the other side, I could see then the President’s car. And there was [Clint] Hill whom I knew as a Secret Service man assigned to protect Mrs. Kennedy. He was lying across the back [of the car] to hang on with his arm over in there so he could hang on at that high speed. His face turned back towards us, just … agony; and beating with his hand [against the car] like a terrible thing had happened. I knew then that Kennedy’d been shot.

And within several minutes, we came to Parkland Hospital and the Secret Service immediately jumped out the minute Johnson – they practically pulled him out and formed a cordate around him, four or five, and one of them said "Mr. President." I knew then Kennedy was dead. And I walked up to the car where Mrs. Kennedy was still there on the back seat, lying there with her head bowed over covering her husband’s head, his blood running down her leg and on her clothes, and twice saying, "They’ve murdered my husband. They’ve murdered my husband." It’s the most tragic sight of my life.

(Senator Ralph Yarborough, The Men Who Killed Kennedy – The Coup d'état, N. Turner, 1988)

Senator Yarborough’s heartbreaking reaction to President Kennedy’s death was described by NBC’s Chet Huntley during live coverage of the assassination. Huntley stated that "Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas, talking only a few minutes before to news men, collapsed in sobs as he told of witnessing the slaying of the president."

Dr. Charles Crenshaw’s Description of Bizarre Events
On November 22, 1963, Dr. Charles A. Crenshaw was a thirty-year-old attending physician at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Years later Crenshaw wrote his recollections of pandemonium mixed with grief and naked aggression at the hospital where Kennedy was taken immediately after being shot. The following is an excerpt from Dr. Crenshaw’s book, JFK: Conspiracy of Silence (1992):

Once we reached the bottom of the stairwell, we opened the door and rushed into the emergency room. There is always a commotion around trauma, but what I saw was sheer bedlam. As we flew by the nurses’ station, I yelled, "Which room?" A nurse with tears streaming down her face raised one finger.I looked to my left and saw a man in a suit running. To my amazement, another man in a suit jumped in his path and smashed a Thompson submachine gun across his chest and face. The first man’s eyes immediately turned glassy, and he fell against a gray tile wall, and slithered to the floor unconscious. When I heard that gun slam against his face, I just knew the man’s jaw was broken. Normally, I would have rushed over and treated the poor guy, but the president of the United States was waiting for me, and his condition was worse than broken bones. I was to learn later that the man with the gun was a Secret Service agent, and the one who had been hit was an FBI agent.

(C. Crenshaw, et al, JFK: Conspiracy of Silence, 1992, p. 75)

Ambulance Driver’s Description of how Secret Service Stole the Body
Aubrey Reich was an ambulance driver for O’Neal Funeral Home, the company that transported the President’s body from Parkland Memorial Hospital to the airport to be flown back to Washington, DC. In a filmed interview years later, Reich described a confrontation between Secret Service agents and doctors at Parkland Hospital. Reich made the following comments:

They [the Secret Service] told us to go into the trauma room and prepare the President to be moved. They had his head wrapped in sheets. At the time I didn’t know where he had been shot or what. We was all very sad. Everyone was chokin’ back tears.… The state authorities wanted to do an autopsy which is state law in the state of Texas, and the federal people wanted to take it back to Washington, DC. There was a lot of pushing, shoving, cursing. We would try to roll the casket out. Someone would grab it and try to roll it back towards the trauma room. This went on for quite a while. It was a push and shove type thing. Quite a bit of, like I say, obscene language. I had to hold onto the cross on the casket because of the friction where people was pulling it backwards and forwards. I was scared to death. I was really frightened.

(The Men Who Killed Kennedy, N. Turner, 1988)

Dr. Crenshaw’s Description of how Secret Service Stole the Body
Reich’s description of the confrontation at Parkland Hospital was corroborated by Dr. Crenshaw. The following is Crenshaw’s recollection of events from his book, JFK: Conspiracy of Silence:

As though on cue, a phalanx of guards poured into Trauma Room 1 just as the coffin was being rolled out. They looked like a swarm of locusts descending upon a cornfield. Without any discussion, they encircled the casket and began escorting the President's body down the hall toward the emergency room exit. A man in a suit, leading the group, holding a submachine gun, left little doubt in my mind who was in charge. That he wasn't smiling best describes the look on his face. Just outside Trauma Room 1, Jacqueline joined the escort and placed her hand on the coffin as she walked along beside it. I followed directly behind them.When the entourage had moved into the main hall, Dr. Earl Rose, chief of forensic pathology, confronted the men in suits. Roy Kellerman, the man leading the group, looked sternly at Dr. Rose and announced, "My friend, this is the body of the President of the United States, and we are going to take it back to Washington." Dr. Rose bristled and replied, "No, that's not the way things are. When there's a homicide, we must have an autopsy." "He's the President. He's going with us," Kellerman barked, with increased intensity in his voice. "The body stays," Dr. Rose said with equal poignancy. Kellerman took an erect stance and brought his firearm into a ready position. The other men in suits followed course by draping their coattails behind the butts of their holstered pistols. How brave of these men, wearing their Brooks Brothers suits with icons of distinction (color-coded Secret Service buttons) pinned to their lapels, willing to shoot an unarmed doctor to secure a corpse. "My friend, my name is Roy Kellerman. I am special agent in charge of the White House detail of the Secret Service. We are taking President Kennedy back to the capitol." "You are not taking the body anywhere. There's a law here. We're going to enforce it." Admiral George Burkley, White House Medical Officer, said, "Mrs. Kennedy is going to stay exactly where she is until the body is moved. We can't have that … he's the President of the United States." "That doesn't matter," Dr. Rose replied rigidly. "You can't lose the chain of evidence." For the second time that day, there was little doubt in my mind as to the significance of what was happening before me. "Goddammit, get your ass out of the way before you get hurt," screamed another one of the men in suits. Another snapped, "We're taking the body, now." Strange, I thought, this President is getting more protection dead than he did when he was alive. Had Dr. Rose not stepped aside I'm sure that those thugs would have shot him. They would have killed me and anyone else who got in their way. Dr. Kemp Clark wanted to physically detain the coffin, but the men with guns acted like tough guys with specific orders. A period of twenty-seven years has neither erased the fear that I felt nor diminished the impression that that incident made upon me. They loaded the casket into the hearse, Jacqueline got into the backseat, placed her hand on top of the coffin, and bowed her head. As they drove off, I felt that a thirty-year-old surgeon had seen more than his share for one day.

(C. Crenshaw, et al, JFK: Conspiracy of Silence, 1992, pp. 118 - 120)

HIGHTIMES.COM | INSIDE THE OKLAHOMA BOMBING CONSPIRACY

 

HIGHTIMES.COM | INSIDE THE OKLAHOMA BOMBING CONSPIRACY

Mark Miller
"It brings me no joy to watch McVeigh die, no closure, it doesn't bring my grandkids back. He deserves to die, but with the death of McVeigh, so dies the truth." Those were Cathy Wilburn's words to HIGH TIMES, shortly before being one of the chosen witnesses to watch convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh be put to death via chemical injection on June 11, 2001, at the United States penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. McVeigh, 33, was the first person to be executed by the federal government since 1963. A fatal injection of potassium chloride stopped his heart at 7:14 AM, CDT.

McVeigh was convicted and sentenced to death in 1997 for detonating a fertilizer bomb, concealed in a rented Ryder truck, that blew off the front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Collapsing floors in the nine-story structure buried victims under masses of steel and concrete. It was the worst domestic terrorist attack in US history, killing 168 people, including 19 children attending daycare, and injuring over 500 others.

McVeigh had originally been scheduled to die on May 16, but on May 10, the Justice Department turned over more than 4,000 previously undisclosed FBI investigation papers to his attorneys. Attorney General John Ashcroft cited the FBI blunder and delayed the execution until June 11. Some of the documents in question relate to the distinct possibility that McVeigh did not act alone in the bombing.

On May 31, McVeigh agreed to seek a further delay, based on the notion that the FBI papers would have helped him avoid the death penalty at trial by implicating others in the bombing. However, on June 6, federal District Judge Richard Matsch, who presided over McVeigh's 1997 trial and sentencing, dismissed his attorneys' argument that the FBI had worked a "fraud on the court" by withholding the 4,000 papers. Matsch rejected the request to delay the execution, and on June 7, McVeigh decided against further appeals, including to the Supreme Court, and chose to die.
[cont.]

Oklahoma Bombing Conspiray -- page 2

As the international media horde descended on the modest Midwestern town of Terre Haute, the focus was predictably on McVeigh, portrayed as America's greatest villain, having acted alone in planting the truck bomb in front of the Murrah building that fateful morning.

The official version holds that the OKC federal building was targeted by McVeigh and coconspirator Terry Nichols in retaliation for the FBI's assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas on April 19, 1993, in which 80 men, women and children died ("Appointment With the Apocalypse," May ‘01 HT).

Though McVeigh served in the Persian Gulf war, winning a Bronze Star for courage under fire, he was extremely antigovernment and sought to punish the Feds on the second anniversary of the Waco assault.

McVeigh was arrested 90 minutes after the OKC bombing, for driving without a license plate. The next morning, just as he was about to be released from police custody, he was identified as "John Doe #1," and charged with the bombing.

That McVeigh was "John Doe #1" implies there was a "John Doe #2" -- and there was, at the beginning of the investigation. Throughout 1995, the FBI conducted a massive manhunt for "John Doe #2," but then the Justice Department and the FBI suddenly reversed themselves, and announced it had all been a "big mistake," that there was no "John Doe #2" and McVeigh acted alone.

Cathy Wilburn thinks otherwise. Her life was changed forever when her grandsons, Chase Smith, 3, and Colton Smith, 2, were killed in the bombing. In addition to being one of the victims chosen by Attorney General John Ashcroft to witness McVeigh's execution, Wilburn has been the most vocal and passionate critics of the "official version" during her six-year sojourn to, as she puts it, "gain the truth of what really happened in Oklahoma City."

Wilburn has visited many of the sites connected to the case, be they official or conspiratorial. She has slept in the same hotel room where McVeigh spent the night before his arrest. She has visited Elohim City, the Christian Identity compound in eastern Oklahoma which McVeigh is documented to have visited and phoned in the weeks prior to the OKC bombing.

Wilburn, her husband, Glenn, and their daughter Edye Smith have filed a $30 million lawsuit against McVeigh, Andreas Strassmeir of Germany, Michael Brescia and Michael Fortier for involvement in the bombing. She says the suit is still in the courts.

Michael Fortier, an Army buddy of both McVeigh and Nichols, was the government's star witness in both their trials, and was sentenced to 12 years for failing to notify anyone of the bombing plot. Nichols was sentenced to life in federal prison after refusing to reveal any further information regarding his role in planning the bombing.

According to an Oklahoma County grand jury, there were no additional conspirators beyond Nichols and McVeigh. In December 1998, the grand jury found no evidence the federal government had advance knowledge of the bombing, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. They found no connection between the bombing and Elohim City, nor to anyone overseas, including Germany.
[cont.]

Oklahoma Bombing Conspiray -- page 3

Despite the findings of that grand jury, Elohim City is clearly at the center of the unofficial investigations into the bombing. A 400-acre compound located near Lawton, OK, it is home to approximately 100 men, women and children who are part of the growing Christian Identity (CI) movement.

CI is a racist, anti-Semitic theology which holds that there are essentially three distinct types of people: the "true Israelites" created by God, meaning those of Western and Northern European extraction; Jews, who are the offspring of Satan; and "mud people" -- all nonwhites, descended from pre-Adamic "lower species." The white "Israelites" should rule the world, while Jews are to be executed and "mud people" enslaved.

CI is the religion of choice for white supremacist neo-Nazis and Christian "Reconstructionists," who would establish a theocracy in the US, replacing the Constitution with biblical law. It also intersects with creationism, which appeals to those offended by the notion man evolved from a mere monkey, regardless of the fossil record. The belief that people, or certain people, were created directly by God, and are therefore "superior," plays right into CI doctrine.

Elohim City was founded in 1973 by Robert Millar, a Canadian CI preacher who was the "spiritual advisor" for Richard Wayne Snell, a neo-Nazi executed by the state of Arkansas the same day as the OKC bombing. Millar brought Snell's corpse back to Elohim City for a hero's funeral.

Snell was put to death for murdering a black Arkansas state trooper and a jeweler he thought was Jewish. On April 15, 1995, he told prison officials there would be a bombing at an unspecified location on the day of his death. Four days later, Snell's startling prediction came true in OKC.

Snell and his neo-Nazi group, the Covenant, Sword and Arm of the Lord, had cased the very same Murrah building for a terrorist attack back in 1983, but abandoned the plan when the rocket launcher to be utilized blew up in Snell's hands while being test-fired.

"It's ludicrous to believe it's only a coincidence McVeigh picked the same building Snell targeted in '83, and that Snell's body was taken to Elohim City," Cathy Wilburn states.

What of Michael Brescia and Andreas Strassmeir, the two Elohim City roommates also named in Wilburn's suit? Brescia has been identified as "John Doe #2" by Catina Lawson, McVeigh's ex-girlfriend, and by Dennis Mahon, former Imperial Dragon of a Ku Klux Klan sect. Mahon, like McVeigh, was a frequent visitor to Elohim City.

Brescia sports an interesting resume that includes being part of a bank-robbing speed-metal band called Cyanide, as well as being a member of the Aryan Republican Army (ARA), which boasted of their plans to kill Jews and deport blacks.

Cathy Wilburn believes the string of 22 Midwestern bank robberies by the ARA in 1994-95 was intended to fund their racist agenda, including funneling money to McVeigh in the months prior to the bombing, as he traveled the US and stayed in motels with no apparent means of income.
[cont.]

Oklahoma Bombing Conspiray -- page 4]

Although the other three ARA members involved in the robberies were arrested shortly afterwards, the FBI did not bust Brescia until January 1997. It was members of a militia group headed by Arlin Adams who posted flyers accusing Brescia of being involved in the OKC bombing throughout Philadelphia.


The posters read: "UNWANTED by the FBI -- Michael Brescia a.k.a. ‘John Doe #2.'" They also contained a photo of Brescia juxtaposed with the familiar sketch of "John Doe #2" that was circulated by the FBI immediately following the bombing -- the "John Doe #2" which the FBI said did not exist. It took a public pressure campaign for the FBI to finally move in and arrest Brescia. He was only convicted of the bank robberies, not the bombing, and has since been released from prison.

Andreas Strassmeir is a former German army official. His father is Gunther Strassmeir, one of the architects of German reunification, and former chief of staff for former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.

Strassmeir was present with his father at the official ceremonies celebrating the annexation of East Germany by West Germany. He came to the US in 1989, and eventually served as chief of security for Elohim City for two years, including the time prior to and following the OKC bombing. He returned to Germany in late 1995.

According to his attorney, Kirk Lyons, Strassmeir was assisted in his escape from the US by GSG-9, the German counterterrorism unit. Lyons has been an attorney for neo-Nazis, Klansmen and Holocaust deniers, and has himself been videotaped participating in neo-Nazi activities in Germany.

Carol Howe, informant for the BATF who infiltrated Elohim City, says that the bombing was masterminded by Strassmeir, who allegedly exerted profound control over McVeigh.

Howe warned her BATF case agent that the terrorist underground of Elohim City was planning to blow up a federal building in either Tulsa or OKC, with a probable target date of April 19, 1995. She identified Brescia as "John Doe #2" during a BATF debriefing following the bombing, and said McVeigh went by the alias of "Tim Tuttle" when visiting Elohim City.

The BATF confirmed in 1997 that Howe was a source -- after claiming for two years that the idea that the Feds had prior knowledge of the bombing was a "conspiracy theory." US authorities now admit they had advance warning, but that the info provided by Howe was too vague for them to act.

Strassmeir, 42, is an enigma, in that his role in and motivation for the bombing is uncertain--he has been portrayed as both a violent neo-Nazi and a government informant working undercover for the BATF.

"I don't think Strassmeir was working for the BATF, but he was someone the government didn't want to touch," Cathy Wilburn comments. "He was protected by someone, he was working for someone."
[cont.]

Oklahoma Bombing Conspiray -- page 5

When US officials sought to question Strassmeir in 1997, they were told by German police and intelligence that neither had any data concerning him. This seems improbable, as Strassmeir would likely have needed a security clearance to attend the reunification ceremonies. Also, his alleged neo-Nazi ties to Elohim City would have been likely monitored by German intelligence.

One possibility for the Strassmeir cover-up was to protect then-Chancellor Kohl from scandal preceding the 1998 election, given his friendship with Strassmeir's father. (Kohl was defeated by Gerhard Schroder). Kohl himself has longstanding ties to the residual elements of the Third Reich in Germany, including associations with Nazi industrialist Fritz Ries and Eberhard Taubert, a Goebbels propaganda official who was employed by the West German national-security establishment.

Besides the German connections, there is also McVeigh's link to the neo-Nazi tract The Turner Diaries and its notorious author, William Pierce.


The 1978 novel dramatizes a fascist takeover of the U.S. in which federal buildings are blown up. It served as a blueprint for the Order, the neo-Nazi group which robbed armored cars and assassinated Alan Berg, an outspoken Jewish radio host in Denver, in 1984.

McVeigh was said to be so obsessed with the "message" of The Turner Diaries that he sold the book at gun shows and even passed them out to friends. A copy of the book was found in his car the day of the OKC bombing.

Ironically, Pierce himself told 60 Minutes that the OKC bombing was a "mistake," as it failed to advance the neo-Nazi cause because there was no sustained rebellion. He promised, "One day there will be real, organized terrorism -- aimed at bringing down the government."

Finally, there is the possibility that fascist elements within the U.S. military may have been involved, at least in creating the "mad bomber" Timothy McVeigh.

According to the book The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of TerrorM, McVeigh claimed that the Army had implanted him with a microchip, a miniature subcutaneous transponder, inserted in his buttocks, in order to keep track of him. "We used this with military personnel in the Iraq war, where they were actually tracked using this particular type of device," says Dr. Carl Sanders, developer of the Intelligence Manned Interface biochip.

Following the war, McVeigh took a job at Burns International Security, where fellow employee Lynda Haner-Mele described him and his personality:

"Timmy just wasn't the type of person who could initiate action. He was very good if you said, ‘Tim, watch this door--don't let anyone through.' The Tim I knew couldn't have masterminded something like this [the OKC bombing]. It would have had to have been someone who said: ‘Tim, this is what you do. You drive the truck.'"

That the OKC bombing may have been engineered behind the scenes by fascist elements in the military, the German government and on the neo-Nazi/CI fringe seems fantastic, yet the evidence continues to mount in that direction, regardless of being covered up by the government or ignored by the mainstream press.

McVeigh was quoted in the book American Terrorist as saying, "I did not do it for personal gain... I did it for the larger good."

Was that "larger good" a fascist overthrow of the US government, with Christian Identity zealots and neo-Nazis ascending to dictatorship? Time will tell if the prognostications in The Turner Diaries come to fruition.

As for Cathy Wilburn, she has both a documentary film and book in the works, as she continues her personal quest to expose the truth of the OKC bombing. McVeigh's execution may have satisfied the majority of Americans, but people like Wilburn, who believe there's much more to this than just a "lone nut bomber," know that full justice has yet to be served as long as people and groups such as Brescia, Strassmeir and Elohim City continue to go free.

(Additional research for this story provided by Cheri Seymour.)

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