TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Saturday, January 24, 2004

McCurtain Daily Gazette 2004 01 19:

A death row inmate who had extensive contacts with convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh over a 23-month period has completed a manuscript . . .

According to the author, Secrets Worth Dying For was written with McVeigh’s explicit permission on the condition the work not be published until after McVeigh’s execution . . .

The manuscript provided this newspaper details a wide array of conspirators . . .

McVeigh says the men who assisted him in the bombing were persons with close connections to Elohim City – a Christian Identity enclave in eastern Oklahoma near Muldrow.

In a chapter titled, Blood Makes the Grass Grow, Hammer writes: “On October 12th 1993, McVeigh and Terry Nichols drove from Fayetteville, Arkansas to Elohim City. They were met there by (Andreas) Strassmeir, who Tim called ‘Andy’, or ‘Andy the Krout.’
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“A short time later, a meeting was convened to discuss a “direct action against the federal government.” Those in attendance included McVeigh, Nichols, Strassmeir, Richard Guthrie and Pete Langan.

McVeigh and Strassmeir emerged as leaders at this meeting . . .

Hammer later includes other Elohim City residents in the group’s plans, including Kevin McCarthy, Scott Stedeford and Mike Brescia – young men recruited by Aryan Nations leader Mark Thomas of Penn. . . .

It also includes references to three men that the inmate says McVeigh told him were central to the conspiracy – men with close ties to the U.S. military.

Unfortunately, McVeigh, Hammer writes, went to his death claiming he did not know the true identities of these men – only their code names. . . .

One of these men, McVeigh claims, contacted him shortly after his discharge from the army.

Referring to him only “the major,” McVeigh said he was invited to work with the shadowy figure during a meeting the two had at Camp McCall. . . on the grounds of Fort Bragg, N.C. . . .

McVeigh . . . was told of an off-budget defense department project the Major wanted to invite him to join. The Major said McVeigh would be involved in gathering intelligence for the government on members of the radical rightwing in the U.S., specifically members of the KKK and Aryan Nations. . . .

Within a matter of months of the ‘93 Elohim City meeting, Guthrie, Langan and McVeigh were robbing banks and gathering explosives and a vast arsenal of weapons.
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McVeigh’s recollections of the terrorist conspiracy also includes the startling admission that Nichols did not provide meaningful assistance to the group after McVeigh says the Oklahoma City office structure was chosen as a target for bombing.
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Regarding McVeigh’s version of events he gave two reporters from his hometown newspaper – an account clearly at odds with this one –Hammer told this newspaper, “He (McVeigh) used them at that time, just as he did Terry Nichols. He told us he used them to advance his goals, which included protecting the identities of those who could have helped him later.

TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS: I'm not sure what all to make of this. All this chatter about skinheads does not change the fact that internal charges had to be placed on the Murrah building in order to bring about the resultant damage, as per Gen. Benton Partin. (And local tlelevision broadcasts featured to recovery of unexploded ordinance.) Also, don't forget that the CIA's MK-ULTRA psychiatrist, Dr. Louis Jolyn West, visited McVeigh in prison, leaving suspect any utterings he may or may not have made to cellmates. There are some more interesting todbits in the full article at the source link.

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