DEADLY SECRETS: TIMOTHY MCVEIGH AND THE OKLAHOMA CiTY BOMBING

by David Paul Hammer

Beyond the thousand-yard stare, beneath the buzz cut, there was another Timothy McVeigh. Now America finally gets to meet the real Oklahoma City Bomber, and hear his shocking account of his crime, as reported by McVeigh’s fellow death row inmate, David Paul Hammer. The Timothy McVeigh whom readers meet here is a disturbed, insecure man, obsessed with his sexual identity almost as much as with his celebrity. He is a ticking time bomb of vulnerablity in a prison setting, living every day in fear of his fellow inmates. Hammer has something McVeigh, the prison newcomer, survival skills from a lifetime on the inside. McVeigh has something Hammer the truth about the Oklahoma City Bombing. The astonishing result is a book that punctures the myth of Timothy McVeigh, the lone-wolf mastermind. Government prosecutors told juries that McVeigh acted virtually alone, aided only by his convicted co-conspirator Terry Nichols. McVeigh tells Hammer a strikingly different that he had multiple accomplices, members of a bank robbery gang with skinhead politics known as the Aryan Republican Army. He names names. He also names other men he says helped plan the bombing at an Oklahoma religious compound, and paramilitary training camp, known as Elohim City. Most amazingly, McVeigh says he wasn’t the mastermind of the conspiracy at all. He says he was an undercover agent, working for the federal government, in a sting operation that apparently went terribly wrong. After McVeigh’s execution, Hammer undertook a Houdini-like to check out McVeigh’s story while locked behind bars. Hammer turned up a wealth of fresh and compelling evidence. It’s all here in this book, for readers to join the investigation of what really went down in the greatest cold case of them all.

260 pages, Paperback

First published April 7, 2010

Reviews

[Bill Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

I consider this a must-read for anyone wanting to find the real story beyond the media narrative. The author is a criminal serving life on Death Row and a self-admitted conman (which got him to this point in his life), but he includes independently verifiable points and facts to craft his story. I believe this author had communication Jesse Trentadue and it seems that Trentadue has some faith in Hammer.

This was one of those books I simply could not put down. It reads much like a novel, fast and holds your attention.

Having dug into the Kennedy Assassination pretty deeply, I think a case could be made that McVeigh and Oswald are similar figures. It seems they were assigned to do one thing, like infiltrate and spy, and were totally unsuspecting that they'd be framed and hung out to dry.

McVeigh and Oswald were American patriots, not terrorist scum as they've been portrayed. Tim was a perfect soldier and served his country honorably. I believe both men were used for the sinister purpose of rogue elements in the Deep State/Intelligence World to sway the public (McVeigh killed the Militia/Patriot Movement) and defeat enemies of the regime in control (in the case of JFK).

Interestingly, Oswald's forensics/paraffin tests came back negative. The prosecution couldn't produce ANY forensic evidence on Tim's person or clothes tying him to the explosion. Stephen Jones said they had nothing but a parade of victim's relatives taking the stand and emotionally-swaying the jury, which Judge Matsch allowed despite heavy precedent otherwise.

The Kenneth Trentadue murder in federal custody and the refusal to release surveillance footage of the bombing to the public are the "Smoking Gun" to McVeigh's innocence.

[Nick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well I heard about this in the new book Blowback and had to find it on archive.org to read it but wow am I glad I did. I have never come across anything quite like this before. Feels like a viral true crime podcast in book form. The prose reads like a thriller and had me hooked from the beginning. I couldn't shake the sense that this might be disinformation at first but by the time he finishes telling McVeigh's version of the story and starts digging into the investigation, all of my concerns were put to rest. I won't go into details but this book is worth finding and reading if you want to have your mind blown, the parallels into the 9/11 event and the Epstein thing are palpable and shocking. 5/5, will read again!