Notice_the_nose’s Reviews > Deadly Secrets: TIMOTHY MCVEIGH AND THE OKLAHOMA CiTY BOMBING > Status Update

Once again, the real story is what is missing: four cameras in four locations going blank at basically the same time on the morning of April 19, 1995. “Th ere ain’t no such thing as a coincidence,” Jesse said after viewing the tapes. Th e FBI claims the security cameras did not record just prior to the blast or during the blast because “they had run out of tape” or “the tape was being replaced.”

The CIA reported that it had found 26 documents that were responsive to Jesse’s request focusing on Strassmeir. Th e CIA was refusing to turn the documents over, however. Here is why: Th e National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which reviewed the documents at CIA request, advised that releasing them “could cause grave damage to our national security.”

It marked a turning point in Jesse’s investigation. He now had conclusive proof that the OKBOMB and BOMBROB cases were clearly connected inside the FBI. Despite its public position to the contrary, the FBI had secretly linked and investigated McVeigh, the ARA and the Elohim City conspiracy. The official story of Timothy McVeigh, lone mastermind of the Oklahoma City Bombing, was beginning to crumble.

Jesse eventually reached a shocking conclusion: that FBI agents tortured and killed his brother during a prison interrogation, apparently in the mistaken belief that Kenneth Trentadue was John Doe No. 2 – McVeigh’s unidentified accomplice who got away.

On July 14, 1996, six months to the day after Strassmeir had been smuggled out of the United States by way of Mexico, J.D. Cash wrote in the McCurtain Gazette that a highly placed FBI official had confirmed that Andreas Strassmeir was a paid government informant sent by ATF – the same agency that employed Carol Howe – to infiltrate Elohim City.

The ARA’s roadmap to forming their Aryan Republic borrowed heavily from the Irish Republican Army. Langan explains that bank robberies are an appropriate way to finance the ARA’s revolution because: “Hymie has been ripping you and your father off , forever. Now you go take it back.”

Howe reported that Strassmeir and Mahon were talking about blowing up federal buildings. They even traveled to Oklahoma City to select potential targets for bombings. Howe, whose confidential informant number was 53270-183 or CI-183, reported all of these activities to the ATF prior to the Oklahoma City Bombing. Agent Findley-Graham filed her first report on Howe’s information on August 30, 1994.

Federal law enforcement documents obtained by Trentadue reveal that prior to the bombing, federal agents knew about a plot that was unfolding in Elohim City, similar to the one McVeigh described to me. Before the bombing, federal agents were tracking the very same players McVeigh named to me: including Elohim City’s paramilitary arms trainer Andreas Strassmeir