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What Really Happened in Oklahoma: Tim McVeigh Was Not Alone
Don't believe what you see on TV. McVeigh was not solely guilty
of the bombing. The best evidence suggests he was part of a cell inspired by an agent
provacateur inserted by the U.S. government (ATF, FBI, other). The media nibbled on the
edge of this story, but only Ambrose Evans-Pritchard dug into it. In his book The Secret
Life of Bill Clinton (dumb title, great book) he got Strassmeir on the phone back in
Germany. Here's how the conversation went:
...The series of conversations we had in the late spring of 1996 are probably a unique
record of his rambling on the subject. I offer it to the reader as a window into his
[Strassmeir's] mind, not as an assertion of fact. He spoke vicariously, alluding to his
"very reliable source." He never acknowledged playing any role in the terrorist plot,
either as an Aryan warrior or as an undercover agent, informant, or participant
observer.
But it was my intuitive feeling that the "very reliable source" was none other than Lt.
Andreas Strassmeir of the Panzer Grenadiers (SPz). I sensed that he was in deep anguish
about the tragedy [OKC bombing] and wished to get some of it off his chest without violating
any secret protocol he may have signed. Undoubtedly he mixed disinformation with elements
of truth. What struck me were the unpredictable surges of passion.
"The different agencies weren't cooperating," he said. "In fact, they were working against
each other. You even had a situation where one branch of the FBI was investigating and not
sharing anything with another branch of the FBI."
Overall, however, he was protecteive of the Bureau. It was the ATF that evoked intense
feelings of bitterness, betrayal, and anger.
"It's obvious that it was a government 'op' that went wrong, isn't it? The ATF had something
going with McVeigh. They were watching him -- of course they were," he asserted, without
qualification. "What they should have done is make an arrest while the bomb was still being
made instead of waiting till the last moment for a publicity stunt. They had everything
they needed to make a bust, and they screwed it up."
He said that the sting operation acquired a momentum of its own as the ATF tried to "ice
the cake" for more dramatic effect. "Whoever thought this thing up is an idiot, in my
opinion. I am told they thought it would be better to put a bigger bomb in there. The
bigger the better. It would make them more guilty.... McVeigh knew he was delivering a
bomb, but he had no idea what was in that truck. He just wanted to shake things up a
little; you know, make a gesture."
"According to your source?"
"That's correct. The bomb was never meant to explode. They were going to arrest McVeigh
at the site with the bomb in hand, but he didn't come at the right time.... Maybe he
changed the time, you never know with people who are so unreliable."
"What time were they expecting the truck?" I asked.
"I have heard that it was the middle of the night, between two and three in the morning.
The truck had a transmitter, so they could track it with a radio receiving device. I don't
know how they could have lost contact. I think there was misinformation that the operation
had been canceled."
I told Strassmeir outright that the evidence linking him to the bombing was very
strong.
"Either you are a mass murderer, or you are an undercover agent," I said. "Either you
killed all those people, or you risked your life to penetrate a group of vile, dangerous
people. Take your pick, Andreas, but don't think you can stick your head in the sand and
hope that it will all go away. It won't go away."
"You don't understand," he said.
"You know what I think already," I persisted. "I think you're a very courageous man. I
think you did everything you could to stop that bombing. You did your part; you got inside
the most deadly terrorist conspiracy in the history of the United States; you got these
maniacs to believe in you; your cover was brilliant; and somebody let you down, didn't they
Andreas?"
"You don't understand," he repeated almost plaintively.
"I do understand, Andreas. I understand that it wasn't your fault. Are you listening to
me? It wasn't your fault. So why not just come out and tell the whole rotten truth, and
get it over and done with? You don't have to cover for the ATF."
"You think it's as simple as that?" he stammered.
"I don't know, Andreas. You tell me. Who were you working for anyway? Did the Germans
send you over?"
"No! No, they would never do that."
"So who was it then? The ATF? The Bureau? Who were you working for?"
"Look, I can't talk any longer."
"Just listen to me, Andreas. They're going to hang you out to dry. When this thing comes
down they're going to leave you holding that bomb, or -- and you know this as well as I
do -- you'll fall under a train one day on the U Bahn, when nobody's looking."
"I've got to go to work."
"There comes a time in every botched operation when the informant has to speak out to save
his own skin, and that's now, Andreas."
"How can he?" he shouted into the telephone. "What happens if it was a sting operation
from the very beginning? What happens if it comes out that the plant was a
provocateur?"
"A provacateur?"
"What if he talked and manipulated the others into it? What then? The country couldn't
handle it. The relatives of the victims are going to go crazy. He's going to be held
responsible for the murder of 168 people."
"That is true."
"Of course the informant can't come forward. He's scared shitless right now."
"It sounds to me as if you've got a problem, Andreas."
"Scheisse." ["Shit."]
The conclusion is there for those with eyes to see it: The
government that burned the kids at Waco bombed the kids in Oklahoma.
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