CIA FILES REVEAL FOREIGN INTRIGUE
IN BOMBING OF MURRAH BUILDING
By Pat Shannan
The relentless digging by Utah
attorney Jesse Trentadue, which last year produced new evidence of the FBI’s
role in the cover-up in Oklahoma City (OKC), has now led to the discovery of
CIA documents further implicating government operatives in the planning and
carrying out of the federal Murrah
Building bombing in 1995.
Even though U.S. District Court judge Clark Waddoups ruled
against Trentadue’s motion to make public various documents that the government
wanted kept secret for reasons of “national security,” the judge, at the same
time, hinted at the criminality contained therein.
Trentadue has made many Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
requests over the years, and this is the first time the government has used the
“national security” defense to deny the records to him.
The March ruling in Salt Lake City
was just one more in a long line of FOIA challenges made by Trentadue, who has
been in a struggle for more than a decade to get government documents regarding
the death of his brother Kenneth in the Oklahoma City Federal
Transfer Center.
Kenneth was found beaten to death in his cell in August of 1995. Disregarding dozens
of cuts and bruises on his body, literally from head to toe—even on the bottoms
of his feet—officials ruled the death a “suicide.”
The judge’s ruling constituted the first documented involvement
of the CIA in the handling of the investigation, either before or after the
bombing that killed 168 persons.
“Does it mean there was foreign involvement in some manner
in the bombing or the investigation?” the intrepid Utah lawyer was asked. “Without a doubt,”
responded Trentadue.
Many believe the federal government used a foreign operative
named Andreas Strassmeier of Germany to work undercover at Elohim City—the
Aryan-Nations-type compound in eastern Oklahoma visited by McVeigh and others.
Trentadue believes the court ruling and references to the CIA lend more
credibility to such a long-held theory.
While the exact content of the dozen documents on the denied
FOIA request was not revealed, Waddoups dropped various hints, as if to be
standing within his legal parameters while at the same time silently urging Trentadue
to “fill in the blanks.”
1) The first exhibit, as pointed out by the judge, pertained
to “a five-page fax, dated Feb. 4, 1998, including a letter to an attorney in
the Department of Justice from an attorney in the CIA.” The letter concerned the
results of a CIA records search that the CIA “conducted at the DOJ’s request.”
2) Exhibit 2 was made up of two fax sheets and a two-page
letter dated Oct. 22, 1997, from a CIA attorney to an attorney at the DOJ. “It
contains information, legal analysis and opinion prepared by a CIA attorney in
contemplation of the prosecution of Mr. McVeigh,”
wrote the judge.
3) Exhibit 3 was a document dated Sept. 17, 1996. “In that
letter, the CIA clarifies prior correspondence regarding CIA record searches
related to the prosecution of Mr. McVeigh and Terry Nichols,” continued Judge
Waddoups.
4) Exhibit 4 involved two pages of fax sheets and a four-page
letter dated Jan. 4, 1996 from a CIA attorney to a DOJ attorney. “It relates to
any CIA involvement by a possible witness to the Oklahoma City bombing trial. It is classified
as secret,” added the judge in his ruling.
5) Exhibit 5 pertained to two pages of fax sheets dated
April 19, 1996 and four pages of classified handwritten notes summarizing
classified information that a DOJ attorney reviewed in connection with the Oklahoma City bombing
prosecution. “It is classified as secret,” wrote the judge.
6) Exhibit 6 was dated Sept. 3, 1996 and according to the
judge, was a letter that responded to the “DOJ’s request for information
related to the Oklahoma City
bombing trial” and was also classified as secret.
7) Exhibit 7 was a two-page cable dated April 21, 1995 “relaying
information about the Oklahoma City bombing that
was provided to a U.S.
ambassador by a foreign official.” It was classified as secret.
8) Exhibit 8 concerned a one-page cable dated April 20,
1995 “outlining a federal prosecutor’s attempts to extradite an organized crime
figure from another country.” It too was classified as secret.
9) Exhibit 9 was a three-page cable dated May 10, 1995 “relaying
information provided by a foreign government about the possible identification
of a suspect in the Oklahoma City
bombing.”
10) Exhibit 10 was another cable dated April 19, 1995 and
relayed information provided by a “foreign liaison contact” regarding the OKC
bombing.
11) Exhibit 11 was a two-page cable dated May 2, 1995
relaying information “provided by a human source regarding the Oklahoma City bombing.” It was classified as
secret.
12) Exhibit 12 was a three-page cable dated April 25, 1995 “relaying
background information on a source who provided information to the CIA about
the Oklahoma City
bombing.”
“If there was no foreign involvement, then why was the CIA
asked to help federal prosecutors?” asked Trentadue.
This explosive information about the involvement of the CIA
and foreign individuals certainly was never made available to McVeigh’s defense
team led by Stephen Jones, he added.
Pat Shannan is the assistant editor of American Free Press. He is also the author of several videos and books including One in a Million: An IRS Travesty and I Rode With Tupper,
detailing Shannan’s experiences with Tupper Saussy when the
American dissident was on the run in the 1980s. Both are available from
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(Issue # 17, April 26, 2010)
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