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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 10 Num. 03
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 10 Num. 03
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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THE MANNLICHER-CARCANO BOMB
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David Hoffman, author of a forthcoming book *The Oklahoma City
Bombing and the Politics of Terror*, offers the following preview
of his work-in-progress. Hoffman says his book will be published
by Feral House, probably in late 1997. Hoffman publishes the
Haight Ashbury Free Press, and has temporarily moved to Oklahoma
City to work on this book.
...Was the BATF in fact responsible, knowingly or
unknowingly, for the explosion that destroyed the Murrah
building? Consider the following article which appeared in
the June 5, 1995 issue of Newsweek:
"For the past year, the BATF and the Army Corps of
Engineers have been blowing up car bombs at the White Sands
Proving Ground in New Mexico. The project, code-named
Dipole Might, is designed to create a computer model to
unravel terrorist car-and truck-bomb attacks. By
coincidence, a BATF agent assigned to Dipole Might,
happened to be in Oklahoma City on April 19th, working at
the Federal Courthouse, which stands across the street from
the Murrah Building. He saw the devastation and called the
BATF office in Dallas. The Murrah Building had just been
hit by 'ANFO' (ammonium material) bomb of at least several
thousand pounds, he reported. Within minutes, explosives
agents trained under Dipole Might were dispatched to the
scene. They identified the type and size of the bomb
almost immediately."
Just how this agent (Harry Everhart) was able to
immediately ascertain the building had been blown up by an
ANFO bomb, when no forensic analysis had yet been
conducted, is unclear. When Phil O'Halloran, a freelance
journalist, attempted to ask the BATF Public Relations
Bureau why a Dipole Might expert just happened to be in the
courthouse at that moment, and how he could immediately
have known the exact nature of the bomb, O'Halloran, rather
than be given a rational explanation, was accused of
attacking the agency and was promised a fax of agency views
on right-wing conspiracists (which never arrived)....
It also seems that the "coincidence" of the BATF's Dipole
Might tests were uncannily similar to the May 24, 1990
bombing of Earth First! activist Judi Bari. The FBI
claimed that Bari and her companion Daryl Cherney, who were
on their way to a peaceful protest rally, had inadvertently
blown themselves up with their own pipe-bomb.
After Bari sued the FBI for false arrest and civil rights
violations, she found out through court discovery that the
FBI ran a "bomb school" at Eureka College of the Redwoods
in April of 1990 for both FBI and local police. The
classes included blowing up cars with pipe bombs,
ostensibly to demonstrate tactics used by terrorists (the
same reason cited in the BATF case). The instructor for
this "school of terrorism" was none other than Frank Doyle
Jr., the FBI bomb squad expert who showed up at the scene
of Bari's car bombing one month later.
According to Freedom of Information Act records, the
Treasury Department's (BATF is under the Treasury
Department) Project Dipole Might was actually initated
under the authorization of Clinton's National Security
Council. One of the stated purposes of the Dipole Might
project was to produce computer models of bombings to "be
displayed in a courtroom to aid in the prosecution of
defendants." Naturally, the Justice Department plans on
using the video tapes shot at White Sands during the trial
of McVeigh and Nichols to "prove" that an ANFO bomb blew up
the building. As Lawrence Myers, writing in Media Bypass
magazine wrote:
Why the National Security Council would fund such an
ATF project, despite the absolute rarity of the
crime, has not been explained. Nor has it been
explained as to what specific threat assessment
information the government had when it decided to
engage in such a project, just a few months before a
Ryder Truck laden with ammonium-nitrate fertilizer
exploded in front of the Murrah Building.
As Myers points out, the last-known case of a truck bomb
exploding in the U.S. was in 1970, when an ANFO bomb
exploded in front of the ROTC building at the University of
Wisconsin, in Madison. Why then, would the National
Security Council suddenly feel the need for detailed
information regarding ANFO truck-bomb attacks?
Was the BATF expecting such a bombing. Were they in fact
responsible for blast or the secondary damage to the
building? Or was the building wired for demolition as part
of a larger plot?
"I'm firmly convinced that the BATF is guilty of an awful
lot of things," said Bud, our ex-Green Beret friend. "I
mean, if you look at what the BATF and the FBI did to Randy
Weaver (and at Waco), it's just awful. They've gone hog
wild and have [become] a power unto themselves."
Asked if he thought a rogue group or special unit within
the military/intelligence community could or would commit
such an act?
"It wouldn't really stun me," said Bud.
By
David Hoffman, Publisher
Haight Ashbury Free Press
6118 N. Meridian, #621
Oklahoma City, OK 73112
http://www.webcom.com/haight
(405) 948-1330 (temporarily in Oklahoma City)
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