The OKC Bombing Sting Operation and the Ford Bronco
An otherwise obscure FBI 302 report recently sourced from records in the 2004 Terry Nichols State Trial adds an interesting dimension to the theory that the April 19th, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing may have been a sting gone awry.
The memo, which describes a Ford Bronco driving slowly around the Murrah Federal Building at 2:30 A.M. between two to three times — 15 miles per hour, seems innocuous enough.
However, that is only if you’re not familiar with the notion that the Oklahoma City bombing may have been connected to a sting operation—one in which a team of FBI and ATF agents were out all night expecting the delivery of a bomb in the middle of the night.
The theory is not a new one. For years, critics and investigators have pointed out glaring contradictions in the investigation, including specific warnings given to the federal government by informants prior to the bombing.
The most well-known of these informants is Carol Howe, whose reporting to the ATF was specific and detailed with Howe telling Diane Sawyer at ABC News “I gave them warnings of targets, specific targets, addresses of targets, names of targets.” Informants reporting on matters related to the bombing are not exclusive to Howe; reports from at least two others seemingly confirm her information: that a group of white supremacists based out of Elohim City, including a gang of bank robbers and a German national named Andreas Strassmeir, were plotting to blow up the Murrah building and had even cased the building with one of the informants. Strassmeir may hold the key to unlocking the mystery concerning the failed sting operation.
Andreas Strassmeir, when interviewed by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard for his 1997 book The Secret Life of Bill Clinton, revealed what can only be said to be “insider knowledge” of the bombing operation—indeed—knowledge of a sting operation that was underway. Strassmeir’s disclosure jibes with what ATF official Lester Martz told reporter J.D. Cash—that his own ATF agents had been out on an all-night “surveillance operation.”
The below excerpt, from page 90, lays out the scenario:
In this passage, we have Andreas Strassmeir stating that, according to his source, a sting operation w
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