Strassmeir’s
flamboyant attorney,
Kirk
Lyons
of Black Mountain, N.C., issued a bizarre statement after his client fled the
U.S., admitting the C.A.U.S.E. Foundation (a non-profit organization established
to help the victims of the Waco massacre) provided the money for Strassmeir’s
escape.
Lyons,
the managing director of the C.A.U.S.E. Foundation, quickly confirmed that
Strassmeir received help in the escape with one of the foundation’s associates,
Holloway, with additional assistance provided by an elite corps of German
counter-terrorism troops after the pair exited the U.S.
Although Strassmeir was wanted for questioning in the OKBOMB case at the time of
his escape and was illegally in the U.S. at the time - and those facts were
known to his attorney when he crossed the Mexican border with a member of the
C.A.U.S.E. Foundation - attorney
Kirk
Lyons
has never been charged with harboring a fugitive, obstructing justice or
disciplined by the North Carolina Bar Association for his admitted role in
assisting a client elude federal authorities.
Lyons denies Mossad connection
Kirk
Lyons,
Strassmeir's U.S. attorney, who has defended a number of far-right
figures over the years, says the reality is far simpler; Strassmeir came to the
United States to take part in Civil War reenactments, liked it here, and, hoping
to find a bride, ended up at Elohim City.
Lyons
insists that Strassmeir was never a spy, except in the minds of conspiracy
theorists. ("These silly right-wingers think I am Mossad," he says. "I've given
up arguing with these nutsy cuckoos.")
Louis Beam worked with Lyons
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Originally published in the January 1994 edition of Stormfront magazine.
The creation of CAUSE Foundation in 1989 by a young Dallas, Texas attorney marked a milestone in the continuing struggle to limit the abuses of the federal government against patriotic political activists in America. Kirk Lyons' tireless efforts on behalf of those who have run afoul of the guidelines of political correctness have since made his organization a leading force on the Constitutional rights battlefield.
Originally founded as the Patriots Defense Foundation in December of 1989, this small group of dedicated attorneys seek to fill a void in the contemporary American courtroom where there seems to be a widening gap between the interests of government and the governed and growing evidence of government abuse against its citizens.
A graduate of the University of Houston, the thirty-seven- year-old Lyons employs a go-for-the-throat defense style that, coupled with a "Texas attitude" uncommon to pusillanimous bureaucrats, is sending shivers down the spines of federal officials and teaching them new lessons in old fashioned Constitutional law. Taking on some of the most controversial cases in modern American history, Lyons and CAUSE Foundation have gained a reputation for uncompromising dedication and toughness, from the Ft. Smith, Arkansas, sedition trials to the Randy Weaver case at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, on to the Branch Davidian affair in Waco, Texas.
Kirk, his young wife and their two small children live today in the mountains of North Carolina, where CAUSE Foundation is now headquartered. Taking time from his increasingly busy schedule, he graciously consented to the following interview with Stormfront staffer, Van Loman, just as plans for future actions in the Waco case were developing.
An Unholy Alliance
For more than two years, Kirk Lyons has been a key player in an attempt to turn
the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV)
from its original mission of defending the memory of Southern Civil War
combatants to far-right political activism. He helped organize a major
pro-Confederate flag rally in South Carolina in 2000, which in turn helped to
boost Lyons' credentials within the 32,000-member SCV.
Attorney
Kirk LyonsIn August 1993, The Balance, a publication of CAUSE Foundation - a legal defense group whose head, attorney Kirk Lyons, has described himself as an "active sympathizer" of his far-right clients' causes - made reference to Elohim City. It said that on July 9, 1993, members of the Adair County Sheriff's Office in Muldrow, Oklahoma visited Elohim City, describing it as "an Identity religious community led by the Rev. Robert G. Millar." It said that they "were there to warn Pastor Millar of a possible BATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms] raid on their church and homes."
Strassmeir, who returned to Berlin in January 1996, was subsequently identified as a 36-year-old Civil War buff from Germany, a former lieutenant in the German army and the son of a prominent German politician. Reportedly enjoying the quasi-military atmosphere that pervaded Millar's encampment, Strassmeir, through his attorney, Kirk Lyons, gained a position as a security guard at the compound. According to Lyons, Strassmeir hoped to marry an Elohim City woman and gain permanent resident status in the United States
Without identifying himself, McVeigh
also called the offices of
Strassmeir's American lawyer,
Kirk
Lyons, for 15 minutes on April 18, 1995, the day before the bombing. He
apparently talked about the controversial raid by federal agents on the Branch
Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, which resulted in more than 80 deaths, and
the need to "send a message to the government".
www.carolmoore.net/waco/waco-n - [Cached]
Published on: 1/4/2003 Last Visited: 4/10/2007
Meanwhile, according to Kirk Lyons of the Cause Foundation, there was some excitement over the possibility that the incriminating missing half of the front door had been found by a BBC film crew on the property in January of 1996. A rather indistinct still photograph of the hunk of metal was taken.
ftp.natvan.com/free-speech/fs9 - [Cached]
Published on: 3/1/1996 Last Visited: 3/8/2007
Kirk Lyons and the Cause:
At Least One Lawyer Is on Our Side
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Editor's Note: This article was adapted from a two-part interview of
Kirk Lyons conducted by AMERICAN DISSIDENT VOICES
host, Kevin Alfred Strom.
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Kirk Lyons is a savvy, yet idealistic attorney and
head of the CAUSE Foundation, a non-profit,
legal-defense foundation dedicated to protecting the civil rights of
dissidents and patriots. He describes
his organization as "an ACLU for the rest of us."
A sixth generation Texan, Lyons received a BA from the
University of Texas at Austin and a law degree from the University of Houston.
He worked for several years in a personal injury law
firm before specializing in "political crimes" and cases involving
Constitutional issues.
...
Lyons is now involved in a $330 million civil law suit
against the Federal government brought on behalf of the families of the
victims of the Mount Carmel (Waco) massacre. He
believes we need to "slap this government hard" for the murders of citizens by
Federal goons at Ruby Ridge and Mount Carmel, or such incidents will continue.
He speculates that the Clinton administration's plan
to disarm Americans has already been delayed somewhat by the resistance
offered by the Branch Davidians. Had the initial Mount Carmel assault been
successful it is quite likely that the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) would have staged other large gun-grubbing
raids soon afterwards.
Is it possible for dissidents to successfully sue the Federal government?
Lyons concedes it's an uphill struggle, a long shot,
but he feels lucky. At this point he
believes it is as much a political issue as a legal one.
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Character assassins are still trying to falsely link Lyons to the Oklahoma City bombing via a client of his, Andy Strasmeir, son of a famous German political operative and advisor to Helmut Kohl. Lyons has also defended patriots in the famous "Fort Smith Sedition Trial" and has since been vilified by the ADL.
Kirk Lyons, who is representing three Davidian survivors of the fire and relatives of 23 dead sect members, said he has been told that "somebody accidentally pulled the plug, and the bodies turned to soup."
"It just destroys any chance for anybody to come back and challenge what the government said happened," said Lyons of Black Mountain, N.C.
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Neither Dave Holloway nor his associate, attorney Kirk Lyons of North Carolina – who paid for the pair’s trip – were ever charged with aiding Strassmeir’s flight. At the time of Strassmeir’s escape, he was listed as an illegal overstay by the INS and wanted by the ATF for illegally carrying a firearm in the U.S. |
KIRK LYONS
To “officially” bring Strassmeir to America, an attorney named
Kirk Lyons
entered the picture. Who is he? Well, Michael Collins Piper, author of Final
Judgment and a veteran reporter for the American Free Press, wrote in
an unpublished article that, “For many years
Kirk Lyons
functioned in some way as a federal undercover agent and/or informant in a
movement in which he put himself forward as a legal advocate and spokesman for
its cause.” Piper went on to
conclude that Lyons was undeniably, above all else, Strassmeir’s “handler.”
Lyons even visited Strassmeir’s parents at their plush Berlin residence in 1991.
In fact, Lyons was the person who orchestrated Strassmeir’s relocation to
America. He also obtained for him a driver’s license by providing Strassmeir
with an address in Knoxville, TN; and he is quoted as saying, “I’m
the reason that Andy was at
Elohim
City.
I put him there. So if there was a plan, I guess I’m part of it.” Not only did
Lyons introduce Strassmeir to everyone at
Elohim
City,
on April 18, 1995 – one day before the OKC bombing – Lyons’ law firm received a
fifteen-minute phone call from a very important person in this scenario –
Timothy McVeigh.
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Despite its notoriety (Kerry Noble, former Covenant member, said of
Elohim
City,
“It has the potential, down the road, of being the most dangerous group in the
country”), it was never again raided from 1985 until the OKC bombing in 1995.
The big question is: why? Even an FBI report called Project Megiddo
addressed the phenomenon surrounding
Elohim
City-style
compounds when they said right-wing Christian terrorists posed the gravest
danger to our country, and would be the most likely to incite violence in the
months and years ahead.
The reports given to these
individuals about the activities at
Elohim
City include:
illegal explosives and firearms, illegal immigration, planned terrorism, a
history of violence, and incendiary rhetoric. Worse, this information went to
the FBI, ATF, Treasury, Department of Justice, National Security Council, and
even Bill Clinton’s White House.
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The foreknowledge of an April 19 bombing was so widespread that Richard Wayne
Snell, a member of James Ellison’s Covenant, Sword, & Arm of the Lord bragged
about this catastrophe on the day of his execution – coincidentally on April 19,
1995. Arkansas prison official Alan Ables said of Snell: “He repeately predicted
that there would be a bombing or explosion on the day of his death.” When his
prophetic words about the OKC bombing came true, he knowingly chuckled and
laughed before being put to death.
Inexplicably, the FBI did not go to the residence where the memo said Strassmeir was living in Black Mountain, N.C., and detain the individual for questioning about the bombing. Instead, Strassmeir – with the help on his Black Mountain, N.C. attorney, Kirk Lyons, and former CIA pilot Dave Holloway – was able to slip across the Mexican border a few days after the teletype was issued.
SF: Could you explain briefly the objectives of CAUSE Foundation and tell us a little about its conception?
Lyons: Basically, we're an international, nonprofit, public-interest legal defense foundation, dedicated to the preservation of individual rights. Our primary purpose is to educate citizens of the United States as to their rights under the Constitution and its amendments and to provide legal representation when these rights are violated. Additionally, we work with citizens of Canada, Australia/New Zealand, South Africa and Europe, concerning their rights and privileges under their respective governments and jurisprudence systems, as well as applicable international civil rights laws.
SF: What inspired you to organize CAUSE Foundation?
Lyons: We saw that there was a vacuum in the area of civil rights representation for white majority, primarily involving overzealous government. There were no legal services available specializing in this area of the law and providing assistance with the type of cases in which we have been involved.
SF: I understand that CAUSE Foundation has been interested and very actively involved in both the Randy Weaver case and what many Americans are now calling the Waco Massacre. Could you tell us a little about each of those cases and CAUSE Foundation's involvement, beginning with Randy Weaver?
SF: One final question. If you could have the final word to add to all that you've said today, and could offer a prognosis for what the future may hold for America, what would you say?
Lyons: If the people are not willing to fight for their rights now, then they had better be prepared to accept a totalitarian government in the future.
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Even more telling, as reported by this magazine nine years ago, Strassmeir's pal and attorney, Kirk Lyons, admitted that McVeigh had called his law office in Black Mountain, North Carolina, on April 17, 1995, two days before the bombing, and had talked for 20 minutes!
What was discussed? Incredibly, federal authorities pretended to be completely disinterested in learning the answer to that question. Mr. Lyons was notorious for representing violent and virulently racist organizations, from the Aryan Nations to the KKK. His law office received one of McVeigh's last and most lengthy phone calls before the bombing, and he was representing and housing a foreign fugitive (i.e., Strassmeir) who was tied to McVeigh, the FBI's lead suspect. Instead of swarming all over Lyons and his associates, Louis Freeh and Attorney General Janet Reno gave them a pass while sending hundreds of FBI agents on dead-end "leads" to produce mountains of paper, which would later be cited as evidence of a thorough investigation. Clinton, Reno, Freeh, and their faithful minions insisted there was nothing worthy of investigation at Elohim City.
However, a recently discovered FBI document dated February 24-25, 1997, proves there was plenty to investigate. The three-page document is a "302" (FBI report) on Kirk Lyons' assistant, David Hollaway. In it, Hollaway confirms to an FBI source, whose name is redacted, what we had learned years ago from other sources: it was he — David Hollaway — with whom McVeigh had talked in the 20-minute mystery call less than 48 hours before the bombing.
The 302 notes that Hollaway spent eight years in the U.S. Army Special Forces and was a pilot for the CIA for two years. More ominously, it reports that Hollaway "was able to provide technical details concerning [McVeigh's] truck bomb and ANFO (ammonium nitrate/fuel oil) … with an alarming degree of specificity." (Emphasis added.) The FBI source reported that Hollaway's information and cagey demeanor "provided the indication that Hollaway was attempting to communicate an involvement on his part in that bombing without verbally acknowledging participation." The FBI source in the 302 was clearly alarmed by Hollaway's knowledge and behavior and believed him to be involved in the OKC bombing.
The FBI 302 also reports that "Hollaway did admit to currently being in possession of an M-203 granade [sic] launcher … and an extensive array of other weapons which he keeps in his home." But, curiously, the top FBI and Department of Justice brass seemed indifferent. Imagine how many minutes it would take before the whole alphabet soup of federal SWAT teams landed on your or my roof if we happened to mention to a federal agent that we had a grenade launcher under the bed! But Hollaway, Lyons, Strassmeir, and the rest of the Elohim City gang led charmed lives.
It gets worse. Mr. Hollaway was the one who transported Andreas Strassmeir to the Mexican border, smuggled him across into Mexico, and then accompanied him to Germany. Was he doing this on assignment for the CIA, the FBI, or a secret joint CIA/FBI operation? That is an obvious question that the lapdogs of the "mainstream" media seem to be incapable of asking.
Why won't they go there? After all, as we reported in 1996, Strassmeir admitted to first coming to the U.S. with the help of an old "family friend," Vincent Petruskie, reportedly a "retired" CIA operative. Petruskie and Strassmeir were putting together deals to buy Boeing 747 jetliners. Mr. Petruskie admitted to THE NEW AMERICAN that Strassmeir had expressed the desire to work undercover in the U.S. and that he, Petruskie, had helped the Strassmeir make contact with federal agencies.
What's clear is that Strassmeir and Hollaway were working together and that McVeigh called both of them on the same day — less than 48 hours before the bombing. It's also clear that powers within the federal government have taken extreme measures to protect Strassmeir, Hollaway, Lyons, and many other individuals connected to the OKC bombing, keeping them from exposure.
This conspicuous aversion by top federal officials to follow the obvious leads pointing to OKC bombing suspects with ties to Elohim City has always been one of the most disturbing features of the official OKC "investigation." Extensive investigation by THE NEW AMERICAN, which included exclusive interviews with eyewitnesses, federal law enforcement officers, and the critically important federal undercover informant, Carol Howe, pointed toward several Elohim City regulars as top suspects in the OKC bombing conspiracy. One of the most important suspects of that group was Andreas Strassmeir, aka "Andi the German," who was in the U.S. illegally on an expired visa and was an inherent flight risk.
Defying rationality, the FBI sent agents all over the U.S. and around the world to arrest and/or question suspects, but refused to question the most obvious suspects in their own backyard. It was much like scenes from Casablanca, in which the police inspector played by actor Claude Rains tells his men to "round up the usual suspects," to give the appearance of a rigorous investigation — while intentionally letting the guilty escape. For the past decade, the FBI and Department of Justice have insisted that there never was any connection between Strassmeir, the Elohim bank robbers, and McVeigh. However, the FBI memos show that the FBI definitely were aware of connections between McVeigh and Strassmeir and that they also were aware that Strassmeir was preparing to flee back to Germany. Yet, while THE NEW AMERICAN and other private investigators were zeroing in on Strassmeir, the FBI did nothing and allowed him to exit the country secretly through Mexico.
Federal authorities are also protecting some other very interesting "assets." Some of the most significant references in Louis Freeh's secret January 1996 FBI memo pertain to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which evidently had at least one informant inside Elohim City prior to the OKC bombing.
The SPLC, led by attorney Morris Dees, has raised millions of dollars with its high-profile attacks on "hate groups," and admits to being closely intertwined with the FBI and the Department of Justice. The Freeh memo refers to the SPLC as one source for the information that McVeigh had called Elohim City seeking Strassmeir and that Strassmeir was planning to flee the United States.
Any reasonable reader of the FBI memo would deduce that the SPLC was smack-dab in the middle of the Elohim City rat nest around the time of the bombing. But for reasons about which we can only speculate, they have refused to discuss the matter, insisting that the SPLC had no connection whatsoever to Strassmeir or anyone else at Elohim City. In fact, for the past decade, Mr. Dees and the SPLC have steadfastly supported the official Louis Freeh/Janet Reno line that there was no Strassmeir/Elohim City connection to the OKC bombing.
If that is true, then these references in the aforementioned FBI memo do not make sense: "Information has also been received through the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)"; "Two days prior to the OKBOMB attack, when [name redacted] of the SPLC, was in the white supremacist compound."
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This, says Trentadue, is a specious claim, since Dees and the SPLC are not exempt under any privacy provisions of the law. Nevertheless, he says he has repeatedly sought such a waiver from Dees, but the SPLC leader has refused to grant one.
Trentadue has provided THE NEW AMERICAN with copies of e-mail correspondence on the matter with the SPLC's intelligence director, Mark Potok, that confirm SPLC's unwillingness to grant a privacy waiver. In a January 4, 2005 e-mail response, SPLC's Mark Potok told Mr. Trentadue that comments made by Morris Dees in 2003 at Southeastern Oklahoma University are not "an admission or boast that we had informants at Elohim City, or that Strassmeir worked for us. Because, one more time, we didn't, and he didn't." Concerning Elohim City, he insists "our involvement is and was nil." Trentadue has challenged the FBI's privacy waiver claim and hopes to soon have a court decision that will force the government to turn over the documents he is requesting.
The FBI's responses to Trentadue's requests do little to inspire confidence in its institutional veracity. Trentadue had requested documents referencing Morris Dees and/or SPLC to Timothy McVeigh, Richard Guthrie, Andreas Strassmeir, and a number of other names associated with Elohim City. The FBI responded that their search failed to disclose any "records responsive to the Plaintiff's request." However, the FBI was caught flatfooted when Trentadue produced the redacted version of the August 1996 memo, proving that FBI "records responsive to the Plaintiff's request" obviously existed.
How did the FBI defendants respond to this embarrassing revelation? FBI officials said they had never claimed that the documents don't exist, only that their "search" failed to disclose them. How had they searched? According to FBI official David Hardy, the agency had conducted a computer search of the "record indices" of its Automated Case Support (ACS) system; there had been no actual search of the physical files. It was a "search" designed to fail, since the FBI intentionally holds files outside of its ACS, does not enter certain names into its record indices, or — as past cases have shown — sometimes intentionally misspells names so that a computer search will come up empty.
For the past 10 years, the FBI and Department of Justice have been insisting that Timothy McVeigh, except for some assistance from Terry Nichols, acted alone, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary; that there is/was no John Doe No. 2, even though multiple credible witnesses saw McVeigh with several John Does on the day of the bombing and in the days immediately before the bombing; and that there is no connection whatsoever between Timothy McVeigh and Andreas Strassmeir, Elohim City, or the Midwest Bank Robbers.
All of those assertions were shown to be not only false but ridiculously false years ago by the weight of overwhelming evidence. Now, thanks to the perseverance of the Trentadue family, the government's own hidden documents are providing further evidence and exposing the criminality and conspiracy that have shielded those who aided the terrorists and/or covered up for them after the fact.
A sober assessment of the available evidence makes it very difficult to avoid this very disturbing conclusion: high officials of the Clinton Justice Department and FBI committed murder (possibly several murders) to hide details of the OKC bombing from the American public. They also committed perjury, falsified and hid documents, and kept the guilty from being punished. How safe is anyone in America if the guilty aren't held accountable for these heinous crimes? The succeeding Bush administration has not only continued the Clinton coverup but has promoted many of the guilty.
Unquestionably, the Department of Justice and FBI include many thousands of dedicated professionals completely committed to their oaths to defend the Constitution and our system of justice. They, like the rest of the American people, are being betrayed by those in positions of power who are using their offices to commit crimes, obstruct justice, and undermine the rule of law.
Resolving the Oklahoma City bombing is vitally important not only in order to obtain justice for the victims of that decade-old terrorist attack, but to safeguard our national security in the war on terror. As we have noted in previous articles, the three major terrorist attacks on U.S. soil — the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1995 OKC bombing, and the 2001 9/11 attacks — are all directly connected, both in terms of the terrorist perpetrators involved and the government officials who have "fumbled" intelligence and informants alerting them to the attacks beforehand. And in each case they have allowed perpetrators to escape and have covered up evidence of government duplicity and/or complicity.
JOHN DOE #2 IDENTIFIED; BUT CAN WE GET THE FBI TO ARREST HIM?
PART THIRTEEN
By Mike Vanderboegh, 1 ACR
Well, folks, here we go with Part Two of J.D. Cash's story on the Mutt &
Jeff of the ATF, Strassmeir and Brescia. But first, a few words from the
peanut gallery....
Kirk Lyons has finally made direct contact with us, and an amusing
interchange is opened. Some of our back-and-forth will be presented in
the next edition of John Doe #2 Identified.
Also, I have been taken to task for capitalizing the commentary in the
news stories previously posted. This is, as I knew prior to the series,
the equivalent of shouting on the net. I was convinced to capitalize the
commentary early on by a fellow who felt my commentary was not
sufficiently separated from the text and thus misled the reader. Thus,
to draw attention to the break in the story, I have now begun using an
asterisk line, ****************************, and capitalizing only
"TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE". I will still use all caps on sentences that I feel
require emphasis to point out important items. Apologies to all those
gentle souls who cannot hear for all the shouting going on.
And now, without further ado, Part Thirteen-----
JOHN DOE #2 IDENTIFIED; BUT CAN WE GET THE FBI TO ARREST HIM?
PART THIRTEEN (ATTACHMENT)
McCurtain Daily Gazette
Idabel, Oklahoma
Tuesday, July 16, 1996
Agents Probe OKC Bombing Links To Bank Robberies
By J.D. Cash
Second of Two Parts
Elohim City is no stranger to problems with the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms or intrusive surveillance techniques. Today, folks
who make their home on the 400-acre Christian Identity compound near
Muldrow get a little edgy when you bring up the names of Andy Strassmeir
or some of his purported associates.
It seems that Andy brought a lot of bad luck down on the white
separatist colony. Last August, when investigators for the Timothy
McVeigh defense team began showing up here, several residents suddenly
took off. "(Mike) Brescia, the Ward brothers and Strassmeir all sort of
moved about that time," recounts the spiritual leader of the community.
The Rev. Millar
continued,"Andy
was sent to us by Kirk Lyons, and I
still believe Kirk is a fine patriot, but we're not so sure about Andy
anymore."
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(TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: But if "we're not so sure about Andy anymore," then
how can anyone be sure Kirk is "a fine patriot" given Kirk's more-
than-lawyerly relationship with "Andy?" Since he has been in the U.S.
Strassmeir has had an umbilical cord relationship with Lyons. Wherever
Andy stayed, Kirk arranged it: The apartment in Knoxville, the place on
McCue in Houston, Elohim City, even Kirk's own place in North Carolina,.
not to mention a couple of others. We'll leave the monetary arrangements
for a more formal court, but anyone who has followed Kirk's statements
about his little pet German client over the course of the last nine
months has discerned a more-than-"everyone deserves a defense
attorney"-attitude.)
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The story continues....
Today's chief of security at Elohim City recalls some ideas Andy had.
"As soon as Andy arrived here," remembers Zara Patterson,"He told me he
wanted to take over the security job. I didn't care... It was one less
headache for me."
Later, Strassmeir's demands became more questionable. "Strassmeir went
out and replaced all our deer rifles with assault weapons," said
Patterson. "Next, he wanted us to start doing illegal stuff... a lot of
illegal stuff. I kept telling Andy that we were defensive here, and we
didn't want any problems from the law. During the mid-'80s, we had a
standoff with the feds. I told him to keep us out of trouble."
Patterson wouldn't say what the projects were that Strassmeir wanted to
do, but the Rev. Millar did shed a tiny bit of light on the subject.
"The illegal gun business!" Millar commented, "And when I found out
about it, I put a stop to it!"
Kirk Lyons,
Strassmeir's
attorney, still maintains that
Strassmeir was
never head of security at Elohim
City and that his client would
certainly never promote anything illegal. However, a source with state
law enforcement quite familiar with intelligence reports on Elohim City
residents says that Strassmeir was believed to be operating a
large-scale terrorist- training facility at Elohim City.
Speaking on the condition that his name not be used, the source said,
"Every few months, 15 to 30 individuals from around the U.S. would show
up for a few weeks of military-style training. The recruits," the source
explained, "were primarily members of the Aryan Nation." Among those who
participated, the source said, was Timothy McVeigh, who, it is widely
believed, was a regular visitor to the reclusive compound.
Tending to evidence this, in October 1993, McVeigh was ticketed on a
back-roads highway which winds its way past Elohim City. And, in spite
of Kirk Lyons' statements to the media, every resident at Elohim City
interviewed by the Gazette says that Strassmeir was the head of security
there until sometime after the bombing. Elomites believe that
Strassmeir
and his roommate, Mike Brescia,
were stripped of their security roles
because of "training exercises" the elders thought were "too violent."
A professed revolutionary who kept a travel trailer at Elohim City well
remembers the German Strassmeir. "Yeah, I thought Andy was a friend,"
explained former Oklahoma
KKK
leader Dennis Mahon. He added, "I knew
that he had some type of undercover background in Germany, but I didn't
think he was all that smart."
FEDERAL AGENCY PUT ARYAN ARMY BANK BANDITS IN BUSINESS
by J.D. Cash, with Jeff Holladay
The
Elohim
City religious compound near Muldrow.... Aryan terrorists....
federal agency undercover efforts.... and even bank robberies to finance
terrorism. Those are some of the far-reaching links uncovered in an
investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995.
Also drifting in and out of Elohim City were various informants. Internal fbi memos suggest that the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks the far right, had a source there whose tips were passed to law enforcement. (Mark Potok, the director of splc's intelligence project, told me that his organization had not placed an informant inside the compound, but received only second- or thirdhand reports from the compound.) Millar himself shared some information with the fbi, according to his former attorney, Kirk Lyons, in hopes of avoiding a Waco-style raid.
And the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms was getting information from inside Elohim City
for nearly a year before the Murrah bombing, via an ex-debutante
named Carol Howe. The daughter of a wealthy Oklahoma businessman, Howe
with her fiancé had formed a two-person neo-Nazi group that urged "white
warriors" to take up arms against the government. In 1994 she called a racist
hot line and got involved with the White Aryan Resistance and Mahon. Soon
thereafter the batf, possibly wielding the threat of a weapons charge, convinced
Howe to inform on Mahon, and for most of the next two years it employed her as
an informant. In that capacity she made numerous trips to Elohim City.
While the media devoted endless coverage to Timothy McVeigh's execution, the media censored the fact that growing numbers of bombing survivors and families of victims doubt that McVeigh acted alone.
Those who doubt McVeigh and the FBI base their suspicions on solid evidence that continues to emerge-in particular, long-suppressed FBI documents just re cently uncovered.
Instead of reporting all of this, the me dia provided vast attention to advocates of the "lone bomber" theory -- such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) of Morris Dees -- allowing ADL and SPLC spokesmen to speculate about other potential terrorists who might bomb another building in the future. The ADL and the SPLC agree with McVeigh and the FBI that McVeigh was a "lone bomber."
While the media shifts attention to the grief of those who suffered, the media ignores devastating evidence that federal undercover agents operated alongside McVeigh in the bombing, having had him under close surveillance for probably several years.
The SPOTLIGHT determined long ago that the key to uncovering the truth about the tragedy lay in unmasking the enigmatic German national Andreas Strass meir. This, in fact, now seems to be a consensus among a diverse group of independent investigators including, among others:
In addition, McVeigh's former attorney, Stephen Jones, as well as his most recent attorneys, Rob Nigh, Richard Burr, Na than Chambers and Christopher Tritico, have charged that Strassmeir was a key player in the scenario.
Well-known media figures such as Robert Novak and Sam Francis also raised questions about Strassmeir.
The evidence indicates that Strassmeir, if not a participant in the bombing conspiracy, was certainly a longtime deep-cover informant for some federal agency, whether the FBI, the CIA or the BATF.
ADL FOREKNOWLEDGE
For its own part, The SPOTLIGHT has documented that the aforementioned ADL had early, inside knowledge of McVeigh's activities, possibly provided by its contacts in one or more federal agencies, based on data probably provided by Strassmeir and his close associates.
That Strassmeir was an undercover in formant also suggests that his close friend and sponsor (and attorney) Kirk Lyons was aware of Strassmeir's status and was, in fact, his "handler."
Since, for the past eight years, Lyons has been engaged in intelligence agency-orchestrated efforts to destroy The SPOTLIGHT -- predating public reports of his in volvement with Strassmeir -- this adds further fuel to the belief that Lyons is a deep cover operative with a hidden agenda.
Lyons sounds like McVeigh prosecutor Beth Wilkinson claiming that allegations about Strassmeir are an "Elvis Presley" theory (referring to the claim that the singer is still alive).
Along with Lyons, the FBI, the ADL and Morris Dees, it has been elite media voices such as The New York Times, The Wash ington Post and Newsweek that have dismissed allegations regarding Strass meir.
Yet, while the Strassmeir connection has been suppressed in the American me dia, foreign news sources have been more forthcoming.
The June 8 issue of The Times of Lon don featured a revealing story about Strassmeir, saying that he could be "the missing piece in the puzzle." The authors clearly believe Strassmeir knows more than he is telling and that Strassmeir probably was an undercover intelligence operative.
The Times comments that "the syringe that executes McVeigh will also drain Strassmeir of significance; give him the status of a footnote" -- in other words, eliminate forever the one confessed conspirator who could finger Strassmeir.
The London newspaper adds revelations pointing toward Strassmeir's strange connections. For example, it turns out that Strassmeir can read Hebrew -- Israel's state language -- as a consequence of having had an Israeli army girlfriend, "not exactly the typical choice of a neo-Nazi," the Times adds knowingly.
In addition, the Times notes that when Strassmeir first arrived in this country that this so-called neo-Nazi extremist "found friends easily -- retired Army officers, CIA veterans, history buffs -- and became part of a network" which the Times said "is powerful in the U.S., a web of influence that stretches into the Pen tagon and the federal agencies, in churches and boardrooms, on the oil rigs and building sites."
Again, hardly the profile of your average grass-roots "extremist" but certainly the profile of an intelligence operative.
The Times concludes its remarkable re port saying that "we don't believe Strass meir is John Doe II" -- few people do -- but adds, "there is a feeling, though, that in the huge cast of characters, all the losers, and fanatics that make up the opera bouffe of the Oklahoma investigation, only Strassmeir has the brain to be the brains."
Strassmeir claimed he is "really glad" that the missing FBI papers were uncovered, saying, "maybe they will show what garbage people have been talking about me."
However, when McVeigh's attorneys appealed to block McVeigh's execution, they cited newly-released FBI documents which suggested that, in the attorneys' words, "There was ... evidence, withheld by the government, that another person could well have been the mastermind be hind the bombing."
The attorneys specifically named Strass meir and one of his friends, Dennis Ma hon of Oklahoma, as possible co-conspirators and charged that the FBI had engaged in a "scheme to suppress evidence" of their roles in the bombing.
While the names of Strassmeir and Ly ons were revealed by the European-based Reuters News Agency on June 7, their names were totally suppressed by elite United States news sources despite a media frenzy over the midnight hour effort to block McVeigh's execution.
The Ameri can press continued to hype Mc Veigh's claim of having acted alone, censoring evidence that others were in volved.
Also telling is that McVeigh's attorneys said information in the FBI documents "suggested that one of the other participants in the bombing was an informant for federal law enforcement officers."
Not only do most investigators seem to have concluded Strassmeir (more so than Mahon) was the likely candidate but Mahon's own statements suggest that Mahon-involved in the bombing or not-now believes Strassmeir was a government man all along.
Another strike against Strassmeir has also been leveled by an ex-Marine officer, Roger Charles, a former producer of ABC's 20/20 who resigned in disgust when 20/20 canceled his scheduled report on Strass meir some years ago.
In the July 2001 issue of Soldier of For tune, Charles says that there is "compelling evidence" that Strassmeir had "ac cess to prior knowledge regarding the bombing."
Noting that Strassmeir, in several interviews, while proclaiming his own in nocence of any involvement, had claimed knowledge (after the bombing) that 1) there were actually two yellow trucks connected to the bombing; and 2) that federal authorities had placed a tracking device on one of those yellow trucks approaching Oklahoma City on the day of the bombing.
Charles reports three different sets of witnesses told of seeing SWAT-dressed per sonnel with what were described as "hoops" near the Murrah building in the pre-dawn hours prior to the bombing, and on the interstate near Oklahoma City.
Noting that these so-called "hoops" are direction-finding devices used to triangulate the location from which an electronic emitter was active, Charles concludes authorities were tracking the bombers -- having foreknowledge of their plans -- and this was the activity seen by witnesses.
Charles avers that while the authorities were following a "decoy" truck, the truck used to deliver a bomb to the Murrah building made it to the site.
Charles points out that even The Denver Post conducted a six-month investigation of its own-never referred to in national news accounts-which concluded that not one, but two yellow trucks were involved in the bombing, and that the extra truck (that the government says never existed) "could hold the key to unlocking one of the most enduring mysteries of the case-how many people were involved in the bombing."
Where, asks Charles, did Strassmeir get inside information about a vehicle-tracking device used by federal officials?
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That the ADL and
Morris Dees of the SPLC are adamant in discounting the involvement of
purported "neo-Nazis" such as Strassmeir in the bombing raises the question
as to why these professional "nazi-hunters" are determined to discount the
Strassmeir connection. The only logical explanation is that Strassmeir was not really a "neo-Nazi" but instead, a classic "snitch" reporting back to federal intelligence agencies allied with the ADL -- or that Strassmeir was an ADL asset all along.
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