Nichols, McVeigh, Strassmeir, Mahon, Langan & Kehoe

Dennis Mahon visited Elohim City so frequently that he even had a trailer there for his own personal use, and after the Oklahoma City bombing he often expressed support for Timothy McVeigh. Mahan even admitted meeting McVeigh at a gun show on one occasion. Even Robert Millar testified during the McVeigh trial that Mahon hosted McVeigh’s very first visit to Elohim City. Mahon also allegedly made this statement during an extremist gathering in 2004, “I knew Timothy McVeigh quite well. In fact, I knew him back when he was named Timothy Tuttle…and he and I were involved in quite a few bom…Let's just say he and I did some serious business together. And after Oklahoma City, the feds came after me big-time, boy, but they never proved a thing”. Around this time, Mahon also had a girlfriend by the name of Carol Howe. He didn’t know it at the time, but Carol Howe was a government informant for the ATF. Consequently, Howe became quite familiar with the plot to blow-up the Murrah building in Oklahoma City and was quite familiar with most of the people involved in this new plot to bomb the Murrah Building. Remember, even though the names and identities of the key players may have changed between 1983 and 1994, the current players belonged to the same pedigree that originally considered bombing the Murrah building when Ellison and Snell were in the CSA in 1983. Based on all of the information available, and information provided by Carole Howe, the key players involved in the resurrected 1994 plot to blow-up the Murrah building were Dennis Mahon, Peter Langan, Terry Nichols, Timothy McVeigh, Andreas Strassmeir, Chevie Kehoe and a couple of others. This list does not take into account other traitors who aided and abetted these acts from inside the U.S. Government, the FBI, the CIA or the U.S. military. Mahon, Langan, Nichols, McVeigh, Strassmeir and Kehoe were just the “Identity Christians” side of the operation out of Elohim City.

Out of the above list, Langan, Nichols and Kehoe were Mormons, Strassmeir was a German national whose father was a founding member of Germany’s Nazi Party, Mahon was a career racist and “Identity Christian” and McVeigh was Catholic. McVeigh and Nichols met when McVeigh went through basic training at Fort Benning, GA after McVeigh joined the Army in 1988. Nichols was McVeigh’s platoon leader. Nichols served in Desert Storm, tried to get into the Special Forces, failed and then resigned from the Army. By 1990, his first wife, Lanna Padilla had divorced him and moved to Las Vegas, which has a large population of Mormons, and is about 60 miles from Kingman, Arizona. Nichols soon married 17-year old Marife Torres who he met through his “connections” in Cebu City, Philippines. Cebu City has one of the highest concentrations of Mormons in the Middle-East and at the time was a hotbed of Islamic radicalism. Cebu City has such a large population of Mormons that the Mormon religion even opened a new temple there in 2009, which they won’t do unless there is a population of at least 60,000 Mormons to support the temple. By 1990, Nichols had already been traveling to Cebu City, Philippines to marry Marife Torres, or so he claims. Torres was also already 6-months pregnant with another man’s child when Nichols married Marife. But, unfortunately after they were married and she moved with him to his house in Herington, Kansas, that child mysteriously suffocated in a plastic bag, on November 22, 1993. But, tragedy quickly turned into joy with the birth of Nichols own son, who was born soon thereafter. Marife was also working on a degree in physical therapy at her school in the Philippines, which often required Terry and Marife to travel to Cebu City, and sometimes Terry even traveled there alone. Coincidentally, Ramzi Yousef also used to visit Cebu City and his friends who attended the same school where Marife was studying. Yousef executed the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and is the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who masterminded “Operation Bojinka”, which was the predecessor plot for 9/11. McVeigh's defense attorney even attempted to disclose some of these facts during the McVeigh trial, but the court ruled against admitting any of that information as evidence.

During this period of time, Nichols was becoming more and more extremist in his views, which shouldn’t really come as too much of a surprise considering the radical Mormon religious theology he was indoctrinated in grow-up. By the spring of 1992, Nichols even renounced his U.S. citizenship, and wrote, "I am no longer a citizen of the corrupt political corporate state of Michigan and the United States of America". That same year, when Nichols was forced to go to court in conjunction with credit card debt, Nichols even tried unsuccessfully to argue that the courts no longer had any jurisdiction over him because he was no longer a citizen. On the morning of April 19, 1995, when McVeigh detonated his Ryder truck rental ANFO bomb at 9:02 AM in front of the Murrah building, Nichols was at his home in Herington, Kansas. After McVeigh’s quick arrest, Nichols learned that he had become a suspect as well and voluntarily turned himself in to authorities 2-days later, on April 21. A search of the Nichols’ home turned up blasting caps (evidence withheld), the drill that was used to drill out the locks at a nearby quarry where blasting caps were stolen, guns, quantities of ammonium nitrate, books on bomb making, a copy of Hunter (another fine novel by Dr. William Pierce who also wrote the Turner Diaries) and a hand-drawn map of downtown Oklahoma City, which marked the Murrah building and the spot where McVeigh’s getaway car was hidden. Nichols was formally charged as an accomplice in the bombing three weeks later, was tried by the Federal Government on charges of conspiring to build a weapon of mass destruction and eight counts of involuntary manslaughter of federal officers and was found guilty in 1997. On June 4, 1998, he was sentenced to life without parole.

In 2000, the State of Oklahoma charged Nichols with an additional 161 counts of 1^st degree murder, which were non-Federal charges. On May 26, 2004, Nichols was found guilty on these new charges, but because the jury was deadlocked as to whether or not Nichols should receive the death sentence or not, Nichols was sentenced to 161 consecutive life-terms without the possibility of parole. 11-months later, in April of 2005, FBI investigators acting on a “tip” performed a subsequent search of Nichols’ home and found additional explosives buried in a crawl-space under Nichols’ house, which the FBI somehow missed during their original investigation. It has also been alleged that Nichols actually leaked this information to the FBI himself, in order to implicate Roger Moore as a Government accomplice in the Oklahoma City bombing. Moore who originally supplied the explosives to Nichols is also allegedly an FBI informant. Apparently, Nichols was sure that Moore’s fingerprints would be found on the explosives and this would expose the FBI’s role in supplying explosives to terrorists in the first place. Ironically, Roger Moore, an Arkansas gun dealer claims that McVeigh and Nichols robbed him in November of 1994 and got away with 66 guns, cash and gold coins. The FBI later claimed these items were used to finance the bombing, but McVeigh’s defense team undermined that theory after producing a signed receipt proving that McVeigh was staying in an Akron, Ohio motel on the date of the robbery. Nichols hatred of the Government is illustrated again in February of 2007 when Nichols claims that Larry Potts, the number-2 man in the FBI at the time of the bombing, ordered Timothy McVeigh to bomb the Murrah building. Coincidentally, this new affidavit was filed on the February 9, 2007 in the U.S. District Court in Utah, and might appear to be yet another example of the Utah “Mormon establishment’s” efforts at trying to manipulate public thought and impugn the hated United States Government in order to stir up their prophesied civil war against the US Government, which will occur “when the people have torn the Constitution to shreds”.

For some strange reason, the publically demure Terry Nichols has always been portrayed in the press as a mild-mannered loving family man who got caught-up in McVeigh’s insane hatred of the United States Government. However, this image of Nichols belies the truth and appears to be a strategic ploy by powerful interests who secretly want to protect, and use, Nichols and make sure nobody ever finds out he’s Mormon. Perhaps these powerful interests are the same ones that filed suit in Utah to deny Jessie Trentadue’s request for un-redacted FBI documents because they might reveal the “Mormon connection” to the bombing. Or, perhaps they are the same interests behind the affidavit that was filed in a Utah court, which claimed that Nichols stated that FBI agent Larry Potts ordered McVeigh to bomb the Murrah building. When you look at the truth however, it becomes quite obvious that McVeigh was heavily influenced by Nichols. Nichols was 13-years McVeigh’s senior, Nichols was McVeigh’s platoon leader after McVeigh joined the Army, McVeigh lived with Nichols on the Nichols family farm in Michigan after both of them left the Armed Forces and Nichols helped show McVeigh how to make money selling guns at Mormon operated gun shows where McVeigh sold guns under his pseudonym of “Tim Tuttle”. It was also in Michigan where Nichols further indoctrinated McVeigh in “Identity” theology by introducing McVeigh to Mark Koernke’s (Mormon) Michigan Militia where McVeigh made even more money by providing security services to Koernke, again under the pseudonym of “Tim Tuttle”. Consequently, it is difficult to understand exactly how McVeigh dominated Nichols. Clearly, McVeigh was younger and more “gung-ho”, but it was Nichols smooth and careful guidance that turned McVeigh into an anti-American “Identity” killer. But, there was an added benefit to making McVeigh their “dupe”, McVeigh was a “Christian Catholic” who the Mormon religion has always referred to as the “great Satan” and the “great whore”.

McVeigh also tried to get into the special-forces, but was not accepted and resigned. Following his discharge, McVeigh returned to his home-town in Lockport, in upstate New York, and began working security jobs. Coincidentally, Lockport is only about 60-miles from Fayette and Palmyra, New York, where the Mormon religion was originally based between 1820 and 1830 and where Joseph Smith originally began teaching that his new Mormon religion would “vanquish” Christianity and “conquer” America. And, it was because of this, and the fact they owned slaves north of the Mason-Dixon, that the Mormons were forced out of New York and began migrating to Missouri, which was a slave state. Quite probably, such a racist element still exists there. Regardless, around this same time, McVeigh began experiencing depression and developed an increased disdain for US foreign policy, gun control and what he believed were conspiracies that involved the United Nations. This general sentiment also happens to exactly mirror the general ideology of the “Christian Identity”, which is continually broadcast to loyal followers. In March of 1992, McVeigh wrote a letter to the Lockport Union-Sun, wherein he wrote, "AMERICA IS IN DECLINE....Do we have to shed blood to reform the current system?". Ironically, this mirrors the same message that Joseph Smith was broadcasting in 1830, which was that America was in a state of “declination” because of the “vile and decadent” Christian influence in America. The 1992 “Ruby Ridge Incident”, which involved Randy Weaver whose family was Mormon heavily impacted McVeigh’s political views and he began considering violent action against the Federal Government. In 1993, just after Nichols renounced his US citizenship, McVeigh moved out of his father’s house in New York and moved to the Nichols family farm in Michigan.

It was at this time that McVeigh began being completely immersed in the “Christian Identity” movement and became predominantly surrounded by radical Mormons and other “Identity Christians”. When McVeigh began living with Terry Nichols on the Nichols family farm in Michigan, in 1993, Nichols showed McVeigh how to make money selling guns at Mormon operated gun shows and McVeigh began selling guns under the pseudonym of “Tim Tuttle”. Nichols further indoctrinated McVeigh in “Identity” theology by introducing McVeigh to Mark Koernke’s (Mormon) Michigan Militia where both Nichols and McVeigh attended meetings, and McVeigh made more money by providing security services to Koernke, again under the pseudonym of “Tim Tuttle”. In 1993, the Waco incident occurred involving the “Branch Davidians”, which was not an “Identity” group, but whose plight involved the same issue of “religious freedom” that “Identity” groups were ostensibly fighting for. Waco impacted McVeigh to such an extent that he even traveled to Waco in March of 1993 to witness the unfolding events for himself. In April of 1993, McVeigh headed back to the Nichols’ farm in Michigan and continued watching the “Waco Incident” on TV and on April 19, 1993 the siege ended tragically with the fiery death of the “Branch Davidians”. At this time, Nichols and his brother James Nichols began teaching McVeigh how to make explosives out of household chemicals in plastic jugs. McVeigh then moved to Kingman, Arizona, which is another hotbed of Mormon radicals and “Identity” Christians, and is also where his Army buddy, Michael Fortier, lived. Fortier joined the Army the same year McVeigh joined and they were stationed together. While living in Kingman, McVeigh found work as a security guard making minimum wage and worked in a lumberyard.

Once again McVeigh found himself surrounded by radical Mormons and “Identity Christians” who greatly influenced him. However, he simply viewed himself as being surrounded by other people who shared the same political and ideological views that he did, rather than recognizing that he was surrounded by radicals who grew-up being indoctrinated in the radical Mormon theologies of Joseph Smith. It is doubtful that McVeigh ever realized he was being made a dupe. This environment further fueled McVeigh’s distaste for the American Government and he started becoming more and more radical. He converted his home into a bunker and began making, and testing, homemade bombs in the Arizona desert. He also traveled to area-51 in Nevada and Roswell, New Mexico to inspect top secret Government installations that he was being taught were involved in secret conspiracies to harm US citizens, and went to Gulfport, Mississippi where, rumor had it, United Nations Troops were being staged for action against citizens of the United States. During this same period of time, McVeigh also traveled with Nichols to a multitude of Mormon towns in Arizona, including Holbrook and Mesa, Arizona. Then, in 1994, McVeigh met Andreas Strassmeir at a gun-show, learned about Elohim City and asked if he could go there. Strassmeir proceeded to give McVeigh a card, upon which he wrote “Richard Millar”. During this same period of time, McVeigh also met Dennis Mahon at one another of the Mormon operated gun-shows where McVeigh sold guns, military ware, military uniforms, knives and copies of the Turner Diaries. When McVeigh worked these gun shows he also typically used his alias, Tim Tuttle, and that is how Dennis Mahan claims he got to know Timothy McVeigh. Mahan even claims he thought “Tim Tuttle” was McVeigh’s real name.

Dennis Mahon was later interviewed by a British Newspaper The Guardian, wherein Mahon is quoted as saying, "I met Tim Tuttle, but I didn't know he was alias Tim McVeigh. I met him at gun shows. He sold military stuff, knives, gun parts, camouflage uniforms. I remember he had real short hair and real intense eyes and the real long narrow nose, and we talked about Waco. And I said, what comes around goes around. If they keep doing this terrorism on our people, terrorism's going to happen to them. He said, probably, probably so”. Mahon was really much better acquainted with McVeigh than he lets on. Robert Millar, Elohim City’s revered “Identity” religious leader, even testified during the McVeigh trial that Mahon hosted McVeigh’s first trip to Elohim City where McVeigh must have presented his “Richard Millar” card to get through the front gate. So, apparently McVeigh met Strassmeir at a gun show, learned about Elohim City and got his “get into Elohim City card”. He also apparently met Mahon at another gun show and then traveled to Tulsa where Mahon escorted him into Elohim City. At one point, it was alleged that Strassmeir was yet another covert US Government agent working with the US Government in their plot to bomb the Murrah building. Of course, this is a ridiculous lie and is part of the secret Mormon lore that the FBI and the CIA is secretly “controlled” by Mormons in the Government. This idea is then propagated among “Identity Christians” to reinforce the notion that “those loyal to the cause, inside the US Government” assisted in bringing Al-Qaida into the United States to help “Identity Christians” perpetrate acts of domestic terrorism against America. And, all this is designed to anger “mainstream” Americans, who will believe this nonsense and then rise-up against the US Government in a new civil war. It would seem the only thing crazier than this is Charlie Manson’s Helter Skelter. All of this of course would culminate in Joseph Smith’s prophesied Doctrine of the Constitution Hanging by a Thread, which Smith wrote in 1843 and teaches the “Mormon Elders of Zion will rush-in and save the Constitution after the people have torn it to shreds”.

When, Mahon was presented with the news that Strassmeir might be a Government agent, he allegedly said, "Oh, sweet Jesus, I am fucked". And, during the McVeigh trial, one of the witnesses questioned by the FBI, whose testimony was never admitted as evidence, stated he saw Mahon with McVeigh on the day of the bombing. David Snider was a warehouse worker who testified that he was waiting for a delivery truck in the Bricktown area of Oklahoma City on the morning of April 19, 1995, which is only a few blocks from the Murrah building. According to Snider, he saw the Ryder truck and mistakenly thought it was his delivery so he began hollering and waving for the truck pull in to the dock. But, the truck only proceeded to drive slowly by while McVeigh, who was sitting in the passenger seat, presented him with “the finger”. Snider also testified he witnessed Dennis Mahon as the person driving the truck. When Mahon was later questioned about this by the Federal Grand Jury, he allegedly said the only way he would answer the question was if he was granted immunity. Amazingly enough, after explosion, the same David Snider who spotted the Ryder truck earlier in the morning ran outside and witnessed the brown pickup as it sped out of the area. Snider stated, "They were doing about 60 mph. They turned north and headed over the Walnut Street Bridge”. So, apparently Mahon, Strassmeir and McVeigh were all connected to Elohim City, and the bombing. And, after McVeigh gained admittance into Elohim City, he also must have met Peter Langan (Mormon) who founded the Aryan Republican Army because McVeigh was a member of the ARA and admittedly robbed banks to fund the Oklahoma City bombing. And, it was during these same bank robberies that McVeigh met another ARA bank robber by the name of Chevie Kehoe, and Kehoe was a polygamist Mormon who was later arrested only 15-miles from the site of the September 11, 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre.

Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols and the Oklahoma City Bombing

In her book, The Third Terrorist, Jayna Davis claims not only were McVeigh and Nichols the front men for Middle Eastern terrorists that included Iragis, Palestinians and others, but that proof of this was later found in Afghanistan after US troops arrived in October of 2001. An excerpt from her book is shown below:

“…Validation arrived in October 2001 when President Bush deployed U.S. troops to eradicate the fanatical ruling Taliban in Afghanistan. Strewn across the basement floor of a Kabul mansion which once housed a hideout and makeshift headquarters for bin Laden loyalists was a do-it-yourself guidebook to construct an “Oklahoma-style” bomb. A Bosnian soldier in the Al-Qaeda army of terrorists had penned the step-by-step instructions and components needed to replicate the Murrah Building explosive device.

What a shocking discovery that Timothy McVeigh’s legendary bomb-making skills were referenced halfway around the world, being emulated as an effective technique in the terrorists’ toolbox! Imagine the incredulity on the faces of bin Laden’s devotees upon hearing they would implement a bomb formula which McVeigh perfected through exhaustive research from a book checked out at a Kingman, Arizona, public library. In the sage words of Stephen Jones that McVeigh “couldn’t blow up a rock,” the Afghanistan find transformed the Justice Department’s “lone bomber” theory into a work of science fiction”.

Timothy James McVeigh was brought-up in an Irish Catholic family in Lockport, NY by William McVeigh and Mildred "Mickey" Hill. His parents divorced when he was ten and was raised primarily by his father in Pendleton, New York after his mother and 2 younger sisters moved to Florida. Pendleton and Lockport are about 6-miles from each other, and both are located about 60-miles west of the Rochester, NY area where Joseph Smith and the Mormons were officially incorporated as a religion in 1830. During McVeigh’s childhood, he and his father regularly attended daily Roman Catholic masses at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Pendleton, NY. McVeigh once said in an interview with Time Magazine that he believed in "a God", but "sort of lost touch with Catholicism and…never really picked it up, however I do maintain core beliefs." The United Kingdom’s The Guardian also reported that McVeigh wrote a letter to them claiming that he was agnostic. McVeigh also said that he believed that the universe was guided by natural laws, which were energized by a universal higher power that could show every person right from wrong, if they paid attention to what was going on inside them. He also said, "Science is my religion". In May of 1988, McVeigh enlisted in the US Army, seldom “went out” and preferred instead to read about guns, sniper tactics and explosives. On one occasion when Black servicemen began wearing “Black Power” T-shirts around the base, he began wearing his “White Power” T-shirt, which he got from the KKK and was subsequently reprimanded. While serving in the Army, McVeigh served in the Gulf War, was awarded a Bronze Star and was a top scoring gunner using his Bradley’s 25MM cannon. McVeigh later said the Army taught him how to “switch off his emotions”. After returning from the Gulf War, McVeigh enrolled in the special-forces program, but quickly dropped-out because he couldn’t meet the program’s physical fitness requirements. Shortly thereafter, he decided to leave the Army, was discharged on December 31, 1991 and returned to New York where he found work as security guard.

When McVeigh was in the Army, he grew close to Terry Nichols, who was his platoon leader. The common bond between Nichols and McVeigh appears to have been their white supremacist and anti-Government beliefs, which because of Nichols’ Mormon upbringing would have been more evolved than McVeigh’s were. Nichols was also 13-years older than McVeigh was and clearly exercised significant influence over McVeigh, as can be seen with how their friendship evolved. In 1993, McVeigh moved from New York to the farm in Michigan where Terry Nichols and his brother, James, grew-up. In February of 1993, McVeigh and Nichols watched television coverage of the Waco siege on TV, and both Terry and James Nichols began teaching McVeigh how to make explosives out of household materials. The Waco incident had such an impact on McVeigh that he even traveled to Waco in March of 1993 to witness the siege for himself and he was even interviewed by a reporter covering the event. Ironically, the “Ruby Ridge Incident” in Idaho, involving Randy Weaver, had just concluded about 6-months earlier, and also resulted in heavy casualties for the “Christians”. But, the difference was that Weaver’s family was Mormon and lived among a large contingent of white supremacist, neo-Nazi anti-Government “Identity” Mormons in northern Washington, Idaho and British Columbia Canada. While Koresh’s Waco cult was not affiliated with the “Christian Identity” movement at all, Weaver was, and both incidents involved the issue of “religious freedom”. Both of these incidents infuriated Nichols who was also Mormon and he likely incited McVeigh’s ire over this as well. Further, Nichols would have been fully aware of the Mormons’ 3-wars against the United States and would have been indoctrinated in the Mormons’ hatred of the US Government from childhood.

By 1994, McVeigh was living in Kingman, AZ, which was centrally located in another hotbed of white supremacist, neo-Nazi, anti-Government, anti-Semitic and radical Mormon “Identity Christians” that was surrounded by large concentrations of Mormons. And, in Kingman McVeigh was also reunited with Michael Fortier who he had gone through basic training with, and who also identified with Nichols’ and his ideologies, and in July of 1994 when Fortier married his high school sweetheart in Las Vegas, McVeigh served as his best man. In addition to the short-period of time that McVeigh had his own place in Kingman, in 1994, Fortier also hosted McVeigh’s other travels to Kingman between 1993 and 1995. Fortier also introduced McVeigh to marijuana and crystal meth, however while McVeigh never seemed to adopt Fortier’s drug habits, the two did share the same anti-Government sentiments. Fortier had a reproduction of an America flag from the Revolutionary War with the words, “Don’t Tread on Me” and they often talked about gun control, the “new world order” and the United Nations. McVeigh also frequently tested his increasingly sophisticated homemade bombs in the Arizona desert. During this same period of time McVeigh was also traveling throughout the west and mid-west working at Mormon operated gun shows, and it was while working these gun-shows that he met Andreas Strassmeir and Dennis Mahon. It is also during this time that McVeigh’s anti-Government rhetoric started becoming more and more radical, which shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise considering that by now he had essentially surrounded himself with nothing but radical Mormons and “Identity Christians”. In October of 1995, McVeigh sat in the Fortier’s living room and laid out his plans to bomb "a federal building in Oklahoma City", but Fortier didn’t want to have any involvement in McVeigh’s plans.

In March, about a month before the April 19, 1995 bombing, Nichols explained to McVeigh that he was backing out of the plot to bomb the Murrah building. But, by this time, McVeigh was completely surrounded by the radical Elohim City “Identity Christians” who were actually behind hatching the plot to bomb the Murrah building anyway, and Nichols’ departure not only irrelevant, it may have been planned. David Hammer and Jeffrey Paul in their 2004 book Secrets Worth Dying For document that McVeigh disclosed to them in prison that he and four other members of Elohim City’s Aryan Republican Army, which used Elohim City as its base of operations, met several times in March and April of 1995 in the desert near Kingman, Arizona. McVeigh also indicated that the purpose of the meetings there was to “conduct dry-runs planting the bomb and getting away”. The same two authors also claim that McVeigh told them a Las Vegas man known as “Poindexter” was the actual explosives expert who assembled the bomb, and that they met with him several times prior to the April 19^th bombing. In public, McVeigh always maintained that he was the only person involved in the plot to bomb the Murrah building, and always discounted any involvement by others, and while a polygraph test McVeigh took after his arrest indicates McVeigh was being truthful about his own involvement, it also shows he was being evasive about the roles others may have played in the bombing. Because of this, McVeigh has always been portrayed in the press as being self aggrandizing and wanting to be viewed as the mastermind behind the bombing. But, another likely scenario is that McVeigh simply viewed himself as a good soldier who undertook a dangerous secret mission, got caught and was dutifully bound to keep any of the real details from the enemy.

On October 12, 1993, McVeigh and Nichols drove from Fayetteville, AK to meet Andreas Strassmeir in Elohim City, OK. The same day, records also show that McVeigh received a ticket from the Arkansas State Police for prohibited passing on State Highway 59, 12-miles from Elohim City. On September 12, 1994, McVeigh was in Elohim City again to participate in military maneuvers, which were being directed by Andreas Strassmeir. FBI agents also located a hotel receipt, which showed that McVeigh stayed at a motel in Vian, Oklahoma on September 13, 1994. Vian, OK is just a few miles from Elohim City. On April 5, 1995, (2-weeks before the bombing) McVeigh called Ryder Truck Rentals from his motel room at the Imperial Motel in Kingman, AZ, and 2-minutes later he placed another call to Andreas Strassmeir in Elohim City. 3-days after McVeigh’s April 5^th call to Elohim City, McVeigh was videotaped at a strip-club in Tulsa, OK, on April 8^th, called Lady Godiva’s. The highly publicized video shows McVeigh in the presence of Andreas Strassmeir, and a third man that may have been Michael Brescia, but could have been Dennis Mahon. The video captures McVeigh bragging to one of the strippers, "I'm a very smart man, and on April 19, 1995, you'll remember me for the rest of your life". The dancer then laughs and says, "Oh, really"? McVeigh replies, "Yes, you will", and at that point the dancer walks away and says to other dancers, "Weirdo". After the bombing, civil lawsuits were filed by Edye Smith and Glenn Wilburn based on the assumption that Brescia, the man thought to be in the surveillance footage with McVeigh and Strassmeir was "John Doe Number-2". And, the London Telegraph interviewed a witness named Connie Smith who is quoted as saying, "I kept telling them that the man in the sketch (John Doe Number-2) was that Mike guy, a nice-looking guy, dark-skinned. But the FBI made me feel guilty, then ignorant, as if I didn't know what I was saying. Then, later, I tried to call in with more information and they wouldn't even talk to me". There appears to be little doubt that McVeigh was connected to Elohim City. On April 20, 1995, Federal agents wrote in a memo, "It is suspected that members of Elohim City are involved either directly or indirectly through conspiracy". On February 13, 2003, Steven Jones, McVeigh's defense attorney, was quoted as saying, "I don't doubt Tim's role in the conspiracy.  But I think he clearly aggrandized his role, enlarged it, to cover for others who were involved".

Danny Coulson, the FBI’s agent in-charge of the Oklahoma City investigation said in 2003, "I think you have too many coincidences here that raise questions about whether other people are involved.  The close associations with Elohim City and the earlier plan [of Elohim City residents] to do the same Murrah Building all suggest the complicity of other people. If I were still in the bureau, the investigation would be reopened". Secrets Worth Dying For reveals that McVeigh and Nichols’ October 12, 1993 meeting at Elohim City was made specifically to discuss the issue of “taking direct action against the Federal government”. The key people they would have met with would have included Dennis Mahon, Andreas Strassmeir, Peter (Kevin) Langan, Chevie Kehoe and others. Again, out of that list, Langan, Nichols and Kehoe were Mormons, Strassmeir was a German national whose father was a founding member of Germany’s Nazi Party, Mahon was a career racist and “Identity Christian” and McVeigh was Catholic. Additionally, Peter (Kevin) Langan founded the ARA and McVeigh and Kehoe were members of the ARA. Within months of that October 12, 1993 meeting, McVeigh joined the ARA and began robbing banks with the other members of the ARA. The book goes on to reveal that in April of 1994, McVeigh met with Dennis Mahon and Andreas Strassmeir to discuss bombing the Alfred P. Murrah building for the first time. In 2003, AP reporter John Solomon’s investigation into the Oklahoma City bombing led him to conclude that white supremacists from Elohim City played a major role in the bombing conspiracy. Solomon also cites an FBI teletype that documents two Elohim City white supremacists leaving the Elohim City compound for a location in Kansas close to "where McVeigh was doing the final assembly of his bomb". Solomon also reported that these two Elohim City gang members were Peter (Kevin) Langan and Mark Thomas. He also communicated to Federal Agents that these two individuals could provide information that linked Timothy McVeigh to the ARA, and therefore to the “Christian Identity” movement. Solomon also revealed information from an informant named John Shults who told agents in 1997 that he was “sure beyond a shadow of a doubt he saw McVeigh at Elohim City in 1994 at a meeting about a mysterious delivery and use of a Ryder truck".

In the final days before the bombing, ARA members, and according to Secrets Worth Dying For, the mysterious bomb expert “Poindexter”, all met at met at Geary Lake in Kansas to do the final assembly of the bomb and make final preparations for the bombing. Geary Lake is about 240-miles from Oklahoma City, and only 14-miles from Nichols’ Herington, KS home. McVeigh also indicated that received cash from Terry Nichols while camping at Geary Lake on April 14^th. After that, he checked into room-25 of the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, KS, which is only about 8-miles north of Geary State Park. A pizza delivery man in Junction City told the FBI that he delivered a pizza to a “Bob Kling” who was staying in room-25 of the Dreamland Motel. He also said “Bob Kling” was not Timothy McVeigh and was most likely ARA member Scott Stedeford. On April 16, Easter Sunday, McVeigh, Nichols and “John Doe number-2” drove the 240-miles to Oklahoma City. McVeigh and “John Doe number-2” were in McVeigh’s Mercury Marquis, which was McVeigh’s getaway car, and Nichols followed in his pickup. McVeigh then parked the Marquis in a lot near the Murrah Building and then Nichols drove them all back to the Dreamland Motel. On April 17, McVeigh rented a Ryder Truck from Elliot’s Body Shop in Junction City. On the rental agreement, McVeigh indicated that he was going to use the truck for a 4-day trip to Omaha. On April 18^th at 4:30AM, he left the Dreamland Motel. At this point, either alone or with Michael Brescia, McVeigh proceeded to drive to a storage unit that he rented previously in Herington and either picked up Nichols or “Poindexter”. It is also alleged that all of the ANFO was already trucked-in from the Mormon town of Henderson, NV in a surplus US Post Office delivery truck that was purchased and painted to look like a working Post Office vehicle. Because of this, it is likely the person McVeigh met at the storage unit was “Poindexter”.

Secrets Worth Dying For, indicates that Nichols was not at the storage unit and that McVeigh complained, "He and Mike [Fortier] were men who liked to talk tough, but in the end their bitches and kids ruled". But, in his “authorized biography”, McVeigh claims that he and Nichols loaded everything into the Ryder Truck and then drove to Geary Park to assemble the bomb, but whoever was at the rental unit helped load the ammonium nitrate, fuses and drums of nitromethane into the Ryder Truck with McVeigh. Again, according to McVeigh’s “authorized biography”, after the bomb was assembled, he proceeded that afternoon towards Oklahoma City and slept overnight in the cab of Ryder truck at Ponca City, OK. Conversely, according to Secrets Worth Dying For, once he arrived in Oklahoma City in the afternoon of April 18^th, McVeigh met up with the second “decoy” Ryder truck rental that was also driven to Oklahoma City on the 18^th. According to this scenario, McVeigh and others who included “Poindexter” proceeded to assemble the bomb in a warehouse at Oklahoma City with the help of “Poindexter” and ARA member Richard Guthrie. However, implicating Gurthrie here is most likely a ploy by McVeigh and members of the ARA to get even with Guthrie for being a snitch and telling the FBI where they could find Peter Langan, which began the domino effect of shutting down the ARA. So, most likely it was other members of the ARA, including or not including Guthrie, and after the bomb was assembled, “Poindexter” was killed by having his throat cut. It’s important to remember that “Poindexter” was the only member of the “team” who was not part of the Elohim City “ARA Team” and was an “outsider” from Las Vegas. The explanation McVeigh gave for killing was that “Poindexter” was, “only hired help, not one of us". It is also likely that “Poindexter” was not even American at all, and may have been Middle-Eastern. Members of Al-Qaida also visited Las Vegas prior to 9/11 as well.

Regardless of how these events actually unfolded, it is hard to believe that McVeigh and Nichols could have carried planned and executed this act of terrorism by themselves. And, when you take into account all of the 3^rd party testimony and FBI evidence that was never admitted as evidence during the McVeigh trial, it stretches the imagination to believe that McVeigh and Nichols could have been the sole perpetrators of this act of terrorism. In the “authorized biography” version of the story, McVeigh got up at 7:00AM on the morning of the 19^th, began driving towards Oklahoma City and made an executive decision to move-up the time of the bombing. In the Secrets Worth Dying For version, McVeigh left the Oklahoma City warehouse around 8:00AM and pulled into a tire store to ask directions. According to this story, the story employee who talked to McVeigh also saw a 2^nd man sitting in the passenger seat of the Ryder Truck. And, a video camera recorded the truck traveling towards downtown at 8:55AM, 7-minutes prior to the detonation of the bomb. As the McVeigh drove up NW 5^th Street, just before 9:00AM, he lit two fuses and parked the truck in the “handicapped zone” of the Murrah building and quickly walked away towards the YMCA building. At 9:02AM, just after many parents dropped their children off at the day-care center located in the Murrah building, the bomb detonated killing 168 people and injuring 509 more. Many people also claimed that there were actually two explosions and seismic evidence also supports this “two-blast” theory. Incredibly, a mysterious leg that was found after the explosion, was later claimed to belong to 21-year old Lakesha Levy who was killed in the blast. But, if that was really the case, she would have had to have been buried with the wrong left leg, and there would still be an extra leg to explain. And, it is alleged that this mysterious leg actually belonged to the mysterious “Poindexter”.

Terry Nichols

Terry Nichols was born on April 1, 1955 in Michigan and grew-up on his family’s farm near Lapeer, MI. Around the time of his high school graduation, his parents divorced, and Nichols later enrolled at Central Michigan University, but never graduated. In 1980, he was looking for land to purchase around Decker, MI, about 25-miles from Lapeer, and met Lana Walsh who was his real estate agent. Nichols and Walsh married in 1981 and had a son, Josh, who was born in 1982. Nichols was a nurturing and caring father and spent a significant amount of his time taking care of Josh, which including cooking and cleaning, but Nichols had a difficult time making ends meet however and joined the army in 1988. He joined despite the fact that he was 13-years older than most of the other recruits. After joining, he attended basic training at Fort Benning, GA and met Timothy McVeigh and Michael Fortier. After their training, Nichols, McVeigh and Fortier were all stationed together at Fort Riley, KS, which is only about 30 miles from Nichols home in Herington, KS and only about 7-miles from Junction City, KS where significant portions of the plot to bomb the Murrah building would be executed 11-years later, in 1994. Unfortunately, Nichols’ marriage began to unravel, which led to a heated conflict between he and his wife over caring for his son Josh. Because of this, the Army granted Nichols a hardship discharge and Nichols returned to Michigan in May of 1989 to look after Josh. By 1990, Nichols, a Mormon, had established strong ties to Cebu City, Philippines, which has one of the largest populations of Mormons in the Middle-East and at the time was a hotbed of Islamic militancy. One of Nichols’ connections in Cebu City also set him up with 17-year old Marife Torres who Nichols married in 1990, and was pregnant with another man’s child at the time they were married.

In October of 2005, the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee prepared a report for California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher entitled The Oklahoma City Bombing:  Was There A Foreign Connection?. This report states that Nichols began traveling to Cebu City in 1990 with Shelton Paradise Tours, which was run by Tom Shelton and his son Earl. Shelton Tours operated a “mail order bride business” and apparently also operated as prostitution service. Shelton Tours ran ads in the United States targeting men who wanted women for pleasure or marriage and at the same time ran ads in the Cebu City newspaper for young women who wanted to escape their life of poverty by becoming “mail order brides”. Shelton’s ad was subsequently answered by a Flordaliza Torres who proceeded to bring in her sister, Marife Torres. Nichols met Marife on his first trip to the Philippines in August of 1990. The couple was married in Cebu City in November of 1990, and they moved shortly thereafter to the Nichols family farm in Michigan. Marife was also 6-months pregnant with another man’s child at the time they moved to Michigan. A short time later, Nichols and his wife moved to Nichols new home in Herington, KS. During his first trip to Cebu City, Nichols was also introduced to “tour guide” Daisy Gelaspi, and she and Gelaspi proceeded to spend about 4-days together. Gelaspi also claims in a sworn affidavit that Nichols asked her if she knew anyone in the military or anyone else who could help him make a bomb. It is also alleged that during Nichols last trip to the Philippines, he had in his possession a boomb-making book entitled The Chemistry of Powder and Explosives. Because of this, The Subcommittee began to question whether Nichols was in Cebu City to find a bride, or to network with other radical Mormons and Islamic terrorists who would be able to assist him with his own terrorist activities.

Prior to his last trip to Cebu City, Philippines in November of 1994, Nichols left a sealed package for his first wife, Lana Padilla with instructions to only open the package if he did not return from the Philippines. However, Lana opened it almost immediately, and read a letter from Nichols that explained where he had hidden $20,000 for her and his son, Josh. When Nichols was later interviewed by The Committee and asked where the money came from, Nichols simply explained that the money came from “babysitting”. The package also contained an incriminating note for his friend Timothy McVeigh, which contained the words, “Your [sic] on your own, go for it”. The Committee also inquired why Nichols feared for his life during his trip to the Philippines, but Nichols answers are unclear. Meanwhile, all of the logistics surrounding the bomb-making and destructive power of the bomb appear to have been resolved by Nichols’ trip to the Philippines. According to their own testimony, Fortier and McVeigh tested bombs in the Arizona Desert and failed miserably to construct a bomb that had the explosive force necessary to do the damage that was done to the Murrah building. And, that was 6-months prior to the April 1995 bombing. However, after Nichols returned from the Philippines, he and McVeigh were suddenly able to construct a deadly bomb that blew the entire front off of the Murrah building. Another “tour guide” who worked for Shelton tours was a woman named Vilma Elumbaring, and it was reported that she dated a man named “Khan”. In fact, about a month prior to Nichols arrival in Philippines, Marife, Vilma and Khan allegedly partied together at a Cebu City disco. It is also reported that “Khan” may have been Ramzi Yousef’s friend, and explosives expert, Wali Khan. The Subcommittee also requested to interview Khan, who at the time was in Colorado’s supermax prison, but Kahn declined the interview.

A key member of the Philippine based terrorist organization Abu Sayyaf by the name of Edwin Angeles also made incriminating statements to Philippine investigators after the Oklahoma City bombing. Angeles who had trained at a terrorist compound in Mindanao when Kahn was there told the McVeigh defense team that Nichols met with Yousef, Khan and Abdul Hakim Murad on at least one occasion in Mindanao in the early 1990’s. But, members of the Philippine National Police told The Subcommittee that Angeles’ statements were unreliable. They explained that Angeles was a drug user, made conflicting statements and was likely a double agent. Angeles was then released from jail, and was immediately murdered on a public street in broad daylight. Unfortunately, his statements could not be relied on without independent verification, and The Subcommittee was never able to obtain that verification before he was murdered. There is also no dispute that Nichols and Yousef were both in Cebu City in December of 1994 immediately before the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. And, after the World Trade Center bombing in February of 1993, Yousef was living in Manila with Murad and Khan and working on his next terrorist plot called “Operation Bojinka”, which was masterminded by Yousef’s Uncle, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. “Operation Bojinka” was a plan to plant bombs on twelve US airliners and detonate them simultaneously over the Pacific Ocean, and to gain flight control and fly them into buildings in the US, including the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. In December of 1994, Yousef even made a rehearsal flight to verify airport security. In this incident, Yousef purchased a ticket on Philippine Airlines flight-434 from Manila to Tokyo, via Cebu City, using the name of Armaldo Forlani.

On December 1, 1994, Yousef boarded flight-434 with a liquid explosive charge concealed in the heel of his shoe. He had also done extensive research on the design and construction of commercial airliners. Yousef’s plan was to strategically place a bomb over the jet’s fuel tank, which was situated beneath rows of seats towards the middle of the airliner, and detonate the bomb. The bomb would not have the explosive capability to bring down the airliner by itself, but the idea was that the explosion would pierce the fuel tank and cause a catastrophic explosion. During the flight to Cebu City, Yousef went to the lavatory, took the explosive from his shoe, set a timed explosion with his Casio watch, returned to his seat and concealed the bomb beneath his seat. When the plane arrived in Cebu City, Yousef deplaned and a Japanese businessman named Haruki Ikegami sat in the same seat. At 11:43 AM while the jet was cruising on autopilot at 31,000 feet above Minami Daito Island, 260 miles southwest of Tokyo, the bomb detonated and blew the lower portion of Ikegami’s body completely off.  Ten passengers sitting in seats forward and aft of Ikegami were also injured and the bomb blew a 2-square foot hole in the floor of the cabin revealing the cargo hold below. The fuel tank, which was a few rows further back, was not breached and the fuselage remained intact. In spite of the damage to steering and aileron controls, the flight crew was able to turn the jet towards land and Captain Reyes made an emergency landing at Naha Airport in southern Japan. Reyes’ actions saved lives of the 272 passengers and 20 crewmembers on board. Once safely at Naha, the plane immediately became a crime scene and bomb fragments found in the lower half of Ikegami’s body and around the blast zone, which pointed investigators back to Manila.

On January 6, 1995, 2-weeks before “Operation Bojinka” was scheduled for activation, Yousef was mixing liquid explosives with Murad in their Manila apartment when an accident occurred and caused thick smoke to be released from the explosive chemicals. Yousef and Murad fled the scene, and an apartment security guard who saw the smoke called the fire department. After the firemen left the scene, police arrived and found chemicals, bomb components, a laptop and other incriminating evidence. Meanwhile, Yousef realized he had left his laptop at the apartment and ordered Murad to go back to get it. Unfortunately for Murad, this misstep allowed authorities to arrested Murad, and Murad provided them with additional information about a third terrorist named Shah. Shah escaped and was not captured until about a year later and Yousef fled the Philippines and was captured in Pakistan the following month. The investigation of Murad and the evidence found on Yousef’s laptop also provided authorities with Yousef’s entire team of terrorists and more details about the plot. Murad (code name Obaid) and Yousef (code name Zyed) intended to purchase airline tickets from US based airline companies that had flight layovers scheduled in Asia. And, since they wouldn’t be flying into the US, they would not need US visas and would be able to board the flights and plant bombs inside lifejackets located under the seats. Once they completed this mission, they would then deplane prior to the bombings and fly to Lahore, Pakistan. These events served to essentially kill “Operation Bojinka”, which was set to occur beginning in 1995. But, the real mastermind behind the plan was Yousef’s Uncle, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, which necessitated delaying and modifying his plans to create 9/11. Unfortunately, Khalid Shekh Mohammed was not arrested until March 1, 2003 when he was arrested in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. 

Coincidentally, the same day the fire broke out in Yousef’s Manila apartment, on January 6, 1995, Nichols suddenly departed the Philippines and traveled back to the US, which led Congressman Rohrabacher to say, “All this justifiably leads to speculation that the Bojinka plot may have been tied to a more grandiose scheme”—one that included a coordinated attack on the American homeland”. Nichols returned a week before his 60-day visa expired, began looking for houses in Herington, KS and told McVeigh that he did not want to be directly involved on the day of the bombing. Steven Jones, in his book Others Unknown, claims that prior to the release of Edwin Angeles in Manila by authorities and his immediate murder in broad daylight, Angeles stated he met “The Farmer” [Nichols] at a meeting attended by Yousef and Murad to discuss terrorist bombings. Prior to his death, Angeles also allegedly identified a sketch of “The Farmer”, which “was a dead ringer for Nichols”. David Hoffman's banned book, The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, also includes an interview with DEA informant Cary Gagan who claims to have hauled cocaine for PLO affiliated Arabs in the Southwestern United States. The book explains that Cagan became alarmed after learning that he was trucking 30-duffel bags of Ammonium Nitrate from Sandex Explosives in Las Vegas, C4 plastic explosives and a Lely farm mixer instead of cocaine. It also claims that the same Lely farm mixer was linked to McVeigh at the Dreamland Motel where McVeigh stayed in Junction City, KS, by witness David King. At this point Cagan began making numerous urgent calls to the DEA and FBI, which for some reason were never followed-up on. Cagan also claims to have seen a man meeting Nichols description in the Mormon town of Henderson, NV, and also heard the names “Andy” [Strassmier] and “Dennis” [Mahon].

The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror also includes some additional information on the ANFO used in McVeigh’s Ryder Truck bomb. A passage explains that after Cagan snorted some cocaine at the Western Motel in Las Vegas, NV, he drove to an apartment complex in Henderson, NV called the Player’s Club. Cagan went there thinking that he was about to transport another routine shipment of cocaine, but became alarmed when he learned what his cargo really was. According to Cagan, he was staring at a delivery truck that had been purchased at Government auction and was painted to look like an operational mail truck. Additionally, in the back of the truck were 30-duffel bags of ANFO marked “US Mail”, and boxes from Sandex Explosives marked “high explosives”. On January 14, 1995, Cagan claims he picked up the truck at the Metro Bar & Grill and drove it to a Marriott Hotel outside of Golden, CO. All of this would seem to fit with the entire Mormon theme, because as previously mentioned, Henderson, NV is a Mormon town and J.W. Mariott is a well known Mormon. In November of 1994, just before Nichols went to Cebu City, Arkansas gun dealer Roger Moore was robbed by either the ARA, or Nichols and McVeigh. But, who robbed them didn’t matter, they were all related anyway. After the robbery, Nichols left for Las Vegas and gave his sealed note to his ex-wife, Lana Padilla who opened it immediately. Besides the $20,000 for Padilla and his son Josh, his message also revealed instructions that, in the event of his death, all his cash and valuables were to be sent to Marife who was already in Cebu City. It also contained the message for Mcveigh saying, “Go for it. As far as heat, none that I am aware of” and contained instructions on how McVeigh could retrieve the ANFO that Nichols had hidden in the rented storage unit in Herington, KS.

During Nichols trial in Federal Court, Nichols was only found guilty of “manslaughter” because the evidence submitted during the trial did not place him directly at the scene of the crime and because the evidence was inconclusive as to how much assistance he actually provided in constructing the bomb. At his State trial, Nichols was convicted on an additional 161 counts of 1^st degree murder, but only received 161 consecutive life-terms without the possibility of parole because the jury was deadlocked as to the death penalty. After his Federal trial, Jay Horowitz, a former prosecutor in private practice said, "The message that they were giving is ‘we don't think this guy, on the evidence presented to us, deserves to die’. However, they are now - if you will - stuck with the verdict they rendered". On February 9, 2007, Nichols testified that former FBI agent Larry Potts directed McVeigh to bomb the Murrah building. Ironically, this new affidavit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Utah. He also recently claimed that the bomb materials found under his house during a second search of his home in Herington, KS in 2005 were provided by Federal undercover operative Roger Moore. If Mormons are as pervasive in the terrorist conspiracy as they appear to be, the underlying motives behind Nichols claims are now readily apparent. Based on all of recent findings and developments with regards to the FBI’s shoddy investigation of the “Christian Identity” movement, its links to the middle east and the strange political machinations that occurred in the Bush White House, it appears that they may indeed have been a grand-scale cover-up of all three of the terrorist events, which are clearly related. Meanwhile, today Nichols is alive and residing with Kahn and Yousef at the Colorado supermax prison.

 
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