[Shadow_Group] Fw: Salt Lake Lawyer - FBI Likely Knew Of Oklahoma Bombing Plot

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The Midwest Bank Robbers aka ARA was a black bag operation,
multi-agency, orchestrated by the FBI, the BATF, the Secret Service and
the Israeli Mossad.  The informant referred to in this filing is the
Jewish intelligence asset named Andreas Strassmeir.  Strassmeir was the
ringleader behind the plotting of the OKC catastrophe.)




rense.com

Salt Lake Lawyer - FBI Likely 
Knew Of Oklahoma Bombing Plot
By Pamela Manson 
The Salt Lake Tribune
11-25-4
 
Seeking disclosure: In a court filing, he wants the agency to provide an
unedited 1995 memo and a related report about his brother's death in
prison 
  
The FBI "in all likelihood" had advance notice of the Oklahoma City
bombing plot but did nothing to prevent the attack, a Salt Lake City
lawyer claims. 
  
Attorney Jesse Trentadue alleges an informant infiltrated a white
supremacist compound in Oklahoma and learned Timothy McVeigh was trying
to recruit accomplices there about two weeks before the April 19, 1995,
bombing. 
  
This information probably was relayed to the FBI before the bombing, the
lawyer contends in a document filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in
Salt Lake City. 
  
Trentadue has sued the FBI, alleging it is violating the federal Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) by refusing to turn over documents connected to
the 1995 death of his brother in an Oklahoma prison. 
  
As evidence that the agency has failed to do a proper search for the
records he wants, he points to a FBI memorandum sent to members of a task
force investigating the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people. 
  
Although he specifically requested that memo, the FBI claimed it either
did not exist or could not be located, Trentadue says in court documents.
Yet Trentadue - who does not say how he obtained a copy - filed in court
a print copy of a heavily edited electronic memo dated Jan. 4, 1996. 
  
The memo also has been mentioned in prior media reports in Oklahoma. It
is unclear who wrote the memo, which appears to have been sent to FBI
offices in several cities. It states someone affiliated with the Southern
Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based civil rights group, was at a white
supremacist compound in April 1995, when one of the Oklahoma bombing
suspects allegedly called looking for a co-conspirator. 
  
The name of the caller is blacked out, but the person is described as one
of the two indicted defendants in the bombing. The two defendants were
McVeigh, who was executed in 2001 for the crime, and Terry Nichols, who
is serving a life sentence. 
  
An employee at the Department of Justice, which represents the FBI in the
lawsuit, said Wednesday that no one was available for comment on the
memo. The department in the past has declined to talk about pending legal
actions. 
  
A call to FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., was not returned
Wednesday. Trentadue is pursuing the document because he believes the
investigation of the bombing holds clues to his brother's death. 
  
Kenneth Trentadue, 44, was being held on an alleged parole violation in a
federal prison in Oklahoma City when guards found him dead on Aug. 21,
1995, hanging from a noose made of torn bed sheets. His family insists he
was killed and contend correctional officials destroyed evidence;
authorities have denied the allegations and contend he committed suicide.
Several investigations also ruled the death a suicide. 
  
Trentadue believes the FBI mistakenly suspected his brother was part of a
gang that robbed banks to fund attacks on the government, and that
authorities killed him ìwhen things got out of handî during an
interrogation. Trentadue believes that at one time, the FBI was
investigating whether the bank robbers were connected to the bombing. FBI
agents have said there was no connection between the six bank robbery
gang suspects who were arrested and McVeigh and Nichols. One agent,
testifying in a state murder trial against Nichols last spring, said the
only link was that the robbers had connections to an Elohim City, Okla.,
supremacist compound, and there was evidence McVeigh called there once. 
  
As part of his own probe into Kenneth's death, Trentadue had asked the
FBI for records related to the robbers. According to his suit, an
anonymous caller told him a few months after his brother died that his
brother, a convicted bank robber, had been murdered because he fit a
profile of the gang members. 
  
The FBI responded it has followed FOIA procedures and has asked U.S.
District Judge Dale Kimball in Salt Lake City to dismiss the suit. 
  
In turn, Trentadue on Tuesday asked the judge to order the agency to
produce two specific documents: An unedited copy of the 1995 FBI memo and
a report he believes was prepared after an FBI agent and two assistant
U.S. attorneys investigating his brother's death interviewed him a year
later. 
  
  
  
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