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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 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 DOJ. 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. 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 OKBOMB Oklahoma City Bombing (FBI task force field office) attack, when [name redacted] of the SPLC, was in the white supremacist compound."
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 flatfoot.
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 (Asynchronous Communications Server) See network access server. ) 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 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.
