Terrorism

Oklahoma City Bombing of the Murrah Building, 1995.

Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, 1998. https://sangabrieltutor.wordpress.com/federal-raids/

Roosevelt Federal Building,

NYC Bombing of Twin Towers, September 11, 2001. 

Ruby Ridge, 1993.  

Waco & the Branch Davidian Bombing, 1993.

Arlington Road is the name of the street on which the Roosevelt Federal Building bombing took place in St. Louis, 19

Robert Barnes on the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing.

Andreas Strassmeir, Andy the German, head of security and finds someone to take the bait.  Strassmeir’s grandfather was the co-founder of the Nazi party in Germany.  McVeigh calls Strassmeir before he parked the car in front of the Murrah Building.  Paper trail is more a sign of an intel operative than a sign of a true believer.  DEA, Secret Service, & ATF.

CoIntel Pro, Mark Felt, Deep Throat.

McVeigh radicalized at Elohim City.  https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Andreas_Strassmeir#:~:text=He%20was%20the%20son%20of,founder%20of%20the%20Nazi%20Party.

Arlington Road, 1999.  Jeff Bridge, Tim Robbins.

James Ellroy, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s A Rover.  Barnes mentions the following three characters, but I can’t tell whether they are characters in one of the James Ellroy novels or operatives involved in the Oklahoma City Bombing.

The following three characters–Pete Bondurant, Ward Littell, & Boyd Clark–are characters from the 2011 James Ellroy novel, The Cold Six Thousand.

Here is a review.

Wayne encounters two characters reappearing from American Tabloid: Ward Littell, ex–FBI agent, lawyer to the mob and to Howard Hughes, is a disillusioned closet liberal described as “lugging a Jesus Cross in his sewer”; Pete Bondurant, ex-CIA and current mob enforcer, is rabidly anti-Communist and anti-Castro. Through the perspectives and actions of these three men, the story tracks the complex convergence of interests among organized crime, the right-wing establishment, the KKK, and elements of the CIA and FBI that led to the three assassinations. Intertwined subplots describe Howard Hughes’s takeover of Vegas hotels and casinos, CIA trafficking in heroin during the Vietnam War, Cuban gunrunning, and covert FBI manipulation of the civil-rights movement. The large cast includes a wonderfully arch and sinister J. Edgar Hoover, Jack Ruby, Guy Banister, Sal Mineo, Bayard Rustin, Sonny Liston, James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan, and several mobsters, real and imagined. Ellroy’s style and pace are blistering as always, although it must be said that the unrelenting and occasionally gratuitous violence at the periphery of his main story sometimes undercuts the larger horrors he describes.