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> > FBI document links former Green Beret to McVeigh, bombing=20 > Wednesday, July 20, 2005 3:40 PM CDT=20 > > By J.D. Cash and Lt. Col. Roger Charles, (U.S. Marine Corps, > retired)=20 > > An FBI report of investigation (FD 302) obtained by this newspaper > contains=20= > never- > before-published information and allegations regarding links > between a forme= > r=20 > member of the Army's elite special forces, Timothy McVeigh, and the > 1995=20 > Oklahoma City bombing. > > The man at the center of these revelations is David Michael > Alexander Hollaw= > ay, an=20 > individual whose life experiences appear to be as unusual as they > are confli= > cted.=20 > > Referred to as "Dave" by his friends and business associates, the > 48-year-ol= > d man=20 > who is the focus of the report served an 8-year stint in the U.S. > Army where= > Hollaway=20 > earned the right to wear the elite Green Beret. > > Also included in that same report of investigation are references > to Hollawa= > y's=20 > lengthy service to Kirk Lyons, a Black Mountain, NC., lawyer with a > long his= > tory of=20 > representing members of the Ku Klux Klan, the Branch Davidians and > other fri= > nge=20 > elements. > > And then there is Hollaway's alleged role as a pilot for the CIA > and his wel= > l- > established relationship with the FBI. > > However, the most remarkable allegations contained in the Feb. 25, > 1997, FBI= > =20 > report, are those regarding Hollaway's eerie admissions that > McVeigh failed=20= > to park=20 > the bomb truck in the best location in front of the Oklahoma City > federal bu= > ilding that=20 > fateful April morning in 1995. > > Secret source > > The information contained in the report was provided by a person > whose name=20= > and=20 > relationship to the FBI were redacted from the "302" to protect his > identity= > . > > The statements and admissions attributed to Hollaway are reported > to have be= > en=20 > made over a three-day period during an underwater technologies > convention in= > =20 > Houston, TX. The confidential source for the report was debriefed > by a speci= > al agent=20 > for the FBI on Feb. 24 and 25, 1997. > > After eight years in the Army, Hollaway told the source that he > flew an airp= > lane for=20 > the CIA for a period of two years before settling down, marrying > his wife an= > d forming=20 > an affiliation with some of the most virulent and violent members > of the far= > right in=20 > this country. > > After the service, Hollaway said he worked for two years with the > Corpus Chr= > isti=20 > police department as a diver. > > The well-educated Hollaway is believed to have earned a B.S. in > Aviation=20 > Engineering and a B.S. in Molecular Biology after his stint in the > Army. > > So how did Hollaway become a negotiator for the government in cases > involvin= > g the=20 > radical right? And what brought Hollaway into contact with McVeigh? > > McVeigh connection > > Central to the FBI's report from their source are detailed > allegations conce= > rning=20 > statements attributed to Hollaway about his remarkably detailed > knowledge of= > =20 > explosives and his precise knowledge of facts concerning the OKC > bombing. > > "While describing the Oklahoma City bombing, Hollaway was able to > provide=20 > technical details concerning the truck bomb and ANFO (ammonium > nitrate/fuel=20= > oil) to=20 > include its blast over-pressure, fragmentation distances and > deflagration wi= > th an=20 > alarming degree of specificity," the source told the FBI. > > "Additionally, changes in Hollaway's body language while describing > the Okla= > homa=20 > City bombing, to include the rolling of his eyes when describing > the truck n= > ot being=20 > parked in a place to wreak maximum destruction, provided the > indication that= > =20 > Hollaway was attempting to communicate an involvement on his part > in that bo= > mbing=20 > without verbally acknowledging participation." (emphasis added). > > An exact copy of the redacted FBI 302 about Hollaway may be found > on this=20 > newspaper's website at www.mccurtain,com. > > The FBI report notes that, "At one point during their discussions, > Hollaway=20= > admitted=20 > to have spoken to Timothy McVeigh on the telephone two days before > the deton= > ation=20 > of the truck bomb outside the Oklahoma City federal building. > > "In reference to that particular event, Hollaway stated, "(T)he > f----ing tru= > ck was too far=20 > away," and indicated it was not parked in the position which would > inflict m= > ost=20 > damage on the building." > > Asked for Hollaway's reaction to the document, Hollaway's attorney > Kirk Lyon= > s said=20 > Tuesday: "Hollaway has never met or talked to McVeigh." > > The Lyons connection > > No stranger to OKBOMB saga, Hollaway has been a peripheral figure > whose name= > =20 > has come up a number of times in news accounts focusing on the > Oklahoma City= > =20 > bombing and some of the leading figures associated with the > investigation. > > This newspaper first reported in early 1996 that Hollaway was the > man who sp= > irited=20 > former paramilitary instructor at Elohim City, Andreas Carl > Strassmeir, also= > known as=20 > "Andy the German," out of the United States to Berlin after the > newspaper re= > vealed=20 > Strassmeir's links to McVeigh. > > Kirk Lyons is often referred to as the lawyer for American > Klansmen. Among c= > lients=20 > he has represented is Louis Beam, the former Grand Dragon the Texas > KKK and=20= > a=20 > legendary figure in the Aryan Nations movement. > > Once a person listed among the FBI's "Top Ten Most Wanted," Beam > was capture= > d=20 > in the mid-80s in Mexico by a team of Mexican police and FBI agents. > > The arrest was not without incident. Beam's young wife, Sheila, was > arrested= > in the=20 > melee for allegedly shooting one of the Mexican policemen. > > Beam was quickly whisked to the U.S. to stand trial for his alleged > role in=20= > a wide- > ranging conspiracy to overthrow the federal government. His > attractive and y= > outhful=20 > blonde wife remained behind in a dingy Mexican jail, awaiting an > uncertain f= > uture. > > At the conclusion of the much-publicized Fort Smith, Ark., sedition > trial, t= > he nation=20 > was shocked when Beam and 13 codefendants were found innocent of > all counts=20 > against them. > > Lyons was Beam's advisor at the trial. What is little recalled, > though, was=20= > the=20 > remarkable project pulled off by Lyons' associate, Dave Hollaway. > > Set forth in a FBI 302 dated 8/13/96 (and confirmed by Louis Beam > to reporte= > r J.D.=20 > Cash during an interview at Lake Tahoe, Nev. in April, 1996), it > was Hollawa= > y who=20 > convinced the Mexican government to release Sheila Beam and let her > leave th= > e=20 > country without a trial. > > Also contained in the 8/13/96 FBI 302 are admissions by Hollaway to > FBI agen= > t=20 > Herbert C. Hoover Jr. that he and former roommate Strassmeir > claimed to have= > =20 > McVeigh's military fatigue jacket in their possession after the > bombing. > > Strassmeir connection > > Strassmeir and Hollaway shared an apartment in Texas in the > late-1980s. > > While Hollaway was involved in the computer business in Austin with > Beam,=20 > Strassmeir - an illegal overstay on his visa - joined an outfit in > Austin, T= > exas, called=20 > the Texas Light Infantry (TLI). > > The TLI was a paramilitary group set up originally by Lyons and > Hollaway. Th= > e press=20 > was told TLI members were civil war rein-actors. The man in the > shadows of t= > he=20 > group was Klansman Beam. > > By 1990, the FBI had enough proof of a criminal conspiracy > involving weapons= > =20 > violations and bomb-making by members of the TLI that the agency > went forwar= > d=20 > with a formal criminal investigation into the group. > > Contained in an unclassified teletype from the FBI's San Antonio > office to t= > he director=20 > of the FBI, the transmittal includes the following information > involving the= > "Texas=20 > Light Infantry, AKA "The Order.'" > > Defining the group's membership as "=85 a white separatist- > survivalist group= > ," the FBI=20 > reported to the director the agency had completed an inspection of > a Texas r= > anch=20 > where some of the members had allegedly,set off pipe bombs. > > Additionally, the teletype said, "Due to specific threats to FBI > personnel,=20= > and subjects=20 > continued possessions of weapons and explosives, subjects are > considered arm= > ed=20 > and dangerous. Full investigation authorized July 17, 1990, > extended to expi= > re July=20 > 11, 1991." > > Two former members of the TLI told this newspaper in 1996 that they > fled Tex= > as as=20 > a result of pressure this investigation produced. Both men > (interviewed sepa= > rately)=20 > said they suspected Strassmeir was the government's source for the > informati= > on that=20 > caused them to abandon the group and leave the state. > > With Strassmeir ordered to leave the TLI by the harried remnants of > the TLI,= > in=20 > August of 1992 the Bundesweir officer with extensive training from > a German=20= > military=20 > academy was relocated to Elohim City by his American benefactors > Lyons and=20 > Hollaway. > > Lyons had lived at Elohim City during the Fort Smith sedition > trials. Hollaw= > ay had=20 > married one of the group's young girls. With their recommendations, > Strassme= > ir was=20 > quickly accepted at the Christian Identity compound. Soon > Strassmeir would=20 > persuade the faithful to sell their deer rifles and let him supply > them with= > cheap,=20 > Chinese- made assault weapons. > > An undercover operation conducted by a member of the Oklahoma TAC > team said=20 > Strassmeir quickly began supplying weapons and explosives to the > group. By 1= > 994=20 > the officer noted that Strassmeir was leading groups of skinheads > from aroun= > d the=20 > U.S. in paramilitary drills. > > Before his death, the group's leader, Robert Millar, said, "Andy > wanted to g= > et us into=20 > the illegal gun business." > > An informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms > (BATF), Carol H= > owe=20 > warned her superiors prior to the bombing that Strassmeir wanted to > bomb fed= > eral=20 > buildings. > > In an appeal for contributions, Lyons sent out the following > description of=20= > the events=20 > that led to Strassmeir's flight from justice. > > After blaming the McVeigh defense team and irresponsible members of > the medi= > a=20 > for stirring up trouble, Lyons wrote: "First, Strassmeir had to be > spirited=20= > out of the=20 > country before Jones and company could get their hands on him. > > "Also, there was the danger the FBI might take Jones seriously and > it would=20= > be much=20 > easier to defend Strassmeir from Germany than from the inside of a > federal f= > acility.=20 > This required a clandestine and circuitous route through Mexico, > Paris, Fran= > kfurt and=20 > Berlin, with numerous investigators, agents and process servers one- > step beh= > ind. > > "Next, Associate Director Dave Hollaway had to go with him; there > were numer= > ous=20 > obstacles which developed and had to be overcome; language > barriers,=20 > entanglements with four countries' border and immigration services, > security= > , etc. At=20 > one point the Kriminal Polizei and Bundes Grenschutzgruppen 9 > (GSG-9) were=20 > involved because of death threats against Strassmeir and his family > passed t= > o them=20 > through Interpol by the FBI. Hollaway thought the whole episode was > right ou= > t of=20 > =91Secret Agent Man,' a campy 1960s television spy series." > > FBI and SPLC connections > > There is growing evidence to suggest Hollaway's comparison was on > the mark.=20 > While the FBI says it put border guards on the Mexican border on > notice to p= > ick up=20 > Strassmeir if he tried to cross the border, FBI director Louis > Freeh had alr= > eady=20 > cleared the way for the German's escape. > > Contained in Jan. 4, 1996, teletype from Freeh, he told a select > group of ag= > ents that=20 > Strassmeir was living with Lyons in Black Mountain, N.C. and > preparing to le= > ave the=20 > U.S. through Mexico. > > Freeh did not order agents to pick Strassmeir up even though > documents obtai= > ned=20 > by this newspaper show the OKBOMB task force wanted Strassmeir > brought for=20 > questioning the bombing case. > > The Freeh teletype also discusses an allegedly close relationship > McVeigh ha= > d with=20 > a subject living at Elohim City, a person who, the teletype says, > spoke with= > McVeigh=20 > only two days before the bombing. > > That information, Freeh said, was from an informant who was working > for the=20 > Southern Poverty Law Center - a tax-exempt civil rights group co- > founded by=20= > Morris=20 > Dees. > > The Freeh document is heavily redacted and has become the focus of > a Freedom= > of=20 > Information suit in Utah. A judge there has ordered the FBI to > supply the pl= > aintiff, Salt=20 > Lake City lawyer Jesse Trentadue, an un-redacted copy of the memo > along with= > =20 > hundreds of other documents Trentadue is seeking. > > The FBI says it wants a stay of the order so the agency can appeal. > > The FBI connection > > If Lyons' and Hollaway's actions to spirit Strassmeir from the > country aren'= > t odd=20 > enough, then there is the strange reunion in Montana that occurred > shortly a= > fterward. > > Just a few months after Strassmeir fled, the FBI turned to Lyons > and Hollawa= > y to=20 > help the agency with the so-called Freeman standoff in Montana. > > Incredibly, the FBI sought out the pair to act as negotiators in a > nationall= > y publicized=20 > standoff between the government and a Montana Freeman sect. The > bureau hoped= > =20 > to avoid a repeat of the Waco, Texas, debacle at the Branch > Davidian compoun= > d=20 > that also began with a standoff. > > Indeed, it was Hollaway who was reported to be the negotiator the > FBI sent i= > n to get=20 > the Freeman=91s leader to order his men to surrender, ending the 81- > day sieg= > e without=20 > bloodshed. > > Afterward, Hollaway and FBI negotiator and Critical Incident > Response Group=20 > (CIRG) leader Robin Montgomery posed together at a local tavern for > a photo=20= > before=20 > leaving town.=20 > > =20 > > =A9 Copyright: All Rights Reserved. McCurtain Daily Gazette.~ ~ ~ ~ > ~ ~ ~=20 > Alamaine > Grand Forks, ND, US of A > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -------------------- > ~-->=20 > <FONT COLOR=3D"#000099">Fair play? Video games influencing > politics. 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