Things fall apart, the center cannot hold

Let no man deceive you with vain words.

Curious Terror Tidbits   

By J.R. Nyquist

Earlier today I was reading several unread downloads (sent to me) when I ran into a nameless fragment, titled "Russia and OKC." The author of this note offers a tantalizing theory about a connection between the Oklahoma City Bombing and Russia. Considering what Venezuelan Major Juan Diaz has revealed about connections between Latin American communists and al Qaeda, what follows may be another piece in a much larger puzzle.  

Go back to the year 1995. The Republicans have just taken Congress. Bill Clinton is on the ropes at the end of a scandal-ridden first term. "The Oklahoma City bombing ... did have a political result," argues the unnamed author of the download. In this event terrorism reversed the conservative "revolution" of 1995 "and gave Bill Clinton a second term of office." (This idea can also be found in Ambrose Evans-Prichard's book, The Secret Life of Bill Clinton. Prichard quotes Clinton as saying that the Oklahoma City bombing politically rescued his presidency.) 

The author of this note then quotes from page 346 of Anatoliy Golitsyn's prophetic 1984 book, New Lies for Old: 

The scissors strategy would give way to the strategy of 'one clenched fist.' At that point the shift in the political and military balance would be plain for all to see. Convergence would not be between two equal parties, but would be on terms dictated by the communist bloc. The argument for accommodation with the overwhelming strength of communism would be virtually unanswerable. Pressures would build up for changes in the American political and economic system on the lines indicated in Sakharov's treatise. Traditional conservatives would be isolated and driven toward extremism. They might become the victims of a new McCarthyism of the left. [Underlining added.]

Was the Oklahoma City bombing used to discredit "patriotic thinkers"? The unnamed author explains the logic of the exploitation as follows: "Patriots were survivalists that toted semiautomatic rifles and thus were dangerous, were racist in essence...." He then argues: "Those with a sense of national defense like myself, a one-time military officer, tended to wonder if the Democratic Party and the Clinton Administration in particular had begun to embrace communism."

The communist connections to Bill Clinton are many, and sometimes quite obvious. The peace movement that Clinton supported in the late 1960s was a communist front operation. His trip to Moscow and to Prague in the winter of 1969-70 was significant. His strident and ambitious wife, Hillary, passed through a communist milieu during the early period of her career. Given the untrustworthy political background of these people, how could they have found political acceptance in the United States? How could Bill Clinton have been elected president? The mysterious author of the download offers a very apt explanation: "As I once remarked to a friend," he explained, "'I haven't changed much since 1960. I don't even have violent inclinations. Where did everyone go? It looks like the masses took a hard left turn somewhere back there!'"

A great change has taken place. No doubt there has been a leftward slip, but only in part. One must not forget hedonism, apathy and ignorance. The slogan here is: "I'm having fun, I don't care and I don't want to know." This has left the field open to a small but elite army of communists and fellow travelers who coordinate with foreign powers. In political warfare numbers are not what organizes and leads the fight. An intelligently directed few, disciplined and strategically guided can have an impact all out of proportion to their numbers. This dovetails with the Leninist ideal of the professional revolutionary cadre leading a conspiratorial organization to overthrow "the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie." 

What tactics would this party use to extend its influence and prune back conservative or counterrevolutionary influences? Any high-profile event that features "patriotic" persons as fascists or racists would have great propaganda value. 

The unnamed author wonders if there might have been Russian involvement behind the Oklahoma City bombing. "Thinking there wasn't any," he explains in the download, "I got a shock. On reading through Charles Keys' Final Report from his ill-fated independent investigation, on pp. 288-289, I was surprised to find an account which has the tone of the above quotation from Golitsyn: 

b. Mexican-Russian-PLO Plot Detailed

Michelle Torres, the daughter of a former Communist Party official, Hirram Torres, in Mexico City, had been raised to assume a position in the Communist Party; but, at age 17, she rejected her upbringing and fled to the United States. In her recounting of events, Torres stated that, in the winter of 1992, she overheard her father and others discussing a bombing plot against the United States. She believes this plot culminated in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

At the time, her father was working in the office of the PLO in Mexico City. He was speaking with two Arab men, one from Palestine and another from either Jordan or Iraq. Her father asked them what they thought of the new plan, and one of the men said that a Russian officer suggested that they blame American white supremacists and the neo-Nazis. By blaming Americans, they would appease both the Arabs and the Communists. According to Torres, her father told his visitors that he had tried to contact some neo-Nazis to help him, but they refused to do so. He said that they did not want to get involved with Communists, but he was going to blame them anyway by hiring some 'white guy' to act as a neo-Nazi to help his Arab accomplices.

In reaction to this snippet from Key's report, the anonymous writer comments: "If this is true, it is evidence to support Golitsyn’s warning that attempts will be made to alienate and demonize conservatives. And if it is true, a Soviet agent planted the idea. If they originated the scheme, they have to be the manipulators [behind the scenes]."

Andreas Strassmeir was a German intelligence officer involved on the neo-Nazi side of Tim McVeigh's little world. He was reportedly seen with McVeigh on several occasions. He was also sensitively connected to politically prominent Germans. The unnamed author writes of Strassmeir: 

He is notable for being in charge of security at Elohim City Oklahoma, a rag-tag settlement of white separatists [linked to McVeigh]. His connection to perestroika is simply that his father, Guenter Strassmeir, was Helmut Kohl’s Parliamentary Chief of Staff, best known as the architect of the East/West German reunification plan! This is incredible. The father brings the old Germany back together – one of the things Golitsyn expected to see – while his son cavorts with skinheads in extreme eastern Oklahoma, perhaps as an agent of influence. Carol Howe (the ATF snoop at Elohim City) testified that she was with Strassmeir when the Murrah building was cased! The elder Strassmeir was an escapee from East Germany during the cold war, and in West Germany he rose to a powerful position in the government. 

None of this proves anything, of course. But it is suggestive and tantalizing. It even deserves a follow-up. To date I have found nothing further on Michelle Torres. If anyone knows where she is, please e-mail me, JRNyquist@aol.com. Former communists are full of interesting details. Ms. Torres should prove no exception. 

The unnamed author of the download fragment offers yet further, personal testimony on the nature of America's security problem.

I was in an Air Force Officer ... [program named blanked out to protect author] during the mid-‘90s, when a Russian scientist hosted by the Office of Naval Research came to one of our technical meetings with the status of 'evaluator.' In other words, the Russian had input into what would or would not be funded in the future! One Air Force Major remarked at a private meeting afterwards: 'Did anyone notice the Russian?” (Followed by toothy grins and sniggers from all of us.)  He said, 'I don’t get it. A year ago the Air Force would have had a fit about something like this.' To that a full Colonel quipped, 'Yeah, I don’t like it either, but we don’t have any choice. This was decided at the DOD level (because Navy was involved).' 

About three years later I witnessed near total lack of security on an Air Force Base. The gate guard was more interested in knowing if the car being driven into the base was liability insured or not, not who we were. I literally let myself into a fenced compound that used to be secured, walked by a table where there used to be a CQ with a sign in/out book and headed to the conference room. Like the pizza commercial, we '…just waltzed in there,' and the young scientist I had with me was speechless.  Later I witnessed a Russian going into a test cell that was once classified, with his own set of keys.  

I cannot count the number of stories, like this one, that I've heard in recent years. If we had competent strategic leadership on the intelligence side (because intelligence must be strategic in its oversight, and not merely passive in its collection), there would be more room for optimism. But the fact is, we have suffered one strategic defeat after another in the secret war because we have accepted enemy claims, enemy propaganda -- new lies for old.  

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