Welcome to the sixth and final installment in my series revolving around the notorious Christian Identity compound
Elohim City, the broader
Christian Identity movement that spawned it in the extensive ties both had to the
Oklahoma City bombing. In order to understand the deep politics surrounding these things I have employed former
Students for a Democratic Society president Carl
Oglesby's concept of the Yankee/Cowboy war within America's cryptocracy.
Roughly speaking the Yankee/Cowboy war has its origins in a post-World
War II split in the American power elite, facilitated In no small part
by the emergence of "new money" from the southern and western states.
The Yankee faction (which comprises
Carroll Quigley's
Round Table group, the
Rhodes Scholars, the
Council on Foreign Relations, the
Trilateral Commission,
and numerous other favorites of the conspiratorial right) had dominated
the American power structure since the end of the Civil War until the
LBJ administration. It is largely centered around the Northeast and is chiefly concerned with banking and trade.
The Cowboy faction is more diverse economically but has always been roughly centered around the
military-industrial complex. Defense
and other closely associated industries such as aerospace and
technology that benefit tremendously from defense contracts have
comprised the backbone of the Cowboy faction since its emergence.
Indeed, one could argue that the Cowboy faction was largely an
unintended consequence of the astronomical amount of defense spending
the federal government embarked upon beginning with World War II and
continuing on with the Cold War.
"...the economic impact... nowhere greater than in the Southern Rim.
This is a region that was transformed, and brought into modernity, by
World War II, when the defense establishment moved in to take advantage
of its benign climate, vast open spaces, extensive and for the most part
protected coastline, abundant and cheap labor, and nascent shipping and
aircraft industries, altogether pumping in an estimated 60 percent of
its $74 billion wartime expenditures into these fifteen states. And as
the defense installations and contractors continued to grow with growing
defense budgets even after the war --$13 billion in 1950, $50 billion
in 1960 --they continued to build up the substructure of the whole
economy, in practically every state from North Carolina to California.
Indeed, if anyone industry can be said to be the backbone of the
Southern Rim, it is defense."
(Power Shift, Kirkpatrick Sale, pgs. 24-25)
Thus, very loosely speaking, the Yankee/Cowboy war can be seen as a conflict between the
international banking
elite and the American military-industrial complex. Of course there
are any number of sub-factions and overlap between these two groups --
there are Yankee arms barons and Cowboy bankers; old-moneyed Yankee
banking dynasties who have thrown in with the Cowboys and Cowboy
turncoats that have served the interests of the Eastern
internationalists.
Nor is this to imply that the Yankees are not imperialistic. It's just
that the Yankees prefer to achieve their imperial objectives via covert
operations, economic terrorism and psychological warfare (among other
things) managed by various branches of the
US intelligence community
such as the CIA and NSA. Above all things they like to keep conflicts
small so as to maintain a certain amount of global stability, which is
essential to their overriding objective:
international trade.
The Cowboy faction by contrast revels in conflict -- the bigger the war
the bigger the government contracts. It is no coincidence that the
largest American military buildups since World War II (
Vietnam and
Afghanistan/
Iraq II) have both occurred under the Cowboy-dominated presidencies of LBJ,
Nixon and
Bush II. For more on this topic the reader is advised to consult parts
four and
five of the series.
In the
third
part of this series I argued that parties based out of Elohim City and
active in the broader Christian Identity movement were chiefly
responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing. From there I argued that the
Christian Identity movement and the sitting president at the time of the
attack, one
William Jefferson Clinton, were of opposing factions in the Yankee/Cowboy conflict. The Christian Identity movement and more broader
Patriot movement
(both of which used to fall under the banner of "radical right") have
long been associated with the Cowboy faction, which I extensively
documented in part five. Clinton, by contrast, seems clearly to be a
creature of the Eastern Establishment despite his southern pedigree. He
was a Rhodes Scholar who even cited semi-official Yankee historian
Carroll Quigley as a significant influence upon his life and who had
married a woman (who he met while they were both attending Yale Law
School no less) who had cut her political teeth working for
Nelson Rockefeller.
These things and other topics discussed in prior installments are what
led me to believe that neither Clinton nor the Yankee establishment
were the ones behind the Oklahoma City bombing, a stance I know that is
in stark contrast to the bulk of other conspiracy theorists who have
considered this topic. To my mind, the strongest indication that
Clinton was not involved in the plot was his response (or lack
therefore of) to the bombing. While Clinton did severely crack down on
the militia movement and other fringe right groups his overall response
was rather toothless, in stark contrast to how the Bush II regime dealt
with
9/11. For
most Americans life more or less went on as it always had in the wake
of Oklahoma City while 9/11 had immediate real-world fallouts:
Everything from the
Afghanistan
(which began less than a month after the 9/11 attacks) and Iraq Wars
to the degrading TSA checks at our nation's airports. The
Patriot Act
was signed into law on October 26, 2001, just slightly over month after
the September 11 terror attacks. By contrast, the chief piece of
antiterrorism legislation that came out of the Oklahoma City bombing,
the
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996,
was not signed into law until just over a year after the events of
4/19/95 and was nowhere near the power play that the later Patriot Act
was.
Beyond this, the nationwide shift to the right that had begun in earnest in 1994 (addressed in much greater depth in part
four)
continued largely unabated in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing,
with Clinton himself following suit. All of this seems to indicate one
of two possibilities: that either Clinton was grossly incompetent
(highly unlikely considering his political nine lives) or that he was
not prepared for the
Murrah Federal Building
to be destroyed on that fateful day. This is not to suggest that
Clinton was not aware that the attacks were planned --Indeed,
circumstantial evidence seems to suggest the Clinton or someone within
the federal government had foreknowledge of the attacks. For instance,
consider the alleged actions of the
BATF (who had an office in the Murrah Federal Building) on the day of the bombing:
"Several witnesses claim that ATF employees were advised to stay home on
that fateful Wednesday morning. While ATF denies such accounts, the
grim fact remains that there were no ATF employees among the 168
dead."
(Conspiracies and Secret Societies, Brad and Sherry Steiger, pg. 354)
There were also reports that the FBI was aware of a potential plot as well.
"Nurse Toni Garrett recalled talking to several people who said there
had been bomb threats two weeks prior to the bombing. 'The FBI and the
ATF knew that these bomb threats were real, and they did nothing about
it.'
"Terrorism expert Dr. Randall Heather confirm these reports, adding, 'I
know that there had been a threat phoned into the FBI last week, but I
don't know what the nature of that was.'
"According to the Oklahoma City fire department, the FBI phoned in a warning on April 14, almost a week before the bombing...
"When asked during a press conference if the FBI had received a warning,
FBI SAC Bob Ricks said, 'The FBI in Oklahoma City had not received any
threats to indicate that a bomb was about to take place.'"
(The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, David Hoffman, pg. 33)
Such an assertion is highly debatable, to say the least. But for reasons
noted above and throughout this series, it seems highly unlikely that
the Clinton faction within the federal government was behind the
attacks. If anything, the evidence seems to indicate that they were
double-crossed. Andreas Strassmeir, a German national who was Elohim
City's chief of security at the time of the attacks and a man often
fingered as one of the principal architects of the Oklahoma City
bombing, subtly confirmed this in his infamous interview with British
journalist
Ambrose Evans- Pritchard for the
Sunday Telegraph,
stating:
"The ATF had an informant inside this operation. They had advance warning and
they bungled it. What they should have done is make an arrest while the bomb was still being made
instead of waiting till the last moment for a publicity stunt."
Such "publicity stunts" have become all too common since the
War on Terror officially began in the wake of 9/11, a topic of which I've written more on before
here. What's more, both the ATF and the FBI had recently been under fire for their handling of the
Ruby Ridge standoff and the
Waco siege. It
goes without saying that a high profile terror bust would've helped
their respective public relations departments immensely in reforming
their images. Given how smoothly these operations typically go for the
FBI, and the immense experience it has in such things, it seems most
probable that someone at an operational level double-crossed them (or
that they or the BATF were ordered to stand down). David Hoffman, whose
The Oklaholma City Bombing and the Poltics of Terror is easily the most thorough account of the bombing, believed that a double-cross was a strong possibility.
"Somewhere along the line in Oklahoma City, the FBI and ATF lost
control of the situation, and the bombers were able to make their move.
As in the World Trade Center case, someone had infiltrated the operation
in Oklahoma had substituted a real bomb for a phony one, or had
placed a redundant timer on the bomb, or simply provided false
information to the agents in charge, preventing them from stopping the
attack."
(The Oklaholma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, David Hoffman, pg. 353)
This, combined with the fact that the Christian Identity movement that
had spawned Elohim City had long been associated with the Cowboy
faction, seems to strongly indicate that Clinton and his Yankee backers
were caught unaware on the morning of April 19, 1995. Thus, the
temptation is to argue that the Oklahoma City bombing was a Cowboy move
against a Yankee presidency. But, as I noted in part
five,
there is not an overly compelling reason for the Cowboy faction to
move against the Yankees in such a fashion. After all, their politicall
cronies were already in the midst of a comeback thanks to the 1994 "
Republican Revolution"
that had already effectively both neutralized the Clinton presidency in
addition to moving it rightward. Though the Cowboys were almost
certainly involved in the Oklahoma City bombing, likely even giving
tactical approval to it, these things would seem to indicate that
another faction ultimately ordered the attack.
And that faction was almost certainly German, possibly with ties to the
Nazi party itself. Consider the following points that have already been
made over the course of this series:
Item: As noted in part
five,
the Christian Identity movement had its origins in various fascist
groups from the 1930s, most notably those associated with Father
Charles Coughlin and most especially with
William Dudley Pelley's Silver Shirts organization (which produced such leading Identity figures as
Wesley Swift and
Richard Butler).
Pelley was in turn on the payroll of German agents working to
infiltrate the United States, eventually being convicted of charges
relating to treason and serving nearly a decade in prison.
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| Pelley and his Silver Shirts |
Item: It has long been alleged that the Christian Identity
movement maintained ties with "former" Nazis and their fellow travelers
in the post-war Fascist International. For instance, there were reports
that the
Silent Brotherhood
(a 1980s Christian Identity paramilitary outfits involved in a series
of bank robberies and other unsavory activities and closely associated
with Butler's
Aryan Nations compound) received funding from wealthy "German families" based out of the
Southern Cone
region of South America (a popular destination for former Nazis and
their fellow travelers in the wake of World War II), as noted in part
one of this series.
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| the Silent Brotherhood banner |
Item: Andreas Strassmeir, Elohim City's chief of security at
the time of the Oklahoma City bombing and a man fingered by many as one
of the chief architects of said bombing, was a German national who had
served as a lieutenant in the German
Panzer Grenadiers
and who had had formal military intelligence training. What's more,
Strassmeir was from a highly politically connected family and whose
grandfather had incidentally (or not) been an early member of the Nazi
party. Many more details on Strassmeir, his time at Elohim City and his
role in the Oklaholma City bombing can be found in parts
two and
three of this series.
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| Strassmeir |
Item: Dennis Mahon, a sometime resident of Elohim City who is
said to have plotted the Oklahoma City bombing with Strassmeir (as
discussedin part three), and traveled extensively in the European
neo-Nazi underground during the early 90s where he had made some
interesting contacts.
"In September 1991, Dennis Mahon, chief of the White Knights of the KKK
in Tulsa, Oklahoma, embarked upon a nine-day, twenty-five-city tour of
reunified Germany...
"The crowning moment of Mahon's propaganda tour was a cross-burning
ceremony in a dusky forest clearing near Berlin. Flanked by Nazi, Ku
Klux Klan, and Confederate flags, sixty white-robed German youths
attended the ritual. 'Forward for the Aryan race!' a Klan supporter
shouted to a cheering audience as a ten-foot cross burst into flames.
Wearing a green silk gown and hood, Mahon punctuated a brief speech with
a boisterous 'Sieg Heil!..'
"Mahon's main contact in Germany was the Nationalistische Front
(Nationalist Front), a neo-Nazi group that sponsored the cross-burning
ceremony outside Berlin. Bernd Schmitt, the fascist martial-arts
instructor in Solingen who two-timed as a government spy, was an
important member of the Nationalist Front. In addition to directing
'battle games' at a Front conference in August 1992, he provided
protection for visiting dignitaries who made the rounds of the German
neo-Nazi circuit."
(The Beast Reawkens, Martin A. Lee, pgs. 335-336)
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| Mahon |
Bernd Schmitt had some interesting contacts as well.
"Schmitt was a person of some consequence in unified Germany's neo-Nazi
underground. Well-connected to several ultranationalist groups, he
counted among his allies Bela Ewald Althans and other ultra-right-wing
leaders. Schmitt's martial-art school supplied 'security personnel' to
guard meetings with visitors such as Ernst Zundel, Althans's
Toronto-based sugar daddy, lectured in Germany. Schmitt also maintained
ties with a handful Third Reich veterans, including Major General Otto
Ernst Remer, who was registered as an 'associate member' of the Hak Pao
sports club.
"Fifty years old at the time of the Solingen bombing, Schmitt had
chalked up seventeen criminal convictions (some for violent assaults)
during a checkered neo-Nazi career that dated back to the late 1960s. In
an effort to stay out of jail, Schmitt began supplying data on the
neo-Nazi scene to the Verfassungsschutz, the German equivalent of the
FBI. One of his many task was to keep his secret service handlers
abreast of what the Brown brats were going in Solingen. Over the years
he carried out intelligence chores for the neo-Nazis as well as for the
secret service, which shared a common enemy --the radical Left. Schmitt
filmed antifascist demonstrations and distributed photos of left-wing
activist, which had been supplied by his secret-service contacts."
(ibid, pgs. 333-334)
Thus, two men who potentially played a significant role in the Oklahoma
City bombing have possible ties to German intelligence. It's also
possible that both men (Strassmeir due to his family's ties to the Nazi
party, Mahon via Schmitt's Nazi contacts) were in contact with the
postwar Fascist International. All of these things make the long alleged
involvement of an Islamic terror network in the Oklahoma City bombing
especially intriguing as compelling evidence has emerged in recent years
indicating that much of the modern Islamic terrorist movement had
ties to the Nazis and their fellow travelers, before, during and after
World War II.
"The connection between Muslim fanatics and Nazis, according to John
Loftus, began with Muslim brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, who
formed a group of Egyptian youth dedicated to social reform and Islamic
morals. He was a devotee of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, the
eighteenth-century Muslim who founded the Wahhabi sect that teaches that
any additions or interpretations of Islam after the tenth century are
false and should be eradicated, even by violence.
"'In the 1920s there was a young Egyptian named al-Banna. And al-Banna
formed this nationalist group called the Muslim Brotherhood. Al-Banna
was a devout admirer of Adolf Hitler and wrote to him frequently. So
persistent was his admiration of the new Nazi party that in the 1930s,
al-Banna and the Muslim Brotherhood became a secret arm of Nazi
intelligence,' said Loftus, who had unprecedented access to secret U.S.
government and NATO intelligence files...
"After World War II, the Muslim Brotherhood and its German intelligence
handlers were sought for war crimes, as they were not considered regular
military units. Following arrests in Cairo, captured Brotherhood
members were turned over to the British Secret Service, who hired them
to fight against the infant state of Israel in 1948...
"In 1979 the CIA drew fanatics from the Saudi Brotherhood members and
sent them to Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Russians. 'We had to rename
them,' said Loftus. 'We couldn't call them the Muslim Brotherhood,
because that was too sensitive a name. Its Nazi cast was too known. So
we called them the Maktab al Khidimat, the MAK... we left this army of
Arab fascists in the field of Afghanistan.' Once out of Afghanistan, the
mujahedin became known as al-Qaeda, or the base. While many people
still think that the term 'base' refers to some central headquarters,
former British foreign secretary Robin Cook told the House of Commons
the term actually referred to a computer database containing the names
of Muslim activist, mujahedin, and others long used by the CIA."
(The Rise of the Fourth Reich, Jim Marrs, pgs. 207-208)
Some researchers, especially those affiliated with the neocons, believe that
Timothy McVeigh and
Terry Nichols were recruited into an Al Qaeda cell. Ties between McVeigh/Nichols and Iraqi intelligence have also been documented as well.
"The leading Iraqi suspects in helping McVeigh in Oklahoma City and
Nichols in Kansas was Hussain al-Hussaini, who had been brought to the
U.S. by President George H.W. Bush with the knowledge and help of CIA
director James Wolseley...and his deputy Admiral William Studeman.
Witnesses later identified al-Hussaini as being escorted by a
well-dressed man named Khalid from Boston to Oklahoma City in November
1994. Other witnesses say that Khalid Mohammed, along with al-Qaeda
leader Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, and FBI/CIA informant Ali Mohammed, were
in Oklahoma City in 1995.
(Conspiracies and Secret Societies, Brad & Sherry Steiger, pgs. 352-353)
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| Hussain al-Hussaini |
Al-Hussaini and Khalid are not the only Iraqis suspected of being
involved in the Oklahoma City plot. Indeed, their presence has been
alleged to be quite considerable.
"Jayna Davis, an Oklahoma City television reporter, arrived at
the Murrah Building thirteen minutes after the bombing and has been
working on the case ever since. Davis discovered that six
thousand Iraqis sought political asylum after surrendering during the
first Gulf War. After being given asylum in the United States, the
Iraqis were not tracked. Some among them were false defectors whose
mission was to infiltrate the United States and form terrorist cells. Of
the six thousand defectors, eighty were in Oklahoma City by the time of
the bombing. Davis believes that eight of those eighty were fully
involved in the bombing plot, and she has fully documented the testimony
of twenty-two Arabs who witnessed that subversive activity."
(ibid, pg. 354)
The presence of so many Iraqis in the Oklahoma City plot is especially interesting in light of Germany's dealings with
Saddam Hussein in the years leading up to the
first Gulf War.
"With the full knowledge and cooperation of the federal government and
its BND spy apparatus, dozens of German companies were instrumental in
helping Saddam Hussein developed one of the worlds most diversified
unconventional-warfare arsenals. Several of West Germany's biggest firms
supplied equipment and expertise to set up entire plants for the
production of nuclear, chemical, and biological weaponry. Other
countries, including the United States, cashed in on the macabre bonanza
that created Iraq's high-tech death machine during the 1980s, but
Bonn's role far outstripped the international competition. In addition
to constructing Saddam's underground bunker and extending the range of
the Scud missiles to be able to hit Israel, German engineers concocted
new delivery systems for poison gas and dispensed advice on the most
efficient way to enrich uranium into weapons-grade fuel for a nuclear
bomb."
(The Beast Reawakens, Martin A. Lee, pg. 250)
Thus, we have a situation in which the two terror networks typically
fingered for the Oklahoma City bombing, the Christian Identity
paramilitary network and various Islamic factions (but especially those
linked to Saddam Hussein), had ties to Nazi Germany's intelligence
apparatus dating all the way back to the 1930s. In the postwar years
both groups likely stayed in close contact with Third Reich veterans
and their fellow travelers. Then, in the years leading up to the
Oklahoma City bombing, we have compelling circumstantial evidence
indicating that both groups were in contact with German intelligence.
Would it then be totally outlandish to suggest that Oklahoma City was a
plot of German intelligence, specifically of a Nazi faction within
German intelligence? While many will undoubtedly dismiss such notions,
the fact remains that a Nazi presence within Germany's intelligence
services in the post-World War II era is well documented. Specifically,
the Nazi presence was referred to as the
Gehlen organization (named after former
German Wehrmacht Major General
Reinhard Gehlen, the outfit's commander), and it would effectively run Germany's intelligence (as well as the US and
NATO
intelligence in Eastern Europe) for years after the war. When
considering the Org (as it was known as) conventional histories
typically portray Gehlen and his organization as either puppets of the
CIA or buffoons who were effortlessly manipulated by the
KGB
(it was later revealed that the Org was riddled with Eastern German
intelligence assets) but as the years roll along increasing evidence
emerges that the Org was neither a tool of the CIA nor the KGB, but in
fact was pursuing its own agenda.
"With Germany looming as a pivotal battleground of the Cold War, Gehlen
had a mandate from the Americans to revive his old Foreign Armies East
department -- or what was left of it -- as quickly as possible. Upon
returning to Germany in July 1946, he immediately pulled together the
makings of a sophisticated espionage apparatus known as 'the Org.'
Supported by regular subsidies from U.S. taxpayers and wealthy German
industrialist, he set up his base of operations inside a mysterious,
high-walled compound near Munich that had once housed the staff of
Rudolf Hess and Martin Bormann, Hitler's deputies. Gehlen's most urgent
task was to gather up-to-date information from the East. His American
sponsors were particularly hungry for details on troop movements and
other military matters in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany.
"Although Gehlen was ostensibly under U.S. Army supervision, the Org
quickly threw its doors wide open to the Gestapo, Wehrmacht, and SS
veterans, despite his solemn promise to U.S. officials that he would not
employ hard-core Nazis. Even the vilest of the vile -- the senior
bureaucrats who ran the central administrative apparatus of the
Holocaust -- were welcome in the Org...
"The growing dependence on Gehlen's network for data about Soviet forces
and armaments turned American spy agencies into sitting ducks for
disinformation. Much of what Gehlen passed along was tailored to whip up
fears about Russian military intentions. At one point, he succeeded in
convincing General Lucius Clay, the military governor of the U.S. zone
of occupation, that a major Soviet war mobilization was in progress in
Eastern Europe. This prompted Clay to dash off a secret telegram to
Washington in March 1948, warning that war 'may come with dramatic
suddenness.'
"Although it proved to be a false alarm, Gehlen continued to
dispense tainted information to his avid American patrons, who needed
little prodding to think the worst of Russian ambitions. By consistently
exaggerating the Soviet threat, the Nazi spymaster played a significant
role in exasperating tensions between the superpowers and fostering
paranoia in the West about a world Communist conspiracy. 'The Agency
loved Gehlen because he fed us what we wanted to hear,' a former CIA
officer admitted. 'We used his stuff constantly, and we fed it to
everybody else -- the Pentagon, the White House, the newspapers. They
loved it, too. But it was hyped up Russian bogeyman junk, and it did a
lot to damage this country.
"Was Gehlen merely improvising as his fabricated dire reports about Red
Army machinations? Or was this part of a conscious effort to bind U.S.
foreign policy to the Cold War for his own purposes? Gehlen's strategy
was based on a rudimentary equation -- the colder the Cold War got, the
more political space for Hitler's heirs to maneuver. He realized that
the Org could flourish only under Cold War conditions; as an institution
it was therefore committed to perpetuating the Soviet-American
conflict...
"Was Gehlen really on America's side, as Dulles glibly asserted?... It
seemed to work as long as Gehlen's objectives coincided with the CIA's,
but being on the U.S. payroll did not guarantee abiding loyalty. While
Gehlen sought to satisfy his sponsor's craving for details on their
mutual enemy, he also pursued another agenda, which entailed running
interference for the legions of war criminals who flocked to Org for
cover. By coopting the CIA's anti-Communist bias, Gehlen was able to
neutralize the immediate threat posed by U.S. intelligence, which
otherwise might have pursued a more rigorous denazification program.
"The CIA eventually found out that the Nazi good old-boy network nesting
inside the Org had a dangerous and unexpected twist to it. By
bankrolling Gehlen, the Agency had unknowingly laid itself open to
manipulation by a foreign intelligence service that was riddled with
Soviet spies. Although far more Nazis gravitated to the West, some went
over to the Soviets, who took advantage of every opportunity to
infiltrate the Gehlen network. Certain Third Reich veterans collaborated
with the Russians while also pawning secrets to the Americans, the
British, and the French, depending who offered more money."
(The Beast Reawakens, Martin A. Lee, pgs. 35-39)
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| Gehlen |
If indeed Soviet German spies remained loyal to the Fatherland, as
their Western counterparts seemingly had, this then could explain the
rapid speed with which a recently reunited Germany was able to fill the
power vacuum in Eastern Europe left by the former Soviet Union in the
wake of its collapse.
"... Soviet hard-liners launched an abortive putsch against Mikhail
Gorbachev and his government. Although the coup attempt proved to be a
fiasco, it served notice that the Soviet Union was terminally ill. By
the end of the year, Russian president Boris Yeltsin shoved Gorbachev
aside and declare the once-mighty USSR dead and gone. The precipitous
implosion of the Soviet Union into fifteen separate countries left a
huge power vacuum on the Continent -- a vacuum that a reunified Germany,
by virtue of its pivotal location and economic might, was poised to
fill. No longer confined to the perimeter of the Atlantic system,
Germany would once again become the arbiter of Mitteleuropa, a
geopolitical construct that lay dormant while the Federal Republic bode
its time as a frontline state during the Cold War. German hegemony
throughout the region, whether consciously pursued or otherwise,
appeared to be a fait accompli...
"Some U.S. intelligence experts felt that Germany was inherently
expansionist-minded, that it's destiny was rooted in a geography.
Reflecting this school of thought, a CIA analyst predicted that by the
end of the century Germany would not be able to resist the temptation to
break free of its Western moorings and embark upon another round of
Bismarckian adventures. In the past, Germany's Drang nach Osten
(drive to the east) entailed armed conquest. But the prevailing
sentiment among German nationalists early in the post-Soviet era was
that the deutsche mark would accomplished what the Wehrmacht had failed
to achieve...
"Because of the high cost of reunification, Germany invested
strategically, rather than profusely, in Eastern Europe, focusing on
crucial areas such as energy supplies, transportation,
telecommunications, and mass media. German economic gains translated
into greater political clout. A bossier manner was evident as Bonn
demanded a United Nations Security Council seat and insisted that German
be elevated to the status of an official language within the European
Community."
(ibid, pgs. 283-284)
All of these things --
reunification,
the push towards the east, and a distinctly rightward shift in
mainstream German politics (as discussed in more detail in part
four) seem to indicate that there were some type of coordinated plan by either the government of
Helmut Kohl
(who Chancellor of Germany from 1982 till 1998) or a faction within
said government that had prior knowledge of a pending Soviet collapse.
As indicated above, if some version of the Org was still active at this
time, then it certainly would've been well-positioned to know such
things. What's more, this would indicate that some type of second (or,
in the case of Andreas Strassmeir, third) generation Nazi faction
existed within Germany (and other major world nations).
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| Kohl |
Then there's the figure of Gunther Strassmeir, the father of Andreas,
who played a pivotal role in Kohl's government, a topic that was
discussed in much greater depth in part
two.
Suffice to say the senior Strassmeir was a major figure in Kohl's
government and was instrumental in the German reunification process.
And then, shortly after Germany is reunified and expanding aggressively
economically in Eastern Europe (and other parts of the world, as the
Iraq example indicates), Gunther's son is seemingly involved in a major
terror attack in the United States.
At this point we need to
step
back for a moment and consider how the Nazis fit into the whole
Yankee/Cowboy war perspective that we've be using throughout the
series.
Historians as diverse as
Anthony Sutton and
Edwin Black
have thoroughly documented that Yankee interests were major backers of
Hitler's rise to power and that many of them continued to support the
Nazi regime even as American soldiers were dying in Europe. After
Germany's defeat it was the Yankee-dominated
OSS (and later, the equally Yankee dominated CIA) that rushed to save countless Nazi and other fascist war criminals from the
Nuremberg trials
so that they can be put to good use in the Cold War. And it was the
Yankee-dominated government of the immediate postwar era that opted to
rebuild German industry (at great expense to the US taxpayer) so that
it could serve as a bulwark against the Soviet Union.
In many ways the Yankees and Nazis were natural allies. As discussed in part
four and to a lesser extent in part
five,
the Yankee faction was highly European-centric, seeing a close
relationship between the Old World and the United States as crucial in
maintaining American power. To this end, they were willing to do almost
anything to ensure Europe's revival, even allowing some of the worst
elements of the Nazi regime to survive the war and achieve positions of
power both inside Germany and internationally. Beyond this, many of
the Yankees were not unopposed to the ideology of fascism even if they
shied away from some of the grosser extremes of Nazism.
And yet the postwar Fascist International seems to have had a rather
cozy relationship with the Cowboy faction from very early in the postwar
era. There are several compelling explanations for this, most notably
in terms of ideology, but there was also a very practical economic
interest that both factions were immensely concerned with: Arms.
Several of the most well-known and notorious Third Reich refugees such as
Otto Skorzeny and
Klaus Barbie became major arms traffickers in the postwar years, frequently with the aid of the
BND (the German equivalent of the CIA, which was completely dominated by the Gehlen Organizatiion for years).
"Skorzeny became a major arms supplier for the Salazar regime in
Portugal. He worked for several firms, including the Virginia-becased
Interarms Co., run by former CIA agent Sam Cummings. Skorzeny was behind
the formation of Bonn-based Merex Co., which was closely linked with
the BND, Germany's postwar intelligence organization. Skorzeny's partner
in Merex was Gerhard Mertens, a former Wehrmacht officer and an advisor
to Nassar in the 1950s. Merex was a worldwide arms dealer. His
principal contact in South America was Klaus Barberie, who escaped to
Bolivia aided by the Vatican ratline, where he served as a security
advisor to the military regimes."
(The Nazi Hydra in America, Glen Yeadon & John Hawkins, pgs. 575-576)
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| Otto Skorzeny |
It wasn't just the Nazi underworld that were major players in the
international arms trade. The German overworld was also deeply involved
in the arms industry, to a staggering degree by the end of the Cold War.
By the early 1990s Germany emerged as the third-largest arms supplier
in the world, a position that it still maintains to this day. Indeed,
business has been booming for German arms manufacturers for much of the
past decade.
Spiegel reports:
"Germany is in third place among the world's biggest weapons suppliers,
behind only the big guns of Russia and the United States and in front of
France and Great Britain. Its arms are coveted around the world: tanks
from Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall; submarines from
ThyssenKrupp; fighter jets, helicopters and drones from EADS; missiles
and munitions from Diehl; rifles from Heckler & Koch; torpedoes from
Atlas Elektronik; and telescopic sights from Carl Zeiss.
"The United States military is generally only allowed to order armaments
from domestic suppliers. But even it makes an exception when it comes
to Germany: For their tanks, they order the smooth-bore guns made by
Rheinmetall because they are more precise than those developed in the
US.
"The international arms industry doesn't face crises; crises are its
business. In 2010, global arms expenditures rose to $1.63 trillion
(€1.14 trillion). This represents a growth of 56 percent over the last
decade, according to SIPRI. Indeed, almost one-tenth of all the money
generated by global weapons exports ends up in the pockets of the German
defense industry."
Such a development did not seem possible in the early 90s with the
collapse of the Soviet Union, but then the specter of terrorism began to
rear its ugly head --a specter that had been closely linked to the
Nazis both during and after the Second World War. Beyond that, the
dissolution of the Soviet Union led to a massive outbreak of civil wars
the world over, as hostilities that the Soviet regime had managed to
keep bottled up now came to a boil. And Germany was at the center of
it, fanning the flames. This was especially evident in the
Bosnian war that came about after the breakup of Yugoslavia.
"Whereas the United States and the rest of the European Community tried
to prevent the breakup of Yugoslavia, Bonn unilaterally recognize
Croatia as an independent nation at the end of 1991 and twisted arms to
get other countries to comply with its wishes. American officials
subsequently charged that Bonn was responsible for provoking the crisis
in Yugoslavia, which had existed as a single country since 1919, except
for the gruesome interlude when Hitler created a Croatian client state.
"Reunified Germany's preemptive diplomatic maneuver led to a major
escalation of the civil war in the Balkans, which took hundreds of
thousands of lives and displaced more than a million people. Bonn
exasperated the conflict by supplying Croatia with large quantities of
weapons. Between 1992 and 1994, Germany exported $320 million of
military hardware -- including MiG fighter jets, surface-to-air
missiles, and late-model tanks -- to Croatia, despite a United Nations
arms embargo forbidding such commerce. Convoys of up to fifteen
hundred military vehicles from former East Germany were discovered en
route to the Balkan farrago. Germany also trained Croatian pilots and
provided intelligence reports in an effort to vanquish their mutual
enemy."
(The Beast Reawakens, Martin A. Lee, pg. 299)
The United States, or at least the sitting Yankee regime, was not pleased with Germany's actions in the
Balkans,
or its growing aggression in general. Beyond this, the United States
had historically had good relations with Bosnian Serbs both during
World War II and the Cold War under
Tito's regime. Conversely, both the
Croats and
Bosnian Muslims had had
close ties to the Third Reich during the war with some of the most extreme members (such as
Ante Pavelic and
Hussam ad-Din Jarallah respectively) becoming major figures in the postwar Fascist International.
And yet the United States under Clinton would throw in with the Croats
and Bosniaks by 1995 when NATO would bring the war to a conclusion
decisively in their favor. This decision was made, incidentally, mere
months after the Oklahoma City bombing.
In a way, the Balkans can be seen as a preview of the widespread global
instability that has broken out across the world since 9/11. And while
this instability has produced unimaginable horrors for many the world
over it has been a boom for the international arms industry of which
both the Cowboy faction and Germany are major players in. With both of
these factions deeply involved in the Oklahoma City bombing I must
conclude that they worked in coordination to ensure that their vision of
the post-Cold War era prevailed over that of the Yankee international
traders. That Germany would so brazenly take part in a terror operation
on United States soil sent a distinct message: That a reunited Germany
had both the capability and the audacity become a major global player
once again.
The United States' involvement in the Bosnian conflict in the wake of
the Oklahoma City bombing seems to represent a concession by the Yankee
faction to the Cowboy/German Nazi faction. With this and all the other
events that played out in the 1990s, the stage was set for the rise of
the
neocons
and the global War on Terror that would soon follow --a war without
end, thus ensuring a never ending stream of defense contracts. With
this state of affairs the economic vitality of the Cowboy and
German/Nazi factions was secure for a generation.
Beyond this, it ensured that German imperial interests in Eastern Europe
had become a fait accompli, a prospect surrounded by some uncertainty
in the early 1990s.
"France was similarly tepid in support for the eastward expansion of
the European Union. Here the lead was taken largely by Germany, with
American support but without the same degree of US engagement as in the
case of NATO expansion. Even though in NATO France tended to argue that
the EU's expansion would provide a more suitable umbrella for the
former Communist states, as soon as Germany started pressing for the
more rapid enlargement of the EU to include Central Europe, France began
to raise technical concerns and also to demand that the EU pay equal
attention to Europe's exposed Mediterranean southern flank. (These
differences emerged as early as the November 1994 Franco German summit.)
French emphasis on the latter issue also had the effect of gaining
France the support of NATO's southern members, thereby maximizing
France's overall bargaining power. The cost was a widening gap in the
respective geopolitical visions of Europe held by France and Germany, a
gap only partially narrowed by France's belated endorsement in the
second half of 1996 of Poland's accession to both NATO and EU...
"Germany -- safely anchored in Europe and rendered harmless but secure
by the visible American military presence -- could now promote the
assimilation of the newly freed Central Europe into the European
structures. It would not be the old Mitteleuropa of German imperialism
but a more benign community of economic renewal stimulated by German
investment and trade, with Germany also acting as the sponsor of the
eventually formal inclusion of the new Mitteleuropa in both the European
Union and NATO. With the Franco-German alliance providing the vital
platform for the assertion of a more decisive regional role, Germany no
longer needed to be shy in asserting itself within an orbit of its
special interest.
(The Grand Chessboard, Zbigniew Brzezinski, pgs. 67-69)
The above is a rather startling revelation by notorious Yankee geopolitical strategist
Brzezinski. It
essentially acknowledges that by the mid-90s Eastern Europe had become
the chief concern of the United States as far as Eurasians affairs went,
much to the benefit of Germany. This effectively set the stage for the
incorporation of the bulk of Eastern Europe into the EU
(an event that occurred on May 1, 2004, a major holiday in Nazi
paganism no less) ensuring German hegemony over the whole of
Europe. It's interesting to note that both the Eastern European
expansion of the EU and the nucleus for NATO's
missile-defense system
(which is just now being implemented) both occurred under the
Cowboy-centric regime of George W. Bush. The NATO missile defense system
effectively ensured that German expansions into Eastern Europe over
the past two decades was now blanketed by a state-of-the-art weapon
system that effectively caged the Russian bear in Asia.
Thus, it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to state that Germany's
political fortunes seemed secure in the wake of the Oklahoma City
bombing. While the attack was not necessarily essential to the political
objectives of the Cowboy faction, which were already well underway, it
was crucial in ensuring that Germany would have a place at the table --
and a choice place, at that.
CODA:
Before leaving this topic I would be remiss if I did not point out the
remarkable similarities between the Christian Identity movement and
numerous theories (many of them originating from the conspiratorial
right) of an underground Satanic cult network involved in a host of
nefarious activities such as drug and sex trafficking, snuff films,
and potentially even terrorism. Many of the more popular theories
revolve around the so-called
Monarch Program but for my money
accounts of a cult sometimes referred to as the "Four-P Movement" or "the Children" (chronicled by researchers as diverse as
Ed Sanders, Maury Terry, David McGowan, and
Peter Levenda) are far more compelling.
"The Children" theory holds that various notorious serial killers such as
Charles Manson (of whom I've written on before
here and
here) and David "Son of Sam"
Berkowitz
were part of an underground cult network involved in the after
mentioned illegal activities as well as highly ritualistic killing
sprees (i.e. the Manson Family and Son of Sam killings) and possibly
even assassinations.
Henry Lee Lucas's alleged Hand of Death cult has also been linked to this outfit, as has
Adolfo Constanzo's Matamoros cult (a topic I've adressed
here,
here and
here) and even
Jim Jones' Peoples' Temple (of which I've written on
here and
here). This researcher has also considered the links between San Francisco's "
Zebra killings" and such groups (which can be found
here,
here,
here,
here and
here).
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| Manson (top), Berkowitz (middle) and Lucas (bottom) |
What first alerted me to the potential link between the Christian
Identity movement and this alleged cult was the strange and terrible
saga of bank robber and serial killer
Israel Keyes. Keyes
was involved in at least three murders (and suspected of committing
five or more others) and also confessed to a host of other offenses
including arson, burglary and bank robberies before allegedly committing
suicide on December 2, 2012 in an Anchorage, Alaska jail cell. He was
both raised in the Identity theology and associated with individuals
within the movement that were potentially involved in the Oklahoma City
bombing.
Slate reports:
"A confessed serial killer and bank robber who took his own life in an
Alaska jail cell on Sunday was exposed to the racist and anti-Semitic
beliefs of Christian Identity theology during his childhood in a rural corner of Washington state, Hatewatch has learned.
"Israel Keyes, 34, now linked to at least eight murders throughout the
United States in the past 11 years, was a childhood friend and neighbor
in Stevens County, Wash., of terrorists Chevie and Cheyne Kehoe — two racist brothers now serving lengthy prison sentences for murder and attempted murder.
"'The two families, the Keyeses and the Kehoes, were neighbors and
friends and lived about a half mile apart off Aladdin Road north of
Colville' in Stevens County, Wash., a source with direct knowledge of
the situation said. 'The kids in both families were home-schooled and
they sometimes attended a Christian Identity church called The Ark, just up the road from their homes, the source said.
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| Keyes |
Chevie Kehoe was
a sometime Elohim City resident who was convicted (in 1999) of
murdering gun dealer William Mueller and his family in 1996. Mueller
has long been alleged to have known something about Strassmeir,
something that potentially linked him to the Oklahoma City bombing.
"Tragically, Mueller, his wife, and their eight-year-old daughter,
Sarah, were found murdered on June 28, 1996. Their bodies were pulled
from the Illinois Bayou after a fisherman discovered a portion of a leg.
The family had been handcuffed, their heads covered with plastic bags
wrapped with duct tape. They were found in 20 feet of water, tied to a
heavy rock.
"Unaccounted for was $50,000 the Arkansas Gazette reported that the Muellers were believed to have received only days before they disappeared.
"...Michael Brescia, and his friend and roommate Andy Strassmeir met
Bill Mueller at a Fort Smith, Arkansas gun show earlier that year. As
reported in the McCurtain Gazette:
Mueller then told [Gene] Wergis that he remembered the two because he
believed they might be connected with his home's burglary -- for even
the ATF. Wergis also reported that Mueller showed him a spiral notebook
where the exhibitor had gone so far -- so great was his concern -- as to
write down the two men's names.
(The Oklaholma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, David Hoffman, pg. 112)
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| Chevie Kehoe |
Mueller's spiral notebook was never found.
To recap, this would link the Elohim City crowd to bank robberies, arms
trafficking, drug trafficking (these connections which were discussed
in much greater detail in part
three),
at least one significant act of domestic terrorism, and now a bona
fide serial killer operating on a national scale. This is very much akin
to how alleged cults such as the Four-P movement, the Children, and the
Hand of Death have been reputed to operate.
The Manson family is almost universally considered to be the first
significant manifestation of this cult. Researchers such as Ed Saunders
and Maury Terry have argued that Manson was under the control of the
Process Church of Final Judgment,
or some type of offshoot of it. The Process, a notorious
counterculture cult that emerged in the 1960s first in England and
shortly thereafter in the United States, is almost universally
considered to be the originator of this cult. But as more former Process
members have come forward to recount their time in the cult this
premise seems increasingly flimsy, though such a topic is far beyond the
scope of this article.
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| a Process temple |
For our purposes, what is interesting to point out is that William Potter Gale (co-founder of the
Posse Comitatus
and other right wing paramilitary groups in the 1960s in addition to
being an early Identity minister) was extremely active in California,
specifically the southern part, in the 1960s at the same time that
Charlie and the Family were active in LA. As was noted in part
five of the series, Gale was alleged to have been creating a "secret guerrilla" network of paramilitary forces.
While I've found absolutely nothing linking Gale to Manson and his
Family, it is interesting to note the remarkable similarity between the
theology Manson preached to his cult and that of the Identity movement,
both of which arguably having their origins in the Third Reich.
"... the Nazi ideologist of the Third Reich had reinterpreted the Bible
in such a way that the God of the Israelites was Satan. This has become
standard theology in such racist organizations in America as the
Christian Identity movement.
"Lucifer was the 'light-bringer,' and intent on delivering humanity from
the clutches of the evil Jehovah. This is also a Gnostic belief, as
demonstrated in the scriptures uncovered at Nag Hammadi in Egypt in
1945. In the system, the Serpent in the Garden of Eden was the true God,
who wanted to deliver the human race from the blind creator God, the
Demiurge who wanted Adam and Eve as his personal slaves. This deity is
equivalent to the H.P. Lovecraft creature, the 'blind idiot god of
chaos,' for it was he who created material forms with reckless abandon
and who -- in his blindness -- believed he was the superior being and
demanded that Adam and Eve worship only him. According to Gnostic
legend, this being --Samael -- was then chastised by the other gods for
his vanity in assuming the mantle of Supreme God...
"...This form of Gnosticism also influenced Charles Manson, and he began
to identify himself with Abraxas, a famous Gnostic deity whose
numerological equivalent is 365, the same as the number of days in the
year and thus representative of time itself. With the Nazis, the
neo-Nazis, and the Christian Identity movement in the United States,
Europe, and Latin America, we are experiencing a strange resurrection of
first and second century Gnosticism: Gnosticism with a vengeance."
(Sinister Forces Book II, Peter Levenda, pg. 175)
Levenda also compellingly argues that Jim Jones incorporated this type
of ideology into his supposedly Marxist Peoples Temple (a church mainly
comprised of African-American followers that was nonetheless dominated
by an overwhelmingly white ruling council).
"... Jones gradually abandoned any pretense at standard Biblical
terminology or theology. Jones began to speak of revolution, and of
Jesus as a socialist. He began to gradually mock and vilify the God of
the Jews, the 'Sky God' as he called him, and to identify Jehovah with
Satanic forces bent on the destruction of humanity. It was pure
neo-Nazism, except it was so consulted that most of his followers would
never have recognized it for what it was."
(ibid, pg. 175)
As noted in part
five
of this series, Jones and his Peoples Temple got their start in
Indianapolis in the early 1960s. William Dudley Pelley, the founder of
the Silver Shirts and one of the earliest proponents of Christian
Identity theology, lived in
Noblesville, Indiana
(a town a few miles north of Indianapolis) from the 1940s until his
death in 1965. Again, I've found no evidence whatsoever that either was
aware of the other but given the metaphysical inclinations of both it
would hardly be shocking if if they were aware of, and even possibly
had contact with, one another.
During his time in San Francisco Jones and the Peoples Temple would forge ties with the
Nation of Islam. The Nation, a black separatist cult with a theology not unlike the race-based
Gnosticism
of some of the groups discussed above, would also forge ties with
various Christian Identity adherence over the years. The San Francisco
branch of the Nation was involved in the notorious Zebra killings in the
early 1970s in which rogue members targeted Caucasians throughout the
Bay Area.
And it is here that I shall finally wrap things up. The above is a very
rough outline of possible links between the Christian Identity movement
and the long rumored cult underground of numerous conspiracy theorists
that I felt warranted being mentioned in light of recent trends. The
Identity network is still active as the figure of Israel Keyes makes
clear. But beyond that Keyes shows that this network is capable of a
whole host of evils, some of which are only now being revealed, but are
in line with long alleged activities of the Four P Movement/Children.
With the nation now seemingly in the firmest Yankee domination that it
has experienced since the early 1990s, and the Cowboy-backed
Tea Party movement
failing to spur another Republican Revolution in recent elections, the
Identity movement may once again be coming to the forefront, but on a
scale one could not imagine during the feel-good Clinton years. With the
resurgence of both
paramilitary groups and
white supremacists in recent years the possibilities are infinite.
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Clearly these are some pretty major contradictions. Perhaps we can gleam some insight by considering another contradiction. 
