30 Years Have Passed: Why Don’t We Know the Full Truth about OKBOMB?

This mystery perhaps belongs in my Unwanted Truths series, but let’s hope that discussing the Oklahoma City bombing frankly now will jog long-foggy memories

This weekend marked the 30^th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in American history. That terrible day, Apr. 19, 1995, witnessed the destruction of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building by a large truck bomb, a blast which killed 168 innocents, 19 of them children, and injured hundreds more.

It didn’t take long for the two leading culprits, the white nationalist ne’er-do-wells Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, to wind up in custody, and there was never serious doubt about their guilt. McVeigh sought martyrdom for his kook-Right cause and was executed in 2001. Nichols has never talked much about his role in the OKBOMB plot, as the FBI termed it, and he’s fated to die in Federal prison one of these days (he’s currently 70 years old and ineligible for parole).

Yet, there have always been troubling indications that the bombing involved more than McVeigh and Nichols. The participation of “others unknown” remains a nagging question that nobody in Washington, DC, was ever very eager to unravel. The same can be said about the serious possibility of foreign involvement in OKBOMB. I’ve long had an interest in the obscure aspects of the Oklahoma City bombing – first on the job with the Intelligence Community, then as a “hobby file” of mine. I shared my thoughts on this over a decade ago. I’ll re-run that piece, in toto, as a jump-off for an OKBOMB update on the 30^th anniversary.