CIA Files Reveal Foreign Intrigue In Bombing Of Murrah Building
The relentless digging by Utah attorney Jesse Trentadue, which last year produced new evidence of the FBI’s role in the cover-up in Oklahoma City (OKC), has now led to the discovery of CIA documents further implicating government operatives in the planning and carrying out of the federal Murrah Building bombing in 1995. Even though U.S. District Court judge Clark Waddoups ruled against Trentadue’s motion to make public various documents that the government wanted kept secret for reasons of “national security,” the judge, at the same time, hinted at the criminality contained therein.
Trentadue has made many Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests over the years, and this is the first time the government has used the “national security” defense to deny the records to him. The March ruling in Salt Lake City was just one more in a long line of FOIA challenges made by Trentadue, who has been in a struggle for more than a decade to get government documents regarding the death of his brother Kenneth in the Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center. Kenneth was found beaten to death in his cell in August of 1995. Disregarding dozens of cuts and bruises on his body, literally from head to toe—even on the bottoms of his feet—officials ruled the death a “suicide.”
The judge’s ruling constituted the first documented involvement of the CIA in the handling of the investigation, either before or after the bombing that killed 168 persons.
“Does it mean there was foreign involvement in some manner in the bombing or the investigation?” the intrepid Utah lawyer was asked. “Without a doubt,” responded Trentadue...
