Word: strassmeir
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According to one of Jones' more insubstantial theories, the Oklahoma bombing may have been a government sting operation that got wildly out of hand. Strassmeir, he hypothesizes, may have been an FBI informant who attempted to entrap McVeigh in a phony bombing scheme, only to see his intended victim carry the plan to its conclusion. Two weeks before the bombing, McVeigh placed a call to Elohim City, and Jones believes that McVeigh was trying to reach Strassmeir. McVeigh isn't saying whom he was calling. Strassmeir says in any case no one told him about the call or summoned...
...Strassmeir left the U.S. in December, after being approached by one of Jones' investigators, and surfaced later in Berlin. Reached there by phone last week, he denied any role in the bombing. He acknowledged that three years ago he bought some secondhand clothes from McVeigh at a Tulsa gun show and "probably" gave him an Elohim City business card. Otherwise, Strassmeir insists, they have not been in touch. "The only connection between me and McVeigh," he says, "is that I bought an old pair of pants from...
...that the cement of a conspiracy case? Well, says Jones, Strassmeir also knows Dennis Mahon, late of the Ku Klux Klan, now a leader of the White Aryan Resistance. Mahon sometimes spent weekends at Elohim City in a trailer he kept there, and Strassmeir sometimes stayed at Mahon's home in Tulsa. Jones says he has turned over to the prosecution statements that Mahon has made "to people assisting the defense" in which Mahon linked himself to the bombing. What were those statements? Jones won't say, claiming that as potential trial evidence they must remain confidential. Jones also says...
Mahon denies any direct role in the bombing. He does admit knowing Strassmeir but rejects any suggestion that his German friend was a government informant. "When you get drunk with a guy over a period of days, you get to know him," says Mahon. "Andi never pried into my activities; we just sat around talking about how much we hate the government...
That aside, Jones still complains that neither of his chief targets, Strassmeir and Mahon, has been interviewed by the FBI. (Mahon says his lawyer has talked to the FBI, and Strassmeir has volunteered a 13-page statement to German police.) "My point," Jones says emphatically, "is that the investigation is incomplete...