I’m sure the FBI and CIA have made many controversial offers to individuals, both foreign and domestic over the years to gain their cooperation. Nothing would surprise me. So as Democrats would say: “It doesn’t matter about the evidence...it’s the seriousness of the charges that count.”
I’m sure you’re correct.
I have always wondered about Timothy McVeigh with the Oklahoma bombing. What his “it’ll all be ok” demeanor said to me was that maybe he had a deal with the US govt (CIA, FBI, whoever) where he thought he was going to APPEAR to take the fall, but that they would actually fake his death sentence and reward him for his cooperation. I’m betting that if that was the case, his death was not faked.
At any rate, there were many, many fishy things about the OK bombing that did not add up.