Elohim City is a 240 acre compound near Muldrow, Oklahoma, consisting of
between 25 and 30 families. D.E. 2482 at 19. Elohim City is listed in the
publication Terrorist & Extremist Organizations In The United States at 109.
According to this publication, Elohim City preaches white supremacy,
polygamy and the overthrow of the government. Elohim City is also closely
aligned with the extremist The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord
(CSA) and has been known to store weapons for that group. D.E. 2482 at 19.
The spiritual leader at Elohim City is the Reverend Robert Millar. Elohim
City had a close association with the Christian Identity Movement and The
Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord which had its own grievance
against the United States government. See D.E. 2191 at 33. The federal
government conducted a raid on the CSA on April 19, 1985—exactly ten years
to the day prior to the Oklahoma City bombing. See Id. at 33-34; D.E. 2840
(Pretrial Conference: Volume m—Sealed, January 1997 at 181). Members of the
CSA now reside at Elohim City.
One of the members of CSA turned on the organization and testified at the
trial of Richard Snell in Arkansas. Snell was on trial with others on
charges of sedition—that they conspired to destroy the Murrah Building in
Oklahoma City with a rocket launcher in the early 1980s. Id. Snell was
convicted on unrelated capital charges, sentenced to death in Arkansas, and
was executed on the very day of the bombing in Oklahoma City—April 19,
1995. Id. One of his last statments [sic] before he was executed was,
“Governor, look over your shoulder, justice is coming.” D.E. 3410 at 16
(Pretrial Hearing—SEALED—Not Provided to Defendant Nichols, March 10,
1997). (Information in public press reports). His body is buried at Elohim City.
The government has alleged in the Indictment that the Defendants used a
calling card, referred to as the Bridges’ Spotlight card, as a means to
prevent calls from being traced. See Indictment at 2. Phone records of the
Bridges’ Spotlight debit card reveal that a call was made from a motel in
Kingman, Arizona, to Elohim City minutes before a call was made to a Ryder
Truck rental store in Arizona. According to residents at Elohim City, the
caller asked to speak to an individual named Andy Strassmeir. Around the
same time from the same motel and again with the Bridges’ card, nine calls
were placed to a National Alliance Office in Arizona. The National Alliance
is an organization headed by William Pierce, author of The Turner
Diaries—the book characterized by the government as the “blue print” for
the Oklahoma City bombing. See D.E. 2166 at 16.
Thanks for this. From everything I read at the time, the feds, especially the ATF and our pals at the FBI were up to their necks in the McVeigh operation. This isn’t to say he isn’t where he belongs, but he had help mixing the diesel fuel and fertilizer they claim blew up the building.