[Storm Eagle]

Interestingly the inquiry, which never made any of the news media (probably not smart at the time) didn't use the "leak" safeguards that one would expect for something of that magnitude. Actually, more "civilians" than one would expect knew a lot of the details concerning what was being alleged. The general details seemed much more preposterous at the time than it does now, so they probably calculated that letting people in on what was happening would generate more useful information than keeping a lid on it. I was one of those civilians. An FBI agent walked into my office in North Texas and started cross-checking some information that he had received already from internal documents, which I happened to see. I can tell you this -there were a lot of people who were intent on getting information and they had a tremendous sense of urgency. My speculation is that they may have let stuff leak to the degree that the bad guys would have figured out they were on their trail and called it off, which they obviously did. But what was disturbing was how big the picture was.

I can tell you that there were three main foci: the I-35 corridor from Dallas to OKC and the I-25 corridor from El Paso to Denver (Colorado)and the US 59 corridor from Houston up into Southeastern Oklahoma and Western Arkansas. There was a guy they were looking for big time who was supposedly on the feds' terrorist list as a Libyan agent, who actually turned out to be a Mexican operative for the Guadalajara mob who had once worked for Salinas. Crossover identities between Mexican and Arab is, and was then, quite common. Interestingly this guy, who used numerous aliases (I saw his mug shot), bore a striking resemblance to the sketch of John Doe Number 2 in the OKC flap.

[Semper911]

The general details seemed much more preposterous at the time than it does now

The details sure don't seem preposterous now, and I hope they make their way to see the light of day, via the general media.

Do you have any sense that the Iraqi refugees we brought here after Gulf War I are or were involved in this? It seems much more than a coincidence that the geographic area you have described is exactly where we placed them after the war.

Thanks for taking the time to put this info up. I am fascinated by it.

[185JHP]

The Cuban DGI used to be a kind of farm team for the KGB. I suspect that some of their people are sleeping here. Plus KGB and GRU types that decided not to go back to an uncertain future when the Soviet Union fell apart.