The OKC Bombing thread: Surveillance Camera Footage

[Richard Booth]

Found another piece in my archive that sheds light on the OKBOMB structure. This is from a newspaper article talking about BOB RICKS.
Based on this information that would make a rough FBI org chart:

|+LOUIS FREEH
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|+LARRY POTTS (HQ) (OKBOMB chief at FBI HQ)
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|+DANNY DEFENBAUGH - 'Inspector-in-Charge' - from Mobile, AL field office
|+BOB RICKS - Hand picked the investigation team - from OKC Field Office
|+DANNY COULSON - 'On-Scene-Commander', from Dallas TX Field Office
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|+WELDON KENNEDY - 'Field Commander', Phoenix AZ Field Office
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Anyway, here is what BOB RICKS said in an October 1st, 1995 Daily Oklahoman piece:

"I think my role was complete with regard to what I had to do," he said. "Primarily. my job was to assist in assembling the investigative team that would be there for the long term, and I selected the individuals that would be involved in the direct supervision and the investigative process, and those are still the same individuals that are there. "What I did, of course, is select the best individuals that we had in our office. It was quite a compliment to those agents that President Clinton recently said it was the best investigative team ever assembled. Except for the inspectors and higher- level supervisors who were brought in for long-time supervision, the investigative team is predominately from the Oklahoma City division which reflects well, I think, upon this division."

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In this same article, Bob Ricks makes the incredulous claim that the FBI had no active intelligence operations ongoing. Nothing targeting white separatists, hate groups, militias, abortion clinic violence ... yet, we both know that w/ VAAPCON and PATCON they had two very active huge Group 1 Undercover Operations in Domestic Security / Terrorism (DS/T). So this is a huge lie on his part:

"That was the key case, following the congressional hearings there, that pretty much took us out of the intelligence business (in the mid- 1980s)," Ricks said. The FBI was still out of the intelligence business when the bomb exploded in Oklahoma City, he said. "As a result, we ... have a number of entities out there these hate groups or whatever that in some cases were carrying out activities that we probably should have been aware of," Ricks said. "Some say that if we had been doing what we had done in the past that we probably never would have been able to stop this bombing (anyway). I have no idea. You don't know what you are going to get into until you get into it. When you have no intelligence at all with regard to groups that are advocating violence and the overthrow of the government, I think that sometimes you put yourself in an exposed position."

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From the DOJ report "Investigation of the Belated Production of Documents in the Oklahoma City Bombing Case" more information about the organizational structure of OKBOMB can be gleaned.

The primary command post was in OKC. It was then moved to Denver, CO.

The OKBOMB investigation had a number of command posts throughout the country where presumably you'd have supervisors and case agents working the leads.
I wonder if any of these command posts would have utilized John O'Neill:

Command posts were located in Oklahoma City; Atlanta, Georgia; Buffalo, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; Kansas City, Missouri; Phoenix, Arizona; and Washington, D.C.

https://oig.justice.gov/special/0203/cha...htm#ch2_IV