11-11-2019, 02:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-11-2019, 02:52 AM by David Andrews.)
I will keep my eyes open for anything from the Atlanta field office if that's where O'Neill worked.
O'Neill would have worked out of Chicago until early February, 1995, when he began a stint in Middle East counter-terrorism in Washington. In 1996 he was working out of the New York field office. The authorized sources are slim on whether he made investigatory or liaison visits to other US cities in 1995-1996. Murray Weiss's book says that in 1996 "O'Neill was engaged in efforts to map out security strategies for the upcoming Olympics in Atlanta," in addition to going to Saudi Arabia in June to investigate the Khobar Towers bombing, and helping to create Alec Station earlier in the year. I suppose he would have had to make a trip to Atlanta, but Weiss only places him in DC and NYC, plus SA cities.
I doubt that O'Neill would have drawn any attention to a Middle East involvement in OKC, just as he also did not in the Flight 800 case (though perhaps for a different reason in the later event). No Middle East terrorism was admitted into the OKC official findings, though I would say that the Terry Nichols Philippines trip is reason enough for deep suspicion. I suspect that O'Neill is one of the great myth-makers of Usama Bin Laden's influence, and was instructed as to when he could shout about Al Qaeda and when he could not.
I'm just interested in O'Neill's possible involvement in the OKC investigation since Murray Weiss refers to it but does not reveal anything. The obvious initial connection would be O'Neill's pre-1995 domestic terrorism investigations...but if there's more than that to discover....
O'Neill would have worked out of Chicago until early February, 1995, when he began a stint in Middle East counter-terrorism in Washington. In 1996 he was working out of the New York field office. The authorized sources are slim on whether he made investigatory or liaison visits to other US cities in 1995-1996. Murray Weiss's book says that in 1996 "O'Neill was engaged in efforts to map out security strategies for the upcoming Olympics in Atlanta," in addition to going to Saudi Arabia in June to investigate the Khobar Towers bombing, and helping to create Alec Station earlier in the year. I suppose he would have had to make a trip to Atlanta, but Weiss only places him in DC and NYC, plus SA cities.
I doubt that O'Neill would have drawn any attention to a Middle East involvement in OKC, just as he also did not in the Flight 800 case (though perhaps for a different reason in the later event). No Middle East terrorism was admitted into the OKC official findings, though I would say that the Terry Nichols Philippines trip is reason enough for deep suspicion. I suspect that O'Neill is one of the great myth-makers of Usama Bin Laden's influence, and was instructed as to when he could shout about Al Qaeda and when he could not.
I'm just interested in O'Neill's possible involvement in the OKC investigation since Murray Weiss refers to it but does not reveal anything. The obvious initial connection would be O'Neill's pre-1995 domestic terrorism investigations...but if there's more than that to discover....