https://www.kennethtrentadue.com/PATCON.html Through his FOIA suits, and whistleblower testimony, Jesse Trentadue has uncovered many previously-secret details concerning a wide-ranging '90s FBI operation called PATCON. Statements made by a PATCON undercover operative, John Matthews, revealed that PATCON ran from at least 1991 to 1998 and Matthews infiltrated over 22 domestic right-wing 'Patriot' groups during that period of time.
PATCON is FBI shorthand for "Patriot Conspiracy." According to the whistleblower and existing fragmentary records obtained via FOIA, this FBI operation appears to have been like a modern-day version of COINTELPRO where FBI operatives were used to incite violence, entrap people, and even form fake organizations just for the purposes of carrying out criminal activities.
Basically all members of the (((Aryan Republican Army))) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Republican_Army and residents of (((Elohim City))) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim_city - including the leader of (((Elohim City))) - were either FBI/ATF informants or FBI/CIA agents, which were responsible for the Oklahoma City Bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_city_bombing
Core ARA Members
Peter Kevin Langan Secret Service informant
https://libertarianinstitute.org/documents/declaration-2007_04_09-PETER_LANGAN_DECLARATION_w_exhibits_17pp-OCR.pdf In 1993, while I was in jail in Georgia awaiting trial on armed robbery charges, the United States Secret Service offered me a deal: If I would find Guthrie, infiltrate those working with Guthrie and testify against him, the Secret Service would arrange immunity for me. I accepted the offer - under duress - after ten months in jail, six months in Ohio and four months in Georgia.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/documents/declaration-2007_04_09-PETER_LANGAN_DECLARATION_w_exhibits_17pp-OCR.pdf September, 1993, I was released from custody and became a Secret Service informant. Sometime around October 1993, I connected with Richard Guthrie.
Richard Lee Guthrie Government Cooperator
https://libertarianinstitute.org/documents/declaration-2007_04_09-PETER_LANGAN_DECLARATION_w_exhibits_17pp-OCR.pdf Richard Guthrie's mysterious death by hanging, while he was in jail cooperating with federal prosecutors, also helped the government bury the truth about the Oklahoma City Bombing. Despite Guthrie's claim that he would soon reveal infonnation about the Bombing, I know of no other record related to the government investigating Guthrie's possible link to the Bombing, or even questioning him about that matter.
https://kennethtrentadue.com/pdf/2004_06_09-AFFIDAVIT-Matthew_J_MONING_Cincinnati_PD_re_Shawn_Kenney.pdf from August 8th 1993 to June of 1994, I was actively tracking the whereabouts and actions of Peter Kevin Langan, Richard Lee Guthrie, Shawn Kenny, and Tabitha Kenny. The first three (3) individuals later became known to me as "The Midwest Bank Bandits" as told to me by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.).
https://kennethtrentadue.com/pdf/2004_06_09-AFFIDAVIT-Matthew_J_MONING_Cincinnati_PD_re_Shawn_Kenney.pdf I was personally told by Agent Larry Haas that Richard Lee Guthrie was found dead in his cell by the Kenton County Sheriff's Department. That he committed suicide after being told that he was going to be executed for his role in the Oklahoma City Bombing Case. He was told that money from his robberies had been tied to that case and that that meant the death sentence. Me had previously agreed to a straight thirty(30) years for the Midwest Bank Robberies and his cooperation in setting up Pete Langan.
https://kennethtrentadue.com/pdf/2004_06_09-AFFIDAVIT-Matthew_J_MONING_Cincinnati_PD_re_Shawn_Kenney.pdf That the F.B.I. and the Secret Service actively lied to me while I was a Cincinnati Police Officer about the circumstances and events from 1993 til the present. That I will provide the documented proof about this when asked to and am willing to testify to the facts of this case as I know them, not as what is written in "official" government Form 302's
Shawn Kenny FBI Informant
https://libertarianinstitute.org/documents/declaration-2007_04_09-PETER_LANGAN_DECLARATION_w_exhibits_17pp-OCR.pdf The others eventually charged along with me in cases stemming from the FBI's mid-west bank robbery investigation known as "BOMBROB" were: Richard Guthrie, Kevin McCarthy, Scott Stedeford, Mark Thomas and Michael Brescia. Although involved in the robberies, Shawn Kenny was not prosecuted. I later learned that he, too, was an FBI informant.
https://kennethtrentadue.com/pdf/2004_06_09-AFFIDAVIT-Matthew_J_MONING_Cincinnati_PD_re_Shawn_Kenney.pdf in December 1996, Special Agent Ed Wood with the F.B.I. contacted my captain,(Captain Chris Robinson- Central Vice Control Section C.P.D.) And requested to talk tome. He wanted to know if I still had my records on Pete Langan and Rich Guthrie. I told him I did and he wanted to know if I would be willing to come to his office to discuss the file with him and several other agents. He stated that they had taken Shawn Kenny out of the military, and that they were going to use my information along with Shawn's to try to get Guthrie and Langan. I asked Agent Wood "how the hell did Shawn Kenny get into the military with the record he had" and he stated that he didn't know. I told him that Shawn was convicted of felony weapons charges, fake Id's, and belonged to a group who's sole purpose was to overthrow the U.S. government (Aryan Nations). I didn't understand how someone like this could get into the military but the question remained unanswered.
https://kennethtrentadue.com/pdf/2004_06_09-AFFIDAVIT-Matthew_J_MONING_Cincinnati_PD_re_Shawn_Kenney.pdf Shawn Kenny's record and criminal history has been and still is being actively "Erased" to this day. I personally know of at least one Domestic Violence charge and Two(2) gun related charges that have mysteriously disappeared or were never entered on his official record against state and federal laws as I know them.
https://kennethtrentadue.com/pdf/2004_06_09-AFFIDAVIT-Matthew_J_MONING_Cincinnati_PD_re_Shawn_Kenney.pdf it is my personal belief that both Tabitha and Shawn Kenny are and were from the time that I met them, government informants that are being paid by the F.B.I. and Secret Service for " God knows what."
Mark Thomas Government Cooperator
https://libertarianinstitute.org/documents/declaration-2007_04_09-PETER_LANGAN_DECLARATION_w_exhibits_17pp-OCR.pdf Guthrie said to me that McCarthy and Stedeford were a danger to us because of their possible involvement in the Oklahoma City Bombing. Guthrie said he knew this because of discussions he had with Mark Thomas, McCarthy and Stedeford on his trip to Pennsylvania.
Scott Stedeford
https://libertarianinstitute.org/documents/declaration-2007_04_09-PETER_LANGAN_DECLARATION_w_exhibits_17pp-OCR.pdf Also residing with STRASSMEIR were MC CARTHY's close friends, MICHAEL WILLIAM BRESCIA and SCOTT ANTHONY STEDEFORD.
Michael Brescia Potential Informant (Records being sought)
https://kennethtrentadue.com/pdf/appellatebrief.pdf page 23 On August 20, 2004, Plaintiff commenced this action to require FBI Defendants to produce documents/records which, directly or indirectly, reported upon, concerned, referenced or referred to Morris Dees and/or the SPLC’s involvement with and/or connection to the following: Elohim City, OKBOMB, BOMBROB, Tim McVeigh, Richard Guthrie, Terry Nichols, Dennis Mahon, Robert Millar, Michael Brescia, Peter Langan, and/or Andreas Strassmeir, including all contacts which Dees or the SPLC may have directly or indirectly had with any of the foregoing individuals through informants.
Kevin McCarthy Government Cooperator
https://libertarianinstitute.org/documents/declaration-2007_04_09-PETER_LANGAN_DECLARATION_w_exhibits_17pp-OCR.pdf Kevin McCarthy was facing a mandatory-minimum sentence of 105 years on bank-robbery related charges, unless he made a deal with federal prosecutors to testify against me and others. McCarthy made that deal. In exchange, McCarthy received a sentence of five years in prison.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/documents/declaration-2007_04_09-PETER_LANGAN_DECLARATION_w_exhibits_17pp-OCR.pdf I questioned McCarthy and Stedeford about the Bombing. They said they were not involved. McCarthy and Stedeford said that they were not even aware of the Bombing, even though they had been on the road, driving through Oklahoma, amid intense media coverage on the Bombing, for at least six hours or more on April 19 and 20, 1995. They said they had not been listening to the radio on their drive, but instead, had listened to CDs and cassettes in the Suburban the whole time. My impression was that they were lying. McCarthy and Stedeford also volunteered that Strassmeir and the others at Elohim City were not involved in the Bombing.
Related to ARA/Elohim Residents
Carol Howe ATF Informant
https://thenewamerican.com/us/okc/undercover-the-howe-revelations/_pdf/ To a tight circle of federal law enforcement officials she was known as Confidential Informant 53270-183, or more commonly, CI-183. To her “comrades” in the neo-Nazi and “Christian Identity” movements — whom the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) and FBI had asked her to infiltrate and surveil — she was known by the noms de guerre “Freya” and “Lady MacBeth.” During the trial of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing, she became more widely known in press accounts by her real name: Carol Elizabeth Howe.
That is the name affixed to the ATF’s “Informant Agreement” of August 25, 1994, signed by Miss Howe and Special Agent Angela Finley (now Angela Finley-Graham) of the ATF’s Tulsa, Oklahoma office. McVeigh’s defense team had sought to have Howe testify concerning her allegations that she had warned her federal supervisors prior to the bombing that subjects of her investigation were planning to bomb federal buildings, including the one in Oklahoma City. But jurors in the Denver trial of McVeigh never heard Carol Howe’s name mentioned in court, nor did they hear her testimony. Federal prosecutors filed motions to prevent her appearance as a defense witness.
https://kennethtrentadue.com/pdf/appellatebrief.pdf Howe called graham the day after the Bombing to say that she thought she could identify John Doe 2 No. 2, (Id. at 782) Howe also provided the BATF with information about Strassmeir. (Id. at 782.) Howe told the BATF about Strassmeir's threat to "blow up the federal buildings." Q: And Ms Howe told you about Mr. Strassmeir's threats to blow up Federal buildings, didn't she? A: In general, yes? Q: And that was before the Oklahoma City Bombing? A: Yes Graham said that this threat was made several months before the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Robert Millar FBI Informant
https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/documents/1997_07_01-McCurtain_Gazette-The_Rev._Robert_Millar_Identified_as_FBI_Informant.pdf Near pandemonium broke out in a federal courtroom here Monday when a senior agent of the Federal bureau of Investigation shocked observers by telling the court that the spiritual leader of Elohim City, the Rev. Robert Millar, was a confidential informant for the FBI.
https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/documents/1997_07_01-McCurtain_Gazette-The_Rev._Robert_Millar_Identified_as_FBI_Informant.pdf Millar's status as a confidential informant began in the fall of 1994. The FBI admitted in court that Millar was a paid confidential informant, although the amount of his paycheck was not revealed. When Rickel disclosed this startling information, a senior FBI agent present and several U. S. Attorneys bolted from the courtroom in an agitated state. Millar's encampment was heretofore considered by experts in domestic terrorism to be the "Switzerland" of the neo-Nazi movement in the United States.
https://thenewamerican.com/us/okc/undercover-the-howe-revelations/_pdf/ In the same report, Agent Finley relays to her superiors Howe’s intelligence that Strassmeir was drilling his Elohim City “troops” in “combat maneuvers,” that they were “camping outside in 14 degree weather,” and that Strassmeir’s troops “were forced to swim in a creek in these frigid temperatures.” “Each household is required to be stockpiling ammunition,” she writes, and Robert Millar, the founder and head of Elohim City, “gave a sermon soliciting violence against the US government.” “He brought forth his soldiers and instructed them to take whatever action necessary against the US Government,” reads the ATF account. “He stated that certain groups from Texas, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma will be uniting as one front to fight the government,” it continues, noting that Millar “explicitly told 183
https://archives.nd.edu/observer/2003-02-12_v37_093.pdf Millar "gave a sermon solicit-ing violence against the U.S. gov-ernment" and "he brought forth his soldiers and instructed them to take whatever action neces-sary against the U.S. govern-ment," one ATF report from January 1995 said. Millar made a trip to Oklahoma City about that time and on the day of McVeigh's bombing traveled to Arkansas to comfort Snell before his execu-tion. But ATF did not know that Millar was a "source" for the FBI
Richard Schrum FBI Informant
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=D4N52gLe46oC&pg=PA138&redir_esc=y A man named Richard Schrum, who had actually been an FBI informant, was given the task of infiltrating militia groups in Oklahoma. In July of 1995, Schrum infiltrated Lampley's Universal Church of God organization in Vernon, Oklahoma.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=D4N52gLe46oC&pg=PA138&redir_esc=y Just as Lampley's plan was getting started the FBI raided his home in Vernon, Oklahoma on November 13, 1995. The raid came as a result of federal agents being informed by Richard Schrum that Lampley planned to test the bomb inside the Elohim compound.