Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Roberts Paul Craig
Title : The Medusa file II
Year : 2017

Link download : Roberts_Paul_Craig_-_The_Medusa_file_II.zip

Introduction. It has taken more than 20 years for me to finally sit down to begin writing this book. On April 19th, 1995 I was a veteran Tulsa, Oklahoma police officer. That terrible day was a Wednesday. On Friday afternoon my pager alerted me to a phone number that I would need to call. It was the local office of the FBI. Because the SAC (Special Agent in Charge) knew me and had read at least one of my investigative works, Kill Zone: A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza, and for other reasons, he asked me if I would be willing to do what I could to assist in the Oklahoma City bombing investigation. He also knew that I knew various patriotic groups around the state and certain individuals that I had interviewed in the past that would talk to me but not to “the Feds”. It was only 2 weeks since I had returned from Washington D.C. where I testified the House’s Sub-committee on Crime on behalf of the Law Enforcement Alliance of America (LEAA) in support of the Second Amendment and against the so-called “assault weapons” and high capacity magazine ban. I was one of six police officers who testified, and two of us testified wearing the uniforms of our departments. This did not sit well with my chief of police at the time who, I found out when I returned home, was a closet liberal who hated the NRA, guns in the hands of citizens, and, by the time I got home, wasn’t very fond of me either. I spent the following week being attacked by our local liberal newspaper, The Tulsa World (which took every opportunity to attack anyone who had the audacity to say that the bombing suspects and plot concerned more than just Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols). In my testimony before Congress I mentioned that I had spent three years on our department’s Bomb Squad, that no matter what federal laws they pass, they had little impact on local law enforcement unless we requested a federal agency to help. Of the 52 bomb calls I had handled I never saw the ATF at any except one, and who never even asked for my reports. Then Representative Charles Schumer (D-NY), appeared not to like anything I said in my 20 minute testimony, never addressed me directly or even asked me a single question (probably because I had a huge file on my table that was very impressive, but actually had only two pages of notes and the rest was blank paper! Large files are more impressive than thin ones). Before I could return to Tulsa, Schumer had the ATF in Washington call the ATF office in Tulsa to complain that I said “they never did anything and didn’t support the Tulsa Police Department” which was a total spin on what I said. By the time I got home the SAC of the ATF (by then “upgraded” in name to the BATF and later the BATFE - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) had angrily visited the chief to lodge a complaint. Within a day the media was involved and I spent the next 12 days in a back-and-forth duel in the newspapers, AP and UPI, with the chief (primarily his Administrative Sergeant who was at that time running the Bomb Squad on the side, of which I was no longer a member and had not been a bomb tech for several years). The thrust of their attack was that I lied to Congress! They said that I was never a Bomb Tech, contrary to what almost every officer who served on our department between 1971 and 1974 knew. ...