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Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh

May 12, 2025, 58 tweets

For a few weeks now, I have been posting parts of an ongoing thread series, the main points of which I will recap in a moment. But first, a disclaimer.

The series is not intended to be my complete or finalized writing about the topics covered in it, all of which are fleshed out in much greater detail in my second book, which will contain proper citations for the source material used to construct these narratives.

Nor is this series a representation of the full scope of topics covered in my second book. Rather, it is just a small and much abbreviated window into and a preliminary ‘workshopping’ of some of them.

This thread series IS meant to introduce certain claims, events, and individuals, & begins to reveal the contours of a broader, often hidden network that McVeigh was not only embedded and plugged into but that comes to bear on the ‘nuts and bolts’ of the OKCB conspiracy itself.

It is also a way for me to organize or reorganize some of my narration of these linkages and share some of my newer, post-Aberration material with you.

Finally, and to a lesser extent, it is an attempt on my part to get ahead of some of the continued leaking of my work and additional newly discovered instances of the same by an individual whose outbursts and actions have put me, my sources, and others in danger. 😡

While I intend to wrap up this series in the coming weeks, time, health, and other constraints and obligations that have arisen prevent me from including as much detail and information as I’d have liked.

That said, some of the threads have been quite lengthy, containing a wealth of previously unpublished information and the contextualizing of other, already known information in new ways.

What may seem like simply a compilation of random details at this point is not; something I intend to demonstrate, in part by the end of this thread series and more fully in long-form writing in book 2.

Below is an abbreviated recap of what has been covered thus far in this thread series and links to the parts:

A preliminary thread, not technically part of this series, but that was initially intended to be, and is very much related, can be found here:

Part One of this series discussed previously unreported claims of Richard Van Hazel, convicted & sentenced to prison as part of the Committee of The States conspiracy & was also a key ‘member’ of the Arizona Patriots and a close associate of the Reverend Jack Oliphant.

The arrest and conviction of Van Hazel, Oliphant, and others resulted from Operation Clean Sweep, a precursor to PATCON and other, similar multi-agency, nationwide investigations into the activities of the extreme right.

Van Hazel claimed that McVeigh was involved with Jack Oliphant and other remnants of the 1980s-era Arizona Patriots who were still active in the 1990s.

Van Hazel claimed that McVeigh had attended two paramilitary training sites, one in Texas and another in Arizona, along with other members of the underground right, and that the actual plot to bomb the Murrah was first hatched at the Texas site in 1992.

Van Hazel claimed not only that he knew McVeigh but that he was with him when McVeigh called a WPM organization to discuss the logistics of renting a moving truck.

Part One also briefly detailed the statements of Robert Millar (head of Elohim City) and Dennis Mahon, who each independently corroborated aspects of Van Hazel’s claims.

Finally, Part One touched on the statements of the spooky “JR,” an unindicted member of the COS conspiracy, and close associate of Oliphant and others, and who, prior to the OKCB, made a curious statement about an undercover FBI informant in Clean Sweep named Robert Jacks.

Link to Part One:

Part Two explicitly focused on Van Hazel’s claims about McVeigh’s attendance at a paramilitary training camp in Texas.

It briefly discussed a similar claim made years later by PATCON informant John Matthews and knowledge of this by his FBI handler, Don Jarrett.

It looked at the links bet paramilitary training activity in Texas, Aryan Nations, & individuals closely associated with AN, some who helped harbor an, at the time, fugitive Branch Davidian who, himself, wittingly or otherwise, had dealings with a network of international arms dealers closely associated with Roger Moore.

It also noted the fact that both Elohim City and Dennis Mahon had ties to individuals in Arizona.

Link to Part Two:

Part Three A “The One Arm Man In Kingman” looked at the media and FBI’s early investigations of remnants of the Arizona Patriots and Jack Oliphant, and briefly discussed the role of PATCON handler Don Jarrett in the latter.

Link to Part Three A:

Part Three B, “Looking For An Army,” focused on McVeigh’s activities in and around Kingman, Arizona, in 1993, as well as contacts he forged and attempted to forge with other well-known and not-so-well-known WPM actors at that time.

Notably, McVeigh’s initial dealings with and/or his proximity to individuals associated with the National Alliance were discussed, as was the relationship of those individuals with Jack Oliphant and Aryan Nations.

Once again, certain links between PATCON and this network were noted, as was the role of PATCON handler Don Jarrett in the FBI’s subsequent OKCB investigation of specific individuals in this network.

Finally, this thread discussed the use of alternate methods of communication by McVeigh, beyond the famed ‘Daryl Bridges Calling Card.’

Apologies for the numerous stupid typos I found in this thread after I’d already posted it. I never intended to suggest that McVeigh “made contact” with himself at a Phoenix gun show. He might have, but that’s not what I was trying to say.🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Apologies also for the wonky numbering. Initially, 3A & B were one thread, but it ended up being so long that I broke it up into two sections, and, even then, 3B was entirely too long for this forum. 🙄

Link to Part Three B:

Part Four: The Male Room focused, *mostly*, on McVeigh’s activities in and around Kingman, Arizona, in early 1994 until that August when he once more left the area.

Emphasis was placed on strange ‘coincidences’ surrounding the opening and closing of mailboxes in Kingman at notable times by people of interest.

The thread also examined McVeigh's continued attempts to contact radical groups and individuals, sometimes with the assistance of Michael Fortier, as well as the role of PATCON Handler Don Jarrett in ‘investigating’ some of these groups and individuals after the OKCB.

*Some* of the individuals and groups ‘investigated’ by PATCON handler Don Jarrett include Jack Oliphant and others associated with the Arizona Patriots.

As somewhat of a sidenote, the thread looked at a couple of McVeigh and Fortier’s other, lesser-known ‘friends’ and acquaintances in Arizona and stories about pre-OKCB surveillance of McVeigh, Fortier, and others.

Finally, the thread highlighted patterns seen in phone records other than the Daryl Bridges card, including those of Roger Moore and Elohim City.

When compared to and overlaid with McVeigh’s known movements, these records raise some interesting possibilities and reveal further strange coincidences.

Link to Part Four:

Interlude: On May 15, I uploaded a link to my P2C episodes, which were recorded in late 2022 and dropped in early 2023. I have since included Jimmy’s descriptions for the episodes.

Of particular note for this thread series are Episodes 5 & 6; 5 dealing with Roger Moore and 6 with Jack Oliphant.

Link to P2C episodes: archive.org/details/p-2-c-…

Part Five: No Snappy Title began by reviewing some of the notable *known* calls that Tim McVeigh made in the days and weeks leading up to the OKCB using the famed Daryl Bridges calling card.

It also highlighted a mysterious news report about an April 8 meeting in Idaho, organized and attended by individuals closely associated with the Aryan Nations.

The meeting was attended by someone in the Kingman area who was driving a car *similar* in description to the car McVeigh was driving the morning of the OKCB, even though he had not yet purchased the 1977 Mercury getaway car yet.

Regarding the car seen at the Idaho meeting, authorities said they were investigating possible ties to the Arizona Patriots.

All parts of this thread series have examined, to varying extents, the significance of the Arizona Patriots in relation to the plot itself and/or the subsequent investigation of it.

Part Five noted two documented conversations between Louis Beam and Cheri Seymour that occurred the week before the OKCB.

One of them (re: Snell’s impending execution) explicitly supported what Beam would later tell Seymour and a handful of others, including in a recorded, never-before-discussed interview, about having some degree of foreknowledge of the OKCB plot.

While the significance of the other conversation will become clear at the conclusion of this series, the fact that it took place at a meeting attended and organized by the same people involved in the April 8 Idaho meeting should be kept in mind.

The thread then backtracked, picking back up on the related chronology we’ve been working through in this series, outlining some of McVeigh and Nichols’ movements in the late summer and fall of 1994.

Notably, it illustrated McVeigh’s ongoing contact with Roger Moore at critical moments in the chronology, usually just prior to or after a milestone in the plot, as well as his now well-known claims that Moore had provided, among other things, bomb making components.

It traced some of McVeigh’s travels at this time, alluding to what appears to be network-building activities in the under-discussed and under-explored areas of the country, including in Florida, Montana, New Mexico, and elsewhere.

It also briefly noted *some* of the links that certain people and groups of interest had to these exact locations.

Finally, the thread introduced a ‘cover story’ that McVeigh *began* to use at this time, about his attendance at ‘survivalist training’ in Utah.

Link to Part Five:

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