The FBI wants 20 years to produce records about its involvement in the OKC bombing

(Ken Silva, Holder USA) It's been about nine years since the Utah attorney Jesse Thirty-two filed a Freedom of Information Act records request about a C.I.A active and FBI informant who helped finance the Oklahoma City bombing, as well as records on a neo-Nazi bank robbery gang also involved in the attack.

Tired of waiting, Trentaudue sued F.B.I on the matter in February, demanding the office release the 69,375 pages of documents it has. But now, the FBI wants to take nearly 12 more years to turn over those documents to him, meaning it would take at least 20 years for the bureau to comply with its initial FOIA request.

Such a slow production rate is unacceptable, said Trentadue a Tuesday court file.

“The FBI proposes to process these records/documents for release to Plaintiff in monthly increments of 500 pages over a period of 11.5 years!” he said

“If the Court accepts the FBI's proposed processing of these materials, the plaintiff will be nearly 90 years old when he finally receives them all,” he said.

“He has already waited nearly a decade for these documents/records, and the FBI has made no effort in the interim to produce them, and he should not have to wait another 11.5 years to receive them.”

Trentatwo has been suing the US government for OKC bomb-related records for nearly 30 years, since his brother was killed in a federal penitentiary. The complex story of how Trentadue's brother's death relates to the OKC bombing can be read at this Mother Jones article

Trentadue's latest lawsuit seeks records on FBI informant and CIA asset Roger Moore (not the James Bond actor), and the bank robbery gang, the Ari Republican Army, which he claimed was a front group for the FBI.

According to Trentadue's lawsuit, Moore was an FBI informant as part of the bureau's Operation Punchout in the 1980s and early 1990s, which was designed to identify and arrest surplus traders who bought and sold property. stolen from Department of Defense facilities in Utah.

In addition, Moore built patrol boats for use by the US Navy in the Vietnam War, as well as speedboats for the CIA, according to Aberration at the heart of the Real—Historian Wendy Painting's PhD thesis turned into a book about OKC Bomber Tim McVeigh.

As for the Ari Republican Army, Trentadue believes it was an FBI front group that also helped finance the bombing.

Trentadue's filing Tuesday further delved into the ARA's connection to McVeigh.

“During 1993, 1994, and 1995, a gang known as the Ari Republican Army or “ARA” robbed banks and armored cars in the Midwest. Timothy McVeigh participated in some of these robberies and is said to have used the money obtained for these crimes to help finance the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995,” he said.

“According to Peter Langan, several members of the ARA helped McVeigh carry out the Murrah Federal Building bombing.”

Hearings have not yet been set in Trentadue's lawsuit.

Ken Silva is a staff writer for Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.