[116966] in Cypherpunks
waco
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (reject)
Tue Aug 24 12:14:40 1999
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:53:41 -0500
Message-Id: <199908241953.OAA14388@reject.kewlhair.com>
From: reject <The@reject.kewlhair.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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FORMER FBI OFFICIAL ADMITS USE OF PYROTECHNICS AT WACO, CONTRADICTS OFFICIAL JUSTICE
INVESTIGATION
According to publishing sources, The DALLAS MORNING NEWS is reporting in Tuesday editions
that a former FBI official now claims that two M651 CS tear gas grenades were used by a FBI
hostage rescue team at Waco on April 19, 1993 -- the day the Branch Davidian siege ended in
a tragic inferno killing more than 80 adults and children.
The NEWS' Lee Hancock reports that Danny O. Coulson, a deputy assistant in the FBI's
criminal investigative division at the time of the siege, is the first government official
to contradict the official Justice Department investigation that concluded that no
incendiary devices were used.
"There were at least two pyrotechnic devices used that day," admits Coulson, who also claims
these devices could not have started the fires that engulfed the Branch Davidian compound.
"The first thing they should've said, if we knew, they should've said we fired. That's a
problem," he said.
Myron Marlin, a Justice Department spokesman, rejected Coulson's allegation: "We are aware
of no evidence to support the notion that any pyrotechnic devices were used by the federal
government on April 19. We've said that all along."
