This is to remind everyone that a warning of a bomb at the Olympics was

first issued May 11, 1996, in a press release from J.J. Johnson,

Citizens' Defense League, league@macon.mindspring.com --



"Through our investigation, we believe that paid govenment agents (Danny

and Kevin Barker) were attempting to make bombs to stage a terrorist

strike at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, this summer and blame

the Georgia Militia. This clandestine activity is called "Operation

Piedmont". Piedmont Road is a major thoroughfare in Atlanta which passes

Piedmont Park and Georgia State University (Athletics).



"We have turned this information over to the proper authorities. The

names are withheld at this time so as not to compromise our

investigation."



This was followed up by a press release on May 22 from Jeff Randall,

Alabama Constitutional Militia, CopWatch@aol.com --



"It has come to our attention that the lives of Kevin and Danny Barker

may have been threatened. As you all know, the Barker brothers were the

paid ATF confidential informants (CI # 62 and CI # 63) in the

Starr/McCranie case. 



"We ask, if you hear of anyone threatening these people please call Jeff

Randall immediately at (205) 570 0638. I will immediately turn this

information over to the proper authorities. We do not need these people

harmed in any fashion, their testimony is crucial to the case and also

crucial in exposing ATF "Operation Piedmont." Piedmont is an operation

run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to implicate and

coerce militiamen into manufacturing or experimenting with explosives."



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The complete reports and others related to them can be found at

http://constitution.org/mil/ga/mil_usga.htm



Circumstances surrounding this event, based on press reports available

at this time, are extremely suspicious. Local authorities warned people

in the area to leave the area a few minutes before the blast, reportedly

as the result of seeing a "suspicious package" or bag under a light

tower. Now, the question must be asked, what would make that package or

bag suspicious? In the kind of open public gathering that we saw in the

television reports, it is likely that many packages or bags were around

that were no more or less suspicious than the one containing the bomb.

Why would authorities focus on this one, unless they had a warning that

described the package or bag, or unless they planted it themselves? If

the warning originated with BATF agents, the connection with Operation

Piedmont deserves our attention, and BATF agents must be considered

prime suspects in this incident, especially if they now try to point the

finger of suspicion at militia activists.