June 15, 1995
From CNN Correspendant Ed Garsten
DECKER, Michigan (CNN) -- James Nichols is still catching up on the farmwork he missed while sitting in federal custody for 32 days. But he's angry enough to take a moment to debunk the latest reports of a possible connection with the Oklahoma City bombing.
In documents released Sunday, an unidentified informant told the FBI that around december 23, 1988, shortly after the terrorist bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, Nichols said "that a small bomb could cause such a disaster." And that the U.S. government was responsible.
Then, according to the document, Nichols told the informant "a megabomb capable of levelling a building could be built." He then made a mention of the federal buidling in Oklahoma City. When he couldn't find a photo of the building he drew a picture, similar, said the informant, to the Murrah Building. He later found a newspaper clipping regarding the building and showed it to the informant.
Nichols says the conversation never happened ... and has no idea who the informant is.
Even though he still faces explosives charges not related to the Oklahoma City bomb, he believes he and his brother Terry, who is, are being framed to take the fall for the disaster. By whom? He won't say.
CNN has learned that Terry Nichols' wife kept a diary of the month or so she was shunted from motel to motel after Terry's arrest. We've been told that the diary was confiscated shortly before she left for her native Phillipines but a copy was later given to her attorney.
On Monday, James and his mother received a letter from Terry. They say while his spirits are up, he's upset at the government for its treatment of his wife. As he waits for a federal judge to rule on a motion to drop the explosives charges against him, James Nichols plants his soybeans ... and insists the U.S. government has picked the wrong row to hoe.
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