Meet the Spook Assigned to Report on OKBOMB
Lawrence Myers' Shady Past & Unusual Books Raise Serious Questions
Meet Lawrence Myers (sometimes spelled ‘Meyers’), a man who began researching and reporting on the Oklahoma City bombing the day it happened. Below, you can see Myers from an episode of A&E’s “Biography” where he was one of their featured experts on Timothy McVeigh and credited as a correspondent with “Media Bypass” magazine.
Relatively little is known about Myers today. His body of work since the Oklahoma City bombing seems to consist of only reporting on that subject.
Prior to the Oklahoma City bombing, Myers was a published author whose books were put out by Paladin Press, a known CIA connected publisher.
Upon closer examination, Myers’ books look a lot like thinly-disguised instruction manuals designed for use by CIA-backed ‘freedom fighters’ and terrorists such as the Contras and mujahideen, with titles such as:
Improvised Radio Detonation Techniques | Sep 1, 1988
Improvised Radio Jamming Techniques: Electronic Guerrilla Warfare | July 1, 1989
Counterbomb: Protecting Yourself Against Car, Mail, and Area-Emplaced Bombs | March 1, 1991
Smart Bombs: Improvised Sensory Detonation Techniques and Advanced Weapons Systems
Spycomm: Covert Communication Techniques of the Underground
On the morning of April 19th, 1995, Lawrence Myers showed up at the offices of Media Bypass, an alternative press publication that targeted the burgeoning “PATRIOT” and militia demographic. The magazine had a circulation of about 5,000 subscribers and were based out of Evansville, Indiana.
It was there, in their Evansville offices, that Myers sought to offer his services as a reporter with the particular subject matter expertise on ‘mad bombers.’
This was reported in the alternative media at the time, with Brian Redman’s “Conspiracy Nation” mailing list detailing the story in Vol. 7 Num. 37, in a feature by legendary muckracker Sherman Skolnik titled “The Oklahoma Bombing and the Story of a Magazine” which is excerpted below:
Myers went on to cover the story for Media Bypass, and along the way he was involved in a few rather interesting things that lead one to conclude he might have had an agenda.
For example, the Grand Jury assigned to produce the indictment of Timothy McVeigh had one grand juror, Hoppy Heidelberg, who was frustrated by the inability of grand jurors to ask witnesses questions, or to request to see evidence.
Heidelberg made his frustrations vocally and in writing to a judge, and the prosecutors, and eventually was “allowed” to ask witnesses to the grand jury questions, albeit the DOJ stooges required him to ‘launder’ the questions through the prosecutors before he could ask them.
Heidelberg also said that FBI agents who visited his home made an effort to try to intimidate him. Clearly, Heidelberg became something of a thorn in the side of the establishment.
Enter, Lawrence Myers. When he was through with his work, Heidelberg would be kicked off of the grand jury thus solving the DOJ and prosecutors’ evident problem.
Myers’ actions relating to the grand jury debacle are detailed well in the New American, Vol. 12 No. 07, published April 1, 1996:
Around the same time period (1996-1997), researcher J. Orlin Grabbe published some police reports on Myers from the mid 1980s. Those police reports show Myers engaged in threats, intimidation, and extortion in California, including an apparent commital in a mental ward during that time.
The report can be found on a backup of Grabbe’s website here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20061213102052/http://www.orlingrabbe.com/myersdoc.htm
Sherman Skolnick also continued reporting on Myers. In Conspiracy Nation Vol 7. No. 44 (1996), Skolnick claimed that Myers is a “counterintelligence agent”:
In Conspiracy Nation Vol 7. No. 79. Skolnick said that Meyers worked for Wackenhut:
What was a CIA-connected figure like Myers doing ingratiating himself into the alternative press?
Was he a dispatched asset playing some kind of role?
In addition to the Hoppy Heidelberg debacle, Myers also appears to have engineered an unusual photo-op with Timothy McVeigh. Resting on the table in front of McVeigh in that photo was an issue of The New American magazine, which had been running hard hitting reports on the Oklahoma City bombing.
Bill Jasper, editor of the New American, later expressed concern about this photo and some suggested that it was an effort to impeach the magazine by having a photo of the convicted bomber taken with the magazine in front of him.
The full story concerning Myers has yet to be told. Until then, all we have are the various allegations detailed here—which paint quite the unusual picture.