Office in Salt Lake City A Terror Target?
March 26, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
A building in downtown Salt Lake City was considered a terrorist target in the weeks after the Oklahoma City bombing, according to internal FBI memos recently made public.
A communique from FBI headquarters suggested the building, which houses the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Utah, was to be the third target on a nationwide terror spree. The first target was the federal building in Oklahoma City.
“The third target is an attack at the north east corner of 2nd Street and State street south of the *(Not the target), Salt Lake City, Utah, slated for a lethal type device on 6/19/95 (daylight hours),” the memo reads.
Other targets included buildings in Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Las Vegas and Chicago.
The memo was included in a series of documents given to Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue, who has filed a freedom of information lawsuit against the FBI and CIA in connection with the Oklahoma City bombing. Trentadue is investigating the death of his brother, Kenny, a convicted bank robber who was picked up for a parole violation in the frantic months after the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168.
Trentadue believes Kenny was mistaken for an associate of convicted bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols and killed in an interrogation that went horribly awry. The federal government maintains Kenneth Trentadue committed suicide in his federal prison cell.
