Andreas Strassmeir

Notes from a 1997 FBI investigation state that sometime after the bombing, CIA pilot Dave Halloway flew Andreas Strassmer out of the United States. While that same report records that Strassmeir was flown to Berlin, many have speculated that he was instead flown to Mexico. However, In a letter to the McCurtain Gazette from Strassmeir's attorney (Kirk Lyons), he says his client's sudden departure from the U.S. was aided by members of Germany's elite counterterrorism unit, GSG 9.

On April 5, 1995 - exactly two weeks before the bombing - Timothy McVeigh telephoned Elohim City just minutes after he had reserved the Ryder rental van that was used to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. This telephone call was answered by community resident Joan Millar, the daughter-in-law of Robert G. Millar.

Information from various sources, regarding the relationship between the two, tend to conflict with one another - making it difficult to determine such an aspect. However, it is known that Andreas Strassmeir and Timothy McVeigh first met at a gun show in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1993.

In 1991, Kirk Lyons introduced Andreas Strassmeir to Elohim City - a white separatist community in Oklahoma. A year later, Strassmeir moved there and became the chief of security and weapons training. According to Lyons, Strassmeir hoped to marry an Elohim City woman and gain permanent resident status in the United States.

Strassmeir moved to Houston, Texas in 1986 where he started working as a salesman for a computer company. During this time, he became involved with the Texas Light Infantry militia before eventually getting expelled due to speculation from members that Strassmeir was a government agent. Afterwards, he became active in right wing and neo-Nazi circles where he eventually met his future attorney, Kirk Lyons.

Strassmeir studied at a military university in Hamburg, and then went on to serve in the German Army in 1979. His military service lasted for a total of five years.