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WEAVER SET UP BY FEDS, By Mike Blair, Spotlight Magazine


                         WEAVER SET UP BY FEDS
                             By Mike Blair
                           Spotlight Magazine

    The SPOTLIGHT has learned Randy Weaver has confided to at least
two persons he had been set up on federal firearms violations to get
him to act as an informant for FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms agents investigating the activities of right-wing groups in
the area.
    Weaver recently held hundreds of federal, state and local law
enforcement at bay in his primitive mountain-top cabin in northern
Idaho.
    Weaver has since surrendered, only after the murders of his wife
and his teenage son by federal agents.
    Another man, Kevin Harris, who had been raised by the Weaver
family since he was a teenager and who has lived with them ever
since, is in critical condition in the Sacred Heart Medical Center in
Spokane, Washington with a collapsed lung and bullet wounds in the
arm after surrendering the day before Weaver led his surviving family
members out of the cabin.
    Weaver had been holed up in the cabin since February, 1991, after
he failed to appear in federal court to face charges of selling an
allegedly "sawed-off' shotgun to an undercover federal agent. His
wife and son were murdered by federal and local law enforcement
agents during the confrontation.

OFFICIALS TRIED TO BLACKMAIL VETERAN

    Weaver, a U.S. Army Special Forces veteran, revealed in separate
conversations with two SPOTLIGHT sources, both previously unknown to
each other, that he was set up by federal officials who tried to
blackmail him into infiltrating the right-wing Aryan Nations group
and report its activities to them.
    They intimated, he said, that if he cooperated as an informant,
the federal officials would make a deal regarding the charges he
faced. Weaver said he refused.
    Prior to his arrest on the gun charges on January 17, 1991,
Weaver had apparently attended some meetings of the Aryan Nations
White separatist group, but was not, according to a number of
sources, a member himself.
    He was indicted on the federal firearms violation charge by a
grand jury in December, 1990. Although it has not been reported
elsewhere, Weaver was apparently indicted at the time on other
unspecified charges, which remain sealed by the court, and federal
authorities, have not taken action on them up to this point.
    Weaver's claim of being set up by federal officials has also been
reported to The SPOTLIGHT by a Bonners Ferry, Idaho man. Bonners
Ferry is near the Weaver cabin, located in Boundary County and about
40 miles from the Canadian border.
    The Spokane man said "Weaver told him he had some trouble while
in the Army with an officer involving a drug investigation, but he
(Weaver) did not think his knowledge of this was connected to his
current problems. Weaver did not volunteer any details of the drug
case to the man.

LOCAL HONCHOS TAINTED  BY DOPE?

    However, the source in Spokane told The SPOTLIGHT that people
close to Weaver have revealed to him that drug trafficking was
involved, that Weaver may have encountered evidence of the
involvement of local officials in illegal drug operations during
Weaver's unsuccessful run for sheriff of Boundary County in 1988.
    Various sources have told The SPOTLIGHT the area has for years
been used for drug trafficking due to its remoteness and proximity to
the Canadian border.
    The charges for which Weaver was wanted--selling a sawed-off
shotgun that was allegedly only a fraction of an inch below the legal
limit to an undercover government agent, and failure to appear for a
court hearing stemming from that charge--hardly merited the
"take-no-prisoners" assault by law enforcement--unless, of course,
Weaver's accusations are true. -*END

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