Michael William Brescia Michael William Brescia Michael William Brescia is a convicted bank robber who has also been alleged to have been involved in the Oklahoma City bombing. Born to a firefighter father and accountant mother in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Brescia was both a member of the Aryan Republican Army and a part-time student at La Salle University, at the time of his arrest. He was also an army buddy of Timothy McVeigh and one-time resident of Elohim City. Michael William Brescia was recruited for the Aryan Republican Army by Aryan Nations Pennsylvania state leader, Mark W. Thomas. Private lawsuits by Edye Smith and
Oklahoma City bombing conspiracy theories into the United States to fund covert activities and "were to work hand-in-hand w/civilian police agencies to "quiet" anyone whom was deemed a "security risk." (We would be gov't-paid assassins!)" In a 2001 declaration Terry Nichols, McVeigh's convicted co-conspirator, also alleged that McVeigh reported in December 1992 how he "had been recruited to carry out undercover missions" which initially involved visiting gun shows and making contact with a loose network of anti-government and far-right sympathizers. This undercover activity allegedly escalated to armed robberies and a planned bombing under the direction of FBI agent Larry A. Potts. Filmmaker Bill Bean believes