Is it true you were investigating David Koresh’s Branch Davidians long before the Waco massacre?
I was first contacted about five years before the standoff with the federal government. About a year before the raid by the Department of Tobacco, Alcohol & Firearms, I did a deprogramming of a young member. Later, I was contacted by the DTAF – they wanted any information they could get. I put them in touch with the guy whose daughter was literally locked out of the raid, and I worked to deprogramme her during the standoff. As we know, Koresh decided he didn’t want to come out. They set the place on fire and about eighty people died, including many children. Did you have any inkling it was going to end that badly? I considered them the most dangerous cult in America long before they were known. David Koresh was tried for attempted murder in 1987. After that, I received frantic phone calls from concerned family members who wanted to break their loved ones out of the compound. I remember at least one of those people talking about a large amount of firearms and extreme violence. Later, wh
