Disturbing Tapes The FBI Has That Will Seriously Open Your Eyes

The fire that started in the Branch Davidian compound on April 19, 1993, sent more than just 76 lives up in smoke. Coming at the end of a protracted FBI siege, it burned the Bureau's reputation into a cinder, destroyed trust in the government, and directly motivated the Oklahoma City bombing, according to History. One

The fire that started in the Branch Davidian compound on April 19, 1993, sent more than just 76 lives up in smoke. Coming at the end of a protracted FBI siege, it burned the Bureau's reputation into a cinder, destroyed trust in the government, and directly motivated the Oklahoma City bombing, according to History. One key aspect of this fallout was the suspicion the Feds started the fire. In 1999, tapes emerged that showed how the FBI had cleared the use of potentially flammable teargas against the Davidians (via CNN). But the FBI was ultimately cleared by the emergence of another tape: an audio recording of a group of Davidians starting the deadly fire.

PBS reports that during the siege, the FBI allowed shipments of milk cartons to go through to the Davidians. Unknown to those inside the compound, the cartons were bugged. On April 19, one of those bugged cartons just happened to be lying nearby nine Davidians as they discussed starting a fire.

The tape is eye-opening for being so explicit. One Davidian says "start the fire?" while two others discuss fuel. Yet another says, "We should have gotten some more hay in here." While there's little beyond that, it sounds so much like a bunch of people starting a fire, on a day that a historical fire happened, that it's hard to see what else it could be. For all the spin, this may be the tape that reveals what really happened that day.

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