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Article: UNDERCOVER AGENTS INFILTRATED SECT.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- March 3, 1993
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Byline: New York Times
Undercover agents penetrated the fortified compound outside Waco, Texas, by posing as members of the Branch Davidian cult, and told officials that Sunday mornings would be the safest time to seize weapons and arrest the group's leader, officials of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said in Washington on Tuesday.
They gave this account of the bureau's raid on Sunday, which left four agents dead:
On the recommendation of Phil Chojnacki, the senior ATF agent in the Houston office, the raid was approved by Stephen E. Higgins, a career official at the bureau and its director since 1983.
The undercover ...