{"id":18004,"date":"2016-07-29T08:28:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T13:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=18004"},"modified":"2016-07-29T08:28:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T13:28:36","slug":"history-of-domestic-terrorism-the-harvey-casino-bombing-of-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/29\/history-of-domestic-terrorism-the-harvey-casino-bombing-of-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Domestic Terrorism: The Harvey Casino Bombing of 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>One of the most intricate and complex IED&#8217;s ever built was not created in Iraq or Uzbekistan, but right here in the U.S. 36 Years ago. -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Harvey&#039;s Casino Bombing\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1YTmDEQWY2A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"articlePostSubtitle\">\n<div class=\"postSubtitle\">Watch this video of an FBI special agent discussing the most complex IED ever encountered on U.S. soil.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"articlePostBody\">\n<div class=\"articlePostContent\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>On the morning of Aug. 26, 1980, an employee of Harvey\u2019s Wagon Wheel Casino in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, discovered two stacked metallic grey boxes on the casino\u2019s second floor. Unbeknownst to the employee, the boxes had just been delivered to the building by two men posing as delivery guys for IBM. One of them was John Birges, a Hungarian immigrant with a colorful past that included a stint as a Luftwaffe fighter pilot during World War II and eight years in a Siberian gulag.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18005\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/boxes-ied.jpeg?w=620\" alt=\"boxes IED\" width=\"620\" height=\"733\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1980, Birges was living in Fresno, California. He had made millions of dollars in America, but by that point he had lost nearly all of it to gambling \u2014 at Harvey\u2019s. The boxes he left in the casino were accompanied by a<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/archives.fbi.gov\/archives\/news\/stories\/2009\/august\/a-byte-out-of-history-harveys-casino-bomb\/the-extortion-note\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">three-page letter that began<\/a>: \u201cDo not move or tilt this bomb, because the mechanism controlling the detonators in it will set it off at a movement of less than .01 of the open end Ricter scale.\u201d It was a ransom note.<\/p>\n<p>The demand: $3 million or the bomb explodes. The FBI decided to go with a third option: Try to disarm the bomb. Later, agents would claim the bomb was \u201cundefeatable.\u201d To this day, it\u2019s regarded as the most complex improvised explosive device the FBI has ever encountered on U.S. soil. The boxes were packed with nearly 1,000 pounds of dynamite, every ounce of which ripped through the hotel when agents tried to disarm it with C4. Fortunately, because the casino had been emptied, not a single person was harmed.<\/p>\n<p>Birges was eventually arrested and died in prison in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Original Article at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/ied-found-nevada-casino-defeated-fbi-bomb-squad-1980\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=tp-today\">Task and Purpose<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most intricate and complex IED&#8217;s ever built was not created in Iraq or Uzbekistan, but right here in the U.S. 36 Years ago. -SF &nbsp; Watch this video of an FBI special agent discussing the most complex IED ever encountered on U.S. soil. 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