The group consensus was they would try to create a tool, a shape-charge tool that could disrupt the device, basically cut it in half-take the brains in the top box away from the brawn in the bottom box. When I got out there and got the full story it was reported that somewhere in the middle of the night these fellows delivered this bomb on a cart or a dolly, rolled it into the casino main floor into an elevator and took it up to the administrative offices with a cover over it that said IBM, and it was ostensibly a delivery of a piece of office equipment. There were layers of rubber and metal on the inside of the metal box so that of an entry was attempted-a drilling or some inspection entry was made-that that contact would function the bomb. Those screws were attached to wires and contacts so that if they were removed that would detonate the device. The device was enclosed in a metal box and the lid of the box was secured by some flat head screws around the perimeter of the lid. There were eight fusing systems, as it turned out. What we know about it afterwards is that it virtually was undefeatable. This device was a pretty sophisticated, quite complicated piece of machinery unlike anything we'd seen before, or anybody in the bomb disposal business had ever seen before. And that if the demand was met he would give instructions as to how to disable the bomb. He said in this very involved letter that the device could not be disabled or moved. He chose Harvey’s casino because he had lost money there. It was an extortion to get money to save his business. was the principal person involved in this case, along with his two sons, two other accomplices, and his girlfriend. Harvey's bomb was probably for me the biggest event, or the biggest bombing case I was ever involved with.Īs the case developed we came to know that John Birges Sr. Narrator: Chris Ronay, retired FBI Special Agent
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