Fbi Seeks Man With Mcveigh

The FBI is looking for a man they believe sought a remote hideout in the Ozark mountains of Missouri with Oklahoma City bombing suspects Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, CNN and Time magazine reported Sunday.

The FBI wants to question Robert Jacques to help agents reconstruct McVeigh’s and Nichols’ activities leading up to the April 19, 1995, bombing. The network released a sketch of a man believed to be Jacques.

William Maloney, a Cassville, Mo., real estate broker, told CNN that in the fall of 1994, Jacques came to his office with Nichols and a man who called himself Tim.

Jacques did most of the talking and did not say why they were interested in buying land Maloney advertised as “In the middle of nowhere, at the end of a rough road, at the bottom of a hollow … there may be a cave.”

“I asked the question, ‘Were they looking for a place to hide?’ and he didn’t respond to that,” Maloney said. The three men left and never returned, Maloney said.

Several months earlier, Maloney said he got a phone inquiry about the land and asked the caller’s name.

“He says ‘McVeigh,’ and I said, ‘M-C-V-E-Y’ and he said, ‘That’s close enough,”’ he said.

The drawing of Jacques is the only unidentified sketch in the FBI’s files on the case, a Justice Department source told CNN.

Barbara Whittenberg, who runs the Santa Fe Trail Diner in Herington, recalls three men pulling up in a Ryder truck a day or so before the bombing. Two were Nichols and McVeigh, she said.

“The one question I asked was where were they going. And the third person said, ‘Oklahoma”’

Shown CNN’s reproduction of the FBI sketch of Jacques, Whittenberg said, “It looks closer to him than any of them. This is the closest picture I’ve seen yet.”