The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has compiled the following Fact Sheet on Ray Lampley, who has been arrested by the FBI in Muskogee, Oklahoma, for plotting to bomb various sites around the country, including two ADL offices.

In November 1995, Ray Lampley, along with his wife and another individual, was arrested in Vernon, Oklahoma, on federal charges of conspiracy to manufacture and possess a bomb. Authorities said the targets of the alleged plotters included the Anti-Defamation League's Houston office, the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, abortion clinics, welfare offices, and gay bars.

According to the Muskogee Phoenix, Lampley said that the Anti-Defamation League was considered a possible target because Jews and international bankers have "robbed this country until the money has no value whatsoever."

Lampley, 65, the leader of the Universal Church of God in Hanna, Oklahoma, is a self-proclaimed "prophet" with virulent anti-Semitic and anti-government views. He also told the Associated Press that he is the leader of the Oklahoma Constitutional Militia, a group based in Hanna.

Lampley has written letters to public figures prophesying their deaths as divine retribution for what he said were their corrupt actions. Bobby Gray, the sheriff of McIntosh County, Oklahoma, said that Lampley "has been sending letters to certain people -- the president, the governor in Texas, and even I got some -- that we were going to be dead within a certain amount of time."

In a September 1994 letter to the Governor of Idaho, Lampley wrote: "According to the plan of Almighty God, each State in this Union was supposed to have been a mini-republic under the GOVERNMENT OF GOD, not under Jewish International Bankers." He said that "this whole national governmental system will now be destroyed," and added: "You will be taken away just as any other real criminal should be and unless there are some real changes on your part before September 20th, this year, you will die."

The letter continued: "Not only have the federal officials corrupted themselves with Jewish Talmudism, most every Church in America has also gone the way of Baal." Claiming that state and local governments have become similarly corrupted, Lampley declared: "It is for this IDOLATRY of the whole of American society that all the calamities of Revelation will now begin to fall upon this nation."

Lampley has also produced a pamphlet entitled "God's Prophets Throughout History." In the tract, which apparently dates from the late 1980's, he prophesied that it was "now a matter of repent or die" for the United States. In the same pamphlet, Lampley attacked the Pope as the Anti-Christ. He wrote that the stage had been set for the "trio, Rome, Moscow, and the United States, to take over the whole world." He declared: "The Beast System is here today. The Anti-Christ for the time being is the Pope. Time is quickly running out for the nation."

Lampley has been a visitor to Elohim City, an encampment on the Oklahoma-Arkansas border associated with the racist and anti-Semitic "Identity Church" movement. Robert Millar, the leader of Elohim City, has reportedly said that Lampley "was supportive of us." Millar said that Lampley has visited the compound twice -- including once after the April 19 Oklahoma City bombing -- and said that Lampley shared concerns that government agents might raid Elohim City.

The criminal complaint against Lampley alleges that he said he wanted to test a bomb on a large rock near the Elohim City encampment. Lampley allegedly tried to construct a bomb the day before his arrest, and bomb-making materials were reportedly recovered from his home.

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