The National Alliance has kept a low profile in Arizona in recent years. Prior to the
Oklahoma City bombing, a local unit comprising members from Arizona and Las Vegas met
under the leadership of Rick Coffman of Fort Mohave, Arizona. Coffman had also operated an
NA phone message service in his home.
In December 1997, Coffman, who said he continued to be a member of the NA, was called
as a prosecution witness at the Oklahoma City bombing trial of Terry Nichols. Coffman
testified that two weeks before the bombing, an individual identifying himself as Tim
Tuttle of Kingman, Arizona, called the NA phone line several times. Tim Tuttle was an
alias used by Timothy McVeigh. Phone records indicate that nine calls were placed by
McVeigh's prepaid phone card to the NA hotline between April 5 and 7, 1995.
According to Coffman, "Tuttle" left an urgent message saying he would be in
Arizona for only a few more days and wanted to talk to someone from the National Alliance.
In a message left the following day, "Tuttle" said that since he did not have a
phone of his own, he would call the hotline at a specific time the following day and hoped
that an NA member would answer the line in person and talk to him. "Tuttle"
called the next day at the specified time and left a final, anxious-sounding message
saying that he would be leaving Kingman soon. Records show that several additional calls
were placed to the NA through McVeigh's calling card, but the caller hung up each time
soon after the recorded message began. Coffman said that he never answered the calls in
person.
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