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Gila Bend, Arizona place

also: Gila Bend, Gilded Bend, Arizona, Gilda Bend Mountains, Gelda Bend River

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Gila Bend train derailmentevent · 6Phoenix, Arizonaplace · 4Arizonacountry · 1Sons of Gestapoorganization · 1Amtrakorganization · 1FBIintelligence service · 1San Diegocountry · 1Riverside County Sheriff's Departmentorganization · 1

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The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing pt II
▶ 21:01 in downtown DC, perpetrated by the CIA and their Cuban exiles. So just put that in perspective. This isn't a one-off. Moving on to chapter 33. This is the incident at Gila Bend, G-I-L-A Bend.…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing pt II
▶ 22:01 Domestic terrorists calling themselves Sons of Gestapo had derailed a passenger train near Hyder, Arizona. According to news reports, sometime around 1 a.m. in the morning, an Amtrak Sunset Limited passenger train en route from Phoenix to S…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing pt II
▶ 22:29 This placed the location in Maricopa County, just outside of Phoenix. Two investigative agencies would come into play, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and the FBI. Three points were made by the news media. The rails had been sabotaged …
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing pt II
▶ 28:45 As he dissected the terrain features surrounding the crash site and noted several things that made him believe the job had been planned by professionals that knew exactly what they were doing. First, the railroad tracks ran fairly straight …
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing pt II
▶ 29:45 The aviation sectional map showed the bridge to cross a wash at the north end of a U-shaped valley. Mountains surrounded the sites on the north, west, and east. The most logical access route would have been from the south, which is fairly f…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing pt II
▶ 30:16 Gelda Bend River. Though a dirt service road ran along the tracks, the distance they would have had to travel from and back a Securitas route would have been approximately 38 miles. Highway 8, which runs from Eloy, which is 30 miles south o…