Jeff Jamar

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Jeff Jamar is an FBI Special Agent in Charge, who rose to notoriety for his role in the 1993 Waco siege.

1982 - Informant Coordinator at FBI headquarters
1990 - SAC for the FBI's Minneapolis field office
1993 - SAC for the FBI's San Antonio field office

On May 25, 1982 Jamar met with FBI agents Fitzpatrick, Montanari, Robert McEleney, SAC Ed Enright, Randy Prillaman, McWeeney, Joe Rush, and supervisors Ronald Reese and Anthony Amoroso, to discuss the Halloran/Wheeler murder. Jamar was involved because two FBI informants were being investigated on charges that they had been complicit in the murder. This perceived "bungling" was later mentioned in a civil suit alleging mass mismanagement of the Informant system. ^[1]

On November 20, 1990 he and Minneapolis police chief declined to comment on the size of the ransom being demanded in the abduction of a local bank chairman.^[2]

In 1993, he referred to the San Antonio prison gang El Eme as the "most dominant" gang within the Texas judicial system.^[3]

[edit] Waco

Jamar served as the siege commander during Waco, aided by agents Robert Ricks, Richard Schwein, Richard Swensen and Richard Rogers.

During numerous press meetings following the siege, he explained the presence of Bradley Armored Vehicles and excused his officers of any guilt in the resulting fire in the Branch Davidian church, suggesting it may have been the result of faulty electrical wiring inside the buildings.

After ordering the charred remains of the religious group's building bulldozed before allowing the Texas Rangers to seize evidence for a commission, he was accused of impeding investigations of the raid. He has since reversed his position on several issues regarding the eventual blaze when evidence has shown his version of events to be false, though he still maintains that Federal agents had no complicity in setting the fire.

He was charged as a defendant in the 1999 civil suit Andrade et al vs Chojnacki et al.

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