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Around 75 agents, many hidden in cattle trailers, would rapidly descend on the compound, serve the warrants, arrest koresh, search the property, and seize the weapons. >> i thought the plan had it not been compromised would have worked. >> but the plan was compromised. that morning a local news cameraman got lost trying to find the branch davidian compound. he asked a mail carrier for directions, and indicated there might be some kind of raid. the mailman was a branch davidian. under cover agent robert rodriguez was at the compound when koresh received the warning. >> robert immediately excuse...

Real progress and that we can bring this thing to an end real quickly. >> after the attorneys went in, there was -- david said that he was going to write his manuscript of the meanings of the seven seals. >> supposedly the manuscript will be koresh's proof that he is the lamb of god. at first koresh says it will take him two days to write about each seal. then it becomes two weeks, and then he says it will take a year. >> had there been serious preparation of the manuscripts, we would have waited. but there was none. >> on the 49th day of the siege, attorney general janet reno approves the bur...

Fact that we were able to accomplish that. >> 27 children remained inside the compound. >> we continued to press david on that. david finally became very upset with the negotiator, and he stopped and yelled at him. he said, hey, you don't understand. the rest of these children are my children. they're not coming out. they're not coming out. the battle of armageddon was on. iwe don't back down. we only knowirection: up so we're up early. up late. thinking up game-changing ideas, like this: dozens of tax free zones across new york state. move here. expand here. or start a new business here... an...

More significant glimpses of the disingenuous nature of how david was dealing with us as far as promises and truthfulness. >> i believe that was our last best chance to get him to ever come out. he was fatigued. he was wounded. he was hurt. we had been working on him for three days. but at the very last moment he couldn't do it. >> if i say i'm christ, the proof is if i can open up the seals or not. >> he couldn't leave this place where he was god with unlimited sexual favors and walk out to a cold jail cell. he tricked us. he fooled us. he played with us. >> on day six of the standoff

That morning a local news cameraman got lost trying to find the branch davidian compound. he asked a mail carrier for directions, and indicated there might be some kind of raid. the mailman was a branch davidian. under cover agent robert rodriguez was at the compound when koresh received the warning. >> robert immediately excused himself. i had to leave. david said, no, stay. robert said, no, i got to go. as robert tells me, he walks out the door and says, i was just waiting for them to put a bullet in my back. >> agent rodriguez went straight to his commanders. >> he said they're looking at u...