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And i don't know how it au ties together. i'm still trying to put together a report that i can send to the department of justice that will show enough probable cause that they will allow me to do a full scale investigation. otherwise, i'm limited. my hands are tied. i need a team of agents. i want to develop informants and get this thing moving so i've got realtime information on what's happening. but i'm not allowed to do that until the attorney general says okay. now, i sent my report off in june, and while i wait for the justice department to say okay, robert mathews decides it's time to st...

After all these years of talking and nothing but talking, we have finally taken our first action. we're at war with the system, and it's no longer a war of words. in the books, they're not talking about overthrowing the government. they're overthrowing it. >> and bob mathews took this book as his bible, and he followed it. so in "the turner diaries," the characters did counterfeiting, armored car robbys, executions. and that's what the order did. so martinez was a wealth of information. you might say we had a lot of little pieces and he was able to move them around for us and show us where the...

So we had to take them down. >> we knew that our informant, tom martinez, was our link to mathews and his followers. in about october of 1984, we found out a phone call came in to martinez with instructions as to where to go to meet bob, and that was what we were waiting for. so the real purpose in having martinez meet with matthews is in hopes that matthews is going to bring martinez into the core of the group and we'll have a lot of the members there and be able to make significant arrests. we're going to arrest whomever he meets with. >> the day before thanksgiving in 1984, martinez flew to...

Eight minutes gone. nine minutes gone. let's finish it up. they were very disciplined. in and out of ten minutes and got north of $3.5 million. the ukiah crime was perhaps one of the greatest armered car robberies of all time. for everybody else, this is a bad thing. for me, it was a breakthrough, because bob mathews made a huge mistake. >> during the armored truck armory, mathews was holding a gun, and bob matthews left that gun on the front seat of the armor truck. when we recovered the gun, it took about a week to trace it. we discovered that it had been originally ed by andrew barnhill inn...

>> in june of 1984, bob mathews made the decision to have alan berg assassinated. so he pulls together his team, he takes charles pierce, who is going to be the trigger man, richard scutari, and david lane, and they go to denver, colorado. once they got there, they set up surveillance at his residence. and they wait for him. >> berg opened the door and they opened up on him with a fully automatic machine gun. berg was hit multiple times, and he died at the spot. >> is the order a terrorist operation? >> absolutely. absolutely, 100%. it didn't matter if there were mass casualties. they were wil...