The ATF was formerly part of the United States Department of the Treasury, having been formed in 1886 as the “Revenue Laboratory” within the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Internal Revenue. The history of ATF can be subsequently traced to the time of the revenuers or “revenoors”and the Bureau of Prohibition, which was formed as a unit of the Bureau of Internal Revenue in 1920. It was made an independent agency within the Treasury Department in 1927, was transferred to the Justice Department in 1930, and became, briefly, a division of the FBI in 1933.
When the Volstead Act, which established Prohibition in the United States, was repealed in December 1933, the Unit was transferred from the Department of Justice back to the Department of the Treasury, where it became the Alcohol Tax Unit (ATU) of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Special Agent Eliot Ness and several members of The “Untouchables”, who had worked for the Prohibition Bureau while the Volstead Act was still in force, were transferred to the ATU. In 1942, responsibility for enforcing federal firearms laws was given to the ATU.
In the early 1950s, the Bureau of Internal Revenue was renamed “Internal Revenue Service” (IRS),[8] and the ATU was given the additional responsibility of enforcing federal tobacco tax laws. At this time, the name of the ATU was changed to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division (ATTD).
Chronological History of Events Involving the ATF
Attorney General William P. Barr Announces Launch of Operation Legend
Attorney General William P. Barr announced the launch of Operation Legend, a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative across all federal law enforcement agencies working in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight the sudden surge of violent crime, beginning in Kansas City, MO. Operation Legend was created as a result of President Trump’s promise to assist America’s cities that are plagued by recent violence. Operation Legend is named after four-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed while he slept early in the morning of June 29 in Kansas City, the latest in a ...
Las Vegas Route 91 Country Music Festival (Mandalay Bay) Shooting: The Deadliest Mass Shooting in U.S. History Kills 59, Injures 527. A Massive Cover Up.
Official story from Wikipedia (11/1/17): On the night of October 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, leaving 58 people dead and 546 injured. Between 10:05 and 10:15 p.m. PDT, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nevada, fired hundreds of rifle rounds from his suite on the 32nd floor of the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel. About an hour after Paddock fired his last shot into the crowd, he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His motive is ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel breaks the story of Operation Fearless: An ATF ‘Failed Operation’
While nearly everyone is familiar with Operation Fast & Furious, the failed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) scheme to create facts that would lead to gun control laws in the United States, fewer are familiar with a similar program run in Milwaukee, WI called Operation Fearless. Where Fast & Furious was a combination of maliciousness and epic incompetence that has led to the deaths of hundreds of people, including a US Border Patrol agent, Operation Fearless is a veritable clown car stupidity or another attempt to put guns in the hands of criminals to demonize the ...
NY Times Breaks that U.S. Agents Launder Mexican Profits of Drug Cartels
According to an article in the New York Times that first revealed the DEA money-laundering scheme to the public, U.S. drug agents supervised by the Justice Department likely laundered hundreds of millions in illegal profits — maybe more. The DEA and other agencies also helped send the illicit cash back across the border to Mexico in operations “orchestrated to get around sovereignty restrictions,” the Times reported in the article, headlined "U.S. Agents Launder Mexican Profits of Drug Cartels. “The high-risk activities raise delicate questions about the agency’s effectiveness in bringing down drug kingpins, underscore diplomatic concerns about Mexican sovereignty, ...
Fast and Furious Begins: Secret Government Gun Smuggling Operation
It started during the George W. Bush administration. Back then it was termed “Operation Wide Receiver.” The program later became known as “Gunwalking” and ended up being labeled “Fast and Furious.” An ill-conceived scheme from its outset, it eventually cost the lives of an unknown number of Mexican citizens and one U.S. Border Patrol agent. Operation Fast and Furious began when a local gun store reported to the Phoenix ATF that four individuals had purchased multiple AK-47 style rifles. In November 2009, the Phoenix office's Group VII, which would be the lead investigative group in Fast and Furious, began to ...
OKC Bombing: An Explosion Devastates the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City – An Inside Job Resulting in the Deaths of 168 People
The official narrative is simple: A right-wing extremist and his accomplice struck a blow against the American government by setting off a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, April 19, 1995. The result was 168 dead, including 19 children, and more than 800 injured. The bombing left the American people fearing a new “terrorist” enemy: the home-grown, militia-loving, anti-government extremist. Good story. Not true. The truth about Oklahoma City involved not only a terrible human tragedy but also a story of government conspiracy, media complicity, destruction of evidence, intimidation, and torture. It ...
Waco: 95 Innocent Branch Davidians (Including women and children) vs. Delta Force, CIA, FBI, ATF, and British SAS. Guess Who Wins?
David Koresh, who had become the leader of a religious community that was well liked by their neighbors and had been at the 'compound' for 60 years, became a target of the FBI in February of 1993. A few years previous, Marc Breault, a self proclaimed prophet from Honolulu, had joined the Branch Davidians at Mt. Carmel and tried to take leadership from Koresh, who then asked him to leave. Breault vowed revenge, calling several national agencies making allegations against Koresh of adulterous sex, gun stockpiling, and child abuse. The baseless allegations (investigated and dismissed as baseless by Texas ...
Four Former Clinton Bodyguards are Sacrificially Killed to Justify a Large-Scale Retaliation of the Branch Davidians in Waco?
C. LeBleu, T. McKeaham, R. Williams, S. Willis, bodyguards for Bill and Hillary Clinton, were all killed by gunfire in the illegal Waco, Texas raid on the David Koresh Branch Davidian compound. Attorney General Janet Reno aided the cover-up and Hillary Clinton gave the order according to Linda Tripp (CNN interview) and the FLIR Project. According to Ted L. Gunderson, FBI Special Agent In Charge (ret.), these men were all shot in the head in evident assassinations, not at the hands of the Branch Davidians, who took the wrap and some are serving life prison sentences after being framed. See ...
The ATF is Officially Established as an Independent Bureau within the Treasury Department
In 1972, the ATF was officially established as an independent bureau within the Treasury Department on July 1, 1972, this transferred the responsibilities of the ATF division of the IRS to the new Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. Rex D. Davis oversaw the transition, becoming the bureau’s first director, having headed the division since 1970. During his tenure, Davis shepherded the organization into a new era where federal firearms and explosives laws addressing violent crime became the primary mission of the agency.[9] However, taxation and other alcohol issues remained priorities as ATF collected billions of dollars in alcohol ...
Milton Eisenhower, a Freemason, Releases Final Report of the Biased ‘National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence’ Study
In 1969, a presidential commission called for the confiscation of almost all handguns — and the prosecution of those who would not comply. Established by President Johnson in 1968, the commission, led by Freemason and President emeritus of John Hopkins University, Milton Eisenhower - the younger brother of Dwight D. Eisenhower, made startling recommendations in its report. Eisenhower called for the federal government and the states to confiscate 90% of the 2.4 million handguns then owned by private citizens and to prosecute anyone who refused an order to turn them in. The commission counted 8000 firearms homicides annually and ...
