Man Tells ‘Hard Copy’ He Knows Olympic Bombers

The nationally syndicated television show “Hard Copy” has obtained a video statement from a man who claims to have information about the Olympic Park bombing.

The man, identifying himself as Craig Rathburn, suggests he was unwittingly dragged into the conspiracy by those responsible for the bombing.

“I don’t know how high this goes, or who’s all involved, but I think I was used like Lee Harvey Oswald on this one,” Rathburn said in a promotional segment broadcast Tuesday night.

The show is scheduled to be broadcast in the Inland Northwest tonight at 11 on KAYU, channel 28.

Rathburn claims he met three men in Tulsa, Okla., in April 1995 and maintained contact with them for the next year, according to “Hard Copy” spokesman Gary Rosen.

Rathburn later met one of those men and a fourth unidentified man in Atlanta during last summer’s Olympics.

In a videotape sent to the television show, Rathburn identifies the three men he met in Oklahoma by name, Rosen said.

Rosen didn’t say whether there’s a connection to suspects in a series of bombings and robberies last year in the Spokane Valley.

No further information is offered about Rathburn, who “Hard Copy” describes as a “dead-ringer” match to an FBI artist’s sketch distributed in March.

Rathburn said he was told by the two men in Atlanta that he should meet someone near the spot where the bomb exploded.

The July 27 bombing, which killed a woman and injured 111 people, remains unsolved despite a $500,000 reward.

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