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McVeigh felt the need to personally reconnoiter sites of rumored conspiracies.

He visited Area 51 in order to defy government restrictions on photography and went to Gulfport, Mississippi to determine the veracity of rumors about United Nations operations.

These turned out to be false ; the Russian vehicles on the site were being configured for use in U. N .- sponsored humanitarian aid efforts.

Around this time, McVeigh and Nichols also began making bulk purchases of ammonium nitrate, an agricultural fertilizer, for resale to survivalists, since rumors were circulating that the government was preparing to ban it.