Carol Elizabeth Howe is a former informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Howe became a key figure in Oklahoma City bombing conspiracy theories when she said that she informed authorities of a right-wing extremist plan to blow up a federal building in Oklahoma a few months before the Oklahoma City bombing. Early life Howe was adopted at birth by a wealthy family in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her father, Bob Howe, was a former CEO of Mapco Incorporated, a Tulsa energy conglomerate. Her mother, Aubyn Howe, worked as a philanthropist. The family were members of Southern Hills Country Club. After graduating from Tulsa Metro Christian Academy as an honor student, she lived in several places in the early 1990s, either taking college classes or working a variety of "non-career" type jobs. Fall-in with the radical right According to White Aryan Resistance member Dennis Mahon, Howe wrote to him in 1993 with an alleged interest in joining his group. Howe says she became involved with white supremacists in 1994 after allegedly being injured by a group of African-American men. According to Howe's lawyer, she then called Dial-A-Racist, a local hotline operated by Mahon. During her time as a white-separatist, she obtained a swastika tattoo on her shoulder and an iron cross on her leg. Time at Elohim City In 1994, Mahon began taking 24-year-old Howe to the white-separatist enclave in Elohim City, Oklahoma. While living on the compound for some months, she appeared on German television with Mahon to advocate violence as a means to reach the goal of a racially pure, white society. According to Robert Millar, the founder and spiritual leader of Elohim City, Howe stayed there approximately six weeks before the Oklahoma City bombing. Her relationship with Dennis Mahon had ended after he had apparently raped her, prompting Howe to flee to her grandfather's ranch in Texas. In August 1994, Howe filed a restraining order against Mahon. This attracted the attention of the ATF, who were already investigating Mahon's radical paramilitary group, W.A.R., for suspected violation of federal firearms and conspiracy laws. Carol Howe was then employed by the Bureau as a confidential informant. She was sent to Elohim City for the purpose of gathering intel related to their investigation. Before the Oklahoma City Bombing From August 1994 through March 1995, Howe served as an ATF informant going by the code number CI-183. She was