FBI admits use of incendiary grenades at Waco

The source of the reports on the use of pyrotechnic grenades was the Public Safety Commission Chairman James B. Francis. “There are written reports by Rangers,” Francis told the press, “there is photographic evidence, there is physical evidence, all three of which are problematic” for the federal government’s claim that no grenades were used. A former senior FBI official, Danny Coulson, confirmed to the Dallas Morning News that he had recently learned that two military-type M-651 CS tear gas grenades had been fired on the day of the massacre.