APut 05/06 0832 Dorr


   SPOKANE,  Wash. (AP) -- A white supremacist who pleaded guilty
to federal counterfeiting charges says the FBI  set  him  up  and
that  others were more involved than he was in counterfeiting and
bombings last year.

   David Ross Dorr said Tuesday in a jail interview that  an  FBI
informant  who  infiltrated  the Church of Jesus Christ Christian
(Aryan Nations) made printing plates for counterfeit money.

   "I'm telling you the plates were made by  (the  informant)  at
the  Aryan  Nations  church," said Dorr, former security chief at
the cult's headquarters near Hayden Lake, Idaho.

   In an interview  with  The  Spokesman-Review  at  the  Spokane
County  Jail,  Dorr  refused to say where or when the bogus bills
were printed.  He also refused comment on his reported role in  a
series of bombings last September in Coeur d'Alene.

   It was his first interview since he was arrested Oct. 2.

   Dorr also said his former friend, Robert Pires, "is one of the
biggest people" involved in the bombings.

   Pires  gave  the FBI information on the bombings, then pleaded
guilty to counterfeiting  and  bombing  charges  and  is  now  in
prison.

   "I'm telling you that I was set up by the FBI," said Dorr, 36,
a  former  reserve  sheriff's  deputy in California. "That's all.
Look at the pieces.  They all fit."

   Dorr was  sentenced  to  six  years  in  prison  Friday  after
pleading guilty  to  two  counterfeiting charges.  He is awaiting
trial in  Kootenai  County,  Idaho  on  charges  related  to  the
bombings.

   Assistant U.S. attorney Earl Hicks disputed Dorr's claim about
the informant and questioned the timing of his statement.

   "It seems very interesting now, that Dorr says (the informant)
was  the person who made the plates when, if Dorr had advised the
government earlier, it would have been  helpful  to  him,"  Hicks
said.

   Dorr  said  the  paid  FBI  informant  worked  as the official
photographer during last summer's Aryan World  Congress  and  had
access to the Aryan Nations darkroom.

   The  printing  plates  and press used to manufacture more than
$28,000 in counterfeit  $20  bills  possessed  by  Dorr  and  his
friends, Edward and Olive Hawley, have not been found.

   The  Hawleys  were  caught  with 60 bogus bills at the Spokane
Interstate Fair, and another  $27,000  in  counterfeit  $20s  was
found in  a  search  of  the  Dorr  home  near Athol, Idaho.  The
Hawleys also pleaded guilty to counterfeiting.

   The identity of the informant reportedly was revealed to Aryan
Nations officials after the mid-July gathering by former  Spokane
police Detective Dan Newlun, the newspaper reported Sunday.

   Newlun,  an  admitted cocaine addict, resigned from the police
force in June.  He had worked with the informant on drug cases.

   Dorr said that he suspected in 1985 that the  man  might  have
been an FBI informant.

   He  said  he warned Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler of the
possibility before the congress, but Butler didn't seem  to  care
because "he didn't have anything to hide."

   Butler  was  indicted  last month on federal sedition charges.
He is recovering from heart bypass surgery performed last  Friday
in Spokane.

   Dorr  said  he  granted  the  interview  against  his lawyer's
advice, because he was angry at the way he was treated  by  Hicks
and U.S. District Judge Justin Quackenbush.

   Dorr   said   the   usual  sentence  for  such  counterfeiting
convictions is 54 months, and he got six years.

   "I was  sentenced  for  my  alleged  criminal  activities  and
affiliations  with  the  Aryan Nations, period," he said. "I feel
like I've been violated, like my wife and I have been raped."

   Dorr disavowed any involvement with  The  Order  II,  a  group
federal  authorities  say  intended  to use counterfeit money and
bank robberies to fund a race war for a whites-only homeland.

   "There's no such thing (as The Order II)," Dorr said.

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