Not only that, he knew the town police chief, and was essentially friends with him. The police chief tried to get the BATFfu, to let him talk Koresh out. The guy was doing a pretty good job of it until they cut him off.
They didn’t want them coming out alive. After day one, all they wanted was vengence.
Some of the BATF and FBI people should be in prison today for what they did there. The KGB or the NAZIs couldn’t have done a better job of Shoot, Shoveling, and Shutting up.
Some of those guys, I blieve it was the FBI agents went before Congress and blatantly lied, while the Congress-critters stat there and nodded off.