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I'll chime is on the Rem-Cru stuff... First, it is interesting and worth pursuing.. I would pursue it too, but Eric is elevating an assumption as fact as he always does. Rem-Cru patent 1953 The patent has lots of alloyed combinations and % ranges.. connecting it to the few particles of 100,000 + on Coopers tie is not clear but an extremely vague and unproven assumption. https://www.freepatentsonline.com/2796347.html How many have actually read the patent.. there is no way you can claim as fact that those particles came from Rem-Cru.. The claim that the very few Ti/Antimony particles on the tie are actually from Rem-Cru due to a 1953 patent (about 12 years before the tie existed) is a real stretch. Those particles may have nothing to with Rem-Cru. Tom Kaye didn’t agree, he thought it was pure Titanium plated with antimony.. I don't know about that but there are many other sources of Ti/Antimony that may or may not be patented. For example.. capacitor with titanium and antimony.. https://www.freepatentsonline.com/3564348.html The particles are like a Rorschach test, you can find almost anything you want in them... For Rem-Cru and that patent, I don't see any proof the tie particles came from their lab. However, it is worth looking into.

Yes, didn't really pan out though. That matchbook could have been picked up almost anywhere. It was a correspondence "school".. and the matchbook was just a marketing item.

FBI part #70 https://vault.fbi.gov/D-B-Cooper /d.b.-cooper-part-70-of-70/view

I have obtained more witness images of Cooper... and they definitely show "Latin American" in complexion and features. People who dismiss this description are just wrong. Some are justifying a suspect others just have a misread of the evidence. but the false premise that White/Caucasian meant not "Latin"... in 1971 leads to the wrong conclusion.

At the link on Dr Edwards blog.. Blevins thinks Cooper was a white guy with a tan. Typical nonsense. White, Olive/Latin is generally Mediterranean or Latin American.. Not surprised that Blevins covers for Kenny but Dr Edwards missed this as well. Dr Edwards posted a new TBAR Sat image showing the dredge spoils... but the money find spot was just off the top the image. https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/22463709-d-b-cooper-foia-part-4---tena-bar

Blevins is backing Edwards on his Cooper was "white" error.. because Latin/olive eliminates Christiansen.. Both are wrong, if they did their research they'd find that "Latin" was White/Caucasian back then.. there wasn't the distinction like today. Nobody ever said Cooper had a tan. Witnesses said dark, olive, latin appearance and white/caucasian. https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/22448642-d-b-cooper-ethnicity I have FBI docs nobody else has, both of you are wrong. Cooper had an olive/swarthy complexion and Latin appearance.. if your suspect doesn't have that, he isn't Cooper.

50+ years ago "Latin" was White/Caucasian... Background.. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/08/03/541142339/heres-why-the-census-started-counting-latinos-and-how-that-could-change-in-2020 "in the 1970s, Latino advocacy groups successfully lobbied the federal government to create a separate category for counting Hispanics and Latinos. Before then the government had classified those people simply as white." But it is clear the descriptions included swarthy and olive complexion.. Alice and Lysne said olive. Most of the prominent suspects do not have Cooper's olive/swarthy/Latin complexion...

Dr. Edwards creates a straw-man.. and completely misreads the evidence. https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/22448642-d-b-cooper-ethnicity Latin and White/Caucasian were not distinguished as distinct races/ethnic categories 50 years ago like today they might be. Latin Americans were considered White/Caucasian. Huge miss. The terms then were not exclusionary and I can prove it with exclusive FBI docs. FBI description: Race: White. Complexion: Olive. Latin appearance. Latin Americans were considered White/Caucasians.. All the initial descriptions of characteristics and later the sketch interviews taken in totality clearly indicates Cooper was of "Latin appearance" just as the FBI concluded. Using White/Caucasian to negate "Latin" is a complete misread. Many witnesses who described Cooper as White/Caucasian but didn't use the word Latin also described Latin characteristics which is why the FBI created the overall "Latin appearance" description.. dark eyes, dark hair, curly, wavy marceled hair, olive/swarthy complexion. The sketch revision with witnesses by the FBI states it was to show the swarthy complexion. Trust Me Dr. Edwards,, you've got it wrong. Fifty years ago Latin Americans were considered White/Caucasian. Sketch B after witness input..

The "Dan Cooper comic" is interesting but not definitive.. similar to the red plastic (electrical) tape used for the bomb. Red tape was phasing tape which had a very unique purpose for electricians, coloured tape denotes a specific phase, red is "low voltage, phase b". Most readily available tape is black and obtaining and using red would be unique... That plus the claim that the bomb had an "electrical fuse" and the tie particles matching an electronics environment strongly suggests Cooper was in the electronics field.

The "Dan Cooper" comics were published for Latin America in Spanish by a Mexican publisher. I haven't found all of the editions they published but some were published in 1966/67. Clearly, Cooper was described as Latin/Mexican swarthy etc.. and demanded to fly to Mexico... if there is a comic connection it would be more likely to be to this version.

This is the document that confirms the cigarette butts were destroyed.. The FBI was interested in doing DNA in 1998 and went looking for them.

CP Titanium comes in 4 grades.. one use is woven wire mesh. This piece Tom Kaye found looks like woven wire mesh.

Calame..

Paper's??

Maybe circulated got mistaken with negotiable...

New vid and Discussion with Drew Beason and Nicky B.. Good discussion.. but two things that keep getting messed up. Dating of the tie… Eric messed this up and it keeps getting repeated. I was the one who first dated the tie and posted it, Eric took that and misrepresented it to fit Sheridan. The FBI also messed it up, they asked a Penny’s store manager who said they hadn’t sold them for a year and a half. The FBI did NOT analyze the labels, the tie labels changed over time. The patents on the tie have it manufactured before 1965, after that the patents changed even though the tie looked the same.. The patent gives us the upper bound, the lower bound is about Spring 1964 based on other parts of the labels. To make the timeframe fit his Sheridan narrative Ulis pushed the lower bound to 62/63. This is false. The tie was purchased between about Spring 1964 and Spring 1965 depending on inventory turnover.. Cooper demanding “American” currency and being Canadian. This is a funny one because I agree with the conclusion that he is not Canadian but the argument is wrong. The pilots said “American” currency.. Rataczak later said publicly Cooper asked for “American currency” and in the FBI files Tina said Cooper reiterated his demands to her saying “US currency”.. So, it is extremely strong evidence that Cooper qualified the currency with “American/US”.. Otherwise, Tina and the pilots had to add it. What does it mean.. it means that Cooper has experience with non US currency and likely recently. It does not mean he is Canadian, I don’t believe he is Canadian. It is extremely unlikely somebody who lived in the US their entire life having no experience with other currencies would qualify the currency with “American/US”. Imagine a bank robber asking for American/US currency,,, it doesn't make sense. Cooper could have been a foreigner or an American with a strong international influence.. Cooper was an international worker/traveller with recent experience or future expectation of a non US currency environment.. Finding D.B. Cooper with guest D.B. Cooper Researcher Nicholas Broughton aka “Nicky B.” First, I have the Edwards book and have read most of it.. it is an exceptional book in detail and images. A must have for Cooper sleuths. Edwards tries not to speculate and processes the evidence in a logical/mathematical means. The limitation of that is that you need to have ALL the information to process. A few things where my analysis differs and that is probably due to the information available. The plane was not on autopilot.. Rataczak said he was hand flying the plane joking about the crooked path and even stated he could feel Cooper on the stairs. The FBI files do infer that the plane was on autopilot. Cooper’s LZ was not south of about Battleground/Brush Prairie. Rataczak stated that he believed Cooper jumped around the Lewis R. He also stated Cooper was gone before Portland.. he also stated that when Cooper jumped he was on the radio and stated mark your shrimp boats (radar). He also stated that Cooper jumped between his last comm with Cooper at 8:05 and his (later) call to Soderlind while in the suburbs of Portland. He also stated that the FBI would have the times for those comms. We don’t have that information and when they created the jump zone they had it. Edwards analysis does not include all the info that the FBI/Soderlind had 50 years ago. The stairs never locked down.. the green light never came on. The red light comes on when the lever is moved from the up detent then a button is pressed and the lever is pushed. Cooper probably didn't push the button and the lever didn't activate the stairs. At some point, he returned the lever to up then tried again. In the video interview Edwards kept stressing the FBI LZ near Ariel was wrong and the search was in the wrong area.. This isn’t exactly true. The FBI estimated a preliminary LZ right away which was later expanded after a more thorough data analysis. The FBI LZ went all the way down to Brush Prairie and was searched. Claiming the FBI searched the wrong area using Ariel as the example is misleading, that was not their only search area. My analysis, 99% Cooper jumped between about the Lewis R and Battleground/Brush Prairie just as the FBI/Soderlind calculated. No way he jumps in or next to the Columbia River. Rataczak had already called Soderlind by then. The pressure bump was a separate event. A distinction without a difference.. Rataczak explained it, the pressure gauge was oscillating and when the oscillation gets extreme a pressure bump is felt. The pressure bump was just the last big oscillation. You get a brief movement in the needle to an extreme which is felt physically and later described as a bump. The event occurs in seconds not many minutes. Also, in the video Edwards makes what I think is a gross error. He downplays Cooper’s Latin description. First, this is a misread of the witness accounts.. overall most said he had Latin/Mexican/American Indian features/characteristics and swarthy/olive complexion. Even the FBI concluded that. But Edwards dismisses it because Cooper was also described as white/Caucasian.. this is a big error because back in 1971 there was no Latino category, that came a few years after for the census. Latin people were called white and Caucasian back then, now they would categorized as Latino. Back then Latin Americans were described as white and Caucasian. I also have witness evidence that nobody else has. Edwards claims Cooper was not in WW2... not sure why, his estimated age makes it entirely possible. Agree.. The wind was an estimate,, the wind was shifting around at that time. The "FBI” flightpath was correct, there is no evidence to support the Western flightpath. All evidence supports the "FBI" path.. (within the 1 mile error) The placard did not come from inside NORJAK, we proved this with the interior image and the FBI stated it came from the outside of the plane and could have come from any passing 727. Cooper was in Vietnam. D. B. Cooper and Flight 305: Reexamining the Hijacking and Disappearance W Dr. Robert H. Edwards

Be careful reading the FBI docs about sketch B.. Around Sept '72 the sketch was shown to witnesses. Their criticisms were incorporated into a final sketch B released later. Most of the witness criticisms were incorporated into the final sketch. Developing sketch B was a process.. check the dates on the docs.

Tina also said Cooper's suit was brown. Overcoat was black.

Hair sample collected insufficient to determine overall colour... of course, the hair may not be Cooper's at all.

Sketch "B" was a process.. Witness were shown one in 1972 and modifications were made for the final release in 1973.

Yes, something big.. I can't explain it here at this time.

Robert Gregory, a paint shop co-owner described Cooper's suit as Russet.. Russet can range from light to a very dark near black.

FBI part #69 up https://vault.fbi.gov/D-B-Cooper /d.b.-cooper-part-69-of-69/view

Ulis gets it wrong,,, again He is looking for the hair sample,, thinks it is lost in Quantico.. Nope,, the very latest mention in the current FBI docs July 2002 has it going to Seattle FBI.