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Re "purpose of the forum"... is anyone in contact with Gossett's son? (I know he is on facebook and at least one other poster here is too - has there been any contact?) Any chance of getting him on here to give his "evidence"? I do think Snow is right, at the very least the forum has collated and discussed a lot of other stuff out there that may have relevance to the case - the 727 airdrops, the tests on the bills etc. I certainly don't buy any of the FBI coverup/CIA covert operations stuff and continue to believe Cooper's best chance of surviving the jump would have been if he had jumped before. I am certainly not discounting the fact that he remains dead and hidden somewhere. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Yes they were, but what caught my eye about the story was the bit about the FE having oil and hyrdaulic fluid all over him. Did he pick that up from rolling on the tarmac or did he get it from the plane?? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Jo, can you get hold of one of Duane's mugshots by any chance - there would be a frontal view available there, so no need for morphing? Would there have been one done within a few years of the hijacking? Q to those who know: would he have had to take any glasses off for the mugshot? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

I'm reminiscing now... I had a Delta Airpass (I believe they are no longer available), which cost me $400 for one month of travel anywhere within the continental US. The 2 restrictions were that it was available to non-US passport holders only and that you had to fly standby, which normally wasn't a problem in terms of getting on the flight you wanted. They were very popular for tourists for obvious reasons, a cheap way to get around a really big country, and I met a number of other people using them. Early on someone showed me how to see on the timetable which flights they served meals on (remember that ) so the lunch and supper flights tended to have lots of backpackers on them

I was in SLC once too, and my photos (pre digital, and I have no idea where the negatives are) happen to be to hand. I have a photo of what in Jo's pic is entitled "Assembly Hall", though I have it labelled as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Hall. (If that is the one with the amazing acoustics then I am pretty sure I would have labelled it right. But it was nearly 20 years ago now and I can't say for sure, my memory not being as fantastic as some other people's evidently are. I can however remember the camera I took it with, it was an Olympus 35mm point & shoot.) Should I blow up the photo and post it here to see who we can see in the foreground? I did my "big tour" of the US that year. Other stops therefore included Seattle as well as Florida. I'm very sorry to report I was flying Delta and not Northwest around the country though, because otherwise I could have concluded that I am... somehow involved in the case, because I was travelling to all these significant places. Oh yes, I did actually visit the FBI in D.C. as well (to do the tour), nothing like being right under their noses to throw them off! Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

No, I don't know Tim Allen or Wilson. But this guy was the key to solving the case, right? so Cooper is Wilson?? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Maybe no-one CARES who it was. Certainly you've been told time and again by just about everyone else on the forum that these "teasers", which never lead anywhere or lead to completely insignificant things, just irritate people. But if I had to guess I'd say it was the victim of some typical petty criminal act of Duane's. What is the significance of the "before hair transplant" thing? The guy could have been blackmailed because hair transplants are against his religion? Duane wanted to start a hair transplant clinic and this was his first "before" picture? It was Elvis gone bald when he went into hiding after having faked his death and the chevrons showed membership of a "mojo rising rock stars in hiding" club? What? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Not just rounds. At the first DZ I jumped at, just about everyone landed on the wrong side of the barb wire fence at some stage. My excuse was a SL jump when I didn't do the spot, to be fair to the JM though the wind at 3K was 90 degrees to the wind on the ground and I was the first person to jump that day... Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Nothing else had found Cooper, and it wasn't a high priority (or any priority actually) for the FBI, so I don't think Carr's method was irrational at all ... "we have no resources to throw at this case so let's open it up to the public again". It wouldn't be the first time the FBI has found a criminal after a couple of decades - what about that woman who was part of a terrorism group in the 70s (i think it was) who got discovered living quietly as a suburban housewife recently? I can't remember all the details of that case, but I'm sure she wasn't found because the FBI reopened and launched a full scale investigation... Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Perhaps you should get un-upset with Carr. His statement that he could find no FBI records of the FBI having taken the registration records at the time won't change just because someone (whose story they may or may not be able to trust/verify), came in decades later and said they did... I'm beginning to think Carr was simply being the ultimate rational person by leaving this forum Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Don't forget the OR - or he takes it back to Asia, or Africa, or somewhere else where dollars are used and tend to stay there... Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

377, as always is the calm voice of reason. Probably the only such one in this forum Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Georger, this (the bolded bit) is what I (and Jo) refer to: I took it as irony, Jo appears to insist that you have postively identified someone as a CIA agent and thus yourself must work for a govt agency. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

WTF are you talking about? What ID of CIA agents? G. Chevron Man. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Actually, plenty of them have. Have you read any of the links I've posted? It is almost impossible to keep anything secret unless only one or two individuals were involved, especially in the internet age. As for wide-ranging conspiracies involving multiple govt agencies and individuals lasting for decades... forget it. And anyway, while all the CIA etc links are entertaining and interesting, so far there is ZERO evidence to prove any linkage whatsoever to DB Cooper. The closest link might - MIGHT - be that Cooper knew about the CIA 727 airdrops. That is a long way away from anything you have. I agree with 377's responses to all your "WHY"s - the FBI clearly has better uses for its time and resources. You know, like going after known criminals, or people they are pretty sure have actually committed crimes. If they had to prove people were not criminals, they would have close to 300m people to do it with. Wanna guess how much your taxes would have to go up to pay for that? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Georger, best you be careful with what you post, seems some people miss the irony and take you at your word. Like your, um, "identification" of CIA agents... Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

OMG please do NOT publicize that... every "PR" type shot I have ever had taken is awful. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

And therein lies the rub. The rest of us mostly or all try to keep an open mind on the case; you try to make the facts fit Duane and ignore (simplify) them if they don't. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Snow, you're a star. I tried to find it on Google and couldn't! At least my memory is not altogether faulty for something I studied 20 years ago Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Many years ago when I was studying, I recall a journal article (I think it was by Clower and Leijonhufvud but my memory may be faulty on the particular article) where they published a theory claiming that they were "reading between the lines" of Keynes. One of the critiques of the article, also published, accused them of not so much reading between the lines as reading right off the edge of the page. I think that conclusion can be well applied to certain of the arguments here Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

I'm still working on this one. I am inches from blowing this case apart. The total solution. That picture is linked in some way to Duane's past - Duane didn't make those items appear ( the ticket, the stub and the bag) like magic and he didn't make them - so if Duane is not Cooper ---who did he know who may have been - or who did he take them off of? Just because the picture is linked to Duane's "past" doesn't automatically mean it is linked to the items you mention. How do you make the connection, Jo? Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Laos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Vietnam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Cambodia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Indonesia Edited to add: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studies_and_Observation_Group Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Nice link for anyone who really wants to expand the "possibles" pool to thousands of people: http://www.sfahq.com/ Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

Awww c'mon 377, how is anyone supposed to come up with a credible conspiracy theory when you say stuff like that?? Happythoughts, I could give you the list of unknown CIA agents. But then I'd have to kill you. And in all conscience I could not XPD someone with such a nice name. Skydiving: wasting fossil fuels just for fun.

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