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New Quiz! Why doesn't the FBI talk to Bobby Blevins if they let Geoffrey Gray search their files and hang-out in the evidence room? Vote Now! 1. Geoffrey is much cuter than Bobby. 2. Geoffrey's day job is writing for New York Magazine and Bobby's busy cleaning toilets, proving once again that it's "Who you know, Not what you know." 3. Geoffrey is more skilled at spinning the story the FBI's way. 4. Bobby's an asshole and no one can stand being in the same room with him. 5. Bobby's invitation to review the files got lost in the mail. 6. Budget cut-backs. Can only allow so many journalists in the evidence room at one time. 7. FBI is afraid that Bobby's going to find some real doo-doo and mess up everything for everybody. 8. It's a family thing. Georger can't stand Bobby, and G's relatives don't want to rile up the old man. 10. Fred Gutt wants to have Bobby up to the office, but Ayn is still hung-up on Alex Hannaford and his British accent. Alex is friends with Geoff, but Alex loves the Hamma Hamma, too. It's complicated... Addendum: 11. Skipp already talked with the FBI, who ruled out Kenny C, which makes talking to Bobby moot.

I'm confused Bobby. Above you seem to say that the FBI should be above reproach even though they have failed to solve Norjak. Then you go on to say that the FBI is "not perfect." Then you go on to cite their long history of keeping us safe. I'm not looking to trash the FBI and their long history of public service, only solicit attitudes on what folks think is the FBI's problem with Norjak.

Quiz Update So, why can't the FBI solve Norjak? Readers have offered a few more options, so I have expanded the list. Here are your choices: 1. Unlucky. 2. Solid, but they need more resources, another 1,000 agents and $100 million should do it. 3. Top-notch, but some crimes are just unsolvable. 4. Federal bureaucracies are like women: hard to manage, never on time, and rarely get the job done. But they look good doing whatever it is that they do. 5. Okay as cops, but they need more time because DB Cooper is a complicate case with multiple jurisdictions, no hard evidence, etc.... 6. Sloppy at times, but basically decent. 7. Better than NCIS! 8. Left-wing, pinko, liberal Democrat crap like Prince Bruce have NO IDEA about the FBI and shouldn't even be asking this question. 9. Capable and hard-working, but the leadership is poor. 10. Slicker-than-spit in running the cover-up. 40 years and counting, and only Coss had to get whacked.

Three Seven-Seven, the COOPER exhibit at the WSHM had a Cooper Vane displayed not too far from your twenty! Unfortunately, it was not presented in an eye-grabbing manner, so most people just walked past it. I wouldn't have noticed it if it wasn't for Meyer Louie, who at EVERYTHING up close. He spotted it and asked me how it worked. It was fun swinging the vane back and forth - it had a pretty good spring on it. The American Airlines 727 displayed at the Museum of Flight also has a Cooper Vane installed. It's actually quite small. But it does the job!

HELLO OUT THERE TO ALL YOU VIEWERS WHO DON'T POST! 147 folks have viewed the above post in the past eight hours and only one person posted a response. If you are shy but would like to vote, you can send me your tally via email if you would like: bruce smith (one word) at rainier connect (one word) dot com . Also, if you think more categories should be added, please be my guest.

You could point to any number of reasons why the FBI has failed to solve Norjak..." Yup, exactly. That's what I'm trying to do - "point to the reasons why the FBI has failed to solve Norjak" and determine how that has happened. Okay, so you say the FBI is top-notch but somehow some crimes are just unsolvable. Hmmm. Nevertheless, how would you characterize the FBI losing their top piece of evidence, the eight cigarette butts? Is that the hallmark of a top-notch organization? Bobby, you say the FBI is top-notch, but just "looking in the wrong place." So, how, or why, does a top-notch organization look in the wrong place? Basically I'm asking: Can a top-notch LE look in the wrong place and still be top-notch, especially when you have been pointing out the correct place for the past five years?

Another Public Service Announcement and Quiz Parrot Man at the Shutter site raises an interesting point about the FBI. In one of his comments he says, "The FBI are not dummies." Hence, the question: What are the FBI? If not "dummies," then how can the FBI in the Norjak investigation be best described? Here are your choices: 1. Unlucky. 2. Solid, but they need more resources, another 1,000 agents and $100 million should do it. 3. Top-notch, but some crimes are just unsolvable. 4. Federal bureaucracies are like women: hard to manage, never on time, and rarely get the job done. But they look good doing whatever it is that they do. 5. Okay as cops, but they need more time because DB Cooper is a complicate case with multiple jurisdictions, no hard evidence, etc.... 6. Sloppy at times, but basically decent. 7. Better than NCIS! 8. Left-wing, pinko, liberal Democrat crap like Prince Bruce have NO IDEA about the FBI and shouldn't even be asking this question.

Bruce, please note somewhere in your list that, despite Jo's claims, Georger was not responsible for JFK's death and that I was NOT related to Duane Weber. Robert99 You have my deepest sympathies, Robert99. As for Georger not killing JFK, I thought Jerry Warren was the Man With the Black Umbrella, and had been cleared recently by 20/20. Along those lines, Netflix is showing a wonderful documentary on the JFK shooting and presents compelling information that JFK's killing shot was an accidental discharge from a Secret Service M-16 kept in the following car.

Public Service Announcement Jo is having trouble getting her book on Duane written despite years of encouragement from others, such as yours truly. Plus, the Duane story is getting thicker by the day and his contact list is growing far beyond what most of us can remember. So, I think it is time we helped Jo and started a list of Duane's buddies. Here's what I remember: 1. Duane is related to Boeing's Stan Gilliam through his mother. 2. Duane met Mel Wilson in Florida, back when. 3. Duane was John C Collins, and a John C collins stayed in a Portland area motel on November 24, 1971, or thereabouts.\ 4. Duane knew Richard Tosaw, somehow, maybe through his brother John.

I concur, Bob.

Galen has asked me to post this addendum to the question, Is Jo a whacko? "Please don't forget to add at the DZ what I stated about Richard Tosaw and Jo. Tosaw told me that Jo was a "disturbed, nasty old lady, who contrives stories to fit her agenda." I concur with those comments. That's why Tosaw instructed his law office staff to hang-up whenever Jo called. And they did. Please put this at DZ, Bruce."

Ahem, Does anyone know what has happened to Al Di? Any recent sightings? Any corroboration on his identity? I'm working the Al Di chapter, so I've started wondering again... BTW: Go Hawks! Today is the ninth day of rain and fog in a row, but Seattle is such as great place to be right now....

How wacky is Jo? One more. George Nuttall can be added to the list

My favorite play was when Chancellor jumped over both his lineman and the Carolina center to block the field goal - twice! BTW: Thank Gawd I don't live in Green Bay. Whew, another game at 15 degrees. Although eight straight days of fog and drizzle is getting to me...

As Mrs. Cooper has indicated, there are multiple correct answers to the question. But the one I had in mind is that all three - Waugh, Mitchell and Galen, all told me that they thought Jo was "Whacko." Plus, all three had an altercation with Mrs. Cooper in some fashion and have cut off all contact with her. Ironically, I do not consider Jo to be "Whacko." Obsessed perhaps. Zealous, single-minded, primal - those are all qualities I see in her.

Yes, Boys and Girls, it's time for another: DB COOPER QUIZ Question: What do the following all have in common? 1. Sgt M Billy Waugh 2. Passenger Bill Mitchell 3. Galen Cook To win, email me with the answer, and I'll give you a shout-out in my new book. Or wait until tomorrow, and I'll post the answer here!

You're missing a good story. It's a novel based on the discussion my staff and I had in the aftermath of 9-11 and the Anthrax scare- what would we do if Tacoma got hit with a terrorist attack and went into a shutdown and we had all of our kids to take care of for days and weeks with no additional staff coming in. I picked the scenario of a suitcase nuke going off in the Hilltop and my facility, that I called Unity House in the book, has to learn how to take care of ourselves. We form the guys into a super-dooper Boy Scout outfit called the Men of Honor, much like the Mountain Scouts and the Guardian Angels of Curtis Sliwa's fame. We render aid to our neighbors and become a beckon of help and survivability to South Tacoma. The the Army comes in and we partner up with them, donning radiation suits, pulling sick people out of their homes, and transforming Unity House into a medivac station. Then, radiation sickness kicks in....

Bruce Smith: ***I'd love to see their home! And I'd love to talk with the social workers (and their supervisors) who placed HUNDREDS of foster kids there! I'd also like to talk with their accountant. Let's see, foster kids pay $1,000 - $6,000 per month depending on psychological and physical needs, times 350 divided by 35 years, multiplied by 12 months in a year.... ...Gawd, I've run out of fingers..... Help, Bobby, you're good in math... Figures. Bruce Smith would take something wonderful, something not done for money so much, but to help kids...a respected and underappreciated thing like foster parenting, and try to twist it into something ugly. And by the way, Bruce...have you actually raised any kids? It's an expensive proposition all around. I should have known better than to try and answer your question about the location of the Amboy chute. This is what happens when you try to be honest with people in Cooperland and provide them information. They just twist it around and try to mold it into an ugly thing. Why? Well...I already SAID why when I spoke about the three types of people in Cooperland. This is the THIRD group, of which you are a member Bruce, IMHO. You may not fit all the criteria, but you belong there for sure: This is why I didn't make the final report on KC public this time, and why the names of any new witnesses and their contact information and testimony will only be provided to the Seattle FBI and legit media. Some of you out there in Cooperland (unfortunately) cannot be trusted. As far as you, Bruce...if you ever got a second interview with some decent information from a Cooper witness, that would be a miracle to equal the parting of the Red Sea. When I posted that up about the couple, I thought you would contact me privately for their address or something, rather than make a bunch of ugly comments. I'm glad now I didn't just take the initiative and send you their information. You live and you learn. I still want to do their story for a book, although I had put that off due to other obligations. Now that I have their email, I will make sure to copy over your post about them as a warning, should you attempt to contact them. Basically, no matter what the reason seems to be, you alienate most of the people you interview. I can't believe that at one point I was ready to pony up hundreds of dollars to help you publish your Cooper book. WTF was I thinking... By the way...the basic foster care rates in Washington depend mostly on age, with the exception of Special Needs. Runs per diem (per day) about 13-19 dollars, plus an allowance for books and school supplies. (about 35 a month) More than half of states, Washington included, pay below what it is estimated it actually costs to raise a child. More than half of foster parents in Washington receive no more than the Basic Rate, the allowance for school supplies, a modest allowance for clothing, and $30 for birthdays. You think you can raise ten kids on that kind of money? Sure you can. Only if you have an outside job as well. According to the tables in the recent report (attached) Washington pays about 55% of what it actually costs to raise a child, overall. You owe those people a public apology for sure. But you won't do it. You don't have the guts to admit when you're wrong. I used to work for two different agencies that specialized in the needs of foster kids. I was a family and child therapist. In one agency I worked mostly in the family homes of my clients. The second agency was a residential facility for teen-aged young men accused of sexual crimes, or were "SA, " sexually aggressive, which basically means they did something naughty but the cops did not have enough evidence to get a conviction. The dollar figures I mentioned above are the ones I heard mentioned daily by the social workers and case managers. I've written about my experiences in the residential facility, and the title of the book is: The Men of Honor of Unity House. The first dozen chapters have been posted in the Mountain News, is you're interested.

I'd love to see their home! And I'd love to talk with the social workers (and their supervisors) who placed HUNDREDS of foster kids there! I'd also like to talk with their accountant. Let's see, foster kids pay $1,000 - $6,000 per month depending on psychological and physical needs, times 350 divided by 35 years, multiplied by 12 months in a year.... ...Gawd, I've run out of fingers..... Help, Bobby, you're good in math...

The lady in the Ariel video I did for 2012 watched the FBI digging it out, and talked to the property owners. They were neighbors. She and her husband are more or less lifetime residents of the Amboy area. They have raised, or had in their home at different times, about 350 foster children for the State of Washington over maybe the last 35 years, maybe a little longer. I spoke to the wife on camera, the husband off-camera. They are telling the truth. I have their names, but I never tried to contact them after Ariel, although I gave them a card because I was interested in doing their life story. Not about Ariel...but about all those kids. Really NICE folks for sure. Yup, I remember the video - and the folks. What they told you sounds very similar to what I heard from Dona and bunches of people in Amboy. They knew details, knew the property owners - lived down the street, played with the kids, etc. but it was all a No Show. When Meyer and I went looking at the place they indicated, the people there either had no idea what we were talking about or directed us to someplace new. That's why I asked you for the contact information of the people you spoke with so I could corroborate what they said. This blabby-town talk is part of the Amboy story, perhaps even the dominate one. Basically, why is all this crap going on?

Here's what I know, Mark: 1. Bradley is incommunicado. He's not talking to anyone, as far as I can see. Plus his wife isn't talking, either, and she was the more social one. The publishing company has also clammed up. They're in the UK, and they sent me a copy for a media review, but I guess they didn't like what I had to say. They're not chatty at all. Sigh. Oddly, Bradley has a great story to tell, but it would be hard to tell it - his uncle killing himself in Bradley's house because of an apparent depression brought on by the behaviors of Bradley's father in some kind of warped brotherly relationship. Lots of guilt in that one, and the allusions Bradley offered make it sound like Jumping Jack did some crime and the brother was some kind of accomplice. Jack sounded like a real sleaze ball, too. Brad doesn't seem able to tell that story at the moment, but maybe one day. 2. Amboy Chute: As far as I know, no one knows exactly where the chute was found, where it is currently, or what else is in the hole/ground. Except for the feds and the property owner, I guess. Meyer and I talked with a half-dozen folks in Amboy who gave us authoritative directions to the site, but they were all wrong. That includes Dona Elliott, who I find most unreliable in terms of Cooper facts, BTW. It seems that the Amboy chute is its own mystery. I don't think it's Cooper's. It isn't one of Hayden's chutes, and it doesn't seem to be a Cossey chute, either, assuming that people still believe the Cossey Legend. Speaking of which, his involvement in Norjak is pretty well scrubbed these days. Media is only calling him a rigger of DB Cooper's parachutes. Not the owner, and not the tech expert for the FBI. 3. Marla. Ole Twisty Butt may still be in action. Her ex, John Santore, Jr, contacts me occasionally asking what I know about her, which is zilch. But John says she was still working a book deal in OK City up until a year or so ago. Ironically. Marla has a great story, too, but its about the FBI and how they used her, not her Uncle LD. I sure wish she'd tell that one.

Announcing a new Reality TV Show: Lost in Cooper World: Imagine Bobby, Jo and me all living in WA. Whoa!

I definitely have to quit drinking. And, Jo, since you can't remember either, maybe you better quit, too!

That does it. I gotta quit drinking.

Are you saying that Anderson, Scott or Rataczak may have been gay? OMG. What will Jo say?