If Cossey is a liar...
What then, eh?
Are all the 302s junk? Can Georger take a vacation and let his project to read and index all the FOIA documents go fallow?
If Cossey was a liar and the FBI knew it, is everything they say about Norjak bogus, too? How big a Rabbit Hole is opening up here?
Yes, I know that few people here have the taste for investigatory spelunking, but we are on the edge of a huge chasm.
The work may just be beginning. Maybe only some of the 302s are bogus. Maybe only those that pertain to Cossey are wrong. Our greatest goal may be to determine which FBI documents are legit and which ones are mis-directions or incorrect.
Regarding huge chasms:
When I was a teenager, some friends and I who were not yet ready to give up playing hide and seek took to playing it in a hotel during the midnight shift. We'd sneak in, split into teams and cause quiet havoc trying to catch each other sneaking out of a meeting room or what have you.
One night, I was caught between the DuBois brothers' classic pincer move, with Jay running after me on the 4th floor and Ron calmly advancing toward the stairs I was peering from on the 5th. He hadn't see me yet, and with his brother descending the stairwell and listening for movement, I was almost caught. I decided to cheat.
I wedged my foot at the bottom of the door and waited. The door handle turned and I felt the gentle, then forceful, then hammering pressure of Ron pushing on the door from the other side with all of his might. My foot held. Finally, the handle released and he went away, and I wasn't caught that night.
Later in the parking lot, Ron told all of us we had to leave immediately. He had turned white with fear, and wouldn't play "manhunt" in that hotel again. It was haunted, he told us.
"I shoved on that door with everything I had and it didn't budge!" he recalled, with a terrified expression. "Whatever was on the other side of that door was MASSIVE! Some kind of....presence or something! I don't know, but I'm not coming back here." I let him go for about a year retelling that story before I finally broke it to him what really happened. Maybe I should have behaved myself, but it was a lot of fun messing with him.
My point is that it's not always some huge story on the other side of things. It's usually something simple, like a door wedge, or a guy who wanted to stretch his 15 minutes into a lifetime of minor celebrity and respect as an FBI-related expert. Even if Cossey was less than 100% truthful, its likely the FBI wasn't colluding and conspiring and...all that interesting language we can come up with to describe what we imagine. They were probably just doing the job and referring people to the parachute guy they knew whose name was on the packing cards.
But keep working on it. Maybe there's smoke and fire afterall. I don't see it, but that doesn't mean it's not there.
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