Can't we ever get a straight answer from the F.B.I.?  Wouldn't you think that would be standard procedure?  ( as far as bringing in cadaver dogs)

Good point Bruce. As I have said before, maybe he had help from someone with local knowledge.

I guess that's a possibility. Why do you say "rouge"?

I understand the meaning of rouge. I am curious as to why you would call it a rouge operation versus calling it a sanctioned operation. I am not saying it was either one. I am just curious as to how we could determine the difference?

There’s a difference between “rogue” and “rouge”.

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Were divers ever sent down to your knowledge near Tena Bar?  Or anywhere in the River?  Anyway, once again I will say, for those of you that are really into this case, a listen to Infamous America's coverage of it is a must!  It almost puts you in the plane to listen.  They even give you the college teams that were playing in the football game that Thanksgiving  They go into the lives of many of those involved.  Its a fabulous listen.  And of course guys like Kaye and  Gray are mentioned with the work they put in.  You will still have to decide what you believe happened. I think the old boy made it. He was too calculating and cool to have done things so well to just jump to his death. He was smart enough to know what he was up against.  Who knows what he may have had down there in those woods?  Or if he had help?  The story never ends.

Richard Tosaw, a former FBI agent and author of the book, "D.B. Cooper - Dead or Alive", reportedly did quite a bit of underwater explorations at Tina Bar in the early 1980's after the money was found.  He didn't find anything apparently.

I'm sure that we will all agree that the three bundles of money arrived at the location where they were found at the same time.

Cooper may have been smart enough to know what he was up against, but he was foolish to jump under those existing conditions in my opinion.

Maybe so, but he likely had the date and flight chosen well in advance, and its not easy to call something like this off once you have engaged. So he had little choice once he hit the start button.  But perhaps he did have someone waiting below?  That would be my guess.

And Thank Bruce for the reply on the divers

The hijacking was not "on" until Cooper handed the hijack note to Flo.  Cooper made it a point to be one of the last to board and to sit in the rear of the cabin.  If he had seen someone he knew or thought was a Sky Marshall, he could have simply kept the note in his pocket and got off the aircraft at SEATAC and tried on another day.

This is a very good point.  And he also had to have known the forcast.  So why did he not care about the weather?  Perhaps that fit into the plan? After all, the following planes lost the flight. Also, you cant find fresh footprints in the ground when its raining or snowing.

To me, "rogue" means the perp might be on his own. "Sanctioned" suggests a larger group, such as a governmental agency.

I have just subscribed to Ken Mains on YouTube.  He is ex cop, marine FBI, and is a top cold case detective who has done extensive work on the Zodiac murders, some on Jon Benet and plans to dig deeper into DB Cooper.  He said he at first leaned towards DB not surviving the jump but now is leaning the other way.  He says "I think this DB is much smarter than I gave him credit for and plan to look into this more in the future".  He also wants to know why the FBI has ruled out McCoy?  Not that he is dead sold on him, but finds him the best suspect of those on the list.  BUT, also says, "he may be off the list entirely".  I like this guy.  I just watched his investigation into the Lynard Skynrd Plane crash on YouTube.  And the Jon Benet case.  I happen to agree that was a complete cover up by the parents.  It was done by the family.   But he does not condemn the DA for not going forward.  He says there is still time for that.  Yet Patsy is gone now.  I will watch anything he has to say if he does put more work into this case