Sheridan reveals the bank account, delves into the parachute details. Was he toying with the investigators?
The FBI was unaware of the numbered bank account. Details regarding the dummy reserve strike me as simply not knowing what is public information. I do not believe he was toying with investigators, however, he has not explicitly denied being Cooper to the FBI which I consider odd. Even when he was asked on the History Channel documentary if he had been asked about being Cooper by the FBI he laughed it off and said, "I'm a nice guy."
If it was a secret numbered bank account how can it be confirmed? (SP statements are unreliable)
and legislation passed in Jan 1971 but it wasn't implemented until 1972.. not started by (at least) March 1972..
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Sheridan's comments are absolutely reliable. I have yet to find a single example of him exaggerating about anything that he has done. When he says he did something, he did it. His memory is a steel trap and he remembers things in great detail
The Act was passed in 1970 and implemented January 1, 1971.
Bill in 1970..
Passed in 1971
(numbered accounts) Implemented beyond March 1972.
Now, he may have had a numbered account later, but they weren't offered as of March 1972.â€
I'm not sure where you're getting this.
The Banking Act of 1970 was passed in 1970. It was implemented January 1, 1971.
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Again, if the news report is accurate, then banks actually started to offer numbered accounts shortly after March of 1972--four months after the hijacking. This would mean that Sheridan was incorrect when he stated that he opened the account in 1971. Obviously, this is entirely possible and not a big deal.
The other aspect that is noteworthy is that by the time Sheridan opened the numbered account--again, somewhere after March 1972 if the article is accurate--he had not been working for at least 19 months. Needless to say, this is odd.
I keep hearing about SP having this numbered account. How do you know this ? Have you seen any evidence of him having this numbered account ?
I know this because he said so.
Ok. I’m just not into accepting something as factual when there is no collaboration. We know that there’s a lot of people who take pride in being a D B Cooper suspect. Even our own 377 said a lot of his Skyjumping friends were flattered when they were interviewed by FBI and he felt slightly hurt that nobody interviewed him. As proof that there are many individuals who want to be COOP is how many death bed confessions we already have. SP is,a,good suspect but his saying he had a numbered account doesn’t make it a fact ! JMHO
Fair enough. But here are some important things to consider:
1) Sheridan has avoided anything that could implicate him in this matter. Why would he lie about this?
2) His autobiography (slightly fictionalized) refers to a Swiss Bank numbered account.
3) He did not work for 2 1/2 years while living in Nepal. Meanwhile he had two children born there and a wife to support. How did he handle this with zero income?
4) Sheridan's employment was very on-again-off-again and he made little for than $5,000 in any one year leading up to moving to Nepal.
5) After leaving Nepal Sheridan spent time in Vietnam, Hong Kong, China, Russia, Papua New Guinea, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and the United States that we know of. Not to mention that the numbered account would have to have been opened in Switzerland. How does he afford this considering he was travelling with his children?
6) Sheridan also revealed that he regularly lent money and got taken advantage of financially during his time in Asia. Again, where did this money come from?
7) I cannot find one instance where Sheridan commented about doing something that wasn't true--skydiving in China for his 71st birthday, sport jumping in Vietnam during the war, experimenting with bat wings decades before this was approved by the USPA, witnessing Tienanmen Square Massacre, setting up a Freedom School in Mississippi during the 1965 Race Riots, etc. Yet we're asked to believe that a comment about a numbered account is a lie?
Frankly, this is just scratching the surface when it comes to Sheridan. There is no debating that Sheridan has not been publicly cleared by the FBI by virtue of his DNA comparison with Cooper even though the other two, Weber and LD, have. Furthermore, there is no debating that Larry Carr in 2009 took up an interest in Sheridan going as far as speaking with him and buying his book without telling Sheridan that he was an FBI agent, oh by the way,
the FBI agent heading up NORJAK at that point. Of course, there is also the FBI travelling to California, Washington and Nepal to investigate Sheridan...twice.
