Am I correct in sensing there is a lot more going on btwn the FBI and Gray than people were aware of, before?
Does Gray have hard evidence? Cooper fingerprints, dna, etc ?
I sense your senses are accurate, Georger. I believe that Geoffrey Gray has had a long-standing relationship with many aspects of the US government, including the FBI. He has been an "A" list journalist with New York Magazine for years and his body of work is immense. His contacts are exceptional, and he has a strong network. One day my cell phone call caught him on the Acela Train to DC as he was making his way to the Pentagon for an interview. Whew.
One of the most problematic aspects of being a major league journalist is developing authentic relationships with people who have lots of power and are newsworthy. The pressure to slant a story to nurture a relationship is huge. How journalists make those decisions is what makes the world go 'round.
When GG, me and a bunch of Cooperites were hanging out at The Swiss Tavern in Tacoma during the 2013 Symposium, I was astounded to hear him tell me that earlier in the week he had tried to contact a former CBS-TV reporter by the name of Kristina Borjesson who was involved in covering the Flight 800 incident and ultimately fired for being too good at her job. I had been trying to contact her, too! to discuss the case and her interactions with the FBI and the Powers That Be in this case. Well, so was GG, apparently. He told me that he was developing a story on the Top Ten Conspiracies' of the Past Hundred Years for NY Mag, but I never saw the story.
Stories like that make me wonder. So too, when moments later I asked GG for Bill Mitchell's phone number and he gave me a listing for the wrong Bill Mitchell. When I actually spoke with the correct Bill Mitchell he asked me if I knew who wrote about him in the new DB Cooper book.
"You mean the book, Skyjack?" I asked Bill. "The book that Geoffrey Gray just wrote?
"Eh, maybe," Bill replied, but he looked confused. I was surprised that Bill wasn't up-to-date on Cooper lore.
"Well, that must have been Geoffrey Gray because no one else's book has come out in years," I said.
"Hmmph," replied Bill. "I guess, but I know I never spoke with him."
So GG didn't speak directly to Bill Mitchell, yet wrote about him? And then GG gives me the wrong Bill Mitchell? Did GG talk to the wrong guy and not know it? Or GG do a Tosaw and filled in the blanks on his own, like Tosaw did with Tina's dialogue in his book?
Now, he pops up again in Norjak?
It's time for the Snowmman. 377 - send up the signal!