NEWS Tina Mucklow (and other crew members) specifically agree not to divulge information about the Hijacking to the public, but only to the FBI.
This finally dispels the myths promoted by Bruce Smith, Galen Cook, Richard Tosaw and others, that Tina Mucklow could not remember facts about the Cooper case due to some mental condition! Mr. Smith's articles promoting this narrative are now thrown into the unreliable category.
Documents like the document attached below have been located for the other crew members. So there was a request that the crew members not talk to the public.
This information is a plausible explanation for Tina's silence, but does not refute what Calame said about her memory in
his book.
I'll add the above 302 to
my book as one reason why Tina has been so quiet.
It comports with what Bill Mitchell told me, as well. When he was leaving Sea-Tac on the night of, the feds told him to be careful with whom he spoke since the skyjacker was still at large, and Bill's safety might be in jeopardy.
However, the feds didn't tell him WHY talking to guys like me would put him at risk, which I find spurious. In fact, I would argue the opposite is true: the more people a witness talks to, the safer they are from the criminal and their efforts to silence them.
Nor do I see how witnesses talking to the media would jeopardize any prosecution. In fact, I say it is irresponsible for witnesses
not to talk with media, because we are all safer the more we know about what happened in a crime. Waiting for LE's complete adjudication of a crime before we know the whole story is crazy.
Yes, I know that the rights of the accused must be protected, and to that end I do think it wise that LE and DAs refrain from giving specifics of a case before the conclusion of a trial.
So, when the FBI told Tina not to talk to the press, I claim it is because of their agenda to control the narrative for public relations purposes (and budgets), not to protect the witness from retribution, or to protect any future prosecution.
As for Tina's mental status, perhaps one day we'll have a better understanding of why she was in a long-term health care facility in Gresham in 1979. I doubt that the FBI really cared about that. In fact, Ralph Himmelsbach never visited her, apparently, to wish her well, according to his statements about how he handled Norjak and his primary witness.