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Offline Robert99

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Re: Clues, Documents And Evidence About The Case
« Reply #7335 on: September 19, 2021, 05:22:48 PM »
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page 309 is interesting. SAC J. E. Milnes wrote it saying

"SA <redacted> from Chicago called and advised that they had interviewed a former Agent now with FAA who advised that very likely the photograph of <redacted> would be sent to the FAA Headquarters in Washington. I told him that if we did not get a photograph of him [apparently referencing the "RE: <redacted>" subject] from <redacted> then we would try to get one from Washington."


seems to suggest that the suspect had a picture with FAA somehow? maybe pilot or ??


on page 310, it says the suspect was fingerprinted by the "Civil Service Commission on <redacted> and has FBI <redacted>"

not sure what that all means

then on page 311 SA Charles E. Farrell writes up a description of a suspect, who has a long arrest record.

it's not clear if it's the same suspect. The writeup is on 11/27/71
it references someone "said <redacted>" on November 8, 1971

then there's a handwritten "Open File on Suspect"

But the next page talks about sending a photo to witnesses at Seattle. Says photo is to be returned to Tacoma Police Dept. So they must have got a photo from Tacoma Police..

could be a different suspect, but could be the same suspect.

all of those reports from 11/27/71

If the Civil Service Commission had fingerprinted him it means that he was a government employee in some unspecified agency. 

If the FAA had a picture of him, it probably means that he had a pilot's license at some point in the early 1950s.  Personally, I was fingerprinted at the age of about 15 or 16 by the USAF in order to ride on USAF aircraft.  In the very early 1950s, at the start of the Korean War, all pilots had to submit in person to an FAA office a fingerprint card and a passport-type photograph and were then issued what was known as an Airman's Identification Card.  The AICs were discontinued after a few years. 

I was also fingerprinted several times during my military service and while working in the Department of Defense.  It is my understanding that all of these fingerprint cards eventually ended up in the FBI files.  So I have an FBI file as does everyone who has served in the military or worked for the government.

If the FAA had a picture of this suspect, it means that he was probably at least 40 years old in 1971 at the time of the hijacking.  And that the FBI had received his fingerprints from both the FAA and the Civil Service Commission. 
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Re: Clues, Documents And Evidence About The Case
« Reply #7336 on: September 19, 2021, 10:44:43 PM »
Thanks to all for the comments and extra digging !  Based on what snowmman found, it seems like 3 witnesses said it wasn't him.  If it's truly unrelated, it's certainly a hell of a coincidence. 

Do these documents ever become unredacted ?
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Re: Clues, Documents And Evidence About The Case
« Reply #7337 on: September 19, 2021, 11:09:51 PM »
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Thanks to all for the comments and extra digging !  Based on what snowmman found, it seems like 3 witnesses said it wasn't him.  If it's truly unrelated, it's certainly a hell of a coincidence. 

Do these documents ever become unredacted ?


If you step back from the coincidence and instead think like someone who's going to risk his life or jailtime, it's unlikely his planning "started" the day before the hijack with questions to a stewardess.

I mean, ask questions one day, hijack the next? Seems unlikely.
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Re: Clues, Documents And Evidence About The Case
« Reply #7338 on: September 19, 2021, 11:25:31 PM »
This eyewitness description hasn't been discussed to death yet.

I like it, because it fits my view of Cooper's personality that night as "give-no-fuck".

While skydivers might understand  the "give-no-fuck" attitude, I don't think the FBI ever really comprehended that...and it morphed into "unskilled" "incompetent" etc.

Never underestimate the power in "give-no-fuck". Can outperform the status-quo. Sure it sometimes result in death when statistics catch up, but it's great for creating information about where the boundaries are in any endeavor. (or what technologies need improving! like for wingsuits)


This is from page 30 of the Colbert FOIA files: TJC-FOIA-FBI-Section-1-Part-2A-118-Pages-11-26-71-to-11-28-71.pdf

It's not clear if it's the guy that sold Cooper a ticket, or someone else at the counter.

Love how he says he "has a habit of noticing individuals dressed in black"

And re: Cooper

"The man described above had a 'blah' attitude and was quite unaffected by the inclement weather conditions prevailing at the time, which noticeably bothered the rest of the passengers"

The other passengers were talking about getting wet walking out to the plane.

I'll see if I can find this page in the normal FBI vault files. The 302 is just one page. Subsequent pages talk about copies of this FD-302, which was of someone working for Northwest, at Portland International Airport. Name is redacted.

EDIT: yeah it's fbi file 11 page 324
I don't think anything is uniquely present in the colbert site files, is it?

EDIT: fascinating how sometimes the FBI SA name is redacted, like on this page, and sometimes not. Is the person who wrote this report still working for FBI when this pdf was released? strange.
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Re: Clues, Documents And Evidence About The Case
« Reply #7339 on: September 19, 2021, 11:36:40 PM »
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Thanks to all for the comments and extra digging !  Based on what snowmman found, it seems like 3 witnesses said it wasn't him.  If it's truly unrelated, it's certainly a hell of a coincidence. 

Do these documents ever become unredacted ?

agree! one helluva coincidence ? lottery odds! 
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Re: Clues, Documents And Evidence About The Case
« Reply #7340 on: September 19, 2021, 11:46:26 PM »
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Thanks to all for the comments and extra digging !  Based on what snowmman found, it seems like 3 witnesses said it wasn't him.  If it's truly unrelated, it's certainly a hell of a coincidence. 

Do these documents ever become unredacted ?

agree! one helluva coincidence ? lottery odds!

lottery odds? that event is nothing compared to the following about serials found on Tena Bar..

Two of the Heritage Auction bills found on Tena Bar (there's only about 40)
are sequential in the FBI ransom list.
I had mentioned this before.

YET IT GETS BETTER!
There are two pairs of notes that are each sequential within the FBI ransom list, that were found on Tena BAR! I hadn't noticed the second pair because I think they weren't auctioned.

What's the odds for that! lottery**2

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And! according to Flyjack they are in a photo of the 12 bundles on FBI press day....both are "top" notes on bundles. PLUS they are sequential in the sorted FBI list!!

# page 164 of fbi file 55, group D, rows 46 and 47
I02442844A 1969 164 46 D TOP BILL OF 12
I02591811A 1969 164 47 D TOP BILL OF 12

The ones I mentioned before that are heritage auction
# fbi file 55 page 168 group C rows 28 and 29
L03160387B 1963A 168 28 C
L03166965B 1963A 168 29 C

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Explain those 4 notes!


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Re: Clues, Documents And Evidence About The Case
« Reply #7341 on: September 19, 2021, 11:48:17 PM »
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Thanks to all for the comments and extra digging !  Based on what snowmman found, it seems like 3 witnesses said it wasn't him.  If it's truly unrelated, it's certainly a hell of a coincidence. 

Do these documents ever become unredacted ?

agree! one helluva coincidence ? lottery odds!

lottery odds? that event is nothing compared to the following about serials found on Tena Bar..

Two of the Heritage Auction bills found on Tena Bar (there's only about 40)
are sequential in the FBI ransom list.
I had mentioned this before.

YET IT GETS BETTER!
There are two pairs of notes that are sequential in the FBI ransom list, that were found on Tena BAR! I hadn't noticed the second pair because I think they weren't auctioned.

What's the odds for that! lottery**2

New:
And! according to Flyjack they are in a photo of the 12 bundles on FBI press day....both are "top" notes on bundles. PLUS they are sequential in the sorted FBI list!!

# page 164 of fbi file 55, group D, rows 46 and 47
I02442844A 1969 164 46 D TOP BILL OF 12
I02591811A 1969 164 47 D TOP BILL OF 12

The ones I mentioned before that are heritage auction
# fbi file 55 page 168 group C rows 28 and 29
L03160387B 1963A 168 28 C
L03166965B 1963A 168 29 C

# their pics
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Explain those 4 notes!

unreal.   
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Re: Clues, Documents And Evidence About The Case
« Reply #7342 on: September 19, 2021, 11:50:36 PM »
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unreal.

It's enough to wonder about whether "random" bill groupings to cooper wasn't "random" according to any accepted test :)

or maybe cooper sorted some bills before he planted them!
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Re: Clues, Documents And Evidence About The Case
« Reply #7343 on: Today at 01:49:41 AM »
Northwest Airlines fleet list as of Jan 12, 1971
dunno if this was published before
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They had a lot of 727's
broken out as
B-727/1 (20)
B-727/2 (24)
B-727C/3 (12)

N467US is shown as B-727/1 NWA no 467, serial number 18803

I guess it was relatively early off the Boeing assembly line.
other data shows it as delivered 4/22/65

nice pic of N467US from July 31, 1968 at Portland
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Re: Clues, Documents And Evidence About The Case
« Reply #7344 on: Today at 01:54:31 AM »
in 1971, tickets were handed to the customer inside a "ticket jacket"
the Northwest 1971 ticket jacket would have looked like this

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