Statement from Galen Cook:


"My science team is paid by me.  The lab costs are paid by me.  The findings are proprietary.  If Georger, or anyone, wants to pony up costs, let me know,  and I may divulge.  Otherwise,  'go pay for your own science team.  Go to Tena's Bar and do some real work and investigation of your own.  Most of the armchair crowd have never even been to TB.'"

GC

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Statement from Galen Cook:


"My science team is paid by me.  The lab costs are paid by me.  The findings are proprietary.  If Georger, or anyone, wants to pony up costs, let me know,  and I may divulge.  Otherwise,  'go pay for your own science team.  Go to Tena's Bar and do some real work and investigation of your own.  Most of the armchair crowd have never even been to TB.'"

GC

Makes me really appreciate Tom, Al and Carol's open source Science Team. They have spent money too, but they freely share their results.

Galen is certainly within his rights to keep what he paid for to himself. It just makes me grateful for the generous spirit of the TK team.

377

I hope Sluggo is reading this! What goes around comes around - ey Sluggo!    Sluggo and I discussed this specific issue years ago and came to some conclusions based on past performance. Who knows what Galen has, that others don't have. Galen has never been hesitant to ask others 'what do you have' ("Let's compare notes") while hiding his own light under a bushel.

... and of course anyone is free to just 'make stuff up'.

To be sure, Galen has had a few things he shared through the years that others did not know about, but Galen has also engaged in some 'polishing of the facts' himself, and engaged in outright deception blatantly making a few things up and he was caught. He left or was forced off of Dropzone.  He left or was forced off here for dirty tricks.
He does appear on radio talk shows (Coast To Coast etc). Galen has been the subject of attacks, as from Blevins claiming deception. But Galen has launched a few feuds of his own which had little merit.

The Galen I know has a good head on his shoulders and he does have information others do not have, but he also had a rather large Ego. he is frustrated like everyone else, he has had meetings with Eng and FBI agents, he was a close friend of Tosaws and inherited some of Tosaw's files, Galen is strategically positioned to investigate the Cooper saga, he once did claim he thought he knew who DB Cooper was, and yes Galen had perused the scientific side of the money find and a few other related things, he has mentored Smith, he pursued Tina shamelessly just as Smith has, etc etc etc ...

But, the problem with hiding lights under bushels is if the light gets too bright and hot, it usually burns up the basket for all to see - and so far except for his tricks backfiring for all to see, Galen has produced no hot luminous facts about anything in the DB Cooper case. The Smith-Cook vortex is full of smoke and mirrors with no shortage of publicity and ballyhoo!

Quite often it has been a soup made from the shadow of a crow that starved to death, clear back in November 1971.

And the corpse of the crow is still under the basket! Waiting for all to see. It's a pretty shabby affair as things go.

So who is kidding whoom here! ?   


     

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Statement from Galen Cook:


"My science team is paid by me.  The lab costs are paid by me.  The findings are proprietary.  If Georger, or anyone, wants to pony up costs, let me know,  and I may divulge.  Otherwise,  'go pay for your own science team.  Go to Tena's Bar and do some real work and investigation of your own.  Most of the armchair crowd have never even been to TB.'"

GC

Makes me really appreciate Tom, Al and Carol's open source Science Team. They have spent money too, but they freely share their results.

Galen is certainly within his rights to keep what he paid for to himself. It just makes me grateful for the generous spirit of the TK team.

377

I hope Sluggo is reading this! What goes around comes around - ey Sluggo!    Sluggo and I discussed this specific issue years ago and came to some conclusions based on past performance. Who knows what Galen has, that others don't have. Galen has never been hesitant to ask others 'what do you have' ("Let's compare notes") while hiding his own light under a bushel.

... and of course anyone is free to just 'make stuff up'.

To be sure, Galen has had a few things he shared through the years that others did not know about, but Galen has also engaged in some 'polishing of the facts' himself, and engaged in outright deception blatantly making a few things up and he was caught. He left or was forced off of Dropzone.  He left or was forced off here for dirty tricks.
He does appear on radio talk shows (Coast To Coast etc). Galen has been the subject of attacks, as from Blevins claiming deception. But Galen has launched a few feuds of his own which had little merit.

The Galen I know has a good head on his shoulders and he does have information others do not have, but he also had a rather large Ego. he is frustrated like everyone else, he has had meetings with Eng and FBI agents, he was a close friend of Tosaws and inherited some of Tosaw's files, Galen is strategically positioned to investigate the Cooper saga, he once did claim he thought he knew who DB Cooper was, and yes Galen had perused the scientific side of the money find and a few other related things, he has mentored Smith, he pursued Tina shamelessly just as Smith has, etc etc etc ...

But, the problem with hiding lights under bushels is if the light gets too bright and hot, it usually burns up the basket for all to see - and so far except for his tricks backfiring for all to see, Galen has produced no hot luminous facts about anything in the DB Cooper case. The Smith-Cook vortex is full of smoke and mirrors with no shortage of publicity and ballyhoo!

Quite often it has been a soup made from the shadow of a crow that starved to death, clear back in November 1971.

And the corpse of the crow is still under the basket! Waiting for all to see. It's a pretty shabby affair as things go.

So who is kidding whoom here! ?   


     

That's a very good summary. 

I thought Galen could be a good source of information here, but he seems very reluctant to talk about anything.  I don't think he'd even say Gossett was his suspect on here.

Bruce, Galen Cook said:  " Most of the armchair crowd have never even been to TB."

I say: "Who cares what is still at Tina's Bar" The real story is "why is Curtis Eng closing the DB Cooper case? Why the Spin (lie) cover story from Eng?  Was Sheridan CIA like he called all the ex-Smoke Jumpers in his interview in the History Channel 4 hr program, remember." he is an ex-Smoke Jumper too!!!"

Bob Sailshaw
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Posting this here bcause its related to the money find ...

R99 speaks of 305 possibly passing within 1000 ft of Tina Bar such that Cooper money might have washed on to Tina Bar from this area. Here is a chart showing the drainage area adjacent to Tina Bar, marked off in 2000 foot segments ... out to 8000 feet from a point midway between Caterpillar Island and TBar.

Georger, Let me point out again that the NW Lower River Road is built on top of a levee that is about 4 or 5 feet higher than the land east of it.

This results in everything EAST of that road draining into Vancouver Lake and down the Lake River to enter the Columbia River about 15 or 20 miles downstream of Tina Bar.

Consequently, the drainage from WEST of that road only has to go from about 100 feet at the southern end of Caterpillar Island to about 1000 feet at the money find location area until it is in the Columbia River.

The drainage area is very, very small.  Probably a lot less than one-half of a square mile.

R99:

I was perplexed by something during the entire Travel Channel shoot at Tina Bar.  I carefully studied the maps you brought.  It seemed like we were going to come into wooded area fairly quickly as we proceeded north from Fazio's sand fill to Catepillar Island.  That didn't happen.  One  of the camera guys used my smart phone to pull up a Google Earth map of your dropzone, and it looked like quite an area of trees may have been clearcut here.  From your maps, I was expecting more trees and briar patches a lot sooner.  That didn't happen.  In fact, we would have had to walk on the beach of the Columbia River for quite a ways north before getting to any wooded area.  I'm wondering if that area got clearcut -- to make more room for Fazio's sandfill.  Is that even a possibility?  If it did get cleared out, then a part of the search area would have been compromised in terms of finding evidence.  That area would be under sand now.  I may have been worrying needlessly about this matter -- geography along the Columbia changes all the time, but it seemed to me that the maps we had and the geographic layout of our search area just didn't jive.  What do you think?