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A guy by the name of Larry Patterson who was part owner of a skydiving club I belonged to in Cedar Valley Utah was rumored to be DB Cooper. He was a pilot and skydiver. He was a friend of Richard McCoy who was the second person to attempt a skyjacking. They both flew helicopters for the Utah NG. When anyone would call him out as DB Cooper he would just laugh but never denied it.
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1LT Rackstraw
And now a new lead from Forensic <Magazine:
https://goo.gl/oUB5G2 Colbert says he has put together 40 volunteers, many of them former FBI agents, who reviewed six letters potentially connected to the Cooper case. Colbert recruited Rick Sherwood, a Vietnam veteran who was a senior codebreaker for the Army Security Agency. Sherwood had been Rackstraw’s superior officer. His conclusion: a series of strangely-worded phrases in the D.B. Cooper letters actually spell out Rackstraw’s name. The FBI agents would have not known what they were looking for in the 1970s, Sherwood concluded. “It would have made no sense to them,” Sherwood said, in a statement from the team. “For the agents to do it, they’d have to know a lot about the individual and our units.” The ciphers in the letters allegedly identify the military units that Rackstraw served in: the 371st Radio Research Unit, and the 11th General Support Company—as well as the Army Security Agency. But the sixth letter, from March 28, 1972, and sent to the Oregonian newspaper, contained even more information. “I want out of the system and saw a way through good ole Unk,” it reads. “(And please tell the lackey cops D.B. Cooper is not my real name).” Translated, using a 1950 Army cryptography, it is decoded to a startling message, according to Colbert and his team: “I want out of the system and saw a way by sky-jacking a jet plane,” it reads. “I am 1st LT Robert Rackstraw, D.B. Cooper is not my real name.” Could the messages be a coincidence that was identified only once they had focused in on Rackstraw? Sherwood says potentially—but not likely. “It’s not impossible,” Sherwood told The Oregonian newspaper earlier this year. “But what are the odds these digits would add up to these three Rackstraw units? Astronomical. A million to one. Rackstraw didn’t think anyone would be able to break it.” Rackstraw, for his part, dismissed Colbert—“he’s costing the taxpayers a lot of money”—and also his former Army colleague Sherwood. “The other guy—it’s kind of interesting that he said that,” he said. But he does have respect for how good investigators were in the 1970s, he said. "The old FBI was very, very thorough,” he said. “Way back when—full faith and credit in an agency like that. They were very, very, very good. I would say that they still are ... probably a lot of them are gritting their teeth at what’s going on currently with their top end—their upper management.” As for the coming defamation court battles, the outcome will remain to be seen, Rackstraw added. “All off that stuff is up in the air,” he said. |
It's amazing!!!!
(Not) Make up a narrative after all involved are dead and then get 6 people to agree on it, make a movie and pocket a few million. Soon a tree will fall that holds the remains of one DB Cooper........ |
Prester John
King Arthur Robin Hood DB Cooper Why not? :D |
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DB Cooper had a sex change and is working in the snack bar at SOCOM. She is broke. Mystery solved. NEXT!
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Especially if the "FBI" is involved. Remember who started & directed this agency up to the day he died.
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Ted Braden SOG operator
There is a rumor that Ted Braden a SOG operator who went AWOL might have been DB Coopper.
"One of the most intriguing aspects of the resurgent investigation of DB Cooper in recent years is the information provided by commandos from Vietnam, now that their covert activities have been de-classified. Plenty of troopers from the Special Operations Group of the Materials Assistance Command-Vietnam are talking to journalists and writing their own accounts of the illegal wars fought in Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam during the larger conflict in South Vietnam from 1962-1975. Two topics come blaring forward. First, the DB Cooper skyjacking has all the hallmarks of a SOG operation in terms of the planning, equipment and execution. Secondly, two leading commanders of SOG units, SgtM Billy Waugh and Major John Plaster say that within their ranks a rogue SOG trooper by the name of Ted Braden is widely thought to be DB Cooper. Braden’s military career is filled with mystery and intrigue, including the assertions by some in his command that he was a professional intimate of General John Singlaub, one of the founders of the CIA and a leading figure in the Iran-Contra affair during the 1980s. Further, after Braden went AWOL in Vietnam in 1966 and was caught by the CIA trying to join the commando forces in the Congo civil war, he was incarcerated at Fort Dix, NJ. According to the officer responsible for inmates at Dix, Braden was later released by the personal intercession of the Army Chief of Staff, General Harold Johnson. Braden’s whereabouts afterward are still hotly debated. This picture is from Ramparts magazine, in an article they published about Sgt Braden’s exploits in Africa. Sadly, Ramparts ceased publication in 1975." |
Interesting info on SFC Ted Braden
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