I am pretty new here but thanks to a number of forum members here, I have enjoyed getting up to speed on a lot of topics. What i find funny to some extent is after watching several video, these FBI agents seem to know exactly who DBC was and what he was thinking! REALLY ? He almost certainly was a unintelligent disgruntled ex serviceman who lost his job and had no plan ..... Yada. Yada .. blah blah blah ! Yet in reality they have been unable to solve any aspect of this puzzle. I guess if you can't solve the caper, let's just discredit it !
Well the hijacking like most in this era, occur in a period of massive unrest nationally and globally. So the context is clear whatever value judgement you assume about Cooper himself. By his own lips Cooper was trying to right a wrong whether personal or something else. If he survived, he had the brains not to surface afterwards milking the incident further - saying "here I am suckers, come and get me!". And so far as we know he conducted no further hijackings? There seems to have come a point where the FBI was willing to let this "lone hijacker" go. There's a lot we dont know but as I see it the case has been essentially closed since 1980 when the excavation failed to turn up any "biologicals" (FBI assessment) at Tina Bar. The FBI and others may have made an assessment they probably wouldnt be hearing anything further from this "lone assassin" so let the case go pending anything else surfacing?
It's apparently in this context that evidence is lost or misplaced or not kept track of, with no apparent urgency to sequester all of the evidence into one central holding location pending future developments, which would be SOP for any high profile case. To date not even the high profile investors "GG" "TK" "TC" and the like, who have working relationships with the FBI, have been able to penetrate that mystery box or they surely would have said something adding to their fame and glory ... instead the whole matter sits like a frog-on-a-log sunning itself for any idiot who wants to pontificate and extrapolate with impunity, milking the void for all it can give on the "Ghost to Ghost Show"!
Meanwhile, nobody has actually been able to prove that the FBI/NWA account of the flight path is wrong! That raises the question of how Cooper money could have come to Tina Bar! One strong contender is: that Cooper survived which is the last thing the FBI wants to hear! (And most private investigators likewise because it only expands the scope of looking for a needle in a haystack).
Cooper himself told Tina he had been waiting for the 'right plane in the right place on the right day' so it's clear he not only had a plan but he also had some sense of the "scope" of the search it might take to locate him, after the fact. I remember people saying at the time: "we may never find this guy - the scope of this thing is just too large".
Whoever Cooper was, and whatever the facts are, he might as well have gone to a Galaxy Far Away! Interference from the public would turn out to be one of the dimensions in this case = something the public itself has participated in forming. And the names on that list are as clear as daylight! The case itself turned out to be as big an illusion as Cooper himself! Here one moment, gone the next. That's the stuff legends and religions are founded on; claims of miracles. It's fertile ground for conspiracy makers.
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