Cooper World News:

Sail and I are going to see Ralph Hatley next week. Confirmed.

We'll be talking about Petey, Coss, Himms, and a mysterious DZ in SE WA. Sail is buying lunch, too!

How about some questions to ask him?

A Hot-ish Lead From Geoffrey

377 just sent me a link to Geoffrey Gray's db cooper site, where he talks about getting a mysterious lead to DB Cooper from an individual who has subsequently disappeared.

But GG tells us the gist of what this individual told him, and basically it is that a Canadian "SOG" trooper did it after getting kicked out of the SOG unit, which is actually an RCMP unit. The motivation of the skyjacking gets a little murky, but it seems that the Canuck was being trained to do the hijacking as part of an official Canadian op to frame Quebec separatists, who just happened to be Marxists, and they would be blamed for the American skyjacking when planted Norjak money would be discovered in their possession.

Why the guy went ahead and did the job even though he had been kicked out of his unit is not clear. Maybe he just likes skydiving in WA in the rain.  Better than snow in Quebec, eh?

Mon Dieu!

Ironically, as it turns out my ex-wife was arrested on an RCMP  sting operation under very similar circumstances.  She did 6 months in prison before they kicked her out because she was pregnant, a total revolutionary and organizing an inmate union, starting an inmate newsletter, and was otherwise kicking ass and talking truth to power.

She initially got stung by the RCMPs because some of her friends were blowing up buildings in Quebec and were hard-core separatists.

If it wasn't GG, you would think it was Jo posting on huntfordbcooper.

Remember, those Canadians use "loonies" and "toonies."

Lastly, my first attempt to emmigrate to Quebec, in 1970, was turned down because they already had too many long-haired American hippies with no job skills who avez parler francais comme merde.

My next attempt in 2001 went awry when the above ex chose not to file the necessary paperwork, which is when I got on a boat and went home.

Re: Gray/Cooper Canadian Spy...

The setup sounds good. But if the guy was fired and decided to do the job solo, shouldn't he have realized that part of the original plan to frame the seperatists HINGED ON THE MONEY BEING TRACKED... therefore if he was going to do it himself he would have already realized that so where's the benefit in doing the job alone for money you assume is going to be tracked?

If the skyjacker was part of a Canadian operation or any kind of an operation by anyone and was just doing his mission, I find it interesting that he responded “I don’t have a grudge against your airline, miss. I just have a grudge.” when asked by Tina if he had a grudge with NWO.

A sly response to throw off his scent come up on the spot by an operative just doing his mission? - Or, the response of one who legitimately has one: "miss, I just have a grudge."

Exactly I appreciate you looking. Nothing new on my end. Still feeling like he's worth looking into, just not sure how to do so further.

Rick "..... and the wind chill was something like 70 degrees below zero!" 

I think he was talking about his own head 

That bill fragment didn't look like it had been exposed to nature and water for a period of years.  Also, if I remember correctly, I calculated the wind chill factor on the bottom of the steps at "only" about 35-40 degrees below zero (take your pick of C or F).