Still musing about this (which has been discussed to death)
I was just musing about all the crazy FBI memos detailing the microfiche covering the serial numbers of the money pool that the Cooper $200k came from, and the way start/stop numbers of unused bundles were documented, for removing from that list, to get the final list of bills sent to Cooper.
That is, the microfiche covered way more money than what was delivered to Cooper, and by providing start/stop numbers and saying there were 98 bills between the start/stop numbers, it reinforced that all the bundles were fixed size: 100 bills, strapped by bank bands
The story Ckret provided, of bundles being assembled on the fly and microfiched on the fly before going to Cooper, is ridiculous, because if they were microfiched on the fly, there would be no reason for the microfiche to contain serial numbers not given to Cooper.
The only possible way for Ckret's made-up story to make sense, was if they opened all the 100 bill bundles that were going to Cooper, and randomly rebundled them with rubber bands.
But we know from the Start/Stop numbers of unused bills, that the bundles (strapped) were already pretty random...just from looking at the Start/Stop of the bills not given to Cooper, which were random. We can assume the bills given to Cooper had similar randomness in their Start/Stop and intermediate bills. That's a reasonable assumption.
So why would they rebundle them with rubber bands in random amounts?
Cooper didn't ask for that.
Now maybe they would have torn off the paper straps for some reason, and wrapped in rubber bands. But that's just part of the made-up story by Ckret...it doesn't have any supporting data in the fbi memos.
I'm still amazed that people believe Ckret was passing accurate information, when he just made up a story. His interview of a bank employee around the same time provided no supporting information for his story. He just made it up.
The whole Ckret saga amazes me. He was just a gatekeeper on FBI memos, and he acted like his opinion meant something, when it didn't.
Now that we have the actual memos, it's more obvious how Ckret just caused problems, rather than helping solve them.