"bring it on?"
I'm not threatening you dude. Calm down.
Bruce, I think you are mistaking the tone of my post, which is a major problem when you have to solely rely on the written word. I like you and I think you are a relentless investigator and so I generally appreciate your efforts with NORJAK and I enjoyed your book. My tone wasn't hostile at all in that post. I'm just saying that your tactics regarding Tina are disagreeable to me and they obviously were to her as well and that your aggressiveness could have gotten you in trouble if someone really had it out for you. Having worked as a criminal lawyer doing both prosecution and defense at various times, I've had to track down and deal with countless witnesses. Generally people only need to tell me "no" twice and I'll respect their wishes.
I realize that Tina's lack of communication about the case over the years is frustrating. It's probably the most frustrating aspect of this whole NORJAK case. How great would it be if she spoke regularly about it and was very easy to get in touch with? How could would it be if she was active on internet forums? It'd be pretty sweet. Unfortunately, that's not who she is.
Tina's idiosyncrasies throughout her life are likely more to do with her childhood or some other aspect of her life as opposed to a few hours that she spent with a hijacker. It's unfortunate that the star witness in the whole thing happens to be someone whose personality is a bit odd and very guarded, but it is what it is.
You lose me when you start to bring up MKULTRA and that type of stuff. It's so much more likely that Cooper was just a clever criminal who was influenced by the skyjacking attempt that occurred a few weeks earlier in Canada as opposed to him being some mind controlled Manchurian Candidate.
I'm calming down OMC. Thank you for your reassurance.
As for MKULTRA, my primary concern is not that DB Cooper was a Manchurian Candidate kind of guy, but that Tina may have been silenced via MKULTRA-like processes. Remember, MKULTRA had a varied arsenal of tools to control mind, mood, memory, and emotions: surgery, pharmaceuticals, behavioral conditioning, and other intrusive psychodynamics such electro-convulsive shock therapy, (ECT).
One of the ancillary topics of Norjak is MKULTRA; more specifically, what is the role of cloistered convents in our country these days? Are they just a place for ladies to pray? Or are they something else, such as a place to convalesce? I've thought about digging a little deeper into this area, but I simply gave up after a while because I needed to focus more on Cooper and publishing my book.
But I did talk with one nun who encouraged me to continue, saying that she knew of a convent in the Tacoma area that she thought was being used as a rehab facility for traumatized women who had been former CIA agents and had undergone psychological torture at the hands of their foreign captors.
Remember, torture, and in particular the techniques of MKULTRA, are not necessarily exclusive to the bailiwick of the United States. So, the question really is, how do we treat our espionage agents who come home totally zapped?
