Shifting gears from the unfortunate actions of bLIEvins this past weekend, I purchased the Walter Reca documentary on Amazon this past weekend. I'm two episodes in so far (out of four). It's been entertaining and I have enjoyed it.
To me, it comes off as believable - if I didn't know better. To a person who may not be real familiar with the case, I can see how they could buy into Reca as Cooper. But there are a number of red flags to the trained eye. To me, the biggest so far is that he claims that he was going to jump out the side door and had no previous knowledge of the aft stairs until it was suggested to him by Tina. Then there's the whole Cle Elum thing as well. And as is usually the case with suspects, the Tina Bar money find explanation is a big stretch.
But, overall it's worth a watch.
I'd like to watch it, as well. Please keep us posted.
As for Reca jumping out the side door, I asked author Carl Laurin about that and he empathically declared that Reca would have been killed instantly, and inferred that Reca would have known that. Adding more uncertainty to the whole side-door thingy, publisher Verne Jones acknowledged to me that Reca most likely boarded the plane in PDX as other passengers have stated - by walking up the aft stairs which had been deployed. So why would Reca ignore the very stair case that he entered the plane and risk certain death? It's utterly unfathomable.
Yet these issues roll off the backs of Laurin and Jones like water off a duck.
Nevertheless, we have the conundrum of Reca in Cle Elum. What the hell was he doing there? Over a cup o' tea yesterday, I wondered if Reca was told to perform a secondary jump to provide some diversionary actions to Cooper. Could the two jumps be orchestrated? How big a rabbit hole do we want to go down?
Ironically, the only thing I really believe about Walt Reca is that he jumped over Cle Elum in the rain on a Wednesday night. Every thing else seems like super-duper ca-ca to me? Contract hitman for the CIA
and the KGB, AND he keeps all of his false IDs and passports? Yagottabekiddingme! What - he wanted souvenirs?
Nevertheless:
Consider - if Hahnemann was DB Cooper and performing his first hijacking on Nov 24, 1971 - and then did his verifiable skyjacking over Honduras a few months later - the orchestration of this whole operation could be quite vast. Why not Hahnemann, Reca, the Honduran brother-in-law, right-wing ploys to gain monies to support revolutions in Central America, Cooper, et. al.
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