Cyber Warfare comes to the DB Cooper Forum - the Thuggery of Moriarty and Lars Skoland.A new era of attack has been launched in Cooper World. It comes from Moriarty and his intermediary Lars Skoland. It centers on me, and involves this forum.
Here is a copy of the complaint I am sending to the IC3, the federal agency that handles cyber crimes. My files have been hacked, and I have been threatened.
Cyber attack, Moriarty and Lars, 9. 8. 15Today, September 9, 2015, I received the email posted below from a “Lars Skoland,” who had been corresponding with me as an intermediary between another party known as “Moriarty” (aka “Reichenbach” on the dbcooperforum) and a fourth party, Galen Cook, who is a fellow DB Cooper researcher and a friend.
This email is one of several that I have received over the past few days, and reveal an escalation in intrusiveness and cyber-thuggery. I believe that Moriarty/Lars have hacked into my DB Cooper files and email address book.
I feel that the emails are menacing and intended to threaten me, all for reasons that are unclear to me.
What follows is an analysis of the emails Lars/Moriarty sent me and their disturbing nature.
First, “BruceSmith49” is my user name at my online news magazine, The Mountain News-WA. I assume the Lars/Moriarty were able to hack into my administrative function and obtain this piece of information.
The reference, “Sky Thief,” was the working title of my book on DB Cooper during the 2012 period. The book was published as an e-book with Amazon in 2015, titled: DB Cooper and the FBI – A Case Study of America' Only Unsolved Skyjacking.
The fact that Lars/Moriarty write: “Sky Thief, all chapters, lit, SSBS, 7. 30. 13 doc” reveals that they have hacked into my “DB Cooper” document files, as the above notation refers to a version of my manuscript that was saved on July 30, 2013 in it's entirety. Hence, “all chapters.”
It is a version that was written in literary format, ie: “lit” as opposed to the block, business correspondence format that I use in most of my freelance newspaper submissions.
The description, “SSBS” refers to “single-space, both sides” for copying instructions to a print shop.
The reference to “zero tolerance” refers to a quip that I posted on the DB Cooper Forum on September 8, 2015, that:
“I have little to zero patience for folks who stonewall me, throw up impediments, or cloak-n-dagger me into numbness. My standard policy, which I have stated numerous times here and elsewhere, and personally to Lars/Moriarty - if you clam up on me that's how you go in the book/report/story.”
Also, I have no experience of anything “going off line yesterday.” The Mountain News-WA is functioning normally, as far as I know.
The reference to “Al Di” describes a character in the DB Cooper investigation who “decoded” the famous Letter #3 that was supposedly sent by DB Cooper to the Oregonian newspaper in Portland, Oregon in December 1971. Lars/Moriarty had asked me initially to contact Galen Cook and ask him to assist them in their efforts to discover the true identity of “Al Di,” and the purpose of his decoding of Letter #3. They had asked for the email mailing addresses, server routing instructions and similar information that might be gleaned from the 60 emails that Al Di and Galen had exchanged in 2011. Galen declined their invitation to partner in a joint investigation with Lars/Moriarty, and I informed them of that decision.
As a “gift,” they sent me the contact information of Alice Hancock, the senior flight attendant aboard DB Cooper's plane, Northwest Orient Flight 305. Ms. Hancock has been reticent to discuss her experiences aboard Cooper's plane, and as far as I know has never given an interview to any media outlet. I had been unable to obtain Ms. Hancock's contact information prior to the gifting from Lars/Moriarty, and when I called her on September 8, 2015 she declined to talk with me – politely, but firmly, hanging up.
In a second email, Lars/Moriarty sent me a photograph of a town square that in a city that appears to be a small European setting. This email was sent to me on September 8, 2015. Lars/Moriarty claim that it is a photo from the home-town of a friend of mine, Guustaaf Damave. Guustaaf was born and raised in the Netherlands, so I assume that the picture is from Holland, but I don't know what city.
These intrusions from Lars/Moriarty are unwanted and illegal. I am seeking redress from the Federal government in this mater via their IC3 complaint department.
-Bruce A. Smith
September 9, 2015
Email exchange between Bruce A. Smith and Lars/Moriarty, circa September 2015.
1.
From you know who,
"Awesome BruceSmith49,
Wtf? Seriously? Sky Thief??? .... Please.
Sky Thief, all chapters, lit, SSBS, 7. 30 13.doc
Did you notice your site went offline yesterday? We might replace it with your book.
Thanks for outing and fucking our chances with the Al Di thing.
Thanks for fucking our contact anymore with Alice Hancock.
(Luckily we got out of her what we wanted)
Zero patience?
TONIGHT WE VOTE ON YOU!!
Love ~M"
2.
On 2015-09-09 at 13:00, Bruce Smith wrote:
I LOVE being the center of attention! Tell Moriarty and the gang - THANKS!
TTFN,
B
3.
On 9/9/2015 1:36 AM, Lars Skoland wrote:
You, are the topic of a hot debate right now. In this case, it's not nice to know people are thinking of you.
4.
On 2015-09-09 at 00:59, Bruce Smith wrote:
So, Lars, what is going on? You hacking me? Trying to creep me out? Prove your cyber abilities by finding my friends and then discovering where they are from.
Please tell, what is Guus' hometown? I don't know! Someplace in the Netherlands, I assume.
Whatever game you're playing, I need to tell you - You Win!
BTW, could you please send me Guustaaf's current email address? I got a new computer and my address book got wiped out.
Thanks, Bruce
5.
On 9/8/2015 11:41 PM, Lars Skoland wrote:
Tell your friend Guustaaf Damave, Moriarty is standing in his hometown.
6. (Lars writes:)
M says "so much for open-source sleuthing."
Apparently you're off his Christmas list. Hang your head in shame Bruce. =p
7.
On 2015-09-06 at 01:29, Bruce Smith wrote:
What's up with Moriarty? He's got an anger management problem, or has a
narcissistic personality disorder?
As for me, I disappoint people all the time - ask my family!
Investigative reporters - we just ain't got no friends. Oh, well.
But I do thank him for the (DB Cooper) crew debriefs. Perhaps one day he will tell us how he came to them.
Bruce
8.
On 9/6/2015 12:47 AM, Lars Skoland wrote:
Moriarty says to tell Galen he's not interested in his email or the contents. Says he's disappointed.
Thought they might be friends, especially since ~M had a brother born on Valentines Day!
(Bruce, it's not advised to disappoint ~M)
9.
On 2015-09-05 at 20:03, Bruce Smith wrote:
Galen has asked that I not cut and paste anything, but to simply pass on information.
BTW, I like long stories....
Bruce
10.
On 9/5/2015 7:09 PM, Lars Skoland wrote:
I'm not sure of the Moriarty/Reichenbach connection. Sorry Bruce, I am just the messenger. I do this as a debt to Moriarty. It's a long story.
In the mean time of your synopsis could you please provide ~M with the headers of an Al Di email? Either cut and paste or forward an email in full.
11.
On 2015-09-05 at 18:25, Bruce Smith wrote:
Greetings Lars,
Galen has sent me a lengthy number of his emails today that were part of the exchange between him and "Al Di" (AD). Galen has asked me to give you a synopsis of what was included, and that will take some time to first read the emails, digest them, and then get back to you.
But in the meantime, here is the pertinent information that I gleaned from the first few emails.
Al Di uses the email address of You are not allowed to view links.
Register or
Login, which is the email address posted on his website, I believe. I know that I attempted to communicate with Al Di via this emails address and he never responded, nor did the emails bounce back as undeliverable.
The themes and content varies. Sometimes AD asks general conversational questions, such as "What do you think of Duane Weber?" to in-depth discussions of the briefcase. I was surprised to learn that Galen says that Florence told him that she remembers the briefcase as being a Samson-like briefcase, with "metal flaps to open." AD says he found an advertisement in the 1970 Playboy issue that was the source of much of Letter #3 for an attache case from Samsonite that fits the descriptions he gathered from all the known public sources of information – cheap, black, dark vinyl-leather-looking briefcase. AD also thinks a "Hartsmann" attache case could fit the bill.
Galen is absolutely convinced that Al Di is Curtis Eng. Galen says that he confronted Curtis on this and he deferred. He also said that AD told him that the Letter #3 originated in Scappoose, Oregon, and Galen believes that information would only be known by the FBI. When Galen pushed Curtis on this issue, Curtis curtailed his email exchange with Galen, as did Al Di. I very strange and telling piece of synchronicity.
I'll report back soon with more information if this is helpful. Let me know.
BTW: Is Moriarty Reichenbach, as was discussed on the Forum today?
Bruce
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Lastly, I received this email today from Lars. It refers to the DB Cooper Decoded website run by Al Di. Apparently it went dark today, after having been in operation since August 2011. I assume that Lars/Moriarty shut it down. After receiving this email, my connection to Lars was severed, and my emails to him are now bouncing back to me.
12. From Lars (September 9, 2015)
Have you been to dbcooperdecoded.com today?
Oh no!!
=)
