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I didn't read your book yet but will...
The thing about being the salesman, would he really have these exotic chemicals on the tie?  I don't know exactly what an industrial chemical salesman does but I figure it'd be more of a white collar job like a car salesman, the latter won't have oil or antifreeze on his tie, but at a distance from the cars he is selling.  Plus, IIRC the tie analysis showed some intertwined particles that imply manufacturing exposure, and not so much pure standalone chemicals.  Thus, I'd lean toward him getting the tie in Portland, along with the suit...
But it's moot, until I read your info compiled. 
I live on Long Island and I almost want to place an ad in the Village Voice saying akin to "Cooper's Clara, call me at XXX-XXXX" and see if she wants to sell her story before she passes, which probably is soon, if she is still alive.  Maybe she would see it and contact me.  She never had kids so any deathbed confession probably won't be coming.

I hope you enjoy the book, but I'll clarify my point: LeClair, if what is written about him is true, worked in industrial chemicals for about two decades. During the two decades, it is said he went from sales to a manager. His sales job would have taken him to a variety of places across the country, including job sites and factories. As a manager, he likely supervised factory floor workers at some point. Over time, he likely did a number of jobs. Clara, through Gunther, make it a point to talk about how mechanically minded LeClair was; he liked working with his hands and would have gravitated to those jobs. Also, LeClair worked for successively smaller companies in the years before he left his family, meaning he likely would have had a more general role in the smaller companies than the specialized role he had in the larger company.

Regardless, the tie is the primary link between Gunther's story and the real Cooper. The anti-corrosive metallic particles are exactly what a guy like LeClair would have been exposed to in indsutrial chemicals. Without this connection, there is no physical evidence connecting Gunther's story and the hijacking. What are the odds LeClair would pick up a tie that belonged to a manager working in the same industry he did? Who also would have been exposed to unalloyed titanium? Nearly impossible.

So, where is a picture, or anything that can verify the story from the book?

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Given the lack of any real proof, and the time frame of publication, I think I will pass on reading the book, and wait for the movie 

I don't see any actual proof of venturing into this. I'll let you guys chase this lead if you don't mind.

And there it is... never read it... ok.   Gunther was a very well-educated man, and finance writer, who had no reason to make it all up.

I look for PROOF. nothing has been verified in the book for 30 years, so excuse me for being skeptical...

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Gunther pursued "Clara" the rest of his life, meaning he didn't make it up

Again, I never said Gunther made this up. I do find it strange that all of this went no further than a book 30 years ago. the greatest unsolved mystery locked in a book? I realize protecting sources but this doesn't seem to have been the best move if it was actually true.

people believe "Into the Blast, The true Story Of DB Cooper" we all know how that turned out...