and then.....
and then sometime in 1972 the FBI Cooper narrative shifted from an expert jumper to an amateur who
died in the jump...
but let's look at the first lie.. the 303 grand reported in media and by the FBI including its entire and secret recovery in Florida one year later.
1 lb = 490 bills
Cooper $200,000 = 10000(9998) x $20 bills = 20.4 lbs
Claim - Hahneman had requested large bills and was given $100 bills.. that is all they could get in short notice.
$303,000 = 3030 x $100 bills = 6.18 lbs
Claim - Hahneman rejected it and demanded larger bills, the plane circled for 5 hours.. He received $500 and $1000 bills and swapped the money.
$303,000 = 606 x $500 bills = 1.2 lbs (less if mixed with $1000 bills) that is a single stack of bills less than 3 inches high. Hahneman had an attache case on the plane and on the ground in Honduras.
Would a hijacker be dissatisfied with 6 lbs of cash only to have it reduced to 1 lb.. (Cooper ransom was 20.4 lbs)
Why,, it is a lie, the total wasn't 303 grand it was much much higher.
The 303 grand may have been part of the ransom and it may have been recovered but it was a small fraction, NOT the total and the vast majority of it went somewhere, to somebody that was so embarrassing to the US they had to lie about it.. this was at the highest level State Department/CIA..
It has been really strange that the FBI has never mentioned any relationship positive or negative between NORJAK and the Hahneman hijacking. They have never shown any reason why Hahneman was not considered a suspect in NORJAK despite extremely strong similarities. They have said very little, it is as though the Hahneman hijacking never happened.