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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #3390 on: October 30, 2018, 01:13:47 PM »
At times Sheridan loves the Cooper related attention. Look at how pleased he looks during the History Channel interview. Then at other times he seems genuinely distressed and fearful. Hard to figure.

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« Reply #3391 on: October 30, 2018, 01:20:00 PM »
He used the word 'fuss' in the book.
I'll check in a bit to see if it was 'No fuss' like Cooper said

update: He just used the word fuss in two places in his book. Once was when deciding whether to use a condom.

He gazed questioningly at the square capsule with the three X's on it. Even so much as a suggestion might place a barrier between them. Lessen her desire. And then very likely, he'd have to take it off anyway. She'd insist on it, so it'd be a lot of fuss for nothing, he figured tossing the capsule beneath the bed.

The other was going into a bar

On his first night back at Lang Son, Grecco had gone with Greg Kalick to the Green Beret's slop chute for a beer.
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The first thing that Grecco noticed when he and Kalick entered the slop chute was the large orange on black Day Glo poster of "Wallace for President" taped to the back bar. "Burns kicked up quite a fuss about that poster the other night" Kalick said. "But I see that he was just wasting his breath."
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« Reply #3392 on: October 30, 2018, 01:24:35 PM »
His fortuitous presence at significant, even historic foreign events, fuels CIA agent speculation. Knowing him though, he sure doesnt present as a Langley type or as anyone who those types would be comfortable employing.

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« Reply #3393 on: October 30, 2018, 01:31:12 PM »
There's a couple in New Zealand, Bev and Mike Smith that knew Sheridan in Vietnam. Their impression of him is tame. Wonder what their take on his book would be if I sent to them...I'm actually surprised by all the sexual scenes in his book. Like the 19 year old Cambodian prostitute.

I'd like to get Bruce to have first crack at interviewing Bev and Mike, and Claire, 91, before she dies.

It feels so weird that I may have conversed more with Sheridan recently than those 3 kids snd Claire. Sheridan should patch things up before he dies, I think. Maybe Bruce can be the relationship repairer.
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« Reply #3394 on: October 30, 2018, 02:25:28 PM »
I believe I spoke with Bev and Mike a few years back. They are associated with Newsweek magazine, I believe.

They were civil at first, but got very upset with me when I suggested that Sheridan might be DB Cooper. They seemed astonished that he would be considered by the FBI for TWO rounds of investigation. They ended the conversation shortly after that exchange.

Relationship repair? Me? Yougottabekiddingme.
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« Reply #3395 on: October 30, 2018, 02:35:23 PM »
Bev and Mike posted on your mountainnews site.
You replied, but you also threw in a reference to Mkultra
I'm not surprised they stopped talking after that.
Did you talk to them in any other way, or just on the comment section of your website
They are facebook friends with Sheridan. One of his few.
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« Reply #3396 on: October 30, 2018, 02:37:33 PM »
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I have wondered why some folks who must have known Sheridan well thought he could very well be DB Cooper, even though he had no criminal record and appeared to have earned every cent he made by working. He wa not a slacker, scammer or crook.

We skydivers ruled out many colleagues who resembled the sketches based on character assessment.

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The folks I've talked with or communicated with who knew Sheridan were aghast when I mentioned him as a DBC suspect. His brother Alden was shocked, although he did acknowledged that it could be possible based upon Sheridan's parachuting experience. More telling, though, Alden characterized Sheridan as a bullshit artist, or words to that effect.

I spoke with a former colleague of Sheridan, upon Petey's suggestion, and the fellow - who lives nearby in University Place, near Tacoma - was surprised that anyone would think Sheridan was DBC. In addition, the guy told me that when they wrote for the Eastside Journal, Sheridan only wrote "fluff" pieces for loose change.

And of course we have Mike and Beverly, who got agitated when I mentioned Sheridan as a suspect in the hijacking.
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« Reply #3397 on: October 30, 2018, 02:39:02 PM »
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Bev and Mike posted on your mountainnews site.
You replied, but you also threw in a reference to Mkultra
I'm not surprised they stopped talking after that.
Did you talk to them in any other way, or just on the comment section of your website
They are facebook friends with Sheridan. One of his few.

I'll have to check my notes. As I remember it, I spoke with them on the phone, and then had an email follow-up.
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« Reply #3398 on: October 30, 2018, 02:41:23 PM »
I updated my post above with the two places Sheridan used the word 'fuss' in his book.
He didn't use "No fuss"
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« Reply #3399 on: October 30, 2018, 02:44:06 PM »
In his book, there's two places where Sheridan's characters have a shot of bourbon. That's interesting.
I wonder if Sheridan occasionally had a bourbon in Vietnam. I mean, he must have. That's how he writes..He uses the exact detail that he did himself.
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« Reply #3400 on: October 30, 2018, 03:02:33 PM »
So what did Sheridan himself do that supplied the intriguing details for Greccos jump.

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« Reply #3401 on: October 30, 2018, 03:41:30 PM »
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bullshit artist, or words to that effect.

Not a good quality to have.....very telling.
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« Reply #3402 on: October 30, 2018, 03:53:18 PM »
I initially doubted some of Sheridans wilder claims about smoke jumping skydiving and personally witnessing the Tienamen Square massacre but ultimately found them to be true. He is not a BS artist in my opinion. He initially sounds like one because his exploits, accurately recounted, seem so remarkable.

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« Reply #3403 on: October 30, 2018, 03:58:51 PM »
I had forgotten the sex scenes in Sheridan's book.

He apparently relished his sexual adventures.

I ran into them again, searching the book.

It's so funny, for a supposed political Vietnam documentary.
Sheridan should definitely have been a scriptwriter for Apocalypse Now.

So yeah, if all the sex scenes were real (we need to ask Sheridan, the old codger), then why would the parachute jump be fake?
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« Reply #3404 on: October 30, 2018, 04:05:43 PM »
I would bet that every sexual adventure in his book was based quite closely on his actual
experiences. The book is autobiographical and only slightly fictional. I think he used words like that describing it.

EU might know.

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