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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #3660 on: November 01, 2018, 05:35:03 PM »
Good find Bruce. Maybe the butts were lost by these incompetents.

I went head to head with an FBI crime lab magnetic recording expert during a trial in the 1970s. I was apalled and pleased at his amazing lack of knowledge. He could not explain the difference between magnetic permeability and coercivity. He  could not explain the terms in the most basic equations describing magnetic tape recording nonlinearity. I prevailed too easily. Had they had a truly qualified expert it could have turned out quite differently.

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« Reply #3661 on: November 01, 2018, 05:37:37 PM »
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20K per year working as a refugee adviser for USAID back in 1969 strikes me as excessive. That is many factors higher than the actual soldiers were earning. I would be surprised if he were earning this much...why would he leave?

Also, presumably he would have made even more when he went back in 1973, yet he appeared to save no money during Vietnam Round II.

Yup, 20K sounds high in 1969, by a lot - maybe half. I was working for 2 bucks an hour. My old man was making $100 a week. A VW bug, brand new, cost $2,000. Gas was 19 cents a gallon. Motel 6 charged $6 a night for a room.

When I got out of college in 1973, I made 13K working in a psych hospital and it was a little below average for most clinical work, which I would put at around 15-17K a year.
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« Reply #3662 on: November 01, 2018, 05:41:17 PM »
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With that said, The FBI received an unknown piece of material evidence in 2010 that was submitted to Quantico. The results of the Quantico analysis were received by the FBI in early 2016. These results were the straw that broke the camel's back and caused the US Attorney to close the case. What was this evidence?

Not sure, but this is what I know, as told by Ayn Dietrich-Williams:

Ayn indicated to me that the 2010-2016 time period was spent looking at LD Cooper, and the primary piece of evidence examined were fingerprints. I suspect that other pieces of evidence were also examined at that time, but what they were is unknown to me.

I think LD first entered the FBI orbit in 2011.

June, 2010, according to my notes. By the time of the Symposium in 2011, Uncle LD was already old news. Geoffrey Gray's resurrection of ol' Twisty Butt at the Symposium was newsworthy, particularly since it signaled the FBI's continued interest in LD Cooper.
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« Reply #3663 on: November 01, 2018, 05:42:43 PM »
Bruce:
it was  $16k salary
$4k hardship pay

Don't include the hardship pay when comparing your salary back then to his.
You don't think that he  had a $16k salary in Vietnam in 1969?
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« Reply #3664 on: November 01, 2018, 05:44:14 PM »
I posted the FBI memo with the small number of fingerprints that were used for comparision in '72 and '76

They wouldn't spend 6 years comparing that paltry # of prints.

I suspect she wasn't telling you the truth.
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« Reply #3665 on: November 01, 2018, 05:45:06 PM »
16K in '69 seems high for a grunt-level field officer in the State Department.
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« Reply #3666 on: November 01, 2018, 05:46:46 PM »
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I posted the FBI memo with the small number of fingerprints that were used for comparision in '72 and '76

They wouldn't spend 6 years comparing that paltry # of prints.

I suspect she wasn't telling you the truth.

She told me that they did not work on the LD-is-DB project continuously over those six years.
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« Reply #3667 on: November 01, 2018, 05:47:38 PM »
whew.
Just got done with first pass thru Sheridan's novel, reformatting it for 6x9 standard paperback.
Sheridan likes to start paragraphs with quotes..but he was inconsistent in the use of paragraphs and spaces for indentation...Fixing some minor typos and misspellings.
Will probably be around 430 pages.

I'm thinking after I get it thru Lulu I'll print a paperback and mail it to Sheridan. I think he'll like that.

He deserves to see his opus published before he dies.

I will admit, I got tired of his sexual references after a while. Makes the book seem a little cheap.
But then, the whole book is bizarre, if it's supposed to be a protest novel about Vietnam.
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« Reply #3668 on: November 01, 2018, 05:58:53 PM »
This is just wonderful. Who would have ever guessed that Snowmman would become Sheridans pro bono editor and publisher, rescuing the last known public manuscript and assuring that it will see the light of day forever. Bravo.

This demonstrates the kind and generous side of Snow that I have observed, benefitted from and noted here. I think most people thought I was the victim of Stockholm Syndrome.

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« Reply #3669 on: November 01, 2018, 06:07:16 PM »
Snow,

Try to get a copy to Oliver Stone. I know Sheridan really wanted him to read the manuscript and hopefully use it. He said he tried to send it but got no reply I am not sure it ever reached Stone. Even some interest by Stone would greatly please Sheridan. Even if it never gets turned into a movie just knowing that Oliver Stone read it would be a big boost.

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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #3670 on: November 01, 2018, 06:08:10 PM »
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With that said, The FBI received an unknown piece of material evidence in 2010 that was submitted to Quantico. The results of the Quantico analysis were received by the FBI in early 2016. These results were the straw that broke the camel's back and caused the US Attorney to close the case. What was this evidence?

Not sure, but this is what I know, as told by Ayn Dietrich-Williams:

Ayn indicated to me that the 2010-2016 time period was spent looking at LD Cooper, and the primary piece of evidence examined were fingerprints. I suspect that other pieces of evidence were also examined at that time, but what they were is unknown to me.

Marla gave the FBI LD's guitar strap to try and extract DNA....
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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #3671 on: November 01, 2018, 06:09:03 PM »
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This is just wonderful. Who would have ever guessed that Snowmman would become Sheridans pro bono editor and publisher, rescuing the last known public manuscript and assuring that it will see the light of day forever. Bravo.

This demonstrates the kind and generous side of Snow that I have observed, benefitted from and noted here. I think most people thought I was the victim of Stockholm Syndrome.

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Who's book is it?
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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #3672 on: November 01, 2018, 06:12:57 PM »
Sheridan was a refugee officer for the US Agency for International Development, at least at some point. He was white, 43 years old and had 4-5 years of college?
So we can  look up a typical salary in US Census data from 1970 (covering 1969)

From the 1970 US Census .."Earnings by Occupation and Education" at
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Managers and Administrators reported salaries, if they matched Sheridan of $21k to $22k

So I think Sheridan's report is good.
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16K in '69 seems high for a grunt-level field officer in the State Department.
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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #3673 on: November 01, 2018, 06:15:01 PM »
Sheridan's book.
I'm going to put it on sale on Lulu.com and eventually Amazon.

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This is just wonderful. Who would have ever guessed that Snowmman would become Sheridans pro bono editor and publisher, rescuing the last known public manuscript and assuring that it will see the light of day forever. Bravo.

This demonstrates the kind and generous side of Snow that I have observed, benefitted from and noted here. I think most people thought I was the victim of Stockholm Syndrome.

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Who's book is it?
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Re: Suspects And Confessions
« Reply #3674 on: November 01, 2018, 06:15:42 PM »
He's okay with that?
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