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We have a lot of photos of the money find location in 1980.
While we don't have perfect precision, I think we have a pretty good idea of the money find location.



Did we cover fully the option that dredge debris at
Tina Bar included material from some other site,
specifically the mouth of the Lewis brought to Tina
Bar ...?

It's pretty clear in the articles the FBI was still
thinking about a Lewis-Tina Bar connection if
some connection could be found.

Bruce failed to ask Schreuder "where" the Tina Bar
material came from ....

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We have a lot of photos of the money find location in 1980.
While we don't have perfect precision, I think we have a pretty good idea of the money find location.



Did we cover fully the option that dredge debris at
Tina Bar included material from some other site,
specifically the mouth of the Lewis brought to Tina
Bar ...?

It's pretty clear in the articles the FBI was still
thinking about a Lewis-Tina Bar connection if
some connection could be found.

Bruce failed to ask Schreuder "where" the Tina Bar
material came from ....



That's pretty funny you mention that.

I threw out that theory very early on, partly tongue in cheek.
Ckret gave me a hard time on it. You can see here.
http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3169622;search_string=lewis%20dredge;#3169622


Note Ckret seemed to not grasp the idea that 3 bundles could be stuck together. He seemed to want to think of the bundles as dry items that would travel independently. And that they would only get "aligned" when deposited on Tena Bar. Ckret's thinking had a lot of flaws.

(edit) at that url, you can see Ckret introduces a random theory/requirement? of bundle independence turning into bundle alignment.

he posted:
So the theory that bundles independent of each other were sucked up north of the Lewis from the bottom of the Columbia...

There's no data that says the 3 bundles that were stuck together at Tena bar, were independent earlier and came together later somehow. They likely were adjacent from start to finish.

Also of interest is what I posted about dredge spoils sites.
Here:
http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3169371;search_string=lewis%20dredge;#3169371

Although, since we learned that pipeline dredges were more likely used (rather than hopper) long distance transport seems less likely.

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377, did you see the news about them doing away with LORAN?



How the hell do you end up following LORAN stories Orange? Amazing.

I love LORAN, cut my teeth on LORAN A in the 1960s using WW2 surplus APN 9 aircraft receivers on boats, had about 35 vacuum tubes and weighed about 40 pounds. NOTHING digital, you had to physically count marker pips on a CRT to figure out microseconds of delay between the master and slave sigs, then go to charts with hyperbolic lines of constant delay on them and plot you position using two sets of LORAN A readings.

After making recent very expensive upgrades to the LORAN C systeme it's just nuts to kill it. It doesnt cost that much to run it. Despite early predictions to the contrary, GPS has turned out to be ridiculously easy to jam. We need a backup like LORAN C that is independent. Read this:

http://www.gpsworld.com/gps/system-challenge/the-hunt-rfi-776

Imagine if a cheap TV antenna preamp radiating spurious signals can cause this much accidental GPS havoc, what you could do with an well designed jammer.

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2018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968.

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OK, I withdraw my suspicions about the money find. The dispersion of currency fragments through deep layers of sand rules out an Ingram complicit plant at Tena bar.

I think it also rules out Jo's "bag of bills river tossed off a bridge by Duane" explanation too, but will she change her conclusion? Don't hold your breath.

There is no data on what happens when you pass $200,000 in twenties thru a pipeline dredge on the Columbia River, and how it ends up relative to sand and clay layers.

Maybe what's at Tena Bar is the sole experiment? There is a lot of guess work, but no data.

My guess is that the intact bill bundles were less dense than the slurry of sand and water being discharged by the dredge and floated up to the top of the discharged material. Just a hunch.

Why didnt Ckret tell us about the vertically and horizontally dispersed bill fragments? Surely he must have known, right? It is an important fact.

This is fun, we are discussing real Cooper evidence not just jabbing at each other. Well, I guess I made a jab at Ckret, but hey, he should have told us.

I guess Jo could say the bag Duane tossed off the bridge was dredged up and discharged on Tena Bar, but thats a real stretch.

Wish they had done a 3D particle density map and modeled/calculated the amount of currency that was shredded.I am surprised nobody thought of doing this.

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377 said "Imagine if a cheap TV antenna preamp radiating spurious signals can cause this much accidental GPS havoc, what you could do with an well designed jammer."

Well thanks for the complement 377, but our design isn't that sophisticated.

We just figured "satellite transmitter in outer space vs transmitter on earth...how much stronger do you have to be to cause havoc and how easy is it to do that?"

hey do you remember the guy who took over the TV transmission back 11/22/1987
(note it was two days before the anniversary of the Cooper hijack)

The video he sent is available on youtube.

desribed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion_incident

Known as the Max Headroom incident.
Snowmman Industries was not caught. I mean involved.


it's great fun to see the actual event here: (there were 2 I think)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj1mUk04_ho

there was also the Captain Midnight satellite downlink thing

John R. MacDougall (born c. 1961) also known as Captain Midnight, is a Florida electronic engineer and business owner, who jammed HBO's satellite signal in 1986 to broadcast a message protesting their rates for satellite dish owners.

see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight_(HBO)

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377 said "I guess Jo cold say the bag Duane tossed off the bridge was dredged up and discharged on Tena Bar, but thats a real stretch."

Jo gave us a date for when Duane threw her in the river.
It was just a number of months before the money was found.

The dredge would have had to operate in that interval.

Also, she limited herself to a small number of bills. which makes it less likely.

Cooper had a lot of bills. Makes it more likely to find them post dredging.

I think Duane threw Jo in the river. Somehow she made it out.

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Maybe what's at Tena Bar is the sole experiment? There is a lot of guess work, but no data.



I thought you were an engineer? Why do you need a social anthropologist turned physicist to solvethis for you?

average briefcase dimension back then (smllere than today's carry on size) was 19x14x6. Subtracting
1/2" for case side widths that's 18x13x5 ID.
Total cubic volume = 1170 ci.

$20 bill is 2.61x6.14x.0043 inches.
cubic volume of one bill = 0.0689 inches.

1170/0.0689 = 16,981 x 20 = $339,622 carrying
capacity in the brief case, depending on how you
arrange the bills geometrically?

Are you following this?

Cooper was given only $200,000 = 10,000 $20 dollar gills.

This means the brief case volume was more than enough to carry the whole load of cash.

Now, estimate how many bills could be spread
over a volume 90ft x say 20ft x 3 deep depth ....

Does this begin to approximate the distribution
found at Tina Bar. I think so.

One brief case full of $20 bills is all it takes to
create the scene at Tina Bar. Forget bag. Forget
waste band. Forget pockets.

If you take the evidence in front of you get one briefcase (prior bomb case) dredged up somewhere
placed on Tina Bar eroding naturally over time and
finally exposed ...

Tom Kostinapoulous' measurements are irrelevant.
Its the crime scene that matters. Its the crime scene
that is speaking facts loudly. Who cares what Tom measured. The money find fragment field to depth
is all that matters. All in a confined eliptical area.
And the simple fact everything including the briefcase is "all chewed up" points to one source
alone: the dredge. The dredge did exactly what
everyone said it would - chewed everything up and spit it up then distributed by the end loader over
an area to weather until top erosion exposed the
sediment layer ... for Ingram tofind a few remaining
bundles.

That is sure how this looks.

The only question is where did the dredge get it from? And how did it get to that place? And
what of Cooper.

And by-the-by, Jo Weber's case is now HISTORY!
Her lies have been revealed. Her case is closed!
And any other imposter must now adapt to the
current facts which are indisputable.

What we have here is an extremely strong circumstantial case complete with witnesses which a little physics will make even stronger.

Compare all of this to Jo Weber's or Galen Cook's
anecdotal version!

lma'ze ani benyanim?
what am I missing?

No doubnt Jo Weber will nowcome here with a post
ten miles long full of redm black red, green, purple,
and blue CAPITOL LETTERS...

My engineering sense tells me this distribution field, ie fragment field, was mechanically created at an
earlier stage as opposed to something nature
created. This confinded field is not the product of nature acting in the presence of current. If that is the case then you need something that brings all of the frags together on one confinded area - maybe Angel Udell picking up every piece of broken currency and placing each piece on Tina Bar
like the ontague Mrs. Ingram wanted to make with the bills! You need a means of creating this scene
as it was found. That scene definately selects for a mechanical means vrs something hydrological given the location at hand.

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I thought you were an engineer? Why do you need a social anthropologist turned physicist to solvethis for you?



I only know electronics, LORAN, GPS jammers etc You are more of a big picture guy G. Besides I did really poorly in statistics. I got a good grade but I had no idea how to use the teachings. My prof used to post absurd trick stat arguments like proving black is white etc and I could never see the trick.

If you left the particle analysis to me I might accidently conclude that it was all from a bag tossed off a bridge by Duane. I am confident you'd not let that happen.

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I thought you were an engineer? Why do you need a social anthropologist turned physicist to solvethis for you?



I only know electronics, LORAN, GPS jammers etc You are more of a big picture guy G. Besides I did really poorly in statistics. I got a good grade but I had no idea how to use the teachings. My prof used to post absurd trick stat arguments like proving black is white etc and I could never see the trick.

If you left the particle analysis to me I might accidently conclude that it was all from a bag tossed off a bridge by Duane. I am confident you'd not let that happen.

377



Hey this is the USA dammit. A poor paintball gun designer can dream of breaking a big FBI case. A social anthropologist turned physicist can do the same.

Unless Jay Leno wants to do it. Then you're screwed.

Maybe the object lesson of the Cooper case is age old:
"If you meet Buddha in the road, kill him"

i.e.
Whatever your conception is of the Buddha, it’s WRONG! Now kill that image and keep practicing. This all has to do with the idea that reality is an impermanent illusion. If you believe that you have a correct image of what it means to be Enlightened, then you need to throw out (kill) that image and keep meditating.

Could that Buddha be you yourself, having reached Enlightenment?

http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/670

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georger said "What we have here is an extremely strong circumstantial case complete with witnesses which a little physics will make even stronger. "

yes, the latest witness is the strongest and most credible (plus he headed up the norjak investigation post Himmelsbach, which really started with the money find. H. wasn't involved because he was retiring in just days!)

We had an earlier FBI agent who found money but he only had minimal info.

We have Fazio, right? talking about shards.

We have the Seattle head of the FBI being quoted about more fragments found, within days of the money find. This is pre-internet. So no email. He probably got a phone call, since mail would be slower? He didn't read it in the papers and regurgitate it to reporters.

So there's a whole bunch of aligning information.

The only unaligned information is from Ckret.

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i.e.
Whatever your conception is of the Buddha, it’s WRONG! Now kill that image and keep practicing. This all has to do with the idea that reality is an impermanent illusion. If you believe that you have a correct image of what it means to be Enlightened, then you need to throw out (kill) that image and keep meditating.

Could that Buddha be you yourself, having reached Enlightenment?



I think Snow may be using this forum as a practice site. His goal is eventually forming a cult. Lots of money in that game. Look at L. Ron Hubbard, Rajneesh, Maharishi, Werner Erhard, etc.

Talk about money for nuthin and chicks for free... Those guys wrote the damn book.

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i.e.
Whatever your conception is of the Buddha, it’s WRONG! Now kill that image and keep practicing. This all has to do with the idea that reality is an impermanent illusion. If you believe that you have a correct image of what it means to be Enlightened, then you need to throw out (kill) that image and keep meditating.

Could that Buddha be you yourself, having reached Enlightenment?



I think Snow may be using this forum as a practice site. His goal is eventually forming a cult. Lots of money in that game. Look at L. Ron Hubbard, Rajneesh, Maharishi, Werner Erhard, etc.

Talk about money for nuthin and chicks for free... Those guys wrote the damn book.

377



Yup.
You can picture my infomercials on late nite tv already.
Think of the late, great, pitchman Billy Mays bellowing:

"Using the proven "Cheat To Win (tm) philosophies, you too can do things like:
-crack 40-year old unsolved FBI cases
-get South African skydivers to jump with you
-jump from planes without a parachute
-get free drinks in a bar
-sing like Frank Sinatra

Call now. Operators are standing by"

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And by-the-by, Jo Weber's case is now HISTORY! Her lies have been revealed. Her case is closed!




My My how you do jump to conclusions! Perhaps you should pick up the phone and do exactly what I did to day. Call Himmelsbach.

Himmelsbach stated there was no briefcase or pieces of briefcase found.

Tosaw talked to the detectives and FBI - and to Ingram. The money was just below the surface and there was no other money found other than what has been reported...other than what may have separated from the one bundle which had lost its rubber band.

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No doubnt Jo Weber will nowcome here with a post
ten miles long full of redm black red, green, purple,
and blue CAPITOL LETTERS...




Only to tell you - you are making a bigger FOOL out of yourself than I ever made. At least I have held my ground on my story - explored, but always went back to the basics. Yesterday I was preparing some things to send to XXXXXXX, when I found something - The FBI agents screwed up with Duane's prison records - they didn't try to find out how he got from A to C and what happened to B. A piece information Doug acquired explained it - no one looked at the date or had the information provided by the family until a later date. Therefore the FBI DID NOT do a good check of Weber's past.

Will what they missed put him in that plane or in a chute? I put him in a chute and then they tell me I have to put him on the Plane - now go figure!

By the way Georger I have only told a couple of very little WHITE lies to protect other people in relating what I know and was told and saw and learned.

As far as a debris field - I know that answer - but pick up the phone and call him or even Ingram - he was just a kid, but he might be a better witness than an FBI agent who is rambling at best...perhaps pulling Bruce's leg just a little.

Did you read Tosaw's book?
Did you read the Palmer Report?
Did you talk to Himmelsbach?
Where you there in 1971?

NO briefcase and the debris field was less than 20Ft. Considering Brian had already brought the money to the surface - and a couple of days before the FBI converged on the area - that would explain the 20 ft debris area. NO MONEY was found outside of that area.

You aren't contributing to the Hunt for D.B. Cooper, but you are contributing to the Proliferation of Myths: D.B.Cooper
Copyright 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 2013, 2014, 2015 by Jo Weber

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Jo ranted "As far as a debri field - I know that answer - but pick up the phone and call him or even Ingram -"

Why would Himmelsbach know everything about the FBI dig? (more so then the guy running Norjak post Himmelsbach)

Himmelsbach is much older than Dorwin. Why would Himmelsbach memory be sharper than Dorwin's? Remember Himmelsbach also likes the Washougal.

Why would Brian Ingram?

Why would Jo Weber?

Jo Weber can not be Buddha. If Jo Weber is Buddha, well I don't want to be part of this world.

Jo Weber the evidence techician reported "that would explain the 20 ft debris area."

I think Himmelsbach never accepted that he was never part of the post-money-find stuff.

Jo, where did you get this 20 ft number?
If you had this number before, why didn't you report it before?

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To my mind we really did have currency shards, lots of em, with a dispersion pattern making a dredge deposit the only rational transport explanation.

Hey, we moved a step forward. I am also beginning to think we might rule out all those Cooper wannabes who were allegedly spending big unexplainable amounts of cash post Norjack. The money went in the drink.

Cooper probably did too, but we have no proof yet.

I REALLY want to know if that briefcase piece recovery story is true. The briefcase sure makes more sense as a money bag that a jury rigged pouch fashioned from a reserve rig.

If Cooper did go into the river I'll bet it was as a no pull. If the canopy were open it would have been far more likely to have been found or wash up or eventually snag somewhere visible.

If he tied the briefcase to him he would have tumbled wildly after exiting and probably been unable to stabilize. The flailing briefcase could have even knocked him out if it collided with his unprotected head.

What a horrible night for Cooper. At best he landed alive without the money and at worst he drowned or died from impact.

It's enough to have turned a living Cooper into an eccentric frugal old hermit with a big grudge, with memories of a freezing trudge along the banks of the Columbia, shivering broke and hurting.

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377 said "I REALLY want to know if that briefcase piece recovery story is true. The briefcase sure makes more sense as a money bag that a jury rigged pouch fashioned from a reserve rig."

it may be unanswerable. Remember Georger posted about other stuff they found in the sand? (I don't know where georger got that..the palmer report?)..he said cans (edit) see my next post for what georger posted. interesting detail about rusted stuff and variations in layers.

Maybe the "briefcase" turned out to be other random garbage? later disproved by FBI technicians maybe?

I'll search for georger's "cans" post.

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Jo posted the following, I think claiming georger posted it.
But I can't find the original georger post...maybe he deleted it.
That must have been what happened.
So georger, did you post the following from the Palmer report?


http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3622324;search_string=%26quot%3Bgeologist%20palmer%20advises%26quot%3B;#3622324

misspellings like uppermpost make me think jo is quoting a georger post, also if you look at the link, she sounds like she was ranting to georger.


The fragment issue is answered with this summary you posted:

'Geologist Palmer advises that he found the beach area in the vicinity where the money was found to be in approximately four different layers.

The layers consisted of an upper sand layer, a post dredging sand layer, a clay lump (dredge) sand layer and below that an older sand layer.

The upper layer consisted. of six inches to eight inches of reworked beach sand and is the sand which contained the fragments and bundles of the recovered money. This sand also contained soda pop cans and other debris, which were not severely damaged and/or rusted.

This uppermpost layer is what I shall later describe as the 'upper active working layer' because it is most recent in aquisition showing signs of both acquisition and erosion, in the near term.

The post dredging sand layer under the upper active working layer contained older soda pop cans, rusted nails and spikes, and other older rusted artifacts, which were in a much more deteriorated condition indicative of their age compared to the upper active working layer. "

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I have posted about the dredging the Fazios did.

Maybe the above Palmer report is not consistent with the '74 dredge displacing the money, but IS consistent with the Fazio dredging displacing the money. (edit) I forget, but maybe we said Fazio didn't dredge as early as '74-'80. I don't remember the answer to that.

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http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3229648;search_string=Fazio%20dredge%20winter;#3229648

this post included info from the guy living in a houseboat behind Caterpillar Island (recent)

he said

"Fazio dredges with an Auger suction dredge (do a wikipedia search) every winter (it's illegal to dredge after April 1st, salmon habitat and all). They pump the dredge spoils up onto the hill, so every year the sand increases, then decreases as the sand is trucked out."

Also, remember I posted how the Fazios got their dredging permit renewed recently. (updated to add below)

(edit) I had posted at
http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3684983;search_string=fazio%20permit;#3684983

(source info is at the url)

"I was intrigued by the Fazio's dredging operations.
I found they had hired an environmental consultant to get their dredging access permit renewed recently.

They claimed they had been doing it since 1995. I don't know for sure when the earliest was.

But I found their dredging permit from 2004. (It expires at the end of Oct. this year)

There are 3 pages.

The second page has a picture of the exact location the dredge goes to. It's at the plume area in '74, that seemed to have runoff. Georger talked about this a lot apparently from info from Tom Kaye and Fazio.

It's right at the big sand hills, which you would expect. "

attached the permit thing again (2004)

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Jo wrote: ***I put him in a chute and then they tell me I have to put him on the Plane - now go figure!

REALLY? When? How? Proof?

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I was intrigued by the Fazio's dredging operations.
I found they had hired an environmental consultant to get their dredging access permit renewed recently.



We better be careful not to screw up their dredging permits. Those old military bailout rigs had a thick plating of Cadmium on the hardware. Can't be grinding up toxic heavy metals in a salmon river. Maybe Jerry can be a consultant and offer compelling evidence that the Cadmium is in the Death Woods not in the river.

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Jo the money fragment dispersal expert reported:
"Considering Brian had already brought the money to the surface - and a couple of days before the FBI converged on the area - that would explain the 20 ft debris area."

You're saying in 2 or 3 days, money fragments that Brian raised, but left, got mixed into the sand, over that area, at those depths? ('thousands' ??)

By what, water? How did water do that?

Why didn't the little shards you're talking about, float away?

What you say doesn't make sense. Can you explain more?

You're saying the money was in one state on Sunday when Brian found it. And then fragments left by Brian got dispersed into the state the FBI agent reported, in the intervening 2 or 3 days?

Why and how? Did Brian leave money fragments there? A pile of small ones? Why didn't they wash away before Brian found his bundles? Did Brian uncover more money than just his bundles, but left it there?

I'm assuming water is causing the dispersal? Why would the money fragments get buried in sand? Or are you suggesting people buried the fragments in the sand after Brian's find? or ??
Are you saying water both moved fragments after Brian's find and also buried them with sand.in those 2-3 days?

I just can't picture this scenario you're describing Jo.

I also still can't believe Jo doesn't realize she's nuts.

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Why does Himmelsbach have more credibility than Dorwin?
Dorwin, I think sounds more accomplished as an agent then Himmelsbach.

I looked for stuff Himmelsbach had done, and didn't find a lot.
Maybe Jo can fill us in.

Jo also suggested Brian would be a better witness

Jo said

"As far as a debris field - I know that answer - but pick up the phone and call him or even Ingram - he was just a kid, but he might be a better witness than an FBI agent who is rambling at best...perhaps pulling Bruce's leg just a little."

So Brian, the kid that's selling money at auction houses, and was a kid then, is a better witness than the guy who headed Norjak after Himmelsbach?

Here's the clear truth: you've wasted 14 years of your life. I don't know if we can take Jerry at face value for the amount of time he says he's spent, but that's been a waste also.

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