The letter of DB Cooper reveals the true identity of the pirate of the air, affirm the sleuths

A team of investigators Private who have spent years trying to crack the DB The Cooper team, led by documentary filmmaker Thomas Colbert, says that a letter sent to the Portland Oregonian newspaper contains a confession of veteran Robert Army veteran Rackstraw. 19659005] The letter was sent months after only one man identified as Cooper hijacked a flight to Seattle and parachuted from a plane with $ 200,000 and never be heard or seen again.

"This letter is too [sic] for you to know I'm not dead but really alive and just back from the Bahamas, so your super-beasts out there can stop It's just how stupid this government is, I like your articles about me but you can stop them now, DB Cooper is not real, "reads the letter. "I want to get out of the system and saw a way through good ole Unk.Now it's up to the uncle to cry and pay one of his [sic] for having a little bit of money. "(And please tell cops Dale Cooper is not my real name)," the letter continued.

Colbert told The New York Daily News that he received the letter after suing the FBI for the records. He said he noticed that the letter was written in the same way as a separate letter and he called a code breaker to decipher it.

Rick Sherwood, a former member of the Military Security Agency, told the newspaper that he had similarities with the words: DB Cooper is not real, "" Unk "or" "Uncle", "the system", and "lackey cops. "Sherwood decoded" by bon ole Unk "to mean" hijacking a jet plane "using a system of letters and numbers.

Colbert says the words" and please say the cops lackeys "meant" I'm the first LT Robert Rackstraw. "

" I want to get out of the system and I've seen a good path through Unk. cry and pay one of his [sic] own money for a change. "

– DB Cooper

" I read it two or three times and I said: "It's Rackstraw, that's what it does ". Sherwood told the New York Daily News, adding that the writer taunted the authorities as he normally does. "I was really shocked that his name was there, that's what I was looking for and everything was added to that," said Sherwood

Colbert claimed in February that "I'm here. he believed that Cooper was a CIA agent whose identity had been hidden by federal agents.He told the Seattle IP that his team had made the connection between the work and a broken code discovered in five letters allegedly sent by Cooper.

He claimed in a January interview that Cooper was Rackstraw. "Colbert said at the time that several people who knew Rackstraw had come forward to assert that he had possible links with the CIA and other top-secret operations

The investigator told Seattle that the man who had sent the letter a letter to signal to possible co-conspirators that & # 39; He was alive.

Rackstraw, 74, of San Diego, served at Colbert said in a press release Thursday that Rackstraw served in two of Sherwood's units, has a special forces paratrooper training, is an explosives expert and pilot with nearly two dozen aliases. Colbert said the FBI authorized Rackstraw in 1979.

In May, a Michigan publisher said that the hijacker was a former military paratrooper and intelligence officer Walter R. Reca. In 1965, the night before Thanksgiving, a man named Dan Cooper, dressed in a black tie and wearing a suit, boarded a Boeing 727 to Seattle, Oregon. and told a flight attendant that he had a bomb in a briefcase. He gave her a note asking for money. After landing the plane, he released the 36 passengers in exchange for $ 200,000 in ransom and parachutes. The ransom was paid in $ 20 bills.

The hijacker then ordered the plane to fly to Mexico, but near the border between Washington and the United States. 39, Oregon, it jumped and was never seen again

Despite the claims of the publishing house, the FBI never ruled out the possibility that the hacker of the 39, air was killed in the jump – which occurred during a rainstorm at night, over rugged and wooded terrain. The clothes and shoes of the pirate of the air were also unsuitable for a hard landing.

Fox News' Travis Fedschun, Robert Gearty and Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.

              
             
               
              
              
              

              
          
  
          
              
              

 

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