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DB Cooper sleuth claims hijacker was CIA operative,FBI is 'flat-out lying' about case
The leader of the private investigative team who has spent years
trying to crack the D.B. Cooper hijacking case claimed Thursday he believes the mysterious criminal was a CIA operative whose identity has been covered up by federal agents. Thomas Colbert, a documentary filmmaker who helped put together the 40-member team, told the Seattle PI his team made the connection from work a code breaker uncovered in each of the five letters allegedly sent by Cooper. Last month, he insisted in an interview with the PI that a nine- digit number found at the bottom of a letter believed to be sent by the mysterious plane hijacker came from a San Diego man who is still alive -- Robert Rackstraw, an Army veteran. "The new decryptions include a dare to agents, directives to apparent partners, and a startling claim that is followed by Rackstraw's own initials: If captured, he expects a get-out-of- jail card from a federal spy agency," Colbert said in a news release Thursday. The code in question was discovered on the bottom of a fifth letter allegedly sent by Cooper after he hijacked a Northwest Orient Boeing 727 on Nov. 24, 1971. Colbert said several people who knew Rackstraw have come forward to claim he had possible connections to the CIA and other top- secret operations. http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox- news/us/2018/02/01/db-cooper-sleuth-claims-hijacker-was-cia- agent-fbi-is-flat-out-lying-about-case/_jcr_content/article- text/article-par- 8/inline_spotligh t_ima/image.img.jpg/612/344/1517505297475.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 The investigator told the newspaper the man who sent the letter may have put the code into the letter to signal to possible co- conspirators that he was alive. The FBI released the fifth letter in November in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, which featured the typed number “717171684” opposite the name “Wash Post” in the bottom left corner. Colbert’s team appeared to have linked the number to Rackstraw. An investigator with Colbert's team claims that in the four other previously released documents, the letters "SWS" appear in one letter, which is short for "Special Warfare School." He also said Cooper claimed to be working for the CIA in another document where the letters "RWR," standing for Robert W. Rackstraw, appear. Other evidence he complied shows the FBI tried keep the case unsolved. “As we suspected, records show the Bureau has been stonewalling, covering up evidence and flat-out lying for decades,” he told The Oregonian. Since last January, the FBI has released more than 3,000 documents to Colbert's team investigating the hijacking. The FBI said in court papers that it has more than 71,000 documents that may be responsive to Colbert’s lawsuit. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/01...sleuth-claims- hijacker-was-cia-agent-fbi-is-flat-out-lying-about-case.html |
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