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On December 11 1971, this letter was received by several newspapers around the country.
The letter also contained a code that the FBI couldn't figure out, but a group of private investigators think they broke it. They say it it points to a Vietnam vet named Robert W. Rackstraw, who was investigated in the late 1970s.
You do realize that anyone could have typed that, right? The FBI gets letters like that for every major crime they investigate. Sometimes dozens or even hundreds of confession letters from different people.
You do realize that anyone could have typed that, right? The FBI gets letters like that for every major crime they investigate. Sometimes dozens or even hundreds of confession letters from different people.
The DB Cooper case has sure had its share of bogus letters, fake confessions, false leads and every other darn thing.
It has been examined from so many angles by so many people it just plain makes you dizzy.
Colbert had revealed in early January that a code-breaker working for him had noticed a secret coded message in a court-released letter supposedly sent by Cooper.
He said at the time that a nine digit number typed at the bottom of the letter could have only come from Rackstraw because it referred to three covert military units he had ties to during the war.
Colbert revealed on Thursday that his code-breaker had since uncovered the new hidden messages in four other taunting notes sent by Cooper in the late 1970s.
Coding in one note, which was sent on November 30, 1971, said: 'IF CATCH I AM CIA… RWR'.
The investigators believe the 'RWR' in the coding is Rackstraw's initials and that it also indicated that he expected a get-out-of-jail card from the federal spy agency if he was captured.
Another note contained coding that read: 'CAN FBI CATCH ME… SWS', which Colbert said was Rackstraw taunting agents to track him. He added that the SWS stood for Special Warfare School, which is where the veteran supposedly learned coding.
Colbert said two of the letters were mailed within 30 minutes of Rackstraw's old California mountain town.
Anyone else notice how words like "Proof" have been watered down over the years?
Journalism is not what it used to be. I read that article three times and couldn't find one bit of proof in the entire article.
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