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The fact that “please tell the lackey cops" is code for "I am 1st Lt. Robert Rackstraw" is absurd. “Unk” means “skyjacking a plane”??? I don’t know what the cod
by iambateman 8y ago
The fact that “please tell the lackey cops" is code for "I am 1st Lt. Robert Rackstraw" is absurd. “Unk” means “skyjacking a plane”??? I don’t know what the codes they used in Vietnam were, but I don’t think they needed a code for “a man is skyjacking a plane.”
Maybe there are details I’m missing, but it takes away from the legitimacy of the claim in my opinion.
- emmelaich 8y agoI thought they were absurd too. Surely "saw a way through good ole Unk" means he found a way to steal from Uncle Sam.
- philwelch 8y agoThere’s probably more to the code; perhaps the letter is much longer and part of the code is to embed a key in some other, fixed part of the text.
- rconti 8y agoYes, obviously there are details that are missing. The article doesn't have any of the letters he wrote, and refers to a very complicated code indicated by repeating words, none of which were in the article. Even with the evidence, I'm sure it's far beyond me to assess it, but it seems insane that people are dismissing a highly trained codebreaker's extensive work because 2 specific sentences in a newspaper article cribbed from multiple letters aren't immediately obvious to the layperson.
- hcs 8y agoPhotos of the decoding in question: https://dbcooper.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/DBC-Letter-5-FBI-WA-DC-WFO-DBC-WAPO-Letter-Mailed-12-15-71J3-1-300x147.jpg https://dbcooper.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/DBC-Letter-5... https://dbcooper.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/DBC-Letter-6-3-28-72-Typed-Note-Message-CodeB.jpg https://dbcooper.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/DBC-Letter-6... Definitely nothing obvious to this layperson. Edit: just noticed the 3 71s in the first image, ok that's a little interesting.