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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 62
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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SALINGER VS. FBI: AN UNFINISHED PUZZLE
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Sherman Skolnick tells me that he demonstrated quite an aptitude
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for mathematics in his younger days. But, since he attended
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school in a time when sensitivity to challenges (e.g. opening
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doors, climbing stairs, etc.) faced by the "differently abled"
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(Skolnick contracted polio at the age of 6) was low, his gift was
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not nurtured as it should have been. He was eventually forced to
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discontinue his formal schooling.
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I suspect that many so-called "conspiracy theorists" have some
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facility for, or derive some pleasure from, solving puzzles. If
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there is such a thing as mathematical aptitude, I'd bet
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conspiratologists would show statistically significant numbers in
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that category. That is what most or all areas of conspiracy
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research have in common: an unsolved puzzle. For example, the
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facts show that Lee Harvey Oswald did not shoot President
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Kennedy. Yet the FBI and other alleged experts have continued to
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sit on their hands, refusing to "solve the puzzle" and insisting
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that Oswald was the culprit and there was no conspiracy. So, to
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those of mathematical and/or puzzle solving inclinations, the
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natural thing is to begin turning the thing over in your mind.
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That may be why some don't quite understand conspiracy theorists:
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people have different aptitudes: some are more language
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oriented, others show talent in the mathematical realm. Those
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skilled in language perhaps cannot fathom what fun there could be
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in solving a puzzle.
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The latest puzzle begins with Pierre Salinger claiming that TWA
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Flight 800 was brought down by a U.S. Navy missile. Then, of
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course, the FBI and other officials deny it happened. One would
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naturally expect that next, Pierre Salinger would be interviewed
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on, say, CNN's Larry King show. Instead, the guest is, of all
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people, basketball player Magic Johnson. (Huh?)
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So the puzzle is left hanging there, unsolved. The unreconciled
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dispute has disappeared into Limbo, displaced now by the
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convenient eruption of an Army sex scandal. And so, the
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conspiratologists begin sifting through the evidence, even while
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FBI's Kallstrom pounds on the lectern in a temper fit deleted
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from later broadcasts.
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My thanks to a CN reader for putting me in touch with reports
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from Paris Match magazine and for assisting me with the following
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translation of their reportage. The following translation is
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admittedly awkward. I will forward the original articles, in
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French, to those who request it.
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"You are invited to attend a function on Long Island," read
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the invitation. The function was to be held at Docker's
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restaurant. It was that evening that Linda Kabot began
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taking the photos. And she was taking photos minutes later
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when an explosion occurred over the ocean. It was soon
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learned that TWA 800 had exploded in flight.
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Linda Kabot has just brought back from the developer the
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pictures she took in the evening of July 17. She is about
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to put them aside but her husband, who watches over her
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shoulder, intrigued by a detail, wants to study the
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picture. He notices a long, unusual object that crosses
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the sky. Immediately making the connection with the Boeing
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catastrophe, the couple calls the FBI. An hour later,
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police arrive and show great interest in the photo. They
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leave with the first positive and the negative. Sometime
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later, helicopters will hover over the restaurant, probably
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to obtain ballistics data. Anxious to learn the experts'
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findings, the Kabots are told, "No conclusion can be
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obtained from this photo." As they insist on knowing the
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reason for the intriguing detail, one expert tells them,
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"It could be a cigar thrown by a guest." They are not
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convinced.
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The cylinder that crosses the sky appears, in its
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extremity, incandescent, which may indicate the combustion
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from the propulsion system of a rocket.
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The hypothesis of a missile having destroyed TWA Flight 800
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was transmitted to Paris Match magazine by e-mail about a
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month ago. With great support from technical
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demonstrations, our mysterious correspondent, supposedly a
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captain of a Boeing 747, explained the tragedy to us with
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an astonishing verisimilitude. We did not immediately go
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with the story, because a journalist's role requires that
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we verify the sources. The transmission of an e-mail, as
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it was in this case, gave us no guaranty of reliability.
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