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why do you say that AVB? it is a valid question that needs to be investigated...

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Let me give you an example. You always get gas at your local station. What was the price of gas on August 19th, 1984 at your local station? You use that station all the time so this should be something you remember.

If the secratary was a Reservist, he or she would use that typewriter once a month, plus wouldn't know exactly from one month to the next if it was the same typewriter or one similure to the one used previously. If a full time person the typewriter becomes invisible tool to do their job just like the model number of the computer monitor you are looking at to read this.

See my point?

Actually the clerk would likely be active duty reserve/guard and there 40 hrs a week. They keep the flow of stuff moving rather than letting it lay till they get to it. That's why the PO BOx is a dead give away. There is almost always somebody around to take mail. If I remember right, I used to get secret material by mail. Low level crypto, nomencalture pages, staion ID changes, etc..

There is almost always a duty EM at least, How else do they mobilize quickly in event of emergency if they have hunt down the contact man?

AVB,

Your ignorance is showing. Reserve posts have active duty personnel in most clerical positions and, having a mother who was one of these personnel in the era of 1968 - 1972, I can tell you that not only could she tell you every model and type of every single typewriter she used from 1945 - 1972 but also the type of paper, forms, duplicates, carbons, etc. that were required.

Find Killians active duty or civil service clerk who worked in that office and this issue will be done. She will likely state that they didn't even have electric typewriters on the post in 1972 (my mother moved to electric in 1971 on the main base of the 8th Air Force in Westover Air Force Base and the Guards are normally years behind the active military, but, there are people out there that can answer that question.

Your comments give the impression that you really don't want these answers AVB. What sickens me is that I just watched Dapper Dan defend his investigation again even while ABC, NBC, Fox and CNN are all acknowledging the serious concerns that these documents are highly likely forgeries. Dan.... bend over and bark like a dog. 🙂

Cheers,

grond

I have to disagree, just because you can site one 2nd hand unproven example you conclude that everybody must be the same. I've been full time at one a Reserve post and I'll tell you now that for VMAQ 4, NAS Whidbey Island, circa 1980, most, not all, but most of the office work was done by the Reserve members. I obviously can't prove this here and now but at least it is a first hand observation.

I'll stand by the invisible effect of everyday things we use. Just think about what's the model number of your TV, or the stereo reciever you use. How about the 2nd cell phone you bought or the coffee make you use every day. This effect has been studied and I'm sure you can find out some info on it if you care too.

I really don't care if this is found to be true or not, it doesn't effect the way I'm voting. I still think it is on the fine edge of ridiculous to ask about a typewriter from 30 years ago.

AVB, the reason you find it ridiculous is that the typewriter would prove once and for all whether these memos are real are fake. I sense fear in your postings.

I also appreciate being called a liar. If my mother were still alive, I would have her post here to confirm what I've said but she's been dead since 2000.

Your TV analogy doesn't hold up. Would you not agree that the guy who would work on your TV would not know what the make and model of the Circuit Board Tester he had. Heck, he would probably know how to service it if it broke. He could probably give you a time line of the technological advances he had seen in his equipment over the last ten years proudly stating different makes and models. What were the secretary's main tool before the advent of the modern day computer?? That would be her typewriter, her steno pad and her trustee fountain pen. I would wager that if you found 20 secretaries who worked in the 60's and 70's, you would find that each of them knew all about their typewriter.

Cheers,

grond