The copiers were a dead end for the FBI. However, the copy paper used in the mailings has an interesting side story indirectly involving Ed.
An anonymous person running a website dealing with the FBI photos of the letters which, up until that point, had been posted in the small jpeg format, petitioned the FBI to release of the full blown Tiff formated photos. To everyone’s amazement the FBI did so.
The hugh images could be analyzed and the website owner discovered what appeared to be odd images in the paper.
The images were definitely there.
He wrongly theorized that the images were “doodles” made by a careless examiner.
He made further efforts to obtain info from the FBI but was stonewalled.
His eventually apparently gave up and bequeathed his website and its great contents to Ed Lake, who never appreciated the significance of the images in the paper and wrote them off.
When he reads this he will do so again.
When he reads this he will do so again.
Yup. The images that people see in the anthrax letters are like a Rorschach test. No two people seem to see the same things. The letters were inside plastic envelopes when they were photographed. So, reflections and imperfections in the plastic could be the source of the images people see.
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