Was the Amelia Earhart story a cover-up?

[kscarbel2]

Associated Press  /  July 6, 2017

The photo is haunting. Among a number of figures gathered on a dock, the fuzzy image seems to be that of a woman, her back to the camera, gazing at what may be her crippled aircraft loaded on a barge, and perhaps wondering what her future might hold.

Is this Amelia Earhart, the world-famous aviator, witnessed after her mysterious disappearance while attempting the first round-the-world flight 80 years ago this month?

That is the theory put forth in "Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence," a two-hour documentary airing Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT on the History channel. It uncovers records, including this newly revealed photograph that shows what may be a healthy Earhart along with her navigator Fred Noonan, after they were last heard from.

The film also argues that after the pair crash-landed in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands, they were picked up by the Japanese military and that Earhart, perhaps presumed to be a U.S. spy, was held prisoner.

And there's more: The United States government knew of her whereabouts and did nothing to rescue her, according to the film.

The disappearance of Earhart and Noonan on July 2, 1937, in the Western Pacific Ocean has gained legendary status among the age's unsolved mysteries.

By then she had already logged numerous aviation feats, including that of being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. She reigned as an international hero.

And yet the U.S. government closed the book on its investigation just two weeks after her disappearance. Its vaguely worded findings were inconclusive.

Was there a cover-up? The film proposes there was.

The documentary is hosted by former FBI Executive Assistant Director Shawn Henry, whose fascination with the case is equaled by former U.S. Treasury Agent Les Kinney, who discovered the photo hidden and mislabeled in the U.S. National Archives.

In the documentary, that photo is subjected to facial-recognition and other forensic testing. It is judged authentic, and likely that of Earhart and Noonan.

The film also displays plane parts found in an uninhabited island of the Marshall Islands by Earhart investigator Dick Spink that are consistent with the aircraft that Earhart was flying on her round-the-world attempt. And it hears from the last living eyewitness who claims to have seen Earhart and Noonan after their crash.

The documentary tells of "a world-famous aviator who got caught up in an international dispute, was abandoned by her own government, and made the ultimate sacrifice," Henry sums up. "She may very well be the first casualty of World War II."

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[kscarbel2]

If true, possibly an agreement was reached by the United States and Japanese governments at the time of surrender that the truth would never be told. The question is why.

[HeavyGunner]

Very interesting. Did you see the documentary "I Killed JFK"? He guy who made the film was interviewed recently and he had some very compelling evidence and a man who confessed to being one of the shooters. I did not know that he Chicago man was pissed at JFK for appointing one of his family members as attorney general who then started looking into the mob after they helped elect JFK because his dad was up there campaigning for him. According to the man who confessed (if memory serves me correctly he worked for the government) people around the world came to watch the assassination.  

http://www.starlightcinemas.com/movie/249485/I-Killed-JFK/2017-05-31

[kscarbel2]

Earhart was held on Saipan

USA Today  /  November 26, 2017

HAGATNA, Guam — A man with ties to Saipan shared information that promotes a theory that Amelia Earhart was brought to the island and held prisoner 80 years ago. 

William “Bill” Sablan, who lives on Chamorro, said his uncle Tun Akin Tuho worked at the prison where Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were taken prisoner in Saipan.

The History Channel shared the theory that the two were taken prisoner in a recent TV special called Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence.

The theory says Earhart was captured and executed on Saipan by the Empire of Japan. The U.S. government and military knew it (and even found and exhumed her body). And both governments have been lying about it ever since.

Sablan’s uncle’s story fits this theory.

In 1971, he was speaking with his uncle and cousin about his dream of becoming a pilot when his uncle mentioned the people that were held prisoner in Saipan.

His uncle described an American woman and man taken to a Saipan prison in the mid-1930s by ship. He said they were found with a plane on a southern Pacific Island under Japanese control.

Sablan said Earhart was brought to Saipan, for it was a hub for the Japanese.

His uncle said that he remembers the woman and man because Caucasian people were rare on Saipan. The prison was usually quiet, but the pair's arrival caused a commotion.

“They had no reason to be there,” Sablan said.

His uncle said the plane they were flying was dropped somewhere in the ocean before coming to Saipan.

The uncle said that the two were in the Saipan prison for two or three days before they were killed.

Sablan said it's possible the U.S. found and relocated the remains.

According to news files, in 1960 a CBS radio man, Fred Goerner, spoke with at least a dozen reliable witnesses from Saipan, who shared that before the war, two white people arrived on Saipan — described as “flyers” or “spies” — and they were held in the Japanese jail.

They said the flyers were tall and one of them was a woman, but her hair was cut short and she was wearing men’s clothing, files state.

The year was 1937, the same year Earhart and Noonan were lost.

The theory rests on an ambiguous photograph, said to have been taken in 1937, that might show Earhart and Noonan alive on a dock in the Marshall Islands. At the time, the islands were controlled by Japan.

[41chevy]

Irene Bolam is the key to the mysteries answer.

[DailyDiesel]

Apparently the photo referenced above turned up in a 1935 travel publication.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/amelia-earhart-lost-photograph-discredited-spd/

Either this theory has been debunked....or it's part of the cover up. 

[41chevy]

1 hour ago, DailyDiesel said:

Apparently the photo referenced above turned up in a 1935 travel publication.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/amelia-earhart-lost-photograph-discredited-spd/

Either this theory has been debunked....or it's part of the cover up. 

Fake pic IMO. The aircraft on the barge has a single vertical stabilizer in line with the fuselage  the Lockheed she flew had a twin tail.

[kscarbel2]

I suspect there is/was a cover-up. But they ensured that it's impossible for us to connect the dots.

[BC Mack]

pretty much debunked

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/11/blogger-discredits-claim-amelia-earhart-was-taken-prisoner-by-japan

go to page 99 (44 in book)  http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1223403

let the conspiracy continue... given time, someone will prove she also shot JFK...

BC Mack

 

 

[41chevy]

21 hours ago, kscarbel2 said:

I suspect there is/was a cover-up. But they ensured that it's impossible for us to connect the dots.

http://irene-amelia.com/

[HeavyGunner]

https://apple.news/Aj4oSahETSM6Ai-6s5FdgbQ

[kscarbel2]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6025457/Australian-discovery-World-War-Two-SOLVE-mystery-missing-pilot-Amelia-Earhart.html