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Bager1968
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This “researcher” also takes advantage of the fact that Europeans are used to rather smaller distances between cities.

Capone’s area of influence was centered in Chicago… over 1,000 air miles from the area where he claims the aircraft came down!

Yes, Capone vacationed in the area, but bootlegging operations in the area were run by the New York and Boston mafias… both of which had rebuffed advances by Capone, who they considered as a “street thug”, due to his lack of connection with any real mafioso “family”.

Thus, Capone’s cross-border smuggling was focused on the Minnesota/Michigan-Canada land crossings and the water crossings over the rivers & lakes between Canada and the mid-west.

As for the Coast Guard archives… there were “sightings” of “White Bird” reported as far west as the Mississippi river (west of Chicago), and as far south as Florida… so that there would be an unconfirmed report of a “pair of white wings drifting in waters off Boston” (with nothing actually recovered) is not remarkable at all… just think of how many “sightings” of Amelia Earhart’s plane (and of “wreckage/artifacts”) have shown up over the years… none of which have been proven correct.

Any famous disappearance generates dozens (if not hundreds) of false sightings and reports… the most outrageous and non-credible of which are later removed from the records to reduce the file size to something manageable for storage when the case “turns cold”.

Thus, the comment “Parts of the archives had been curiously removed” is actually to be expected, and not necessarily suspect… but from just such “massaging” of a limited number of facts and far more speculation are created grand conspiracy theories.