Voat's search function works intermittently, and there's a lot going on at the moment - could we please have a Stephen Paddock's "facts thread" and get some better archived sources? I wish I'd been saving more as I crossed it, but I didn't make all the connections here at once.
There are very many theories circulating right now and not enough focus imo on Who This Man Actually Was. Many deeply connections are being very successfully concealed under the rubric of "not glorifying the killer", and many researchers in a hurry to find the operative "higher forces" seem to me to be overlooking an awful lot of bunny trails. A very interesting nexus of forces seems to have converged in this man's life. See also the agitated, cagey manner of the brother who said Stephen never shot his guns.
We need a thread for the proper archiving of stuff specific to Paddock. All the plane info, larger version of the wire photo which shows another (unidentified?) man (in front of a one-way mirror?), pictures of Paradise Ranch, etc. Sorry if there's a thread I missed. My partial take in the comments.
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OLDMAN ago
Paddock worked at Morton-Thiokol from 1985 to 1988 as an auditor. Prior to that, he had been both a letter carrier and later an IRS agent. The Postal Service and the IRS are where very many CIA operatives are recruited from - State is so well-known a cover story its practically a joke, but the Postal Service & IRS produce great recruits because of their highly compartmentalized and secret routines and work culture. So as a former employee of both, Paddock would've been in demand. Employees of the Postal Service & IRS who discuss even the most trivial & abstract personal information of others can be put in federal prison for a decade. So they're natural fits at the CIA; in fact, CIA operatives moving towards a cushy retirement are often made postmasters of slow, scenic rural post offices. Second point: notice how far the media seems to go to avoid mentioning his former employer by name. One could be forgiven for thinking they were being spared the typically confusing tangle of Beltway Bandit whitepaper grift, but Thiokol Chemical has an interesting history; founded in 1929, in Maryland, about a half hour's drive from the home of the US Army's chemical & biological programs. Some of you clever readers out there may be familiar with the nature of some of the Army/CIA's better-known programs originating there during the cold war. Paddock didn't leave gov't for Thiokol : he was a gov't auditor stationed inside a military contractor overseeing secret research projects.
The Morton-Thiokol link is not being adequately explored, imo. More on Thiokol you won't find on the web if we get a good archive going. ;-)
StephenPaddock ago
Morton Thiokol is Lockhead Martin. It takes a crackhead to unlock my mysteries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ETDXJiDe4s
A little bit big than a normal guy.