It's just obscure numbers, and the only thing you can read is "New people and progress." All the rest is gibberish. And the TSBD was a distributor of elementary school textbooks. I doubt that 3rd graders were reading New people and progress. It's just horseshit.
And remember, these were textbooks for public schools. Consumers don't buy textbooks for public school, at least, not until college level. The school provides the books to the students. Therefore, their customers had to be schools. Since schools were ordering books for classes, the orders had to be large. So, how is it possible that order-fillers were filling class-size orders when all they had to move the books were their two hands, one of which had a clipboard in it?
I want to lay out why the TSBD was NOT a legitimate book distributing company, that it was just a facade for their real identity, which was doing espionage and other things for the CIA. It may have involved weapons, drugs, counterfeit money; who knows. But, it was a CIA front company.
1) It was supposed to be a school book distributor, meaning, it distributed books to schools, but there is no evidence of school-size or class-size orders being filled. Boxes of books are heavy, yet, the "order-fillers" had no carts or wagons to move them.
2) The shipping department consisted of one guy, Troy West, who described himself as the "mailer." He wrapped orders in brown paper, which no one would do to a box of books.
3) After wrapping orders in brown paper, Troy had a string tying machine with which to tie them. But, such machines were and are designed for small parcels not whole boxes of books.
4) The whole implication is that "order-fillers" would bring one or a few books to Troy who would wrap them in paper, seal them, and then tie them. But, no one would ship books like that. Just thin paper covering books? What if the paper tears in shipping? Plus paper is porous. Someone gets water on it, the books get ruined. We're supposed to believe they were sending books to schools that way? Again: they were not a retailer but a wholesaler. Yet, there is no evidence of wholesale orders.
5) Supposedly, orders were filled that morning. Everybody worked. So, how come we have never seen images of finished parcels ready to go? How were parcels labeled? By hand? We don't know. And what about postage? Since Troy described himself as a "mailer" does it mean that everything went via the U.S. Post Office?
6) When asked, Troy West said that he worked in another building, but David Belin just ignored that and proceeded as though he said he worked in the TSBD. The story became that the shipping was being done out in the open on the first floor, even though a plat of the first floor shows nothing about a shipping department existing there.
There was no organization whatsoever to the way the books were stored. And as we look at the stacks of boxes, we can 't make out titles. If you look closely, you can make out the word MATHEMATICS, but what does the rest of it say? And keep in mind that this is a good example. Mostly, it just looks like gibberish. And even if you make the claim that up close you'd be able to read it, we're talking about rows and rows of stacks and stacks of books on most of the floors of a 7 story building that's as big as a city block. Nobody would operate a business this way.
And think about the economics of it. Troy West was the only "mailer" they had. Even if he wrapped and tied all day long, how could the profit margin on what he could do pay the salaries of 75 employees plus all the other expenses to run the business, eg, rent, utilities, supplies, etc.? It's just ridiculous.
The biggest question I have is: what were those "order-fillers" really doing?
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