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over the spot he had selected for. his

"jump. He told the captain to fly at, be:

> tween 7,000 and 10,000 feet, to keep the,

flaps at 15 degrees (which allowed the:
plane to fly at a slower speed).and to

" to the cabin, and lock the do

"er hurriedly got himself together. He
put on his luminous stopwatch and com;
"pass, donned the' black cap and gloves

and hurriedly improvised a new means
had brought ©
to reflect on this. Just.

for taking everything he
- into the plane out with him. Anything

he lett behind would certainly be evi-

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Therefore, lacking the suitease he had |

"ordered, he grabbed one of the four
chutes, ripped the innards out of it and

stuffed the money and his suit coat into

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windows, and could see that. the. pla
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* marks below—the freeway, the'! er
line, the lake.
up the radio signals on his walkie-talkie." /-:
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* all three, he simply, walked to thq rear,

of the plane, descended the stairw

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'and jumped out...

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the Sika planes from spotting him:: —— :
+ The" free, fall carried him to about 4, 500 _

eS! ote ere he opened the chute. Below,*" .

ry pick up familiar landmarks — *,

, fields jarns, roads, and the power line =
he ne led to avoid. The wind was from *

the ea§t,;which was fine. He needed to"
drift westward, closer to the freeway ©
and his 'car, anyway. He landed skill-'

fully i in a big open field (it was the first _

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'Next morning, ine drove toa remote.
spot, burned part of his gear. and puried
2 othe rest, alang with the money, "ina spot
here -rtobody will ever, ever find it." |
sy Several days later, Cooper inadvertant--
oly. discovered that although the money |-
was not marked, . authorities' had the. !'.
serial numbers of every $20 bill he
: possessed. So though he had the money,
jhe couldn't spend it. What to do? He

jump he. had. made in-several years) *. cy ;

ae: oe ee {hing that oes stein oon = ¢ thought of taking it to Mexico, or Europe, :

P 8 B aney - SocaneEar v1 ral TN aT \ wand "fencing" it. But he was an engineer, "
a ae ae aa ~ not a criminal. Therefore, operating on

He "gal hered up the white parachute, ©
jwalkee downhill to a weedchoked gully *
beside. a. small dirt, road and there:
stashe: 'the money and the chutes.
Is ; Ther he simply.walked up the road to.
his cat, ducking off into the weeds three |
'times | vhen cars passed. When he reach-—
ed hig, car, he got in, drove back, col-
Jected] the money and chute, picked up .
Eis. "radio transmitters, 'packed every-
"bing | n the trunk, Bot 0 on the freeway,
'and drove home.
+: Exhjlaration poured over him. "I felt.
'like. I could have walked all the way to.
_ sChicago, he said. Not only did I have.
: ithe ney, but I had a plan and carried ©
> ithe J an ithrough under conditions that',
"4a lot of _peaple: swould be reluctant tor
\ jump in. But then the reaction hit me, 1 pr -
sbecame. "extremely. nervous driving up. |"
\ "Ythe' ft deway.- I became almost paranoid. }[°
eca se if I were ever stopped, if I had"
"open the trunk, J was dead in the...
a onsidered stopping' a elting
all he svisible evic ence,» But: |
i Sol [figured the best thing! could...
MW Keep | 'on*voing."And this'is what f°"

® alien. turf, he figured to lose not only
" <: the money, but his life as well. He was:
y "furious. He felt he had been: ' double-
| |< erossed. Here he, had a' fortune, . and
"couldn't spend a 'dime of it. *
" That is roughly where I came into 'the
picture. The foregoing narrative was | ¢:,
"related to me by the man I believed to }*.»
be Cooper in a series of taped inter: :
views ina Seattle motel that ran for some.
eight hours over a period of three days"
last February. He also guided me_ by,

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he;plan' through. under conditions: tha ; ata ots
conte, would 'be: reluctant A ears x cer erenaals

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'What-h e feared \ waa! a "roadblock: There':

was none. In his' planning, he had figured ny
'\ that law. enforcement | wouldn't' really:: :

'begin: to 'react"'until thesnext day. It / ae ify age

takes a while for a bureaucracy to crank' Photostats of Shree $20 "bills, given. 'to 5 LA: shi' 'Kari Flan

"up. So he didn't spot a single lawman. of n, B, Cooper's identity, matched serial numbers on the list

- alithe way home. |. $-.°°"": 3
: bills distributed by the FBI below . Cooper showed Fleming the'actual.:
He got there at: about: midnight. His.
alte awoke long enough to my "How did bills, but said the rest of the money was buried i ina remate hiding place

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Air Safety Forum to ask
~ 'What Price Safety?'

' "What Price Safety?" will be theme
of the 1972 ALPA Air Safety Forum to
be held May 23-25 at the Mayflower
Hotel in Washington. Captain Richard
Heller, Region Three safety chairman,
has been named general chairman of
the 19th annual Pilot Division safety
conference. Margie Slagle (PA!) will

f 'be chairman of the 10th S&S Division

#2, « Forum.

Pa Tentative agenda for the pilots'

a forum calls for a closed luncheon
: meeting Tuesday, M ay 23, followed by

closed sessions in the afternoon and
meetings of the five regional safety
committees in the evening.

" Open sessions begin Wednesday

>. morning, May 24, with a welcome by

abe

ALPA President John J. O'Donnell. ~

Wednesday morning programs will
discuss hijacking. There will be a

% Bs formal luncheon. The afternoon will

af beGevoted to disaster planning, two-
x segment approaches and noise- -abate-
ment procedures.

Thursday morning sessions will be
devoted to airport safety, status of
the airport certification program and
ALPA's plan .to accelerate installation
of airport facilities. Thursday after-
noon will schedule workshop action
groups on air traffic control, collision
a avoidance systems, airworthiness and

performance and accident preven-
tion. Honors night reception and

« banquet is set for Thursday evening.

a = Buses will leave the Mayflower

-., Hotel at 10 a.m. Friday morning for.a
». special VIP preview of Transpo '72
at Dulles International Airport.

: "NAS Planning Review
; Conference set for May

" "The Fourth Annual National Aviation -
7. System Planning Review Conference
a will be held May 1-3 at the Twin

v Bridges Marriott Hotel in Washing-

2 ton according to FAA,

a Papers have been invited on fol-
Be "lowing tentative list of subjects: Hu-
£°* man Factors and Biomedical Factors

% ein Aviation; National Airspace System
Ree of the Future; Airport Development
$2? Assistance Program; Aviation Trust
B _ Fund; Balanced Transportation; New

terested. Registration fee of $5 is re-

. "AIR LINE PILOT/February 3972

Have you seen

The man calling himself "D. 8.
Cooper" who hijacked a Northwest
727 and extorted $200,000 in the
process last November is the subject
of a widespread manhunt. ' During
the episode, "Cooper" demonstrated
more than a passing knowledge of
the air environment, especially para-
chuting. He also showed a fair famili-
arity with airline aircraft operation.

It is possible that "D. B. Cooper's"
path may have crossed that of airline
personnel at some time under another
name. He expressed a bitter hatred
for the airlines and may have worked
for one.

From descriptions furnished by
those involved, the FBI has provided
the following description and artist
drawings of "Cooper" in the hope
that ALPA members and other readers
may be able to furnish some lead as
to his whereabouts, dead or alive:

Race: White
Age: Mid-40s

'D. B. Cooper'?

Height: 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet"
Weight: 170 to 180 pounds
Build: Average to well built €
Complexion: Olive, Latin appearance
medium smooth ;
Hair: Dark brown or black, norma
style, parted on left, combed backt'
sideburns, low ear level a
Fyes: Possibly brown; during latter %
part of flight put on dark wrap;
around sunglasses with dark rims
Voice: Low, Spoke intelligently, ng
particular accent
Characteristic: Heavy smoker of Rad
leigh filter-tip cigarettes . o
Wearing apparel: Black suit, white
shirt, narrow black tie, black ares
suit, black rain-type overcoat o
dark topcoat, brown shoes; carrie
paper bag 4 inches by 12 inches by
14 inches and dark briefcase on
attaché case
If you have any information that
might lead to the identity of this in-
dividual, please contact the nearest
FBI office, . :

_all conference papers and the 1972

editions of the NAS Policy Summary
and the 10-year plan. Register by writ-

ing to FAA, Attention: HQ-200,/ 800 ."

Independence Avenue, Washington,
D.C, 20591.

U.S. limits housing .
near noisy airports

The federal government is discourag-
ing community development around
airports by withholding funds 'for

Bs Registration is open to anyone in i" housing 'loans "iikely 10 Ocean Gna roo ~takeo

2: a9 iquired of those who wish to receives -

"complaints are likely to occur,

rs

" composite noise rating calculations.

-24, or 75 db for eight hours of every

Urban Development is working
closely with FAA to develop guide-
lines called "noise exposure fore-
casts," which are based on FAA'sité

to HUD in an area where noise "ext
ceeds 80 db for one hour out of every,

24. Locations are normally acceptable 4
if noise does not exceed 65-75 db:
more than eight hours a. day,

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this series, the man who called
imself D. B. Cooper described -
w he singlehandedly hijacked
Northwest Airlines plane last
Thanksgiving Eve and parachuted —
"fo o safety with $200,000, and why ~
' he! did it—mainly to prove he
asn't "over the hill," the implied |
essage he got when. he was fired"
"Iby Boeing. where he' had. worked °
'Vfor 15 years as an engineer, He |

"jshowed . author. Fleming ; three, of -

the stolen bills, "and told part. "of :

rae

'my 'classified "ad in the Seattle "Times,"
''and decided to make contact with me —
° aa wk. lpurely to sell Cooper's story for money.

n 'the previous "two segments: of |

'Having sold it, they expressed a desire |

"to keep in touch. Before leaving Seattle | "

after my interviews, I asked Lewis, who
said he was an engineer, to send me

thes'story, zi 'whereupon' (Fleming ' le

n $30 000, and | 'then got

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ia' Ton the' rand filmy Inithis" con <
cluding installment,' 'Fleming tells, Eesha
'anhat hannened after "that.

Hed WE OT

, 'perial "maps showing the "are Where

"Cooper: claimed he - landed, 30. miles'

~-;north of Portland. When the maps arriv-_

- ed, they came in 'a package containing

. _,8 worn brass and, wood hat rack, <-that

8 .. By the time :he' wrote: 1
"from Newsweek, had been married, and |

chad 'completed the .backbreaking jod...
of

"of transcribing the "eight-odd" hours of
- taped' conversations with Cooper. :' 'Or:
. dinarily, a reporter doesn't do that. He
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takes notes, and i if he uses a 'tape record: : bi
'er, he merely selects nuggets from the 4

érsations "with. ' Cooper with' two tape wd
machines. I also had a 30-minute. filmed: °
a duterview \with:. him, "as. well as several."
"Y 'rolls of film, : cand 'photostats of | some:
of the stolen money.

'Curtain Act Ss 7
Originally, I'saw 'the Cooper story "as.
-but a fitting curtain act' at Newsweek, -
tions I was leaving, with mixed emo-
after 11 eventful and satisfying

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efor. the. amoney;"I'n
<< tage: man,"; he sald, He. was negotiating 4
; Band: acting/as' 'plange and' arranger, for.
' % Cooper, who sprofessed | ta! 'want to: lie:
low ratherthen risk' capture: Lewis said. °
ers suburban: home one '.

; discussing an investment plan, '
fed up and noticed two skydiving tr trophies

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ae nee iddenly, it" hit, himupe

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cone 'skyjac' Was. Coptiously.
Pr crienced seachutiat t. The. news reports,

dnt" appen: to" " haves _
about "5200, 000, in $20 bills. that you can'
"spend, " Lewis said to Coopersity eed: i

Cooper. blinked" once; then" replied': és
"calmly: "Well, what if I did, What gould
'a fella 'do with that, money?'s: ig

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KARL' FLEMING

- , Los 'Angeles. bureau chief and contributing; M

he 'editor for 11° years before resigning April->
15 to found LA. While with Newsweek, he."
covered - virtually every, "Significant. civil
rights story of the 'turbulent 60s, including.
. " Birmingham, "Selma, Ole Miss, Little Rock». .

*C* ond Watts. He covered the assassinations". 3%
" "of President John F. K Kennedy and his bro:.
'ther Robert and those of Martin. Luther
King and Medgar Evers,.He was assigned»
. to Richard Nixon durigg- the last Presi<
* 'dential campaign and: has covered Lyndon: | 4
"Johnson, George Wallace, Hubert Hum- =
'phrey, Barry Goldwater. and Ronald Rea...
'gan. He also reported on the Charles Man-:'

and the trial of P ueblo spy ship captain,
"Lloyd M. Bucher. Oe hl pe wet eeeere beat

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saspeced B right, a fitting curtai
raiser for HA. It soon became apparent,
_ however, ¢ atthe newspaper 'would
not be ane in time to have the sto-
ry. we ge peas a

i Another Hgsibiity arose.
man 'at my wedding was a trusted old "
friend from the South, Charles Morgan
Jr.,' a brifliant and courageous civil: *
rights law r who had been a classmate .
of George Wallace at Alabama and later _
infuriated 'wallace and other such pre- Ve
hensile hatemongers by legally repre- 7
senting bl acks trying to get into white ,
Alabama sphools.

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hen Morgan arrived, 1 'explained the
story to him..He:; had agreed to legally
advise me. He said ! should try to get

the story into print as soon as possible,
rin order to prevent even the appearance

'that I was overstepping my. Constitu-

'tional rights as a reporter by withholding —

'information about a wanted criminal.

"AS he saw it, I didn't have a legal obli--
'gation to turn Cooper in, only to print
' my story as quickly as possible, and then.
'possibly turn over my information to.

the authorities... wees

Morgan said, and I agreed, 'that 'the.

Wi! story seemed a a natural for.s a book Mor.»

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"gan "had recently represented Col An:

thony Herbert, the 'officer. who spoke
out on 'military. seandal cover ups, had
'done a book with him. He suggested LV:
contact Col. "Herbert's, agent, Gerard.
McCauley, i in New York. :
"s There were 'enormous problems ahead, '
"omplicating™ "either | publication of |

magazine article or a book. There was ws

a possibility, of 'course, that the whole
story was a
'Cooper had readily' 'and, thoroughly ; an:
_swered every question I 'asked him, 'and
1 asked him some pretty tough ones over

; three days, of intense. interviewing, ques-

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fraud, a la Clifford Irving. *
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i "aidn't. believe 'anyone Saye 8

on "man—could ° have yp The
'details, 'he spun on' "the

the, Grisis, and his "motives. "for doing. it.

He yielded up so niin information, in
Ffact, that {soon felt 1 knew a lot more
"Tathan ag wanted to~ "know = "details,
'lieved, "that would "yesult. in' his_ 'being

captured i if they were. 'published. 1 urged
"ghim to turn himself in and take his chan: |.
"ces with 12 fair-minded jurors who might

be. "{mpressed 'with the: story of. why he

;said he did it—out, of rage and 'out of a

desire to prove he wasn't 'the 'used Up'

old man Boeing implied he was when the.

"company 'summarily fired him at age 49.
% "He said.) he'd think. about, it. He said.
_ meantime, 'he: "wasn't, "worried 'that™ any
"details he'd given: 'me 'would, 'endanger :
chim. 'He just ; said he didn't. 'want, "to talk

ome anymore until after, he'
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" the right man. osj03 6.24: Js. Se tlis! .
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_and was reading stories in the press fhat+;,
posses of 500 military harids were search- i
'> ing the woods around Lake Merwin for |,
_ Cooper's body. In New York, McCahiley'¢:
. made a quiet inquiry about a book vith. "
"a friend at Harpers Magazine'; 'p ess."
<" Any negotiations he could make:w uld | '
~ have to be extremely discreet bec use,
- of a chance the story would get out.
. per & Row was eager to do it, espec fally, 1
_after McCauley told them.any contract : ;
would be contingent on Cooper returning' 'i
__the money before they would be, asked !!
* to put up advance money. McCauley, was i<
' excited about the prospect of a, ok.
_Harper & Row, which would publ h al)
" hardback edition, and a paperbac pubs),
; lisher which would put out a paper aich,|;
* made'a tentative offer of an ad ances
_ exceeding $200,000. McCauley thought'
a movie deal might yield $1 million.»
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"ly sceptical of such giddy dreams pf in-,
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le and 'investi;

* "rnumbers' 'on the three $20° 'pillgSmaking : %
"the, story. 'An elaborate cover article them' appear | to be part of the skyjack 7, "if Lewis. 'and, Murphy were int fact con!

wi -was planned, but a mood of caution pre- .{ loot. «. "yk saeeuagys, iemen, their, best "made, up"; defense!
' hace? Bw would be to 'suggest that I was implicated)

availed. My old colleagues in the top ed-".," That eaten warninacs ala rH
_¥yltorial positions ~""The, Flying Wallen." publication" 'of the. story::Within' weeks, 30's
__;,das," they were called by'subaltern writ-" on June-3," the FBI arrested: witli (86, company .and- therefore since we
4 :,ers—trusted me. We had gone through * H John (Jack) Lewis go, alias Seth Thomas,*= ere. 'all: 'conspirators, then: how sa
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a lot of important stories together. They "and Donald Sylvester Murphy," 49, who' they be guilty of defrauding me. Morgan,
ae any money— —except for $5,000 they "had printed a story on no evidence but © saig he was Cooper, and chars ed them." cautioned, therefore, against any "con!
ould put up as security against their "tmy say-so before, but this was a 'bigger - per, 8 re " Ege ts a4 ere
king the story to someone else. ae ' _with four counts of federal, fraud.:Lewis' Pay PAR vct tag TP
Peaking the story ativt i¢thing. One had to weigh the risks. The "later complained that, the. FBI dug up 7 terwards, "stilt ssa information
'The Harpers executives were esconc: possible benefit of such a story was great. his lawn looking for money 'and other® ity sent a private investigator to Bremer;
d in ovie of those pleasantly airy cott- ° If it were a phony, it.could wreck the evi dence but didn't find anythin ped t
gés at the Beverly Hills Hotel, having magazine, one editor said. If only some . B hte
; . toffee when I arrived. After awhile in ofthe facts could be checked. .-% '. Murphy, " it 'developed, 'was 'divorced, ;
-California, the memory dims of what a The FBI began checking some of th them ~ "the father of three' children, 'and lived,
'hard core Eastern Establishmentarian * apon receipt of the 'material Morgan "Snot i ina surburban home but: at the 'wiod- ?
: jooks like: tweeds, and pin stripes, rep": had turned over, Sitting in New York, I 'est Higgs House Hotél at 540 "4th St. in.
"1 ties, paunches, and gray, pasty faces. "expected word 'of Cooper's arrest to "Bremerton, Wash., a shipbuilding town"
. among them was Brooks Thomas, the - come at any minute. The week passed,- -of about 35,000, near Seattle. He was said
. firm's chief legal counsel, a careful gen- ' 'and nothing happened. The tension was | "to do business 'as: a realty' investment
*.fleman who later would distinguish "incredible. . "promoter 'out Jof the' Renard Develop: :
imself by turning' over a book which Then word came through 'a nipeline
. Harper & Row commissioned onthe.CIA - at the Justice Department that the FBI "*'
-jgnvolvement in Southeast Asian drug thought the bills which Cooper had "father 'of three, assistant city manager ~ ;
raffic to the selfsame CIA for Pre: pub- ' 'Shown me and given me photostats of .. of Bremerton for a time (until hes couldn't: and yerbally - abusive.:) e°
. »dieation approval," de. were not for real. How that deduction »s Pass the civil service exam) was 'operat: "heavy equipment operator,
9. Not knowing Thomas at that time, 1 _was made from examining the photo. 'ing as a land investment broker and as "He and Lewis often were

"hb assumed his role would be to keep Har- "stats, without seeing the real bills, 1 4 representative of World Wide Engineer-,
pers' position in laffaire | 'Cooper deli- . did not and have not learned. But the .ingandP roduct Development. Le
wcately committed—but ignorant and thus -- FBI said "Cooper" had superimposed - Wheni 'they * were arrested,
ot 'legally culpable. But no. "After some. . ;
dallying around, Thomas said, 'without +
blinking © an' eye," 'that "¢there': 'Were' new 7
lerms: before Harpers would commit °,
"Btself, Cooper , would not only" have to

,ton' to check on, Lewis and Murphy. Both;

"he learned, had financial troublis* in
the past that. got: 'them, involved : with
'the jaw. Lewis had been' part owner. 'of a
"dance tavern, 'an automobile speedway,
; and once had been arrested for stealing
'araft of 15 logs. : ,
Murphy had pas divoreed by "his wife!
Jacqueline : 'Rose Murphy, in 1970. They
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