FBI Vault, D.B. Cooper Part 7 (25 pages)
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' ying to the public. Why,
tals think "Nod Keannly is any:
itera dhs Rit hard Nixon. a fiat ands
eles : Ld :
Ronald Reagan is callings Coy US guts, |
Heo the bet for aff faxpavers, Peuple
t hese on Wakes, picts, rents, interest
DOMES fh otcetes canal Btofsts. He docs nor Mention ss

ee . fiewse on TAXES, hy ane thing thay js

I Oo . Vann Haltisny inter de: kL | we . a alo
okout . pot will mast teres Nera Iaving yaonn job | Filling an American wallets and ;
hecause | WH neat ba atte Wer fee eal Yeots heeceag take Kenney r as ho the :
. "Mule phe : about P Pascnss, Wn Gages og the Manphicr. F-

D.B. Cooper wat Britany | Hck, mt i i

Was Here Ms det bee hh te, test about whar | Nationa! Health frsinance Bill, these tes

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by Ken Lizotte ' BU you douse, its nor Sour wony fw hae the veey Joeale thin Kenneds iswi 2
; amore." foncaned about: the Peon elderly, aut
T have been Passed more ex idense dhar Maan? Uhis is A eatethare: specking? Isahiy [do ana want the hig KOTO isa ne

_D.B. Cooper, the WTI hijacker whe far the lewed on what Me Lok cea is, Keanaly Stands for, Kennedy Is culling: funy
caped wath $200,006 Mine WCE aver the but offers nocaplanation Wh, thea would MNES uid wom U. Uhis proposed "i
Southern Calitornia COUNTY side, setuatl DAB. Cooper, tie outhew, commend Archi legislation would GN these peaple wen
suthiced—at beast brichh—iy Cambridge. F. Burns fen biswonk with the FRB Goufd | mone, Docs ihe hidden tax, inflation, es

20per has been chiding the F.B.1 tather this be code Does Cooper now whathe's f lua these groupes the ndlest. Alisy Riley, ;
Mecessfadly af] through de seventies, but talking saben when he wines, "Hh tina's Rontd Reagan and his Peformance in
MS sorte let's call him, The Lurk, lain Gey keeping money front falling inte dhe New Harmpshite MY Dot be te your liking,
thata DB. Cooper lived in the Boston sea Wrong hand?" Phe EBA. hay certrindy fF bar lake him any day over ou buffoon
tion 1997 to at boast ate Wis He abe ben winging itvawn hands as it's scout hom Massie hasetis,

Maintains thar Prominent US. Officials high and low for the twa hundied thou Lawieane A. Cunningham
few this bat didi nor MPU bo the fron Cooper's hijaching ransouy, Quincy, MA,
Bureau The Bank ahs Sis thu lore The kicker here What hater in the deter,

New Tampshire Govgenor Me] Thomsan Can per Offers Burns a oan! "I could send

Rave inloumation Cooper con CUMIN you a few Iuachs,* far aan "Nothing's toc dhl Revisited

the possibility of Hansnigi ation to South Rood for a pal like you, AND FOR ALL. c

Ahics. The question, then, is whatthisthe YOU? EDONE" (Emphasis mine!) the
"apes, anf, Whover it was. whe hd letter ends: "1 wouldn't charge as much

Genco, Vhonvon think ir was miterest as the banks do, so dan't wory Onoecnene nent hilar
Abo. whe did Arthur F. Burm, fatines about that part! Please contact me if | CA OR AT Gan:
chatinan of the Federal Reserve Board, help. PM ALWAYS AROUND." Lanthed forwad SWOH paved. demon Hi
think he was Communicating with when (Emphasis, once YR, My own!) channed, hic aved steer hin % , . Par
he tovcied 4 hetiee thom # D.B. Cooper Mast Impartanth, however, hea is gs - : Re . Che
tated Decembe 30, 19772 "ri, heuer is reply from Burns, dit January 6, 1978, Doouaeonnveeanay Qv000000000- Stap
Hotewonhiy, sinc ¢ Couper indicates thai! on FRB MaMOnCHS and caddies to ).B. Cocob Hi pines : "Rak
Burns ts Inested, Coons minty Hetgad Cooper, Cant ige. Masarhinets, Thandriing thronphaur Che aukin
send him sonic Sione, Why? Sigely. Burts Unlew The Lusk fas seanchiow stolen Wobeaing. echoing yeti int Ws: ie Won
bas enough of his owt and vet hoe was FR B letterheads, Arthas Burns mest Haases ol Sink ss a Bam. "wally Ach as
DB. Couper 4 offering MONEY ta the cops af his reply seEewhere in his owe |. ' " ui
ougoing chainnan ol the ERB 1Ouecan files! Does the Bites know this? Asan. Desrorm aaron nsw ner nacennoin Oo. suickd:
only surmix ew and fen hae owls relay Barns POpOnE thie ve OCHO ems lH ee Ook
Te tal iy aN ease, why, tihe Communiqués in dy fist places * Gol himself dctivcing the wera honon
Thonison. lid Burns sy Moths alone he tigh | od, Bitton of hasan
Maser te hay calanenens ollte tals: The reply is terse. ere

7 peiplening: "pe Ly hice had wean Pescntel~ele
Vhe Leak has Olried This pore af (he wis Roodal vou towrits MMOS ore teatesdy | Mvisihle infinite Seamesry

dettes avy nen e- "Tye Deon way hire ven deeply appre: iate seu Band) doughs." demanded: an Nisirnee temcuntead anls

wank vere. losehy all the SAU YOU Ve bee Thars 1) Maybe Buti is neredy sattap ole, In these wy Uwisted. se BPanssal 4

esl of the Fed, unl fthink vou' e done st Hobe ne veE « Hesse Tre aertyd Waat this "Reahy Ruy Jim Ss: Npeiser, Fer this

Rat job Better thant COunE a they ty Mighs be the same D.B. Couper. Rade fad sco tl Lonsottens 3 tea al

amie Panesa, it sings tat keeping Mane, Kut Bow, tediv, da AYE as havens fen ON. stag aba + wp eee
fram getting onc tothepouple te SS vou Cenk tliat jt Wats not? 5 ; . eligible fax
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in Cambridge

The news media in this town ain't 30
special, nor are the F.B.L. anywhere.
They've been tacking down DB. Couper
for veurs, siace 1971 fea Fact and looking for
the §200 G's he obtaned in ransom from an
gittine hijacking. s feat of no miniscule
proportion considering he escaped — yes,
ESCAPED! ~ by parachuting into the
Southern California countryside. The one
that did in, AND GOT AWAY. thar's
Danie! B. Cooper. .

Legend has it, however, that Cooper

j Cropoed the mouey, either in part oz all, as

he floated to caiws. and "hat twenty-dollar
bills were thus deposited iies. 3:
towns and villages in his landing area. ¥ci,
strangely, none of the monev, nut one
buck?, was ever found, and cen mete
SuANnge, Cvery year, on Che gunisensary of
his escape, the towns and villages in that
area throw a "D.B. Cooper Celebration" to
Lonor him for, well. for something! They
appreciate him, though one can only
speculate as (o why, and there scems to bea
genuine hope thatthe feds never cath him,
wherever he may be.

And could that "wherever" be, or have
been, Cambridge? Accords to a most
reliable source of mine, a DB. Cooper lived

near Centeal Sqaare ducts the winter

ments ab POTS. His mame was clealy
displayed on oa mailhox and
torrespondente too aad fiom him was

ceerlarly delivered. Was th is the same DAR,

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1 cortespended wath omiany weil kaewn
public officials, including daa F.
1 Trans, toner chaiman of the Federal
t Reserve Board, Bob Bergland, Secretary al
Avriculinte, Benyaenete Fo Baclar,
Postasavter-Gonenedl af dhe United Stites,
out own Melo Thomson otf New
Hampshire, and a Dr. Red Metrowirht,
chairman of the Board of Truster of the
Sethe Aflica Freedom Foundation.
Jd Apparently, Cooper 'wrete to Metrawich
asking about getting outol the county und
. | escaping to South Africa. His initial
y | contact, however, had been with Thomson,
who had directed him to Metrowich. Was
ey. . . ~s
> | Thomson collaborating with hijacker
"2 Couper to help hint get outol the country?
> | Or was 'Thomson unware that a hijacker
e | 2even years earlier had been named D.B.
y1 Cooper? Whatever the answer, did
, | Thomyon, or any of the others report this
4 correspondence to the FR Dis any good law-
"| abiding American should? A check with
; both the Bureau und offices of these
"si gendemen reveals they aid not.
ce, | Where are you now, Alan Lupo? The
p \ Globe Spotlight Team? Mark Zanger?
| Peter Lucas All the other great
no, Uaestigatve mitals of Bosion youtraliym?
se, Was DBL Cooper, the hijacker-that-got-
away, Fight here in the Boston area fur 2
"t year or nae? fs he new in Sauth Altice?
re How can the FBE take sa uct credit tor
iy finding "bit of twenty dollar bills? as they
re did this month, when Cooper mi noteven
a Bear the country any longer? After all its
al | ew mine seats. aid those bits they toured
up. ta the Caditernia mud are the must shey'te
ye set to shea forthe sears and talent pours
fie ae this unending nearthszat.
ts te wohl scera cues that ad dévar
the Dj-ttoran wants Geourihs emai an fatue.
ne th. hing Cooedee ava Dectane "an aanis Taek feo
my fe that: Abbie Phefiaan Ne one wend
ne OeEE SNe Haat a tiestive would heegs tes
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D.B. Coorer ENTHUSIAST PLANS TO CONTINUE SEARCH
PORTLAND: Ore. WPID — AR FORMER FEI AGENTs FASCINATED BY THE

LI~-VEAR-OLD LEGEND OF SKYJACKER D.B. Coorer? PLANS TO SEARCH THE ae
CoLunbia RIVER WHERE HE BELIEVES THE STILL"MISSING COUPER LEFT SOME OF
zs $200:000 ransom. . a

RicnarD TOSAW ALSO HAS ENTERED INTO AN AGREEMENT HITH FOUR BROTHERS
WHO OWN FARM LAND WEST OF PORTLAND TO SEARCH AN AREA IN WHICH PART oF
THE $200,000 Ransom PAID BY NORTHHEST AIRLINES ON THANKSGIVING Eve 1971
WAS FDUND. ' .

AN B-YEAR-OLD BDY PICNICKING WITH HIS FAMILY ON A BEACH ON THE
Fazio Bros. PROPERTY FOUND ROTTING PACKETS CONTAINING $5,800 rn $20
EILLSs THE ONLY MONEY RECOVERED FROM THE SKYJACKING.
 Tosaws am Ceres: CALIF.s PROBATE ATTORNEY WRITING A EBOOK ON THE
SKYJACKING? WANTS TO START SEARCHING Nov. 24 — THE 1iTH ANNIVERSARY OF
THE DAY A MAN USING THE NAME COOPER BAILED puT ar a NorteHnest BOEING ver
WITH THE MONEY APPARENTLY STRAPPED AROUND HIS BODY IN ONE OF THE SPARE
FARACHUTES HE DEMANDED.-

Coorer HIJACKED THE PLANE AFTER IT LEFT PORTLAND? LET THE
PASSENGERS OFF IN SEATTLE AND ORDERED THE CREW TO STAY IN THE COCKPIT
AREA AND ELY HIM TO Renae Nev.» WITH THE RANSOM MONEY HE GOT FROM THE
AIRLINE. .

He PARACHUTED FROM THE PLANE'S PEAR DOOR. THE FBI cComMPUTED HE
LANDED IN THE LAKE MEPHIN AREA NORTHEAST OF YaNcoUVER? WASH. —

 TasaAws WHD LEFT, THE FBI BEFORE THE SKYJACKINGs BECAME INTERESTED IN
THE CASE AFTER THE: MONEY WAS FOUND AND pecrpep CooreR LANDED NEARLY»

SOME NINE MILES WEST OF VANCOUVER.
HE WANTS SOMEGNE TO DRAG THE RIV
eneac COOPER'S PARACHUTE? HIS EODY OR ANYTHING EL

THEN CHECK. :
"My THEORY IS THAT THE PARACHUTE WOULD FE EASIEST TQ FIND BECAUSE

7T's 28 FEET ACRASS AND WITH NYLON CORDS AND A CANVAS. HARNESS:" TasAH
SAID.
He FIGURES THE MONEY FOUND WAS CHURNED UP BY AN Arey CORPS OF.

ENGINEERS' DREDGE WORKING THE AREA IN EARLY 1980.
TosAW HAS WITHDRAWN A REWARD HE HAD CFFERED FOR FINDING ANY SIGN OF

Coorer.
He BELIEVES THE HIJACKER WAS AN EX"MILITARY MAN WHITH PARACHUTE

TPARINING? AND POSSIBLY A STRONG SWIMMER WHO COULD HAVE MADE IT TO SHORE

AFTER DUMPING THE CHUTE AND THE HEAVY MONEY BAG IN THE WATER.

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By BARNEY LERTEN - as
"PORTLAND: Dre.:-CUPID — A TATTERED PIECE OF CLOTH-COVERED NYLON? A.

PIECE DOF ROPE AND A BONE SCOOFED FROM THE CocumEiA RIvER MAY PROVIDE -
CLUES TOD THE WHEREABOUTS OF sxysACcKER D.B. Corer. Pe a
Brace Payne oF Frorences Ore. MAILED THE 1tTEmMs To EX-FBI AGENT ©
Richarp Tosaw: a Ceres» CALIF.» LAWYER WRITING A BOOK REOUT Coorer's a
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE AFTER HE PULLED OFF THE HORLD'S FIRST AERTAL 2"
HIJACK FOR RANSOM Il YEARS AGO. ca

"As LONG AS IT'S RELATED TO THAT JuMPs I'LL FEEL HE'VE HIT
FRYDIRTs" TosAW SAID FRIDRY. : ose Le,

Mast AUTHORITIES DECIDED LONG AGO THE MAN NAMED ON PASSENGER LISTS
as Dan Coorer FROEABLY WAS KILLED WHEN HE PARACHUTED OUT OF A NorTHWEestT
AIRLINES BOEING 727 OVER SQUTHWEST WASHINGTON ON A RAINY THANKSGIVING
EvVE IN 1971 wxTH $200:000 IN RANSOM STRAPPED TO HIS WAIST.

THE ONLY CONCRETE cLUVEes To COOPER'S FATE SO FAR HAVE BEEN SOME
TATTERED BILLS FROM THE RaNsom MONEY DUG UP ALONG THE SHORE OF THE
Cocumera In Ferpuary 1980..

PAYNE: SKIPPER OF THE FISHING BOAT "MAGNUM?" WAS HIPED BY Taseaw
LAST MONTH TO DREDGE THE EBEaTTOM oF THE COLUMEIA BETWEEN PORTLAND AND
VYancouver: Wash.» IN THE PLANE'S FLIGHT PATH.

"HE'S BEEN RAKING THE RIVER WITH A 12-FOOT RAKE —~ HE CALLS IT A
"Coorer SNOOPER' — FROM THE STERN OF HIS EBDATs" TOSAW SAID IN A PHONE
INTERVIEW.

"HE GDES BACK AND FORTH RIGHT WHERE THE AIRPLANE FLEW QVER THAT
NIGHTs AT THE TIP OF HAYDEN ISLAND IN THE COLUMBIA.

PAYNE 'FOUND THE NYLON: CORD AND BONE THURSDAY. HE SAID HE WILL
LEAVE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS FIND TO THE EXPERTS.

"I7's SOMETHING? ANYWAY?" HE SAID. "IT's DEFINITELY CANVAS? AND
THAT NYLON COPD IS THE TrPe COOPER HAD. IT'S BEEN 11 YeEARss AND THIS
STUFF LOOKED LIKE IT HAD BEEN THERE THAT LONG."

"WE'RE INTERESTED IN EXAMINING IT TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY INDICRTION
IT's Part oF COOrER's GEAR?" TosAW SAID. HE SAID HE WILL ASK Eagu
Cossey of SEATTLE? WHO PACKED THE PARACHUTES USED BY COOPER: TO HELP
DETERMINE ITS VALIDITY. . Sb A AB 7

"THE BONE PROERELY HAS NO CONNECTION AT ALts" Tosa sarp. HE sarp
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO CONFIRM THE IDENTITY OF A BONE? AND HE WAS NOT
EVEN SURE IF IT WAS HUMAN. eee

WHETHER DR NOT THE CLUES PROVE TO HAVE MERIT? Tosaw SAID HE WILL
KEEP UP THE SEARCH? WHICH ALREADY HAS COST HIM $10:000. A masoNw FIND
COULDN'T HURT SALES OF TOSAW'S BOOK: WHICH HE PLANS TG PUBLISH IN TWO
MONTHS: cALtep "D.B. .Caorer: Deap or Avtve?" Se

A NorPTHWEST LEGEND HAS GROWN APOUND COOPER: WHO PULLED OFF THE
NATION'S ONLY UNSOLVED WIJACKINGs TRIGGERING HEIGHTENED SECURITY
FROCEDURPES AT AIRPORTS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. Se

SONGS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN AND T-SHIRTS PRINTEDs WHILE RESIDENTS OF 9 ~ . =
APIEL: WASH.» IN THE @REA WHERE COOPER JUMPED? HOLD AN ANNUAL PARTY AND ~~
invite Coorer To ATTEND. HE HAS YET TO DO So. ; e

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PORTLAND: Ore. CUPID — Twe FBI HAS PISCOUNTED ANY LINK BETWEEN Fs :

MISSING SKYJACKER D.B. ConreR AND PART DF A PARACHUTE AND OTHER ITEMS . Solace

SCDDPED FROM THE CocunEtrA RIVER. 4
"THrs rTems IF IT'S THE QLIVE-DRAF cocor you DESCRIBE: HAS NOTHING '

TO DD WITH Coorers" FBI AgeENT DORWIN SCHPEUDER SAID MONDAY.

SCHREUDER AND OTHER AGENTS LOOKED AT BLACK-AND-WHITE pHoToSs OF THE
DARK FIECE OF FRERIC.

THE PARACHUTE FART WAS FOUND SATURDAY BY CHARTER BOAT CAPTAIN BLAKE
Paynes WHD RETURNED TO nis FLORFENCE® Ore.» HOME TO AWAIT FURTHER
INSTPUCTIONS FROM eormerR FBI AGENT RrcHarr TosAW OF Ceres: CALIF.? WHD
IS PAYING FOP fue RPIVER SEARCH.

SCHPEUDER SAID ONE pe THE FOUR PARACHUTES PROVIDED To COUPER ALONG
WITH $200. 000 BEFORE THE SKY JACKER LEAFED FROM A NorTHWEST AIRLINES
Roernc 727 ON THANKSGIVING EVE or 1971 WAS SsimrLAR. BuT HE SAID IT WAS
LEFT FEHIND ON THE PLANE ANP "was NOT ONE THAT HE TOOK WITH HIM."

Some OF THE MONEY Has FEEN FOUND ON A BANK OF THE WASHINGTON SIDE
pe THE CoLumMETA RIVER. °

Last week PAYNE MAILED TOSAW A PIECE OF NYLON corp: A TATTERED
PIECE OF FAERIC AND A BONE HE SCOOFED eeom THE COLUMEIA RIVER WITH A

METAL DEVICE CALLED THe "Coorer SNOOPER. ~ F}
SCHREUDERs AFTER VIEWING PHOTOS OF THE MATERIALS FOUND BY PAYNE?
caips "THEY DON'T APPEAR TO FE AMONG THE rTens" Lert BY THE LEGENDARY.
Sky JACKEP.

"Tosaw IS WRITING A FOOK ABOUT Coorer. HE SURMISED THE FABRIC MIGHT
EE PART OF A ERG STUFFED WITH THE $200,000 THE sky JACKER ETRAPPED TO HIS
WRIcT BEFORE FAILING BUT OF THE JETLINEP SOMEWHERE OVER SUUTHWEST
WASHINGTON> ; aad

Toseaw SAID THE CORD MIGHT HAVE cone FROM ONE OF THE PARACHUTES. He
carp Coorer MIGHT HAVE BEEN AN EX-GREEN Beret WHO pECIDED Ta USE A
MILITARY CHUTE RATHER THAN THE CIVILIAN ONE GIVEN TO HIME BECAUSE HE
WOULD HAVE EEEN MORE FAMILIAR WITH IT. :

THE HIJACK MARKED THE WORLD'S FIRST arr prracy FOR RANSOM AND
REMAINS THE NATION'S ONLY UNSOLVED HIJACKING.

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CSERAFADDXXXHE SAID. — FEI DISCOUNTS FIND?
PICTURE .
PORTLAND: Ore. (CUPID — A CHARTER BDAT CAPTAIN ENGAGED IN @ SEARCH
OF tHe Coturmera RIVER FOR LEGENDARY sxysacKeER D.B. Coocrers Monpay
RPEPORTED FINDING A PIECE OF DOLIVE-DRAE FABRIC THAT COULD BE PART OF A
PAPACHUTE. .
; "I've SEEN @ COUPLE OF CHUTES BEFORE — THIS LOOKS LIKE ONE. IT's Oy
GOT SILK IN ITs JUST LIKE @ CHUTE HAS®"" SAID THE EQAT CAPTAIN: BLAKE a
PAYNEs WHO rs EMPLOYED BY RicHaARD Tosaws a Ceres: CALIF.s ATTORNEY WHO es
PLANS TO WRITE A BDOK ABDUT THE SKYJACKING MYSTERY.
LasT WEEK: PAYNE MAILED To TosAW A PYECE OF NYLON CORD: @ TATTERED
PIECE OF FAERIE AND A BONE HE DREDGED FROM THE RIVER BOTTOM WITH A HEAVY
'METAL RAKE. i}
"THE THO MEN SUPMISED THE FAERIC FOUND LAST WEEK MIGHT BE PART OF A
MONEY BAG STUFFED WITH $200; 000 THAT THE SKYJACKER STRAPPED TO HIS WAIST
ON A RAINY THANKSGIVING EVE 1971 AS HE JUMPED FROM A NORTHWEST AIRLINES
BoEInG 727 OVER SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON.
THE cormns PAYNE SAIDSs MIGHT HAVE COME FROM ONE OF FOUR PARACHUTES
DEMANDED BY CoOoFER. THE CLOTH REFORTED MONDAY NAY ALSO BE FROM ONE OF
THE FPARPACHUTES THE SKYJACKER HAD: HE SAID.
FEI AGENTS? HDWEVERSs DISCOUNTED ANY LINK EETWEEN THE MATERTAL AND
"Coarer.
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PAYNE FOUND THE ITEM SATURDAY WHILE DREDGING THE RIVER EETWEE
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FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS FROM TosAws A FORMER FBI @GENT WHO IS FUNDING THE
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CASE IN GRPRER TO FROTECT THE LI~YERR-OLD INVESTIGATION. HOWEVER: AFTER
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SAYS THE DISCOVERY TENDS TO CONFIRM HIS SPECULATION THAT COOPER: WHO
HAS. BECOME SOMETHING OF. A FOLK HEROs DIED THE NIGHT HE PARACHUTED.
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MONEY WAS BURIED ALONG THE RIVER NEAR. VANCOUVER. .. —.
«J2HOWEVER THEY GOT THEREs THEY MUST HAVE BEEN DEPOSITED: WITHIN @
"COUPLE OF YEARS AFTER THE HIJACKINGs?? SAID AGENT RALPH HIMMELSBACHs
HUE TO RETIRE IN-TRO WEEKS AFTER HEADING THE COOPER INVESTIGATION
SINCE THE HIJACK. ** RUBBER BANDS BETERIORATE RAPIDLY AND COULD. NOT"
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FIRST THOUGHT. IT WAS A HORAN." |... .
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THAT COOPER - WHOSE REAL NANE BAS NEVER LEARNED - JUNPED FROM THE -
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COOPER. BEFORE THE PLANE REACHED SEATTLE: "COOBBRATUREATERED 'TO.
EXPLODE fi "BON" IN HIS BRIEF CASE IF HE HERE NOT GIVEN aii MONEY: AND
FOUR PARACHUTES AND FLOWN. 70. RENQs NEY< 2<0os07 Stee, os
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AND COOPER WAS GIVEN THE HONEY AND THE PARACHUTES; AFTER THE-PLANE~
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. . WHEN-THE PLANE ARRIVED AT RENO COOPER AND THE MONEY WERE GONE. °™."
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HEAR THE LITTLE. TOWN OF. ARIEL ABOUT 30:NILES NORTH -OF- PORTLAND) Bo" .
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FOUND SUNDAY BY AN-S-YEAR-OLD BOY ON A FANILY. PICNIC. WAS DEPOSITED Owe

PROBABLY WILL BE SUSPENDED AFTER FRIDAYs FBI OFFICIALS SAID THuasoRt. 4
HEANWHILEs A GEOLOGIST CONCLUDED THAT SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS... @

THE BEACH IN THE PRST YEAR OR TWO.
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HONEY WERE FOUND ON WEDNESDAY. ~~. -
A MAN WHOSE PASSENGER LIST WAS SIGNED +s DAN cooPER'* LEFT A

HE DISPLAYED WHAT APPEARED TO BE A BOMB AND OBTAINED. A PACKAGE "OF $20"
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FROM THE RASHOUGAL RIVER OR FROM ONE OF SEVERAL SHALLER STREAKS, ite

TOURISTS 'WHO WANT TO LOOK. FOR HORE Cooper WOWEY PROBABLY 'SHOULD:

- DOLLARS. FOUND. SUNDAY BY A. YOUNG BOY. HRD BEEN DEPOSITED. fu THE
COLUMBIA RIVER BEACH AFTER: 1974, - " ples om
'THE. SEARCH BEGAN TUESDAY. THREE MILES. SOUTHREST OF UANCOUUER' AFTER
a) COMPARISON OF SERIAL NUMBERS CONFIRMED.THE BOY'S FIND WAS:PART OF:
THE COOPER RANSOH. ADDITIONAL SCRAPS. OF KONEY WERE FOUND. ON. WEDNESDAY.
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HOWEVERs: MOORE SAID IT WAS UNLIKELY: THAT THE BILLS" HAD WASHED. DOWN.
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*who he was,'but we do know a lot of people who
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"he's been &h'u kind of obsessed manhunt like In-
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""Tné-Fournal in thSs-Satia #
reproduces the last of the "
official FBI fist 'of serial 4
numbers of $20 bills that dis- :
appeared with the hijacker |
known as D.B. or Dan Coop- |
€r when he parachuted from |
a Northwest Orient 'Airlines.

' jet' Thanksgiving Eve, 1971, !
between Seattle and Reno.
He extorted $200,000 from |
the airline that night as ran- |
som for the release of the |

Passengers and some of the
crew of the jet he originally
hijacked just efter it Jefe }
Portland for Seattle. |

{
i

To date, neither: Cooper |
nor the mcney has shown up. .
. The Journal last Nov. 22
offered to pay $1,000 for the i
first of the missing $20 bills ;
to be turned in to the news- '
Paper or to any FBI office jn -
the nation. The offer trig> —
gered requests from ali parts
of the country, by telephone
and letter, for copies of the
list of serial numbers that
the newspaper has been pub-
lishing in installments. ;
In checking bills in their
possession, many people
have come close to matching
' them with the serial num-
bers cf the missing currency,
but so far none of the money
Cosper took has been re-, |
covered." :- Te
Many readers have pre-
pared their own bocklets
from the newspaper listings
and with this edition those
readers will have complete :
copies of the official docu-
ment prepared by the FBI
'and heretofore 'distributed
mainly to financial institu-
tions. .
Persons who are missing
key editions of The Journal
may order them from the
Circulation Department by
telephoning 221-8240 or writ-.
ing to The Journal, 1320 SV
Dreadway, Portland, Ore.
97201. For people who are
outside of the normal: circu- -
.. lation area of the newspaper,
check with the nearest FBI
~ Office for permission to in-,,
spect a copy of the ist there. *

enn ee

(Indicate page, name of
newspaper, city and state.)

Date: December l),.;
Editions ©0077 fron ss
Autho: Rolla J. Crisk i
Editer: Donald y
Tithe: NORJAK ;

Being Investigated

1 THE OREGON Jo
PORTLAND, OR

ad

Characters -f4:. ~
or . Bufile .
Classification: 16.-2111 7

Submitting Office: —

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ig 'Remember the song, "DB. 3
"Cooper: Where Are You?" |

i

HOWnm Vn Na unr

le wte ee .

re :

8 With,

E Bave it new life. ..

?"| Since The Journal made its

affer to pay $1,000 for the 4

rst $20 bill turned in from §:

wy
'§ te money the man popular- :

known as D.B. Cooper

"parachuted: into 'the night -
the song has been.
played periodically on disc

a"jockey programs.

iit had almost faded away,
; "butsthe new Cooper publicity

It was' written by Judy
Sword, 25, of Baker, a gui-

¥.tarist now singing in g Yaki-_

eee writes 'D.B, 5 song
thflene TUS

ina, "Wash.,- supper club: 'Sh

,was in Astoria when the hi-,

_ jack occurred. and the name

'sdrifted to the ground.4:

Cooper died. hanging ¢ Zin. a:

tree in the shrouds of.a para
chute while his stolen money.

'The 'song 'further® *empha-
sized the D.B. Cooper name

1 the hijack:4#3>mr

again... ,.
Ironically, though, :
Cooper. is the wrong name. 74
- Somehow in'the first 'hours:
"alter the hijack the? name'
D.B. Cooper cropped 'up' and
_ stuck. It- may have' been' be-
cause the FRI was checking:
on an individual 'whose name,
really" was .
he was 'in! jail atthe time of

erat

When the hijacker ou

man they' want as Dan.Coop
rr. That'name'was obtained

yf by a 'process 'of eliminations .
4:as the only passenger left,ong °
4 the 727 jetliner i in Seattle afe2:

ter the hijacker let the
er passengers' go. *
Curiously," there " was? 'af:
'bona fide Cooper who got off
still-to-be-hijacke
plane at Portland. The FBI:

or Rumpelstiltskin' Cooper,

in the minds of the public in|

if he'
ee ney

rpihe FBI would like toftalk
the. hijackers.
ournal* stil

first "$2 "Cooper cash"=to
be tuted | ins Sena numbers
of Some 'of: bills are at

B. "Cooper,: sbut%

ght
his Portland to Seattle ticket!
_1 in. Portland," he < gave< thes
_j name Dan Coope r.. The. ;
-| now officially" Mientities the

| Date:

December 13;
Edition: ="

Author: peel. 'a. freee

Clasai fica tlon: ~
Submitting Office

wilting to $0 pay $1,000.for. thatt

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ény Journal Staff Writer, |

#2 /The Journal will pay $1,000

|S cfor the first $20 bill turned in

* ¢.-0 the newspaper upon verifi- |

'cation by the Federal Bu-

.,reau of Investigation that the ©
itl is a-bona fide part of they

9¥ $900,600 extorted from North-
: 9 t west" Orient "Airlines in the
"L=*D.B. Cooper skyjack" of
2 Nov. 24, 1971.
2° The offer is made with the
concurrence of the FBI that |
obtaining any of the missing.
money would be a substan-

5
6 tial aid to the two-year lon

Ajnvestigation of the nation's
8 \most cclebrated airline hi-
g jacking.

"It is also made in the be-
O * hes that if any of the money
is in circulation, that fact
''can be established by ale

readers who:check the serial

numbers on $20 bills in thei
possession.

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demanded and obtained ;
$200,000 in $20 bills, plus four :
parachutes, and disappeared :
into the rain-spattered night ,
somewhere between Seattle !
_and Reno from the 727 he !
had commandeered at Port-
land International Airport. |
'Neither he nor the money ,
have appeared since, but ©
_ there,is a chance that almost
@..anyone by'.now may have
5 'come into possession of one
enoisbebilis, ne

a a

has 1 = 2 0 00 SAU & wh eH

TMNT TNS

=~ i >To assist in the search for,

'Tnumbers since its. prepara-

. each of the partial lists pub-
'pe able to put together their

... Northwest Airlines initially -

> "The man known as Cooper i.

| dered directly to the FBI at

_ the list of serial numbers.\

: signed to the -middle-aged,
. dark-haired man who' board-

the money, The Journal is
publishing on/page 31: the
serial numbers of some of
the missing twenties and will
publish more of. the list on,
succeeding days. Serial num-._
bers of the bills that were
delivered to Cooper .were re-.
'corded before the delivery,.
was made. *" et
This is the' first time that -
the list of numbers has been -
made public. Banks and oth-
er financial institutions have -
shad a 35-page booklet of the

tion by the FBI shortly after? and presented a note to af,
the hijacking. : '1 stewardess. The mote de-

manded > money and para-
chutes and was backed up by
display of 'what 'the .man=
claimed was a bomb.. After-.
negotiations on the ground in =

Seattle the demand was met=.

Journal readers who kee;
lished by the newspaper will ~
own copies of the
official list.' Us a

_ The Journal invites other and the. plan
news media to aid in the dis- * Ren0..0.3 © yas. ce &.
tribution of serial numbers. _ The plane reached "Reno, =

! but Cooper 'was. not to .be—
offered a reward 'of'15 per~ found."<@) 68 eoeco. 1 RTE
cent of the extortion money. A flight recorder indicated _

recovered up to'a maximum -_ that the rear door of the 727..
of . $25,000," but? the reward "#.was'- opened? shortly: after:<
has been discontinued, the.,.takeoff and it was assumed
airline informed the newspa- ., 3
pers "2 ee

-" The Journal's $1,000 for $20 *
will be paid even if the first
bill to be turned in is surren-

, complete ."

- There 'has. been a" witle-
spread belief that the hijack- >
er perished in the nocturnal ::
jump. S peculation hasz
ranged from. the possibility:

any of its field offices, once °
it is established that the bill —.
surfaced because" of ~ the |
newspaper's publication of

found "hanging "in the?

caught. in..a etree fo the
chance that he and the mong=:

"D, B. Cooper" or "Dan',:
Cooper" is the name as-

~: Merwin near Cougar, Washi,
"location ++ of an ; intensive

Search in, 1972, °° Se
d . .

ed NWA flight 305 at Port--

land Thanksgiving Eve, 1971,
a oe tee © ake

e took off for. |

that his body someday would. .

:shrouds of parachutes=-

'ey are at the bottom of Lake® |.

(Indicate page, name of ty, 468
newspaper, city and state.

J THE OREGON JOU

Date: -: November (
Author:": Rolla Se Cric

Editor: Donald Ste rling >

are

Character: ;

Classification:
Submitting Office: Popt lan
LN] Betng Investigated '
