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FD-36 (Rev. 8-29-85) @ ©

FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION:
[] Teletype [] Immediate LC] TOP SECRET
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Date 12/11/89
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6 On 9/25/89,| | MORTON THIOKOL Co b6
j ence to an employee by the name of BIC
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Automotive Division and all other in MORTON
8 | THIOKOL, with negative results fo employment with
MORTON THIOKOL. NCIC criminal warrants, Utah Division of Motor ;
9] Vehicles and Driver's License, and_the US WEST COMMUNICATIONS AND
TELEPHONE COMPANY was queried for also with \
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Vehicles and Driver's License, and_the US ST COMMUNICATIONS AND
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Agent , On March 2, 1990, and provided the following

information:

| stated that she does not suspect that her b6
brother, | | is D. P. COOPER. a further stated BIC
that she has no knowledge of any association or involvement of
her brother with the captioned_matter. The last known address

ha@ for her brother was| Zim, Minnesota.

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AT AURORA, OREGON

| | Aurora, b6
Oregon, telephone number | |} was contacted by Special b7C
Agent on March 2, 1990, and provided the following

information:

1 —_Istated that she does not suspect that her b6
brother, is D. P. COOPER. | further stated BIC
that she has no knowledge of any association or involvement of

her brother with the captioned_matter. The last known address

[ _|had for her brother was | Zim, Minnesota.

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FBI - SEATTLE /

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SUBJECT: NORJACK;
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the Portland Division.

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Date 4/13/30
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81)

SUBJECT: NORJACK;
(00: Seattle)

FROM : SAC, PORTLAND (164A-SE-81)(P)

Enclosed for Seattle are two copies of an
investigation conducted on 3/2/90, by Special Agent
the Portland Division.

Re Seattle airtel to Portland, 1/12/90.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription 3/22/90

| | Provo, Utah, b6
telephone number | | date of birth| was bIC
interviewed at her residence. After the interviewing Agent
identified himself through the presentation of credentials,

provided the fol lowing information:

| Ladvi that she _ has not used_her married b6
name, | seg for over year. [__—sidsttattedd BIC

that she| _ | at Brigham Young University in
Provo, Utah. In addition,|

in Utah County. These two time-consuming occupations
force to spend a great deal of time away from her home.

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jwhich he] Utah. bI7C
Jfirst me [when | was serving as
the /Prisham Yound University!
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| Ja private investigator with b6
regards tol } to conduct a background bIC
investigation and surveillance on[L ldoes
not private investigator but will contact
to obtain the name and point of
contact for the private investigator. athe private investigator' Ss
background investigation revealed that was in the Army
Reserves and was extremely experienced in explosives and
Investigation on 3/1/90 at Prove, Utah File # 164A-SE-81-FO8 i
be |
by SA Yech Date dictated 3/8/90 BIC

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned
to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

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Continuation of FD-302 of | On 3/1/90 Page 2 —

The background investigation also revealed that
had close ties to survivalist organizations in the b6

gation of the financial dealings of the b7C
revealed that|

purchased a great deal of property in the Alpine and

n Fork areas of Utah shortly after the D. B. COOPER

This large land pur ensive real_estate by

fortified belief that
may be D. B. COOPER.

advised that| }seemed to be b6
obsessed with skyjacking aircraft and the D. B. COOPER incident. b7C
On several occasions, attempted to discuss the D. B.
COOPER matter with[_ | however, he would become extremely

evasive, smile, and his voice would begin to quiver. Being a
is

| advised elieves i
an extremely paranoid personality. finds| |very
intimidating and believes he has the physical _and mental

capability of executing a skyjack. In fact, |
once tol that a hi acking is the type

q that] would do. | doe ow
ve Jhas any information tes
jto the D. B. COOPER incident. does not know

— Jis residing or if she would agree k
to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Agents regardin

| |with RICHARD MC COY who b6
hijacked an aircraft, parachuted out of the aircraft s b7C
later killed by FBI Agents. [—sdJstated that was

extremely proud that RICHARD MC COY used his parachute during the
skyviack told

[_____|seanea to be extremely interested in 6

firea explosives, and chemicals. Another peculiarity of bic
was that he be obsessed wi 20.00 bills.

On numerous occasions, bt] observed say that

$20.00 bills should not_be deposited into a bank but instead

spent because they ar

; | | |to | may b6
live in Ogden, Utah. _| -does—npt have an address or b7C
telephone number for and has not seen him in

ears. | lbelieves] Jname is|
| |} and he may live in Layton, Utah.

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Continuation of FD-302 ot | on 3/1/90 Page 3 —_

ldoes not recalil b6

Imaking skydives on the BTC
anc Poe of if e D. B. COOPER hijacking, or any other details

which discussed regarding the D. B. COOPER hijacking.

In conelusion,L _Istated that she believes[_| b6
serene] Committed the hijacking of Northwestern flight 305 BIC
under the alias of D. B. COOPER.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription 3/22/90

| Prove. Utah, b6
telephone number] | date of birth] | was b7c
interviewed at her residence. After the interviewing Agent

ified himself through the presentation of credentials,
rovided the following information:

| ladvi that she has not used her married b6
name, | for over[lyear. stated bic

that she] at Brigham Young Universi
Provo, Utah. In addition,|

in Utah County. These two time-consuming occupations
to spend a great deal of time away from her home.

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whach hel
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the Brigham Young University] ae "
and| "

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regards to b7C
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to obtain the name and point of -

contact for the private Investigator. The private investigator's
background investigation revealed thatl was in the Army

Reserves and was extremely experienced in explesives and

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SUBJECT: NORJAK;
: CAA - HIJACKING;

(00:SEATTLE) ae

Re Seattle airtel to Salt Lake City, dated 8/7/89, and
Salt Lake City airtels to Seattle, dated 12/11/89, and 1/29/90.

Enclosed for Seattle are original and one copy off
FD-302. ;

| lwas interviewed regarding NORJAK suspect, _—|

ladvised that she no longer goes by the
married nama met jat
Utah. | |
"eventually| |

and resulted in] |

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is in the Army Reserves, is experienced with explosives, isi

affiliated with a survivalist group, and is an expert skydiver.
Other statements by background
(detailed in (302)) led lto believe that | may

have committed the NORJACK hijacking-under the alias of D.B.
COOPER.

background investigation of]

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believes he lives in Ogden, Utah, and that 56
lives in Layton, Utah. b7C

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SALT LAKE CITY AT OGDEN AND LAYTON, UTAH:

Will locate and_interview| through an b6
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Memorandum @ )

To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81) (P) Date 6/20/90
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'rom: SA b7C
Subject : NORJAK;

OO: SEATTLE

Re | | b6
Seattle airtel to Portland, dated 1/2/90: and Portland airtel b7C
to Seattle, dated 4/13/90.

| lhas been suggested as a suspect by b6
| suspects | J of being bIC

identical to the unknown subject, because she claims that

in March, 1988, while living in Aurora, Illinois, two FBI

agents from Chicago interviewed her concerning| |

She stated the agents from Chicago were concerned that|
may be D. B. COOPER.

VORUAK indices —in_chacage and Seattle were checked (i.
concerning with negative results. pbe

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was born in| } This would mean he was[ Jyears old at
the time of captioned crime. Inasmuch as the unknown subject Pe

has been described by eyewitnesses as being in his mid-40s
no further investigation will be conducted concerning|_____]
at this time.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

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FD-491 (Re#.'4-21-50)

Memorandum '\;_ *

SAC, SEATTLE

'From : SAC, PITTSBURGH (164A-SE-81) (RUC) y [5 RUC

¢ | NORJAK
Subject | (90; SEATTLE)

-. a SS File Destruction Program

(Title)

Enclosed are go items.

These items are forwarded your office since:

CI All logical investigation completed in this Division
You were OO at the timeour case was RUC'd.

meen Enclosures are described as follows:

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™ : SAC, BOSTON (164A-SE-81) (P) Ite 7/30/91

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Re Boston memo to the file dat Norfo aixrte

attle dated 6/27/90 relative to b6
Rindge, NH and Associate, | b7c

On 7/29/91, the writer identified the following individuais
through the NYNEX FASTRACK computer, one of whom may. be the same

as aforementioned] Jin Rindge, NH. Those identified are b6
noted as follows: b7c

i. | | Portland, Maine, telephone b6
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Rindge, New Hampshire, telephone} |
LEAD

BOSTON DIVISION AT RINDGE, NEW HAMPSHIRE:

Will take appropriate measures towards identifying 6

as one and the same as passenger on board Delta Airlines bic

Flight #694 from Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas to Boston, Massachusetts
on 6/3/30 with former Assistant United States Attorney

Upon identifying same, will interview relative to comments
made on board said flight pertaining to knowledge of one D.B.
COOPER iscussed between and accompanying passenger
| Through|_ Will additionally attempt to
ascertain present location of| Jand set appropriate
lead for similar type interview.

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_-302 (Rev. 3-10-82)
' | FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription 6/22/90

i

liprotect identity) ||
|

| Newport News, Virginia, telephone number
| furnished the following information:

ladvised that] |

| Jaround the United States but was

not sure which] _
| Rindge,

New Hampshire, or| . | no home address given.

| | and_the| | | [who had purchased them

for himself]
|

| showing a confirmation of
flights on DELTA Flight Number 169, for May 29, 1990, leaving
Boston, Massachusetts en route to Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, for
seats 39B/39C/38D. The return flight was on DELTA Flight Number
694 leaving June 3, 1990, from Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, to
Boston, Massachusetts, departing 9:46 a.m. and arriving 2:35 p.m.
Seat reservations on this flight were for 21A/21B/22A. The total

airfare bw ound-trip tickets was $1,222.50.
lairline tickets

dated May 14, 1990, for| in the amount of $407.50 on
which used _a Visa card, Number |) with an
expiration of[ '

[said there was an NCN (name unrecalled)
convention in Dallas, Texas, where | lwere

going. NCN is based in Phoenix, Arizona, and was described as a
multi-level type of organization for telephone company sales.

investigation on_6/18/30 at_Newport News, Virginia File # TeIC-SE=8I- FOP.

By SA dim Date dictated 6/20/90

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI.
It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your aS ecole and its

: , : RENE

contents are not to be distributed outside your agency il Zig
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION .

7/5/90

Date of transcription.

i

b6

was contacted at her place of employment, i
'b7C

the office of the UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, 1107 United States Post
Office and Court House, Post Office Square, Boston, |
Massachusetts. She provided the following information:

~ [_]was a passenger on DELTA ATRLINES flight number 694 b6
from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas to Boston, Massachusetts on June 3, b7C
1990. She occupied seat 22C. Seat 22A was occupied by a middle
. aged white male of medium-'height with a pudgy build and brown
air.

During the flight, the man engaged in conversation with
a younger white couple who moved around, occupying seats 214A,
21B, and 21c. It appeared that the three people knew each other.
Eventually, the man asked the couple if they recalled a past
incident in which a hijacker had parachuted from a plane with a
lot of money. He specifically mentioned the name "D.B. COOPER."

The couple indicated that they recalled the news
coverage of the event and that the money was never found. The
man then told them that he knew COOPER's son.

The man stated that COOPER's son lived in Colonna
(phonetic), British Columbia and that they sometimes went hunting
together. He further stated that COOPER was alive and well and
still in touch with his son.

The conversation eventually switched to other topics,
and as the plane approached Boston, the man pointed out several
small airports. He talked about flying into them and indicated
that he owned an airplane.

'

Investigation on. 7/3/90 at Boston , MA cle e 164A-SE-81 J 7

"os Saf b6
zr ny__ SA. / lad Date dictstesd 7 / 3/ 9 0a srGEXED. b7C

¥ ~epi auiee{_] p_sitko =

This document contains nelther recommendations nor conctusfons of the FBI, it 1s the property of the FGI and is tozned to your. agancy; a bet £

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==== Part 50 · PDF page 26 · Bates DB Cooper-DB Cooper-20621 ====
(REV. 8-26-82)

. FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: _: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION:
Teletype Immediate TOP SECRET
Facsimile Priority SECRET
7 . Routine CONFIDENTIAL
UNCLAS EF T 0
- UNCLAS
. AIRTEL Date 6/27/90
> TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM: SAC, NORFOLK (164C~-SE~81) (RUC)

NORJACK
00: SEATTLE .

Re Boston teletype to Norfolk dated 6/11/90, and
Norfolk teletype to Boston and Seattle dated 6/19/90.

Enclosed for the Seattle Division are the_original and

one c ~ 90, a b6
for[ b7C
dated 5/21/90, and] _|airline tickets dated b7D
5/14/90 for Jin the amount of $407.50. a |
Enclosed for the Boston Division are two copies of an'
ED-302 of | lon 6/18/90,| } - ;. ©be
JforL_ Jdated 5721790, and "BTC
[airline tickets dated 5/14/90 a b7D
Jin the amount of $407.50. we ge ed
Appropriate leads are being left to the diseretioh of. rae
the Boston Division in further identifying| J at i Me b6
Rindge, New HampShire, and his association ' / bIC
with] Leads are further being left to the Boston... - .
Division to further identif through appropriate Visa °
sources and to interview concerning the conversation that .
was overheard aboard DELTA AIRLINES Flight 694 from pe
Dallas/Ft. rth, Texas, to Boston, Massachusetts, between 1 - - '
and the a a
No further investigation is being conducted in the ig? 0 é

Norfolk Division, and this matter is considered RUC'd. 4 Ax -SE "¥1 7 z

2.- Seattle {164-81) (Enc. 4) wer eens oa
- Boston (164-153) (Enc. 4) rama (C2 Nao — Ve

Sete

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FD-302 (REV. 3-8-77) @ . @ -

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

i Date of transcription 10/10/91
| | {white male| | " bE
New Ipswich, New Hummehine. residence telephone | | b7C
business teléphone advised he had gone_hunting" for
ig Horn sheep on or about peptember 11.1987, —the| |
po the hunt was named lived in
Penticton, British Colombia, contact telephone] |
During this hunt he had also met an individual named
and an individual identified to him as b6
asked | if he ever heard of D.B. COOPER, the ®7C
airplane hijacker. said that he had, and[L sd went on
to tell him that ]Jwas the son of D.B. COOPER.
never had any conversations with | jJabout his
father, D.B. COOPER. no such discussions because he felt
an individual is not responsible for the actions of his father.
Jis an avid hunter and estimates that he_last had b6
a_conversation with] about two years ago. | b7C
allegedly was married at the time, had two young children
about _ years of age, apd_lived Gust above the
Penticton, British Colombia area. recollection is that
in his la i itn! was no
longer in had
allegedly taken a job on a defoliation project in the same area
of British Colombia. "
also advised in approximately August of 1989, he b6
had gone on another hunting trip for Dall sheep in the Northwest b7C
territories of British Colombia. This hunt was in the area of a
town called Kelowna, British Colombia. The hunt was arranged
through] | owned by an individual namea[__]
| contact_telephone| |] His was an
individual named lwaS also familiar with the
individual named Jand the fact that he was
allegedly the son of D.B. COOPER.
| lvecalls relating the story he heard from 6
| Jto a business associate, | | Rindge, New bic
Hampshire, contact telephone[ _Jhas no
independent knowledge of norhis alleged relation-
ship to airplane hijacker D.B. .
Investigation on 10/7/91 at New Ipswich, New Hampshireri ¢ 164A-SE-81 - F639
4
ath
by SA bis Date dictated 10/7/91 Pee

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. it is the property of the FBI and is loaned

to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

DB Coaper-20622

==== Part 50 · PDF page 28 · Bates DB Cooper-DB Cooper-20623 ====
FD-36 (Rev. 8-26-82) ® @

FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION:
[) Teletype C] Immediate (| TOP SECRET
C) Facsimite LJ Priority (1 SECRET
X) AIRTEL [1 Routine L] CONFIDENTIAL
Li] UNCLAS EF TO
LC) UNCLAS
Date 20/10/91
: SAC, SEATTLE
'| : SAC, BOSTON (164A-SE-81) (P) (CONCORD RA) (C-7)
] f
NORJACK; \
OO: SEATTLE

Re Norfork airtel to Seattle and Boston, dated 6/27/90;
Boston memo dated 7/30/91.

; Enclosed for Seattle are photocopies of the following
items:

1) Boston memo, dated 7/30/91

2) FD-302 interview of| b6

dated 6/18/90 b7C
b7D

3) FD-302 interview of AUsAl

dated 7/3/90
4) FD-302 interview of|
dated 10/7/91.
PURPOSE:

Provide background leading to the interview off sd b6
| (white male, DOB New Ipswich, New bIC
Hampshire. ,

. [ _Iretatea he had spoken with _tud | b6
itish Colombia who identified a local | bic
allegedly the son of D.B. COOPER.

Boston is not aware of complete details of this
investigation; therefore, leads are left to the discretion of
Seattle.
® Wey

Seattle (Encs. 4) : _ ~ g ir.
2~Boston Loth-E1 s OFO
ICH: bls SEARCHE INDEX
(4) 1s SERIAL ASIN, veel AAR
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OCT 2 % 100
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Approved: Transmitted BIC
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==== Part 50 · PDF page 29 · Bates DB Cooper-DB Cooper-20624 ====
FD-36 (Rev. 11-17-88} a

¢
FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION:
{0 Teletype 1D Immediate C1 TOP SECRET
DO Facsimile OD Priority [] SECRET '
{] AIRTEL (1 Routine [] CONFIDENTIAL
LJ UNCLASEFTO
OO UNCLAS
Date 11/14/91
TO : SAC, ST. LOUIS
FROM : SAC, SPRINGFIELD (164A-SE-81) (RUC)
SUBJECT : NORJAK;
CAA~HIJACKING
00: SE
e telcal between SA| | SI, and SA
SE, 10/31/91.

For information of receiving offices, on 9/27/91,
_|ATF, Cape
Girardeau, Missouri, advised that an ATF informant provided
information which may be pertinent to captioned matter. It
should be noted that was recently assigned to the
Cape Girardeau office, after snending several years as an ATF

Agent in
The informant is| [ATE] b6
| , white male, DOB] | The informant BIC
advised that] currently b7D
_lives in Canada, and]
[and that | |
The informant] jin Canada
| | British" Columbia;_| |

By way of background, in November, 1971, a white
male, using the name D. B. COOPER, hijacked a NORTHWESTERN
AIRLINES flight and parachuted from the aircraft with $200,000 ,
over the northwestern part of Washington state.

- St. Louis
Seattle (164A~-SE~81)
- Springfield (164A-SE-81)

BT/nle
(5)

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(Number) (Time) TLE b6
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SI 164A-SE-81

LEADS:
Sv. LOUIS DIVISTON

CAPE GERARDEAU, MISSOURI

Contact | | ATF, and arrange to interview b6
's informant, forwarding results to Seattle Division. [__ ] bic
as indicated the informant would be made available to
BuAgents.

2*

DB Cooper-20625

==== Part 50 · PDF page 31 · Bates DB Cooper-DB Cooper-20626 ====
Sue ;
FD-36 (Rev. 11-17-88 © ® : INDICES
= ve EEH1I- .
° , MANUAL
FBI FOIMS
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION: CONFIDENTIAL —
{Jj Teletype CL] Immediate (1 Top SECRET
Facsimile CJ Priority (1 SECRET
RK} AIRTEL [} Routine CJ CONFIDENTIAL
[] UNCLASEFTO
[10 UNCLAS
Date 11/20/91
TO : SAC, OMAfIA
FROM , DENVER (164A-SE-81}) (RUC)
ON
SUBJECT : ORJAK

00: SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

On 11/13/91, IA|

bE

| was
telephonically contacted by] ] (PROTECT b7C
IDENTITY). | Cedar Rapids, Iowa b7D
| She stated that she may know where D.B.
COOPER is located. She stated ats h ecome ac fe
with a male individual named
| | Marion, Iowa. This individual is on the| |
| Marion, Iowa,
| | and is also in the City Directory, | |
| Marion,
Towa. 2
OA
lstated that she met [ | b6
through an ] He has been | BIC
[further noted that] [is married b7D
tO | | Marion, Iowa.
On one occasion || recalls seeing| b6
(below the knee, possibly BIC
the right leg). When! lasked , | B7D
He replied,
3 - Omaha
Q - Seattle (164A-SE-18) (Info)
- Denver
ECV/ecv
(7)
AA Sl— 092
SEARCHED INDEXED
nau [7 se
Approved: Transmitted Per NOV 1991
(Number) (Time) EIS SEATILE

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DN 164A-SE-81

AN?
[_| described as follows: 6
b7C
Sex Male BID
Race White
Age Late 50's, early 60's
Height Approximately 6'
Weight Unknown
Hair White, receding
Eyes Brown
Build Thin
Physical Thin nose;|
} usually well
dressed.
LEAD
QMAHA DIVISTON
AT MARION, TOWA
Fully identify and interview,| b6
Marion, Iowa. Report results to b7C

Office of Origin, Seattle.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

2x

DB Cooper-20627

==== Part 50 · PDF page 33 ====
© @ INDICES

RD~-36 (Rev, 11-17-88) : ? MANUAL
FBI FOIMS_Ze..
CONFIDENTIAL
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION:
CL] Teletype CL) Immediate (1 TOP SECRET
L] Facsimile C) Priority LJ SECRET
%] AIRTEL C} Routine 1 CONFIDENTIAL
(1 UNCLASEFTO
[] UNCLAS
Date 12/13/91

TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81)

Wo LOS ANGELES (164-497) (RIVRA/C-1) (RUC)
wT"
ECT : NORJAK

00: Seattle

Re telcall of FAI | Riverside RA, to b6
SA| Seattle, 12/2/91. bIC
Enclosed for Seattle is one 8 1/2 x 10 photograph
of| Jwith an unidentified pilot. Also fo b6
enclosed is a five-page Parachutist Log, dated 7/9/66 - ' b7C

this matter has been featured in local newspapers as well a

on local television programs. As_a direct result, on
11/29/91,| | b6

Due to the 20th anniversary of captioned etna

Riverside, California | | TDD telephone | | b7C
appeared at the Riverside RA. As| | he may be
reached either through his| |
or through| land a message
will be relayed through the| | provided

a photograph of himself as a skydiver believed taken between
10/3/70 and 9/17/72 (Jumps #31 - 50). | stated he
recently found this photograph and felt the pilot was
identical to D. B. COOPER. | Jadvised the pilot's
signature as well as the pilot's license number appears on his
log and would assist in locating and identifying the pilot in
question.

The above information is being provided to the
Seattle Division for whatever action deemed appropriate.

-Seattle

1--Los Angeles

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SERIALIZED Ensen |
DEC. 2.3 "¥99%) b6
Approved: Transmitted Per BIC
(Number) (Time)

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@ . . @
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PD-36 (Rev. 11~17-88) RK,
FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION:
L) Teletype (1 Immediate C) TOP SECRET
Ci] Facsimile C) Priority C) SECRET
] ATRTEL C] Routine {(] CONFIDENTIAL
[] UNCLASEFTO
[1 UNCLAS
Date 1/8/92

TO > SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81)
FROM : SAC, ST. LOUIS (164A-SE-81) (RUC)

SUBJECT : NORJAK;
CAA-HIJACKING
OO: SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS. iL

'4
Reference Springfield airtel to St. Louis dated

11/14/ and te between] | Springfield, b6
and SA Seattle, 10/31/91. b7C

For information of receiving offices, on 12/3/91,
ATF, Cape Girardeau informant was contacted by FBI, St. Louds.

ATF informant was contacted at the| | Cape b6
Girardeau, Missouri, and advised of the identity of the b7C
interviewing Agent. Source then provided the following b7D
information:

Source advised[___]has been acquainted with b6
| _], white male, date of birth BIC
Since L_Since| lhas stated several times that DTD

Lis the same person as the D.
B. COOPER who hijacked an airline and got away with
$200,000.00.

Source advised that| | knew this fact bé |
because| | was a former and b7C
paratrooper. | | further stated that] had BID

(2) Seattle
'2° Springfield
1 - St. Louis

annem INDEXED:
(5) SERIALIZER DEXEC)..,

dw j |e
Approved: 't Transmitted |
f

(Number) (Time)

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==== Part 50 · PDF page 35 · Bates DB Cooper-DB Cooper-20630 ====
164A-SE-81
extensive survival training. | [has also stated that b6
|} was an | | BTC
[far the airline that was hijacked by | b7D
had access to all flight information pertaining
to the hijacked plane. ,
| | had not been close td | and b6
only saw| la few times BIC
| is now wanted on two felony charges and is hiding out with b7D
in Canada. Sou j j time of the
hijacking | | owned Wyomind.
After the hijacking,| | disappeared. | J
— who is now deceased, sa shortiv after the
ijacking. | | was observed]
After his incident, | b6
l Jto Canada. The entire] ] b7C
family was questioned by authorities concerning] | 67D
and his whereabouts.
Source advised that| Lparachuted over b6
Washington State because he has a who reside BTC
there. | lname is| (Last Name 57D
Unknown), andl | who now Lives in Seattle,
Washington. .
LZ
,| __jis currently employed with] b6
| [in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. | BTC
-1 Fere-not-citizens of Canada and b7D

considered "Landed Immigrants".

The[___] current address _is| b6

_ppauson—Greek.pritish Columbia (BC)| | tetephone—number——— b7C
} a - b7D .
————~"" source advised because| jis the hijacker

D. B. COOPER and| |] is wanted on two felonies, they

will not come to the United States for any reason. —_
Source provided a description of as b7D
follows:
Age: Late 50's
Height: 5'7" - 58"
Weight: 180 pounds
2

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==== Part 50 · PDF page 36 · Bates DB Cooper-DB Cooper-20631 ====
164A-SE-81
Build: Stocky
Hair: - Dark brown, receding hairline
Scars, marks, and
tattoos: eS
Unusual BIC
characteristics: Practical joker ®7D
Source could not provide a date of birth, Social
Security Account Number, or Military Identification Number for
| | Military records checks at St. Louis, Missouri b6
cannot be conducted without this information. b7C
b7D

Seattle Division is requested to review above
information for suitability of continued investigation.
Logical investigative leads will be sent at discretion of
Seattle Division.

St. Louis Division considers this matter RUC.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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==== Part 50 · PDF page 37 · Bates DB Cooper-DB Cooper-20632 ====
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==== Part 50 · PDF page 38 · Bates DB Cooper-DB Cooper-20633 ====
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==== Part 50 · PDF page 41 ====
© INDICES
ob FD-36 (Rev, 11-17-88) .

| MANUAL
: 'FBI 4 Foims Kea
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: cLassiFication; CONFIDENTIAL. ___
C} Teletype OO Immediate Lj) TOP SECRET
Facsimile [1 Priority () SECRET
Kk) AIRTEL LJ Routine C1) CONFIDENTIAL
{] UNCLASEFTO
C) UNCLAS
Date 1/9/92
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81)
FROM : SRC, RICHMOND (164A-0) (P)
yp
SUBJECT : NORJAK os
CAA
(00: SEATTLE)
Re Richmond telcal (SA | | to Seattle b6
(SA| on 1/7/92. b7C

On 11/21/91, Richmond received a telephone call
from| | who indicated that she believed her b6
stepfather was D. B. COOPER. would not give any . b7C
information over the telephone, but insisted that an Agent
come to visit her at her home in Petersburg, Va., at which
time she agreed to show photographs and give pertinent
information as to her stepfather's identity, and why she
believed he was D. B. COOPER. | jindicated that she
was living with her mother

Petersburg, Va.

On 11/22/91, this Agent met with] jat her b6é
home in Petersburg, Va. Also préSent during this time was b7C
Jidentified her
stepfather as] | but refused to give Agent
any further information until Agent would assure| 5

that any subsequent investigation would be conducted on her
terms. Neither[ |knew
] date of birth (DOB) or Social Security Account

2-Las Vegas (Info. only)
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Number (SSAN). They would give no information as to where he
lived or worked, other than saying that he worked for the

Federal Government and was a jshowed Agent an b6
old photograph of her stepfather, but would not let Agent take BIC
this photograph to make copies. | Jdid indicate that

her stepfather was six feet six inches tall, and would have
been in his early 20s at the time of the incident.

Despite numerous assurances of confidentiality,

| would provide no further information bé
regarding| ] unless Agent would assure bIC
them that any investigation would be conducted as they

directed. They were told that they could not direct course of

any subsequent investigation, at which point they continued to

make various demands. At this point, the interview was

terminated, anal lwere advised that if they

wished for the FBI to reinterview them, they would have to be

ready to provide all information pertinent to this matter.

On 1/3/92, this office received a telephone call
from an unknown_individual who wished to provide additional

information on| jwas described b6
as a former paratrooper, who lived for some period of time in . BIC
Spokane, Wash. | ]was supposedly stationed overseas

during the time of the_D. B. COOPER incident; however, also
during this time his lpassed away, and he
returned to the United States, very distraught. Since the
D. B. COOPER incident,| jJhas always acted strange
around the anniversary date of the incident, and would never
discuss the case when anyone would ask him about it.

is supposedly a __|with the United States
Government, with the specific job of an]

|is further described as follows: PS
Name:

DOB:

Height: Six feet four inches

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Blue

Residence address: |
Sparks, Nev.

Home telephone
number:

Work telephone
number:

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A review of DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES records
for Nevada reveals a| | SSAN b6
residing in Sparks, Nev. No further information b7C

was avallable to Richmond regarding this individual.

A copy of this airtel is being provided to
Las Vegas Division for information purposes only. Per
referenced telephone conversation between Richmond and
Seattle, Seattle will determine the value of information
provided, and set forth leads as it deems appropriate.

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TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: , CLASSIFICATION:

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TO : SAC, SEATTLE
FROM : SAC, SACRAMENTO (164A-SE-81) (RUC)

SUBJECT : NORJAK;
O00: SE

On 11/25/91,| ] telephone| |
. telephonically contacted the Sacramento Division and advised
that he had read an article in the newspaper and saw a,picture
regarding D.B. COOPER and said that h who
D.B. COOPER is. He identified him as a
white male, approximately 48 to 50 years of age.|
advised that he strongly resembles the hijacker and that he
-was_in the Army, and last "Twer to him in the spring of 1971.

He stated that he and were in the lst 508 Company C,
82nd Airborne Division, stationed at Fort Bragg, North
Carolina. He further stated that[___|was approximately
years of age in 1969, and is originally from Kentucky. He
added that besides looking exactly like the hijacker,
always chain-smoked Raleigh cigarettes.

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Sacramento indices were negative regarding
An inquiry with the California Law Enforcement
Telecommunications System regarding] | was
negative.

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In view of the extensive investigation conducted by
the Seattle Division in this matter, the above information is
being furnished for any action deemed necessary by the 00. At
this time, no further investigation will be conducted by the
Sacramento Division.

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FD-302 (REV. 3-10-82)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

10/2/90
Date of transcription
| | Date of Birth, | b6
| | Colorado, was advised of the identity BIC
of the interviewing Agent and the purpose of the interview, which _7D
was to obtain information concerning her telephone cali to the
Denver FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI) Office
1990. In this call,| Jrelated that
| |she has known him that he is the individual known
as D.B. COOPER who allegedly committed a hijacking many years ago.
| ] advised that shef | b6
[Date of Birth, | J in| [ His b7C
real name, | | was changed when hel b7D
| jand, to| | knowledge, he has always used the
name She related that has claimed to be D.B.
COOPER since _ He _is
currently incarcerated in the FREMONT COUNTY JAIL rfor|
with_a_ one-half million dollar bond. He
_also has pending charges of Land |
| She advised she is coming forward
with the information on his D.B. PER identi
wants him to
| She further explained thati ) |
before now.
stated that | __|toid her_he used the name D.B. Pee
COOPER at the time of the hijacking because 57D
L and] |
Jit was him. He acquired this | | because of his
[told her the| |
and in no way could have been detonated.
related that in| Jnever swayed in be
his story of the hijacking and_was almost obsessed with this BIC
identity. To her knowledge, | | a friend, and BID
| | were_the only other people uh knew aboutL____—sid
identity. It would ever made reference
to it, but generally he found a lot of pleasure in bragging about
it. Shortly before he went to jail, Jhaa been for months
8/6/90 CO 164a-S5-01-9999 bé
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by Date dictated
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working withl |} practicing jumps and exercising b6
in order to get in good shape to perform another hijacking. b7C
|had_ always been disappointed that thel : b7D
| | He had planned to| |
[joften commented that since there was no evidence b6
fro hi7jackin he would always get away with it, but that b7C
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| When the movie about the hijacking was on television
several months ago, told } as he
was going to be out o own. He wanted to watch it |
The | |
Jhowever, and| | which
angered him.

further stated that there was a song which " BC
mentioned D.B. COOPER, by an artist she could not recall, that BIC
Whenever it came_on_the radio, 7D
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fin order to avoid drawing »7D

attention. He planned to use|

l stated that after| lwas jailed,| = b6

and one of] land] b7C
[ lused in the bID
iacki of| | -
To her knowledge, | jis at
| | along with other pictures and_mementos
iro is time in the service. The only photograph of[___|that

could provide was one taken when he was a COLORADO
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS | |

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he was unemployed, and | [ He always] b7C
which she believed] b7D

she did not know| to use drugs, although he commented on
several occasions that
if he wanted to.

[sd betieves[__]is truthful about his identity b6

as D.B. COOPER because: {1) he is entirely capable, (2) he bic
lived this consistent, unwavering identity for 1 (3) he bID
Claimed to be a master paratrooper in the} | (4)

this is the only story or claim of this sort that she witnessed,
(5) his story closely matched the details presented in the movie.

[| further described__jas vindictive, b6

extremely manipulative and a persistent schemer, always trying to bIC
rip people off. He | 57D
jwhile
| He was a
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| J] following his] [ approximately] |
Jyears ago, and has been|
periodically, and[__ [as _a couple
months ago. He allegedly]
also, however, was| | and was
subsequently| | further
stated that |} which she was not
aware of until recently. This matter is being ippostiaated by
the FREMONT COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, and this is
another reason capable of the hijacking
incident and the D.B. COOPER identity.

DB Cooper-20643

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Date of Birth: | bID

Height: StyL

Weight: 175
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Brown

Social Security
Account Number:

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FD-491 (Rev. 4-21-80) ° 7

Memorandum

' SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81)

AC, DENVER (164A-SE-81) (RUC)

-NORJACK
Subject ; OO? SEATTLE —

(Title)

Enclosed are items.

These items aro forwarded your office since:

fj RUC

J File Destruction Program

(} All logical investigation completed in this Division

mS You were-O00 at the timeour case was RUC'd.

Enclosures are described as follows:

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FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION:
CI) Teletype C1 Immediate LL) TOP SECRET
Facsimile [] Priority CL} SECRET
AIRTEL C1 Routine ([) CONFIDENTIAL
[] UNCLASEFTO
[1] UNCLAS
Date 1/21/92
Ke) : SAC, SEATTLE
FROM : SAC, OMAHA (164A-SE~-81) (RUC)
SUBJECT : NORJAK fo
00: SEATTLE \

Re Denver airtel to Omaha dated 11/20/91.

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On 1/7/92, contact was made with| B6
(Protect Identity) ,[_ L on

Cedar Rapids, Towa,—tetephone—number] bin
connection with possible knowledge of D. B. COOPER.
thought an individual known to her as| jot
Cedar Rapids was D. B. COOPER.
Upon talking with| | it was leayned that she b6
knew_an individual named] | e net through b7C

| Jadvised that had always b7D
said he lived _ in the Council Bluffs area but funknown exactly'
where, on a wild hunch, checked the' Cedar Rapids
directories and came up with] jand thought

and| were one and the same. | Jnever
bothered to check any further to see if thel | jeven
resembled each other.

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After initially reported the information to
Denver, and before investigating Agent contacted her, she
happened to see{_ and realized he was not the
same person known to her as| |

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that she believed she will see him again in April or May, as Bm
_jadvised that she will
advise FBI when she sees| Jagain.
Due tol |mistaken information as f;3 on
reported,| |will not be contacted since 67D

freely admits that he is not the correct individual.
Since no further investigation is needed in the

Omaha Division at this time, this matter is being placed in
RUC status.

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Fucson, Monday, November 25, 1991

[NATION

Skyjacker § fate still debated 20 years iatey

By Hal Spencer
The Associated Press

SEATTLE — Yesterday was D.B. Cooper's
20th anniversary. But was it the 20th year of the
legendary skyjacker's death or 20 years since he
began a new life with a bagful of stolen green-
backs?

As is their annual custom, Cooper fans from
Seattle to San Jose, Calif., to Salt Lake City organ-
ized celebrations to honor their hero, who they
believe melted into society after committing the
perfect crime — parachuting from an airliner
over Washington state with $200,000 in ransom
money on Nov, 24, 1971. '

Two decades after the unique exploit, which a
retired FBI agent calls stupid and alraost certainty
fatal, Cooper's real identity is still a mystery. No-
body knows if he's a pile of bleached bones in thé
mountains of Washington or the guy next door.

Cooper's -crime seems almost quaint in
today's violent world. And his $200,000 in marked
money would hardly make him a rich man.

The story began Thanksgiving eve, when a
man wearing dark glasses boarded a Northwest-
Orient Airlines Boeing 727 at Portland Interna-
tional Airport. He used the name Dan Cooper to
purchase his plane ticket. The name became pop-
ularized as D.B, Cooper after a law enforcement
official erroneously referred to him that way.

Once airborne, "Cooper" handed the stew-

ardess a note saying he had a dynamite bomb in:

his attache case. The man, who chain-smoked Ra-
leigh fitter-tipped cigarettes and who appeared to
be in his middle to late 40s, demanded $200,000 in
used $20 bills.

He collected the money — provided by the
airline — during a brief stop at Seattle-Tacoma
International Airport, where the 36 passengers
were released and the four crew members were
kept aboard.

Airborne again, Cooper parachuted into a
freezing rainstorm at 10,000 feet near tiny Ariel in
southwestern Washington, wearing only a busi-
ness suit and loafers. The temperature' was 7
below zero, not counting the wind chill factor at
the plane's speed of 200 mph.

"It was obviously nof well-thought-out.... It
was stupid," said Ralph Himmelsbach, the retired

The Associated Press

Sketches made in 19712 are of man belleved to be the skyjacker known as D.8. Cooper

FBI agent who spent nearly a decade Investigating
the crime.

If Cooper didn't freeze to death on his way
down, he probably died when he hit the ground,
said Himmelsbach, reached at his home in Red-
mond, Ore. .

"And he came down right smack dab in the
middle of the woods in really rugged country," he
said. "There are steep, up-and-down ravines in
really heavily wooded country. It was a bad place
to jand, and it is doubtful we would ever find the
body."

The very fact that Cooper's identity has never *

emerged tells Himmelsbach the man was proba-
bly an ex-con.

Himmelsbach said he was further convinced
that Cooper was dead after boys playing on the
Columbia River in February 1980 found $5,800 in
crumbling $20 bills that turned out to be from

Cooper's loot. He speculated that either Cooper
landed in the Columbia and drowned, or died In.
the mountains and the money was washed out. |

As usual, Cooper believers are having none of
that. Each year, anniversary celebrations are held
at taverns named D.B. Cooper in Salt Lake City
and San Jose, and at a little bar in Ariel, where,
legend has it, Cooper paid an anonymous visit dur-
ing an earlier party in his honor.

At the Salt Lake City tavern, where a cele-
bration is set for Thanksgiving eve, the customers
have a new explanation of Cooper's fate, said bar-
tender John Nicolaisen.

A recently published book argues that Cooper
was actually Richard F. McCoy, a Provo, Utah,
man arrested and convicted of a similar hijacking
in 1972. McCoy was later killed after a prison es+|

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Tucson, Monday, November 25, 1991

:

The Associated Press

John Sununu and his.son Peter await President Bush's return

-cent reports of bickering betweeh;

Sununu gets -
a thumbs-up
from Bush.'

WASHINGTON (AP) — A smil"
ing John Sununu was waiting to
greet President Bush as he re- -
turned to the White House yester- ©
day from Camp David. The presi-~
dent gave a thumbs-up when
asked if he intended to keep his.'
combative chief of staff.

Sununu js not normally on hes.
when the president returns from
weekends at the mountaintop re- *
treat.

This time Sununu was waiting at -
the door with his wife and son a$*
the Marine One helicopter ap-

proached. 2
"What brought you in?" a res
porter asked Sununu. 7

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"Just catching up," he said. oy
There has been a spate of re-

Sununu and Bush's political ad#}
visers, including prospective lead-1
ers of Bush's impending re-elecey
tion campaign. vg

Cost of emission control devices on cars
has oil, auto industries pointing fingers.

By H. Josef Hebert
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — There's no dis-
pute that toxic and smog-causing

'fumes spew out of automobile tanks

with every fill-up. But there's no
agreement on how to control them,

Technology isn't the issue; there
already are two proven methods for
stopping the emissions.

But the debate has pitted Big Ol!
against the Big Three automakers.
Neither wants to foot the bill for any
new controls to ston the emissions.

against installing yet another pollu-
tion control device in new cars. It
says the oil Industry ought to pay this
time by capturing the releases at the
pump.

The controls at service stations
"represent a more timely, efficient
and less expensive method of meet-
ing the nation's clean air goals,"
argues Thomas Hanna, president of
the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers

_ Association.

Cost estimates for the so-called
"on-board vapor recovery canis-

erful political interest groups has '
put the EPA's regulatory effort on
hold, although Congress last year -
directed the agency to issue a regu-
lation by mid-November.

The Natural Resources Defense |
Council, a leading environmental |
advocacy group, informed the EPA :
this month it planned to file a law- _
suit soon charging the agency has
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription 2/7/92

/ fo4~€/- 7°91} 7oF74'

| date of birthl be
[_] Golconda, tiiinois,L__ | telephone] advised BIC
Resiso—recet Mt. Vernon, inols,

as advised as to the identity of the interviewing
ature of the interview, and provided the following

Agent and the
information:

[ | advised that although he uses[__| | b6
[] Golconda, Illinois, and telephone | | that he is b7C
rarely at that address. [_____—sidjis currently residing in Mt.
Vernon and currently has no telephone at his current address.
stated that if anyone needs to get_a_hold of him again, it
would be easiest to send a letter to his| in Mt. Vernon,
an@ he would get back to them as soon as possible.

| | contacted the FEDERAL BUREAU OF b6
INVESTIGATION (FBI), Carbondale, Illinois, on January 28, 1992, b7C
and requested an Agent meet with him as soon as possible.

| | met with Agents to discuss the possible identity of
D.B. COOPER who hijacked an_airplane in the early 70's.
[ _] stated _ that he believed| : date

of birth was the person who -htyecked thre —_———__——
i ane and identi imself as D.B. COOPER. /"aitheughl
Goes not have any solid physical evidence_Minking
to the hijacking, | Jadid state that] jadmitted
to him that he had hijacked that airplane. | | stated

that] was a member of the 101st Army fpeborne Unit and
was also al | | stated that

served in_Vietn and also was an Airborne instructor. In
addition, | stated that! [was a

| las well as a| | After
retired from the military in | he purchased a
|Wyoming, and continued to live there until
he moved to Canada somewhere in the area of 1974 or 1975.

| lstate@d that jis still living in Canada and

owns a | [farm in Canada. The value of this

farm, according to] | is approximately to $800,000 to

$900,000.
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lL stated that who would have
been| | visited | around the time
that the plane had been hijacked. At this time,| | was
not at his residence and_no one seemed to know what happened to
him. After a few weeks, | [returned to his home but
refused to answer his door even tol
stated that| | related to him that] had
been seen
l | stated that this is very peculiar
@ue to the fact that] |never locked his doors and had no
reason not to talk td |
Although | | has not spent a great deal of time
withl | he visits him often and on one such visit,
[had toial lthat he had been questioned by
ce eee ag sands to the hijacking. | | proceeded to
ask why the FBI would pe paussttonang him about this
hijacking. | ] stated that at this time
confided in him and stated that he had been the one who hij
the airplane. The time period_when| | confided in
was either 1984 or 1985. | has no idea why
would _use the initials D.B. | | advised that
| | | L_was named jand] |
| |name was|

assisted him in) the hijacking. |
rhane was however, | | does not know_what | |

| | provided the following information with
regards tol

Place of Birth: | _ |
Height: 577" = §7gH
Build: Stocky
(Pot belly)
Weight: 180 pounds
Byes: Green
Hair: Thinning
Tattoos:
Miscellaneous:

| | advised that| |Jowns_several guns,
but he does not believe be uses thell very often.
also feels that | may have |

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United States occasionally, but due to the fact that] | b7C
and are not on speaking terms, he *s unaware of then
jWill be visiting the United States.
provided an address for| which is General Delivery,
Progress, B.C., | telephone |

| stated that his reasons for coming forward be
at this time are personal and he would prefer not to release them b7C
at this time. | | stated that if anyone could pull off

such a hijacking, it would be | also

stated that other members of lsuspect| | of

being the hijacker, but no one in has solid evidence.

concluded by_saving that if he learns anything

further with regards tol he would contact the FBI as

soon as possible.

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@ e@ . INDICES

FD-~36 (Rev. 11-17-88) MANUAL,
FBI FOIMS ——
; . CONFIDENTIAL——
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION:
(4 Teletype C} Immediate [1 TOP SECRET
CL) Facsimile {1 Priority [J] SECRET
K} AIRTEL {] Routine [) CONFIDENTIAL
LJ UNCLASEFTO
C} UNCLAS
Date 2/10/92
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164A~81)
FROM Sac, Springfield (164A-81) (But)
A RB
SUBJECT : NORJAK; 2/8
00: SEATTLE
Re telcal of sal | Carbondale RA, b6
Springfield Division to sal lon 1/31/92. bic
1
Enclosed for the Seattle Division is the original
and two copies of FD-302 reflecting interview off bé
and interview notes. b7C

GReattre (164A-81)
-Springfield (164A-81)

GHC/bbs
(3)
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FD-36 (Rev. 8-29-85)

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La ~*~ ee —!

TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE:
LI Teletype Ci Immediate
[} Facsimile EF] Priority
K} AIRTEL CJ Routine

FBI

CLASSIFICATION:
TOP SECRET
SECRET
CONFIDENTIAL
UNCLAS EF TO
UNCLAS

Date 2/11/92

OOOO

SUBJECT : NORJACK;

CAA - HIJACKING
00: SEATTLE

: SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81)

TO
uy
PROM * SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (164A-SE~81) (P) (SJRA/3)

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Re: Newark airtel to the Bureau dated 10/18/91.

| | resided in|

until he was evicted in August or Sep

For the information of Seattle and Newark on
11/1/91.

| San Jose, California, verified that|
|for approximately two months
tember, 1991

joer, 1

was

pic -uo, [7]

| whose

was also ac

ainted with

al jand drove a

in color with a camper shell. [_ [advised that] was
also friendly with who resides i

allowed | Jto live with him for a short time before|

Located jus t tol

no longer ,

resides in

jand her whereabout

Es in unknown.

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- Newark
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(Number) (Time) :
Ain Pp:
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164A-SE-81
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On 11/4/91,
| | San Jose, California, advised he was acquainted
with Ilwhen he resided during the summer of 1991 at
has not seen
j yvicted from | and doubts that his
would know | current whereabouts.

On 11/4/91,| b6
San Jose, California, advised that| _ [left no b7C
forwarding address_when he was evicted fro and still
owed in excess of in rent. advised that
ran up in_excess of in phone bills on the phone of
wh resided with for a short time in

Ld .
On 11/6/91,] b6

[_] San Jose, California, advised that| resided bIC
im for a short time_during the summer months of 1991.
did odd jobs as[ jin the San Jose area and.
did not appear _ to be a member of|
drove an old vehicle which has since been towed
away. At one time] jwas receiving unemployment benefits
while he was still residing with| ladvised that
| Iran up a rather large telephone bill, calling numerous

women in the Philippines_to encourage them to come to the
United States and marry

A review of the California Law Enforcement Teletype
System (CLETS) shows that| | date of birth b6
is in possession of a current California drivers b7C
license and Last provided a current address in September,
1988, of| jSan Jose, California.

On 11/7/91, inquiry at } San b6
Jose, California, determined that |currently b7C
resides at this address. | | home telephone |

[ | advised she first meq jin 168 —throudh—a—
| [subsequently

at San Jose, California.
| Jadvised that| |} and she

subsequently received a| |
Co Tthas not personally seen| |since at least November,
1989, and has no idea as to his current whereabouts.

talked very Little about his past other than. ane
he was originally from the State of Washington and has an ex- BIC

wife by the name of] |

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164A-SE-81
MGK/gmr
still occasionally receives mail for| b6
including mail from the IRS from the State of Washington and b7C
from the State of California Board of Equalization.
| advised that she ana| _ BG
b7C

L_ at Great Western Savings and Loan, San Jose,
California. Thome oo etna she recalls seeing statements
from Merrill in the However, at the
present tim no longer has|

stated she has no means of getting in touch wit and

has no recollection of any immediate fenaiy[_[WES~@i ther
in the San Jose area or in the State of Washington other than
the ex-wife she already mentioned.

On 12/10/91, records of the Oakland, California

Police Department show_that on lwas , bé
issued a citation for| b7C
have a local address of | |

Oakland, California, Social Security number] | and
entered a guilty plea in traffic court on | It is
noted no vehicle was indicated on the police report in
connection with this citation. In addition to the above
citation, | lwas_a suspect in an] |on
in
Oakland, California. Locai District Attorney's Office
Jin
idence

Oakland, California, declined to issue a warrant for

connection with this incident due to insufficient ev

At that time] lgave an address of his
| San Jose, California.

In addition, | | was a complainant to the b6
Oakland, California Police Department on| | and ; b7c
concerning an assault and battery matter,
nowever, suspects in this matter were never fully identified
and | lat that time provided an address of the
| San Jose, California.

according to Department of Vehicles Pe
records, is still a niet owner of a ] pick-up, C

California license which expires June 30, 1992, and a
| California license] which is to expire in
March, 1992.

Department of Motor Vehicles is unable to place an
appropriate stop with __—s—sr«dwWJCaliffornia drivers license so - b6
that FBI can be notified in the event{___]| received any b7C
future citations, since he at this time is not a federal
fugitive.

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On 12/16/91, investigation at| | b6
Oakland, California, determined from the owners of the BIC
property of thi ss that| jis unknown to them and to
their knowledge |has never rented at this address. .
LEADS
SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION
AT OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA: If feasible, place
appropriate stops with Oakland Police Department and Alameda
County Sheriff's Office on | date of birth b6é
| | PFN number | in order that FBI can be notified b7C
should| | be arrested or receive a citation.
AT_SAN_JOSE, CALIFORNIA: Reinterview| ' b6
| |} and show her b7C
composite drawing of D.B. COOPER. Will obtain other personal
details of [life to ascertain if[___|has any
characteristics similar to that of D.B. COOPER.

4x

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Complaint Form
FD-71 (Rev. 2-13-86}

Indices: © Negative See below

NOTE: Hand print names legibly; handwriting satisfactory for remainder.

Subject's name and aliases

UNSUB., aka.
D. B. COOPER

Character of case
CAA - HIJACKING

Complainant Protect Source

LYNNWOOD POLICE DEPARTMENT

Corplaint received

Q Personal 33 Telephonic Date_2/28/92 Time 3:40pm _

Address of subject

Complainants address and telephone number

[|

Race Sex
© Male

Height

Hair

Build Birth date and Birthplace

Age O Female

Weight

Eyes

Complexion Social Security Number

Subjects
Description

Scars, marks or other data

Facts of complaint . :
telephone |

claims is D.B. COOPER. |
Roseburg, Oregon. He was a pi

department received a call from] |
(Bothell) who advised she was getting older now

and wanted to give information about a man she used to date that she

advised his name is |from

family has a

with the proper authorities co
information she has concerning

pLot and| | His
in Roseburg, Oregon. C. would like to talk

pceznang the hijacking, and provide the

Do not write in this space.
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TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION:
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Date 3/2/92
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SUBJECT : NORJACK; }
CAA - HIJACKING f
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2- San Francisco
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Investigati
reinterview suspect's

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Re San Francisco airtel to Seattle dated 2/11/92.

Enclosed for Seattle and Newark are two copies of
investigative insert and information flyer provided_to Oakland
Police Department and Alameda County SO re suspect,

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164A-SE-81

(JIS/jjs

On 2/25/92, an informational flyer was disseminated to
patrol @ivisions of both the Oakland Police Department and the

Alameda County Sheriff's Office regarding

The flyer advised that the FBI was inte
interviewing| |regarding air piracy vio
Washington. It was stressed that no federal
against| an@ that he is only wanted fo
was also expressed to the above agencies tha
that the FBI is interested in interviewing h
stopped, he should not be advised of the FBI
the reason being that upon locating

rested in
lations in Seattle,
warrants exist

r questioning. It
tL dis not aware
im an at, if

's interest in him;
it will be necessary

for agents from Seattle and Newark, New sersey to travel to

Oakland for the purpose of interviewing

Should[ be stopped and or arreste
the Oakland/Alameda ga poet area. the Local =
immediately contact SA

Resident Agency and both Seattle and Newark

L*

d for any reason in
gencies will

of the Oakland

will be notified.

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ASSTSTANCE REQUESTED
BY
F.B.T. OAKLAND
NAME: b6
SEX: Male BIC
RACE: White
DOB:
POB:
HEIGHT: 5'10"
WEIGHT: 180 lbs.
HAIR: Grey
EYES: Hazel
SSAN:
PFN#:
VEHICLES: |
pickup, Cal. Lic
| and|
Cal Lic

For information of receiving officers, | lis being b6
sought for questioning regarding federal air piracy violations b7C
out of Seattle, Washington. No warrants exist at this time.

is currently unaware of the FBI's interest in him and it

is Important that he not be made aware as it will be necessary
for agents from Seattle and Newark, New Jersey to travel to
Oakland upon the determination of |whereabouts.

NCIC, Washington, D.C. has advised that numerous NCIC
inquiries regarding[|___]have been made over the past months b6
by the Oakland Police Department. Past residences in Oakland and b7C
San Jose, provided i have proven to be either old or
erroneous information.

Receiving officers, should they come across | b6
Date of Birth,[_———s«diY':«éPFN are requested to develop as _ bic
much current information as possible regarding[___——sédW residence
and vehicles. If[__—ijis arrested for any local charges,
please contact the below named Special Agent.

Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Any information, please contact SA| | FBI b6
Oakland, telephone (510) 451-9782 Days or (415) 553-7400 Nights. b7C

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FD-36 (Rev. 8-26-82) @® tts

FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE;
LC] Teletype C1 Immediate
[] Facsimile 11 Priority
KK} ATRTEL Routine

CLASSIFICATION:
TOP SECRET
SECRET
CONFIDENTIAL
UNCLAS EF TO
UNCLAS

Date 3/31/92

OO0000

_: SAC, SEATTLE

A ; : SAC, BOSTON (164A-SE-81) (RUC)
SUBJECT: NORJACK;
0O:SEATTLE
Reference Boston airtel to Seattle, date 10/10/91. y

investigation in an RUC status.

Cseattie

1-Boston (164A-SE-81)

Inasmuch as all logical investigation has been concluded
within the Boston Division, Boston is placing captioned

DIF/pap
(3)
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SEARCHED. SINDEKEY Basco. t
CORAM en LV eeren i re
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Memorandum ©

To SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P} Date 6/4/90

FG
From AS C, SALT LAKE CITY (164A-SE-81)(P) Sve?

Subject: NORJAK

O00: SEATTLE

For purposes,of information, during the last week of

4/30,

Agency To

inquired from SA¥]

if the FBI

had ever caught/D. B. COOPER. | Jthen provided the following

information:

[_|statea that during the time frame of the NORTHWEST

AIRLINES hijacking, there was a number of newspaper articles
which revealed the likeness or showed photographs of an
individual who used the name of D. B. COOPER during this
hijacking. | stated these pictures/closely resembled _an
him as| who worked with

individual known to
as a

| |stated tha

in the Kellogg, Idaho, | |

was a sport parachutist and
ptsed_to keen pis parachute hung up in the

added that wher] |left the |
he went to either Los Angeles or San Francisco, California, and

obtained work as a

for one of the_major airlines,

although, | jcould not remember which airline worked

for. | [stated that he has not seen
i

left

since | |

re department and traveled to California.

[|thought[———sJwould have been in his a

20s at the time of the hijacking incident. [|] stated
. WaS approximately 6'0 tall, well built, 150-160 pounds, having

dark black hair whi
beard. | ~ | desex

ch ma
ibed |

have been curly, and sometimes wore a
as a nice guy, but a dare devil

who was a con-man, in that money lent to him would never be

returned.

[ _] a@visea that|

first name.

| lived in Spokane,

believed that] |was born in| |

Washington, a: he could not_recall |

«>- Seattle

2 - Salt Lake City
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[_|statea that[___—_lworked for the BUNKER HILL
MINING COMPANY in Kellogg, Idaho, although it may have been
called the PITLER MINES at that time. | advised that the
main office for the BUNKER HILL MINING COMPANY was in the COEUR

D'ALENE MINES Building located at 501 Front Street, Coeur
d'Alene, Idaho.

[__|stated that he provided this information to the
police department in Kellogg, Idaho, during the time of the press
coverage, although he felt that they did not do anything about
it.

[_|stated_that FRANK CRNKOVICH, Sheriff, Shoshone

County, Idaho, knew | and may know more about the
incident. added that_the only other individuals he could
think of who may have known would have_been| }
who lives in Post Falls, Idaho, or his brother ,| feho

lives in Kellogg, Idaho.

The following information was obtained concerning[ _|
through interview and a driver's license vehicle check:

Name

Date of birth

Height 5:7"
Weight 170 pounds

Social Security
Account Number
Address

; peoeur—d-Alens pas o
Telephone number

The vehicle registration check showed three addresses for

[ being as follows:

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

Coeur a'Alene, Idano

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FD-36 (Rev. 11-17-88)

(Number) (Tim

FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION:
Lj Teletype CJ Immediate CJ TOP SECRET
Facsimile C) Priority (J SECRET
AIRTEL [) Routine [] CONFIDENTIAL
[}] UNCLASEFTO
LJ] UNCLAS
Date 4/16/92
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164A~SE-81}
FROM : SAC, PHOENIX (P)
SUBJECT : NORJAK;
AIRCRAFT HIJACKING;
00: SEATTLE
Re PX airtel to SE dated 4/10/92.
Enclosed for Seattle are the original and two
copies each of an FD-302 re interview of | Lon bo
4/10/932,| b7C
| [ and an] ]
| |
| was interviewed subsequent to Pe
information obtained relative tol |
[ suspect in captioned matter. Details of
interview are set forth in enclosed FD-302.
Phoenix intends to locate and interview, __—i b6
after receipt of information from Seattle, relative to prc
background information in Seattle investigative results.
@)- Seattle (Encl. 12)foe.L.L,
- Phoenix
CAS:lir
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FD-302 (Rev. 3-10-82}

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription 4/16/92

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| | date of birth (pon)| L ) PS
|} Arizona, telephone| | was contacted at
her place of business and advised of the identity of the
interviewing Agent and the purpose of the interview.
provided the following information:

| lwas| Bé
| | Arizona, BTC
from | 1978 tol | 1979, by| | a
previous |
[aia not| but_was| b6
lpecause of his Hel ] bic
from | | He was

ver rofessional and did not speak with any particular accent.

appeared to be educated and always wore a dark brown or
navy suit
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Jand never spoke of family, friends, or offered any b7c
background information regarding himself. [ appeared to be
a lonely man. He always attended social gatherings by himself
and

stated that} | drove an older model car, but was unable to
recall the make or vear, He was a heavy smoker and continued to
smoke was unable to recall the brand
of cigarettes he smoked, but did state that the cigarettes were
very strong. He also had a smoker's cough.

[J reviewea| | and advised on
that his Social Security Account Number (SSAN)} was| |

She further advised that | lwas known to |

land recalls that he| |
because of] | although this information was not
reporte furnished_the
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI) with a copy of|

Investigationon 4/30/92 at Arizona File # 164A-SE-81

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164A~SE-81
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| statement regarding his b6
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further commented on the limited amount of —
information] land stated _
that it was unusual for|
personal information
The artist's conception of D. B. COOPER was shown to bs
| ana she indicated that the drawing looks alot like —

| was described by[___Jas follows:

Sex Male

Race White

Height 5/gn

Weight 160

Complexion Olive

Hair Very dark brown, parted on the
side, neat cut, Vitalis used

Eyes Unable to recall color, wore
dark-framed glasses with thick
lenses

Voice Authoritative, intelligent, no
particular accent

Characteristics Heavy cigarette smoker, thin
lips, clean shaven

Wearing apparel Dark brown or navy suit, dark
shoes

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"FD-302 (Rev. 3-10-82)

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

| |, date of birth (poB)|

Date of transcription

4/16/92

| | Arizona, telephone

| was contacted at

her place of business and advised of the identity of the
interviewing Agent and the purpose of the interview.
provided the following information:

| lwas |

| | Arizona,
from | 1378 tol 11979, by| | a
previous|
[___]dia not] |] but was| |
e isl [Hel
from | He was

ver rofessional and did not speak with any particular accent.

Co a eared to be educated and always wore a dark brown or
navy Sait]

| | was|

[ | and never spoke of family, friends, or offered any
himself. [appeared to be
a lonely man. He always attended social gatherings by himself

background information regarding

and|

stated that| | drove an older model car, but was unable to
a heavy smoker and continued to
was unable to recall the brand
of cigarettes he smoked, but did state that the cigarettes were
very strong. He aiso had a smoker's cough.

recal e make
smoke

reviewed|

land advised

that his Social Security Account Number (SSAN) was

She further advised that

was known tol

| Jand recalls that he|

because
reported

ation was not

furnish
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION {FBI} with a copy of

Investigationon 4/10/92 at

Arizona File #

by _ sal |Lir

Date dictated

164A-SE-81__

4/15/92

This document contains nether recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of

it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

APR 2 5 1992

Ae Spee

he FBI and is loaned to your agency;

I. ..... . . DB Cooper-20671

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(00: Seattle)
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provided to Portland Division by bé
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During March, 1990, ae
8 | River. Bi ww Cebifornias.contacted t Portland Division and '
advised she had a photograph of an individual she believed looked
9]like the hijacker of captioned case. Portland Division subsequently
received a letter postmarked 3/22/90, which enclosed a photograph
10 | accompanying this communication.
11 By registered mail postmarked 8/9/90,[ _] enclosed b6
a two-page letter with a supposed explanation as 'to the identity b7C
12 {}of the individuals in the photograph. Due to the confused nature
of the letter, Seattle Division may wish to place this letter
13 jin their NORJACK zero file.
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DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, BOSTON, OVERHEARD A CONVERSATION

ABOARD DELTA AIRLINES FLIGHT 694 FROM DALLAS/FORT WORTH TO BOSTON
BETWEEN THE OCCUPANT OF SEAT 22A AND TWO PERSONS OCCUPYING SEATS
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COLUMBIA. THE MAN FURTHER STATED THAT THE PERPETRATOR WAS ALIVE
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| HIS RECORDS REFLECT AN

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| WHICH |WERE ATTENDING. HE DESCRIBED THE NON

COMPANY AS A MULTI-LEVEL ORGANIZATION FOR TELEPHONE BUSINESS.

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FD-302 (Rev. 3-10-82)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription_ 6/22/90

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694 leaving June 3, 1990, from Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, to
Boston, Massachusetts, departing 9:46 a.m. and arriving 2:35 p.m.
Seat reservations on this flight were for 21A/21B/22A. The total
airfare for the three, round-trip tickets was $1,222.50.
. ; airline tickets
dated May 14, 1990, for] Jin the amount of $407.50 on
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multi-level type of organization for telephone company sales.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription_ 6/22/90

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furnished the following information:

| ladvised that|

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for himself, |

| | showing a confirmation of
flights on DELTA Flight Number 169, for May 29, 1990, leaving
Boston, Massachusetts en route to Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, for
Seats 39B/39C/38D. The return flight was on DELTA Flight Number
694 leaving June 3, 1990, from Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, to
Boston, Massachusetts, departing 9:46 a.m. and arriving 2:35 p.m.
Seat reservations on this flight were for 21A/21B/22A.
$ $1,222.50.

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airline tickets
in the amount of $407.50 on

dated May 14, 1990, for]
which| lused a Visa card, Number

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Facsimile Priority "——SECRET ——
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REFERENCE SEATTLE ATRIEL TO NEW ORLEANS DATED JANUARY 23,
1990.

THE NEW ORLEANS DIVISION HAS SEARCHED MANUAL INDICES AND
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Orleans dated 8/10/89; Seattle's airtel to New Orleans dated
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Enclosed for the New Orleans division are copies of
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For the information of the Portland Division, on
10/24/30, while receiving telephone calls at the

telecommunication center forthe NBC television series "Unsolved
Mysteries", Sal Jof the Los Angeles Division

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advised that on_10/21/90, while in a resturant,
he met a man identified as (FNU) -who-claimed. to.be the
brother _of D.B._COOPER. | | described| las 5/8" to
5/9", 160-165 pounds, 65-69 years old with greying hair.

stated his brothers' initials are D.B. and he acquired the
nickname | while, could not recall) in either the
82nd or the 84th airborne. | jadvised that his brother is
currently a skydiver and may have recently|
| | stated his brother is familiar with airplanes
with rear doors and he believes he is currently in the mid-west
working in an] ]

[claimed he]

JESSE JAMES.

and ended their brief conversation when

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advised that she saw an advertisement in a local

newspaper for an individual that did
work. |called the telephone number that was in the

newspaper and left a message on the answering machine that she

was interested in hiring a handyman. advised that the
telephone number she called in 1985 was |

[_Jaavisea that in response to her message on the
answering machine an individual by the_name_of (LNU)
contacted her and stated that_he _does| |

advised that she hired|__| (INU) and gave him directions
to her house.

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approximately| Jand during this time they would engage in
casual conversation. | Jin one_of the conversations told

LNU) about her ex-boyfriend,[__ | and that he was
a in Vietnam and had been in a lot of battles and had
won some medals.

ladvised that in response to this, | | (LNU) told

bert that] jJand that he|[ |
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| | (LNU) stated that|

Jand fought in those battles.

asked | |(LNU} how he knew those things anal__|
then told her that he,| | had been in the military and had

received specialized training.

According to| |was not bragging about himself
and was very low key when he spoke of his own military
experience.

In a subsequent casual conversation, asked] __lit
she heard of the incident years ago where a guy a from an

airplane with a lot of money and got away with it told
her that |

[__—|statea that she recalled the incident from either
seej ovie eading a book. | lthen

| | Keeping in mind ali the false bragging that her
ex-boyfriend did about his exploits.

advised that in response to this] _|sort of smiled
and said that whoever did that would have to have hada
specialized training like the training that he,[ | received

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in the military. [_jaiso told her that whoever it was, would
have to be able to survive in the| and
would have to he very smart.

[| stated that when| |told her this, he was not
bragging and he was very cain. | Jstate@ that[_|spoke of
these things in the third person and it seemed to her that he
just wanted to share a secret.

then asked| | |
and |

L__]stated that| |Jthen commented that he,
could say that it was him or he did it and no one, including the

police, would ever believe him.

thought that{| was kidding and that neither she
or ever brought up the topic again.

advised that this conversation with[|___] always
bothered her, especially the low key way in which he mentioned
the incident.

advised that she could not remember | |iast
name, but that it began with the letter| |described
[_ Jas follows:

Sex: Male

Race: White

Height: 6!

Weight: 200 lbs.

Age: 45

Hair: Light brown hair thinning on top,
high forehead with receding hairline,
balding in back.

Face: Full beard; rugged face; no glasses
Voice: | | spoke with aL __—sJacceert.
Misc: Intelligent, very self-confident, former |

military service, possibly a pilot as he knew
a_lot about airplanes, low key and calm demegzhor.
Tel: |

Investigation in regard to| | determined that this
number was disconnected and was no longer in service. A review
of the 1984 Coles telephone number directory determined that

telephone number | jwas listed tol
] Rockaway, N.J. Also listed for| Jat that
address in 1984 was telephone number | A check of
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the 1986 New Jersey Bell Tebephene directory determined that

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A review of the computerized N.J. Department of Motor
Vehicles' records for_all individuals having the last name that
began with the letter| |determined_that al | white, b6
male, DOB: [.___—'i|s residing at | Denville, b7C
N.J., held a valid New Jersey driver's license.

A review of the FBI Identification Division arrest records
revealed thatl __] DOB: Pos: | b6
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arrest record disclosed that has been arrested _a total of
eight times for | and

} |} It is noted that two of these arrests

were b e Sherift's Dept., Clark County, Vancouver, Washington
on | | ana | | This record_also revealed that{

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he was in the U.S. Army from to ] at which time he
received an undesirable discharge. While in the Arny, | was
assigned to the 101ist Airborne Division at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky
and was a qualified parachute jumper.

Investigation at Denville, N.J. determined that] | bé6
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ana| } Inquiry at the penvilie, Wud, Potice —
Department determined that on| "]
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to California after] jand that the whereabouts of

was unknown. The Denville P.D. had a valid arrest warrant
outstanding for|

At the request of the Newark Division, the Denville P.D.

entered[ jinto NCIC on the basis of their arrest bé
warrant. The purpose of this was to attempt to determine the b7C
current location of

On | | lwas stopped by the Washington —_

State Patrol in Clark County, Vancouver, Washington, for a
Due to the NCIC entry| (was arrested and
detained at the Clark County Jail.

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Investigation has determined that| | was

Upon being informed ofL___arrest, a agent from
the Seattle Division was assigned to interview junder the

pretext of the outstanding New Jersey Fugitive charges. The
purpose of the interview was to obtain his background information
and photograph.

During the interview, advised_that he was currently

pang in Battleground, Washington, with|

Jadvised that he first lived in the Vancouver,
Washington, area in 1965 and stayed there until 1967 or early
1967 when he returned to North Dakota. In late 1967 he moved
back to the Battleground-Vancouver area and lived and worked in
that immediate area as a| j|since 1974 when he moved to
the San Francisco Bay area.

After moving to San Francisco in 1974 he met | |
married| Jin Menlo Park, CA, and
remained there] | While working in
Re i in 1980 he met] |
and lived in San Francisco until 1932 at

which time they moved to New Jersey. They remained in New Jersey

and that he met
in North Dakota and then moved with her to th

Vancouver, Washington area in 1965. | |was married to
until approximately | [is believed to still
reside in the Vancouver, Washington, area and has never been
interviewed in regard to captioned matter.

[jwas released from local police custody on 5/21/87
when New Jersey authorities failed to extradite him on the theft
charges.

On 9/23/87| lwas located and interviewed
in Folsom, CA in regard to|

L—___|providea background information regarding how she
met a

nd] and
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Concerning the possibility that might be identical to
"D.B. Cooper", recalled that seemed to have a
great and continuing interest in the folklore surrounding "D.B.
Cooper", advised that[____—'|s was an avid fisherman and
hunter and fo er he was very familiar with the Mt. St. Helen's
area of Washington. According to| jJalways read a

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Lot and paid attention to the media comments_and stories about
D.B. Cooper. She herself never went with on any of his
trips to the Pacific Northwest. did tell her that he
spent time in the 101st Airborne Division of the Army and that he
did "night jumps" while in Europe.

According to| | smoked heavily and then quit
in 1984, | |smoked filter cigarettes such as Kent's. She did
not know if he smoked Raleigh's. As a result of his smoking
habit he had the usual stained teeth and fingers.

also commented that[___—i|s always seemed
"fascinated" about the D.B. Cooper legend, but he never initiated
the conversation about it, but he always seemed to_have a_ quick
answer to whatever was brought up about the case.
sometimes bragged to her about a friend of his that owned an
airplane.

On 11/24/87] Jwas displayed the|_|
an e

arrest photo of 1971 sketch of "D.B. Cooper"
and she advised that there was an "uncanny strong resemblance"
between the two.

On 11/27/90 after extensive investigation, |

was located by the Newark Division and

was interviewed at her office in Woodbury, New York.
was advised that the purpose_of the interview was to obtain
general background information on |

Jwas not told that this interview was related to

captioned matter.

[then advised that she was_the|

land was married to hin from | =
first met Jin late 1972 when

she was attending college in Portland, Oregon. | [was
introduced tol loy| | (PH)
who worked_fo local construction company. Prior to her
marriage, | | was married to| jof Vancouver,
Washington.

| then provided extensive background information
concerning | advised that

was a| | but formerly

worked for a goid mine company in South Dakota. | Jhad a
deep voice with a slightt ~~ Jaccent.. [ |was a heavy

smoker and preferred Raleigh and Marlboro cigarettes, (It is
noted that "D.B. Cooper" smoked Raleigh cigarettes during the
hijacking). [—_——sdJ1iked to drink both beer and hard liquor and
subsequently became an alcoholic.

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| | advised that[|___|rixea bear hunting and_salmon
fishing and often went to the Mt. St. Helen's area.

possessed at least two rifles and one handgun. On one occasion

[____—sdjtold her that he was in the U.S. Army for two years
and that he was in the Airborne Division. told her that
he received parachute training at Fort Campbell, KY and was on
call during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

| | describeal las lana| |
| jalways felt that he was smarter than everyone
else and that he was above the law and that no one would catch
him if he did something wrong. favorite television

shows were action type shows and police-type shows. [___|1likea

the movies, |

was then displayed the 19761 artist drawing of UNSUB,

aka "D.B. Cooper". (It is noted that no name or other
information was attached to this drawing). Immediately upon
lew) i commented referring to

stated that the drawing was a |

[_Jadvised that upon viewing the artist's ed meee of the

unsub depicted wearing sunglasses, she recalled that

always wore sun glasses when he was

driving. | Jwas requested to recontact the Newark Division if

she recalled anything else.

On 12/4/90] |voluntarily contacted the
Newark case agent and stated that she recalled additional
information about

[_] advised _that| |liked to drink liquor with the
brand name "V.0." | Jwas also a very rugged individual that
would be capable of surviving in the woods.

[___Jaavisea that she also recalled that| |was
very interested_jin the " Cooper Case", | advised that
for some reason| tNidentified" himself with "D.B.
Cooper".

advised that[_|seemed pleased with the fact that
"D.B. Cooper" got away with the hijacking and that no one was
hurt. [ |statea that at one tine,[ told her that no
parachute was ever found.

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[_Jadvised that apparentiy| resembled a drawing on

of D.B. Cooper. was never told that the drawing she was
shown on 11/27/90 was the D.B. Cooper_composite). | |
explained that occasionally she and| | would
go out socially and some of his friends would sometimes kid him
about resembling the drawing of D.B. Cooper, and pointing out the
fact that he could also parachute because of his military
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suggestion that he is D.B. Cooper by saying | | or|

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else to her knowledge that he was in fact "D.B. Cooper" and e7C
committed the hijacking.

On 1/7-9/91 the Newark Division case agent, who is also a
bureau pilot, reviewed all the original files in regard to this
matter at FBIHQ. These files contained extensive information
regarding the characteristics and physical abilities of the
unsub, as well as an excellent re-construction of the route of
the aircraft when it was hi-jacked and the most probable point
where the hi-jack bailed out with the money. The geographic and
local maps in the file indicate that the most probable point of
bail out was in Clark County, Washington, just southeast of La
Center, Washington.

It is noted that when a pilot's aeronautical chart is
superimposed over this area, the point of bail out is in
extremely close proximity to the "Portland Vortac" which is used
for aircraft navigation. It is further noted that Battleground,
Washington is less that five miles from the "Portland Vortac".

As noted above,| | lived in Battleground, bE
Washington, during the time of the hijacking and was very bIC
familiar with the ground terrain and basic aircraft navigation.

It _is possible that the hijacked airplane, literally flew over
Co yhouse or close proximity to it.

[_ijis a parachute jumper, that bears a strong be
resemblance to D.B. Cooper and at the time smoked Raleigh Filter bIC
cigarettes. [Jat the time was extremely familiar with the
Portland-Seattle area and lived in Battleground, Washington when
the hijacking occurred. over the years has expressed an
avid interest in the casé,

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Investigation by the Newark Division had determined tha

lhas Cal i fprnia driver's license number |] be
under his true name at San Jose, bic
California. On| | was arrested by the
Santa Clara P.D. for| | When the arresting officer asked

[| where he| lreplied, "at the
wedding reception". It is possible that| |is now married to
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On 10/16/91 it was determined that| Lhad b6

been living at hes
| San Jose, CA, | |} but that he recently
moved out, but was still in the local area.

In view of the above information, and the fact that November
24, 1991 is the 20th anniversary of the hijacking, it is felt
that this would be the opportune time to conduct a strategic

comprehensive interview and if possible, a polygraph examination
of | |to determine if he is or is not "D.B. b6
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Request of the Bureau

1. Bureau authority is requested to allow Newark Division SA's v4
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California to interview] Jon or about b7C
11/24/91. Both SA's| Janda] jJare intimately famili
with all details of the aircraft hijacking and background of

Leads

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at San Jose, CA

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known associate of | Jatter] [is interviewed by BIC
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Quantico At Quantico

Behavioral Science Unit is requested to review this
information in preparation for a telephonic contact from Newark
regarding interview technique and suggestions.

Newark Division

at_Garret Mountain Resident Agency

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SUBJECT: NORJACK
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attempting to locate and interview
The Newark Division will keep the Seattle Division
advised of any pertinent information.
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6 pu December 2.1909. former[ Isource[ advised , BG
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7 Il | Through this activity, he had BID
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which can not be verified. For the most part, information BID
12 | provided has been of questionable value and often was of the
3 character of| | Much of the information

that, could be verified, and was proven to be accurate, was
14 datal material with no present day validity.

15 The above uncollaborated information is provided to
Seattle Division for appropriate action. Informational copy
16 | Provided to Miami Division due to Lighthouse Point address.

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5 Re Dallas airtel to Seatt}é and Miami, 12/15/89.
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advised his probation officer is| | Fort Lauderdale,
10 | Florida. | jemphatically denied being identical to subject
in captioned matter and it was obvious fron| | physical
11} description and the interview that they are not identical.
12 The following is a physical description of | on
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Weight: 120 pounds
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contacted the Durant FBI, stating that a client of his "(name _
refused) had information regarding above~captioned case. The
client wished to remain anonymous but .<d6uld provide information
on the case, to include the identity of D. B: COOPER, his
whereabouts and the location of a portion of the money.

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information. until-he -wassure.-he.would.receive. a "substantial
reward for 'the information.

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was a percentage of the money returned. [___—Jadvised that
his client was only interested in a large sum of money, and as
most of the money was already spent by D. B. COOPER that he does
not feel that his client will come forth with any pertinent
information.

has since refused to return telephone calls
made to his office and has not contacted the FBI since 8/17/90.

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witness refused to cooperate with the investigation this matter
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On 2/13/90,| | Klamath Falls, Oregon,
Police Department, advised he had no opinion regarding the
possibility that| Jwas identical to the UNSUB_in this
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originally came from | Klamath
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was located in Montana, but he believe was
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telephone listing for| Jin Darby, Montana.

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| Home, Washington.

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Re: Seattle airtel dated 1/23/90.'

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Driver's License[|____| concerning|
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pounds, residence:| |South Lake Tahoe.

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ing investigation was conducted by Special
Agent| EC Centerville, Tennessee:
Attempts to locate Jat Centerville,
Tennessee, were negative until March 12, 1990.

On March 12, 1990, |

| | Centerville,
Tennessee, advised as follows:

She previously had telephone number| | She
currently has telephone number Do She did watch a program

in the fall of 1989 known as "Unsolved Mysteries" and
telephonically contacted the telephone number listed on that show
about an individual she knows in Centerville.

She has only met the individual known to her as
ROBERT ROBERTS, aka Bob, on one occasion. However, she has had
several telephonic conversations with him. He resides in a house
on Arnold Street, Centerville, Tennessee. She believes ROBERTS
has lived in Centerville approximately 18 months. She hada
girlfriend who had met ROBERTS. ROBERTS apparently got| |
telephone number from the girlfriend and called] jone
evening. He apparently first contacted her by mistake thinking
he was calling the girlfriend. This would have been several
months ago. Through her telephonic conversations with ROBERTS,
and from her girlfriend, she ascertained that ROBERTS came to
Centerville, Tennessee, from California. He was divorced from
his wife and family. He appeared to be agitated about the
divorce and ROBERTS had moved to Tennessee. ROBERTS, at one time
or another, has claimed he was in the U.S. Air Force and/or Navy
and has jumped from airplanes or has been a parachutist. He even
claimed he hurt his toes in a parachute drop and cannot
straighten his toes. He alluded on one occasion as to his
previous wife being from somewhere in Tennessee. He seems to be
a rather strange individual, has no visible means of support, and
is always talking about various jobs he had in the past, and she
wondered about his background.

She recalled on one occasion she asked him about his
money and he told her his wife had obtained his money when she
divorced him. On one occasion, he even claimed he had
$200,000.00 that he could not touch and could not use the money.
However, ROBERTS was always coming up with some wild story and
she really did not know when he was telling the truth or trying
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an affair and her companion somewhat knew ROBERTS. ROBERTS had
allowed her friend and her companion to use his basement as a
place to meet. Her friend said ROBERTS had been known to take
photographs or perhaps even movies and perhaps was involved in
some type of| | Her friend wondered if ROBERTS was not
secretly filming anyone that he might let borrow his basement.

ROBERTS was always telling her things ana[_____—iwas
not sure if he was telling the truth or making up stories. She
had told ROBERTS she was going to watch the television show
"Unsolved Mysteries" and ROBERTS had told her not to watch the
following week. That was the week she had seen the episode on
D. B. COOPER. She had read the book about D. B. COOPER and his
hijacking of the airplane back in 1971. She had then begun to
think about it after he numerous talks with ROBERTS and his
strange actions and thought he might somehow be involved or might
be that individual.

She described ROBERTS as follows:

Sex Male

Race White

Age About 70 years old
Height 5'10"

Build Heavy

Hair Grey, balding

To be very truthful,[______—_—ijwould not have thought
much about it other than the fact that ROBERTS had brought up the
$200,000.00 and because he acts so strange and tells so many
tales, she put the two together and thought he perhaps could be a
suspect.

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6 Enclosed for Seattle are an original and one copy of an
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3 Centerville, Tennessee (protect by request), advised he
ut little credibility in information furnished by
9 | is said to be the type of person that occasionally writes
letters to the newspaper and, to some people, is considered[__]
10 | | or has a tendency to occasionally
come up with some wild ideas and stories. There is no arrest
11 |record for ROBERT I. ROBERTS at the CENTERVILLE POLICE
DEPARTMENT. However, one of the Centerville detectives is
12 | familiar with ROBERTS. ROBERTS has been classified as a
13 "grouchy" elderly individual around 70 years of age, apparently
has no meaningful employment, and is believed to be possibly
14 |xvetired from the military. He apparently came to Centerville two
or three years ago but little else is known about his background.
15 | At one time, some information had been passed to the CENTERVILLE
POLICE DEPARTMENT that ROBERTS was possibly involved in
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| }did ascertain that ROBERT I. ROBERTS resides
at 102 Arnold Street, Centerville, Tennessee, and owns a 1981
Ford station wagon with Tennessee license plate LPK626. A check
was caused to be run through Tennessee Information Enforcement
System (TIES) by the COLUMBIA POLICE DEPARTMENT on March 20,
1990, reflected the following information re Tennessee license
plate LPK626. This license plate is registered to a 1981 Ford
station wagon owned by ROBERT I. ROBERTS, 102 Arnold Street,
Centerville, Tennessee. ROBERTS is described as follows:

Race White
Sex Male VU
Date of Birth 6/9/20 ~
Weight 280 pounds je\
Height 5'°8"
Hair Grey
Eyes Blue
Tennessee Driver's
License Number 64505106 - Issued 4/20/88;

Expiration date 6/9/92; There
are no driving citations in the
computer

In addition, in an interview with | | it was
determined she has had almost no personal contact with ROBERT I.
ROBERTS and has only talked to him primarily on the telephone.

In view of above information and information furnished
in enclosed insert, no further investigation is being conducted
unless advised to the contrary by Seattle Division.

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On September 7, 1989, Denver telephone_number
was contacted in an effort to locat It
was determined through conversation with the subscriber to that
telephone, | | Denver, Colorado, as
well as confirmation through US WEST crisscross directories that
that number is assigned to jadvised that
[is unknown to her.

A review of the Intrawest crisscross directory and the
US WEST telephone directory determined that there is only one
listing in the Denver, metropolitan area for] |

On September 7, 1989,| |
telephone number _ | was contacted concerning the
"unsolved mysteries" television broadcast in October of 1988.

advised that he had never contacted the FBI concerning
at show and has no information to furnish. In addition, he has
never heard of

NORTHGLENN LORAD ?

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residence telephone number

| | was contacted concerning 5 eee he may have
relating tol relationship to the

hijacking of a Northwest airlines flight in Seattle, Washington,
in 1971.

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where she has telephone number

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| | located in Thornton, Colorado.

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D. B. COOPER in connection with the hijacking of a Northwest
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resides at | | Arvada, Colorado. She described ;
as being obsessed with D. B. COOPER and during the time
[dealing with COOPER. | [claimed to
 |the FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION in San
Prancisco, California, in| | for being D. B. COOPER.
At_one time, | |his D. B.
COOPER | '| and] }

| He made numerous requests of her| |

He appeared to be
obsessed witn the law, courts, and lawsuits, and in an effort to

appease hin, | | in Seattle,

Washinaton., | |
| She made |

| [at which point

| COOPER did not bail out of the BOEING 727

aircraft. Instead, after the cabin attendants were sent forward
to the cockpit area, COOPER actually hid in the ceiling area
above the passenger compartment in the interior of the aircraft,

and after it returned to Seattle, Washington, and was searched,
he walked off the airplane.

She yecalis seeing drawings of D. B. COOPER, and
indicated that does resemble those drawings. | |

claims to have a
recalls seeing [nowéver, Shé does nor]

She characterized] as_al |who
is obsessed with D. B. COOPER and who | She
Phathee te could possibly be D. B. COOPER. She believes
that was born in| _ |, and that he is still
employed as] |} is a member of the

| Jand as stated earlier, resides in
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Re Seattle airtels to Denver, dated 1/23/90 and 3/2/90

Enclosed for Seattle are two copies of an insert
reflecting investigation conducted at Denver, Colorado

Referenced airtels from Se +
results of investigation reference and

Denver's letter to Seattle, dated 12/28/89, contained
insert reflecting investigation of ] ana[ }
This insert is being forwarded to Seattle again
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Memorandum @ @

To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81) (FP) Date 2/13/90
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Subject : NORJAK

OO: SEATTLE

Re UNSUB; | ISOURCE ("UNSOLVED MYSTERIES" b6
LEAD), | | and SA | memorandums, dated August b7c
7, 1989, and January 23, 1990.

On_August 28, 1989,| lwas telephonically b6
contacted. | |stated that based on the information b7c

given in the "Unsolved Myseries" story, the_trajectory of the
subject would have put him in Merwin Lake. | | stated

that this information is based on second or third hand information
given to her.

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To; SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81) (P) Date 2/13/90
From : SA b6
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Subject : NORJAK

00: SEATTLE

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Rel | | (phonetic),|
("Unsolved Myserties™ Lead) and memorandums of SA| | . b6
dated August 7, 1989, and January 23, 1990. b7c

On August 30, 1989,] Jwas contacted in bé
reference to "Unsolved Mysteries" lead. | Jstated that . BIC

he had reported this same information 12 years ago to the authorities.
further stated that] |

[ Jhad a brother, | | who looked similar

to the subject. As this information had been reported previously,

no further investigation was deemed necessary.

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TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION:
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AIRTEL [1 Routine CL) CONFIDENTIAL
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Date 2/13/90
TO : DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM : SAC, SEATTLE (1644-81) (P)
SUBJECT: NORJAK I~ Sug kk
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NORJAK Suspects at Start of 1989: 1,003 /7 x a
NORJAK Suspects at End of 1989: 1,042 (7 $4 386
Number of Suspects Processed and
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[ | He served in the military and may have had airborne
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The Newark Division advised by airtel dated 7/24/89,
pat a review of| |U.S. Army records reflect no receipt by b6
of airborne training. A review of suspect Fil b7c
reflected that photograph has been displayed to the three
victim stewardesses. All three stated that was not
identical to UNSUB.
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SE 164A-81

In a recently completed manuscript, "Beyond a
Reasonable Doubt (D. B. Cooper - No Longer a Mystery) ,"
RUSSELL P. CALAME, former SAC, Salt Lake City Division, and
BERNIE A. RHODES, former Chief U.S. Probation and Parole Agent,
contend RICHARD FLOYD MC COY, JR., (Suspect Number 386) was

'COPER.

MC COY was considered a suspect because he hijacked a
plane five months after NORJAK using essentially the same scheme
as UNSUB. MC COY's physical description is similar to UNSUB;
however, his age at the time of NORJAK was 29. UNSUB's age was
Gescribed by witnesses as mid-40s.

MC COY was placed in a Brigham Young University
Classroom on 11/23/71, the day prior to NORJAK. UNSUB was last
seen at about 8:00 p.m. on 11/24/71, when he parachuted into
dense woods in southern Washington State. A friend placed Mc Coy
at his residence in Provo, Utah, at 10:00 a.m. on 11/25/71. In
April of 1972, all three stewardesses stated they were quite
certain MC COY was not identical to COOPER after viewing his
photograph.

When Mc COY's home was searched after his arrest,
$499,970.00 were recovered from his UNITED AIRLINES hijacking on
4/7/72. No NORJAK ransom money was found.

A comparison between MC COY's fingerprints and NORJAK
partials was made with negative results.

This case was featured on "Unsolved Mysteries," a
National Broadcasting Company television series, on 10/12/88 and
again on 3/10/89. As a result of that exposure, 206 telephone
calls were received after the 10/12/88 show and 193 calls were
received after the 3/10/89 show.

The telephone calis fit into five categories:
1. SIGHTING: The caller had recently seen an

individual resembling the artist's composite of
UNSUB. {No lead)

2. RESEMBLANCE: The caller had an acquaintance who
resembled the artist's composite of UNSUB. (No
lead)

3. FORMER SUSPECT: The caller was suggesting a
suspect that had been previously processed as a
NORJAK suspect.

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4. NEW SUSPECT: The caller was providing information
on a new suspect. This information was dictated
into Seattle File Number 164A-81 and appropriate
leads have been set out.

5. NO LEAD: The caller did not provide any
information of lead value.

A summary of these telephone calls follows:

DATES OF BROADCAST

TYPE OF CALL 10/12/88
SIGHTING 30
RESEMBLANCE 23
FORMER SUSPECT 13
NEW SUSPECT 9
NO LEAD 131

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The following investigation was conducted by Special

Agent (SA) at Flagstaff, Arizona:

On April 9, 1990,| date of birth|
[Lsidsaddress| | ] Arizona | | home
telephone number | | telephonically contacted the

Flagstaff Resident Agency, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI),
to advise that he had contact with a white male who claimed to be

D. B. COO via et by|
lo | 1990, at thel ]

[in Fiagstaff, Rrizona: The man appeared to be an

During the evening, the man claimed to be D. B. COOPER
and that in 1965 he hijacked a NORTHWEST AIRLINES flight from
Portland, Oregon and changed planes to a military C-130 or C-141.
He demanded $500,000.00 in two duffel bags and made it down with

only one. He also threw money in the Snake River to deceive J

trackers. The man was intoxicated while telling the story so
| | did not believe it, | | 1990
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| [he told the same story with the same detail.
This made is st ote a note

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| ha ntioned an| —
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Arizona. | Jmay try to locate| |

|stated that |
_peisona had been interviewed regarding the D. B. COOPER case.
also said that JOHN LIST had been captured, but was the
wrong man and was 6 feet 2 inches tall.

On April 10, 1990,| Icontactea snfMA BFE

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the FBI, as discussed with| Jon April 9, 1990%*
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[3 AIRTEL [) Routine (1 CONFIDENTIAL
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Re Denver airtel to Phoenix, 7/11/89,
airtel to Phoenix 1/23/90.

Enclosed for Seattle are the original and one copy of
an investigative insert accomplished by SA| |
Flagstaff RA, Phoenix Division.

Atte b ix te LNU) at

Phoenix, Arizona,

were negative. The investigative agent interviewed the

No one| }

lwas familiar with any individual named

BOB who was interested | The investigating agent
explored other possibilities, such as individuals interested in
parachuting, renters with piloting experience or aviation jobs,
Or any — Gescription of D. B. COOPER. All
responses frou were ner For future

reference, lhave been

On 4/3/90,] | contacted the Flagstaff RA of
the FBI. | jdesired to provide information regarding
this case. Results of the interview are enclosed so that Seattle
may process the appropriate information in the NORJAK case.

Investigative action is completed at Phoenix. This
matter is RUC to OO.

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3 | SUBJECT: NORJAK
4 (OO: SEATTLE)
5 Reference Seattle airtel to Pittsburgh, 8/7/89.
Enclosed for Seattle are two copies of an investigative
7 |insert dated 9/8/89.
8 In view of the fact no further investigation is
outstanding at Pittsburgh, PA, this matter is being considered
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Pittsburgh, PA, by Special Agent (SA)
eptember 8, 1989,| | date of birth
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Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) based on an b7D
appointment for same set on August 29, 1989.
[__Jaavisea that following captioned incident, she b6
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_furnished information to an Agent concerning an individual named b7D
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|} who currently reside at
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magazine; a photocopy of an article which appeared in the August,
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anything he would say or tell her. She did, however, comment it
was her opinion COFFELT had a mentality of being well capable of
thinking up the Norjak scheme, although she acknowledged her
opinion may have been largely formed by the various magazine
articles.

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as a suspect concerning captioned matter and was subsequently
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for general information purpose, at the present time. It is
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her be required.

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; "jacker D.B. Cooper, Conduc'ed by a unique pair of characters—an
Ereporter ané -aircraft engineer and his son, who . was .an investigative
reporter and freelance writer Iere—the investigation shattered the myth
& surrounding the D.B. Cooper affair and in striking fashion exposed many
"obscure, 'never-before-revealed facets of the famous skyjacking, causing

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known photographs of the man now identified
as D.B. Cooper, which will be published in
Las Vegan's November issue—convinced me
that he had spent many years professionally
researching and investigating obscure leads
and myriad new facts about the skyjacking.
Byron, then completing his book on the sub-
ject, was hesitant to share his information at
first, but my inquisitiveness about the famous
criminal prompted him to begin work on this
exclusive two-part series for Las Vegan.

The D.B. Cooper matter is a complex and
serious one. Shortly after the skyjacking, FBI
agents in charge of the investigation concluded
that Cooper had probably died in his extraor-
dinary leap from the commercial airliner. But
to be on the safe side, in 1976 the U.S. Justice
Department issued 4 re-indictment of Cooper
in Portland, Oregon, which effectively
nullified any statute-of-limitations on the
crime. Technically, therefore, Cooper stil
may be prosecuted, so the FBI has never clos-
ed its file on the case.

Las Vegan Magazine is proud to present this
previously unreported evidence in the amazing
Story which begins in the following report.

THE CRIME

ate afternoon on Thanksgiving Eve, Nov-
ember 24, 1971, the sky was turning gray
in Portland, Oregon. As storm clouds moved
in from the Pacific coast, Northwest Orient
Flight 305 was preparing for take-off to Seattle.
The plane, a three-engine Boeing 727, had left
Washington D.C. earlier in the day, making a
series of hops across the country before arriving
in Portland, So far it had been a routine flight.
But at the Portland terminal a man who
signed his name as Dan Cooper and paid cash
for his ticket to Seattle was causing a delay.
Standing by the terminal windows, he was
peering worriedly at the rear of the Boeing
727, nervously sipping a drink. He ignored the
final boarding cali. Stewardess Florence
Schaffner approached the man and warmed
him that he was about to be left behind.
According to later press dispatches, there was
nothing remarkable about his appearance. A
tall, swarthy, black-haired man who appeared
to be in his mid-forties, Cooper was wearing a
dark business suit, brown Oxford lace-up shoes
and an unfashionably narrow tie. He carried a
topcoat and briefcase, and once aboard the
plane he donned 2 pair of dark sunglasses.
Florence Schaffner thought he was some
sort of country bumpkin. Perhaps he was afraid
of flying. She led him almost like a frightened
Bittle boy to his seat. As soon as the plane was
in the air, Cooper pushed the stewardess call
button and ordered a bourbon. When Florence
Schaffner brought it to him, she 'was puzzled
that he was wearing a pair of white gloves. She
was even more puzzled when he handed her a
72 OCTOBER 1983/LAS YEGAN MAGAZINE

note in a sealed envelope, but Florence is an
attractive young woman and was used to male
passengers making passes at her, so she put the
note in her handbag without reading it and
began serving other passengers. Suddenly,
Cooper called out to her in an angry voice,
"Miss, I want you to read that note!''

She opened the envelope distractedly, and
was suddenty faced with the awesome message
— written in block capitals on a single sheet of
paper — ''MISS—I HAVE A BOMB IN MY
BRIEFCASE AND I WANT YOU TO SIT
BESIDE ME."

'Oh, no!'' she thought, trying to compre-
hend the words. ''You're kidding,'' she
stammered to him, *'are you kidding?'' He
was not.

""You better sit down right now,"" he threat-
ened. From his window seat he grabbed her
hand and pulled her into the aisle seat. Then he
opened the briefcase in the seat between them
and showed her a large battery, some wiring,
and several reddish-brown sticks bundled to-
gether which he claimed were dynamite. ''All
I have to do is touch these two wires together
and jt's all over,'" he said.

Among the young anti-
establishment crowd, Cooper
became a heroic symbol of
rebellion: he had successfully
stuck it to Northwest Airlines,
the banks and insurance
companies, and also
thumbed his nose at the FBI.

Florence tock down Cooper's demands on
the back of the envelope: he wanted four para-
chutes — two sport chutes and two military
backpacks — and $200,000 in cash to be de-
livered to him upon Janding in Seattle. Also,
he wanted a fuel truck to meet the plane at the
end of the runway. Otherwise, he would
"blow this damn bird out of the sky."" He
wanted the money in $20 Bills and placed in a
hiker's backpack, but Florence forgot to write
down these (vo points or to relay them to the
captain. She was nearly fainting with fear.

The plane was approaching Seattle. Captain
William Scott and Co-pilot Bill Rataczak were
in a frenzy about what to do. They relayed
Cooper's demands to Northwest Operations at
Sea-Tac Airport and asked for instructions.
Back came the word: cooperate fully and 'do
whatever he demands."' Other authorities
radioed Scott: **FBI and police have advised
no action be taken. Repeat. No action be
taken."* Scott was forced to circle the field for
two-and-a-half hours while those on the ground

frantically got together the $200,000 and four
parachutes. Due to the approaching Thanks-
giving holiday, they were having difficulties
collecting the money. He landed the plane at
Seattle at 5:40 PM, but the ransom was still
not collected. The tower radioed Scott:
'Impress on this man that we are not trying to
stall. The money is on its way. It was picked
up at more than one bank."' Finally, at 6:30
PM the money and. parachutes arrived, but
Cooper was outraged that the ransom had been
placed in a mail sack instead of a backpack.
**Screw me one more time and you're a dead
man,'' he warned Scott over the plane's
intercom. Nevertheless, he allowed the thirty-
six passengers and two of the stewardesses —
Schaffner and Alice Hancock — to leave the
plane, but at the last minute he ordered stew-
ardess Tina Mucklow to remain with him as a
hostage and instructed her to close all the
window blinds in the cabin. He suspected the
FBI was lining up outside to try to shoot him.

The fuel truck Cooper had ordered was
taking an interminably long time to complete
its task. He suspected a set-up. *'I know exactly
how long it takes to fuel this plane!"' he barked
over the intercom. **Let's get this motherf——-
show on the road!'' Finally, at 7:36 PM the
727 took off again. Cooper had demanded to
be flown to Mexico City, but Captain Scotr
pointed out to him that Mexico was beyond the
tange of the aircraft, so there would have to be
another refueling stop. After a series of ex-
changes with Northwest Flight Control in
Minneapolis, Scott was given three alternatives:
Reno, Phoenix, and 'somewhere in between**
— which had to be Las Vegas. Cooper chose
Reno. There, three and a half hours after
leaving Seattle, the plane landed. Since the
crew had not heard from Cooper over the
interphone in over three hours (Tina Mucklow
was ordered into the cockpit by him shortly
after take-off from Seattle), FBI agents, airport
security personnel, and police warily closed in
on the plane, firing a barrage of tear-gas can-
nisters into the back. But Cooper, the money,
the briefcase with the bomb, and two of the
four parachutes were gone. D.B. Cooper —
the name the press gave him, and the one that
stuck — had gotten clean away.

"D.B. Cooper, Where Are You?' de-
manded the bumper stickers. ''D.B. Cooper,
We Love You" proclaimed the T-shirts.
There was a whimsical cartoon book about
him: Skyjacker's Guide — Or Please Hold
This Bomb While 1 Go To The Bathroom. In
Seattle for a while there was even a D.B.
Cooper Discotheque where patrons danced
"the skyjack.'' Ameng:sthe young anti-
establishment crowd, Cooper became a heroic
symbol of rebellion: he had successfully stuck
it to Northwest Airlines, the banks and insur-
ance companies, and also thumbed his nose at
the FBI.

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But many people, particularly FBI agents
involved in the case, believed that Cooper died
in the jump. ''What we're Jooking for is a hole
in the ground,'* said one agent. Their suspi-
cions were bolstered by the fact that one of the
chest packs Cooper was given turned out to be
2 sewn-up dummy chute used for classroom
demonstration — according to George Harrison,
who was Seattle transport manager for North-
west Airlines at the time. Also, if Cooper had
survived the jump he was obviously in no hurry
to spend the money, Not one of the $20 bills he
had received — all the serial numbers had been
recorded — ever turned up until a small bundle
of Cooper's loot was discovered by a young
Oklahoma boy, Brian Ingram, on the banks of
the Columbia River nine miles north of Portland
in February 1980. The FBI interpreted this
find as proof that Cooper died in the jump, but
they had trouble accounting for why this small
bundle of money ended up in a place ten miles
upstream from the place they have always
maintained he jumped out — the area around
the town of Woodland, Washington.

According to the crew of the plane, a series

of strong ''pressure bumps"' occurred directly
over this area of broad, flat farming country
about twenty miles north of Portland, which
seemed the most likely place for him to have
jumped. Local authorities, familiar with the
geography, doubted that he jumped much far-
ther south. To do so would mun the risk of
bailing out into the cold, rugged, densely-
forested Cascades, which were already thinly
covered with snow. Survival there in street
clothes would be nearly impossible, especially
Since the Cascades had been hit by fierce
storms the night of the skyjacking. On the basis
of the crew's information, a massive search
was mounted. The day after Thanksgiving,
when the weather cleared, a horde of official
searchers invaded the Woodland area. FBI
agents, local sheriffs and deputies, loca! police
and Boy Scout troups, assisted by helicopters
provided by the Army and Weyerhauser
Lumber Company, searched exhaustively. But
they found nothing. In the spring another search
was conducted, this time by nearly three hun-
dred soldiers from Fort Lewis, Washington.
They too found nothing. It seemed that D.B.
Cooper had disappeared forever.

THE REVELATION

ut now the mystery may be over. A con-
fession, two eye-witnesses, and a mass of
circumstantial evidence indicate"that a man
known to many as Bryant ''Jack'' Coffelt once
committed a crime of such daring that it cap-
tured the imagination of a nation.
The story I related to the producer in Las
Vegas was this: In 1974, when I was 16, my
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pedition to the Cascade Mountains of Oregon
with an old friend of his, ostensibly so that we
would have a chance to look over towns where
I might decide to go to college. My father had
been having a lot of trouble Jately at a small
beer and wine store that he ran. Recently, a
county grand jury had revoked the store's
license because of the many disturbances that
occurred there, so my fathez had plenty of
time on his hands to take this much-needed
vacation. "'Hell, I might want to move out
there myself,'" he said, "if 1 can put together a
little money.'*

We started out from our home in northeast
Georgia, our truck-camper rig loaded with
hiking gear, on the thousand-mile trip to Joplin,
Missouri, where we were to meet his old friend.
It was the third week in June. We met Jack
Coffelt in Joplin as night was falling, and
immediately proceeded to a seedy motel on the
outskirts of town where we took a room for the
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steadily in the eye and asked suspiciously,
"Byron, you remember that fella that sky-
jacked that airplane out in Oregon a few years
back? — Cooper, D.B. Cooper? You remem-
ber him?''

*Sure,"' I replied. **All my friends at school
were talking about that for weeks after it
happened.'' I thought he would tell me we
were going to look for Cooper.

**Well, I'm Cooper,'' he said, thumping his
chest with his forefinger. "I'm D.B, Cooper!"
He gave me no time to think. 'I need your
help, Byron. I lost my goddam money! I
dropped it when the parachute opened. Your
father has promised to help, but we need your
help too.'' He could see that I was dumb-
founded. His and my father's eyes fell steadily
upon me. ''The bastards tried to kill me,"
cried Coffelt. "'Gave me a rotten chute — no
good. It wouldn't open. I kept clawing at it but
it wouldn't open. Finally I got the other one
open — the back pack — but it jalted me so
bad I dropped the money! J dropped the bag of
money!** The words echoed pitifully through
the small room as Coffelt buried his head in his
hands,

"Will you help me?" he pleaded, '*You're
young; we're just two old men. You can climb
the mountains out there. I'm gonna give your
daddy half, and we're going to buy you a brand
new car."? He Hoistéd his shorts and showed
me his legs all the way up to the thighs. They
were horribly discolored — purple and yellow-
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slope in the dark. His shoes had filled with
blood; he had broken a rib. '*I've never re-
covered," he gasped. 'It ruined me. |
wouldn't do it again for a million dollars."'

I was astounded by his allegations, and as I
retold them over a year later they seemed as
outlandish as they had that night in the Joplin
mote]. But the allegations would grow im-
mensely. In one meeting at the Tropicana Hotel
with writers and executives of Universal
Studios, I told how Coffelt claimed he had
"connections" in Las Vegas, that these persons
were going to help him launder that stolen loot
through the casino cage of one major Strip
hotel]. In lighter moments he bragged about his
Las Vegas past, once dropping a name and
boasting of 'taking over a town"' and being
"'the boss's right arm;"' how he ''always
packed a gun then because business was
Tough', . . the name was Howard Hughes.

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drove along the vast western prairies he re~
counted fantastic tales like a man hallucinating.
But I would discover later that he indeed had
connections in Las Vegas, and that the authori-
ties had once kept 2 close eye on his actions
here. By having a **trace'* placed on his FBI
number through a friend in the Las Vegas
police department, I found that on October 7,
1959, Jack had registered as an ex-felon in
Phoenix, Arizona; and ten months later, on
July 18, 1960, he registered as an ex-felon in
Las Vegas, both places requiring known mal-
contents to so register. But also, registering as
an ex-felon implies that Jack stayed in the
'Phoenix and Las Vegas areas for a fairly long
period of time. He wasn't just passing through.
I was to discover that he stayed in Las Vegas
Jong enough to find himself a woman compan-
ion who remained with him — as a partner and
overseer of his various shady activities — for
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Le Thompson was a pretty red-haired
oman, pleasant, unassuming, and quiet.
One source who knew her thought she bad
"spent a lot of time in the backwoods of
Tennessee collecting antiques.'* But somehow
she migrated west. On September 23, 1955,
when she was twenty-eight years old, she
taarried Pant C. Gulas, thirty-three, in Las
Vegas. Old timers in town may have heard of
Gulas, a man who naturally would have
associated with many types of people. Gulas
had been previously married and hada son,
Paul, Ir. now residing in Las Vegas.

Gulas Sr, was a Las Vegas policeman. He
went on to become the Captain of Detectives in
1968, retired from the force in 1974, and died
in Texas in early 1976, Lorraine and Gulas
were divorced after six years, on July 26,

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1961. Shortly thereafter she was constantly
seen in the company of Jack Coffelt. She
called herself Tave — Tave Coffelt — although
they never married. The couple seemed pros-
perous in those years. Jack wore expensive
suits and drove a late-model Caditlac. Paul
Gulas Jr. told me that he thought **Tave'' had
been a police dispatcher in Miami, Florida.
One reliable source told me ''my information
is that she's FBI.' Whatever her line, she was
to introduce Jack Coffelt to a new and different
world — a world of political intrigue under-
taken in the highest circles. A few months
after her divorce from Gulas in Las Vegas,
Jack and Tave set up permanent residence in
Washington D.C., and Jack entered upon his
new career as a government informant. He
was to be seen at White House inauguration

balls. He hobnobbed with Mrs. Kennedy and

Lady Bird Johnson, At least twice he entered
Nixon's presidential enclave with White
House passes. He was often seen in the
company of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
Indeed, as I myself witnessed in 1974, he
catried an FBI identification badge, and one
card identified him as an agent for the Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. From the
years 1961 to 1974 Jack Coffelt seemed to

Coffelt seemed hurt that the
true merit of his crime had
never been fully appreciated.
The whole idea that D.B.
Cooper had just 'jumped out
in the night like Santa
Claus'' was perversely
ridiculous to him.

play many roles. Sources who knew him in
Washington D.C. link him to undercover poli-
tical operations in such disparate places as
Egypt, Cuba, and Mexico City. One Las
Vegas FBI agent told me cryptically, **He may
well have been CIA."

THE INSPIRATION

ryant "Jack" Coffelt was born February

20, 1916, and grew up jn near poverty in

the lead and zinc mining area around Joplin,

Missouri. As a youth he hung around the

gambling halls and brothels of Picher, Okla-

homa, a few miles southwest of Joplin. Accord-

ing to those who knew him there, he was a
"*strange'' youth, always into trouble.

""He never would mind. He wouldn't mind

nobody,"" said his sister, From the age of

fourteen on he would always be in trouble with
the law, serving a total of over twenty years in
reformatories, jails, and prisons. In the late
1940's, while serving a ten-year sentence for
auto theft and attempted escape at Atlanta
Federal Penitentiary, he was working in the
print shop as a press operator one day when he
met my father, who was editor of the prison
magazine.

In 1944, James Brown, the son of a Georgia
lawyer, had been commissioned as a second-
lieutenant in the U.S. Army-Air Force, a pilot
in a transport squadron. He was expecting to
be sent to England for the invasion of Europe,
but instead found himself facing a court martial,
charged with rape. He was sentenced to life
imprisonment and sent to Atlanta Penitentiary.
Brown, who always maintained his innocence,
was paroled in 1952 after serving eight years,
but during those years he became close friends
with Jack Coffelt. The two would often spend
hours together on the prison recreation yard.
Like many of the inmates, Coffelt often dreamt
of the perfect crime, the big job, and was fas-
cinated by Brown's ability to fly an airplane.
*"He would ask me if it would be possible to
escape by landing a plane in the prison yard,"
said Brown, ''or if I could fly him to Mexico if
he pulled a bank job.'*

After Brown's release in 1952, the two did
not hear from each other for many years.
Coffelt_ was discharged in 1955, after being

transferred to Leavenworth Penitentiary in
Kansas. But their friendship during those Ionely
prison years was cemented, Coffelt told me
that his admiration for my father's flying ability
was in fact the seed which culminated in his
planning the skyjacking. And he said when he
dropped the money the first man he thought of
to help him was James Brown.

The story of the skyjacking grew. According
to Coffelt, it was an exceedingly well-planned
and thoroughly rehearsed operation. He
claimed he had taken Flight 305 from Portland
to Seattle '"'two or three times' before the
actual crime in order to perfect the timing of
the operation. He had been trained by an
engineer who was familiar with the Boeing
727 aircraft, the only plane in commercial
operation which had a stairway which opened
directly out the rear. He was instructed to
order the pilot to fly at 15 degrees wingflaps so
that the plane could go no faster than approx-
imately 175 knots (200 mph). If it flew any
faster than that, Coffelt said, he would have
been killed by the tremendous suction effect at
the rear opening. Moreover, he ordered the
pilot to fly at 10,000 feet altitude. 'That
bastard flew to 10,500-featonce,"" he said. *'I
knew. I was wearing a wrist altimeter. I got on
the interphone and ordered him back down."'

Coffelt often scoffed at the **lousy"* journal-
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that D.B. Cooper had just **jumped out in the
night like Santa Claus"' was perversely ridicu-
lous to him, He claimed he had a perfect
landing site — a wheat fteld that was plowed
over in the fall of the year — in which to jump.
There was a large beacon near the field —
"you could see the damn thing for a hundred
miles'? — a bright light which he ordered the
pilot to fly over. As part of his getaway plan
Coffelt had stashed an old army jeep a mile or
two from the field with a transmitter in it, so
that he heard a steady bleeping sound through
a receiver that he carried in the plane. The
bleeping sound grew louder and louder as he
approached the jump site. ""When it was two
or three pitches from full intensity — that's
when I needed to jump,"' he said, a design
which would allow him room to float in the
parachute to a pin-point landing. '*It was the
perfect crime,"* he lamented wistfully many
times, "'the perfect crime."*

But of course there is no such thing as a

perfect crime. Many factors which he could"

not have foreseen led to Jack Coffelt's defeat.
He had planned to hook the backpack contain-
ing the $200,000 to one of the military back-
packs and belt it securely around his waist, but
since stewardess Schaffner never relayed his
tequest for the backpack and the money was

He explained to us, with a
look of horror and pain on
his face, how he had spent
over 15 hours clawing his
way — at times on hands
and knees — through the
dense underbrush of the
forest and up the side of a
towering rock cliff.

delivered to hima in a mail sack with no hooks
or belts, he was forced to open one of the para-
chutes and cut the shroud Jines, which he used
to tle a loop for his arm to go through at the top
of the mail sack. This left him two out of the
three remaining chutes to choose from -— and
the chest pack he opted for was the one that
was inoperative! As he descended the stairs,
burdened by the two heavy parachutes and the
25-pound sack of money on his arm, he fost his
hold on the handrail! and — about a minute
before he had planned — he was sucked out by
the windstream, in his own words, ''like a
cork out of a bottle."

He knew even as he was falling that he must

be nearly a mile too far north of his landing
field. Afraid of hitting the jagged mountains
which everywhere encompassed the landing
area — he had planned to free-fall for almost
thirty seconds — he tugged early on the rip-
cord of the chest pack, but to his horror it did
not open! Struggling to hold the money on his
arm, he frantically reached over his shoulder
and pulled the rip-cord of the military back-
pack. He felt the pack release and then sensed
a gentle tugging above him — it was only the
guide chute opening — which he mistook for
the main chute. Relieved that the back-up
patachute had opened at all, he relaxed his
grip on the money bag. Suddenly he was hit by
a tremendous jolt as the 28-foot main canopy
opened, and the bag of money slid off his
dangling arm and tumbled away into the
darkness.

Almost instantaneously, the billowing para-
chute was tossed by ferocious winds from the
thunderstorms which had moved in over the
mountains earlier that night. He was helplessly
tossed and thrown about. Sleet and hail pelted
his face and soaked his clothes. He was unable
to see any of the ground lights which he and an
accomplice had sft up to assist him in guiding
the parachute to the landing field. Below him,
somewhere in the immense darkness, waited
jagged cliffs and vast forests of towering
Ponderosa pines. He saw the lights of the
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had not seen him jump. Due to the raging
storin the cargo plane's scanning radar was
tendered useless.

Coffelt crashed down on a mountain slope,
hitting a tree limb between his legs and
crushing his ankles as he plowed into the rocky
surface. But even though he was in severe
pain, he gathered the billowing chute around
his legs, clawed a hole in the toose scree and
compacted the chute into it, then sprayed it
with a magnesium compound -- he explained
the magnesium would Lurn so hot it would
melt even the metal harness buckles —- and set
a match to it so there would be no evidence for
any would-be pursuers to ever find.

Coffelt explained to us, with a look of horror
and pain on his face, how he had spent over 15
hours clawing his way — at times on hands and
knees — through the dense underbrush of the
forest and up the side of a towering rock cliff,
finally coming out the next moming into a
meadow where he saw a trail that was familiar
to him. He walked along the narrow logging
trail untit he found the hidden jeep, then, using
the vehicle's two-way radio, contacted his
accomplice who had been cruising a highway
twenty miles away hoping to see signs of the
fallen parachute. He rendezvoused with this
accomplice — whom he described vaguely as
"tan Army man'? — at an isolated point along
the deep and swift-emoving Deschutes River
which meanders through central Oregon, and
there pushed the jeep over a cliff into the
rushing waters, blowing it to pieces with a
charge of dynamite as it went down. Then he
climbed in the back seat of the getaway car and
was driven two thousand miles across back
toads to a place somewhere in the Midwest,
where a friendly doctor quietly treated his
injuries.

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Coffelt had returned to the Oregon area twice
— in the spring and fall of 1972 — to search
for the missing money, each time without
success, until in desperation he decided to
solicit my father's help. He further maintained
that the FBI had tried to kill him in connection
with the crime. ''They wanted to silence me,"*
he said. "I had to leave Washingion D.C.
fast."' So he had moved with Tave to the Seattle
area — like a te conman secretly returning to
the scene of the crime — and rented an apatt-
mem in the middle-class suburb of Lynnwood.
There, in that cold and rainy environment, his
health deteriorated. He began taking nitro-
glycerin tablets — a habit which he continued
during our journey — to prevent clotting of his
blood. He was a terribly desperate man,
'That job was my last chance,"* he mused. **It
meant everything to me. I had nothing to lose."
Nothing except his life.

Try as he might to downplay them, hints ofa
broad, complex conspiracy began to weave
their way into Coffelt's story, and we grew
more and more worried the closer we came to
our destination of Oregon. According to him,
there were at least three co-conspirators still

lurking about who had vested interests in the
money being found. One of these men, whom
Coffelt called the **ring-leader,'' was actually
a former pilot who was 'grounded because
of heart trouble,*' and who was thus terribly
embittered at life. This man, relying on
his years of experience in flying over the area,
had actually picked the Oregon locale as the
best place in the country to pull off the sky-
jacking. Also, there was the mysterious
engineer whom Coffelt claimed had instructed
him about the workings of the Boeing 727 air-
craft, and then there was the "*Army man'? —
the accomplice waiting on the ground for him.

To satisfy all these mysterious people, the
real take was supposed to be several million
dollars of used bank notes that were to be 4
loaded onto the plane at Portland by an armored '
Brinks truck. 'But the goddam Brinks truck
never showed,"" said Coffelt. **I kept watching
out the terminal windows for it. I almost got
left behind.'' It was then that he decided to put
into effect ''Plan B'* — the demand for a
$200,000 ransom. ''If someone was trying to
double-cross me,"' he explained, ''I'd get my
share anyway,'' But some, or all, of these
people never believed that he lost the money
and with growing impatience had beleaguered
him for their cut. He had been threatened, and
had counter-threatened to blow the whole story
if they didn't take the heat off. **] feel like a
hunted animal,*' he said to me many times.
**You and your father are the only people I can .
trust anymore."*

But the two old prison buddies could not
recapture the past. There was a gulf between
them that could not be filled. My father, who
had left his prison years behind him like a bad
dream, had gone on to become an engineer, :
and his critical mind-was thirsting for hard
details about the skyjacKing. He constantly
quizzed Coffelt. **Who helped you plan this
thing, Jack? What's this man's name — this
engineer? What about this former pilot? You
trying to tell me he was the brains behind it?"'

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A deep rift developed between the two men.
My father, by nature a deeply suspicious man,
grew increasingly worried. ''What are we
getting ourselves into?'* he asked me over and
over again. In a few short days the skyjacking
had grown from the job of one lonely man toa
conspiracy with vast tentacles. Were we al-
teady, perhaps, accessories-after-the-fact to a
federal crime? But Coffelt took me aside and
pleaded: **You've got to keep your father with

¢. This is my last chance.'" His biggest worry
was that the authorities would finally catch up
with him and that he would either be killed or
die in a cold prison cell.

Our journey became a battle of wits and
emotions in which 1 was pulled between the
two men — taking sides now for one, then for
the other — until the loneliness of our quest
and the haunting isolation of the vast we-stern
expanses began to get us down. My father
threatened to abandon the trip and return home.
But the desperate Coffelt, with a sinister
portent in his voice, counter-threatened: 'You
know too much already, James."

The end came on July 12, 1974, when we
returned to camp after a long day of searching
for the bag of money. We had been in the
search area for about a week. Coffelt had taken
us to the place where he had hit the slope and
showed us the broken tree limb he had crashed
into. We could still see the tong skid marks
where his heels had plowed into the loose
rocks. Climbing back up the slope he nearly
died, coughing up blood and choking horribly
as he gasped for air. He and my father had a
terrible fight over where we should concentrate
the search. My father wanted to start from
where Coffelt had landed and backtrack from
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abruptly and doors slammed. Then, as darkness
enveloped us, we suddenly made out a black
pickup tnick through the trees behind us. Two
men with guns climbed out of it, Everywhere
around us we heard whispering voices and
footsteps treading the underbrush, coming in
our direction. In a panic we jumped in our
truck and, gttided only my moonlight, sped
over the trails while behind us we saw the
lights of the two strange vehicles furiously
careening through the forest after us. We
made it to a paved road and sped south. In two
days we were in Las Vegas — my father
wanted to take a southerly route to throw the
pursuers off our scent — and in four days we
were back in Georgia. We sincerely belicved
that Coffeit had sent the men — perhaps his
accomplices — to kill us. Whatever the case,
we would never see him again. We had failed
in Our mission to find a pot of gold az the end
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warrant an investment of millions of dollars.
Nevertheless, they decided to press on with a
full-fledged investigation and J was assigned to
track down leads, interview witnesses, and

search for physical evidence in the rugged
mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Various
trips would take me to the stark mining country
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tums of fortune would be many. But with
financial assistance from Hollywood, and in
close coordination with the Las Vegas FBI,
my father and J would uncover astounding
evidence to confirm Jack Coffelt's bizarre tale
—- but not until we learned more incredible
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EVIDENCE_

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION:

This month marks the 12th anniversary of a crime which
Time magazine said, '"'rivaled Alfred Hitchcock's more
baroque fantasies'? — the hijacking of a Northwest Airlines
Boeing 727 enroute from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Wash-
ington by a bomb-wielding man known as D.B. Cooper. After
he extorted $200,000 from the airline and was delivered four
parachutes, as the jet headed sduth from Seattle to Reno, the
skyjacker boldly made good a parachute escape and was never
seen again.

In our October issue Las Vegas investigative reporter Byron
Brown revealed for the first time the true identity of the

_ famous skyjacker. He was Bryant ''Jack" Coffelt, a former

Leavenworth Penitentiary inmate and life-long con-man, and
also a friend of Byron's father, James Brown. In the summer
of 1974 Coffeit asked the two to meet him in Joplin, Missouri.
From there, they traveled to Oregon with him for the purpose
of searching for the $200,000 ransom he had dropped when
one of the parachutes he was wearing during the Jump mal-
functioned. The dummy chute was only one of many attempts
by the authorities to foil the crime.

The three were unsuccessful in their attempt to find the
money, but Byron Brown was able (0 learn many obscure,
never-exposed details about the skyjacking from Coffelt.
During the next several years he conducted an extensive
investigation of his claims, one which resulted in Coffelt's
being identified as D.B. Cooper by two eye-witnesses on the
hijacked plane. The investigation was a lonely personal odyssey
for Brown, who encountered official resistance at every step
of the way, perhaps because Coffelt, it turned out, was for
many years a Washington D.C. government informant.

Highlights from Brown's investigation, which promises to
have far-reaching ramifications, are published for the first
time in the following pages of Las Vegan. This month, as the
town of Ariel, Washington celebrates its annual "'D.B, Cooper
Festival" in honor of the skyjacker, the participants should
be pleased to know that he has finally been discovered. J.E.S.

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of Coffeli, who has been identified as D.B. Cooper.

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America, and especiatly Las Vegas, is rife
with legends of desperate characters who have
suddenly struck it rich by forcing the odds,

. through skill or bluff, to turn in their favor
but few have been as enduringly popular as
the lone bandit who heroically jumped from a
lumbering jediner into universal fame and also
complete oblivion in the same moment.

He was erroneously called **D.B. Cooper"'
by a thrilled news media, which saw in his act
the fulfillment of every man's secret hopes —
even though he spelt his first name as ''Dan'*
on his flight ticket. *'D.B. Cooper, Where Are
You?"* became a kind of call-to-arms for the
rebellious young generation during the early
1970"s, when **dropping out" was the current
fad. Cooper bravely symbolized the mew
mentality and daringly captured the public
fancy with his crime. In an era when traditional
heroes were fast dying, Americans had finally
found one in a new breed of bandit.

Cooper's was the first and only successful
skyjacking for ransom in American history,
and largely because of the crime — which
occurred on Thanksgiving Eve, November 24,
197] - and a rash of other skyjackings which
followed in its wake, a new era of electronic
passenger screening was inaugurated at the
nation's airports within a year. Commandeering
a plane and threatening to blow innocent people

out of the sky was not an exploit taken lightly
by the authorities.

Clearly the crime could have resulted in
tragedy, but since the daring skyjacker had not
hurt anyone the public preferred to forget its
more horrible aspects and instead remembered
Cooper fondly as the man who had beat the
system while thumbing his nose at authority.
The skyjacking took on the aura of myth,
Cooper's down-home, simple nam de guerre
was honored everywhere, and it was hoped by
many that he was happily enjoying his $200,000
in some secret paradisiacal haven.

The most erroneous part of the myth which
prevailed, it is now apparent, was that Cooper
was probably a smaii-time businessman, or
even a timid corporate ladder-climber in the
mold of Walter Mitty, who grew disgnintled at
the pressures of modem life and decided one
day to give it all up, perform a dramatic fool-
proof heist, and sail off to Tahiti to spend the
rest of his days in peace. Of course he had no
real plan: the crime was a lark, a spur-of-the-
moment decision to enact a smoldering dream
—an¢ if he failed? Then so what? It was worth

* the risk.

But to many familiar with the case this
popular myth seemed entirely unfeasible.
There were too many indications that Cooper
had planned the job with coo! foresight and
calculated reason. He knew to the minutest
detail technical aspects of the Boeing 727 air-

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craft which only a pilot or engineer could
possibly know — such as the 15-degree wing-
flaps configuration he ordered which restricted
the plane's speed to barely 200 miles per hour,
and how to put into effect the complicated
maneuver of lowering the 727°s rear stairway
compartment. Also, another aspect which
revealed the skyjacker's shrewd planning
became clear only after the episode was over.
On that Thanksgiving Eve — the day before a
major holiday and one on which Northwest
Airtines expected capacity loads of vacation
travellers — Flight 305, upon departing Port-
land, was barely one-third full. D.B. Cooper
had called in a barrage of phony reservations
— fictitious people who never showed — which
left virtually the entire back half of the plane
all to himself. No one could overpower him
and wrest the bomb away. He was in complete
control. At the time, some authorities called
him a ''cool master criminal'' and speculated
that he must have been an experienced para-
chutist, possibly even a Green Beret.

The leads were so threadbare — a few
cigarette butts were the only personal effects
the skyjacker left behind — that the authorities
were completely baffled. There was not even a
solid clue as to where Cooper bailed out of the
plane. The crew recalled feeling a strong
''pressure bump"' over the Woodland, Wash-
ington area twenty miles north of Portland —
but even so they never bothered to peer out the
cockpit door to see if the skyjacker was gone.

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Instead, they flew on for three more hours
until Janding in Reno for a refueling stop,
where it was discovered that Cooper and his
$200,000 ransom had already disappeared into
the night.

But it would have been highly impractical
for the skyjacker to jump into the Woodland,
Washington vicinity, which is dotted by small
communities and farms. In view of the intricate
planning which had otherwise gone into the
crime, it makes little sense that Cooper would
bail out there — taking the absurd chance,
obviously, of landing in a farmer's apple
orchard or a supermarket parking fot. By all
appearances, Cooper wanted to survive the
jump and escape to spend the money. He may
have been at the end of an old rope, but he was
also at the beginning of a new and, he hoped,
better one.

In the twelve years since the crime occurred
not one shred of physical evidence about
Cooper himself has ever been uncovered any-
where near Woodland, Washington — not one
reported sighting of the ruddy-faced villain nor
the rotting remains of a dead body strapped to
a parachute discovered lying in the forest
there. It is only logical to assume, therefore,
that Cooper had without doubt reconnaissanced
a place where he could touch down safely in
the parachute — a place far from scrutiny by
either the authorities or amateur sleuths, and
one remote enough to hide all traces of the
crime or jts brazen perpetrator.

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Far back in the rugged hinterlands of the
Pacific Northwest there exists a site which can
only be described as ideal for Cooper to have
landed undetected in his parachute. The plains
country of central Oregon boasts some of the
most beautiful yet hauntingly isolated scenery
in America. To the west of the rolling plains
the treacherous Cascade Mountains tower
thousands of feet into the sky. Nearby, adjoin-
ing the forested foothills which line the base of
the range, sprawling wheat fields adorn the
jandscape in a checker-board fashion at
tandom places where a juncture in the hills
creates a valley or a smooth table-top plateau
suitable for farming.

A few miles west of the ghost town of Friend,
Oregon, on the barren wind-swept plains in the
north-central part of the slate, one of these
huge fields — in summier it glaws like polished
amber with its ripe harvest of wheat — lies
abandoned every year after the autumn harvest,
a mute testament to the long-ago mysterious
skyjacking. In an unused farmhouse in the
center of the field, the charred remains of
bales of hay stilt litter the floor where someone
threw them hastily years ago. A deputy sheriff
in the area remembered it well: 'About a week
before that skyjacking there were strange fires
up here,** he told me. *'Some local ranchers
called me out to find out what was going on. I

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THE PICTURES WHICH SPOKE A THOUSAND

"0, that a man might know
The end of this day's business, ere it come!"' —William Shakespeare,
Julius Caesar

WORDS...

Coffelt's Leavenworth
Penitentiary mugshots were
almost impossible to obtain.
When the records clerk at that
Kansas prison was contacted,
he said that there was no
record ever of Bryant *'Jack"'
Coffelt having been admitted
to Leavenworth Penitentiary.

My father remembered two
aliases that Coffelt had used
when he knew him in Atlanta
Penitentiary: 'John Hardy,
Jr."' and "J. C. Ross.'" When
the records clerk at Leaven-
worth was asked to check his
file for these aliases, he found
@ cross-reference under the
name of 'John Hardy, Jr.'*
which directed him to the file
of **J. C. Ross.'" Under that
fictitious name, all of Jack
Coffelt's records were con-
tained — one might say hidden.
Anyone inquiring about Cof-
felt's years at Leavenworth
who did not know his aliases would encounter a stone wall.

A source close to the Carter Administration, one having intimate knowledge of the policies
of the United States Attorney General's office, told me: ''A federal prisoner is sentenced to
the 'custody of the Attorney General of the United States.' We can put him up in a motel
room for his entire sentence if we want to."" This Carter Administration ''insider'" finally
managed to retrieve for us Coffelt's files from both Atlanta Penitentiary and Leavenworth,

Seattle attorney George LeBissoniere, who also identified my 1974 snapshots, claims that
he identified Coffeli's Leavenworth photos as D.B. Cooper for the FBI six weeks after the
skyjacking. **The FBI never calied back,"' LeBissoniere told me. Florence Schaffner also
identified both the Leavenworth photos and my 1974 snapshots of Coffelt as Cooper, and
has always believed that the FBI composite drawings of Cooper were '*wrong."' (See pp, 8I-
82} The former stewardess, who sat beside Cooper for over two hours, said that the FBI
artist who drew the composites failed to follow her instructions cqncerning Cooper's trie
features. Even before she saw my photographs of Coffelt, she"déstribed Cooper to me as
having a ''longer, fuller face"' than the FBI composites showed, with a hairline '*not nearly
as receding."" {(LeBissoniere and Schaffner both have preserved their testimony on videotape.)

My 1974 snapshots are the only photographs (other than his prison mugshots} known to
exist of Jack Coffelt. He was, after all, a man who did not want his picture taken. B.H.B.

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found these bales of hay, and some others
along the edge of the field, piled up and
smoldering. I thought smugglers were running
drugs in here and using the fires as ground-
pattern lights for a small airplane.*'

But the forest trails surrounding the huge
field provided impenetrable refuge for who-
ever was there, and the deputy sheriff captured
no one. After the skyjacking, he recalled, the
mysterious fires ceased. According to Jack
Coffelt, who led me to the field in 1974, the
bales of hay had been set afire to help guide
him to a safe landing in the parachute in the
dark. He and his accomplice, he explained,
had practiced their escape maneuvers during
the nights immediately preceding the sky-
jacking.

But the scene on those vast tundra ranges
grows even more compelling. A few miles
south of the field, near an Indian reservation,
lies a smal] man-made lake called Pine Hollow
Reservoir. On one shore of the tiny lake stand
a few small, dilapidated, privately-owned
cabins which have been rented out to wayworn
travellers for as long as people can remember.
The place ts secluded and peaceful, and amidst
the litle group of weather-beaten buildings,
with the austere peak of Mount Hood reflected
in the crystalline lake nearby, one feels utterly
anonymous, But there is an extraordinary and
baffling curiousity here: on the porch of one of
the ancient structures stands a Navy battleship
beacon capable of emitting a beam of light
which can be seen well over a hundred miles!

The day I discovered it the beacon's glass
face — nearly three feet in diameter — was
Testing on a steel swivel plate that was frozen
solid with must, Strangely, it was aimed on the

"compass reading which directed it towards
Coffele's landing field in the hills a few mites
to the north! None of the locals recalls how the
huge beacon came to arrive there, but Jack
Coffelt told me in 1974 that he ordered the
pilot of Flight 305 to '"'home in on a huge
beacon'"' located south of the landing fiedd —
even though he never took me to where the
beacon was eventually found.

The real reason { went to Pine Hollow
Reservoir was because Jack informed me
cagily, ""The getaway car — my Cadillac —
was parked beside a lake near an Indian
reservation,"' as he pointed to the plains south
of the landing site to indicate the general area.
But he distinctly appeared to want to avoid that
area, as if he thought someone there might
recognize him. When I finally found the beacon
there I was immensely impressed by the clear
— indeed beautiful — design which its secret
location revealed. As I gazed at the small
enclave of cabins huddled together in that
remote hideaway on the plains, it seemed the
perfect place for his accomplice to have waited,
with walkie-talkie in hand, for Jack to radio

* him that he had finally touched down in the

The wheat field where Coffelt intended to land, He
missed the field by one mile, landing in the canyon
at upper right, His jeep was parked in the forests
directly above the wheat field.

Coffelt suspected chase
planes would follow
the skyjacked jetliner,

and his hunch was
right. Military fighter
jets from McChord Air
Force Base tailed the
aircraft, but kept
overshooting it and
finally had to
turn back.

parachute, The confederate would then merely
shut off the signal light, drive the few short
miles to the landing site where he would pick
up Jack, and from there the two would speed
east across the plains.

In case something fouled up, however, there
was an alternate plan. Coffelt suspected chase
planes would follow the skyjacked jetliner,
and his hunch was right. Military fighter jets
from McChord Air Force Base in Tacoma,
Washington tailed the aircraft, but kept over-
shooting it and finally had to turn back, Also, 2
C-130 cargo plane loaded with paratroopers
lumbered behind hoping to see the skyjacker
bail out — at which point the paratroopers
planned to follow suit and try to capture him
on the ground. But the cargo plane's radar

failed to pick up the falling skyjacker.

Nevertheless, in anticipation of possible
ground pursuit, Coffelt had stashed a Worid
War Two Army jeep in the woods. The jeep
was equipped with food and water, and was
stationed high in the foothills a few miles west
of the landing field. In case he was pursued on
the ground he would bury the money, make his
way to the jeep and from there maneuver the
vehicle far down obscure forest trails to a
cave-like hideout, lying low until the heat was
off. The accomplice operating the Cadillac
would stand by, passing the days quietly as just
another tourist at the lonesome but tranquil
cabins at Pine Hollow Reservoir — until the
time was ripe for their escape. Then the two
would rendezvous, retrieve the buried money,
discard the jeep into a nearby river and set out
in the Cadillac for their Midwestern haven. ''It
was the perfect crime,"' Coffelt told me. 'We
planned for every possibility.*'

Accordingly, the Army jeep served a dual

At Pine Holiow Reservoir, James Brown sits beside
the beacon which directed the plane to the remote
landing site.
purpose. In addition to serving as a back-up
getaway vehicle, the jeep was stationed strate-
gically to aid in the jump itself — it carried an
electronic beeper which emitted a signal on 2
special radio frequency. As the skyjacked
plane headed south from Seattle, Coffelt,
listening through a receiver strapped to his
wrist for the signal coming from the jeep,
planned to jump when it was two or three
pitches from its loudest intensity —- a point at
which he would be roughly a mile due north of
the jeep itself, and from there he could easily
float down-wind in the parachute to a pin-point
landing on the field at the edge of the plains.
No trace of the jeep has ever been found.
The Deschutes River, where according to
Coffelt it was plunged into the waters and de-
stroyed with dynamite, is extremely treacher-
ous to divers due (6 its raging currents and
rocky bottom, so the possibility of finding its
remains there is remote. But a fascinating
shred of evidence that such a jeep existed and
was used in the skyjacking has been uncovered
like a rare archaeological find.

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A tetired U.S. Forest Service agent ac-
companied me to the place where Coffelt
showed me he had stashed the World War
Two Amny jeep in the dense forests at the base
of Mount Hood. Faded tire tracks were still
visible where a vehicle had been backed into a
Stand of smail maple trees years ago. A pile of
rotted brushwood lay off to one side — the
maple branches which Coffeit claimed he had
used to camouflage the jeep. The exper
forester immediately noticed a young tree
growing through one of the tire tracks which
revealed a past injury —- an elbow hook dis-
figuration at its base which indicated the tree
had been severely crushed by a heavy object
years earlier. He sawed through the disfigured
area and later analyzed the small segment at
the agency laboratory. Amazingly, the annual
growth rings — which record every event ina
tree's life in a kind of fossilized record — re-
vealed that the sapling had been damaged in
the autumn of 1971—the rime of the skyjacking!

Even though such intricate planning was in-
volved in the heist — Coffelt claimed he had
spent eleven months and $10,000 of his own
money just setting it up — the crime ended in
abysmal failure and nearly death for Coffelt
himself! He could not possibly have foreseen,
however, the raging intensity of the thunder-
storms which descended upon the Cascades
that night when he boarded the plane in Port-
land. In the Pacific Northwest, thunderhead
clouds often rush inland from the ocean and
envelope the mountains in a matter of minutes
with violent force. Because of the storms, he
was forced to descend the rear stairwell of the
727 earlier than planned in order to try to spot
the signal fires on the landing field below him
through the swirling cloud mass. The plane,
Plunging through the night like a battleship at a
mere 200 miles per hour, and maintaining the
10,000 feet altitude he had ordered the pilot to
Stick to, was being buffeted by severe tur-
bulence.

Coffelt, burdened by the two parachutes and
the 25-pound sack of money looped aver his
arm, was having trouble holding onto the
wide-flanged handrail of the stairway. He was
craning his neck, peering under the starboard
wing into the darkness ahead while strugeting
to hear the beeper signal from the hidden jeep
through the radio receiver strapped to his wrist
when all of a sudden, before he was fully pre-
pared, the plane jolted in turbulence, he
stumbled helplessly and was violently sucked
out by the ferocious windstream, desperately
trying to hold onto the money while falling
head over heels into the murky oblivion!

Unknown to him, the authorities at Seattle
had provided him with an inoperative chute —
@ sport-type demonstration mode] that had
been sewn up. /t was the one he was now
wearing'on his chest! After repeated attempts

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A cross-section of the maple sapling which was found
at the place where Coffelt's jeep was parked. The
growth rings reveal that the tree was damaged in the
fall of i971.

He hit the slope
blindly at nearly thirty
miles per hour and
was dashed into the
rocks! But he had
made it, He was
down. And as he told
me later: ''I wanted
desperately to live!''

to deploy this chest pack failed, he finally
managed to get the military parachute on his
back to open, but when the reserve chute's
large 28-foot canopy billowed into the cross-
current winds (in fact, according to experienced
parachutisis it was a miracle that it opened at
aif} he was hit by such a severe jolt that the bag
of money slipped ow of his arms and tumbled
away into the darkness. To cap his awesome
misfortune — the signal fires on the landing
field below were nowhere to be seen! He had
dived from the plane far too early, The landing
field was still miles ahead! Far in the distance,
through the dark sea of clouds, he could see
the bright swath cut by the huge beacon light at
Pine Hollow Reservoir — where his accomplice
waited in vain, But soon, as he descended into

"a canyon, even that light disappeared.

Completely enveloped in a nightmare of
darkness, he only realized he was at last hitting
the ground when he crashed through the splin-
tering, phantom-like branches of a hillside tree.
He hit the slope blindly at nearly thirty miles
per hour and was dashed into the rocks! But he
had made it. He was down. And as he told me

later: *'I came back to Jife at that first shocked
breath. I wanted desperately to live!"'

Almost semi-conscious, he had terrifying
visions of paratroopers from the C-130 cargo
pursuit plane alighting like ghosts on the slope
around him. Before he had tumbled from the
727 he had seen the chase plane's search lights
seanning the cloud mass behind him. Frantical-
ly, he gathered the surging folds of the para-
chute's wind-tossed canopy around his bleeding
legs — the bright material was flapping wildly
like a huge crippled moth straining to free it-
self — and compacted the reckless mass into a
shallow depression he had clawed in the dirt.
Then he placed the sport-type chest chute on
top of this mass and sprayed the pile with a
Magnesium compound from an aeroso! can
and set it afire with a cigarette lighter. The
nylon fabric was instantly consumed by the
flames, melting like a mirage into the ground
before his dazed eyes. Groping his way, he
stumbled down the pitch-black slope in severe
pain because, upon landing, he had squarely
hit a tree limb between his legs and punctured
his chest on one of the tree's sharp branches.

Tt took him fifteen hours to make his way out
of the vast canyon Jined with sheer rock-faced
cliffs that he had fallen into. He spent the
longest and most arduous night of his life
desperately clawing his way through tangled
underbrush and climbing over jutting boulders
to finally see brilliant sunshine on a clear
Thanksgiving Day morning, and feel ''to the
depths of my spirit'' as he told me later, *'a
new appreciation for everything around me
that was alive.'* The eerie neon glow of startled
eyes revealing lurking cougars and timber
wolves, and the ferocious menacing cries of
the wild animals terrified him that night like
demons, he told me. The experience in that
awesome necropolis of nature would haunt
him always.

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Today, the canyon remains as remote and
undisturbed as it has been for centuries. Twenty
miles to the east farmlands begin, where wheat
and alfalfa grow peacefully under turquoise
summer skies. Occasionally a tractor can be
made out against the magnificent backdrop of
verdant mountain forests by the dust it raises
while furrowing a field on the plains nearby.
No one knows the incredible drama which took
place in those rugged hinterlands over a decade
ago. Life goes on there as placidly, it seems,
as the ageless mountains themselves.

The lost bag containing $200,000 still lies
somewhere in those vast and secretive forests
waiting for thg.d4y when some treasure
hunter may stumble across it. Coffelt said that
before he leaped from the plane — in case he
himself were killed in the jump so that his
accomplice would be able to find his body and
retrieve the loot — he had stuffed a smail elec-
tronic transmitter inside the bag before tying it

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up. All through that long desperate night he
had been haunted by the weakening signal
coming through his wrist receiver from the
bag of money, Once even, succumbing to
merciless hallucinations that the bag was lying
just over a nearby ridge, he backtracked think-
ing he must try to find it. But then he came to
his senses and continued on towards the in-
creasing clarity of the other signal, the one
droning steadily from the hidden jeep, which
now provided his only opportunity for a safe
getaway.

Time seems ageless in the mountains. After
years have passed the same landmarks still
appear unchanged. When the money finally is
found it will be by chance and not design, for
Nature reveals her secrets sparingly as I have
learned before. In the spring of 1977 I jour-
neyed to that remote area once again and wit-
nessed time itself standing still, as if it had
been waiting forever for my visit! I came, with
my father and two other men, to search for any
Temains that may have been left from the hasty
and obscure events which occurred on that
barren mountainside so long ago. The wind
howis forever in that canyon, even when there
are no storms. A mood of failure perpetually
lingers there.

We searched the slope for half a day, but
found nothing. The late afternoon sun, rapidly
failing behind the surrounding cliffs, was
casting an eerie orange plow through the trees
as it suddenly turned bitterly coid. Finally, just
before leaving, J tilled one last shovel-full of
dirt when I suddenly realized that I was standing
over the very spot where three years earlier, in
1974, Jack Coffelt showed me he had destroyed
his parachute, Something in the fading sky felt

"hauntingly unreal to me as 1 noticed lying in
the freshly-exposed dirt a white piece of cord
about the length of a cigarette! } reached down
to pick up the cord, but when I touched the
edges three-quarters of it blew away instantly!
The fine white ashes melted into the darkening
sky like filaments of a seeding dandelion.
Everything was silent but the wind. As if in a
dream, I reatized that I was holding a tiny
piece of the cord in my fingertips.

My companions and I began furiously digging
in stark amazement. We immediately found
a larger patch of the same type fabric (which
looked somewhat like snake skin, and must
have been a fold of the parachute} lying just
beneath the topsoil, but it too turned to ashes
and melted in the chuming wind! The canyon
echoed the surging gusts like an ampitheater,
drowning out the faint whisper of the past that
had been so fleetingly revealed to me by the
mountains, Jack Coffelt, a man who always
strived to cover his tracks, had apparently
stepped in one of them on that night long ago,
crushing a parachute shroud line into the dirt
beneath his boot where it escaped total de-
struction by the flames. Indeed, the cord I re-
trieved stil] shows charred markings from that

moment in 1971 when Jack briefly illuminated
the night sky with his fire.

After our return to Las Vegas, my father
and I submitted the tiny piece of material to a
local forensic lab used by the police and FBI —
Atlas Chemical Testing Laboratories on High-
land Drive in Las Vegas. There, under 300-
times magnification the piece of material was
identified as "NYLON CORDING''—identical
to the type used in parachutes!

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The cord was bummed and contains carbon deposits.

I noticed lying in the
dirt a white piece of
cord about the length
' of a cigarette. I
reached down to pick
up the cord, but when
I touched the edges
three-quarters of it
blew away instantly!

In 1974, as my father and I travelled with

" Jack through remote areas of the West (we

took backroads, staying away from major cities
because Jack said ''law people'' were on the
lookout for him) we were forced to pry infor-
mation from him against his will. He had only
one design for us, to lead us to the place where
he lost the money so that we could search for
it, if need be for the entire summer. But as we

pressured him for more information about the
crime, details which were starkly different
from published accounts of the skyjacking, we
began to fear that we were merely pawns in a
dangerous game conducted by sinister ele-
ments. Parts of his story were so far-fetched —
he threw out many red-herrings to steer us
away from the truth, and claimed that a vast
cover-up of the crime was being conducted by
the government — that we grew increasingly
paranoid as we travelled through rugged
mountains and across lonesome canyonlands
with the raggedly-desperate man. But as the
trip wore on we learned many new and startling
details about the crime that would later be
verified by witnesses.

One of the most obscure features of his nar-
rative concerned Coffelt's insistence that our
search was fora green bag filled with money—
not the white canvas mail bag which, according
to news accounts, the authorities had delivered
to him at Seattle-Tacoma Airport. When
pressed to explain this discrepancy, Jack said
that he took the green bag out of the briefcase
which contained his bomb, and hoping that this
green "'rubberized'' bag, as he called it,
would prevent the money from getting wet and
Totting in case he were pursued on the ground
and had to bury it, slipped the canvas mail sack
full of money into it. Then he selected one of
the four parachutes which appeared the least
trustworthy and tore it open, cutting the shroud
lines off of it with a long, thin-bladed knife.
He then wrapped the shroud lines tightly around
the top of the green protective bag, leaving a
loop in the cords for his arm to go through. He
would hold the money in the crook of his elbow
as he leaped from the plane.

At this point the jetliner had Jeft Seattle and
was heading south toward Reno. At Seattle he
had allowed all of the passengers and two of
the stewardesses to leave the plane, keeping a
sole hostage — stewardess Tina Mucklow —
with him in the back, As soon as the plane took
flight he reached in the bag of money, he
boastingly recounted, and grabbing a handful
of the loot offered it to Tina Mucklow. *'Take
it, Honey,'' he cajoled, 'they don't pay you
enough!" —- playing his tough-guy Bogart
role, romantic and wry at the same time with
just a trace of embarrassed compassion. But
"'the pretty little blonde, 'tas Jack described
her, refused the loot, telling him she almost
certainly would be given a lie detector test.

Nevertheless, Jack placed the money on a
nearby seat, thinking she might change her
mind and later take it. She didn't, and shortly
afterwards, just a few minutes before jumping,
he threw the smeall:sundle of money out the
back of the plane along with his briefcase and
other items that he no longer needed. By then
he had already tied up the bag of money, and
since he was wearing thick thermal underwear
there was nowhere to stuff the small bundle of
cash into his tight-fitting clothes 0 he reluc-

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THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, AND A

SMOKING GUN.

The time was February,
1980.

The prince was eight-ycar-
old Brian Ingram. While on a
fishing expedition and cookout
with his parents, young Ingram
was sent to fetch some sticks
to start a fire. Instead, he found
a few thousand dollars worth
of rotted $20 bills. The boy
had discovered them lying on
a sand bar beside the Columbia
River a few miles north of
Portland, Oregon. The FBI
Jater determined that the serial
numbers of the bills matched
some of those given D.B.
Cooper!

... The pauper was Jack
Coffell, who unfortunately
dropped 'the bulk of his
$200,000 farther to the south-
east, near Mi. Hood, How
did over $5,000 worth of his
stolen Joot end up on the banks
of the Columbia River near
Portland? Like everything
else about this bizarre case,
the leads proved as mysterious
as the crime itself. Portland
FBI Agent Ralph Himmels-
bach, in overall charge of the
D.B. Cooper investigation,
said, "'It is mind-boggling
where the money was located.'*

Indeed.

"And yet, my dear Watson, there is so

very close a connection that the one is

extracted out of the other."

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Ever since the skyjacking occurred in late 1971, the FBI concentrated its search for Cooper
around the town of Woodland, Washington — an area between 10 and 25 miles north of
where young Ingram found the badly decomposed bills. The crew of the skyjacked plane
had informed the FBI that a series of strong ''pressure bumps'' occurred directly over
Woodland, suggesting that Cooper bailed out there. Also, a red warning tight had gone on in
the cabin, indicating that the 7227's rear stairway had been lowered. But after Brian Ingram's
find, according to UPI press dispatches, '*the location of the money . . . caused the FBI to

reconsider its calculations."'

Cooper, it became clear, could not passibly have bailed out over Woodland since part of
his money was later discovered far south of there! The perplexed authorities were forced to
admit that they spent years conducting a wild goose chase. As Jack Coffelt often used to say,
*4f I'm lying, God's a possum.*'

But there was another problem. Originally, it was thought that the plane had veered west
of Portland on its southbound flight, but the location of the rotted money, which FBE Agent
Himmelsbach shrewdly noted ''must have tumbled and rolled along the bottom of the
Columbia River,' proved without a doubt that the plane flew east of Portland — exactly as
Jack Coffelt insisted! The wide and sedate Columbia flows from east to west; the money
could not possibly have floated against the current.

Jack Coffelt claimed that he threw a few bundles — perhaps $4,000 or $5,000 worth, he
said — of the ransom money out the back of the plane over the Bonneville Dam on the
Columbia River, after stewardess Tina Mucklow refused to accept it. Nine years later,
Brian Ingram apparently had found that money. But he was unaware of the importance of
his discovery. The find at last provided proof that the plane had flown east of Portland, and
also shot a gaping hole right through the FBI's belief that Cooper never made it to Oregon!

On that sand bar beside the river, the astonished boy did not realize that he was holding a

white-hot smoking gun...

B.H.B.

tantly tossed it out over a ''brightly-lit hydro-
electric dam'* — the Bonneville Dam on the
Columbia River. Incredibly, nine years later,
in February 1980, the bundle of cash would be
discovered lying in a sand bar beside the river
— the soggy bills revealing serial numbers
which matched the ones given D.B. Cooper!
(See sidebar}

But Jack was not yet through with the
frightened young woman, who to this day still
appears mesmerized by the skyjacker. Standing
with only her in the empty corridor at the rear
of the plane, he approached her and, as Jack
put it, '*felt her up a bit.'* She sensed his lone-
liness and fear and whispered consoling words,
trying to calm him, but he told her, sadly, *'I
have nothing to lose.'' His swaggering account
to us: *'She was the last woman I may have
seen in my life! I wanted her to have something,
you know, to remember me by."'

Original press accounts of the skyjacking,
and public statements by the FBI, never re-
ported these intricate details: nothing about a
green bag, nothing about Cooper offering Tina
Mucklow part of the ransom money or his using
a knife with a long, thin blade to cut up the
shroud lines from one of the parachutes was
ever mentioned —- except by Jack Coffelt. The
authorities did reveal however (as if they were
puzzled by the find) that cut-up parachute
shroud lines were discovered lying on the floor
in the back of the plane when it landed in Reno.

But at a meeting with her in San Diego in
1977, Tina Mucklow confirmed each one of
these obscure details — especially noting the
green bag, which she thought was made of
glossy paper or plastic, folded in a comer of
Cooper's briefcase. Before he slipped the mail
sack full of money into the green bag he ordered
her forward into the cockpit. He did not want
her to observe this move in case she informed
the authorities, who might then be able to de-
cipher his actions, which were designed to
confuse any ground pursuers. Jack said that in
case he were chased on the ground he would

72 NOVEMBER 1983/LAS VEGAN MAGAZINE

Stewardess Tina Mucklow sits beside Captain Wil-
liam Scott of Flight 305, Mucklow confirmed every
one of Coffelt's details about the crime,

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Coffelt placed the money in a green bag like the one
shown abave, then tied up the bag with parachute
Shroud lines.

pretend 10 be one of the searchers, flashing his
government JD to anyone who might question
him, a green FBI badge with his name on it, in
fact, which he showed me in 1974!

Tina watched him tear open one of the pata-
chutes and cut the shroud lines off of it using a
long, thin-bladed knife which according to her
*"Jooked like a dagger."' She recatled that he

nervously chain-smoked Raleigh ci es,

{Raleighs were Coffeit's favorite brand) and
also admitted that Cooper offered her a handful
of the Joot, digging into the bag of money and
shoving the small bundle at her, insisting that
she take it. But when she was delicately
prompted about whether the skyjacker had
touched her ''in any way," she flushed heavily
and averted her eyes before answering faintly,
"*'He may have made a pass at me.'" Many
"years had passed, but scars still remained from
this ugly incident involving the desperate bandit
who briefly but dramatically entered her life,
then disappeared into total mystery again.
She clearly remembered his hushed words,
though, words which seemed to haunt her still—
**I have nothing to lose'* -- the same phrase
that Jack Coffelt repeated to me many times
during our lonely journey together in 1974.
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Even though Tina Mucklow confirmed every
one of Coffelt's details about these hectic and
obscure events which occurred as the plane
headed south from Seattle, she was not in fact
the person who had observed him most care-
fully that night. As his sole hostage at that
point, she remained with Cooper for only a
few short minutes as he frantically prepared to

jump and attempted to lower the 727's rear .|
Stairway compartment, a period in-which she

was scared half ta death. Since he had de-
manded four parachutes, the terrified crew,
especially Tina herself, thought that he was
planning to force at least one of them to bail
out with him! Tina remembers these horrifying
moments like the sordid images of a long-

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Florence Schaffner,
the stewardess who
accepted Cooper's
ransom note, was a
complete enigma to
me. For years, she
remained unavailable
to the news media.
... She claimed that
she had been warned
never to talk to anyone
about the skyjacking.

lingering nightmare. Since she never saw the
ruddy-faced, heavy-accented skyjacker with-
out his dark sun glasses on, she was unable to
identify my 1974 snapshots of Coffelt.

There was another stewardess, however,
who during the Iong flight from Portland to
Seattle before she was released there by him
{the plane circled high above Sea-Tac Airport
for nearly two-and-a-half hours waiting for the
ransom and four parachutes to be collected}
was able to observe Cooper very closely,
indeed intimately. In fact, the two even carried
on a casual and sometimes enraptured conver-
sation for much of that time.

Florence Schaffner, the stewardess who
initially accepted Cooper's ransom note,
(naively believing it to be a proposition) was a
complete enigma to me. For years, judging
from vatious news accounts of the skyjacking
that had researched, she remained completely
unavailable to the newsmedia. Indeed, I had
the distinct impression that she was being kept
under some sort of "'wraps"' by the authorities.
Even reporters from Time magazine and the
Washington Post had been unable to contact
her. She always remained mysteriously aloof
from the wave of publicity generated in the
skyjacking's aftermath.

Immediately after the crime she dropped
completely out of sight and the public soon
forgot, or was never even aware, that for over
two hours that night she dutifully attended the
"terribly fonesome man,"" as she described
Cooper to me, rushing to bring him coffee and
snacks, listening politely to his sad, vague
ramblings suggestive of a checkered past and
innocently wishingshim, 'Good luck ... 1
hope you make it.""

"Js there anything more that J can do for
you?"' she remembers asking Cooper when the
plane finally touched down in Seattle. "Do
you want me to leave now, or would you like

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(0 So even though some ominous mystique still

hangs over Henderson within the cloud (for
even if it's totally safe, it still is there and
people are ever aware of its presence), it
apparently is no more than a distraction, Gary
Johnson, executive director of the Chamber of
Commerce, who has been a Henderson resident
for 15 years and helped develop Clark County
air quality information as a member of the
County Citizens' Environmental Advisory
Board, indicates that all studies done to date
that list air alert areas in Southem Nevada
don't even mention Henderson,

Now discussions of this seemingly tiny
community (it actually is the largest city in
Nevada, area-wise covering 70 square miles)
revolve around the growth taking place there.

Henderson started out as a mining town
called Basic Townsite, built by the government
just prior to World War II to support the miners
working at a plant constructed jn a joint effort
between the U.S. and England to manufacture
magnesium. The town is now a thriving Las
Vegas suburb.

The area was first selected for the plant in
the carly 1940's because of its proximity to
hydro-power from Lake Mead and Hoover
Dam, Nearby was an ore-mining site, as was
the newly flourishing city of Las Vegas and the
Las Vegas Gunnery Range (now Nellis Air
Force Base}. Fhe spot was also a watering stop
for the Union Pacific Railroad,

After the war, the magnesium stock-piled
and the plant was closed. The Federal Govern-
ment was ready to dismantie the little town
around it. Local businessmen who had made a
home there decided to establish a Chamber of
Commerce and keep the community alive.
They renamed it Henderson for Nevada's
U.S. Senator Charles B. Henderson, in
January of 1944,

Henderson's largest period of growth took
place in the 1960's and 70's, until the economy
slowed down. In fact, one local bank ran an
atticle in its in-house publication that contained
a study by the Federal Government predicting
that Henderson, if the growth pattern of the
city of 30,000 continued on its course, would
come within 12,000 of the population of Las
Vegas by the year 2,000, That prediction might
have to be updated though, as the study was
done before the economic slowdown of the fate
70's.

With the economy now improving however,
Henderson is once again on its quiet growth
surge. Prior to the slowdown the largest section

of growth was the western portion of the town ,
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Center with a 120-bed facility under con-
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Convention Center, Henderson is also about to
embark upon a $5 million Boulder Highway
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surrounding local communities as well.

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greenery along the sides and center of the
roadway from Sunset Road 10 Horizon Drive.

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Parks and bicycle and pedestrian paths are also
in the plans.

It is reported that the Funk family of Arizona,
owners of Las Vegas Downs dog racing track,
is planning to reopen the facility.

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concems the possibility of building a large
hotelfcasino in Henderson, something the
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me to stay with you?'' Almost no one was
aware that Florence actually believed that she
herself, instead of Tina Mucklow, should have
remained with Cooper as his hostage when the
plane headed south from Seattle towards Reno
because she felt that she had grown to know
and understand him, in however strange a way.
"He told me, tike a spirit,'* she said with
poignant nostalgia in her voice, ''that I
probably sat beside him somewhere else a
hundred years ago.'* Florence, it is true,
developed a profound sympathy for the lonely
man while trying to comfort him in the back of
the plane.

Dr. Dick Simmons, a psychologist special-
izing in the field of abnormal perceptions, was
on the flight but stole only a cursory glance at
Cooper, Simmons pointed out that the further
people get away from an event the more they
ate inclined to remember it the way they think
it should have been. This is why some people
reported Cooper as being no more than 45
years old, he felt, since skyjacking is not
regarded as an occupation for the middle-aged.
But this qualification would not necessarily
apply in the case of Florence Schaffner, since
she had spent so much time with Cooper and
had obviously seen him clearly. Indeed,
Florence would be an ideal witness, especially
in view of her compassionate feelings for
Cooper and her rapt attention to even minor
details about him.

After weeks of searching for her I finally
found Florence Schaffner, and after winning
her confidence (she claimed that she had been
warned never to talk to anyone about the sky-
jacking and reluctantly declined to allow us to
publish her photograph with this article) was

"able to Jearn many new and surprising facts
about the crime, startling details which proved
increasingly disturbing. To begin with,
according to Florence, the FBI composite

The FBI composite drawing of D.B. Cooper showing
him veiled behind the dark sun glasses he wore part
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According to Florence,
the FBI drawings of
Cooper were
"'misleading'' and
"erroneous.''... The
pretty half-Filipino
stewardess took
one look at my
photographs of Jack
Coffelt and gasped,
"It's him! My God,
it's him!'

pictures of D.B. Cooper that had been widely
circulated in the press were, in fact, misleading

and erroneous drawings. As she explained

with a hint of lingering scornfulness, *'The

man had much fuller cheeks, and his hairline

was not nearly as receding as shown by the
composite pictures. ] kept telling that FBI artist .
that his pictures were wrong. . . but he would
not listen to me?"

This startling claim was the first hint ever by
an unwilling participant in the skyjacking that
the official version of the crime has been
erroneous from the beginning. Florence then :
went on to confirm another aspect of Jack
Coffelt's story that had long puzzted me.
**Cooper took off his street shoes and put on 2
pair of boots,*" she affirmed. Jack Coffelt, in
1974, had insisted that he changed into a pair
of boots on the plane. But press accounts,
quoting the FBI, had long ridiculed the '*hill-
billy skyjacker'' for jumping out in norma!

This FBI composite drawing of D.B. Cooper, and
the one on the preceding page. were widely circu
lated in the press.

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street clothes. In fact, much of the FBI's long-
. Standing belief that Cooper died in the jump is
7 based on exactly this point, for after all,
: wearing only thin oxford slippers, how could
: he possibly survive the gruelling landing some-
7 where in the rugged forests of the Pacific
! Northwest? But the FBI never even bothered,
| it seems, to question Florence Schaffner
: thoroughly.
| The stewardess related many other relatively
| minor points which nevertheless confirmed to
the last detail Jack Coffelt's version of the
crime. According to Florence, Cooper was —
just as Coffelt had said — the last person to
| board the plane at Portland. Florence said that
| she actually had to fetch him from where he
| was peering out the terminal windows and Iead
| him to the entrance-way of the plane. Coffelt
: told me that as he was peering out the terminal
| windows, watching for a Brinks truck that was
| supposed to deliver several million dollars —
) the rea! target of the skyjacking — in unmarked
currency to the cargo hold of the 727, he
**aimost got left behind.'* In fact, when the
Brinks truck failed to arrive as scheduled he
was standing there deliberating whether or not
to go ahead with the skyjacking when the girl
approached him. It was then that he decided to
| demand the $200,000 for himself, his modest
| cut of the few million dollars that was to have
: been divided among other conspirators.
| Florence remembered that Cooper was well-
| dressed, wearing an old-fashioned black suit
as Coffelt had claimed, not a *'brown'' or
| "'dark'* one as press accounts have always
| reported. And she also recalled that he wore
) white gloves, verifying Coffelt's claim that he
| wore gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints.
| . Her memory of that night was so clear, in
| fact, that in a most surprising development
Florence insisted that she forgot to relay
| Cooper's request that the ransom money be
collected in $20 bills; he refused to accept any
| other denomination. 'I completely forgot
| about that part,"" she said. 'tl was so scared at
| the beginning of the whole thing.'' However,
7 if no denomination is specified it is standard
procedure for the FBI to deliver such ransom
money in larger bills, 50°s or 100's, since they
are much easier to trace. But even though
Florence forgot to tell anyone, Cooper was
nevertheless delivered the ransom money in
$20 bills by those on the ground!

These perplexing and darkly disturbing de-
tails faded into the background, however,
when Florence at last provided major new
evidence in the case. When] finally found her
in July of 1977, the pretty, half-Filipino [
stewardess, who was then working for Frontier
Airlines in Denver, took one look at my photo-
graphs of Jack Coffelt, her mouth dropped
open, and she gasped, 'Oh my God! Where
did you get those? I never thought I would see
that face again! it's him! My God, it's him!"'

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took place, saying instead that he was then in
the Washington D.C. area. But they wouldn't
tell us where. '"'We've narrowed it down to
days and hours,"' one agent told me flatly.
""You''ve got the wrong man.""

But one of Coffelt's most intimate acquain-
tances, his best friend and trusted confidant, in
fact, for nearly twenty years, Memphis attorney
Robert Dobbs, who provided the old con-man
with legal help more than once when Jack was
in troudle, told me: 'ack was meticulous
enough to have planned all the things'' neces-
sary to pull off the skyjacking. And for anyone
who doubted it: **. .. then they don't know
the real Jack Coffelt! You'd have to know
Coffelt personally to be able to appreciate the
significance of all of it?''

As tantalizing proof of his claim, Dobbs
went to his library and brought back two valu-

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gave me these once as payment for my legal
services,' he explained with a wink. The
amazing story of how Jack came to acquire

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: rane' confirmed Coffelt's claim that our trip with
him in 1974 to search for the lost money was
not the first time he had been back to that
agi aes remote place.

RF.) owne And finally, in a check of all the passengers
ae easSVega on Flight 305 as it left Portland Airport that
: stormy Thanksgiving Eve, 1 discovered that a
eS. a prominent Seatille atomey, George LeBissoniere,
had sat only three seats away from D.B.
Cooper, so close that even the FBI told him
that he was one of their best eye-witnesses.
When Mr. LeBissoniere was shown photo-
graphs of Jack Coffelt, he calmly identified the
face as that of D.B. Cooper, unaware that
Stewardess Florence Schaffner had already
identified the pictires. "That Leavenworth
guy — right?°' he asked, as if trying to refresh
, his own memory. "J identified these same
BS.80 pictures for the FBI six weeks after the sky-
jacking." (refer to sidebar p. 68)

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"There's a somebody I'm longing to see...
Someone who'll watch over me,"
—Ira Gershwin

Jack Coffelt proudly called himself a ''Jay-
hawker'' after a fictitious bird imagined by the
Indians to possess the haughty pride of a Blue
Jay and the cunning determination of a hawk.
But in truth he was a Caucasian harboring an.
omery supply of Cherokee blood which made
his nature tum restless and rebellious.

He was bom in that part of the Midwest
known as ''the Badlands'? because of the
robbers who have blossomed there ltke weeds
in mud-filled creek beds. Jesse James and the
Dalton Boys and Billy the Kid are only a few
of the colorful criminais who once plundered
this dust-ridden locale, which is also the major
home in America of the proud Cherokee
Indians — the bitter end of the Trail Of Tears.
According to Jack Coffelt and my father, who
wrote a book about the place while in Atlanta
Penitentiary together, life there in the 1920°s
was picturesque but also incredibly bleak. I
guote from their book:

"Stranger, you are entering the Tri-State
District, a mining patch covering the corners
of three states — Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas.
The land is a flat stovelid. The sky is a pale
blue liquid. Clouds drift in circles. Rays of the
sun bounce and play tricks on the eyes. And in
mid-July dust is instep deep and the creeks are
shallow and ugly.

"The town of Picher is the hub of this district.
Powder-monkeys send groans and rumbles
through the earth and view with suspicion any
man who receives more than two letters a
week, Sidewashed iead and zinc glitter bold
'across jig tables. Mines and chatpiles crowd
each other around the town. On the chatpiles
children scavenge for empty bottles and used
condoms. Renniker the junk dealer pays two
cents each for short pints and half pints, a cent
for beer and home brew, thirty cents 2 pound
for washed rubbers. Vern Wilders runs the big
game. A whorehouse sits on Main Street.
That's it, Stranger. Picher, Oklahoma, has
been sent for, went, and qualifted."'

Coffelt was born under an ill-star on Febsu-
ary 20, 1916, to a poverty-stricken family. In
this inauspicious environment he quickly
learned the benefits of a fast tongue and a slip-
pery hand as he worked the booming jead and
zinc mines by day and hung around the gam-
bling halls and brothels at night as a mere
youngster. When he was eight years old his
father, Walter Coffelt, who had once owned a
mine but lost it to booze, died of alcoholism,
leaving his widow Ottie and Jack and his two
sisters destitute. Ottie took up with another
man called Ben Wooldridge who, according to
Jack's sister, ''was horribly mean to us kids."'
The children fled. The two young girls — ages
sixteen and fourteen — married off as soon as
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or to about 1929. Then he dropped out for
good when he was about thirteen years old.
His common-law stepfather, Ben Wooldridge,
was also dead by that time, another victim of
the bottle.

When Jack was only fifteen he broke into his
grandfather's grocery store in nearby Baxter
Springs, Kansas with a ''false key'' and,
according to the courthouse records there,
"*stole diverse bars of candy and packages of
gum and $10 in silver."* His irate grandfather
insisted on pressing charges and on May 20,
1932, Jack was convicted of burglary and
jarceny, third degree, and sentenced to the
Kansas State Industrial Reformatory at Hutch-
jnson for a term 'not to exceed five years."'
He was just sixteen years old. This was the
beginning of the 20 years, eight months, and
13 days of his life that he was to spend in
various jails and prisons. Two years later,
when he was eighteen, he arrived at the for-
bidding rock-walled fortress of McAlester
prison in dreary southeastern Oklahoma for a
three-year stretch upon being convicted for yet
another burglary after his parole from the
Kansas reformatory. His path in life — that of
a hardened criminal — was already well-
formed.

None of the charges he was ever convicted
on, however, were for crimes of violence —
unless you count grabbing a deputy's pistol in
an escape attempt. "'Jack said prison was
awful. They'd never keep him locked up again
— he'd escape," remembers his sister. Incar-
ceration must have been terrible to him. One
prison medical report states that in 1947 Jack
underwent ''two operations ten weeks apart'"
for being cruelly kicked in the ''left groin,'
and the same report later states obliquely that
"this prisoner has history of gunshot wound
left foot." Had he been shot there? In 1974
Jack expressed nothing but hatred for the prison
authorities, télling me vengefully, ''! always
wanted to get them back for what they di¢ to
met"'

His prison 'trap sheet'' was nearly impossible
to obtain. At one point in our investigation,
after we had secretly procured a copy of it, the
government even tried to confiscate it on
grounds that it was 'federal property.' But it
makes long and often humorous reading, in-
cluding items such as this one contained in his
Atlanta Penitentiary Admissions Summary:
"Presently he got into a reform schoot in
Kansas where he was further disillusioned by
indications of corruptions on the part of some
of the officials andsemployees of the institu-
tion!*? On May f9, 1949, Jack began a ten-year
sentence at Atlanta Penitentiary for interstate
auto theft and attempted escape upon being
rudely caught, and by that time he was un-
swervingly bitter towards '*the system." His
dossier then best explains his state of mind:

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"*He claims that he has been a professional
gambler for years and in fact that he has never
earned an honest dollar. He denies guilt on the
current charge and states that fully half of his
prison sentences have been based purely upon
his record and were therefore unjust."

At Atlanta Pen Coffelt met my father, James
Brown, a former Air Force pilot. Brown had
worked as a reporter during his younger days
and was @ good writer, often compiling and
editing the prison magazine single-handedly,
while Coffelt was the press operator who

* printed it. They became good friends and spent
three years filling the dreary days together by
working on a long writing project about
Coffelt's early life. My father was paroled in
1952. After his friend was gone, Coffelt trans-
ferred to Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas
to finish out his sentence, and there, on July
20, 1955, he was '*conditionally released'? —
pending parole restrictions. He would be in a
few smajl-town jails after that, but never
another *tawful'' penitentiary.

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In his new life on the outside Jack Coffelt
emerged for the first time as a human being
rather than a number. He was immensely proud
of the book he had written with my father.
Entitled Cleave The Liquid Sky, the novel, a
colorful and spellbinding account of Coffeit's
boyhood years in Oklahoma, was never pub-
lished. But nevertheless, 'with a book under
my belt,'' as Jack told people, he had *'finally
achieved something."* He had greatly matured
and no longer wanted to be merely a petty thief.
Instead, he would become a shrewd con-man.

As a result of one scam in Memphis,
Tennessee, in the late 1950's, Jack came into a

"pile of money — around $50,000 — and with a
healthy bank account to bolster his ego he
grew courteous and extremely generous. He
always grabbed the check when he took friends
out to expensive restaurants and pinsh night-
spots. He was charming, a **hell of'a salesman"
said one companion. He drank and smoked
heavily. He often fascinated and regaled people
with preposterous accounts of his past criminal
exploits: wild tales of blowing open safes with
nitroglycerin (carrying it in a vial around his
neck so it would stay at body temperature),
cand dramatic holdups during dsunken sprees of
cross-country travelling. ("Fim gonna put you
in the news — bang!*'}

Coffelt was always a chameleon — wonder-
fully gifted In producing a vast range of
personalities to suit the mood of any occasion.
Referring to the same period of time, one
person who knew. him remembered, "He was
really a remarkable man. Very kind, very
generous, very colorful, almost like a kindly
uncle,'' while another recalled, ''I always had
the feeling he could easily tear the room
apart!*' But he was steadfastly hypnotic. 'The
average person had no defense to him. He just

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mesmerized people,'' said his old friend
Robert Dobbs, the Memphis attorney who re-
ceived a call from Jack from Portland, Oregon,
days before the skyjacking. Among these
crowds, however, Jack always seemed to be
ashamed of his prairie roots and the bitter
poverty he experienced in his youth, poverty
which had led him irreversibly, he believed,
into a life of crime.

In early February of 1960 Jack's mother
Ottie died a horrible death when her home
burned to the ground in Baxter Springs, Kansas.
Jack attended the funeral. He wore expensive
suits and drove a late-model Cadillac, evasively
telling relatives that he was **working back
East somewhere.'' Where is not certain, but a
year later, after meeting his red-haired confi-
dante Tave in Las Vegas, Jack became per-
manently established in the Washington D.C.
area.

He never held a steady job there, but at
various times he managed to come into *'large
sums of money'' according to Tave herself —
tens of thousands of dollars at the drop of a hat,
To close friends he hinted that he was a ''bag-
man,"" someone hired by the Mafia to distribute
bribes among crooked politicians. But then,
one of his old Kansas cronies who visited him
in Washington in the late 1960°s watched J.
Edgar Hoover, the FBI Director, throw a
warm and friendly bearhug around Jack.
Coffelt, it seems, had learned to play both
sides of the fence shrewdly and with great
finesse. He had finally become a valuable
commodity.

Whatever murky substrata of society his
operations belonged to, they were never, it
seems, restricted entirely to the nation's capital.
AS one intimate source wrote, *'I don't know
if you are aWare of the long 'tentacles' Jack
had. . . in other parts of the world."' It was
a dark hint at the vast Rosicrucian circles
which the shrewd con-man had learned to
move in during those years of especially shady
'"'power politics'? when internationally moti-
vated plots of intrigue ran rife in the capital.
"That part of your letter where you said you
weren't sure that I was real tickled me,"
Coffelt responded to one enthralled disbeliever.
"I'm as real as I appear."

But this ''modern Indian warrior,'' as my
father and others often thought of Jack, finally
fell prey to the white man's fated disease —
Love. Those who knew Jack and Tave said he
always referred to her as his ''sister'' or
"'cousin,"' never anything more. Most were of
this opinion, summed up by one: ''She always
seemed to be watching him, like a plastic doll,
in some sort of offiéial capacity.""

But then, in the latter half of the 1960°s,
along came another girl — a beautiful German
blonde who was a research scientist. Jack
'procured' her, as he himself described it.
Her version: "J do everything Jack orders.

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Whatever he tells me to do, I do."* What they
did was set into operation a bizarre plot to
wrest away the fortune from a famous multi-
miHionaire jet-setter! But this incredible scam
which involved an illegitimate child, court-
otdered blood tests, hush-money paid to poli-
ticians, and sealed court testimony describing
activities bordering on the occult, backfired
ignominiously.

Jack came under intense pressure by the early
1970's to get out of Washington D.C. or face
the threat of another long prison sentence, or
even worse punishment at the hands of those
who sought to keep a lid on the scam! The
beautiful German girl secretly set sait for
Europe on an ocean-liner. She would hide out
in France and Germany, finally neutral
Switzerland where American agents were un-
able to bribe that government's politicians into
turning her over. Jack, from afar, constantly
supplied her with money, draining his own re-
sources to the end,

"I never loved anyone like I loved her,"
Coffelt told me in 1974 as tears welled in his
eyes. By 1971 his luck had at last run dry. The
days of free spending and high living were
over, leaving him more embittered than ever
before. More than one person who knew him
then recalled, ''He said he was going to 'ger
the government.'"' To me, his constant refrain
about the skyjacking — 'I had nothing to
lose"* — always became deeply intertwined
around the story of his passionate love for the
beautiful German geisha?

Henry James once wrote, stretching irony to
its furthest limit: ''It is far better to be killed
than to be destroyed.** The colorful and fasci-
nating Jack Coffelt was plotting, however, one
'last way to beat the "'system.'' In November
1971, as Nixon's White House flourished and
the Vietnam War raged on, Bryant "'Jack''
Coffelt became an American legend by para-
chuting from an airplane with a bag of stolen
money.

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A bland grey stone lying in an obscure corner
of a Hawatian cemetery bears the simple
legend: Bryant Coffelt — [born] February 20,
1916; {died] June 19, 1975. But the stone —
which may one day prove as cryptic as Rosetta's
~— tells nothing more about the dark circum-
stances surrounding Jack's days in Hawaii,
why he went there, or what he did. It is known,
however, among other things, that his death
certificate has been secretly altered.

In Hawaii, the palm fans sway in gentle
breezes, mangos and pineapples fill the air
with tropical aromas, and the emerald ocean
fades before sunset to what Jack would fondly
call "indigo blue."' Peaceful surfs splash the
sand-swept beaches like time itself coming
home to rest. At last, perhaps, Jack has found
& serenity that he never knew in life.

The FBI has finally admitted that Jack was a

THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH CERTIFICATE...

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During the course of our investigation my father and I hired a Las Vegas private detective
agency to procure a copy of Jack Coffelt's death certificate from the Research and Statistics
Office at the Hawaii Department of Health. But we were promptly informed by the detective
agency that the Hawaii FBE had been somehow ''alerted'' by its inquiry there — a very
Strange occurrence indeed. Why would the Bureau be alerted?

Fave Coffelt, who is listed as the *tinformant,'' apparently stated at the top of the docu-
ment (item #10) that she and Jack ''never married."" Note the addition marked "ALTERED
June 30, 1975"° in the lower right half of the certificate. To alter a death certificate requires
at least a number of official signatures from various government agencies, if not a court
order. Why was the certificate changed (and by whom?) I] days after it was issued to show
that Coffelt died on June 19 at 12:40 AM rather than on June 18 at 11:25 PM? It is a differ-
ence of not quite an hour, but legally it shifts the death one day later. Even though no autopsy
was performed {item #19a), the body was not buried until one week after that, on June 24th.
Did Coffelt's friends fly in from around the world for an extended wake before the funeral?
It seems highly unlikely.

Only weeks before June 19, 1975, Jack Coffelt was seen by old friends of his 5000 miles
away — back in Kansas! And in a letter to my father dated September 20, 1976, nearly a
year and a half after Jack's alleged death, Tave Coffelt used a strange verb tense in referring
to him: "Jack knows, "* she eerily began, 'so many people throughout the world and so
many would be interested . . . in information which they think I might provide them, it
would only result in their coming here to see me, which I do not want.""

Many unanswered questions still linger . . . boii adl

In another letter just one week after that, responding to a direct inquiry about whether she
knew for certain if Jack was D.B. Cooper, Tave did not deny that he was, but instead replied
with the cryptic warning: *'The subject to which you referred to [the skyjacking]. . . inmy
opinion is a can of worms — and could only result in trouble in the future!*' B.H.B.

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major suspect in the skyjacking all along. Out
of 933 suspects in the D.B. Cooper case,
Coffelt was ''in the top 20"' of those the Bureau
had spent the most man-hours working on —
according to Agent Gary Penrith, then in charge
of the FBI's anti-hijacking unit at headquarters
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It is virtually certain that Coffelt was the
skyjacker. Solely because of our efforts, two
people have identified him as D.B. Cooper, he
has been placed in Portland when the crime
occurred, physical evidence has been found
confirming where he jumped, and a mass of
circumstantial evidence overwhelmingly
supports all the details of his story. More than
anything, Jack was afraid of slow destruction.
After spending half of his adult life that way,
he wanted no more of poverty or lonely prison
cells. He was stunned to the very essence of
his being by the crime's horrible failure — this
perverse modern tragedy which so miserably
revealed the fatal flaw of rabid pride which
stained his character. As Robert Dobbs,
Coffelt's trusted Memphis conftdant put it:
**He would laugh Death in the face if he thought
he could pull something over on somebody. . .
and Jack always wanted to do one big thing
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memory of this American Robin Hood,
It was a rainy day in Washington /When
Cooper made his move,/Taking the flight he
took before,/Hopin' the weather would
improve.
Somewhere over Ariel/He made his fa-
mous jump./With 200 thou, a parachute:/A

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Well, listen to the people talk,/The FBI is
stumped./Some people say he died in the fall,/
Some people say he didn't jump./But of all
the possibilities/That are tattered and
worn,/No matter what you say, my friend,/A
legend has been born.

Well, they searched and searched the
countryside,/A clue they could not find/The
FBI, the State Police,/The Boy Scouts were
all blind /Now, D. B., you clever one,/You got
'em on the run./We hope that you survived
that jump/Into the settin' sun."

. «* * *

"Most of us round these parts like to
think he made it," says Dave Fisher,
owner of the Ariel Store and Tavern and
organizer of the festival held every year
around Thanksgiving time. "And a lot
of them don't think of him as a criminal
for what he did, He's a hero. And he
sure put this part of the country on the
map."

Ata recent festival Fisher sold 108 T-
shirts bearing the hero's FBI composite
image and slogans like "D. B. Cooper,

"By Richard Purdy. Copyright © 1976 by
Cabin Fever Music. Used by permission.

Where Are You?" Neck-chains, bumper
stickers, posters and other trinkets
honoring the skyjacker were also popu-
lar items. "This year we're expectin'
*bout 500 or 600 people 'cause of the
money being found," says Fisher, refer-
ting to a $4,000 cache of decaying ran-
som bills discovered 25 miles from Ari-
e] in February. "Findin' the money
didn't solve anything though. We like to
think that D. B. got away with the rest
of it."

The daring scheme that would inspire
the legend unfolded on Thanksgiving
Eve 1971, 30 miles southeast of Ariel at
the busy Portland International Airport.
Everyone seemed to want to be some-
where else that dark, stormy day,
preferably with family and loved ones
contemplating the next day's turkey
dinner and marathon schedule of
televised football games.

Shortly before 3:30 p.m. a Northwest
Orient Airlines ticket agent sold a one-
way fare on Flight 305 to a well-dressed
man who paid cash and gave his name as
Dan Cooper (later found to be an alias).
The agent hastily punched the wrong
key, however, and the passenger's name
printed out as D.B. Cooper. By 4
o'clock Cooper was seated in the rear
of the three-engine Boeing 727, patient-
ly waiting to implement his carefully
planned, boldly executed caper.

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Nearly 80 seats were vacant, She also
seemed puzzled when Cooper passed
her a handwritten note soon after take-
off. Flo had long been accustomed to
amorous travelers. Her small, trim figure
and jet-black hair attracted bankers and
college football players alike. They were
always flirting and passing her little love
notes. Some of these messages were cute.
Others were funny. A few were sexy.
But this one was different.

It said nothing about later tonight or
I know we're made for each other, sweetie. Ut
didn't even have the man's name and
phone number. The words just didn't
make sense: Bomb in briefcase... will
blow up plane... come sit with me.

Schaffner looked again at the swarthy
passenger who had handed her the slip
of paper. He seemed to be in his 40s,
with a receding hairline, about six feet
tall and of medium build. Dressed in a
reddish-brown business suit, white shirt,
flashy alligator shoes, a narrow black tie
and a stickpin, he wasn't a bad-looking
guy. But he seemed sort of distant.

Earlier, when the plane was ready for
takeoff, the stewardess had had to go
down the ramp to summon Cooper, who
was watching the baggage being loaded.
He boarded only after the cargo doors
were closed, removing his hat and dark
glasses while Schaffner served him a
double bourbon-on-the-rocks. He quick-
ly gulped it down. Sitting in the win-
dow seat with a briefcase in his lap, he
looked for all the world like any other
businessman.

He must be @ prankster, Schaffner
thought. Some men would do just any-
thing to get her attention. She stuffed
the note into her jacket pocket and
started to move forward in the cabin to
serve the other passengers. But when she
looked at Cooper, the fierce determina-
tion in his narrow-set eyes stopped her
cold. His head jerked, angrily, toward
the briefcase he held open, Inside she
saw a large battery, several red sticks
and a tangle of wires.

"Sit down here, please," he ordered in
a firm voice.

She quickly concluded that the red
sticks were dynamite and that the bat-
tery was part of a bomb. This wasn't a
joke, after all. Her pulse quickened
and her stomach churned as she ap-
proached Cooper cautiously.

Within minutes the stewardess had
relayed his demands to the cockpit, and
copilot William Rataczak was in com-
munication with Seattle-Tacoma Inter-
national Airport tower officials. "We
have a problem with a passenger," said
the experienced flier, his voice cool and
controlled. He explained that a man
was threatening to explode a bomb

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Struggling to get a better grip on the
46-pound moneybag, she turned into
"the darkened cabin. The shades had
been pulled shut on all the porthole-
shaped windows. Cooper was too smart
to let himself be picked off by police
sharpshooters. Behind Muchlow, in the
cockpit, the flight crew waited for fur-
ther instructions now that the plane had
been refueled. In front of her, hidden
somewhere in the shadows of the empty
seats, was D. B. Cooper—and his bomb.
As she walked slowly down the aisle,
Muchlow's foot struck a strange object.
For a frightening instant she thought
she might have kicked the bomb. She
lost her balance and was starting to fall
when Cooper caught her from the side.
As the bag fell to the floor, she found

herself steadied in his strong arms.
One reporter has learned that he held
the woman for several seconds, but she ] BA
didn't back away. She could feel his | &
warmth, power and confidence. He
wasn't sweaty or nervous. Days, weeks,
even years later, whenever Muchlow
remembered this scary night, she would
recall this moment—when she first
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sensed the man was somehow going to
get away with his beld plan.

Still holding the stewardess, Cooper's
hand slipped down to the swell of her
hips. She sucked in her breath and
remained motionless as his fingers ex-
plored the shape of her round, firm ass.
His other hand started to reach for the
proud peaks of her bosom. But suddenly
he seemed to change his mind.

Releasing her, he bent down and
picked up the mailbag.

"Yep, it's all here," Cooper said, plop-
ping the satchel onto the nearest
cushioned seat.

"Aren't you going to count it?"
Muchlow asked, straightening her skirt
and jacket, relieved to be free from him.

"T trust em," he smiled. Opening the
bag, he pulled out a fistful of twenties
and offered them to her. "Here," he
said. "Call it a tip."

"Oh, no," she stammered, "we're not
allowed to accept gratuities."

Cooper shrugged, and dropped the
money back into the bag. "Are the
chutes aboard?"

"They're up front."

"Bring them back here, then shut the
door. We're getting outa here. Fast!"

Grabbing a microphone at the stew-
ardesses' station, Cooper ordered the
crew to fly him to Mexico City. Pilot
William Scott explained that that
destination was outside the aircraft's
range; they would have to stop to refuel.

"Then make it Reno," the skyjacker
snapped. "'And fet's get this motherfuck-
ing show on the road!"

Shortly after takeoff he ordered the
pilots to unlock the 727's rear passenger
ramp, remain at exactly 10,000 feet
altitude, fly at 2 200-mph cruising speed
with wing flaps down at a [5-degree an-
gle and maintain a particular compass
setting. Obviously, Cooper knew exact-
ly what he was doing.

After instructing the pilot to fly the
direct course to Reno, he gave the
stewardess a final smile and closed her
inside the cockpit with the flight crew.
The last thing she remembers seeing was
Cooper removing his street shoes and
putting on a pair of heavy work boots,
which he had taken from a paper bag.
Cooper monitored the flight with a com-
pass and wrist altimeter. Since the rear

exit door had been, left open on 'his

orders, the cabin pressurization was
broken, and an altimeter could thereby
function.

At one point, when the plane drifted
slightly above the instructed altitude, he
barked to the cockpit over the intercom:
"You son of a bitch, you better keep on
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D.B.COOPER?

. The FBI composite sketch of the al-
Jeged skyjacker (above), drawn
-from eyewitness descriptions sup-
tplied by Flight 305 crew members,
«was widely circulated -in 1971-
«72... to no avail. Three years later,
mystery man Byron (Jack) Coffelt—
shown in a 1853 photograph
: (balow)— provided belfevable evi-
dence that he was the elusive D. 8.
Cooper. Before his 1975 death,
*Coffelt anlisted the aid of a former
convict friend, but failed to find the
'missing $200,000 ransom money.

course!" He also ordered the pilot to tell

three Air Force jets trailing behind to

back off; he could see their lights.
What happened next only D.B
Cooper knows for certain. Just as North-
west Flight 305 was passing over Lake
Merwin, instruments in the cockpit
indicated that the rear exit had been

vpened, No personnel entered the cabin
until the plane landed in Reno three
hours Jater. By then Cooper, two
parachutes, the mailbag and the attache
case had vanished. All he left behind
were some lengths of cut-up parachute
shroud line-—-and reams of speculation
concerning his fate.

The FBI claims it expended thou-
sands of man-hours tracking down leads
on some 800 suspects, without success.
Its conclusion is that Cooper, or what-
ever his real name was, probably per-
ished in the jump. Official line aside,
many observers familiar with the case
suggest that Cooper was ea an ex-
convict named Byron (Jack) Coffelt.
They cite, in part, convincing' evidence
supplied by James Brown—a former
Army officer who shared a cell with
Coffelt at the Atlanta Federal Penitenti-
ary. At various intervals from June 1973
until his death in June 1975, Coffelt told
Brown intimate details of the skyjacking
and its aftermath that nobody except
someone with firsthand knowledge of
the incident could possibly have known.

Until then Brown knew surprisingly
little about his old cellmate's past histo-
ry. Coffelt, a hard drinker who stood six
feet tail and weighed 190 pounds, was
always shrouded in mystery. And un-
doubtedly that's the way he wanted it.
Born in 1916, he spent much of his first
30 years in Midwestern jails for a variety
of minor crimes. In 1949 he received a
ten-year sentence for interstate transpor-
tation of a stolen automobile. Over the
years his cellmates in the Atlanta and
Leavenworth federal prisons reportedly
included Colonel Jack Durant, who was
convicted of stealing the Hesse crown
jewels during World War II, and James
Earl Ray, who is presently serving a life
sentence for killing Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.

During those prison years Coffelt ap-
parently made contact with the FBI. A
source who requests anonymity men-
tions a letter signed by J. Edgar Hoover
asking the prison warden for infor-
mation about Coffelt. The source also
says that the agent in charge of the At-
lanta FBI office was Coffelt's sole visitor
for five years.

Some believe that he became an FBI
informant in prison, secretly turning
over information damaging to his cell-
mates. To Brown, Coffelt described his
time behind bars as a "revolving door'—
meaning that he would be let out for a
few days of' weeks at a time to carry out
"hit jobs" for the government.

Years later Coffelt was known to carry
FBI and Department of Agriculture cre-
dentials, as well as passes for the White
House and the Pentagon. A college
professor reports that he was once riding

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with Coffelt in Washington, D.C., e
Coffelt picked up General Creighton
Abrams—then U.S. Army Chief of
Staff—and drove him to the Pentagon.
The professor says he saw Coffelt flash
FBI credentials.

Naturally, the FBI refuses to comment
on these revelations or on any other as-
pect of Coffelt's life.

Records show that he was paroled
from Leavenworth in 1955 after serving
just six years.of his ten-year sentence.
Then, in the mid-!1960s, he became the
trusted aide of wealthy Robert Todd
Lincoin Beckwith--the great-grandson
and last living relative of Abraham Lin-
coln. Beckwith has heavily financed
several right-wing causes, such as the
John Birch Society.

In 1974 Coffelt boasted to Brown that
he had "helped kill a nigger" in Mem-
phis, Tennessee. He mentioned being in
"one of the white cars" that had deliber-
ately caused traffic congestion imme-
diately after Dr. King was assassinated.

Where much of the preceding may
seem rather sketchy, Coffelt's story of
the Northwest Airlines skyjacking—as
recounted by James Brown—is detailed
and believable. '

From the outset of the meetings that
began in 1973, Brown played a deter-
mined devil's-advocate role with
Coffelt—asking tough questions. At

times Coffelt would be cooperative and
come forward with more details. Other

times Coffelt would shut off completely, *

saying he was tired of talking about it
all. But inevitably, during the days they
spent together searching for the missing
money and at Brown's home in Oregon,
they would come back to the skyjacking.
_ Coffelt said he had first planned to
steal several million dollars, which he
thought would be aboard Flight 305,
headed for the Federal Reserve Bank in
Seattle. But after watching the loading
of the plane and realizing the bank
money had failed to arrive, he carried
out an alternate plan to demand the
$200,000 ransom.

He told Brown he had called the air-
line numerous times to make phony
reservations for Flight 305 so there
would be fewer people on board. He
saw no sense in creating unnecessary
problems.

Before jumping from the plane's rear
exit door, Coffelt said, he put the
moneybag and an electronic receiver in-
side a green plastic bag he had carried
aboard in his briefcase. After throwing
the briefcase overboard, he tied a line
around the moneybag and made a loop
for his arm.

Coffelt said his bail-out point was not
the Lake Merwin vicinity, as stated by
the FBI. He claims to have landed 70
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accomplice with a Jeep waited for him
in the brush. The four-wheel-drive vehi-
cle was equipped with an electronic
"beeper." Another vehicle, a white Cad-
iltac, was hidden close to a paved road.

Spotting a beacon on Mount Hood,
Coffelt was able to sight a triangle of
three small runway lights located east of
the mountain, set in place by his
accomplice. He put his arm through the
moneybag and waited for a signal from

the Jeep beeper. Preparing to jump |

directly over the beacon lights, he
was suddenly swept off balance by
swirling winds and sucked down into
the darkness.

At the 10,000-foot altitude Coffelt
figured it would be safe to count to 50
before opening the chute. But as he free-
fell into the black night, he counted only
to 30 before instinctively pulling on his
chest-pack rip cord. Nothing happened.

Desperately, he pulled at the D-ring
on the seat-pack chute. It opened with a
jolt. At that moment, relieved that he
wouldn't hit the earth at more than 100
miles per hour and die, he made the mis-

"take of relaxing his grip on the money-

bag. It slipped off his arm and disap-
peared beneath him.

He would never see the $200,000
again.

The combination of a strong wind and
the early chute opening caused him to
drift far from the target meadow. Coffelt
hit the ground hard at more than 30
mph, was dragged along by the para-
chute and smacked into a dead tree.

Despite the pain from injuries to his
rib cage, genitals, feet and legs, he man-
aged to remove the chutes. To avoid
possible detection, he melted them with
an aerosol] can of solvent spray. Then he
buried what was left of the chutes—
mostly metal snaps and buckles—next
to a large rock, on which he scratched
large X's and O's,

Coffelt now considered his very real
dilemma. He could hear the signals from
the beepers in both the Jeep and the-lost
moneybag, but the latter was weak and
beginning to fade. He thought about
going after the money, but quickly dis-
missed the plan when he realized he
would have a difficult enough time
reaching the Jeep from this steep, inac-
cessible area. Resignedly, he mustered
his remaining strength and began his
trek through the pitch-dark forest, hom-
ing in on the Jeep beeper.

When the sun came up, Coffelt was
still miles away from the Jeep. At one
point he crossed a road and was aston-
ished to see a bulldozer at work nearby.
He turned his face so the driver couldn't

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identify him later. Around noontime,
some 15 hours after his landing, he
reached the Jeep.

Then he and his accomplice drove to
near where the Cadillac was hidden.
Eventually they loaded the Jeep with an
explosive charge, rolled it into a lake
and blew it up-

Coffelt said he then entered the back-
seat of the Cadillac, and his partner
drove him to Kansas City, where he
received medical attention.

Eleven days after the skyjacking,
Coffelt began working as a surgical tech-
nician at a northern Virginia hospital.
His superior there says that he had diffi-
culty walking and at one point showed
her his "badly discolored legs"—in-
juries that some believe he sustained in
the parachute jump.

The following spring, after thé snow
had melted, Coffelt said he chartered a
helicopter and returned to the area. But
when the pilot became unduly curious
about the object of the search, Cof-
felt abandoned his efforts to locate the
moneybag.

A few years later he told James Brown
that he wanted to go back into the Cas-
cades and look for the small fortune, but
that he needed help. In July 1974 the
two men and Brown's muscular 17-
year-old son made a week-long trek into
the mountains where Coffelt said he
landed. Coffelt was then in il! health,
and at one point he nearly collapsed on
a steep grade. For the entire week they
made themselves as invisible as possible,
blending into the forest, keeping camp-
fires low, meticulously picking up after
themselves. But they found no money in
the rugged terrain.

Meanwhile, Brown had been writing
down every scrap of information Coffelt
told him. He began working on a
manuscript following Coffelt's death in
1975. To sell the story, Brown found
producer Dirk Summers in Las Vegas,
where he was supervising a Kenny Nor-
ton heavyweight fight for CBS Sports.

Summers says that he had Brown take
a jie-detector test concerning the time
he spent with Coffelt in northern
Oregon. "He passed with flying colors,"
claims Summers. "But all that meant
was that Brown believed Coffelt's story.
I kept thinking, if this story is true, it's
the story of the century."

So Summers began his own investiga-
tion. In 1977 he and Brown organized
an expedition into the Cascades, back to
where Coffelt had taken Brown three
years earlier. This time, thanks to a
metal-detector and energetic digging,
the search party unearthed a solid piece

of physical evidence: a one-and-a-half-
inch piece of cording that proved to be
synthetic nylon of the type used in
parachute shrouding.

"We had a lab report confirming that
the cording came from a parachute and
was five to seven years old," says Sum-
mers. "We were very careful uncovering
it. I took soil samples, which I turned
over to the lab so I would know whether
something hadn't just been buried there.
It's a strong piece of circumstantial
evidence.

"The area where we found this was
very primitive, remote wilderness —Big-
foot country. We had to lower ourselves
down a cliff to get to the site. There was
a dead tree that Jack told Brown he hit.
And this enormous, two-story-high rock
with markings on it: X's and O's that
Coffelt said he had scratched into the
rock the night he landed there. That was
where we dug. You could even see the
narrow trenches where his feet had hit
the ground and he had been dragged by
the parachute."

Summers became a believer in the sto-
ry, and he too is convinced that Jack
Coffelt was D. B. Cooper. He has fin-
ished a book on the subject, and claims
to have interested actors Robert Mitch-
um and Telly Savalas in a TV project.

Summers and Brown also believe that
the FBI went to great lengths to cover up
and otherwise derail the Coffelt/Cooper
connection. The producer suspects that
the FBI may have known all along that
Coffelt was the skyjacker, but didn't go
after him because they realized he had
stories to tell about his earlier coopera-
tion with the agency. "Assistant and
deputy FBI directors are involved in the
Coffelt story," says Summers. "It's a
string of middle-level officials covering
up and protecting their own asses."

Many observers closest to the case are
still perplexed by the way it was han-
dled. According to reliable sources, Flo
Schaffner and Tina Muchlow--the two
stewardesses on board Flight 305 who
could identify Cooper—said the FBI
released a composite of the skyjacker
that looked nothing like him, even
though they had worked closely with an
FBI artist.

Both Summers and Brown were inter-
viewed extensively and gave agents
copies of Coffelt photographs. Summers
says the stewardesses told him the FBI!
never showed the Coffelt pictures to any
of the airline.cpew. He also says the FBI
threatened *iiwt-with legal action and
possible prosecution if he continued with
his Coffelt investigation. Worse yet, Sum-
mers says FBI agents contacted persons
who had talked to him and warned them
against cooperating further.

Even 60 Minutes' intrenid Mike

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Wallace had difficulty dealing with the
Bi. Despite telephone conversations
ith agents working on the case and a
eeting with Bureau Director William
ebster, he unearthed no new informa-
on, and reached a frustrating dead end.
If Wallace had chosen to dig deeper,
e might have uncovered strong evi-
ence that Coffelt was telling the truth

mrom two eyewitnesses aboard Flight

M05—stewardess Tina Muchlow (now
ina Muchlow Larsen) and attorney

reorge LaBissoniere. In the past year

oth have identified a photograph of

'offelt as the skyjacker. Interestingly,

aBissoniere says he previously iden-

Mified an FBI photo of Coffelt a month

fter the incident. As far as he knows,

othing more ever happened as a result
apf the identification. He tried contacting
he FBI several times, but no one at the

Bureau ever returned his calls.

Also supporting Coffelt's story are

nusual details of the skyjacking that he

old Brown, facts that have never been

Released by lawmen or published by

newsmen.

Coffelt said he "petted and touched"
the stewardess in an intimate way and
offered her some of the ransom money.
The "groping" has been confirmed by a
member of the flight crew. Larsen
verifies Coffelt's claim that he changed
into boots on the plane. To this day, all
mnews reports have echoed the FBI's
claim that he jumped in street shoes.

Earlier this year the D. B. Cooper sto-
ry stormed back onto 'the front pages
when some of the ransom money was
recovered—not by any of the hopeful
treasure-hunters who have prowled the
jump region for years, but purely by ac-
cident. On February 12, during a family
outing on the northern bank of the Co-
lumbia River, eight-year-old Brian
Ingram was scooping out sand for a
campfire site. Suddenly he shouted:
"Daddy, I see money!" His father dug
further and found 12 packets of crum-
bling $20 bills wrapped in worn rubber
bands. "It didn't look like I could spend
it," says Harold Ingram. "I thought it
was counterfeit."

The discovery was made about 50
miles downstream from where Coffelt
said he landed and some 20 miles away
from where the FBI searched for
Cooper's landing spot. If the money had
dropped at either location, it would
have had to work its way down a tribu-
tary and eventually into the wide river.
Although the bills apparently did just
that, the landing spot or exact route the
money followed in the river will prob-
ably never be determined, since earth
was freely moved from one river to an-
other during a massive dredging oper-
ation in 1977 and 1978.

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The currency's serial numbers did,
however, match those on some of the
bills given Cooper in 1971. Despite
massive digging by the FBI and local
police during the next several days, no
more ransom money was found.

Those who believe that Jack Coffelt
may have been D. B. Cooper feel that
finding the money did nothing to con-
tradict his version of the skyjacking.
"After all, Coffelt did claim he lost the
money," .one journalist familiar with the
case points out.

The FBI agent in charge of the case
from the beginning, Ralph Himmels-
bach, declines to discuss details of
Coffelt's story or his alleged connections
to the Bureau. Besides, he thinks it
unlikely that D. B. Cooper ever pulled
through.

"The aircraft was flying at 10,000 feet
at nearly 200 mph," says Himmelsbach.
"The air temperature outside was
minus-seven degrees. Winds in Portland
were gusting at ground level up to 40
mph. He was plunging straight down at
26 mph, the normal rate of vertical de-
scent in sport parachuting. Add those
two numbers together, and he had to
strike the ground at nearly 70 mph. It's
hard to conceive how he could have
landed without being badly injured.
Also, he lacked the necessary equipment
to make such a jump. He should have
had a hard hat, goggles, a leather flight
jacket, a flight suit and some tools and
cutters so he could free himself from
whatever trees or bushes he might have
gotten hung up in.

"It was an incredible gamble. Yet he
was dressed in a suit, with a tie and
stickpin, alligator shoes, a raincoat and
dark glasses and carrying a briefcase. He
seemed to be saying, 'If I make it, okay.
Ef 1 don't, that's okay too.'"

And what about the report from
stewardess Muchlow that she saw him
change from his street shoes to boots be-
fore the jump? "That's news to me,"
Himmelsbach says gruffly.

A tough, old investigator, he retired
from the Bureau a month after the
Ingrams found some of the ransom
money. Nevertheless, Himmelsbach's
compulsion with solving his biggest-ever
case has not ended. A private pilot, he
still flies his single-engine Beechcraft
Bonanza over the rugged terrain that he
hopes hides the decaying parachutes
and bones of D. B. Cooper. Clearly, he
does not relish the prospect that the sky-
jacker survived the jump and lived to
spend most of the money.

And he has nothing but contempt for
the townspeople of Ariel, Washington,
who commemorate the famous skyjack-
ing. "They're making fun of a deadly
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"He [Cooper] was nothing but a com-
mon criminal. He terrorized people,
threatened their lives, threatened to
blow up a plane. [ don't like to see some-
one like that celebrated."

But someone who has attended Ariel's
annual D. B. Cooper Day sees the sky-
jacker differently: "This wasn't just a
simple rip-off. We're not honoring an
antihero because he got away with a
crime. We do it because we all think of
our own reasons why we would have
done the same thing."

Undoubtedly, Himmelsbach wouldn't
care to see the skyjacker glorified in a
movie either. But that's exactly what
famed director John Frankenheimer
(Seven Days in May, Black Sunday, The
Birdman of Alcatraz and The Manchurian
Candidate) is doing for PolyGram Pic-
tures, which owns the film rights to J. D.
Reed's novel Free Fail. In this fast-
paced yarn—retitled Pursuit for the
screen—a character similar to D.B.
Cooper survives his plunge from an air-
liner. Then he's pursued across most of
the country by a determined federal
agent. Yes, the skyjacker gets away.

"D, B. Cooper pulled off a stunt that
everyone would love to pull off," says
Frankenheimer, describing what at-
tracted him to the story. "It's the old
Robin Hood guy screwing the Establish-
ment. The Cooper character [played by

actor Treat Williams] will be portrayed
as an obsessed human being who be-
comes a folk hero... much like Bonnie
and Clyde." The film will be released
next year.

Says author Reed, who spent more
than two years researching the Cooper/
Coffeit story and another year writing
his fictionalized version of the facts:
"Sometimes I think Coffelt didn't do it.
But then some mornings I wake up, and
I'm sure he was D. B, Cooper.

"Whichever is true, the motivation is
what makes this case so interesting.
Here's a guy who held a plane for no
political or personally disturbed reason.
He did it straight-out for money. His
was the ultimate victimless crime. After
the whole thing was over and the FBI
interviewed Tina Muchlow Larsen, the
stewardess came to the conclusion that
D.B. Cooper actually was carrying
railroad flares in his briefcase. The guy
didn't even have a real bomb. He never
intended to hurt anybody."

Reed has his own favorite theory
about the enduring D.B. Cooper
legend. "There have since been a num-
ber of skyjackings bearing a resem-
blance to the D.B. Cooper job," he
says. "I'd like to think the guy is stil!
alive and ripping off the Establishment.
They don't hardly make them like
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tions found that an attacker could
quickly infect millions of people up to
26 miles away. To this day the Army
denies it was responsible for an extreme-
ly rare outbreak of Serratia marcescens-
linked pneumonia that hospitalized 1}
individuals and killed one patient.

Nor did the Army limit its testing to
the common man. On March 15, 1962,
Chemical and Biological Warfare re-
searchers carried out a simulated assassi-
nation of President John F. Kennedy by
planting vapor-emitting items in the
tourist sections of the White House.
These vapors were then carried into the
air-conditioning system, past guards and
into the Oval Office. And the CIA has
since admitted plotting the germ-
weapon assassination of Cuban dictator
Fidel Castro, but these plans were not
carried out.

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neo-Nazi organization called RISE ar-
rested by Chicago police in 1972. One,
who worked in a local hospital, had
aroused suspicion by his preoccupation

with gaining access to deadly disease

specimens. When caught, he was found
to have brewed up "a quantity" —about
80 pounds—-of typhoid bacteria. RISE

members, according to Cook County
State's Attorney Edward V. Hanrahan,
had planned to inoculate themselves,
then to inject the lethal germs into the
water supplies of Chicago and other
Midwestern cities. When the expected
epidemic killed the present population
off, the RISE madmen believed, they
would repopulate the land with a "mas-
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seed.

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citizens that chlorine in their drinking
water would have killed the typhoid
germs. We can hope this is true, but
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necessarily have killed germs (such as
those that cause anthrax) created by the
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The following investigation was conducted by Special
Agent | at Los Angeles, California:

After several cancellations] Jappeared at
the Los Angeles Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
accompanied by a women who wanted to remain anonymous. The woman
stated that the_reason she wanted to remain anonymous was that
she was in the| | She picked the name [L__] to
be_ called. It should be noted that | jwas not recognized
ag

advised that she and her husband have been
residing part time in south Kern County in the community, Pine
Mountain Club, California. She stated that a_resident,
has lived in the community for approximately years. He is a
very secretive individual, never really discussing his past. He
mentioned that he had been in the military and seemed to have
knowledge of parachuting, but[__Jwas unable to say if it was
through experience or by some other means.

She recalled that[_]years ago, [_|nad approximately
in cash, which he deposi n the ist International
Bank, Frazier Park, California. never mentioned where he
got the money. She added that he has never worked as far as she
knows and could provide no reason for him having that amount of
cash.

sated that several months ago the D.B. COOPER
incident was aired on Unsolved Mysterious. She stated that after
seeing the television program, she feels that |] resembles

an aged D.B. the ae nis point, indicated that her
involvement in the was in|

| |] She stated that from her experience and belief,[_ |

| Jcould be an aged D.B.COOPER. She described asa
white male, approximately 57 years of age, gray balding hair,
5'11", 235 pounds. When asked specifically about making

statements_about being D.B. COOPER, hijacking airplanes or
extortion,[ ___]could provide no information which coulda
connect them as being the same person, other then resembling each
other.

advised that lresides in a house
beleived to be on

|} in the City of Pine Mountain Club. She

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by who has a

| | Commercial Center, Pine Mountain Club.

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appropriately. She added that Pine Mountain Club is a small
community which is patrolled by the Kern County Sheriff's Office,
Frazier Park Substation.

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address.
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' From Los Angeles go north out through the San Fernando
Valley on l-5. After you pass Magic Mtn and Castaic Lake,
it is 25 serene hilly miles to Gorman. Just after Gorman,
. take the Frazier Park/Mt Pinos off-ramp left under the
' . freeway. Stay on this road for 12.2 miles, straight thru
the Frazier Park'area into the heavily forested region.
, . At the 12.2 mile polnt turn right on Mii Potrero Hwy.lt is
' another 6 miles of Forest Land to Pine Min. Club. To find
"REALTY WORLO® Mountain Properties", turn joft at the
Exxon station {across from the Golf Course), go 50 yards
up Pine Circle to Pine Valley Lane. We are In the buliding
on the sourtheast corner of that tiny intersection.

85 MILES TO LA CIVIC CENTER
VIA INTERSTATE HWYS

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Vallay on I-5. After you pass Magic Mtn and Castaic Lake,
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take the Frazier Park/Mt. Pinos off-ramp left under the
freeway. Stay on this road for 12.2 milas, straight thru
the Frazier Park'area into the heavily forested region.

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on the sourtheast corner of that tlny intersection.

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Enclosed for Sacramento and Seattle are two copies
of a map reflecting Pine Mountain Club, California, and two
copies each of an investigative insert.

The Los Angeles Office of the FBI received
information fron | Sherman
Oaks, California ____|that he is acting as an

ermediary for-a woman who wants to remain anonymous. He
stated that the woman, who wanted to use the name was
connected to thel jand has some information to
provide the FBI regarding a person who resembled D. B. COOPER.

Arrangements were made to havelL_ sd appear at
the Los Angeles Office.

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information connecting the look-alike, with subject
D.B. COOPER, however, Los Angeles has not beén able to
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composite of UNSUB. Caller stated that was currently
employed at_PETROL TRUCK in Shreveport, Louisiana. The caller
described |}as an adult, white male with
and moustache.
Shreveport Resideht Agency, New Orleans Division
has determined that there is no PETROL TRUCK in the
Shreveport, Louisiana area; however, there is a PETRO FUEL
LUBE AND TRUCK STORE.
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description of L___] none of the aforenentioned[ ___] bE

could recall ever having seen this person. A canvassing o BIC
the area to question long term employees who may have known
provided no information.

As there is no further investigation to be
conducted, this matter is considered RUC'd.

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Memorandum t )

To : SAC, SEATTLE (SE 164A-81) (P} Date §/27/92
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00: SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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Omaha, dated 11/20/91; and Omaha's airtel to Seattle, dated
1/21/92.
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and she thought this person was identical to al Jas it
turns out, she later met and realized he was not
spel person known to her as| | She further advised
she

| | and she believes she will see him again in April or May,
at which time she will contact the Omaha Office to furnish
further information which may lend credence to the fact that she
believes| | is identical with the UNSUB in this matter.

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, In view of the above information, pno_teads are being
set out at this time to further investigate and it
does not appear that there is any reason to believe| Jis
identical with the UNSUB. If and when[___]provides additional
information, this matter_should be reviewed to determine if the
possibility exists that] jmay be identical with the
UNSUB.

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120 West Michigan Ave. « Lansing, Michigan 48933 4

December 5, 1990

S.A.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
915 Second Ave.

Room #710

Seattle, WA 98174

Dear Sir:

The enclosed information pertains to a subject who was under
investigation by the narcotics unit I was previously assigned to in
Kalamazoo, Michigan. I believe he is currently |

| He isl

It came to my attention that| was rumored to be the D.B. Cooper
who had hijacked, ransomed, then jumped out of a passenger jet
sometime, I believe, in the mid to late sixties. I was also told
£ a a ¢

|} I checked to see if he had_been in the military and learned
that he had been in the Army fron]
He was stationed the entire time at Ft. Benning, Georgia where he
had attended_jump school. I have also been told that either as work
.or a hobby, | lin Colorado. He has a criminal
history he is currently
at the Riverside Correctional Facility in Tonia, Michigan.

In the course of one investigation I spoke to an ex-wife of
who was quite cooperative. If you have questions I could probably
locate her again.

[is an J to say the least. Officers who have
spoken to him indicate that, if you _can overlook the fact that
| ] he is quite likeable. | and

1f not respected was at least accepted in social circles.

The information I've enclosed contains mast of the reports, etc.
that I could assemble on[____] There are also several photos of

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varying quality. It appears that the oldest is from 1972.

If you need additional information, please contact me. Please

return the'reports to me when you are finis i f you

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THE .CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF CALHOUN

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ORDER OF DETAINER

To the Sheriff? of Calhoun County:

Pursuant to the authority granted in the General Order dated "April

24, 1985" the above defendant shalt} be detained until further notice of the

Probation Department.

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Dated this \Trh. day of sha ts 244
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HALL OF TUSTICE
80 EAST STATE STREET
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_- Honorable in Re Coleman placed. | lwith <4.
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years of probation, -and Jail time to be suspended. Tae SE.
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« | Memorandum @ )
To: SAC, SEATTLE (SE 164A-81) {(P} Date 5/27/92
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From ; SA —
Subject: NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Re Sub: J. (miscellaneous persons).
| | TRI-COUNTY METRO b6
NARCOTICS SQUAD, Lansing, Michigan provided information bic

concerning jJadvised it had come to his
attention that | Jwas. rumored to be ton mai dD. B.
COOPER, subject of captioned investigation. jstated he had
been informed that] lwas an accomplished sky diver and had

been in the ARMY from| to| where he
was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia and attended jump school
there.

[Jprovidea rap sheets and photographs concerning b6
the criminal history for [~~] which are attached to this BIC
memorandum.

described [___]in his letter and in the reports b6
as follows: b7C
Name |
Sex Maie
Date of birth

Height Sti"

Weight 190 pounds

Hair Brown

Byes Blue

Complexion Medium

Address |
Battle Creek, Michigan

Telephone

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Account Number

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SE 164A-81

The author reviewed the attached photographs of L___] b6
and noted they depicted a stocky, white male, approximately 5'11" bIC
in height with a | In view of the

fact would have been|_|years old at the time of

hijacking and in view of the fact that he has a distinct feature,

that of | __| which was not mentioned

the witnesses who described the unknown subject in this_matter,

no further investigation will be conducted concerning
pertains to captioned matter.

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FD-36 (Rev. 11-17-88)

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(1 Facsimile CJ Priority O SECRET
AIRTEL [LD Routine [] CONFIDENTIAL
[C] UNCLASEFTO
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Date 6/10/92
TO 3: SAC, SALT LAKE CITY
FROM : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P)
SUBJECT : NORJAK

00; SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Re subject 386 RICHARD FLOYD MC COY, JR.

Because of the recently published books regarding
the similarities between MC COY and the unknown subject in
this matter, renewed interest in MC COY as a NORJAK suspect is
being generated. The Salt Lake City Division is requested to
forward to Seattle any information in its files regarding
RICHARD FLOYD MC COY, JR., that has not previously been made
available to Seattle. This would include information
concerning MC COY's involvement in captioned crime as well as
MC COY's involvement in the UNITED AIRLINES hijacking.

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SUBJECT +: NORJAK

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ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Re subject 386 RICHARD FLOYD MC COY, JR.

Because of the recently published books regarding
the similarities between MC COY and the unknown subject in
this matter, renewed interest in MC COY as a NORJAK suspect is
being generated. The Salt Lake City Division is requested to
forward to Seattle any information in its files regarding
RICHARD FLOYD MC COY, JR., that has not previously been made
available to Seattle. This would include information
concerning MC COY's involvement in captioned crime as well as
MC COY's involvement in the UNITED AIRLINES hijacking.

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Memorandum

To SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81} (P) Date 6/10/92
From : SA

Subject: NORJAK

00: SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Re subject 386 RICHARD FLOYD MC COY, JR.

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conducted by SA

that indicates that RICHARD FLOYD MC Coy,

The a information is a summary of investigation

JR., is not identical with Unknown Subject (UNSUB):

Physical differences:
MC COY

28 years old
Ears stick out
Blue eyes

Did not smoke (7?)

Sy
COOPER

45 years old

Ears do not stick out
Brown eyes

Did smoke

In April 1972, all three stewardesses of the hijacked
NORTHWEST ORIENT airplane after viewing MC COY's photograph
stated that they were quite certain that MC COY was not identical

to COOPER.

When MC COY's home was searched after his arrest by the
FBI for the UNITED AIRLINES hijacking, $499,970.00 of the

$500,000.00 ransom was recovered.
was found.

None of the DB COOPER ransom

After MC COY was convicted and received a 45-year
sentence for the UNITED AIRLINES hijacking, no attempt was made
to plea bargain the NORJAK hijacking even though it would have
been to MC COY's financial as well as his personal advantage to

do so.

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A Jat Brigham Young
University, | placed Mc coY at his residence
in Provo, Utah, at 10:00 a.m. on 11/25/71, the day after NORJAK.
UNSUB was last seen at about 8:00 p.m. on 11/24/71, when he
parachuted into dense woods in the southern part of the state of
Washington.

COOPER instructed the NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES pilot
to fly south after taking off from Seattle/Tacoma International
Airport. He did not specify any direction nor any vector that
should be flown nor did he specify any changes while in flight.
It was clear from this command that COOPER did not particularly
care where the plane went as long as it went south from Seattle.
This would tend to imply that COOPER was not being met on the
ground by an accomplice nor did he intend to find something he
had left on the ground such as a car or clothing or other
paraphernalia to aid him after he reached the ground subsequent
to his parachuting from the airplane.

In view of this it would have been necessary for UNSUB
to have landed on the ground on the evening of 11/24/71, at about
$:00 p.m. and somewhere in a dense wooded area in southern
Washington and somehow have made it back to his home in Provo,
Utah, by 10:00 a.m. the next morning. He was observed in his
home completely rested without marks or physical injuries of any
kind by the above-named Brigham Young University> It
seems highly unlikely that an individual would have been able to
maneuver from the wooded area in Washington to Provo, Utah,
without taking some sort of airplane transportation to do so.

The nearest airport to where UNSUB would have landed in southern
Washington was the Portland airport which was the airport at
which the NORJAK hijacking originated. During the evening of
11/24/71, it was quite busy with law enforcement personnel of all
kinds including FBI Agents in and about the airport conducting
interviews and conducting other investigation.

In view of the above information, it seems unlikely
that MC CoY is identical with UNSUB subject in this matter.

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Date 5/27/92

TO : SAC, PHOENIX (164-100)
FROM .: SAC, SEATTLE (SE 164A-81) (P)

SUBJECT : NORJAK
00: SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Re Sub: | }and Phoenix airtel to b6
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information concerning

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To : SAC, SEATTLE (P) Date 6/10/92

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Subject: NORJAK
00: SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Re| - source. b6
Seattle airtel to Denver dated 7/31/89, Seattle airtel to Denver bic
dated 1/23/80. Denver letter to Seattle dated 4/2/90.

As a result o telephone call from a caller who
identified himself as| lof Denver, Colorado, telephone b6
number | jwas suggested as being BIC -
identical with UNSUB in this matter. No further investigation }

other than the fact that is a former paratrooper in
World War I and has lived and worked in a| jin Wyoming.

The Denver Division was able to determine b6
telephone nunber | lwas subscribed _to by b7C
| Denver, Colorado. | |advised that
}is unknown to her.

Al | telephone number
l | was located in the Interwest Crisscross Directory
and the U.S. WEST telephone directory for the Denver Metropolitan bé :
area. There was only one jin the Metropolitan Denver b7C-
area indicated in these directories. | was interviewed :
and stated that he had never contacted the FBI concerning the TV
show "Unsolved Mysteries," and has never heard off |

|

In view of this information, no further investigation
will be conducted concerning this aspect of captioned case.

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To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Date 6/10/92

From : SA on

Subject: NORJAK
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Re| l("Unsolved Mysteries" lead).

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Deeelas suggested as a possible suspect in this b7¢c
matter as the result of an anonymous telephone call received by

the television show "Unsolved Mysteries." The only reason given
that| ishould be considered a suspect was that he is an
expert parachute jumper.

It was learned through investigation that[__is xX b6
five feet eight inches tall and has a stocky build. In view of b7C
the fact that UNSUB has been described_as six feet tall with

medium build, it appears unlikely that is identical with

UNSUB in this matter. In addition, there is no reference made to

a reward by the anonymous caller as would have been done if the

caller had specific information which would indicate lwas

identical with UNSUB. This appears to be a supposition call by

someone in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area who remembered
and remembered the fact that he was a parachute jumper.

In view of ve, no further investigation will be
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00: SEATTLE
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Re| |
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matter because he supposedly gave| [to
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identical with UNSUB in this matter but, again, has no firsthand bic
knowledge and no evidence to indicate that this is true.
Jand is fascinated with the
crime that UNSUB committed. He speaks of it often and likes to
| comment on the crime every time he spends a $20.00 bill.
| A view of the file fails to reveal any indication that
| is involved in this crime in any way. | would b6
have been years old at the time of the hijacking, and, BIC

therefore, his age would indicate that he is not identical with
UNSUB in this matter. In view of this fact and in view of the

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fact that all of the reasons for which this case was initially

opened have been muerte: Gisproved, no further investigation

concerning | will be conducted at this time. bo
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Re | land Richmond airtel to BIC
Seattle dated 1/9/92.
lhas been suggested-ds a suspect in this a be
matter by | There appears to be dev
little information that would indicate| [is involved in
captioned crime other than a suspicion by | | that
he was capable of committing such a crime.
| | is described as a White male, six feet b6
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aller than the UNSUB, no further investigation should be
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Subject: NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Re | | son of D. B. COOPER; bé :
Boston teletype to Seattle and Norfolk dated 6/11/90; Norfolk b7C

teletype to Seattle and Boston dated 6/19/90; and Norfolk airtel
to Seattle dated 6/27/90.

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individual as asked if he had XX Pre
ever heard to D. B. COOPER, the airplane hijacker. said ,
thatL____———sd|went on to tell him that |was the son
of D. B. COOPER. [__—sdjnever had any conversations with
[__Jabout his father, D. B. COOPER.

| |was telephonically contacted by sa| b6
and questioned concerning the_above information. | | stated BIC
that he really does not know that well and that :

| [father is named | | stated he
has never met |

[| statea that | J lives in Winfield, b6

B.C., and is listed in the telephone book under the name BIC

| |] His telephone number is | | stated
that is[__]lyears old now and used to work as an

[for hunting trips. He currently works as a

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| laavisea that there was no truth to the rumor
that | is D. B. COOPER's son. He explained that
this was just a joke and that people liked to think that they
know something or someone famous. | reiterated that there
was absolutely no truth at all to the rumor that | |
was in any way related to UNSUB in this matter.

UNSUB, when he hijacked the NORTHWEST AIRLINES
airplane, used the name DAN COOPER to purchase his airplane
ticket. It is unlikely that someone would hijack an airplane and
use his real surname as the name under which he buys the ticket.
In view of this fact and in view of the fact that |
now states that this was merely a joke on his part, no further
investigation will be conducted concerning this aspect of the
case.

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To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Dae 6/10/92
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Subject: NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Re| | son of D. B. COOPER.
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| | telephonically advised that his father is |
| lstated his father is wanted by the

U.S. Marshal's Service out of Minneanolis, Minnesota, for
stated the U.S. Marshal

working the case is | |

stated that he learned from[_____]that there
was a rumor that his father had been killed. He last saw his
father in 1977. He described him as a White male, DOB
five feet eleven inches in height, 180 pounds, black hair, green
eyes. As a result of an] jin late 1960, his
father had a| |

In addition, he had a iittie scar on his lip that was

barely discernable as a result of the same accident.

[ |stated that his father did not smoke
cigarettes but did smoke cigars and that his father had no
parachuting experience that he knew of but was a member of the
U.S. Air Force at one time.

|jstated that he has no information at all
that would indicate his father is involved in any way in
captioned crime. He supposes that his name and his father's name
were brought up in connection with captioned crime as pure
speculation on the part of friends or associates.

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Re SUB J miscellaneous persons. | b6
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Seattle FBI dated 1/9/92.

4 | Hixson, .\
Tennessee | ea letter to NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES
réequésting information concerning the reward in captioned case.
A copy of that letter was forwarded to the Seattle Office of the
FBI by[_ |

On 4/30/92,| |was_co ed at his home b6
in Hixon, Tennessee, telephonically by SA b7C
stated that he is engaged in pure speculation, however, it 1s his

view that the UNSUB in this matter is actually a Black man who
could pass for a White man. [_____] stated the 551st Airborne was
an Army Airborne Unit that was founded during World War II
comprised of all Black men. They were unable to fight in World
War II, but at the end of the war in 1946 some of them were sent
to the north west to help fight fires. It is his assumption that
one of these men that were sent here was, in fact, UNSUB who was
actually a Black man who could pass as a White. |
speculates that this caused the man frustration at the fact that
he was Black and that this reason led him to hijack the NORTHWEST
ORIENT AIRLINES airplane. | | stated that he had no
firsthand information and did not have "the big picture" but it
just seemed to him that this was a possibility.

In view of the above information, no investigation
appears to be warranted and therefore no further investigation
concerning this aspect of the case will be conducted.

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To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Date 6/10/92

From : SA

Subject: NORJAK
00: SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Re SUB J miscellaneous persdhs. jSource.

On 10/15/91,| lwas contacted by sal"
at the GREAT WESTERN _HOTEL,Roo stated that in

1972 he WaS involved in the hippie movement. He stated he was in
the Great Gorge area in a small town at about that time. He
stated that FBI Agents were there arresting girls and using
ultraviolet light on them. He stated that he gave some money
that he found in the woods to the girls, approximately

He stated that he burtedp of the money at a

| and burned the_rest of the money. He stated that he
urie e money in al

[ He stated he found a parachute that had a white
canopy and found a body near where he found the money.

stated that the body was hanging from a tree,
and handcuffed fo the wrist w j
inside the briefcase he found
He advised he took the money, traveled about| [miles and then
buried the money in the sand.

| seemed confused during the interview and did
not seem to have_a coherent idea of what he wanted to say. He
was asked by SA if he could find where he buried the
money; he stated he did not think so.

In view of the above information it does not appear
that this source has any information of value that would help the
investigation. Therefore, no further investigation concerning
this aspect of captioned matter will be conducted.

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Subject: NORJAK

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Re SUB J miscellaneous persons, |

On 1/13/92,| | telephone nunber | ~ —_

telephonically contacted SA stated
that he the'"Air Force and is currently retired
from the e stated he was [_] years old.

[ __|stated that he is writing a fiction book b6
concerning captioned crime. He advised he has received 180 pages b7C
of information from Headquarters and 34 pages that contain
information as to the serial numbers of the hijacked money.

Lsd|stated that he would like to know the status b6
of the case and whether we have any cockpit voice recordings BIC

taken during the hijacking. was advised that the case
was pending and that because of the fact it was pending no
specific information could be given to anyone outside of law
enforcement concerning this matter.

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To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Date 6/10/92
From : SA] |

Subject! WORJAK
OO: SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Re Sub J, Miscellaneous Persons; cexuy[ sd -
Suspect ;| j- Source.

lwas suggested as a suspect by[ _| because,

according to] |resembles the priist's pomposite of
UNSUB in this matter. | recalled that hobby was

skydiving, although| |stated never had any military
training in this_sport. It appears that| jis basing his
recollection of[. Jon an acquaintance some 30 years ago.

In the absence of any specific information which would
indicate[_—i|J should be considered a suspect and also in light
in the fact that it does not appear that it would be possible to
locate a military record forL without more specific
information, no further investigation will be conducted
concerning this aspect of captioned crime.

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Renton, Washington, at the time.

Date

6/10/92

Re Sub J, Miscellaneous Persons, |

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Bothell ,..Washington/ was telephonically contacted by SA

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To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Date 6/10/92
From : SA

Subject: NORJAK
OO: SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Re Sub J, Miscellaneous Persons; _ |
[ld Source. Phoenix airtel to Seattle dated 5/11/90.

lhas been suggested as a suspect in this matter

by | lwho met

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appeared to be an|

described
five feet seven inches tall,

Jand inebriated. | jtold

that he was D.B. COOPER and that in 1965 he hijacked a
NORTHWEST AIRLINE's flight from Portland, Oregon, and changed
airplanes to a Military C130 or C141. He demanded $500,000.00 in
two duffle bags and made it down with only one. He also threw
money in the Snake River to deceive trackers.

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asa [ ] year old White male,

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and silver gray haixr_combed straight back. Jalso stated

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In view of the above information, no further
investigation is warranted concerning this suspect.

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Subject: NORJAK
00: SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Re SUB J, MISCELLANEOUS PERSONS:
SOURCE.

Re Denver airtel to Seattle dated 19/2/90.

In the interview of | ____| the followi
discrepancies were noted that would indicate
[_] should not be considered as a suspect in this matter:

a. [| stated that Jused the name
D. B. COOPER at the of the hijacking because

It is noted that UNSUB did not use the
name D. B. COOPER in this hijacking.

2. | said that |

jin order to avoid drawing
attention. It _is assumed by this that she is
alleging that| Jwas pretending to be
a hunter and thereby escape detection. It is
clear from the events of the hijacking that
UNSUB aid not care where the airplane went

as long as it went south of the Seattle area.
UNSUB would have no way of knowing where he was
going to land and, therefore, probably did not
contemplate finding anything that he had left
on the ground when he landed there.

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3. [|__| statea that atter| | was jailed for a
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| Jused in
the hijacking. UNSUB in this matter was not
_]nor did he use one in the
hijacking. He also did not display an| }
of any kind during the hijacking that was noted
by the stewardesses who were with him continuously
for over six hours.

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matter jumped out of the rear air stairs of a 727

and, therefore, it would have been impossible for
him to

5. | |describes | asa
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described in his mid 40s. | would have
been[__]years old at the time of the hijacking.

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likely that] jis involved in captioned crime.

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Memorandum
To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Date 6/10/92
From : SA

Subject: NORTJAK
00: SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Re Sub J Miscellaneous Persons,|

Source; and Sacramento airtel to Seattle dated

1/15/92, Serial 9097. a

| was suggested as a suspect in this |

matter by |}who had read an article in the newspaper \,
and saw a picture"regarding D.B. COOPER. [___|stated that he

thought | __]stron
hijacker. | jlast spoke to

as a paratrooper in the Army who chain-smoked Raleigh t

Cigarettes.

[_|stated thatL___]would be approximately 48 to

50 years old at the present ti

EX resembled the picture of the

me.

in 1971. | described

This would make him between 27

and 29 years old at the time of the hijacking.

In view of the fact thatL___Jhas had no contact with
|_—_leor over 20 years and is relying solely on his_memory of
likeness and also in view of the fact that[___lwas
apparently 27 to 29 years old at the time of the hijacking, it
does not appear that any additional investigation is warranted
concerning[ _ Jas a possible suspect in this matter.

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ELNU is D.B. COOPER.

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they were unable to find any indication that an individual whose Pe
first name was lived at jand was
interested In addition, individuals interested in

parachuting, |with piloting experience or aviation jobs,
or any individual_matching the description of D.B. COOPER were
all checked and[_ J}was unable to furnish information

that would lead the investigators to believe "Pat persons —
matching those descriptions were residents of

In view of the above information, no further
investigation concerning this aspect of captioned crime will he
conducted.

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FOR INFORMATION OF FBIHQ AND RECEIVING OFFICES ON JULY 9,
1992, THE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA RA LOCATED SUSPECT
WHITE, MALE. DOB SOC NUMBER
LIVING IN A OAKLAND,
CALIFORNIA. THE OAKLAND RA DETERMINED THAT[ | 15 | bs |
CURRENTLY UNEMPLOYED AND IS LOOKING FOR WORK AS A| | |
IS CURRENTLY DRIVING A| | TRUCK BEARING
CALIFORNIA License.
AS FBIHQ AND RECEIVING OFFICES ARE AWARE, EXTENSIVE
INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN CONDUCTED TO LOCATE —_
[ __]FOR PURPOSES OF INTERVIEW AND POLYGRAPH.
DUE TO HIS CURRENT LOCATION AND TRANSIENT LIFE STYLE.
SHOULD BE INTERVIEWED AND FOLYSRAPHED AS on
EXPEDITIOUSLY AS POSSIBLE REGARDING HIS INVOLVEMENT IN
CAPTIONED HIJACKING. ,
SAC NEWARK CONCURS WITH THE TRAVEL OF 5A | 3
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DIVISION CASE AGENT) TO OAKLAND CALIFORNIA, TO JOINTLY

INTERVEEW AND POLYGRAPH WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE

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sal] WILL TRAVEL TO OAKLAND CALIFORNIA ON MONDAY,
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LEADS:

SEATTLE DIVISION AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON:

NOTIFY SAI OF THE ABOVE INFORMATION AND

REQUEST THAT HE TRAVEL TO OAKLAND CALIFORNIA TO PARTICIPATE IN

THE INTERVIEW OF| |WHICH IS TO TAKE PLACE

ON TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1992.

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION AT OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA:

WILL COORDINATE INTERVIEW AND POLYGRAPH OF

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription 6/12/92
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| | address] La Junta, Colorado, telephone b7C
number | was advised of the nature of the inquiry and b7D

the identities of the interviewing Agents. She then provided the
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but the| |still kept in very
close contact.

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(name unknown). She recalls they discussed the extreme lack of
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resembles that of a photo taken of Jin 1964. Please find|v© |
this photo attached to this communication.

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birth is] goes by either] BID
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himself. She advised that according to her communications with
lseemed to shy away from the public. | |also believed
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in 1969. lalso_ stated that during the late 1960s, early 1970s,

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FD-36 (Rev, 11-17-88}

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TO : SAC, SEATTLE
FRO \) SAC, DENVER (164A-SE-81) (RUC)
SUBJERET : NORJAK

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To +: AC, SEATTLE (164A-81) (P) Date 5/29/92

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Subject: NORJAK;
CAA
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Re telephone call from SA FEDERAL BUREAU b6
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sal jJadvised telephonically that he had received Seer
information concerning captioned matter. He requested a copy of (UX p7c

artist's composite of UNSUB, as well as background information
concerning crime.

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On July 8, 1992,|
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Resident Agency.

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uspect in the early days of the investigation."

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of secretive conversations with friends.
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living on
in a lot

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who was with the musical
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Subject:

SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)

WOR
SAC, @HICAGO (ROC RA)

UNSUB, aka

D. B. Cooper
CAA - HIJACKING
00: MINNEAPOLIS

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

on

Date 7/2/92

Enclosed for Minneapolis are eight photographs of[___]|
_land one copy of a drawing of D. B. COOPER provided by

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(PROTECT IDENTITY) fb Koo

On 6/29/92 ,
| Rockford, Illinois, telephone| and.

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the Rockford RA:

. voluntarily appeared at

"They stated they had recently seen a photo of

the fugitive aircraft hijacker "D. B. COOPER" on a television

program ,and they both beli€éved|

to be COOPER.

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strong facial resemblance between COOPER and
strange behavior which led them to
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what they

believe he was a fugitive from the law.

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They based this belief upon their yexceprinn of a very

described as

as well as

ing the telecast they went to the library and obtained a copy of
a drawing of COOPER which they believed strongly resembled[ ~~]
They also provided a copy of the drawing of COOPER.

following:

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Jat Rockford,

Illinois,

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Sex Male
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Height 57"
Weight 160 pounds
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Employment

Education

Parents

Daughters

Finances

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worked in Alaska on Alaskan
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believed to have worked in

the State of Washington or

Alaska; recently employed by
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California
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in Klamath Falls, Oregon

| (deceased)

Medford, Oregon

Santa Rosa, California
Occupation: | |

|

Washington, D. Cc.
Occupation: |

Has bank account at SECURITY
PACIFIC BANK, Medford,
Oregon; holds Master Card
from same bank

|requested confidentiality, and

she also requested that she be considered for any applicable
monetary reward should her suspicions prove correct.

if |

Leads are being left to the discretion of 00; however,
jJallegations concerning| |

aversion to being photographed and/or otherwise identified are
correct, it may be beneficial to identify him.

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FD-36 (Rev. 11-17-88}

FBI
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[1 Facsimile LJ Priority CO) SECRET
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Date 7/20/92
TO 3 SAC, SEATTLE (1L64A~SE-81)
FROM : SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164A-SE~81)} (RUC)
SUBJECT : NORJAK; —_
AIRCRAFT HIJACKING
00: SEATTLE
Enclosed for Seattle are two copies of a letter : y

from SAC Chicago, Rockford RA, dated 7/2/92, directed to the
Minneapolis Division, Attention file 164-73.

For the information of Chicago and Seattle,
enclosed letter was entitled, "UNSUB, aka D.B. COOPER; CAA -
HIJACKING; O00: MINNEAPOLIS."

In the matter of the D.B. COOPER hijacking, the
Seattle Division is currently the office of origin. Due to
that fact, the enclosed letter and FD-340 provided by the
Chicago Division is being forwarded to Seattle for review and
appropriate action.

In view of the fact that no investigation is
outstanding at Minneapolis, this matter is considered RUC.

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{(] UNCLASEFTO
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Date 6/29/92

: SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81)

NORJAK
00: Seattle

cit C, LOS ANGELES (164-497) (RIVRA/C=1) (RUC)

On 6/29/92, | | (PROTECT), telephone number
| | provided the ,following information:

[| advised he was watching the TV show "In Search
of"

on Sunday, 6/28/92. This show featured a story regarding"
the D.b.coobeR hijacking. [~"letronaly tere [ °
who

Pocomoke, Maryland, was the| fof the
'person portrayed in the sketch of D. B. COOPER. jis a

Vietnam War veteran, parachutist, and a pilot of small engine
planes. Around 1980 |
| | As the town
ee ee is a small community, no one understood where

obtained the funds for these two endeavors.
believed | J}would now be approximately [_lyears of age.

The above information is being provided to the
Seattle Division for whatever action Seattle feels is
appropriate in this matter.

(2p Seattle
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residence | | Oakland, California, voluntarily

appeared at the Oakland, California, office of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI). [.__Jwas advised of the identity of SA
as a polygraph examiner of the FBI. He was told
that he would be interviewed regarding the truthfulness of his
statements to the FBI concerning the hijacking of a Northwest
Orient flight on November 24, 1971. Prior to the polygraph
interview he was provided a Standard Consent to Polygraph form
and a Warning and Waiver of Rights form. He read both forms and
signed them.

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not B. D. COOPER. He saw a police sketch of the suspect, but it
didn't look like anyone he knew.

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a military parachutist was a guy named who lived in b7C
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appeared at the Oakland, California, office of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI). [____]was advised of the identity of SA
l Jas a polygraph examiner of the FBI. He was told
that he would be interviewed regarding the truthfulness of his
statements to the FBI concerning the hijacking of a Northwest
Orient flight on November 24, 1971. Prior to the polygraph
interview he was provided a Standard Consent to Polygraph form
and a Warning and Waiver of Rights form. He read both forms and
signed them.

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FRANCISCO TELCALL OF SA| |TO NEWARK, 7/10/92. —_

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sA[___] WILL TRAVEL TO OAKLAND CALIFORNIA ON MONDAY,
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LEADS SEATTLE. DIVISION AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON: 1. NOTIFY

SA OF THE ABOVE INFORMATION AND REQUEST THAT HE

TRAVEL TO OAKLAND CALIFORNIA TO PARTICIPATE IN THE INTERVIEW

OF WHICH IS TO TAKE PLACE ON TUESDAY,
JULY 14, 1992.
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COORDINATE INTERVIEW AND POLYGRAPH OF

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6/10/92. "

This airtel summarizes information contained in
164A-SE-81, (formerly 164A-36) entitled "RICHARD FLOYD MCCOY,
JR., aka; CAA"AIR PIRACY; EFP; 00:SU, which relates to RICHARD
FLOYD Mccoys_ JR. a and which does not appear to be attached to-a—
"Conmunication : (ndicating that the information was forwarded to
Seattlé Division. The following is a summary of such
infofmation:

1. Serial 18 - Interview of L |
| stated that MCCOY was a skydiver

a Vietnam
Veteran, and a helicopter pilot. Mccoy told how
it would be possible to hijack an airplane and that if he were

going to do it, he would ask for $500,000. |
told [that Mccoy tried to get her to help_him with
the hijacking. | _l]expressed concern to

on titi hat ecoy might be involved in a hijacking.
MCCOY told that if the plane he hijacked was
followed by chase planes, he would tell them that he planted a
bomb on a second plane in order to get them to withdraw.

MCCOY told | _|that if he was successful in obtaining
$500,000, he would leave the country.

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2. Serial 22 ~ Teletype from St. Louis. Review of
Army records revealed that MCCOY served on active duty U.S.
ARMY, 3/31/62 until 1/22/65. On 6/1/65, MCCOY enlisted in the
UTAH NATIONAL GUARD. MCCOY enlisted in the regular Army on
1/22/66, and was discharged on 2/13/67 as a Specialist 5th
Class. He then accepted a Warrant Officer commission. He was
honorably released from active duty as Chief Warrant Officer
on 3/11/70. When MCCOY was honorably released as Chief
Warrant Officer, he transferred to USAR CONTROL, St. Louis,
Missouri. On 6/12/70, he transferred from Army reserve to
NATIONAL GUARD OF CALIFORNIA as Chief Warrant Officer. He was
transferred on 10/30/70 to UTAH NATIONAL GUARD and assigned to
"HHQ, 115 ENGS. GP (ARAV UTAH)" as a rotary wing pilot. In
1971, MCCOY was placed on permanent flying status with the
UTAH NATIONAL GUARD. While in the Army, MCCOY received a
parachutist badge.

3. Serial 25 - Teletype from San Francisco. A
photograph of_MccoY, along with six othe Ss were
displayed to | who
identified MC as the hijacker of UAL Flight 855.

4. Serial 32 - Teletype to Salt Lake City Division
indicating that the FBI Laboratory identified MCCOY's

handwriting on a note utilized by hijacker to instruct flight
crew.

5. Serial 39 - Two latent fingerprints developed
on back of "Mainliner" magazine marked "seat 20D" from
envelope were identified as fingerprints of RICHARD FLOYD
MCCOY, JR.

6. Serial 94 - On 3/12/72,| |

| jadvised that Chief Warrant Officer MCCOY was
released from regular Army and joined the 115th Engineering
Group of the UTAH NATIONAL GUARD in Murray, Utah on 10/30/70.
| | stated that MCCOY remained in that unit until
1/1/72, at which time he transferred to the 1457th in American
Fork. [__ Jstated MCCOY was unknown to most
members of the unit in so much as he did not attend drills at
the guard armory but reported to ARMY NATIONAL GUARD AIRCRAFT
HEADQUARTERS next to the SALT LAKE CifY AIRPORT.

7. Serial 96 - Memorandum to SAC, Salt Lake City
from SA| | That document indicates that the FBI
Laboratory determined that a note with the hijacker's
handwriting, which had been retained by flight attendants, was
identical to the handwriting of MCCOY.

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8. Serial 99 - Airtel to Salt Lake City from
FBIHQ. Latent prints developed on a tickets were identical to
prints to MCCOY.

9. Serial 256 - Interview of| |
[| on 4/9/72,._____]was shown a photo spread and he
identified MCCOY as the hijacker on UNITED Flight 855.

10. Serial 209 = Report of the Identification
Division, from the Latent Fingerprint Section. Two latent
fingerprints developed on UNITED AIRLINES ticket number
1 016 55817417 0, bearing the name "R/MCCOY", issued on
3/31/72, for travel from Salt Lake city to Denver, were
identified as finger impressions of M@COY.

11. Serial 283 - Interview of | |
| informed |
that she was at MCCOY's residence on 4/8/72. | jnoticed
that MCCOY and his wife possesged a satchel which she later
learned contained money obtained during the hijacking.
also told[____———sdtthat © Mccoy45 wife askea| for assistance
in moving > quantity of money and that MCCOY's wife
threatened| iif she did not help.

12. Serial 261 - Airtel from Salt Lake City to
Cleveland. A search of the residence ofl revealed
the existence of two typewriters. One of the typewriters was
determined by the FBI Laboratory to be the one which prepared
flight plans used in the hijacking of the UAL Flight 855.

The above information was used to convict MCCOY of
hijacking UAL Flight 855. Case file 164A~SU-38005 did not
appear to contain information relating to McCOY's involvement
in other hijackings. Unless Salt Lake City Division receives
additional requests concerning MCCOY, this matter is
considered RUC.

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To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Date 8/18/92
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Re Chicago letter to Minneapolis, dated 7/2/92, and
Minneapolis airtel to Seattle, dated 7/20/92.
| |has been suggested as a suspect by | Pe
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| }of being identical BID

with unknown subject (UNSUB) based on their perception that there
is a very strong facial resemblance between UNSUB in this matter
and| ] They also stated that[___] appeared to be 5

secretive about his past and went to extremes to avoid having his
photograph taken. In addition, his sources of income appear to
be unknown to] jand yet he seemed to have a
significant amount of money.

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hijacking, which is [_] years younger than UNSUB is believed to
have been. In addition,| | would be three inches shorter than
even the shortest estimate for UNSUB's height.

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Memorandum

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To +! Sac, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Date =—- 7/20/92
rol Nhe AC, SAN FRANCISCO (164A-SF-0220) 'eo. #6)

Subject: POLYGRAPH MATTERS

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Investigation Relating To: The truthfulness of
Subject's statement to the FBI.

The charts, as well as other documentation for this
examination, were sent to the Polygraph Sub Unit, FBI Laboratory.
No cover letter or accompanying communication was used. This
memorandum is to be filed in the substantive file for record
purposes. When the documents pertaining to the above-described
examination are returned from the laboratory, they will be sent
to the case file involved in this examination.

As polygraph results are not considered final until
completion of the quality control review, preliminary opinions of
truth or deception should not appear in any other document prior
to concurrence in that opinion by polygraph review personnel of
FBIHQ. This includes airtels, teletypes, etc. (MIOG, Part II,
Section 13).

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Date of transcription

5/18/92

Ldate of birth|

address |

home

| San Jose, California,

} work telephone [

following information concerning |

home telephone

| furnished the

| Jadvised that she met] [through a
Jidentified as San Jose,
California, in January, 1988. | jJadvised that]

|} and |
| | Cupertino,

California. At the]

jdisappeared and

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while intoxicated and spent the night |

Istated that after |

jin jail.

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California. |

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and at one time was employed_by Gary Parhim
Construction in Hayward, California. |

other short time employments in
to recall the names of companies that|

said that[__Jhaa

but she was unable
|worked for.

ladvised that | | told many stories abut his

life prior to|

unbelievable.

| that she found somewhat
claimed that just prior to the time that he

met[____|he had been Living in Oakland, California, where he
suffered_a_ concussion in an auto accident and later on had his

car and|

jJalso claimed at one time

that he was a millionaire and had won $385,000 in the California
never appeared to have any money.

Lottery. However,
doubts that

is or ever was a million:

very much if he ever won the California Lottery.
claimed to have art paintings and an investment account with
Merrill Lynch Palo Alto of California.

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also

After |

|Great Western Savings Bank, San Jose, California

where | jstored his will and alleged statements that he

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tools which he had stored at the Crocker Locker Self Storage
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has no knowledge as to whether[___]
private storage space.

still maintains this

[was shown a composite drawing of the individual
identified as "DB COOPER" who is believed responsible for the
hijacking of an airliner in the state_of Washington,
approximately twenty five years ago. [____]commented that she
recalled the DB COOPER hijacking and that after the viewing the
composite drawing of DB COOPER, commented that the composite did
bear some resemblance to| | when
he was not wearing his beard. }commented that] |had
shallow facial cheeks as depicted in the DB COOPER composite

drawing. indicated that while watching television one
evening she did see a program concerning DB COOPER and
only comment was that DB COOPER was a very smart man.

did not appear to be a fanatic about the DB COOPER case
and never made any unsolicited comments concerning DB COOPER or
any implication that he had knowledge as to who DB COOPER was.

| | advised she recalled thatL____——_—sd|claime@ that he
was a former] jin the military but never mentioned to
her that | Jwas an expert parachutist.

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current whereabouts of | jJand doubts very much that bIC

would ever contact her in the near future.

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Memorandum
To SAC, SEATTLE Date 9/23/92
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From: SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (164A-SE-81)
2 (RUC)
Subject! NORJACK
00: SEATTLE
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Re Bureau letter to San Francisco dated 8/7/92.
Enclosed for Seattle are the following items:
1. Original and one copy of FD-302 of | | b6
with interview notes. ms b7C
For information of Seattle and Newark, a techincal
review of the polygraph examinat4éon documents pertaining to the
examinaton of on 7/14/92 and 7/16/92 has b6
determined that reviewpersonpletconcur with the examiner's b7C
conclusion that responses indicate that[/ __]was not deceptive.
On 7/31/92,| | was b6
recontacted re| ] b7C
| Jon 7/17/92 at Great Western Bank, San Jose,
California. Various miscellaneous
and al were found. | |
jwere found.
Since current investigation has for now eliminated
as suspect in captioned matter, San Francisco considered bé
this case RUC. b7C

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FD-36 (Rev. 11-17-88}

4
FBI
t TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION:
C] Teletype ( Immediate OC TOP SECRET
C1 Facsimile C] Priority (10 SECRET
R] AIRTEL [] Routine (1 CONFIDENTIAL
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Li UNCLAS °
Date 8/13/92
TO : SAC, DENVER
FROM : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81) (P)
SUBJECT : NORJAK;
. CAA . bb
O00: SEATTLE b7C
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
REQUEST OF DENVER DIVISION:
The suspect's photograph referred to in the '>
interview of | Jjwas inadvertently not forwarded to -

the Seattle Division. Denver is requested to forward a copy

of that photograph along with the results of the investigation BIC
set forth in this airtel to the Seattle Division. _7D
Reference ve j 12/92,
regarding
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Enclosed for the Minneapolis Division is one copy b7D
of an FD~-302 reflecting interview with| on
6/12/92.
lis considered a suspect in this matter
because has provided bé6
information to the FBI to the effect| Japparently left a b7c
at Moses Lake, Washington, b7D

and late in 1971] [reportedly suffered al

in some sort of accident. The NORJAK crime occurred on
November 24, 1971. ,

2 - Denver

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164A~81

In order to resolve this matter the following leads
are being set forth:

LEAD:

DENVER_DIVISTON

AT LA JUNTA COLORADO

from her the following:

1.

2.

3.

Will recontact| and determine

A complete description of
An agreem that the FBI will need to
interview concerning this matter.

Obtain from her any additional photographs she
may have of the suspect.

For information of the Minneapolis Division,
Seattle will set forth appropriate leads upon receipt of the
results of the investigation at La Junta, Colorado.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

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FD~302 (R

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ev, 3~10-82)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

9/15/92

Date of transcription

| La Junta, b6
Colorado, was contacted by Special Agent | BIC
After being advised of the identity of the interviewing Agent and »7D
the nature of the interview, she furnished the following
information:
She advised that the best she could recall, b6
[J was born in[ __| She said he was bIC
approximately 6'2", 195 pounds to 220 pounds, with thinning hair, ®7D
which was light brown or dishwater blond. He wears glasses or
contact Lenses and may have a slight "beer belly." She last saw
in 1968 or 1969. She advised that] |
and | |
| | who was born
| j}lives in or near Powers Lake, North
Dakota. | jmay_ have current information
concerning the whereabouts of | and might be willing to
provide that information to the FBI.
| |said that she talked to be
| J in July of 1992. | ]Jsaid that she did bic
not know where is living at this time. b7D
| jfurther advised that | jis b6
[and sometimes pretends that| | b7C
However, | |said that | and that b7D
she can talk. She recommended that if someone goes to interview
| | they take someone along/| |
to assist in the interview. --
Jadvised that | Jwas in the b6
UNITED STATES ATR FORCE and the UNITED STATES ARMY and that he b7C
was discharged in| Jwhile he was stationed near b7D
Colorado Springs, Colorado. He had some training as a pilot.
She believes that he flew light aircraft and had some training in
parachute jumping in the military.
Investigationon _ 9/8/92 at La Junta, Colorado File # 164A-SE-81 "7/92.
4 b6
b r Date dictated :
y SA] pik 9/11/92 boc
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to yo ency;

it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. DB

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FD-302a (Rev. LI-15-83)

1L64A-SE-81

Continuation of FD-302 of |

2

can furnish no additional information at

this time. She advised that she may be moving from La Junta,
Colorado very soon and that if further contact with her is

necessary, she

can be contacted through| |

Pueblo, Colorado, telephone number | | She

requested that

Jnot be advised that the

contacting par'

Ey 18 with the FBL.

interviewing |

la@vises she has no objection to the FBI
| also known as (aka)

However, she would prefer that none of her family knew

that she had furnished photographs to the FBI.

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FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION;
[1 Teletype {} Immediate {} TOP SECRET
Facsimile CJ Priority C] SECRET
K] AIRTEL [] Routine [] CONFIDENTIAL
" [1 UNCLASEFTO
(1 UNCLAS
Date 9/16/92
TO : SAC, SEATTLE

FROM ": ZBL ZDENVER {164A-SE-81) (RUC)

SUBJECT : NORJAK;
CAA
00; SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Re Seattle airtel to Denver, dated 8/13/92.

of FD-302 reflecting contact with] lon 3/8/92,

3h: Enclosed for Seattle is the_origina¥ and one copy
Al enclosed is a photograph of

9

seven and four copies of that photograph. This
Rhotograph is the one that was furnished b | to
ps Agents on 6/11/32 and was inadvertently not forwarded
wW

ith Denver's communication.

f As reflected on enclosed FD- 2, | | was
contacted by SA. | Pueblo, Colorado

Resident Agency. She stated that she had obtained another
photograph cf] jrecently and that she had mailed
that photograph to the FBI at Denver, Colorado. SA
oO Denver, Colorado forwarded that photograph to Seattle
by routing slip.

During the interview on 9/8/92, it was noted that
| |tends to see important connections between
circumstances and events which are widely separated in time
and place. She may reach conclusions based on

G) Seattle (Enc. 7)4ee#@C

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| | which is not-an all together
happy relationsnip.

Seattle should note that in setting out leads to
interview| | it should be
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FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION:
OO Teletype Ci Immediate 1 TOP SECRET
Facsimile CJ Priority [J SECRET
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[J UNCLAS EF TO
[J UNCLAS
Date 3/1/93
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TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) Sue J " ie
FROM : SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164A-SE-81) (P)
SUBJECT : NORJAK;
CAA

00: SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

For information, on 2/23/9 Minneapolis Office was
telephonically contacted by wo,

advised that in
the Washington State Reformatory (WSR).

he was serving time at
While he was there,

he came in contact with | another inmate. One
afternoon in the summer of ey were out in the "yard"

discussing what they planned"to do when the ot out of the
reformatory. According tol |

D. B. COOPER seem to match that of

Also presént during this conv ion was another
inmate, | Over the years, has given this
conversation much' thoug t. The descriptions he has heard of

Another

coincidence that stands out in his mind is that on the day of

the conversation, |

jwere

present.

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[|] He has not seen|
Several years ago, he attempted to find jJand was

164A-SE-81

[___|left the reformatory the day after Labor Day, b6

since that time. b7c

unsuccessful.

does not_know when| __| was released from b6

He does know thatt
was not able to provide any names of persons who may
know whereabouts.

Chicago area, and it is|

Age:
Height:
Weight:
Build:
Hair:

/ [ ladvised that

nickname at WSR was b6
jis not absolutely sure_of the spelling of BIC

last name. [_] consider

intelligent individual.

The above is for informational purposes only. All
leads are being left to the discretion of Seattle.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

lhas not made any attempt to contact b6

|since[ sd]: release from WSR.

|gave a description of | as he remembered
him from| It is as follows:

was from the Seattle area. b7Cc

was from the bIC
belief that

25 to 27 31-33
Bg

160 pounds

Slight

Brown, hairline beginning
te recede

to be an extremely

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1L64A-BA~-223
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The following investigation was conducted on
November 24, 1992, in Pocomoke, Maryland, by Special Agent (SA)
of the Salisbury, Maryland, Resident Agency. The b6
date chosen for the interview was November 24, 1992, the 21st b7C
anniversary of the high-jacking of Northwest Orient Flight 305.
The following is offered for informational purposes:

Chief FRANK WHITE, Pocomoke Police Department, advised
that| lof Pocomoke, b6
has been a family friend for over jyears. | | | b7c
in Pocomoke. | Jis a
locally born and raised son of a farmer who has a reputation for
honesty and currently | |

| }found 1t highly doubtful that| |
would commit any crime, especially one so brazen as the high-
jacking in question.

| | was interviewed b6
on November 24, 1992. She advised that she has known[___ | BIC
| and that he has never
been to the Pacific Northwest. He has alSo never been a
parachutist or has served in the military. She also noted that

the hairline of the_high-jacker depicted in the drawing was high
and straight while] __|hairline has a prominent V shape
in the front. Jis also very fair skinned and does not have
an olive complexion as the high-jacker reportedly dia. L-__ _Jhas
never been_a smoker (the high-jacker chain-smoked). [~_]would

have been[__] years old in November, 1971, somewhat younger than

the high-jacker. At the_time of the high-jacking, >] resided

in Pocomoke, Maryland. [____]does have pilot's license, but he
did not receive the license until 1976. )

Jo£ the interviewee.

Arrest checks in the Maryland Criminal Information
System and a National Crime Information Center (NCIC) criminal

history check were conducted with negative results for[ | b6
BIC

The following biographical information pertains to

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Race: White
Sex: Male
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth: : (GHA - "Bl: fas
Address: Drive. :
Pocomoke, Maryland mend, B* "G

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164A~BA-223
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Employment:

-—> Height:
Weight:
Military Service:

Pocomoke, Maryland
51g

165 pounds

None

Due to the above information, it is highly unlikely

that | jis the individual sought in connection

with the high-jacking of Northwest Orient Flight 305 on

November 24, 1971.

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FD+36 (Revs 11-17-88)

FBI int =
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION: NAY BO NE-EG
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( Facsimile CJ Priority [) SECRET ONFIDENTIAL ———
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OM : SAC, BALTIMORE (164A-BA£223) (SQ 10) (RUC) '
SUBJECT : NORJAK;? bé
CAA
00: SEATTLE pie
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Re Los Angeles airtel to Seattle, dated 6/9/92; and
Seattle airtel to Baltimore, dated 8/13/92.
Enclosed for Seattle is an investigative insert
regarding requested investigation at Pocomoke, MD, which
occurred on 11/24/92.
For the information of Seattle, due to a number of
reasons elaborated in enclosed investigative insert, _] b6
was deemed by Baltimore not to be the individual who b7C

2-Baltimore
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high~jacked Northwest Orient Flight 305 on 11/24/71.

Baltimore is placing this matter in RUC status.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

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[} UNCLAS E FTO
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Date 1/22/93
re) : SAC, SEATTLE (164-A-81)

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SAC, NEWARK (164-A-402) (RUC) (GMRA)

SUBJECT : NORJACK;

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9/23/92. a

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was jointly interviewed by the Seattle and Newatk Division =<." b7C
case Agents at Oakland, California. C

As all investigation within the Newark Division has
been completed, this case is being placed in an RUC status.

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FD-302 (REV. 3-10-82}

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

; Date of transcription 1/14/93
On 1/6/93, | b6
Rowlett, Texas, was personally interviewed. | [was made b7C
aware of the official identity of Special Agent

of the FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION and that the interview
concerned D.B. COOPER and the possibility that[___Jhad met
COOPER, he then provided the following information:

[__—ij advisea that while watching a television b6
program about the D.B. COOPER investigation, on a local FOX b7C
television program approximately one month ago, he recalled
meeting an individual named| who closely resembled
the composite drawing of COOPER shown on television.

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who is employed by KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN b6

RAILROAD was loading a rail car at MARAZZI TILE COMPANY (MTC) b7C
approximately six months ago_when he met| |
according to | was al | who was also picking up
a_load of tile at MTC. The two began a conversation during which

said that he owned either | Jof land in
St. Michoud, Oregon. [ | told| jthat he had purchased
this land with funds obtained from a] |

mentioned to| }that he would not mind residing in the State
of Oregon, at which time[ sj offered to sell him some land for
an acre.

| | ana| |then talked about their military b6
careers, | [is in the Army and[____]is in the Marine bIC
Corps. | } told| jthat he was a Marine Corps
who had 25 years of service, two tours in Vietnam and had
over 200 parachute jumps while in the_Corps. cola]
that his nickname in the Service was| |

Before] } ana | |went their separate ways, b6
provided jwith his home address and phone number, bic
should| be interested in purchasing some of the land in
Oregon. told[ | that just from their conversation,

WHA-sE-8l AAD
Investigation on 1/6/93 at ROWLETT, TEXAS File # +t64A-«DL-636473_
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FD-302a (Rev. 11-15-83)"

164A-DL-63643

b6

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he thought that| | and his wife would be an excellent b6

neighbor. | Jadded that his closest neighbor in Oregon is bic
approximately a hundred miles away.

After the_conversation, | lthought that it was b6

strange that a _man | b7C

| | In addition,|L__| wondered
why a man with all that land in Oregon would want to sell it to
someone he had just met.

When[_] observed the_composite sketch of COOPER on b6

television, he recalled having met and thought that| bic
closely re fouled _COOFER, In addition, | |felt like the
details of life and that of COOPER as shown on

television were very similar.

The only additional bit of information that | | b6
could recall was that the| was from b7C
New Orleans, Louisiana. | jcould not remember what |

| | provided the following description of[

Name:
Alias: bé
Race: White b7c
Sex: Male
Age: 40-44
Height: 5/10"
Weight: 150-160 pounds
Hair: Brownish blonde
Eyes: Possibly green
Complexion: Fair
Build: Small
Scars Marks Tatoos: Possibly al |
Address:
Saint Michoud, Oregon
Telephone: | | [J

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FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION:
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} AIRTEL [1 Routine [} CONFIDENTIAL
Cl UNCLASEFTO
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- (164A-SE-81)

AS (164A-SE~81) (VC/F-JTF) (RUC)

SEATTLE

Enclosed for the Seattle Division is _one 1-A
envelope containing a small sheet of paper with| |
name and address written on it and one original and one copy
of an FD-302 regarding the interview of |
Enclosed for the Portland Division is one copy of an FD-302
regarding the interview of|

For information/of Seattle and Portland Divisions,
on_11/29/932, Rowlett, Texas
| | telephonically contacted the Dallas Division and
provided information We believed related to captioned matter.

On 1/6/33, Special Agent (SA)| |
contacted 4 at his residence at which tine, | |
advised that he is employed by KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILROAD
in Greenville, Texas. Approximately six months ago
was loading a rail car at MARAZZI_ TILE (MT), in Dallas, Texas,
when he met an individual named lwas at
MT loading a| |when he and began
to converse. According to| | during this conversation

told| | that he had ej rl
of land in St. Michoud, Oregon. jtold [he had

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the conversation continued, offered to on
sell some of the land for| Jan acre. said
that_his closest neighbor in Oregon was 100 miles away and
that[ sand his wife would be excellent neighbors.

[jadviseal that he was a former Marine b6
with 25 years of service and two tours in Vietnam. [_] b7C

also tola[_ | that while in the Marine Corps he had made
200 parachute jumps. [__—id|statea that while watching the

FOX television network locally one_night, he observed the show
featuring D.B. COOPER and believel— | and COOPER were very

similar. | lalso thought it strange that a man

Additionally,]| | thought | }
must have received a large settlement to afford all that land
in Oregon.

|provided the enclosed sheet of paper that b6
|wrote his address and phone number on to SA BIC
Name:
Nickname:
Race: White
Sex: Male gu
Age: 40-44 years of age "4 MF b6
Height: 5/10" cad Gy b7c
Weight: 150-160 pounds
~Hair: Brownish blonde
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—Complexion: Fair
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Address: |
Saint Michoud, Oregon
Telephone:
LEAD
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AT ST. MICHOUD, OREGON
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captioned matter. b7C

Dallas Division considers this matter RUC.

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Memorandum

To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81) (P) Date 12/10/92

From: SA b6
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Subject: NORJAK '
00: SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Re | | b6
[__| ("Unsolved Mysteries" lead) . bIC

A review of[ si sub file reveals that he was
suggested as a suspect in this matter by| | who had b6
recently seen an "Unsolved Mysteries" television show tingh b7C

captioned crime. The reasons | gave for suggesting
as a suspect were as follows:

was a former BOEING COMPANY fon pees ung had b6é
taken fiying and parachute lessons. In addition, told bIC
Co that he had gotten some money from a man from Canada to -
buy some property. | stated that the amount of money K
[~ ltaikea about was considerable and the circumstances seemed

unusual to

A physical description of [___]was taken from his bé6é
ton State driver's license which expired onL___ b7C
is a White male, DOB | height five feet ten

inches, weight 170 pounds, eyes brown, hair white. The
photograph on the driver's license does not in any way resemble
the artist's composite of UNSUB in this matter. In addition,
is at least two inches shorter_than the height of UNSUB as
escribed by eyewitnesses. Finally, Jage at the time of
the hijacking would have been| | which is approximately
years younger than UNSUB was scribed as being by eyewitnesses.

In view of the fact that there is no compelling reason
to think that |may be involved in captioned crime, and also b6
in view of the fact that there are major physical discrepancies b7C
between[___—_—srdjand the description that is commonly used for
UNSUB, no further investigation concerning | will be
conducted.

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Memorandum
To =: SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81) {P) Date 12/10/92
From: SA b6
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Subject: NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
Re UNSUB; JIM W. CRITCHER - source ("Unsolved
Mysteries" lead).
As a result of a broadcast of the television show
"Unsolved Mysteries" JIM W. CRF TCHER of Chehalis, Washington,
telephone number telephonically advised he b6
suspects an attorney in the Chehalis Courthouse as being bIC

identical with UNSUB in this matter.

A review of this sub file has indicated that CRITCHER
was inadvertently not contacted concerning his telephone call
after the television show.

sa| lattempted to contact Mr. CRITCHER[ _| b6

[_]lin Chehalis. | ladvised that JIM W. CRITCHER b7c

died in December of 1990. She stated that Mr. CRITCHER was 73
years old at the time of his death. She advised that
| | |Sea Tac Airport in 1971 and that is what sparked Mr.
CRITCHER's interest in the D.B. COOPER hijacking.

|further advised that Mr. CRITCHER had no b6
firsthand knowledge concerning this crime but was the type of BIC
person to have a lot of hunches about things. |

stated that she could not provide any further information
concerning the suspect that JIM CRITCHER may have had
a hunch about nor did she personally have any information
concerning captioned crime.

In view of the above information, no further
investigation will be conducted concerning this aspect of this
case.

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To +: SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81) (P) Date 12/10/92
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Subject: NORJAK
00: SEATTLE Cw [DAPZ
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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UNSUB because, according to| | Closely resembles the b7c
composite photograph of UNSUB, and in addition HARPER's b7D
background and lifestyle also fits the type of individual who
would commit such a crime, according tol]
[ _|further advised that HARPER was in the U.S. Army, b6
101 Airborne Division, and was extremely unpredictable. HARPER BIC
died at Roseburg, Oregon, on 10/27/83, of Alcoholic Hepatitis. B7D
HARPER was born on 6/20/41, and this would make his 30
years old at the time of the hijacking. Inasmuch as UNSUB in
this matter has been described in his mid-40s at the time of the
hijacking, no further investigation seems warranted concerning
this suspect.
It is noted that Sacramento's letter to San Francisco
dated 7/24/89, set forth a lead for San Francisco at Fort
Cc t to locate and interview b6
This airtel inadvertently neglected to b7C

indicate Seattle as office of origin in this matter. It is
thought that San Francisco forwarded results of that lead to the
Sacramento Division. In order to resolve this aspect of the
investigation, SAL_____ telephonically contacted ssa

FBI, San Francisco. SSA[___]stated he would have someone
check the San Francisco file (164A-220) and furnish the results
of any investigation at San Francisco to the Seattle Division.

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Memorandum

To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Dae 9/17/93

From: SA b6
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Subject: NORJAK
00: SEATTLE Suu R

Sub 3
ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Reference Jacksonville letter to Seattle, dated
7/19/93.

Reference communication Fopuarded a_etter irom unknown
individual who identifies himself as In this bé
letter, the writer states that it is his opinion that a man named b7IC
|) is possibly identical with UNSUB in this matter.
The writer does not give any concrete information concerning
lexcept to indicate that in 1971, | |was[__]years
old. He was also apparently a Cadet in the Naval Aviation Cadet
Program.

In view of the fact that there is not enough
information to identify | Jor to recontact the b6
source, no leads remain and therefore no further investigation b7¢
should be conducted concerning this aspect of the investigation.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

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Memorandum

To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Dae =—969 f 17/93

From; SA b6
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Subject: NORJAK

00: SEATTLE _—-

ARMED AND DANGEROUS Cub ay

Reference Philadelphia airtel to Jacksonville, dated
5/26/93.

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(FNU) | | was suggested _ as a possible suspect in b6
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Pennsylvania. | fstated that the individual that he
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onke Deston, Florida. | Jstated that| |
iooked like the artist composite of UNSUB.

A description of | |] furnished byL____ revealed b6
that he would have been|_] years old at the time of NORJAK. In b7c
addition, his hair is red and his height is 6/'2" 6/4", In
view of these physical discrepencies, no further investigation
will be conducted concerning this aspect of this investigation.

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Memorandum

To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Dae = 9. 17/93
From: SA

Subject: NORJAK

00: SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

5/26/93.

Reference Philadelphia airtel to Jacksonville, dated

= Sub: (PNY) |

(FNU | lwas suggested as a possible suspect in

| Tunkhannock,

this matter by

Pennsylvania. |stated that the individual that he

suspected was known to him only as

A description of
that he would have been

|] who is a
J in Deston, Florida. | Istated that

looked like the artist composite of UNSUB.

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furnished by[ revealed
ears old at the time of NORJAK. In

addition, his hair is red and his height is 6/2" to 6/4", In
view of these physical discrepencies, no further investigation
will be conducted concerning this aspect of this investigation.

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Memorandum
To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Date 9/17/93
From; SA b6
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Subject: NORJAK
00; SEATTLE Q +
ARMED. AND DANGEROUS
Reference Minneapolis airtel to Seattle, dated 3/1/93.
Information contained in referenced communication
indicated that | ] telephone | | was b6
pBroviding information as a source concerning captioned matter. bic

stated that, while serving time at the WASHINGTON STATE
REFORMATORY in| | he became in contact with lana
jstated that one time in
J} and he were out in the "yard" discussing what they
planned to do when they got of the Reformatory. According to
—
described| jas 25 to 27 years old in| |} 58", 160 pounds,
slight build, with a brown receding hair line.

UNSUB, at the time of the hijacking in 1971, was
described as 40 to 45 years old, approximately 6', and no hair
line recession. In view of the above discrepancies, no further

investigation will be conducted concerning this aspect of the
investigation.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

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'Memorandum
To +: SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Dac 9/17/93
From : SA
Subject: NORJAK
00: SEATTLR Sul g

ARMED AND DANGEROUS "ub J

Reference letter received from

| Mexico, dated 4/27/93.

In reference communication, | | forwarded two
photographs of an individual she suspected might be identical
with UNSUB in this matter. [___]stated that she had no
information as to whether or not he was involved in captioned
crime, and she admitted that she had mixed feelings about
providing this information, since she was not sure that it was
totally reliable.

A review of the photographs of the individual shows a
white male in his late 50's or early 60's. 'The individual has a
receding hair line and light blond or brown hair. He has light
colored eye brows and very fair skin. In view of the fact that
the individual depicted in these photographs is not, in any way,
Similar to the description of UNSUB in this matter, no further
investigation will be conducted concerning this aspect of the
NORJAK investigation.

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Daytona Beach FL
July 8, 1993

FBI
444 Seabreeze

Several times I have seen the "D.B. Cooper" segment on "In
Search Of", on TV. Each time I notice that the artist's sketch
of "D.B. Cooper" strongly resembles a man I knew in 1955. He
was one of the USAF aviation cadets at Hondo Air Base, Texas X

He displayed some unusual characteristics for a pilot candidate.
He was disorganized and preoccupied. Though the academic schedule
was posted well in advance, he would study the wrong subjects,
and was a marginal Student. In the flight phase of his training,
he soloed the PA-18 Cub without serious problems, but barely

made it in the more advanced T-6.

On the occasion of his first night cross-country flight, he

made all the required radio calls 'engine start, taxi, takeoff,
and departure overhead on course). But he made no in-flight
position reports until he called for permission to enter the
traffic pattern. On questioning, he admitted he had not taken
off;- he had made the radio calls from his airplane while parkerl
on the ground at a remote part of the airfield.

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been revealed in his statement of personal history.

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in 1971, he was approximately[__| years old,- assuming he did b6
not falsify his age in 1954, when he entered the pre-flight b7c

phase of Aviation Cadet training.

I have never mentioned this before, even though I have seen that
program several times. First, the similarity in appearance is
not too convincing, Since it was an artist's drawing, not a
photograph. Second, I didn't (and still don't) want to embarrass
him or cause any problems for him. Third, I always hoped that
"D.B. Cooper" would be identified. Fourth, if I had to bet on
it, I would bet it is not the same man, because the appear-

ance of the artist's drawing is that of a quite common type of
face.

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Fr { JACKSONVILLE

Subject: NORJAK

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Enclosed for Seattle is a le

Date 7/19/93

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received at the Daytona Beach RA, from| | This

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telephonically contacted/the Scranton Resident Agency and

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Jin Deston, Florida, is

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Iam sending this letter at the request of the Duty Agent of April 27th. I have mixed
feelings about providing this information since | am not certain that it is totally reli-
able. lI also believe that the statute of limitations may have run out on this case.

In November I saw a composite drawing of D.B. Cocper on TV. At that time I was

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and went to/ _ working
in various locations in the US including Alaska.

In January [ took his photograph which Is enclosed. Perhaps you can check & | fy
it against your drawings. After this length of time I am no fonger certain that
the picture I saw on TV does in fact resemble the photo. '
One other, very subjective, thing. Although he has been nothing but civil and

friendly with me I have observed that he has a mean disposition with little

provocation.

If you feel there is any merit in pursuing this information 1 will then provide
you with a name and possible location of this individual.

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The Spokesman-Review in Spo-,
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jackers as "organized and in-
credibly calm."

"They were just about to,
close the .door when these
three came bursting in with the
last passenger," he said. After
the plane began to taxi, a
'stewardess announced that the
iplane would make'an "unsched-
-uled stop."

The plane, Flight 106, had

joriginated -in Phoenix, Ariz.,
'and was bound for Washington.
i he authorities said that the
pilot of the Boeing 727 radioed
shortly after take-off that the
hijackers had ordered him. to
fly to Atlanta to refuel, but the
flight plan was later changed
jand the craft flew to Tampa. It
'landed there about 7 A.M.
' The hijackers ordered the
pilot to refuel on the runway
and promised to let the passen-
gers off.

Sam McClure, 24, the agent
in charge of the morning shift!
at the airport, volunteered to;
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'By EARL CALDWELL
Specials to The: New. York Times

in' four. 'Western' *states, -were.
searching a.-500-mile" corridor
of: mountains: and: river valleys

tonight : -for-!'a- 'hijacker' who}

parachuted' ftom? 'a jet airliner
with $200, 000 in ransom money.
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who was vacross 'the: jaisle:t =from |: CaS

the:, others had' any idéa' 'what holid:
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© that 'the search for the para-

chutist was being concentrated
in the wilderness area 25 miles
northeast of Portland, Ore., but
the spokesman acknowledged
that the manhunt in that area
was based on supposition
rather than hard information.
The four-state hijacking be-
gan last night in Portland, on
the last lez of Northwest Flight
305 . from Washington to

the Seattle. The Boeing 727 had
an a made earlier stops in Minne-

apolis; »Great Falls, Mont;
Missoula, Mont.; Portland, Ore.,
and. Spokane, Wash.

The hijacker, identified - by
the FEE as. D.. B. Looper" -

The Hew Yerk Times/Mov. 25, 1971

¢

boarded the jet in Portland.
When the plane was in the air,
he showed a stewardess a
briefcase containing two red
cylinders and wires and said
he would blow up the' aircraft,
containing 36 passengers ard
six crew members, unless his
demands were met. —

and gulped. I guess she learned
what was happening then."

Capt. William W. Scott, the
pilot, radiced the Jhijacker's de-
mands ahead to Seattle. A
Northwest manager said that
the man had not demanded
any specific denomination of
bills. He declined to say wheth-
er the bills were marked in any
way. Airline workers had to
go to several banks to assem-
ble the largé sum. >

The parachutes, -which are
not.in ordinary use in com-
mercial air travel, proved an-

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so before
he would
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his terrain. The area around
Portland is the only flat place
on the Seattle-Reno route. A

'the FBI
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sh for' the
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guy knows
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parachute jump much after the
plane passed Portland would
involve landing in the snow
and cold of the Cascade Moun-
tains.

' Harold E. Campbell Jr., the
FB. agent. here in charge of
the'case; said tonight that there
was no evidence that the hi-

ee EF AR er eS ad

jacker had an accomplice or

accomplices. He said there was
as yet no firm clues to his

whereabouts or real identity.
Stan Pitkin, the United States

Attorney for western Washing-
ton, said that if the man was
captured he would be returned
to Seattle to face Federal air
piracy charges. The crime car-
ries a penalty of from 20 years

Incoming Passenger and Mail Ships

to life in prison.

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7 wn 7 .

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eF.BI, . agents "and sheriff's) her, 2-suitcase- era red

: deputies, "plagued" 'by low cylinders cnnieted i
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_ SBoth helicopter: and - ground] At Seattle," 'thé im
"efforts, "searched .the wodds obtained. "in: 1 $20. oil
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a half-dozen agents of the Fed-|members arid remained alone

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led the Army to withdraw its
helicopters from the hunt.

- Other. 'Copters Used,

* However, . other: ' "helicopters
provided: :by" Weyerhaeuser, 'the
oth... Jumbér: : ecompany,
and: 'the : Bonneville:"Power. -Ad-
rninistration, - were'-still, making
intermittent :. 'passes ...over:.. the
area; The' 'search: Was halted: at
nightfall' until tomorrow. |:
- + The -Hunted' man' has- been
. identified: by ; the*:F.B.L - only|in
-. as, D...Bs Cooper, the: name -he
used. - Wednesday: : "afternoon
when "he *bought: "a 'ticket' -in
-Portjand,- "207: niles: 'south, of
'here, and:- boarded: a. Northwest
'. plane' to Séattle.: '
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the route without consulting

_ jthe hijacker.. He also 'quoted|

the:pilot .as having said that
when he-Jlanded. the: plane - in
Reno,. Nev.,- for refueling, he}
thought: the' chijacker-was stilt).
On: board. Instead, the. man, the
'money, two of the- parachutes
and 'the-suitcase containing the
red cyclinders' "'were- _missing.
'The. FBI... said" that the
search was being concentrated
n this area: onthe' basis of
information "provided: "by -the
crews: -..
Officials said that the: crew's
last communication with: the hi-
jacker came 'a 'little after 8
P.M. Wednesday: when: the jet

' ,

' If the man: bailed: out... then,
-| the: authorities 'said; the. aircraft
was: 'at-abotit 7,000 feet and fly-
ing at a "Speed ° 'of about 200

miles an hour: At' that--alti-

eltude,: Jempersiurés were' freez-

would.. have: been...near. Ariel,|
ib ) southwest: of 'Woodland...

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winds. of .25;'to:.45 'Knots. .:

At 'search headquarters: here, Bog a
officials: said: that:.a> computer} 3°:
at Fort. Lewiss-Wash., had been|-<
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WOODLAND, Wash., Nov..
27 (UPI)—The F.B.I. said to-
day that a hijacker who para-
chuted from a plane Wédnes- ©
day. night with $200,000
ransom probably landed in a-
small wooded area east' of
here and might 'still be there,
possibly with a broken leg.

"We feel-he's. in this area,"
Thomas Manning, an agent,
'said of the three-by-five-mile
'Stretch of rough timber coun-
try 35. miles north of Port-
land, Ore. —

The hijacker. took over a
Northwest Airlines 727 with .

-a device he said was a bomb
during a flight from Portland
to Seattle. He forced the-

,

plane to land at Seattle, col-.
lected four parachutes and
$200,000 and allowed the pas-
sengers off. Then he rdered
y-the crew to fly him to Reno.
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WOODLAND, Wash., Nov. 29
(AP)—The active search for a
man who bailed out of a hi-
jacked jet last Wednesday with
$200,000 ransom money ended
-here today, 'but the Federal
Bureau of Investigation said its
inquiry would continue.

Fog and low clouds in this
southwest _ Washington area
grounded 'aircraft for a second
day. A' spokesman for the
Cowlitz County sheriff's office
said the land search had been
discontinued because previous
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vary Richardson said various
proposals for the Public Health
Service hospitals were still
under review.

F.B.I. Lists Serial Numbers
Of Money Given to Hijacker

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (AP)
—The Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation said today that it
was distributing a 34-page list
of serial numbers that corres-
pond to those on the $20 bills
paid to the hijacker believed
to hhave parachuted from a
Boeing 727 aircraft between
Seattle and Reno, Nev., last
Nov. 24.

Copies are being furnished
to F.B.I. offices, police depart-
ments and certain financial and
Basiness establishments.

The money, $200,000 in $20
bills, was paid to the hijacker
in Seattle. The hijacker also
demanded four parachutes and
ordered the pilot to fly to Reno
at an altitude of no more than
10,000 -feet.

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Memorandum
To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Dae 9/17/93
From: SA | | b6
b7C
Subject: NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS ix? b6
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Reference

Reference Dallas airtel to Seattle and Portland, dated
1/14/93.

Referenced airtel suggested that| Jmight bé6
possibly be a suspect in this matter. | is described as a bic
white male and his age, at the time of the hijacking, would be[_ ]
years old. He is 5/10", 150-160 pounds. His hair is brownish-
biond, his eyes are green, possibly, build is small. His
complexion is fair and he wore prescription glasses.

Inasmuch as UNSUB, in this matter, was 40-45 years old
at the time of the hijacking, it seems unlikely that{ ~ Jis b6
identical with UNSUB. In addition, | wears prescription b7c

glasses, apparently not worn by UNSUB, and_| hair is
brownish-bliond with green eyes and fair complexion, all in
disagreement with the description given by eye witnesses of
UNSUB.

There is a lead outstanding at St. Michoud, Oregon, set
forth in reference communication. When results of that
investigation are received by the Seattle Division, consideration
should be given to eliminating the suspect as possibly being
involved in captioned crime.

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Memorandum
To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Dae 9/17/93
From: SA bs
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Subject: NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Reference | b6
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Reference Dallas airtel to Seattle and Portland, dated
1/14/93.
Referenced airtel suggested that | might —_
possibly be a suspect in this matter. | Jis described as a
white male and his age, at the time of the hijacking, would be[_ |
years old. He is 5/10", 150-160 pounds. His hair is brownish-
blond, his eyes are green, possibly, build is small. His
complexion is fair and he wore prescription glasses.
Inasmuch as UNSUB, in this matter, was 40-45 years old
at the time of the hijacking, it pe pms—unly ety that is b6
identical with UNSUB. [In addition, wears prescription b7C
glasses, apparently not worn by UNSUB, and hair is

brownish-blond with green eyes and fair complexion, all in
disagreement with the description given by eye witnesses of
UNSUB.

There is a lead outstanding at St. Michoud, Oregon, set
forth in reference communication. When results of that
investigation are received by the Seattle Division, consideration
should be given to eliminating the suspect as possibly being
involved in captioned crime.

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Memorandum
To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Date 9/17/93
From: SA

Subject: NORJAK . .
00: SEATTLE

ARMED _AND_ DANGEROUS

Reference Los Angeles airtel to Sacramento, dated
5/8/92; and Sacramento airtel to Seattle, dated 2/1/93.

Reference| |

Investigation at Sacramento has resulted in an
interview of suspect,(_ sds who denies involvement in
captioned crime. According to descriptive data,[___|would have
been[__]years old at the time of the hijack: d UNSUB was
described as in his mid 40's. In addition, lclaimea he does
not smoke, nor has he ever smoked.

In view of the fact that no logical investigation
remains concerning the suspect and of the fact that | appears
to have been approximately 10 years younger than UNSUB at the
time of the crime, no further investigation should be conducted
concerning this aspect of the NORJAK investigation.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

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Memorandum
To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Dae 9/17/93
From: SA b6
b7c
Subject: NORTJAK
OO: SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Reference Los Angeles airtel to Sacramento, dated
5/8/92; and Sacramento airtel to Seattle, dated 2/1/93.
Reference | | b6
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Investigation at Sacramento has resulted in an
interview of suspect, _—*+dYs-s who denies involvement in
captioned crime. According to descriptive data[/ ]would have
been [_] years old at the time of the hijacki nd UNSUB was b6
described as in his mid 40's, In addition, | claimed he does b7c
not smoke, nor has he ever smoked.

In view of the fact that no logical investigation
remains concerning the suspect and of the fact that| appears b6
to havé been approximately 10 years younger than UNSUB at the b7C
time of the crime, no further investigation should be conducted
concerning this aspect of the NORJAK investigation.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

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Memorandum
To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Due 9/17/93
From: SA| | b6
b7C
Subject: NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Reference| | b6
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| lwas considered a suspect in this matter because
| provided infor j
FBI to the effect | Japparently | b6
in Moses Lake, Washington, sometime in 1971, and in b7c
late 1971, Jxreportedly suffered a in some b7D
sort of accident.
An interview with | Jby the bé
Denver Division reflected that she tends to see important bic
connections between circumstances and events which are widely b7D
se +h conclusions based on
which is not an
altogether happy relationship.
[_]lis described as follows: ne
Race: White ®7C
Sex: Male bID
DOB: |
Height: Approximately 6/2"
Weight: 195-220 pounds
Hair: Thinning, light brown or dishwater
biond

Characteristics: Wears glasses or contact lenses; may
have a slight beer belly

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Based on date of birth of | |woula
have been[______—sidyears old at the time of the NORJAK hijacking.
UNSUB, according to eye witnesses, was in his mid 40's during the
hijacking. A photograph of[___] taken in 1964, shows an
individual with a strong heavy set jaw which is quite noticeable.
Eye witnesses did not indicate UNSUB had such a strong facial
feature.

In view of these discrepancies, no further
investigation will be conducted concerning At
this time.

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Memorandum
To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Das 9/17/93
From: SA b6
b7C
Subject: NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
b6é
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ect in this matter because
rovided information to the b6
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| |in Moses Lake, Washington, sometime —ini271.—and in b7D
late 1971, | lreportedly suffered a in some
sort of accident.
An interview with| |by the b6
Denver Division reflected that she tends to see important bic
connections between circumstances and events which are widely b7D
separated in time and place. She may reach conclusions based on
jwhich is not an
altogether happy relationship.
[jis described as follows: b6
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Race: White b7D
Sex: Male
DOB: |
Height: Approximately 6/2"
Weight: 195-220 pounds
Hair: Thinning, light brown or dishwater
blond

Characteristics: Wears glasses or contact lenses; may
have a slight beer belly

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Memorandum

To +: SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81) Date 12/10/92

Frm : SA| | bé
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Subject: NORJAK

00: SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS bé

b7C

Re suspect | |

A review of | lsub file reveals that he was
suggested as_a_ suspect by] | b6
who lives in| Arizona. According tol | BIC

while under the influence of alcohol, told her he had b7D
lalso stated | [had expressed
| |} that he
fears being caught by the FBI. Finally, | [stated
| served in the U.S. Army when he was 18 years old
and was a parachute rigger.

Phoenix Division reinterviewed | land was able b6
to obtain a composite description of | | That b7C
description indicated that he is at least two inches shorter than b7D
UNSUB in this matter and his eyes are blue/gray and not brown in
co In addition, he has a[_ |

both upper and lower. Finally, he has a pot belly that is
quite pronounced.

In view of these physical discrepancies between UNSUB
and(—=édi|sénco further investigation will be conducted b6
concerning him and this sub file should be marked eliminated. bic

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Memorandum
To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81) (P) Dac 12/10/92

b6
From : SA b7C
Subject: NORJAK

00: SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS b6

b7C

Re

Re Springfield's airtel to Seattle dated 2/10/92.

A review of[____— | sub file reveajed that he was b6
suggested as a suspect in this matter because suspected b7C
him of this crime. He did so because he was a_former 7b7D
paratrooper with extensive survival training. | jadmitteda %
he did not have any solid physical evidence linking | to J
the hijacking but he stated that Jadmitted to him that
he had hijacked the airplane. | | is described
as a White male, five feet seven to five feet eight inches in
height, lwith eye color green. In addition, he
has |

In view of the fact that| | is at b6
least four inches shorter than UNSUB in this matter, and in b7c

addition is[__ land has green eyes instead of brown eyes, no
further investigation should be conducted concerning him and this
sub file should be marked eliminated.

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The following investigation was conducted by SA b6
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AT PINE MOUNTAIN CLUB, CALIFORNIA
On January 26, 1993, attempts to locate and interview
| were negative. b6é
b7C
It is noted a| | California license
[_] was parked in front of that residence.
The California Law Enforcement Telecommunications
System (CLETS) indicates that vehicle is registered to[___| b6
| Maricopa, California. b7C
Attempts to further identify| |through CLETS
driver's license information was negative.
On that date, | b6
| | advised b7C
that jis a part-time employee of his business and
utilizes al ]vehicle. However,[__—S——sdjwass unaware
of whereabouts but agreed to forward a message requesting
|to contact the FBI.
On January 27, 1993, advised b6
as follows: bic
He has resided in Pine Mountain Club since 1981 and
lives in a rental house. He is unemployed, | b6
[ and has been] bic
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In 1971, he resided in Huntington Beach, California and
was | | b6
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The circumstances surrounding the D.B. COOPER hijacking
matter was explained to[____]following which he denied any b6
involvement. However, it was noted that[___Jappeared quite b7C
knowledgeable regarding the incident, including details that
likely appeared in the news media, i.e. location of passengers
and type of aircraft.
[__ advised that he has never smoked, to include b6
Raleigh filter tips. bic

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JICW/bmac

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During the course of the interview the following

descriptive data was obtained:

Name

Sex

Race

Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Height

Weight

Hair

Eyes

Complexion
Marital Status
Social Security No.
Driver's License
Occupation
Education

Prior Arrests
Military Service

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Caucasia

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Gray (formerly black)
Brown

Pair; smooth

Never married

Does not possess one

Graduate, Seattle University

None admitted

U.S. Army, |

experience}

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AT PINE MOUNTAIN CLUB, CALIFORNIA

On January 26, 1993,

| |were negative.

It is noted a |

[ _|was parked in front of that residence.

TRE following investigation was conducted by sa[__|

attempts to locate and interview

| California license[ |

The California Law Enforcement Telecommunications

icates that vehicle is registered to[
Maricopa, California.

Attempts to further identify

|through CLETS

driver's license information was negative.

On that date, |

|

| advised

that] [is a part-tin
utilizes a

vehicle. However,

ne employee of his business and

Was unaware

of | | whereabouts but agreed to forward a message requesting

| [to contact the FBI.

On January 27, 1993,

as follows:

advised

He has resided in Pine Mountain Club since 1981 and

lives in a rental house. He is unemployed, |

| and has been | |

In 1971, he resided in Huntington Beach, California and

was |

The circumstances surrounding the D.B. COOPER hijacking

matter was explained to

[_ | following

involvement. However, it was noted that

knowledgeable regarding the incident,

he denied any
appeared quite

including details that

likely appeared in the news media, i.e. location of passengers

and type of aircraft.

advised that he has never smoked, to include

Raleigh filter tips.

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TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE:
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CLASSIFICATION:
[} TOP SECRET

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direct mail office

Please direct all mail to:
FBI

P.O. Box 26434
Fresno, CA. 93729

RE: Los Angeles airtel to Sacramento, 5/8/92.
Enclosed for Seattle are two copies of an
investigative insert reflecting results of investigation at

Inasmuch as investigation within the Sacramento &
Division has been completed, this matter is considered RUC.

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FBI
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CO Facsimile (J Priority (1 SECRET
KX] AIRTEL C) Routine (1 CONFIDENTIAL
Li UNCLAS EF TO
[1 UNCLAS
Date 9/17/93
TO : SAC, PORTLAND
FROM : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P)
SUBJECT : NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
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Reference |

Reference Dallas airtel to Seattle and Portland,
dated 1/14/93.

Reference communication set forth lead for the
Portland Division at St. Michoud, Oregon. To date, Seattle
has not received results of that investigation. Portland
Division is requested to forward results of requested

investigation to Seattle.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

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On 3/26/93, sa| linterviewed a white male who
identified himself only as | advised he had watched aN

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on, wy D. B. COOPER is actually last known
| . address - | Campbell, California,
telephone number - | |provided the following
information concerning .
became friends with[|__]auring the Korean b6
War, where was in either the 101lst or 82nd Airborne bic
Division. After the war,[__]remained friends with
and had periodic contacts with him. Both and | |

were seugencs at Pasadena City College from approximately | |

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County Sheriff's Office, from where_he retired. During that b7C
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p——L ctainea to have known from friends in the FBI b6
that had _ been a suspect in the D. B. COOPER case. b7c
| |claimed to have information concerning | } the

source of which[ ]would not divulge, as follows:

Approximately one year before the D. B. COOPER
hijacking, | received training in free fail b6
parachuting, and approximately six months prior to the bIC

hijacking, received training in night free falls.
Additionally, after the hijacking, | |periodically

received_checks from a Canadian trust company in a substantial
amount. [__—sdJhad an alibi at the time of the hijacking
that he was with his brother in New Mexico, which the brother
did not corroborate.

l advised that from his personal knowledge, b6

| Japproximately six b7C

months prior to the hijacking, and that approximately a year
after the_hijacking, | | sawl| |flashing a lot of money
around. | thought that was strange pecause[ | was
always in bad financial condition because he regularly lost
jobs due to an alcohol problem.

[_]claimea that from what _he knew of the FBI b6
investigation, the FBI eliminated] as a suspect b7c
because the FBI's records showed was either 20 or 30
years too old or too young. | stated that the FBI's records
as to| jdate of birth were erroneous.

presently attends an Episcopal Church in b6
Campbell, which is just off Winchester Street, and worked with bic

the FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP in either Campbell or San Jose,
California, with a person named | :

Prior to viewing the Unsolved Mysteries television
show,[___]had not thought of[_____]in connection with the b6
D. B. COOPER case for several years. Prior to the television bIC
show,[____]had never seen an artist's rendition of D. B. COOPER
at the time of the hijacking. [|] however, saw the artist's
rendition on Unsolved Mysteries, and immediately recognized
the artist's rendition of D. B. COOPER as being |
then called his wife into the room to view the picture of D.

B. COOPER, and upon asking his wife who the

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icture looked like, | wife answered that it looked like
___jadditionally stated that the artist's rendition
of what D. B. COOPER would presently look like resembled

today.

advised sa| Jthat he would remain in contact
with SA regarding this matter.

ARMED _AND_ DANGEROUS

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Mose

Memorandum
To +: SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Date 9/20/93
Frm : SA b6
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Subject: NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
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ARMED _ AND DANGEROUS TA pAe
On 7/6/93, | 1X b6
shington, telephonically contacted the writer b7C
and stated that he is a client who aims to know who D. B.
COOPER is. A meeting was arranged between the writer,|
and his client that took place on?/21/93.
On 7/21/93,| ] X{sxece)
Everett, Washington |} | home telephone] [advised that b6
he had a friend named| J} whol Xone
suspected to be identical with UNSUB in this matter. According
to| __|claimed to be D. B. COOPER in 1972 while
[Ssdadvised that he has not seen ] for b6
approximately 15 years. He did furnish the following background bic
information concerning him:
Sex: Male
Race: Caucasian
Height: 6/1"
Weight: 175-180 pounds (15 years ago)
Age: 52-56
Hair: Sanay, light colored, receding hair
line
Eyes: Blue
Complexion: Light

Characteristics: Does not wear glasses, does not smoke

| | aavised that | was al lin b6

the U.S. ARMY and_al ] with U.S. AIRBORNE. He stated he bic
has a degree in Jand 1s now a Weyerhauser employee.

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In view of the fact that| | would have been 34- b6é
37 years old at the time of the hijacking and UNSUB was described bic
as in his mid 40's; and also in view of the fact that

Jhair is light colored, his eyes are blue, and his

complexion is light, these physical discrepancies would tend to
illuminate him as a possible suspect in this_matter. Unless
further information is received concerning| |} no further
investigation should be conducted concerning him at this time.

ARMED _ AND DANGEROUS

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Memorandum

To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Dae 9/20/93
From: SA | |

Subject: NORJAK

OO: SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

On 7/6/93,|

[| Ballard, Washington, telephonically contacted the writer
and stated that he is a client who claims to know who BD. B.

COOPER is. A meeting was arranged between the writer,

and his client that took place on 7/21/93.

. On 7/21/93,|]
Everett, Washington | L home telephone| | advised tha
he had a friend named | who
suspected to be identical with UNSUB in This matter. According
f [olaimed to be D. B. COOPER in 1972 whil

[—sdjadvised that he has not seen| | for
approximately 15 years. He did furnish the following backgroun
information concerning him:

Sex: Male

Race: Caucasian

Height: 6/1"

Weight: 175-180 pounds (15 years ago)

Age: 52-56

Hair: Sandy, light colored, receding hair
line

Eyes: Blue

Complexion: Light

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Memorandum

To : $AC, SEATTLE (164A~SE-81) (P) Dae 9/20/93

b6
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From; SAI

Subject: NORJAK
00: SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Reference | | (phonetic) , | b6

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| has been suggested as a possible suspect
in this investigation by jof Olympia, Washington.
Istated that after watching a recent broadcast of the
television show "Unsolved Mysteries," that information in this
show prompted him to call the FBI and state that he knew of a
friend of his who had informed him in about 1979 that he knew
that this hijacking was going to occur before it happened. Upon
further contact, [J advised the FBI that he had reported
this information approximately 12 years ago_and that the

that he was referring to was thel

| stated
that | | looked similar to the artist's composite of
UNSUB.

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In view of the fact that the information provided to
[by his friend was provided in 1979, eight years after bé6
the hijacking, and in view of the fact that| has admitted bic
that is a suspect based on the fact_that he looks
similar to the artist's composite, and that| Jhas no
actual information concerning this matter or any suspect in this
hijacking, no further investigation should be conducted
concerning this aspect of this investigation.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

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Memorandum
To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Date 9/22/93
From : SA b6
b7C
Subject: NORJAK
OO: SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Reference | | Sub J, miscellaneous bé
persons. Be
| telephone | | andl b6é
| | telephone| | telephonically advised the b7c
writer of their suspicions that| lis identical
with UNSUB in this matter. [ | and |
stated they feel this way because| {had military
parachute experience and according to then, | jtook a
suitcase that weekend on a three day fishing trip and when his
| l_ whe they described as | | asked where he had
been, he| |
J ana|[ [also stated thatl
advised them that |
is described as follows: b6é
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Sex: Male
Race: Caucasian
Height: 5/10"
Build: Slim
Weight: 160 pounds
Age: Approximately [_]at the time of the
NORJAK hijacking
Hair: Brown
In view of the fact that| jwas in his early bé
30's and UNSUB is described as 45, at the time of the hijacking, b7C

no further investigation should be conducted concerning him.

ARMED_AND DANGEROUS

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Memorandum

To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Due 9/22/93

From : SA b6
b7C

Subject: NORJAK

00: SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

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Reference | Sub J, miscellaneous X ee
persons. — c
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| | rhopied | telephonically advised the
writer/fof their sGspicions that] jis identical b6é
with ,ONSUB in this matter. | Land | | b7¢

stated they feel this way because|

had military

parachute experience and according to them,

Suitcase that weekena on a three @
who they described

took a

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as asked where he had

been, he|
and| Jaiso stated that| |
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is described as follows: b6
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Sex: Male
Race: Caucasian
Height: 5/10"
Build: Slim
Weight: 160 pounds
Age: Approximately [__] at the time of the
NORJAK hijacking
Hair: Brown
In view of the fact that was in his early b6
30's and UNSUB is described as 45, at the time of the hijacking, bic

no further investigation should be conducted concerning him.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

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Memorandum

To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (PP) — Dae 9/22/93

b6

From; SA |
b7Cc

Subject: NORJAK
0O: SEATTLE

'Armed and Dangerous

Reference Salt Lake City airtel to Seattle, dated
4/13/93.

Reference

has been suggested as a suspect in this matter
because he resembles the artist's composite of UNSUB. In bé
addition, | ] who was interviewed in 1977, indicated that b7C
he had no positive information, but that_he be Leved| to
be identical with UNSUB. He stated that is a trained
paratrooper and that he had taken extensive training in night
skydiving prior to captioned crime. [___] stated that he and
had discussed this matter on many occasions, and
advised him that the amount taken in this hijacking was
204,000.00.

It has been learned, throu investigation, thatL__] b6é
is a creditor of[L___—iana that lhas made it clear b7C
that he is not going to repay the money to| |that he owes

him.

Jage, at the time of the crime, was|__]years. b6
His height is 6', his weight is 165 pounds, and his eyes are bic
blue. UNSUB, at the time of this crime, was described as 45
years old, with brown eyes.
bé

It is noted that |seems to have a motive for
provi its this information concerning In that, bic

owes him money and does not intend to repay it. In
addition,L____Jhas furnished information thatthe Jas

admitted participating in this crime and taking $204,000.00 when
the actual amount taken in the crime was $200,000.00. In view of
these discrepancies, and in view of the fact that there are no
logical leads remaining in this_case, no further investigation
will be conducted concerningL_______ Jat this time.

Armed and Dangerous

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Memorandum

the actual amount taken in the crime was $200,000.00.
these discrepancies, and in view of the fact that there are no

In view of

logical leads remaining in th

To SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Dae 9/22/93
From SA bé6é
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Subject: NORJAK Ph.)

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'Armed and Dangerous aa

Reference Salt Lake City airtel to Seattle, dated
4/13/93.

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Reference | | |
jyhas been suggested fis a suspect in this matter b6

because he resemblés the artist's composite of UNSUB. In xX b7C
addition, | | who was interviewed in 1977, indicated that
he had no posityve information, but that he believed to
be identical with UNSUB. He stated that is a trained
paratrooper and that he had taken extensive training in night
skydiving prior to captioned crime. stated that he and

had discussed this matter on many occasions, and

advised him that the amount taken in this hijacking was

204,000.00.

It has been learned, through investigation, that[___ be
is a creditor of and that| lhas made it clear bic
that he is not going to repay the money to] [that he owes
him.

| lage, at the time of the crime, wasl__lyears. b6
His height is 6,' his weight is 165 pounds, and his eyes are bic
blue. UNSUB, at the time of this crime, was described as 45
years old, with brown eyes.

It is noted that| |seems to have a motive for bé6é
pprowidin this information concerning| } In that, bic

owes him money and does not intend to repay it. In
addition, | Jnas furnished information chat [eles
admitted participating in this crime and taking ' .00 when

Will be conducted concerning

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at this time.

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Memorandum
To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Date 9/23/93
From: SA b6
b7C
Subject: NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
Re: 1. Seattle report of SA | dated b6
2/16/72 (Sub GG) (2351); b7C
2. Seattle report of sa | | dated
5/30/73 (Sub GG) (4729);
3. Seattle report of SA| ] dated
11/23/73 (Sub GG) (5070);
4. Seattle report of SA | dated Ps

5/31/74- (Sub GG) (6258);

5. SA _ memorandum, dated 8/4/72
(Sub K) (3741);

6. ausal Jletter to]

| |} dated 4/20/76 (Sub C) (6914),
(Re Grand Jury Indictment).

At a minimum it is recommended that a new NORJAK case
agent review the above references.

ARMED AND_ DANGEROUS

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The Crime

On 11/24/71, the day before Thanksgiving, a lone white
male boarded Northwest Orient flight 305 at Portland, Oregon. At
approximately 3:22 p.m., while the flight was enroute to Seattle,
Washington, he indicated to the stewardess that his briefcase
contained a bomb, which would blow up the plane unless his
demands were met.

The hijacker demanded $200,000 and four parachutes in
exchange for the safety of the 36 passengers aboard the plane.
When the aircraft landed at Seattle, Washington, Northwest Orient
Airlines complied with his instructions. After he received the
parachutes and money, the hijacker allowed all passengers and two
airline stewardesses to deplane.

He then ordered the remaining crew members into the
first-class section of the aircraft and informed them he desired
to fly to Mexico City. The hijacker instructed that the plane
proceed in a southerly direction and fly at a low aititude and
Slow speed, which would enable the rear door of the plane to be
opened during the flight.

The hijacker apparently bailed out somewhere between
Seattle, Washington, and Reno, Nevada, where the plane landed to
refuel. It was determined the hijacker, two parachutes and the
ransom money had disappeared when the plane was inspected at
Reno, Nevada.

Artist's conception drawings of the aircraft hijacker
were prepared by the FBI Exhibit Section and are considered a
reasonable likeness. The black and white composite was prepared
initially and sometime later, the color composite was prepared to
depict the hijacker's complexion and age more graphically.

The hitjjacker is described as follows:

Race: White

Sex: Male

Age: Mid-40's

Height: 5710" - 6°

Weight: 170 to 180 ibs.

Complexion: Olive, latin appearance,
medium smooth. ,

Hair: Dark brown or black,

parted on the left,
combed back.

Eyes: Possibly brown; during
the latter part of flight,

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the hijacker put on dark,
wrap-around sunglasses
with dark rims.

Voice: Low, spoke intelligently,
no particular accent.
Characteristics: Smoked Raliegh filter-

type cigarettes

Wearing Apparel: Black or brown suit;
narrow black tie (clip-on
type); black rain-type
overcoat or dark topcoat;
dark briefcase or attache
case; carried a paper bag
4 x 12 x 14 inches; brown
shoes.

Remarks: Very polite at all times

AREA INVOLVED

Bounded on the west by US-5, on the south by the
Columbia River, on the north by the Kalama River, and on the east
by the Skamania-Clark County Line.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR:

1. The remains of a man, possible dead for eve!
years.

2. The remnants of a parachute harness or parachute
shroud lines.

3. 10,000 twenty dollar bills wrapped in a parachute
canopy, all serial numbers are known and can be identified,

4. Deteriorated raincoat or overcoat.

5. Small briefcase or attache case.

LEADS:

1. TYPICAL - A relative or former friend resembles
UNSUB and has had previous parachuting experience. In addition,
he has "a lot of money" at about that time and he possibly said
he was "D.B. COOPER" while drinking in a bar.

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Age differences or height differences between the
suspect and UNSUB generally can disprove 95% of these leads,

2. NOT TYPICAL - Suspect is dead (See Sub 386 McCoy),
and told witnesses he was "D.B. COOPER" (See 853 Coffelt). He
also said he lost the money in the jump.

Age and height differences plus location on
11/24/71 or 11/25/71 can be useful in processing these suspects
(Good Luck}.

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164-SE-81

D.B. COOPER VS DAN COOPER

one of the first suspects in this case was| | b6

aka D.B. Cooper. The press learned of this fact and bic
printed this information, indicating that was the name UNSUB used
aboard the aircraft. The actual name on the flight manafest was

DAN COOPER.

Any potential suspect whose true last name is COOPER
should be carefully scrutinized for possible elimination.

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STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS

The Statute of Limitations issue is addressed in
Reference Number Six, AusA| letter dated 4/20/76
(Serial 6914). bé

spite this fact and direct orders by FBIHQ and DOJ, pre
sal indicted UNSUB in Portland in 1976. This is
known as a John Doe Indictment and is of questionable legal
value. (See my memo dated 2/5/76 (Sub JJ) (Serial 6841).)

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UNSOLVED MYSTERIES

Occasionally this crime is highlighted on Unsolved
Mysteries.

The telephone calls fit into five categories:

1. SIGHTING - The caller had recently seen an
indivdual resembling the artist's composite of UNSUB. (No lead)
(15%)

2. RESEMBLANCE - The caller had an acquaintance who
resembled the artist's composite of UNSUB. (No lead} (13%)

3. FORMER SUSPECT - The caller was suggesting a
suspect that had been previously processed as a NORJAK suspect.
(6%)

4. NEW SUSPECT - The caller was providing information
on a new suspect. This information was dictated into Seattle
File Number 164A-81 and appropriate leads have been set out.
(4%)

5. NO LEAD - The caller did not provide any
information of lead value. (68%)

Percentage figures represent average values and are for
information purpose only.

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INDEXING

NORJAK currently maintains two indices. One manual

indices located on the 6th Floor at the end of old manual
indices. One automated, that contains indices data entered since

the full implementation of FOIMS.

A separate memorandum has been dictated to have the
manual indices entered into FOIMS.

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A reward of 15% of any portion of the ransom money
recovered has been offered in the past by Northwest Orient
Airlines. Contact with NWOAL on a case-by-case basis should
verify this or any additional rewards by them or their insurance

company.
If it becomes necessary to offer a reward on a C.0.D.

basis to obtain information, it is suggested that the Director's
Airtel to All SAC's, dated 3/2/93 re FBI Reward Policy be

consulted.

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FILING OF SERIALS

At least one copy of each communication must be
serialized in the main file and extra copies are then routed to
the appropriate lettered sub volume (See attached list).

All indexing is done to'the main file serial number.
Sub volumes are not serialized but are filed in approximate date
order as they are received.

All indexing and routing is done by the case agent.

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SUB

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BN XAICHUDONOZRMAGHMOAMHON

LETTER SUB VOLUMES,

1A Exhibits

1B Bulkies (formerly newspaper clippings ~ See Sub
LL)

Publicity

Parachute Information

Search Area

Course

Evidence

Witnesses

Tapes and Films

Miscellaneous Persons

Artist Sketch

Airports, Flying Schools, Skydiving Clubs
Money

Transmitters

Daily Teletypes

Boeing Co. Technical

FD-302's

Miscellaneous Letters

Expenses Involved in Search
Ticket

Weather and Wind

Flight Insurance

Reward Letters

Leads

Maps

Bureau Instructions

Experimental Jump

Missing Persons

Search Personnel

Complaints Resulting From Search
Pilots Licenses

Reward

Reports

Demonstration of Photographs
Norjak Conferences

Grand Jury

Unsolved Mysteries

Newspaper Clippings (Formerly Sub B)

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N

PD-36 (Rev, 8-29-85)

FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION:
C} Teletype C] Immediate Li TOP SECRET
CO Facsimile C1 Priority. [) SECRET
K] AIRTEL C1 Routine 1) CONFIDENTIAL
[] UNCLAS EF TO
[} UNCLAS
Date 8/12/92
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-sE-124)
FROM : SAC, WMFO (164~SE-169) (RUC)
SUBJECT : NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 305

captioned case and relevant FD-192.

review of bulky exhibits maintained in its evidence control

room. Enclosed items are being returned for disposition as
Seattle deems warranted.

) - Seattle (Encl.)

PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, 11/24/71
CAA - HIJACKING, EXTORTION
00: SE

Enclosed for Seattle is one box of evidence in

On April 4, 1992, WMFO initiated a comprehensive

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FD-36 (Rev. 11-17-88)

FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION;
(1 Teletype OO Immediate [i TOP SECRET
(CO Facsimile OO Priority C1 SECRET
&}] AIRTEL C) Routine (1) CONFIDENTIAL
LC) UNCLASEFTO
[1 UNCLAS
Date 9/7/93
TO : SAC, MINNEAPOLIS .
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FROM ; 'SAC, MOBILE (164-SE~81]} bac
SUBJECT : NORJAK; b7D
D. B. COOPER
CRIME ABOARD AIRCRAFT
(OO: SEATTLE)
On_ 8/11/93, | | W/M, DOB Je ett: b6
SSAN Dalevilie,_ Fudbena, bic
) telephonically contacted the b7D

Mobile, Alabama, FBI offige and advised he had recently seen
the episode of "America's Most Wanted" which portrayed the
D. B. COOPER airplane hijacking. [L___|stated he had
possible information concerning the subject, D. B. COOPER.

|was interviewed on 8/17/93, and provided the
following information:

stated the portrait Of mA B. COOPER Looked b6

i an of his, ladvisea he* b7C
and when they "ived in Minneapolis, b7D
Minnesota. stated | oved to Seattle, Washington,
in| ladvised that[____] said hel
and also] jwhile living in Seattle.
returned to Minneapolis in and _ appeared to be very
wealthy. and purchased a
[stated when he left Minneapolis in
was still]

stated [is located on} |
between |

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Soe 7

164-SE-81

| | advised | lwas born and raised in

| He was| lwhile in Seatt on
jadvised he knows bID
as Jthat live in Minneapolis, however, | |did
not know their names. [__Jadvised| | may
still live in Minneapolis, if she is still alive.

[| stated| may have been a former bé
paratrooper when_he was in the Army and he gave the following b7¢c
description of b7D

Name |

Race White

Sex Male

Height 5/10"

Weight 175

Hair Light brown on sides,

bald on top

LEAD:

MINNEAPOLIS DIVISION
AT MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

Conduct appropriate fugitive investigation and
report findings to Seattle.

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Memorandum
To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Date 9/22/93
From; sal b6
b7C
Subject: NORTAK
60: SEATTLE
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Reference conversation between SAl | and b6
(RASU-File Supervisor) on 9/20/93. b7c

NORJAK currently maintains two indices. One manual
indices, located on the 6th floor and physically located at the
end of the old manual indices in one drawer, and one automated
indices that contains data entered since the implementation of
FOIMS.

During reference conversation, it was agreed that an
attempt would be made to automate NORJAK indices. This would
entail entering all or most of the information contained in the
manual indices into an automated format. It was agreed that some
of the information would not fit into automated indices, however,
there is a comment field and the information that did not fit
possibly could be placed in the comment field.

LEADS:
SEATTLE DIVISION

AT _ SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

Will enter all or most of the information in the NORJAK
manual indices into FOIMS.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

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Memorandum
To : SAC, SEATTLE (164A~SE-81) (P) Das 9/23/93

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Subject: NORJAK

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Race: American Indian
Age: [_]at the time of NORJAK
Height: 57g"
Build: Well
Hair: Black
Eyes: Dark brown
Characteristics: Abbott, hunter, and fisherman
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and also of the fact that| [was 5'8" and UNSUB was 6', and bic

finally, in view of the fact that UNSUB was not known to be an
American Indian, no further investigation concerning this aspect
of this crime should be conducted.

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Memorandum

To : SAC, SEATTLE Dae /O- AE -F3

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SAC; DENVER (164A-SE-81)
ORJAK; cj RUC
CAA
Subject: OO: . SEATTLE ~ x Fife Destruction Program
(Title)
Enclosed are items.

These items are forwarded your office since:
(J All logical investigation completed in this Division a

BS You were OO at the time our case was RUC'd. ) /

Enclosures are described as follows:

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Memorandum

To i: SAC, SEATTLE (164A-SE-81) (P) Dac 9/28/93
From : SA] |

Subject: NORJAK

00: SEATTLE

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

Re memo of SA| | dated 9/23/93.

To help explain the NORJAK filing system to new rotors
or Case Agents, the following information is provided:

1. All communications are serialized in the main file
first.

2. Copies will be designated for Sub files (see
attached for a list of letter Sub volumes) by the Case Agent.

3. Sub volumes consist of lettered Sub volumes and
numbered Sub volumes.

4. Each suspect is given a numbered Sub volume (the
number is assigned sequentially by the rotor).

5. When indexing names, etc. to a numbered Sub volume,
be sure to include the number of the i a ie
164A-SE-0000081{___—Jand title: NORJAK; :

6. When indexing names, etc. to a lettered Sub volume,
be sure to include the serial number {i.e., under file: 164A-SE-

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7. %If a suspect does not warrant a numbered Sub
volume, the communication should be placed into Sub J
(miscellaneous).

8. 1A''s are filed into Sub A, 1B''s are filed into Sub
B, newspaper clippings are filed into Sub LL.

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9. The Case Agent will designate where a copy of each
communication should be filed. He/she will also specify the
opening of new numbered or lettered Sub files.

10. The manual indices currently maintained in one
drawer of the old manual indices will be entered into FOIMS.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

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Memorandum
To +: SAC, SEATTLE (164B-81) (P) Date 1/25/94
Fom : SA (SQUAD 5)

Subject: NORJAK, aka
D. B. Cooper;
CAA-HIJACKING;
00: SEATTLE

This matter was assigned to writer in 9/93 upon the
impending retirement of the previous Case Agent. Due to writer's
assignment tol |conference and a 12/93 In-Service,
the case was not addressed before writer was transferred to Squad
6 in 1/94. There are several pending leads which require review
of the file to determine if a particular suspect is identical to
subject.

SSA | lhas recommended that this case be reassigned
to SA| |}so that he, too, can retire before it is
closed.

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