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SALT LAKE {AP) — Two
ex-lawmen claim slain Ufah
skyjacker Richard Floyd MeCoy Jr.
was the man who, under the alias
D.B. Cooper, skyjacked a North-
west Orient 727 on Thanksgiving
1971, extorted $200,060 from the
airline and parachuted into the
night.

No trace of Cooper was found
after he parachuted from the -jetlin-

" er near Portland, but some of the

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cash surfaced along the Columbia
River in 1980, Most 'investigators
believe the man perished. .

.McCoy was convicted of skyjack-
ing a Denver-to-Los Angeles flight
'on April 7, 1972, and bailing out
over his hometown of Provo, Utah,
with $500,600. McCoy was sentenced
to 45 years in prison and was shot
to death Nov. 9, 1974, by FBI
agents in Virginia Beach, Va., after
escaping with three others from a
federal prison at Lewisburg, Pa.

In the recently completed manu-
'script, ""Beyond a Reasonable
Doubt (D.B. Cooper — No Longer a

Mystery},"' Bernie A. Rhodes, form-_

er FBI division chief in Salt Lake
City, and Russeli P. Calame, form-
er chief U.S. probation and parole
"agent, contend McCoy was Cooper.

, _.dhey cite parailels in the hijack-
_angs, such as both men getting four
- parachutes, both using the phrase

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~"no funny stuff? in their ransom

" , notes and both showing knowledge

of pilot terminology.
. At the time of the McCoy hijack-
-ing, if was thought to be a rather
inept copy of the earlier, greatly
'publicized skyjacking.

Both hijackings were during va-

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versity, where McCoy was:a stu-
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In both cases, the hijacker sat in
the coach section on the right side
of the aisle, the authors' said.

They also said they have found
evidence disputing family accounts
that McCoy had been at home in
Provo on Thanksgiving 1872.

They said they had determined

-that McCoy purchased gasoline in

Las Vegas at Thanksgiving time
and that a collect calf was made to
the MeCoy residence at 10:41 p.m.
on Nov. 25, 1973.

They theorize that McCoy drove
from Provo to Las Vegas on or
before Thanksgiving eve, flew to
Portland, bought a ticket on North-
west Orient to Seattle, hijacked the
plane, parachuted, walked back to
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Vegas and drove home to Provo.

Calame said there is a piece of
evidence, an object Cooper left on
the airplane, that has always been
used to eliminate fraudulent claims
by people who said they were Coop- °
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He said that item has been identi-
fied by McCoy's relatives as having
belonged to him.

Rhodes said that in a pre-sen-
tence interview with him in 1972. .
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As a fugitive after the killings
of five members of his family,
List was considered a suspect in
the skyjacking from the
beginning, Himmelsbach said'
Descriptions. of List and
Cooper are similar. Both are
accused of bizarre crimes, and a
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checking into similarities

"Two 1971 drawings (left and center) aré believed to show mystery man
nothing to lose, Himmelsbach .American skyjacker. At right is murder suspect John E. List. The FBI is
said. ° - between the two men.

A man police said is List was ° 5

« arrested June 1 in Richmond, Va., after the

television show "America's Most Wanted" ran a
program on the "'baliroom murders" in November
197}. List's wife, his 87-year-old mother and his
three children were shot to death in their

. Westfield, N.J., mansion.
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The man, who goes by the name Robert. P. Clark

and was described by friends as a quiet, church-

going accountant, was extradited to New Jérsey on
Thursday and in jail. .

,Although'the man known as Clark denies he is
List, authorities said fingerprints and a scar prove
Clark and List are the same man.

'Authorities said List fled te Colorado and then

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Virginia and had built a new life.

FBI spokesman John Eyer in Seattle said
Thursday that List was being investigated in the
skyjacking, but said it was routine.

David Baugh, List's lawyer in Richmond before
he was returned to New Jersey, compared the
alleged connection to reported sightings of Elvis
Presley, a .

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Jersey said he doubts any conec- |'-deed his mother, wife and th three / $5,800 of the mone "y that wash
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come on,''* Said assistant Union|; Stavardess ,saying he "had a When he was arrested June
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By Jay McIntosh "~~" I Lewis River reservoir, oy were rethinking t
The Dally News if },assumption after the discovery ofthe money. -
' . #3 Palmer said it looks like Cooper landed in the
+4 Sloux City Sarsparilla, a potent root beerlike | Washougal River drainage area. But after com-
i beverage in a can with a cowboy on it, isthe lates! puting stream surface area, he Said it was a 1,000!
Sejue in the muddled story of skyjacker D. B. 'tol shot that the hijacker landed in water.
Cooper. ; "H's likely. that fhe guy survived (but was in-

Leonard Palmer, a Portland State University © jured), got to a stream and dropped some of the
geologist, said today that two cans of the softdrink | money because he was hurt and couldn't hold onto

' along with a Nesbitt's Orange can — were found * it. So {hat leaves him injured and somewhere in
. inthe same Sandy soil where a boy unearthed part the Washougal drainage area nine years ago."
of Cooper's loot last Sunday,

The clue may not mean much to FBI agents,
who on Thursday called off their search there for
more evidence. But it adds a Maltese Falcon air to
{he already mysterious story of America's only
unsoived skyjacking.

Theories of what happened abound, and Palmer

~ has constructed his own, He thinks Cooper surviv-
ed his sky jump and was injured. Palmer winds a
éelective slory around what he sees as geologic . . .
deposited on a Columbia River beach in Sioux City Sarsparilla. The Daily News managed ?
Washington, three miles northwest of Vancouver. 0 trace the sarsparilla to White Rock Products
A"Dan Cooper" parachuted from a 727 jet over Ine., a soft drink manufacturer in Brooklyn, NY.
Southwest Washington on Thanksgiving Eve 1971. [Company spokesman John Ctoney said he didn't};
But Palmer said the money was found in soil ithink the beverage had ever been distributed on
deposited on the beach after a 1974 dredging. 1{ the West Coast north of California. .
nay have been deposited within the last year, he}. A woman at the Portland bottler of White Rock

aid. ; 1 3
'Sioux City Sarsparilla was lodged in the samey),

e} that the money was found,'? Palmer said. If -
: FBI can trace when the pop cans were °
ufactured, it could provide more evidence of

the money was deposited. - .
2 cash, part of the $200,000 in $20 bills that was *
ed to Cooper's waist, was found bundied in a '

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cight inches betow the surface, but :
Mts of the money reportedly were as far 4
three feet. . j
could not explain how the money might -
buried that deep. He said there was "no

Only educated guesswork is behind the theory, —
of course, The FBI may or may not search for .
more evidence, said Jack Pringle, assistant agent
in charge of the bureau's Seattle office.
"We'll have to talk to the searchers who were
down there and then we'll decide if any further
'searches will be undertaken," Pringle said this
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'WASHINGTON—A 'young Van-; Caw entopcement authoritiestong
couver, Wash., family on an outing|have believed that Cooper died in his
along the Columbia River last Sunday|plunge from the Boeing 727 because
suddenly stumbled across 12 stacks ofihe was wearing only a business suit
moldering money—part of the $200,-/and street shoes when he jumped into
000 that the notorious airline hijacker a howling wind and freezing rain in
iD. 8. Cooper" made off with more an unreliable parachute. It has been
- eight years ago, the FBI said'estimated that he hit the ground at a

ay. . "speed of 50 to 70 m.p.h.

With the bills now having been!' The saga began when "Cooper"

traced definitely to the Cooper loot,"boarded the jetliner in Portland for an

agents from the Portland and'evening flight to Seattle. Once air-
Seattle FBI offices have begun an ex-!borne, he demanded that the airline
tensive search of the area for more of have $200,000 in $20 bills and three
the money~and-possibly for some parachutes on hand when the plane

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sign of Cooper or, more likely, his re-
mains.

The money—"several thousand
dollars," according to one official
was found in Washington about five
miles northwest of the Interstate 5
bridge that spans the Columbia and
separates Washington from Oregon,
FEI agent William hf. Baker told a
news conference in Portland.
__Discovery of the money by Harold
Dwayne Ingram, 27, his wife, Patricia,
26, and their sons, 8 and 3, marked
the latest twist in the bizarre saga of
the now-legendary Cooper, who pa-
rachuted from a Northwest Airlines
jetliner on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971,
never to be seen or heard from again.
When found by the Ingrams, the
stacks of $20 bills were bound by de-
composing rubber bands, the FBI
said. But there was "no trace of D. B.
Cooper," according to the agency.

- Shortly after the hijacking, a cult
¢prang up around D. B. Cooper, a
hame that never has been traced to
its origins. 'fe

A private club was named in his
honor, D. B. Cooper T-shirts were
manufactured, bumper stickers were
Let off and anniversary parties were
,. Baker said in Portland that wheth-
et T got away with the
dhe money was an open question.

-landed in Seattle, He threatened to
blow up the plane if his demands
were not met, , ote ee

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'The alrline complied, providing the
parachutes and money. However, the
FBI said Tuesday that the serial
numbers of the bills had been record-

Cooper permitted the airliner's 36
passengers to leave the plane in Seat-
tle. He then ordered the crew to take
the plane to Reno and told the.pilot to
fly at a relatively low altitude and to
open the plane's rear stairway. .

Crew members last heard his voice

ion the plane's Intercom when they .

:were over the Washington-Oregon
iborder. They eaid they, believe .he
. jumped, using the least reliable para-
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The decomposed money was found
'17 to 20 miles from the jump site by
the Ingrams' older son, Brian. The
bills were partly buried in sand that
the Ingrams were scooping out to
build a fire, .

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fire, Daddy, the father recalled his
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"| Bureau of Investigation has found
'about $4,000 of the money that ther
legendary hijacker, D.B. Cooper,
carried with him when he para-
chuted from a commercial . jet
over Southwest Washington in
1971, a bureau spokesman said
Tuesday.

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amount, the spokesman said.
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spokesman said the F.B.I. was
able to identify the money as part
of the $200,000 ransom given to
Cooper in Seattle nine years ago.
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of the F.B.1. were conducting a

' search in the area, but the spokes:

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aid in the search for Cooper, the
only parachute-ransom hijacker in
United States history who has not
been apprehended. ' -

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Cooper. Before the plane reached
Seattle, Cooper threatened to ex-
_ plode a "bomb" in his brief case if
- he were not. piven $200,000 in $20
bills and four parachutes and
flown to Reno, Nev.
The plane circled Seattle for 244
hours while authorities gathered
the parachutes and money. .
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rear exit, opened in flight. The ap-
proximate piace of departure was
guessed at from cabin-pressure
readings on the flight recorder.
The flight recorder and crew
testimony indicated Cooper had
jumped near the little town of Ari-
el, Cowlitz County, about 30 miles
north of Portland, a densely wood,:
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the area, the only item connected
with the hijacking ever found was
a rear door from the 727. .

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per probably was killed when he ~

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the Columbia River bank where it was
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assisting the FBI.

Leonard Palmer, a Portland State
University geologist, reached that con- S | n i ve —
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nine miles northwest of Vancouver, are oo,
Wash., where a family building a camp- :
fire found three packets of badly deteri-
orated $20 bills. .
The FBI said the money, believed to an
be several thousand dollars, was part of . _.|—_—
the $200,000 ransom paid to a man .
known only as Dan Cooper. Cooper,
popularly known as "D.B. Cooper" be-
cause of an erroneous news agency re- ——
port at the time, received.the money
~ after hijacking a Northwest Airlines jet-
liner after it departed from -Portland
Nov. 24,1971. -
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Yarold Dwayne. Ingram, 28, father of the Syear-old
boy who found part of skyjacker D.B. Cooper's ransom
money lest month, has been arrested in Vancouver,
, Wash, on a fugitive warrant from Oklaiiema.

The warrant charges Ingram with unlawfully remov:
ing mortgaged property from the state of Oklahoma —a
felony chetge that carries a maximun penalty' 'of three
| years in prison.

o Clark County sheriff's deputies arrested Ingram at
his rented home in Vancouver Monday afternoon. He
was released Tucsday night after a local bail bondsman
posted Ingram's $300 bail, sheriff's deputies said.

Kathy Kelly, a Jega! assistant in the Clark County
Prosecuting Altorney's office, said Ingram is scheduled
to appear in county district court "April 17 for an

, ientitication hearing to determine if he is, in fact, the
a stme Harold Ingram. sought in OkJahoma.

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says lo fite extradition papers to force Ingram's return to
Oklahoma for trial.

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Pitehurg County, Okla, last April cbarge thet Ingram
"owed $418 then cn a used car purchased 2 month earlicr
in MuAlester,. Oka.

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Jars of the ransom money Feb. 10, as he dug a fire pit in
.the sand along the banks of the Columbia River dowa-
stream from Vancouver. os
The next day, Ingram turned the money over to the }
FBI, which 'annonaced ihe find with great fanfare at a"
press conference featuring the Ingram family.
. "Several of us read the paper 'and recognized him,"
Roberts told The Associated Press. "We bad a warrant
sworn out to have him brought back."
. ingram's arrest is the Jatest in 2 string.of reversals .
f that have followed bis family's brief glow in the lizac-¢
light.
i wo weeks after the money was discovered, Ingram's:
{ wife, Patricia, reported that her husband was forced to?
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time.

Mrs. Ingram told The P-I that recovery of the skyjack
Joot also resulted in family strife that arose when a
relative tried to take credit for finding the money.

Late Saturday sight, about 33 hours before Ingram'
was arrested, 2 fire broke out in an upstairs bedroom of
the Ingram home and caused 31.000 damage before ;
Vancouver firefighters could put it out. ,

Vancouver Fire Marshal Gordon Gage said the blaze *
was caused lty @ short in an extension cord. :

- And as of yesterday, Ingram had missed three days of
work this week at the U-Cart Concrete Manufacturing
Co. in Vancouver. ,

{ "We're trying to reach him, because we really want
to help him," U-Cart owner Joe Tanner said yesterday.
Yanner said his firm intends to advance Ingram the

money "lo get this thing iu Oklahoma squared away.

t "We think he's getting 2 bum rap," Tanner said.
j "l'm from Texas, and I've got a litle knowlege about *
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% ,"T hate to fhink the thoughts people will be
thinking about me all over the United
States," said Harold Dwayne Ingram as he
sat in his boss's office Thursday afternoon.
' 'Phe 28-year-old Vancouver resident said he
now regrets his 8-year-old son.Brian's finding
of D.B. Cuoper's hijack ransom money last
month. ;
> "J regret it for myself, but not for Brian,"
- who, he said, has enjoyed all the attention.
Brian and his family made national
headlines after a family outing on a
Columbia River beach near Vancouver Feb.
10 turned into a major media and FBI event.
Brian was preparing 'a campfire when he
scooped out about $5,000 of the $200,000
Cooper had demanded and received before
jumping out of anairlinerin 1971. * - :
Since last month Ingram has:
© Lost 1% days pay — about $100 — in
; order to return the money and attend an FBI
* press conference.
ti @ Watchea as a fire causeil about $1, 000
damage to tie upper floor of his home at
£ 1500 Markle St. Saturday. '
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. with mortgaged property =~ a car.

Officials in Oklahoma said they recognized
Ingram from newspaper photographs that
appeared after the famous find. Ingram had
been wanted for about six months before the
story first appeared in the paper, they said.:

The warrant was issued because Ingram
allegedly is behind in payments for his car.

"I have every receipt," Ingram said
Thursday. "I don't have a payment due on
that car until the 20th of next month." °

"I feel confused, really confused," Ingram
said Thursday. "And I feel pretty unlucky.
T'm not angry; I'm kind of hurt. I really care
what people think about me."

Ingram said he bought his car from a new
car salesman, paid $200 or $300 down, and
arranged for financing. He said he notified
the finance company when he and his family
moved here from Oklahoma last winter.

His arrest Monday was an_ unhappy
surprise, he said.

"I had no idea I had a warrant on me," he.
said. "That's obvious, or | wouldn't be
flashing my face all over the world."

He might have been late with a payment or

two, he said, "but rich people do that, too,

don't they?"

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said this morning he has been told by the?
Pittsburg County, Okla,, district attorney that:
that office now has verification of Ingram'g
car payments. Ingram, in fact, is paid akea

. to July on the car, Tanner said.

fanner said a few details need to be
worked out, but when they are the district
attorney has told him the charges will be
dropped. That will not occur until Monday, *
Tanner said he was told. The district attorney:

. was unavailable for comment this morning.

As for Ingram's other bad fortune, just
before midnight Saturday, two bedrooms,on
the upper floor burned, and his landlord —
who bailed him out of jail Tuesday — started

" remodeling the next day. - ,

Tanner, vice president of U-Cart Concrete
Systems Inc. of Vancouver, where Ingram is
employed, said the company is behind him.
Tanner, a lawyer, said he will represent
Ingram withcut charge.

Until the charges against him are dropped,
Ingram faces an April 17 identification}
hearing in Clark County District Court. — -

"These people are great here," Ingram
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»450 Golden Gate Avenue

San Francisco Caiifornia .

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Here is a cppy of page 11 of the
May 12, 1972 alledged interview with
D.B. Cooper, ,

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the reproduced bill will form the basis
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Last November24th, a man identifying 'himself 35°

'D.B, Cooper' parachutedfrom a Northwest Orient
slines .727 jettiner between Seattle and Reno Nevada
th a parcel containing 10,000 twenty dollar bills which

was the ransom money that had been delivered to him

while he held the planes crew hostage at the Seattle-

Tacoma international airport. o-

The F.B.L and other state and local law enforcement
ageats assisted by companies of G.L's from Fort Lewis
have futilly wasted many hours and thousands of tax-
payers dollars tooking for cooper.

So far Cooper has successfully eluded his following
in the same ingenious manner that he pulied off his.

skyjack caper, cooly staying a Safe distance away from' .
danger. **

The FBL headquaters" in Seattle has yowed to ser- 1:

utinize every foot of land between the Sea-Tac airport °

and Reno to turn up clues in the case,

Despite rewards of 5,000 dollars-by the Medias '"'
Fink oa your Friends" programe thé public has generally
granted Cooper adoration and somewhat a hero status.

An anonymous interviewer from the twice weekly

paper the 'Seattle Flag' has produced a story from
ped interview with BD,B, Cooper which is validated
by the, presentation of one of the recorded twenty dollar *

_ Bills included in the ransom money,

This story was run in the 'Flag' because the inter « '
viewer was unable 6 send it to the ' Post-Intellingener'
because they had the 5,000 dollar reward out for Coopers
head alse television slations would have requested a Jape

- from which voice prints could possible be produced,"
-_'-" Therefore, running the story in the Fiag was the only -
2j7,., Solution, |:

Cooper 'said that the witnesses 'description were' oft.
ut Oilteen pounds and a couple of inches. Also that
the:

De it & was safer to hide where no one would imagine him to

is Peart rather then to go to some place like Mexico or South?

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* He said he. 'started ach. af york on thie sky cking plants
last June . The stag + .f come to him white he was

rtist's impression were very poor. When asked why,

it was a calculated risk that's why he jumped in bad
weather and at night, also he waited a little longer than
usual before pulling his ripcerd, Adding that his free
fall was about5,000 of the tolal 7,000 feet, Which was very
risky doing at night,

_ He came down about a hundred miles away from S.W..
Washington contrary to the F.B,L report that he touched
down near Vancouver, Washington.

" ~ he first thing he did oa landing was bury his chute, .

, he was within five mfles of where he had intended in an

. evergreen wooded terrain, He credited this accuracy |

" fo his projected calculations and his japanese watch,
He wouldn't say whether he had an accomplice on the.

. ground, He said he had lived in Seattle and had once:

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two parachutes he had ordered, A stewardess came
back with the money in a canvas bag to where cojrr
was holding another stewardess as hostage in the rear
of the passenger cabin,

Cooper checked out the loot, &rst thing and noticed
that they reeked of duplicating flud. Then the stewardess
made two more trips out on to the run way to bring in

. th. chutes,

hen one of the fuel trucks pulled up...then he ord-
ered the passengers off the plane, and everyoneeise into
the cockpit...2 middle-aged, executive looking man
Started to push his way back through the line into the
tourist cabin. Cooper tensed up expecting the guy to try
something heroic - but he had just left his briefcase

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aS of the rear fuselage and the thirdatthe base of the T-tsil.'4
"assembly. Also the dowa- fsps stalling speed, Cre hundred .

act .t eo Mabee t o8 §

He figured if the PBL was going'ta make a move it ;

would be at Sea-Tac. Everybody but the stewardess he

was holding "hostage and the three man crew was -.*-,
clear of the plane. Buzzing the cockpit he asked the - '

of the three Pratt & Whitney engines two on the sides 73", captain Whatize hold-up was. Trouble with the vapor lock '.>. "te
was the answer. And asother truck was coming, Cooper' -3.°*

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Columbia River and a number of its
thbutaries.

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D.C., research area known as The
Laboratory. oa,

The official report says little was
found on the wad of money. The basis
for the new information is Ficider's
research of the sand particles found

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, before about $5,806 in compressed,
wet and eroded money was found
along the banks of the Columbia
River in February upstream from the
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the private view of geologist Chris
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on the money, and not part of the
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i} Ray Mathis, senior agent, said officials |

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office said little else has been revealed about «
the money. Lab technicians continue to study -
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stacks of moldering money—part of $200,000
that notorious airline hijacker D.B. Cooper
had made-off with more than eight yéars
ago, the FBI said yesterday.

With the bills traced to the Cooper loot, 30
agents from the Portland and Seattle FBI of-
fices have begun a search of the area for
more of the money—and possibly some sign
of Cooper or, more likely, his remains.

. The family found the money—"several
thousand dollars," according to one official—
about five miles northwest of the Interstate
5 bridge that spans the Columbia and sepa-
rates Washington from Oregon, FBI agent
William M. Baker said in Portland. The bills
were partly buried in sand that the family
was scooping out to build a fire. .

The discovery, by Harold Dwayne Ingram,
27, his wife, Patricia, 26, and their 8- and 3-
year-old sons, marked the latest twist in the
dizarre saga of the now-legendary -Cooper,
who parachuted from a Northwest Airlines
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unreliable parachute,

The saga began when Caoper boarded the
jetliner in Portland for a flight to Seattle.
Once airborne, he demanded that the airline

-have $200,000 in $20 bis and three para-
ghutes on hand when the plane landed in Se-

attle, He threatened to blow up the plane if .

his demands were not met. The airline com-
plied, providing the parachutes and money.
The FBI said yesterday that the serial num-
bers of the bills had been recorded.

Cooper permitted the airliner's 36 passen-
gers to leave the plane in Seattle. He then
ordered the crew to head for Reno and told
the pilot to fly at a relatively low altitude
and open the plane's rear stairway.

Crew members said they believed he -
Jumped, using the least reliable parachute, -

over southwest Washington. Law enforce-
ment officials have theorized that his body
is in Lake Merwin, 30 miles north of Port-
land, or entangled in thick bushes. The de-
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quest of a legendary 'hijacker

called D.B. Cooper, But the first

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until Himmelsbach's F.B.. career

was drawing to a close. .

After 29 years with the bureau,
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day, a few months before he
reaches the mandatory-retirement
age of 55. :

Himmelsbach was the agent re-

'garded as the bureau's expert on
'the puzzling case tliat started.
iwhen the stit-unknown sky pirate -
_leaped from a Northwest Airlines .,
"727 with 10,000 $20 bills and two!
parachutes on Thanksgiving Eve, !
1971,

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per; and nothing was seen of the
money until an 8-year-old boy
found about $5,600 of it mixed in
the sand along the Columbia River
near Yancouver, Wash., February
8,

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OOK FOR a book or two on D.B. Cooper to show up in
the next few weeks or months. "

" A news source claims a writer has secured documents
on the case from the FBI through the Freedom of In-
formation Act and hopes to weave a tale out of the sky-
jacking that has kept people wondering for 8% years.

It wouldn't be surprising to see more than one author
try to cash in on the recently rekindled publicity about
the incident. Cashing in like that seems to be more in
vogue these days than it was in 1971, when Cooper disap-*

peared, | . wi
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| Authors of those kinds of books often report theory and :
supposition as well as fact. Sometimes it's hard to tell the

difference between what the writers know and what they

"think or assume.

- Some authors make no bones about mixing fact and
fantasy. Take .44, the semifiction book about the Son of
Sam murders in New York by Jimmy Breslin and Dick
Schaap. Breslin and Schaap admit in the foreword to the
book that they changed the names of the characters and
the Sequence of events, and embellished on the-story.

They graphically detailed what their deranged killer
was thinking about, for example, but it was obviously
what the authors thought the killer was thinking. Of
course, it added greatly to the drama of the book.

Breslin and Schaap said the embellishmont_was
legitimate because they wanted te recreate the al-
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as a New York murder spree, that mixture of fact and
fantasy might be what you'll see in the D.B. Cooper book,
assunting there indeed is one in the making. The Cooper
author would have an easy time cooking up a tale of
where the hijacker came from and what happened to
him, and the story could be quite readable.

If he has any trouble making up a story about who
Cooper was or what happened to him, he could look piles
of newspaper clippings that report on different peopte's

theories on the subject. But with all the leads the FBI

. Says it has tracked down, there can hardly be a lack of
ideas about Cooper's fate.

As far as distinguishing fact from fantasy, we hope the
newspapers have done their duty in labeling theories as
what they are. It would be nice if any books on the matter
did the same.

We probably can't take the word of anybody a aaa
himself on what actually took place. By
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Investigation officials yesterday. *
Special Agent John Pringle said Dr. Arch Hamilton, Clark County
coroner, determined the skull found near the western boun dary of the
Gifford Pinchot National Forest belonged to a young girl.
Pringle said the girl's age or identity } has not been determined.
The skull and other bones were-foand Sunday by Jack Bannister, of
Yacolt, Clark County, and his son, Jack, as they were panning for gold
avout five miles fron Yacolt, according to the Clark County sheriff's
office. -*

While the sheriff's office said it didn't think the bones belonged to
'ihe famed hijacker, speculation had run high that the skull was Coo-
per $ because it was found in the general area where Cooper bailed out
'of a plane with $200,000.
' Cooper hijacked the plane in Seattle in November, 1971, after pick-
ing up $200,060) and bailed out somewhere over Southwestern}
W ashington.

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the sand har on the Columbia River { ;
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For awhile, all sorts of people |
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On Wednesday, however, ihe only 3
evidence of last week's frantie®:
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were mounds of sand turned up by. f
the searchers.

"We haven't seen anybody," said
Biil Holeomb, a Vancouver resident'.
and frequenter of Tena Rar.

Holcomb was fishing there with ;
Virgil Nichels and Ken Troupe, doth : 4
of Vancouver, The trio made up ihe".
entire fishing population of Tena Bar —
qo Wednesd day.

"We drag junk out of ihis river:
every day. Plastic, old shoes, things -
Fike that," said Nichols. "Bret never
any money."

- "There may be money here, but
there's no fish," Holeamb said.
Along trench on the beach dug for
use by river experts Studying the
layers of sand has been refilled, as .
has the iarge hole around the spot
where S-year-old Brian Ingram
found tha Cooper money. Cooper hi-
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the jet with $260,000.

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wanted me to pull them out. I daly
and then i went up to close the gate."

:Meanwhile, locak FBI agents

_ assigned to the case are awaiting the

results of tests of the money by the
bureau's crime flab in Washington, 3

'D.C., and checking all the leads that

invariably crop up when anything to. ;
de wath the Cooper case is publiciz-?
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She was not amused. he
% "Do you mean you actually con-
done that Cooper trash?"

"Of course not, madame," | re-
plied. "Ail I did was write it."

"He wanted to find out how the"
experience had affected ali those lives, .
Personally, he felt haunted by the '
amemory.

ropies of my skyjack novel on a dis- [

The woman scurried off. I think

"it's difficult now to separate fad} -

," Feingold said. "I'm n
ply rack. D.B.'s face, masked as al- |. from fantasy," Feingold s

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airport! That's like Jimmy Carter

sun:

My heart was pounding. They ar-
rest people for ripping books off. But
what about ripping them on? D. B.
Cooper's picture at a Northwest

she went after a security guard. }

Jonger sure what I saw — and J was .
'grabbed my skyjack books and ran.

"trained by the FBI. I think 1 got a+
good, solid look at Cooper's face. Now .
I don't know. -

"It was so quiet on the plane. Peo- -
ple were slecping. it was like a subma- ,
rine. Eerie, ghost-like. The whole ;
thing is Hike some kind of flying <
dream from which none of us has yet..

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When Buffalo Bill Cody fought his
duel with Chief Yellow Hand, his
combat outfit consisted of a Mexican
suit of crushed black yelvet. It was
slashed with scarlet and trimmed with

a bumper stickers in Tebrant.
'FE left the store, then made a new

ts
rentrance. I wanted to view the books!

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silver buttons and Jace. Cody bad so
completely blended. the real and the
theatrical that nobody — feast of all'

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tween-planes passenger might.

I stared into those Victor Mature
gogsles. I felt, again, that there was
nothing behind them no eyebrows,

awith fresh eyes, sce.them as a he-

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{ Bit himself — could teli where the
* actual ended and the dime novel be-

an.
The same thing happened during

my quest for D. B. The facts that I had
in my burgeoning Cooper file were
nat enougb. I began to fantasize in the

no cynical gleam, no madman's wink. ,

se

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' For the past couple-of years the.
D.B. front bas been rather quiet. Peo-~
ple have occasionally asked me where Lj
stashed all those unmarked twenties. I;
have still registered at hotels as D.B.
Cooper and every Thanksgiving Eve ¥

ful bigndness of D. B's face. No, you

3s always F was struck by the beauti- |
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cated the truer they sounded.

would not buy a used car from such a
| man. He'd give it te you, free.

Kis suitcoat was equally intriguing. ,
A dark meshed knit, it bad a profes. jump — any way I wanted bim to.
sorial quality to it. I suspect it had Many of the "facts" J propagated were

All I had to do was tap a type-

| stories I wrote; but the more I fabri. ; bave lifted a glass to my wraith-like

t writer key and the skyjacker would
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leather elbow patches.

The knot of Cooper's tie is about
athe size of a prune. The tie is meage!
Jana black. It is somewhat faded, as i

jit had sunned for a long time in ai
ipawnshop window.

Then I noticed something that had
escaped me. There is a faint smile on
D. B.'s lips. A quirk of the artist's pen,
of course. The likeness is only a fac-
simile after all. Stil. . .

A shrill female voice shattered my
reverie. .

"Sex and skyjackingt And a mon-
ster like that awful D. B. Cooper! You
should he ashamed."

The woman had confronted the
clerk. She had a copy of my hock in
hee hand. | noticed that in her anger
she was flecking D. B.'s face with spit-
tie.

passed me on the way out. I was still
admiring my literary efforts. ;
Pointing, the woman asked if I w:
"going to buy "one of those."

"The Marquis de Sade," I said. "I'm
looking for his complete works.". -

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; She slammed the hook down. She?

repeated by other writers, and some-
Litimes by the authorities. .
be Even the intellectual readers werd

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jot immune to D. B.'s magic. Report
ing in a high-brow California maga
zine, J told bow a lot of people up in

Washington still think the hijacker *

was captured by the Sasquatch.
The story was ilfustrated with a

full-page color drawing of Bigfoot, —

looking somewhat bereft without
Fay Wray, scattering ransom money
to the wind. Behind bim the visage of
D. B..Cooper — a rocky outcropping
formed his nose — was superimposed
on the heights of Mount St. Helens. A
string of sky-written clouds spelled out

My -province was of the imagina-
tion. But it was by no means an exclu-
'sive domain.

Larry Feingold, 2 Seattle attorney
3nd former FBI agent, bad his own
dantasy problem. To assuage it, hey

planned to bold 2 reunion of the 36° gen)

passengers who were aboard Flight.
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"Take a deep breath, sit down in- .

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edges," be said. "Some kid down in.
Vancouver just found part of D. Bs -

loot." :
My first thought was: And some

diver looking for abalone will 'find.

Atlantis.
"What did the kid took like?"

"Imagine Huckleberry Fintt in a .

said.

bair of run-over Adidas," my friend "

I hardly had to look at Brian Ine *

gram's picture in the papers the next ~
morning. } atready knew him. In the -
movie script I had written, but never :

sold. he was D. B. Cooper as a Jad.

« Right down to the unruly hair and the

gap in bis front teeth.
One scone still comes through.
The boy has been teft alone in a
boxcar with a band of hobos. His f
ther misses the train as it pulls out a
a bleak wintertime siding somewher.

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VANCOUVER, Wash. — Guernsey
cattle and puzzled fishermen watched
with curiosity Tuesday as 26 casually .
attired FBI agents combed the Columbia

'River shoreline near here, looking for «

more of a hijacker's treasure.
The agents, working with garden

.rakes and shovels, carefully stfted
through the sand on what is known :
locally as Tena's Bar, a sloping beach }

about nine miles northwest of Vancou-
ver. The beach is owned by New Co-
lumbia, Gardens Co., which operates a
truck and dairy farm behind the beach.
Wheat attracted the searchers was
the find Sunday afternoon of a dozen '
bundles of worn $20 bills, part of the
ransom paid more than eight years ago .
to the Jegendary "Dan Cooper." A man
using that name hijacked a Northwest
Airlines jetliner in November 1971 and?
parachuted out of the aircraft with 211
pounds of cash totaling $200,000. . i
The bundies on the beach were
found by 8-year-old Brian Ingram, who
was helping his parents, Harold
Dwayne and Patricia Ingram, build a
fire for a picnic. The family, which
moved to Vancouver recently from
Oktahome, had never heard of the man
who was widely known at the time of
his crime as D.B. Cooper. ,
' Dorwyn Schreuder, the FBI agent
supervising the beach search, said' the.
Ingrams put the money aside after dis-
covering it. and continued with their.

"picnic. They reported their discovery to_

the FBI on Monday. :

The site, a popular fishing spot for-
Vancouver residents, was guarded by
agents Monday night and the search,

. started about noon Tuesday,

Agents roped off a section of beact
[measuring roughly 150 yards long ant
130 yards wide. All driftwood was re=*
imoved, and then began the faborlous
task of raking through sand at least 8
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found fragments of at least two other ;
$20 bills. By late Tuesday, several more
fragments had been found as deep as 3
feet below the surface.

"We'll be taking some heavy equip-
ment, probably backhoes, in there
Wednesday to dig deeper," said Bill
Baker, assistant special agent in charge
of the Portland FBI office.

Schreuder and other agents at the
site said they still supported the long-
heid FBI theory that Cooper died in his
parachuting attempt.

"He's probably not alive today,"
Schreuder said. "If he were, I think he'd
be with his money."

The FBI initially was cautious about
disclosing the precise location of the
discovery. Operators of the farm said
they knew something was unusual
when several cars streamed along a
road leading through the farmyard to
the beach.

"We didn't know what it was about
until we heard it on the radio," said one
farm emplovee. .

And three fishermen who routinely
spend every day but Sundays fishing on

ithe beach initially were confused and,
ithen angry. , . |

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éwas going on," said Ken Davenport of
Vancouver. "They asked us to move,
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getting out of cars with shovels instead:
of fishing poles."

The Guernsey'ecows watched the -
beach show from their pens on a smail ,
bluff, scattering occasionatly when hell-
copiers chartered by news organiza- «
tions flew overhead.

Within an hour after the FBI an-.
nounced where the money had been ,
found, private automobiles streamed ¢
down Northwest Lower River Road, a
narrow two-lane road leading to thel.
farm. A Clark County sheriff's deputy;
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would be searched would be determined .
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expert advice about from where th
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called off its search along the Columbia
River for more of the money obtained
eight years ago by the airplane hijacker
who tsed the name Dan Cooper.

Jack Pringle, assistant special agent
in charge of the FBI's Seattle office,
said, the search was called off late
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renewed next week, after the results of
laboratory tests are received on the sev-
eral thousand doHars in badly decayed
$20 bill fragments found dy a picnick-
ing family Sunday about nine miles
downstream from Vancotver,

He said there was a chance the tests
"could find additional debris that might
give us an idea where (the money) may
have been" before it washed onto the
river bank. .

A geologist serving as consultant to

+ the FBI has said he believes the money
had spent most of the past eight years
underwater and was deposited on the
sandy beach only within the past year. .

The Northwest Airlines plane was
hijacked between Portland and Seattle
by a man who said he had a bomb: The-

"hijacker obtained $200,000 in $20 bills" -
.when the plane landed in Seattle and
-then parachuted with the money over
_Southwest Washington.

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By Bud May
The DailyNews —
. _ lf they ever create a hall of
fame for lawbreakers, D.B.
Cooper wilt certainly have an
honored spot as the
perpetrator of America's only
unsolved skyjacking.
But does that make him a
hero, or just a criminal pic-
tured by some as a' Robin

Nove tad

the establishment?

The legendary man had few
admirers among people whose
opinions were solicited by The,
Daily News today.

t An exception is Dave;
Fisher, who operates the Ariel,
Store and Tavern along with
his wife, Laurel. .

like most of the people up
here, I hope he got away and is
on the loose. People here feel
he put Aric? on the map, and
we're kind of rooting for him."
Fisher said.

Gordon Conneli, a Kelso
hardware store owner,
disagrees,

"} think D.B. Cooper is a
long way from being a hero.
He is or was a common crook
who stole someone else's
money; and if he's found
alive, he should be punished
fully.

"E also think it's asinine that
people form D.8. Cooper
clubs, hold D.B. Cooper par-
ties, print D.B. Cooper T-
shirts and find other ways to
glorify him,"' Connell said.

Conrad Bankson, principal .
,at the Mint Valley School in

"What he did was sensa-
tional, but keep in mind that
kidnapping and demanding
ransom are serious crimes. If
he's ever found alive, which I

_ doubt, he should get the full
penalty of the Jaw."

Pausing, Bankson added,
"¥f he's dead, perhaps nature

Hood character who stymied |

"I'l admit he's a crook, but |

' Longview, has similar views. # garage attendant told this

John Hayes, operator of a
service station in Kelsa, had
snething good to say about the.
man sought since bailing out}!
-of a Northwest Orient Airlines}.
Ast over the Lewis River area),
"on Nov. 24, 1971. .
"D.B. Cooper broke the law,
and he sure doesn't deserve
} sympathy. I give him credit
for being smart, but I still
; think he's a damn crook, and I
+ hope he's brought to justice," .
' Hayes commented.
A Castile Rock housewife, °
Margaret Kotera, considers . '
Cooper a man who risked the
lives of innocent persons for ~.
; personal gain. . .
"I don't admire him. When
i you take the law into your own -
hands and endanger other peo- °
Ple's lives you are no hero,"
she said. '

Some citizens polled con-
cede Cooper was a
lawbreaker, but credit him
with being a one-of-a-kind
crook who made a lot of people
scratch their heads.

Norma 'Sewell of Kelso, ali
geputy clerk at the County |]
Cierk's Office, characterized "
the skyjacker in that manner.

"He's an out and out crook, .
but he carried out his crime
spectacularly, and he's baffl-

ed some very good police

'minds for nearly nine years," ©
'she said.

' Dick Wilson, plant manager

at Longview Ice and Cold
Storage, Sees Cooper as a

| criminal whose crime brought .»
him endless publicity. -

"There's no doubt he was a -
crook, but he sure got a lot of <
advertising. Not everyone has -
a name on T-shirts," Wilson

' said.

Whatever his detractors
isay, Cooper still has some
fans. .
! Minutes after Tuesday's an-!'
nouncement that some of the},
ransom money had been
found, a Portland parking

Teporter, "I sure hope this
doesn't mean he's dead. I've
aways hoped he got away."

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turn them over to authorities, has been °

given one by the FBI.
The boy jumped into the national
Spotlight Feb. 10 when he' discovered

several thousand dollars of the $200,000 °

ransom paid to skyjacker Dan Cooper in:
1971. The money, frayed around the
edges, was identified by FBI agents

who have been looking for Cooper since ¢

he jumped from a Northwest Orient,
Airlines plane over Sottthwest Wash-*
ington.

The $20 was given to the boy by.
Mike Heywood, Hough Elementary

' School PTA president. Accompanying

the bill was a certificate praising the
boy for his find.

Since finding the money, Brian 'and:
his parents, H. Dwayne and Patricia,'

have been the subject of network televi-.

Sion newscasts and newspaper articles.

Saturday night, the three were satirized
on the "Weekend Update" segment of
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Cooper's ransom money was found Sunday has turned up no new,
clues as to the fate of the legendary skyjacker. f. '
The FBI said today that the search will continue today and Fri; .
day, then probably be suspended temporarily. i
* Brought to the beach to aid in Wednesday's search were a ; , .
backhoe and a geologist. °

The FBI said the backhoe was used to dig a trench near the ,
discovery site, making possible a study of the layers to sand.

An associate professor of geology at Portiand State University,
Leonard Palmer, was retained to inspect the sand and to assist in-
vestigators in determining when the bundled money may have been' -
deposited there. .

Paimer, to the surprise of some authorities, concluded that the *
money was deposited on the beach in the past year or two because it
was above clay deposits put on the beach in a 1974 channel dredging
operation. :

: According tothe FBI, a coarse layer of sand sloped from a height
» ,of about six inches at the river's edge to two feet or more some
-Sistance up the river bank.
Earlier, Ralph Himmelsbach, a Portland FBI agent who has had _
charge of following new leads in the Cooper case for a number of *
"years, said he believed the money must have been deposited within +
a coupie of years after the skyjacking. ,
He says discovery of the money provided a major break in the «
case, but puts authorities no closer to locating Cooper, whom Him-
melsbach believes is dead. pe
Agents say the money was tied to Cooper when he bailed out'of} }e
tre brane, but was no longer with him when it was deposited on the i
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if it had still been attached to his bedy at the bottom of the river!
when the channel was dredged in 1974, the body would have clogged
up the dredge and have been found, agents believe.

Jack Pringle, assistant agent in charge of the Seattle FBI Office, . .
told The Daily News this morning that small bits and pieces of $20 . b6
bills were located Wednesday when agents continued digging in t b7C

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$206,000 in $20 bills Cooper had when he bailed out of a Northwest. aera

Orient Airlines jet over the Lewis River area on Nov. 24, 1971. (
Pringle said the area was still being searched today, but no neve »

evidence had been located as of this forencon.

"Some of the area is inaccessible, and there's no way.we can a4 a
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WASHOUGAL —~ Bob Devaney
watched the ducks peck away at
something floating in the Washou-
gal River near the Riverside Bowl.

It was 'March 22, 1977, and
Devaney of 4221 F Circle, Washou-
gal, was fishing for steelhead. The
muddy runoff waters had cleared,
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. catching the ocean-going trout.

"I watched the ducks nibbling
away," Devaney said. "I waded out
to see. That's when I saw the
money. At first, I thou it was
play money."

But Devaney picked up : a bill and
examined it. It was a real $20 bill,
and there were six others to be
grahbed from atop the water. -,

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watershed during the nearly 8%
years since Cooper parachuted

from an airliner over Southwest .

Washington.

A check with the Federal Bureau
of Investigation list of serial num-
bers on the $200,000 given Cooper
didn't match those found by Deva-

ney. Davaney still has his $140_

tucked away in cellophane bags.
The D.B..Cooper money find also

brought significance to a grten :
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The fi finding of some of the' "Dane
Cooper" hijacking money Sunday came
'is a dramatic climax to the career of:
ean Ralph Himmelsbach, the FBI's!
<ooper expert. .

Himmelsbach, himself a veteran pi-
lot, has lived, breathed and slept the
Dan Cooper case ever since a man using
that name hijacked a Northwest Air- .
lines jet from Portland on Thanksgiving
Eve, 1971.

Himmelsbach, who has logged thou- .
sands of hours of flying time ia his own -
1952 model single-engine regon Ath

Bonanza, was aloft in an Oregon Air}!

National Guard helicopter ready to to in-|
jtercept the hijacked plane within a few"
minutes after the airliner took off from .
Seattle, where Cooper obtained.
- $200,000 and four parachutes. But the
air turbulence that night was so severe
that the helicopter was ordered back to
Portland Airbase. .

Next morning Himmelsbach started %
the first of a series of flights which took
him the length of the hijack route many
times, between investigating other
clues, all of which proved to be false.

"T was over the target area near}
spake Merwin Sunday again," he said

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Tuesday. "I saw they had logged a Jott
of prime Search area, and thought some-
thing would turn up now."

But he never guessed the news that'
would confront him when he reported:
for. work Monday.

"Hl admit to a certain sense of satis."
faction," Himmelsbach said Tuesday,!
flashing 2 broad smile. "The case isn't:
solved, but this is certainly a major,
imilestone." '

Himmelsbach will retire March 1; '
iifter 27 years with the FBI — climaxed)
'py his work on the Cooper case, one;

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The weathered bundles of $20 bills
found on the Washington bank of the
Columbia River nine miles northwest of
Vancouver on Sunday were the first
solid clues to the mystery of the "Dan
Cooper" aircraft hijacking, FBI agents
said Tuesday,

One of the more intensive searches
in the FBI's history had failed to turn up
any clue to the fate of the mysterious
'hijacker or his loot during the eight
years since he balled out of a Northwest
Orient Airlines Boeing 727: flying at
7,000 feet over La Center, Wash., on

pNov. 24, 1971, FBI spokesmen said. .

® Cooper's was the first hijacking of a
commercial! airliner for money, and
istarted a chain of similar attempts,

+ which was responsible in part for the
rigid security system now enforced at
a}l United States airports and most ma-
jor airports abroad.

Because of an erroneous report of
the name used by the hijacker, he be-
came known nationally as D.B. Cooper,
although the airline manifest showed he
had used the name "Dan."

The man who cailed himself Cooper
paid cash for a ticket and boarded
Northwest's Flight 305 at Portland In-
ternational Airport just before it depart-
ed. He sat in a rear seat in the cabin and

. waited until the plane was airborne.
Then he handed stewardess Florence
Schaffner a note saying he had a bomb
in the satchel he was carrying and de-

' manding $208,000 in unmarked $20
bills.

} By the time the plane landed at

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport at
o:45 p.m., airline officials were gather-

fing the money and the four parachutes

- he had demanded. The hijacker released
the 36 passengers on board, along with
all crew members except one steward-
ess and two pilots. The plane then took
off and headed south at 7,000 feet in
_Stormy weather.

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At 8:10 p.m. the pilots felt a 'fluctua. :
tion in cabin pressure which indicated
the rear door had been opened. Later -
tests showed this was when the hijack- >
er had bailed out, taking with him the:
money and the device that he claimed
was a bomb.

Computer calculations and a later
reconstruction of the flight persuaded~
the FBI that Cooper had bailed out near
Woodland, Wash., and would havyé+
landed somewhere west of Lake Meri.
win, .

William Rataczak, first officer (co!
pilot} on the hijacked plane who flew
the later reconstructions of the hijack
flight, said the pilots received no an-
swer when they called on the inter:
phone to their passenger and were not:
certain he was gone until they londed | i i
Reno, Nev.,, at 11 p. m.

The "target area" was searched rey
peatedly by the FBI, other law enforeee 2
'ment officers and soldiers from For -
Lewis, Wash., but no trace of man or .
money was found. Northwest Airlines -
offered a reward, since expired, and
hunters and woodsmen continued the
search for years without success. -

Before Sunday, the only item that
had been found from the hijacking was °
a placard believed to have blown off the

bulkhead of the 727 when the door was '

opened in flight.

It was found 13 miles east of Castié"
Rock, Wash. in January 1979. The |
placard, if indeed it came from the Hi-

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jacked plane, "helped to confirm that -

the plane was on course all the way, but
didn't shed any light on what happened
to Cooper," said FBI agent Ralph Him- ,
melsbach, who headed the investiga: «

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After eight years of investigation I
Himmelsbach has said he still believeg-
Cooper could not have survived the pa- *
rachute jump at 7 degrees below zero,
dressed as he was in a light' business
suit and street Shoes.

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$200,000 obtained eight years ag? by:
the celebrated airline hifacker who used
the name Den Cooper was found Sun-
day along the Columbia River down-

stream frota Vancouver, Wash., the FBI

reported Tuesday.

Three bundles containing 12 packets -
of weatherbeaten $20 bills were found
in river sand by a picnicking Vancouver

family, about nine miles northwest ofp |

the city. }
FBI agents searching the beach

Tuesday afternoon found several more,j.

funder three feet of sand.

fragments of $20 bills, some of them |

'| Herold Dwayne Ingram, his wife,
'Patricia, and their son, Brian, 8, were

preparing to build a fire on the beach
when Brian brushed the sand aside and
turned up some of the bills, Ingram
sald,

"We dug around and found three

. bundles of bills tled with rubber
bands," Ingram said.

The bills were wet and badly worn,
but the seria! numbers were legible.
The FBI identified the serial numbers
and confirmed that they were part of
the loot given Cooper when he hijacked

_ a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727
jetliner between Portland and Seattle on
Nov. 24, 1971. ;

William M. Baker, assistant special

) agent in charge of the Portland FBI of-!

| fice, said the Ingrams were relatively,

'| new to the Vancouver area, moving,
there recently from Oklahoma. They
had never heard of Cooper, Baker said.

"They took it (the money) home and
were talking to some friends about it,"
Baker said. "The friends pointed out

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ing, said it was the first solid clue to the

Cooper mystery since the hijacker
bailed out near La Center, Wash., into 2,
"winter storm at 8:10 p.m. that Thanks-"

giving Eve. The first hliacking for
money, the Cooper case became a na-
tional sensation.

Baker said it was possible the FBI .,,

laboratory In Washington, D.C., coulf
discern fingerprints on the money.

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Baker said the money the Ingram
found had not been counted. At first the
amount recovered was estimated at
about $4,000, but "we have revised our
estimate to several thousand dollars,"
he said.

Baker sald the money was bundled
Into packages of several sizes at the
time of the hijacking, "to make It ap-
pear that it was randomly done, as if ft
was done In a hurry." Because of that,
the actual amount could not de estimat-
ed, he said. .

FBI agents Tuesday were carefull
combing the site of the Sunday discov- °
ery for further clues. The beach, open
to the public, is owned by the New
Columbia Gardens Co., a truck and dai-
ry farm.

f} Cooper was seen on the plane tying
ta nylon cord around his waist, presum- j
ably to tle the money into a parachute |
ibag. The Ingrams sald they did not see
any sign of a cloth bag, but Himmels-}
bach said it would be hard to under-
stand how the buadies of bills could

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bills could have been washed dow
some tributary of the Columbia.

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bills, in addition to a certificate praising
him for his find, Both items came from «
the tiough Elementary School PTA.
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laboratory technicians have been unable
«to determine how much money was in
the three bundles of Cooper's recovered
as a result of young Ingram's find.
"Fhe $20 dilis were so badly deteri-.
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of D.B. Cooner's bijack ransom yester-
day, but they revealed new clues to
the fate of the legendary parachutist.
Special agent Ken Moore of Seat-
tle, In charge of the digging, said a
gceolegist's report indicates that the
money which has been found drifted'
up on this beach within the past two
years, - .
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bly reached the Columbia from the
Washougal River, or one of several
smailer streams which enter the big
river above here.

}i isn't likely, he said, that the

money came upstream, with tidal cur-

rents, from the Lewis River — which
drains Lake Merwin, where Cooper
has long been thought to have per-
ished. :
Moore thought for a few moments,
then said: .
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All of which indicates that Cooper,
with $200,006 in a canvas suitcase
strapped to his bedy, jumped from a

mares." ,

According to Pringle. only one
money bundle from the $203,000 hi-
jack ransom was found en this beach
'pine miles downstreain from the
bridge over the Columbia River at
Vancouver,

But since Cooper had al] of his
money in one canvas container. ac-
cording to Moore, if any of the money
is scattered — ali of it is likely to be
scattered.

Cooper, whose real identity bas
never been learned, Hteraily dropped
out of sight the right he plunged
frors the airliner. He tad collected his
hijack e loot in Seattle — buudles of
money wrapped in a package six
inches bigh, one foot gcross, and
about 1S inches jong ~~ later stuffed
into a hag tied to his waist.

No trace was found of Cooper or
bis money until a family picnicking
on this north bank of the Columbia,
on property owned by the Fazio
Brothers Sand Ce. and dairy cow
farm, found taitered bills three to six
inches deep in the sand. ;

fings on the Columbia River yester-

- day. The previous day, {0 FBI agents,
" from the Portland bureau carried out ~ sey said that it is most untikely that

the digging. 4
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southeast of the point originally esti .

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Lake Merwin which is just off £5 near .

Woodland, in the drainage of the

_ Washougal River, or nearby streams,

in hilly, wooded country,

"There is nothing infallible about
our original estimate of-where he
landed," said John Pringle, assistant

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Sand was piled around the original
money discovery area, because the:
FB! bad been using 2 backhoe to ex-

cavate there. Agents were working -

yesterday with shoveis and rakes,
hMoore said 2 Portland Siate Un-
iversity Geologist is the one who de-

termined that the money hed floated®
onte the beach within the Jast way

years.

determination that there is only about
six to eight inches of sand on this
beach, and beneath it is a clay thet
was placed bere by a-channet dredg-
ing project carried out in 1974. :

'fhe clay, he said. appears "undis-
turbed," but the sand contains.soft -
drink containers and other debris

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from pienickers. It appears to be of
recent origin, and vhe moncy was
found only about three 16 six inches

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from the mouth of the
Lewis River, vbich enters the Coluit: -
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"I talked to the engincers, and

anything drifted upstream against the
current," Moore saitl. .

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today, Moore said.
But he expressed the belief that

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the sifting through this strip of sand.
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The Daily News

PORTLAND — An 8-year-old boy ,
accomplished with a sweep of his
hand Sunday something the FBI has
bcen trying 1o do for more than eight
years.

Brian Ingram, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Dwayne Ingram of Van-
couver, provided the first major
breakthrough in the D.B. Cooper
skyjacking case when he accidental-
ly uncovered part of the $200,090 ran-
som Cooper had when he bailed out
of a Northwest Airlines jet in the
Lewis River area on Thanksgiving
Bye, Noy. 24, 1974.

The FBI said Tuesday the
discovery of more than $3,000 in bad-
ly deteriorated $20 bills was made
Sunday while the Ingram family was
on an outing on a Columbia River
beach about five miles northwest of
Vancouver on the Washington side.

Meantime, the FBI is conducting
an intensive grid search of the beach
area where the money was found.
Agents reported finding bits and
pieces of money Tuesdey afternoon,
some of it as deep as three feet in
Sand.

i However, the pieces were so small
lit was not possible to determine the
i amount of money.

A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
hydrologist, George Holmes, said he
would review information about
where the hijacker jumped in rela-
tion to where the moncy was found.

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tthe only Columbia tributary that
é might have carried the eash, and:
even thatis aremote possibility.
Not everyone shares that opinion. ;
* Some experts feel that because of *
fhe Columbia's currents, the money +
could have come from the Lewis
River and washed upstream. ft
The FBI has a'so contacted the Ar-
my Engineers, which continuously
dredges sand in that area, on the
chance that dredging brought the
money up from the bottom of the
river. A spokesman for the Army
Engineers said today that it is a
definite possibility, While they con-
stanly dredge in that area, the last
time they deposited the dredged
sand on that beach was in October
1974,

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Agents said the money, in bundles,
without question is part of that given
the man known as Cooper,

"Phe packaging and numbered se-
auence indicate the bills have not
been separated and are in much the
Same order as when given to the hi-
Jacker," explained Bill Baker, ussis-
tant agent in charge:at the Portland
office,

Baker could not say whether the
Ingram family will get a reward,
Since the FBI can not offer one, but
"ke indicated there is a food possibili-
ty that the airline or another source;
would provide one.

The elder Ingram and his wife,
Patricia, told dozens of news media
people at a press conference in the
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"I was about to buiid'a fire on the
beach," said Ingram, "and had myi"
arms full, but before I could set iti,
4 down, my son said, 'Wait a minute'
daddy.' He scooped off some sand,
and this money rolted to the top.""

A UPI reporter who talked with
the family Tuesday said Brian and
his S-year-old cousin, Denise In-
'{ram, shouted, 'Look! It's 'money
that we found!''

The Ingrams said they didn't cone.
nect the money to the Cooper case at .
the time, but realized it must beim- .
portant to someone, So they notified
the Portland FBI Office of the find.

Asked by a reporter why he con-
tacted the FBI instead of local -
authorities, Ingram responded,
"Because | figured if I turned it over
to police, Il would never see it
again."

He didn't elaborate on that
remark, but continued to answer
questions from newspaper, televi-
sion and radio reporters.

Asked if he considered keeping the
money, Ingram laughingly replied,
"No, it looked in such bad shape I
didn't think I could spend it.

Ingram said the money, which
was displayed for reporters on a
table at the press conference, was
about 20 yards from the edge of the
river, but was very wet.

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The body of ,skyjacker D.B.
Cooper lies on the bottom of Lake
Merwin, most likely hung up on a
snag.

Retired FBI Agent Tom Manning
of Longview has held that theory for

several years, and still does.

The fact {hat some of the ransom
money Cooper got from Northwest
Airlines was found Sunday on a Col-
umbia River beach north and west of
Vancouver has not changed his con-
vietion in the least.

Manning, now manager of ,the
Longview Chamber of Commerce,
had charge of the massive searches
conducted in the Lewis River area
after the infamous skyiacking of a
Northwest :Airlines
Thanksgiving Eve in 1971. °

Because he worked so long on a
case that has never been solved, the
former resident agent has taken a
iot of ribbing from friends and ac-
quaintances. -

"Some still call me D.B. Cooper,"
ghe said with' a chuckie Tuesday
} ight. :

Manning never believed the sky-

jacker- survived the jump with

among the {first to say so.

think he may be hung up ona Snag at
the bottom of Lake Merwin, and I
still think so,'' Manning said after
learning Tuesday that some of the
ransom money had been found.
Manning said the fact that the
money was found upstream, rather
than downstream from the mouth of
the Lewis River, doesn't disprove
his theory.
. He said it could have been moved
upstream by lides and currents.

- George Holmes, a hydrologist for
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Says that would not have been im-
possibile, bul he considers it unlikely
that currents would have moved the
"eash that far upstream.
> "However," Holmes, emphasized,
ral mM not taking issue in any way
Avith the theory of where the hijacker
may have come down after leaving

the plane, or where the rest of the
money might be."
Manning recalls vividly the inten-

* $260,000 in ransom money, and was"

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sive search conducted east of
Woodland in the Lewis River area.

He says Charles Farrell of Seattle
was the FBI agent in charge of the
case, while Manning coordinated the «
Searches. Other agents from the
Seattle and Portland FRB! offices
were also involved. In addition,
about 200 soldiers from Fort Lewis

were used in an inch by inch grid -

search conducted in March of 1972
after the winter Snows melted. =

Despite the fact that no trace of
Cooper was found, Manning and
other agents remained convinced he
had jumped somewhere in the Lewis
River-Lake Merwin area, .where.
crewmen of the Boeing 727 noted a
fluctuation in the cabin rate off
pressure indicator about 8:19 p.m.

Minutes earlier lights came on i
the cockpit indicating the rear. .
airstair of the aircraft had been.
lowered,

'Using the. same aircraft, we
made some tests three days after the ©
hijacking, and the results gave
credence to the theory that he
jumped in the area the crew told us
about,'' Manning said. :

Manning was aboard the plane, :
flown by the chief pilot of the airline,
when it was teken over the Pacific
Ocean off the Hoquiam bombing -
range for the tests. Also present was
the same flight engineer who was on
duty the night of the incident. .t

"We took along some wooden sleds
with sandbags to approximate the
weight of Cooper, the parachutes -
given him and the ransom money,
and dropped them from the plane ,
when the flying conditions were the +
same as they were at the time he}
bailed out," Manning recalled. i

The airstair was lowered, and the ; i
sleds dropped. H

"The engineer said the plane.
reacied the same as it had before -
when the weight was released,"
Manning said Tuesday,

According to Manning, the FBI;
and the airline were convinced thenj[
thal the man calling himself D.B.{t
Cooper bailed out of the jet in thef
Lewis River area, and nothing has"
happened lo shake that belief.

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The handful of residents who live along the beach
where part of D.B. Cooper's Ieot was found Sunday
are kicking themselves for not building more sand
castles.

They also wonder whether they should have paid
more attention to the sand dredging operations along
the beach.

Tina Bar is a stretch of sandy beach on the
Washington side of the Columbia River northwest of
Vancouver. The lonely country road that winds along
the beach, Lower River Road, dead-ends about three

" iiles from where @ Vancouver family found about

$3,000 beneath the sand Sunday while en a picnic.
Rabbits bounce on the side of the road at night, start)-
- ed by occasional passing cars.
Less than 10 houses are along the 12-mile stretch of
beach road. Most of the land belongs to large dairy
_ farms. The Fazio Bros. Sand Co. also fronts the river.
A road leading through the Fazio gate is a popular
path fo the beach. It is the same path used by the
family the day they found the money. On the east side
of Fazio Bros. is Leeward Isle Marina, with a public
fishing boat launch and one or two house boats.
During fishing season, the beach is packed from
gend to end, say local residents Clarence and Barbara
é Dis. They have lived in their mobile home just down
{ the road from Fazio Bros. for the past 30 years.
Every day Clarence takes his outboard skiff along
Tina Bar patrolling the river and the beach for
renegade logs that could damage other boats.

Elis says that the Army Corps of Engineers con-

tinususly dredges sand directly off the shore from
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Today a spokesman for the Army Engineers said
they were working closely with the FBI, checking out
that lead. The sand sucked up from the botton of the
river and spewed onto the beach could have contain-

ed some or all of the long-sought money. While the .
Gredging is continuous, the last time sand was _

deposited in that spot was in Cctober 1974.
Another resident of the area said that the money
was found too far from the water to have washed up.

"It had to be the dredging. Maybe Pil go get me a_

shovel," said Mrs, J.W. Freeman.

The FBI dug all day Tuesday, finding bits and

pieces of $20 bills. An agent guarding the site Tuesday

evening said the amount they found during.the day |

was less than the 53.000 orginally dug up.

Tuesday night the Bltis family sat in their home -

decorated with fishing gear and large plants, amazed

that some the D.B. Cooper money was showing up on ~

the same beach their children grew up on.

"To think I worked like a slave all my life and here

this money was right in my front yard," said Ellis.
"When 1 think of the times my kids took the four-
wheel drive right over that spot. 1 mean that's our,

beach. If belongs to the people we lease from and -

that's the beach we use."

His wife, Barbara,
finding it. But she added that she would have turned it
in. "Somebody could have lost it,'' she said.

The beach property actually belongs to the Hans.

Egger family of Vancouver. A baby sitter at the home
said the Eggers were on vacation in California. They
learned the money had been found on their property;
when they listened to a television newscast Tuesday
night.

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motioned for her to read it.

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bomb, and wanted to go fo
Mexico. ;

While the jet circled Seattle
before landing, the skyjacker
also ordered that $200,600 cash
and four parachutes be
brought to the plane.

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passengers and part of the
crew were allowed to leave,
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airstair was lowered, and
minutes later the plane
treacted in a manner that con-
vinced the crew that the sky-
jacker had bailed out
somewhere in the Lewis
River-Lake Merwin area east
of Woodland.

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D.B. Cooper (the name Dan
Cooper somehow got lost in .
news media accounts of the in- -
cident.)

Cooper has never been
found, but interest in the case
is still strong, and flared Tues-
day when the FBI announced
a Vancouver family had found
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their search on a sandy beach of
the Columbia River west of Van-
couver for more evidence of D.B.
Cooper and the $200,000-he carried
when he parachuted from a skyjacked
* airliner in November {971

"When the agents get back here
next week, we'll discuss what direc-
tion to take next," said Jack Pringte,
_an FBI agent in Seattle.

One partly decomposed bundle of
marked $29 bilis from the Cooper foot
was found Sunday by a family pic-
nicking beside the river nine miles
below Vancouver.

It probably will be at least a week*
before the FBI laboratory in Washing-

Smoney was found, said BiH! Williams,
of the FRI office in Portland, Ore.,
whose agents dug and sifted the sand
- cartier this week.

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County. No trace of him or the money

is Known to have been found until the
discovery Sunday. not

Williams said yesterday that Leon-
ard Palmer, 4 geologist at Portland
State University, conciuded that the
money drifted onto the river bank
sometime after August 1974. The
money lay in sand on top of spoil
from a dredging operation that was
"conducted that month, Palmer told
the FBI .

Pringle said that sooner or later
the recovered money will be returned
to its owner.

"We don't know who tbat is and
it's not up to us to determine," he
said. "It might be that a court will
have to decide."

The $200,000 was delivered to-
Cooper aboard a Northwest Airline
plane in Seattte after he skyjacked it.

Brent Baskfield, a Northwest pub-;,
lic relations officer in St. Paul, Mian., |
said Northwest paid the money but
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Federal Bureau of Investigation treasure hunters re-
turned to a cold and sandy Columbia River beach down-
stream from Vancouver, Wash., today seeking more clues
_ to the eight-year-old D.B. Cooper skyjacking mystery.

The F.B.1. mixed a little science and technology with
a jot of old-fashioned elbow grease yesterday in continued
digging at the beach. Agents continued to find scraps of |
$20 bills in the area where a picnicking Vancouver family
found three bundles of money Sunday. tele e,
Through serial numbers, those decomposed bundles
of bills have been identified as "several thousand dollars"
of the $200,000 given to the man who hijacked a Northwest
Orient Airlines 727.in November, 1971, then parachuted
from the jet with.his loot. The F.B.L. believes he jumped
somewhere in the vicinity of LaCenter, about 25 miles
northeast of the beach where the money was found.
Yesterday's search, aided by a backhoe and advice
from a Portland State University geologist, provided no'
'clues how.the money got to the- beach or where it has
been since the hijacking. * '
F.B.1. agents said
_ the same order as it was given to the hijacker. The geolo-
gist said
two years. - .
Kenneth Moore, a Seattle F.B.1. agent assigned to,
the case, said, "One reason for conducting an exhaustive
search of this area would be to find other indications of

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the Washougal River watershed. The Lewis River enters |,
edownstream from the search area, the Washougal up-f
stream from Vancouver.

But Moore said there were no plans to search upriver

, "unless evidence leads us to a more specific area."

\ Other fragments Showed up as. agents shoveled sand

the money still was packaged in}

the money probably had been there for less than st.

what happened — pieces of clothing, pieces of bag, pieces ;
which in this case would pag

Moore and other agents said it would be just specula-

tion to.suggest that Cooper might have come down near
the Columbia River beach, or that the search site might

give any clue besides additional pieces of money. The |

round shape of the wads of money suggested that the cash
could have tumbled along the river bed, agents said.

The farmers who own the shoreland, Al and Richard'
Fazio, said the place where the money was found is perk .
odically underwater during high river runoff, like last
week, '

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scattered places as they combed through dand several
hundred feet downstream from Sunday's discovery sitet'

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through wire screens around the main site. The largest? .
piece discovered yesterday was about the size of a stick -
of chewing gum. It was several layers thick.

Moore said the new fragments may once have been ,.
part of the destroyed bundles discovered Sunday. -

_ Although there were several rewards offered for the *
discovery of the money or the arrest of D.B. Cooper, fed-
eral agents said it looked as if the Harold Ingram famil
is out of luck. Ingram's son, Brian, 8, uncovered the.
money. . . tog 27

'- "As far as 1 know, all reward offers have been can-';7
ed," a Portland F.B.I. agent, Bill Williams, said.

Roy Erickson, a spokesman for Northwest Orient in

Louts, said the airline had settied with its insurance
company, Globe of New York, several years ago and re--
ceived $180,000. nn

. . "Our loss was covered by our insurance and so we .
are out of the situation now," he said.
-Ralph Himmelsbach, a Portland F.B.I. agent who
las worked on the D.B. Cooper case since 1971, said the
finding of the money gave him "a certain sense of satis-.
faction," the Associated Press reported. .- _—
_ "The case isn't soived," Himmelsbach sa
is certainly a major milestone. . ,

_ "So we know at least that he (Cooper) never spent |. -
this money, and we know that none of the money he was -
given has ever turned up in circulation." f

__ Himmelsbach said Cooper's skeleton probably never,
will be found if it is in the forested mountain area where;
he is supposed to have landed.

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Date: 2/13/80
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By KERRY WEBSTER
pin Staff Writer

It's more likely than ever that
, the legendary D; B. Cooper is just a
grinning skeleton in a nylon shroud,
say FBI agents raking the sand for
the last of his mouldering stash.
"The discovery of the money
adds credence to the theory that he
probably did not survive the jump,"
said Bill Williams, a special agent
in Portland.

On the north bank of the Coluin- -

bia River today, more -than.30 FBI

' agents 'worked behind a cordon of -
armed sheriff's deputies, spading .
.over every square foot of sand

along 150 feet of shoreline.

The site is where eight-year-old:
Brian Ingram of Vancouver, digg-
ing idly in the sand with a stick on
Sunday, turned up a sodden wad of

_ $20 bills.
Serial numbers on the money —
. 12 stacks of.twenties, still in their
bank wrappings — matched some
of those given to "Dan Cooper"
_ when he hijacked Northwest Air-
lines Flight 305 .on Thanksgiving

'|. Eve, 1971.

. Flourishing what looked like a
stick of dynamite, "Cooper" or-
dered the plane to fly from Seattle-
Tacoma International Airport to
Reno, Nev., after first demaninding
$200, 000 and four parachutes.

The Boeing 727's flight recorder
indicated that he jumped from the
piane's lowered rear stairwell
somewhere near Ariel, a tiny logg-

i-ing town in Southwest Washington.

'No trace of Cooper or the hijack-
ing loot had shown up in the past

'nine years. The mysterious air pi-
rate in that time has become a cult
figure, with sweatshirts, bumper-
stickers and endless pulp-magazine
stories dedicated to the exploit.

ups: Beem

'FBI agents, who have een he
butt of D. B. Cooper jokes for nine

years, did not conceal a certain -

grim satisfaction when they an-

nounced the finding of the money in ,

Seattle and Portland press confer-
ences yesterday.

The fact that the money appears
to have washed up on the river-
bank, rather than having been pur-
posely buried there, increases the
chances that Cooper is dead.

"There is no way we can tell if he
is dead or alive," said John Pringle,
assistant agent. in charge of the
Seattle office. "We only know that
if he' is ative, he doesn't have this
money.""

The site of the find is "about nine
miles downriver from: the Inter-
state 5 bridge over the Columbia
between Portland and Vancouver.
Young Ingram made the discovery
while picnicking with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dwayne
Ingram.

The elder Ingram told reporters
yesterday he was preparing to

build a fire when his son "ran up .

and said, 'Wait a minute, Daddy.'
He raked a piace out in the sand,

- and there it was."

Ingram told The Associated
Press he didn't .even consider
spending , the money, because it
looked so badly deteriorated.

The decomposed money was

'being sent today to the FBI crime
jab in Washington, D.C., for exami-
nation. Pringle said there is a pos-

sibility that mud and soil deposited .
- in the bundles may give a clue as to

where they were washed from.
"We're going to be deing some
study of. tide tables and flood
records, also," added Portland
agent Williams today. "That'll tell
us whether examining any of the
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useful,"

The Washougal R River flows into
the Columbia below the money site, *
and its origins are deep in the
woods over which Cooper is be-
lieved to have jumped,

However, Williams noted, the
Columbia is frequently dredged
and often floods where the money
was found, so the situation could be

Pringle said Cooper jumped
with the money tied around his

was in a bag which would have de-
teriorated over this length of
time." |

He said a major objective of the
search going on now } is to find Some
other object that is connected to
Cooper.

"We could find bones, or a piece f-
of parachute," he said. "Nylon does |.
not deteriorate rapidly." .

Agents using spades and rakes}
have discovered a few more pieces

els and dimes, according to the
FBI. The new discoveries were
made within a three-foot radius of
the original finding. .
"We 'are planning to bring in.

"The problem when you dig up a
spadeful of sand is, what do you do
with the sand?"

In Ariel, meanwhile, tavern -
owner' Dave Fisher said the little
town will go on with plans for its
annual "D, B. Cooper party" at his js
Ariel Store & Tavern tus Now

"You know; if' the
body," he said, she!

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| 1F VANCOUVER, Wash. — The
| *}Federal Bureau of Investigation
| f. brought @ backhoe and experis-in
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west of here today to seek more
clues into the &-year-old D.B. Coo-
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,the $200,000 the legendary hijacker
had strapped to his body when ke
parachuted from a Northwest Ori-

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Washington November 24, 1971.
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tor, Said the fragments — the size
of nickels and quarters — were
found aS much as 5 feet away

Sunday. Some fragments were 3
feet under the surface. .
i} Hudson said the bureau is trying
io determine possible ways the

oney reached the beach. The
ycriver recently covered the beach,
he said. .

Hudson also noted that the Co-
jJumbia River channel is dredged
periodically and sand from the riv-
er bottom is pumped on the shore.

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buried here."

Hudson said whether searchers
might find Cooper's remains in the
area is "one of the questions we
hope to answer today." .

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very deep, If it had been here (a
long time) I think we'd have seen
it."

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sumes the money had been
washed downstredm, possibly —
from a tributary to the Cojumbia.
An Army Engineers hydrologist ,
said that the Washougal River was
the only tributary that might have
carried the money. The Washou- '
gal is the first Washington tribu- -
tary upstream [ Vancouver.

William M. Baker, assistant spe-
ciat agent for the Portland F.B.I.
office, said he expected searches;
would be carried out atong the Co}
lumbia to the mouth of the Wall.
shougal and possibly up the Walt
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logging community 11 miles east
of Woodland.

Until a hijacker vanished mys-

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probably nothing happened
Arie'

But D.B. Cooper put the town
on the map, and yesterday and
last night the telephones at the
| Ariel Store & Tavern were ''ring-
ing off the hook" said Dave Fish-
er, the owner.

Ariel happens to be near Lake
Merwin, and a number of theorists
suggested that Cooper might have
gone into the reservoir behind the
Ariel dam.

Since 1976 the Ariel Tavern has
hosted an annual D.B. Cooper par-
ty ch November 24, the anniversa-
ry of the hijacking in 1971. Every
year 200 to 300 peopie have shown

up to eat buffalo stew and see
whether Cooper would answer the
standing invitation to join the

_ party.
He never has, of course.
, Fisher bought the tavern and

que tradition 15 months ago, and
Hantil 3:30 yesterday afternéon, "I

"v's pretty dead in winter."
But then the Federal Bureau of

given to the hijacker had been
. found along the banks of the Co-
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1| «$4,000, was found by a family pic-
finicking along the river north of,

much happens in Ariel, a small* the sandy riverbanks with a stic

" Portland. A young. boy digging |

"uncoveréd the loot.
After that, Fisher said, "It was®
just like the D.B. Cooper' party."

- Fisher said he had teen on the .

yun answering telephone calls
from television-network reporters -
in New York and newspapers and.
radio stations aii over the West,
Coast. . yo

were in the Ariel Tavern fost-
night, and most were paying as
much attention to playing pool as
to the Cooper talk. A weekly Tues-_

day-night poo! match with the Riv- -
' erside Tavern in Woodland had'

been moved to Ariel last night at.

, the request of a Portland televi-

sion station interested in filming .
reaction to the discovery of the.
money,

Fisher and others said they"
were mystified as to how the mon-,
ey arrived on the-banks of the Co-*
lumbia River, but they still would :
have to be persuaded that the hi-:
jacker didn't survive after he-
bailed out of the Boeing 727.

. i) "I still think he's alive, until-
'they find some bones, " Fisher

i

He said the f inding could Jead to"
"other developments, pointing out
that the discovery by the boy wa i)
a Strange first trace of Coope
aiter so many years.

Then the telephone rang in thé
next room, Fisher raced to' an-
swer it,
"San Jose calling. "

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-membered the man 'as a quiet-:
spoken sort wearing a dark brown"
suit. He took the last seat on the

, Orient Airline's flight out of Port-
land. heading for Seattie. °

the man was that he wore sun
_glasses, unusual because it was a
rainy day on November 24, 1971, a
day before Thanksgiving.

The man checked aboard the
Boeing 727 under the name of
"Dan Cooper" in Portland, the
Jast Jeg of the flight that had start-
ed in Washington, D.C.

By the time the plane finatly set
down in Reno several hours later,
the man who became known: as
"D.B. Cooper" was gone, along
with $200,000 in $20 hills, two para-
chutes and a briefcase which Coo-

; per. told the stewardess contained
'a bomb. .
; Somewhere in Southwest Wash-
¥ington, D.B. Cooper had bailed 'out
at 10,000 -feet "into. dark storm
clouds and into history. He would-
remain to this day the 'only hi-
jacker in the United States ever to .
escape arrest,

Over the last seven years, the
F.B.I, has questioned more than
1,000 possible suspects, chased
down thousands of leads andj
heard from hundreds of people:
who claim either to be Cooper on
to know his whereabouts.

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Date: 2/13/80
Edition: Final

Coop

Until Brian Ingram dug ap 12;!
packets of $20 bills while on a pic!'*

nic with his family along the Co-
lumbia River, law-erforcement of

ficers only assumed D.B. Cooper"

jumped over Southwest Washing-
ton, The plane's recorder showed
a "low pressure bump" at 8:11
p.m. near Woodland, and when the
piane landed in Reno, the hijacker
couldn't be found.

Hundréds of searchers..spread
out over the area around Wood-
land, hoping either to find the
body or the money or just'a piece
of the parachute dangling from a
tree. Most parachute experts con-
sulted at the time agreed it would
be almost impossible.for Cooper'
to survive the plunge. '

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« Five months ago, two Tacoma™
jen said they had talked with
1D.B, Cooper, who, they said, was
fliving in Puyallup. The man told
them that the money was buried"
under a pile of garbage at the
Puyallup dump.
Mostly, however, people -just
. have had fun with the' D.B. Cooper
story. T-shirts with the picture of
D.B. Cooper in his sunglasses and'
bearing the legend, "D.B. Cooper,
Where Are You?" became popu- -
'lar, and there even was a song ,
Y written about him. =~ . :
. _ The residents of Ariel, Cowlitz]?
'County, near where Cooper sup-}-
posedly bailed out, started holding

, Started to build. People started ty
'talk about him as a modern-day
Robin Hood. They admired the
danng, the planning and the ex-
ecution of the jump. ;
Slowly but sufely, the reports of
'encounters with Cooper started to
come out. A man in Woodland said
someone knocked at his back door
on November 24 about the time
Cooper would have landed, but he
didn't answer, Other people start-
ed turning in friends who looked
like Cooper, jn hopes of collecting
* the $25,000 reward. .
i Then the stories started to ap-
tpear. The now defunct Seattle
#Flag ran several pages of purport-
ed interview with Cooper, and two

But it took an &year-old Van-

*. Douglas fir and ponderosa pine."

couver, Wash., boy to uncover the *
only piece of concrete evidence ,
that Cooper really did bail out into'
the dense forest of Southwest
_ Washington.

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an annual "D.B. Cooper Day" to"
commemorate the event. The fes-
tival, called the "Cooper Caper,"
featured buffalo stew and sky
divers and attracted "more than
-800 people. But not, apparently, -
D.B. Cooper. -

- AS for the two Federal Bureau
of Investigation agents who have
been on the case since it began,
ithey say they believe D.B. Cooper
[probably died the night he went |

rut the plaie.
"It is my personal opinion that
he is dead," said Joseph O'Con-
jnell, who has retired. "He jumped
out of a plane at 10,000 feet on a
[cota raw night and he jumped in
an area densely - populated a |

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Areom ¥. wi AC er ; IT had: just finished a story for jargon was there. He called they
wae. . | *Saga Magazine' called "The Phan-\- 727-100's engines "Pratt & Whitney/!
; ! _. 8 'tom Skyjacker." J brushed off my} jewels." He knew the skyjackedl)
_; World show Cooper's face'hidden dark Montgoinéry' Ward ,business } plane's fuel capacity ~ in US, gal-}

{ behind the fattest pair of sun-, suit. { flicked at a mote of. dust on| tons. And he kacw how much

_Blasses this side of Hollywood Bou- my fowcut: military brogans. I- 10,000 twenties weighed.

1 Tuesday's announcement of °
the finding of part of the D.B.
~Cooper loot was the first dramatic
development in one of the nation':

ilevard. .

moat publicised — and pussting
skyjack cases. Seattle writer Dare
rell Bob Houston, who has
devoted years of study to the case

the Midnight Blue,' herewith
reviews the D.B. Cooper history
und his own preoccupation with it,

By Darrell Bob dlouston ~

My first mistake was having the
same initials as D.B. Cooper.

My second was writing a book
about him,

My third was allowing myself to'
become a D.B. Cooper expert.

My fourth — and perhaps most
edangerous — was when I scoffed
u "~ strire

at the supernatural overtones in
jithe case. , ,

" My fifth mistake was the most
embarrassing. After nine years of
checking out everything from the
Raleigh filter cigarettes that D.B.
smoked to the thin clip-on necktie

'Hero. He could be anybody — be-

fagon, he could go either way.

y Even the FBI doesn't know
what he looked like. The thousands
of flyers they plastered around the

and who wrote the book "King of

. €ause he was nobody. Punk or par-{- ;

: D:B. is the only man ever to
make the global Ten Most Wanted
List — in disguise. But ask any
school kid who the first man to
waik on the moon was, and all you
get is a stare. Mention D.B. and the.
kid will give you everything but:
the serial numbers on the ransom}

. Money.

jthat Pve fed to pesple for the past

phine years: Especially people who,

wanted my help in turning "tbe

real D.B. Cooper" over to the po- .

lice. Many claimed to have been i
jail with him. One caller, after '
'reading one of my essays on Coop-
er, said D.B, was really his mother
— in drag.

Steadily it was building up, this

* feeling that I was hiding the truth

from myself. } fought it hack.
Every time a new clue would turn
up — 2 pair of soiled underwear in
a Southwest Washington tree, the :
alleged sighting of a sasquatch;,

other skyjack article. . ;

D.B. had become, in a sense, my
life. And my livelihood.
, Then came the day when the

straightened iny, thin, clip-on tic. I"
pushed niy wrap-around sunglasses -
up on my forehead and exclaimed .
totheskies - 6 Fs

- "Its:true. | know too much. |
am D.B. Coopers. wom fe _
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hooked. .

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stormy night. A Northwest Orient

. 727 lumbers through the dark-

, . My-megatomania fled the next .
There I go, parroting the lines| day' ~~ .

Thanksgiving eve! 1971, Af

it was smooth and authentic.
Still, the writer could have gotten *
most of that stuff out of Jane's Al
the World's Aircraft.

But one section struck hone.
The part that told avout the deliv-
ery of the ransom aboard the 727

_at Sea-Fac Airport:

"The bills were the real McCoy.

"But all of them had been xeroxed
' to get their serial numbers. f knows *

Isnarfed them personally." I}.
Snarfed? A doozy of a verb, ant ;

z active verb.

1 -
. .

One that might lead me straight
}to the skyjacker. 'lo an all-tim

journalistic scoop. To fame, for,

ness. Its speed is barely above viyne — and a Hollywood contract.

stall-point, A stairwell slowly dis-
tends from the big jet's belly.
> A man appears. He rides the
swaying ladder like a tomeat on a
fire ladder. He wears a dark suit
and overcoat. Sunglasses are
taped to his temples.
: Strapped to his waist is a con-
vas bog stuffed with the $200,000

he wore, | came to see him as a, iplaying building-blocks with 2 pile: ransom he collected at Seattle.
kind of avatar. The Last Invisible} -of $20 bills — I would write an-f :@cer his buttocks, on the same 'hoyse on Capitol Hill. The place *

'strap, an attache case dangles. It
is black and contains five sticks of
, phony dynanite. ~ ;

The man is, poised on the final

3tep. His~teughter. rises in thes
wind. Ie spreads his arms wide.
and iskydives toward the trectops:,
— and the folklore of the nation.
- D.B, Cooper hos arrived. The
teorld will never be the same
lace again. ; .
ifelt a pang of professional jeal-
f Susy. This guy was good with the
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looking for D.B."

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It was signed Jike the rest of.
them: D.B. Cooper. This one, how:
ever, was different. After more
than 200 bogus D.B.'s write to you, .

you can teil. .
tek He

The address was an apartinent-;

smelied of pomade and-inseciicide. *,
* It was enough to make 2 health
inspector call in sick. 1 knocked on,

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rmaore $20 bills buried in the sand be-
side the Columbia River pear Van-
couver, Wash., and said it was more of
the $200,480 ransom collected in 1971
by airline hijacker D.B. Cooper.

Agents speculated earlier in the
day that the muck and sand the
money was buried in may have been

dredge material. But they discounted .

that theory after 2 geologist examined
the site, about 10 miles northwest of
Vancouver. ,

"His (the geologist's) fecling is thal:
the probabilities are that the material
was washed ashore rather than (being:

rin) dredged sand," FBI - Agent Raiptt'.

,Himmelsbach of Portland told The
Post - Intelligencer last night.

{ Children on a family ouling on
Sunday found the first half - decom-
posed packets of $20 bills with which:
Cooper had parachuted from 2 North-
west Orient jelliner on Thanksgiving
Eve, Nov. 24, 1971.

The total was between $1,000 and
4,000, Himmelsbach said, and serial
numbers checked matched numbers
on the marked hills given Cooper.

Fhe money was found farther

downriver from Vancouver than FBI
agents had estimated Tuesday, when
they announced the discovery, and it
caused Elimmeisbach to return to the
theory he has bad since 1971 that
Cooper landed ~- dead or alive — in
the vicinity of Lake Merwin on the
Lewis River about 25 miles north of
Vancouver. .
4, Himmelsbach, the agent in charge
of the investigation since the hijack-
'ing took place, said he believes the
dozen packels of greenbacks were
'gradually washed down the Lewis
River and into the Columbia River.
Then, he said, ocean tides could have
pushed them several miles up th
Colunybia to where they were found.

There was specuiation Tuesday

~~ s

'that the site 'was too far up the Colum-
- bia for the money to have come from
the Lewis River.
» However, Himmeltsbach said yes-
lerday, "My understanding is that this
is tidal water, and if so, there are
simes that this (river) runs backward.
So it could have run upstream that
far." .
Did Cooper, lightly dressed and
buffeted by wind. and freezing rain +
when he parachuted from the airlin-
er, drop the money on the way down?
"That's a good possibility," Him-
meisbach said. "There's also the possi-
bility that he just took the money, and |
neither he por the money left there
(where he landed). .
-"I fel this is an indication that'*
probably he didn't make it (alive), aad
' it has been my feeling that probably
he didn't make it because of the cir- }
cumstances of the jump and the fact 4
1 that he dida't have the proper equip- ;
_ ment for parachuting," Himmetsbach j
continued.

"He didn't have a hardhat, goggles,"
leather gloves, jump suit or jump _
boots. He didn't bave any of those
things and he sure needed them all.

"[ don't think the fall killed him," }
"Himmelsbach theorized, "but there *
»swas that sudden stop. I think probably; rs
_ there was good likélihood he Was Tai"
-"jured during the fa¥ and didn't hava; '
any help... and was unable to extricd
cate himself from wherever he fell.
Aud probably is still there." .-
Agents continued digging yester-
day, and Himmelsbach said he didg't'
know how long they wouldcontinue. *
There was no trace at the site of ©
the legendary extortionist nor of his
;parachute, and Himmelsbach indi-
:eated he didn't expect to find such
'evidence there. .

' The ransom money was given to
Cooper at Seattle - Tacoma Interna-
tional Airport after he threatened to
biow up the 727 irijet while on a flight

from Portland. At Sea - Tac, be al- ,
lowed ali the passengers and all but +
four members of the crew to leave,
demanded and received the $200.00 .-
and four parachutes, and had the
plane depart for Reno, Nev.
The skyjacker bailed out over
. southwest Washington. . .
"f Sunday's find was particularly sat-
, 'isfying for Himmelsbach, who on Feb.
29 is scheduled to retire from the FBI
'after a career of nearly 29 years —
more than eight of which were spent
trying to solve the Cooper caper. The
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'fan &year-old Vancouver boy, Brian }*
i ingram, and his 5-year-old cousin,
: Denise, as they were digging in the
' sand with sticks along the river bank
i during a family outing.
"This clue is the first we've had
» sinee the night of the occurrence,"
said Bill Baker, assistant special agent
in charge of the Portland office,
which the Ingram family contacted on
Monday.
>" The money was found about 25 -
miles southwest of the area where the
! FBI had thought it most likely Cooper
landed after he parachuted from the -
i jetliner into a freezing rainstorm on
di Nov. 24, 1971.
'| The hijacker, who had used the '
name "Dan Cooper" to buy his airline
t. ficket, boarded the jet in Portland, -
" * threatened to blow it up with what he-
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{| Cooper allowed 36 passengers
1,92 | aboard the flight to leave, then or-
oot | dered the crew of four to fly it to
.2} Reno after $200,600 in marked bills
- and four parachutes demanded by the
hijacker sere brought on board.
As the southbound airliner passed
' over Southwest Washington, the hi-
vos. j Jacker — wearing only a business suit -
" ': and street shoes — parachuted
. . it through a rear stairwell door, -
"2. f, As "Dan Cocper" became a legend,
. 2, the name "D.B. Cooper" — as an FBE .
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one of the frayed $20 bills as a,
souvenir. "

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gation also gave the Vancouver'

boy a certificate praising him for .
his discovery.

Brian was helping his father,
'Harold, build a fire on a Columbia
River beach February 10 when he;

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The Ingrams, who moved here from Oklahoma ec
than a year ago, said they were aware of the D.B. Cocpen
saga but did not connect it to their find.

Neither did the buried treasure put a damper on the}:
'afternoon activities. "We had a picnic," said Ingram.:

"We forgot about the money and had a great time."
Back home about 5:30 p.m. Sunday, the bills, erroded

With one sweep of his arm, 8-year-old Brian Ingram ' into lozenge-shaped piles, were placed unceremoniously

discovered Sunday what thousands of searchers failed to
find — a bundle of $20 bills, now deteriorated, demanded
by the infamous, parachuling skyjacker in 1971. '

Tuesday night in an interview with the Vancouver Col-
umbian, Brian, his father, H. Dwayne, and his mother,
Patricia, recounted the events of a casual outing that
unearthed what one official. called the "most important
discovery" in the 8%-year-old case. At the same time,
the elder Ingram described finding several thousand
doHars of soggy cash as "heartbreaking" without a pen-
ny of reward money in sight.

fhe family and two relatives were walking along the
Columbia River near a sand company about 3:30 p.m.
Sunday. They decided to gather wood for a fire to take | 1%
'the chill off the 40-degree temperature. i

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**] gathered an armload of firewood," said Ingram, "28,
$a painter for U-Cart Manufacturing, a Vancouver firm.
"He (Brian) was doing his part, happy and enthusiastic.
I was about ready to set the wood down and he said,
'Wait a minute, Daddy.'* ;

Brian, a sccond-grader at Hough Elementary School,
knelt beneath his father to smooth a spot for the fire. He
swept the river sand only once, uncovering three worn
bundles of $29 bills.

"T seen that money, 1 thought "Wow!'" recaHed the
slender, towheaded youngster, who Said it was the first
money he ever found. "I went over to my parents and
they thought it was counterfeit."

Unknown to them, Brian had uncovered part of a
$200,000 ransom handed over to a man calling himself
Dan Cooper on Nov, 24, i971. Cooper demanded the cash

-as ransom and hijacked a Northwest Airline Boeing 727

tjet in Seattle,

: As the plane flew south to Reno, Nev., Cooper bailed! *
lout from the jet's rear-stairway with the bundled money?
*wrapped in a parachute and tied to his bedy.

Authorities believe he jumped. over southwest+
Washington.

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atop a kitchen cabinet to dry.
"I was thinking about decoupaging them and putting
them on a board," said Mrs. Ingram, 26.

"! thought it might have been mob money or lost'

money. f just didn't know what to think, but it was just
money that looked useless to me.''

Monday, during his 10 a.m. coffee break, Ingram call-"
ed a local bank to sce whether the battered bills could be-

exchanged for new ones. A bank employee told him it
could be done if the serial numbers were intact, but add-
ed 2 check would be made of the numbers.

Ingram said he brooded on that the rest of the day and
called the Portland FBI office Monday evening, reading?
~ several serial numbers to an agent.

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, When Ingram called back 30 minutes later, "they said
they'd like to talk to me."

It was not until fuesday morning that he learned the
money was part of the Cooper caper.

fuesday evening, the couple watched themselves on
national television. By then, they had grown weary of
the day's hectic activities and exuded disappointment in
learning that apparently no reward awaits their hones-

ty.

"It's just heartbreaking that nething may come of
this," Ingram said.

"} went from a rich man fo a poor man without hardly
making 4 move."

Supporting a family of four and making the $200 a
month rent payment for their ragged westside home is
tough at times, Ingram said, adding '
came with a liitle fortune, I would talk to everyone in the
sworld about this story."

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pilot began his climb, grabbing allitude
at more than 3,000 feet per minule. He
leveled off at 30,000 in the vicinity of
Mount St. Helens, home of the legend-
ary Sasquatch and a landmark ip the

. theory went — most people are still
ti, bored spitless.
1 The hig 727-100 shot spray as it pow. |
. ered down the runway at Sea-Tac,
'leaving an oily rainbow ia its wake. The ~

nine-year ground search for D.B.

Cooper.

Tiooked up from my manuscript

and studied the cabin. Seat C, Row 18." !

That's where Cooper had sat on Flight
305, chain-smoking his Raleighs and
fondling that attache case with the five
phony sticks of dynamite inside. Mr.
Nice Guy with the Rotary Club smile
and the cheap business Suit. Tobacco
stains on his teeth ~—and larceny in his
heart. 7

I glanced at the ventral stairwell.

That had been the key to D. B.'s dream.
ship, Located under the center engine, ;
: it allowed him to climb out and jump

on

'

~ without being sucked into a turbofan /

"or sliced to carrots on the flaps.

Now, a Jarge red sign proclaimed:
This stairway cannot be opened in
flight. The D. B. deor was closed — for
good, Cooper had changed the specifi-
cations of 2 fleet of $5 million airplanes.
He had also made mea hero worshiper.

The stewardess came up the aisle.
She stopped at my seat.

"T'm curious. . ." she began. My

paranoia mounted. ] fumbled around, *

trying to hide the manuscript that was
open on my lap.
The stewardess was charmed by my
medesty. '
"You're a writer, aren't you?"
I mumbled a confession.
'"...Anmd that's a book
manuscript?" Her smile was very
white. | thought of the froth on a
Wyoming trout stream.
Faking a cougbing attack, ! bent
aver the thick pile of pages that consti-
«tuted my D.B. Cooper novel.
it "What's your book ahout?"
i Isat up straight.

"This man gave us the answer: The

only way to get off that angst ridden'
'airplane 1S TO JUMP!"
nearest FBI interrogation room.

"What was bis name?"

"D. B. Cooper," I whispered.

"Any relation to James Fenimore?"

The stewardess' wink said it all. §
closed my eyes. J wanted to slip on my
dark glasses — but why tempt fate any
further? ] would have to cringe openly.

I pretended to sleep all the way to
San Francisco.

eke
Emerson said that the trouble with
_ heroes is not their ceramic feet. It's
that eventually they become a pain in
the ass.

1 wonder if the Sage of Concord
would have been all that blase about
the acturial little gent who called him-
self Dan Cooper — especially if D. B.
had kept him in groceries for almost
10 years. .

When | think back to that stormy
Thanksgiving Eve of 1971, the night
Cooper half-gainered his way to im-
mortality, I find it hard to label him the

. criminal he officially is — dead or al-

LY

five.

I was huddled in hed in my $50-a-
onth pad on Summit Avenue, listen-
ing to the radio and cating noodles
with a pair of borrowed chopsticks.
The noodles were even colder than
the apartment, But after the first flash
about the parachuteskyjack, it didn't
Matter,
_Apologizing to my pet cockroach,
William 5. Burroughs HI, I seratched

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"i ground on the floor and found a dime. I

| of the L.A. Times' West Magazine. It
| covered seven full pages with six dia-

called the Los Angeles Times, The edi-

* torsassigned metodoaD. B. story.

t

} was elated. 1 would eat again. So

I saw it coming — all the way to the ;

would Burroughs, who was as sick of
monos6dium glutamate as} was.

The first national D. B. Cooper epic
was laid out in the March 19, 1972 issue

"}t's about a man," 1 said. "A man }! 8fanis and photographs. Inctuded, too,

who figured that we're all riding on an

" was a song called "The Ballad of D.B.

airplane. Its name is Earth — and its 'Cooper." 'The lyric was catchy — and

zooming through the Void at some- 'forgettable.

thing like 66,690 miles an hour.

im thoughts. With several thousand copies*

tr
Then, after the huge presses at

" "Bul even at that speed — or so his. "Times Mirror Square had already,

icked in, the editors had second',

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Tun off, the Times pulled my story and °:

replated —at considerable cost.

1 They said they loved the headline:

i "Coffee, Tea — or $260,000?" But they
didn't want to glorify the skyjacker

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swho, after all, was 2 dangerous fugi-

tive.

Now how in the hell was I going to
rationalize that to a cockroach?

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My hero-fixation surfaced next on a
Seattic television show.

By that time I was really into my
role. I had my own tacky attache case

AB Bo

to go with my black suit and skimpy tic.

I encouraged people to call me D. B. I
wore my sunglasses — even on rainy
days.

When my television host asked me
if I thought Cooper was a new Ameri-
can hero, I was ready, '

"Yes," Isaid, "He waSaterrifichero, *

He screwed the System back — nonvi-
olently, nonpotitically. He didn't hurt
anybody, and he only took 200 grand.

"And best of all" —1 had rehearsed +

the line for a week — "he didn't leave

» any footprints-in the clouds."

The switchboard at the station

| turned into a pinball machine. .

The most irate of the callers was

pe ete abhi oe ontioouawe jErnest K. Gann, the author and former

ve pilot.

Istitl have a copy of the telegram he
'Sent to the station the next day.

"The true depiction of all hijackers
for what they are, instead of as he-
Toes," it said in conclusion, "must be
shown now or you and your loved ones
may well, and very soon, be aboard the
next of another Robin Hood's terrible
adventures,"

I fired back at Gann through Em-
mett Watson's column in The P-1. I re-
peated my favorite argument: D. B.,
with his lopsided grin and gentle man-
ner, had Jeft no victims.

1 was not oniy smug. 1 was wrong.

ake

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when J returned. A tail young wor

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By Fran Kaiser
The Datly News Staff Writer

- ARIEL —The party will go on — whether D.B. Cooper i is found or
not.

That assurance is from Laurel Fisher, owner of the Ariel Store
and Tavern, where legend seekers gather each November to fete
the famous skyjacker.

"We'll probably have the party forever," said Latirel, who spent
the morning hosting television crews from as far away as Los
Angeles after some of Cooper's loot was found near Vancouver.

Even if Cooper is found dead the party will continue as a ¢
memorial, she said.

"It means something to everyone up here. It's a legend. He sort
of put Ariel on the map."

Authorities believe Cooper bailed out of the hijacked Boeing 727
near Lake Merwin in the area east of Woodland. Neither he nor
$200,000 in loot was ever seen — until some of the money appeared
Tuesday.

The money caused excitement in the small community on the .

4Lewis River near Merwin Dam. Despite the find, some Ariel
residents still say maybe Cooper dropped some of his money, but .
} gat away. ii

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and continued the traditional party started by the former owner.

About 30¢ people showed up for last November's party. Some,
perhaps, hoped Cooper himself might be lured to the celebration if
he's alive.

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' WASHINGTON—A 'young Van-! Law entorcementauthoritiestone
couver, Wash., family on an outingjhave believed that Cooper died in his
along the Columbia River last Sunday jplunge from the Boeing 727 because
suddenly stumbled across 12 stacks ofjhe was wearing only a business suit
moldering money—part of the $200,-'and street shoes when he jumped into
090 that the notorious airline hijacker 9 howling wind and freezing rain in
"D. B. Cooper" made oif with more an unreliable parachute. It has been
than eight years ago, the FBI said' estimated that he hit the ground at a
Tuesday, ; 'speed of 50 to 70 mp.h. '
With the bills now having been: The saga began when "Cooper"
traced definitely to the Cooper loot,' boarded the jetliner in Portland for an
30 agents from the Portland and'evening flight to Seattle. Once air-
Seatile FBI offices have begun an ex-iborne, he demanded that the airline
tensive search of the area for more Of. have $200,000 in $20 bills and three
tke money—arid possibly for some parachutes on hand when the plane
sign of Cooper or, more likely, his re- ended in Seattle. He threatened to
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FBI agent William M. Baker told a
news conference in Portland.

__Discovery of the money by Harold
Dyvayne Ingram, 27, his wife, Patricia,
26, and their sons, 8 and 3, marked
the latest twist in the bizarre saga of
the now-legendary Cooper, who pa-
rachuted from a Northwest Airlines
jetliner on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971,

When found by the Ingrams

composing rubber bands, the FBI
said. But there was "no trace of D. B.
Cooper," according to the agency."
. Shortly after the hijacking, @ cult |
rang up around D. B, per,
Tame that riever has been traced
itsorigins, .'
A private club was named in his
honor, D. B. Cooper T-shirts were
manufactured, bumper stickers were
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said Tuesday that the serial
nurabers of the bills had been record-

Cooper permitted the airliner's 36
passengers to leave the plane in Seat-
tle. He then ordered the crew to take
the plane to Reno and told the pilot to
fly at a relatively low altitude and to
open the plane's rear stairway.

Crew members last heard his voice

never to be seen or heard from again. jon the plane's intercom when they
ny the 'were over the Washington-Oregon

believe he
duraped, using the least reliable para-

The decomposed money was found
17 to 20 miles from the jump site by

aithe Ingrams' older son, Brian. The

'hills were partly buried in sand that
the Ingrams were scooping out to
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Columbia River beach near here, Cooper's extortion effort was the
the FBI announced yesterday. _ifirst time a jet had been hijacked
- Harold D. Ingram, 27, his wife, 'for ransom. A number of hijack-
'Patricia, 28, and their two sons, ings for cash have been carried out
iwere picnicking on what fs known since the Cooper escapade.
as Tena's Bar last Sunday.when Baker said the FBI could not be
'their older son. discovered 'the certain how much money was in
tmoney, © ' the packets, but said it amounted
. Eight-yearold Brian Ingram was to "several thousand dollars."
helping his father gather firewood The money has been sent to the
and had scooped out sand for a FBI faboratory in Washington,
'fire. As his father was about to D.C., and Baker hopes the lab will
'drop an armload of wood, young be able to pick fingerprints off the
(Ingram gajd, {Wait a minute, bills, which could lead to the
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nature of airline piracy began on
Thanksgiving Day, 1971, when
Cooper boarded Northwest Air-
lines flight 305 for a flight from
Portland to Seattle. Once aboard.
he handed a crew member a note,
saying he was carrying a bomb ina
satchel and wanted $200,000 in
unmarked $20 bills.

When the jetliner landed at the
Seattle-Tacoma International Air-
port that evening, authorities had
arranged the cash and had also
obtained four parachutes, as in- .
structed by Cooper.

Cooper then allowed the flight's
36 passengers and all crew mem- °
bers but two pilots and one stew.
ardess_to disembark. He_then
ordered the aircraft to take Off for
Reno, Nev. ;
'At.one point in that flight, the
crew felt a fluctuation in cabin
pressiire which suggested the jet- .
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Himmelsbach, the Federal Bureau
of Investigation agent wlio has
headed the D.B. Cooper case sincé
the 1971 hijacking, outlines this
"possible scenario" to explain now.
some of the Cooper money
washed up on the beach west of
Vancouver: :
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of & stream. When the water got .
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tom, The bag finally degraded.
"Perhaps it could have burst on
impact, but that is sot likely. We
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Bureau of Investigation has found '
about $4,600 of the money that ther
legendary hijacker, D.B. Cooper,

carried with hing when he para-

chuted from a commercial . jet

over Southwest Washington in

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Tuesday.

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the packet of $20 bills was so bad-
ly deteriorated the F.B.1. could
not make an exact count of the
amount, the spokesman said.
Despite the deterioration, the
spokesman said the F.B.J. was
able to identify the money as part
of the $200,000 ranson: given to
Cooper in Seattle nine years ago.
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'years the packet had been carried
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covery of the money packet would
aid in the search for Cooper, the
only parachute-ransoin hijacker in
United States history who has not
been apprehended,
Cooper boarded

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Eve, 1971, using the name Dan Despit
Cooper. Before the plane reached
Seattle, Cooper threatened lo ex-
plode a "bomb" in his brief case if
he were not piven $200,000 in $20
bilis and four parachutes and
flown to Reno, Nev.

The plane circled Seattle for 24,
hours while authorities gathered
the parachutes and money. .
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. disappeared out of the plane's
rear exit, opened in flight. 'The ap-
proximate place of departure was

readings on the flight recorder.
The flight recorder and crew,
testimony indicated Cooper had
jumped near the little town of Ari-
el, Cowlitz County, about 30 miles

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*, flight in Portland on T vankspiving, |eade Mountains,
the area,

a rear door froma the 727. -
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KNOWN AS D.B. COOPER WILL BE FEATURED. COOPER IS THE SUBJECT OF
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: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
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Memorandum

TO ; SAC, PHOEN pate: 7/24/80 :
ATIN: SA . ; bé6

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FROM > SAC, SEATTLE .(164-81)

SUBJECT: NORJAK . Su Be S
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00: Seattle
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Enclosed are four (4) artists composites,
two black and white, and two color, depicting the
'NORJAK unsub, aka DAN COOPER, D.B. COOPER, with and
without glasses.

THE CRIME

. On November 24, 1971, a lone white male
boarded Northwest Orient Flight #305 at Portland,
Oregon. At approximately 3:22 P.M., while the flight
was en route to Seattle, Washington, he indicated to
the stewardess that his brief case 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 the 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 altitude and slow
speed which would enable the rear door of the plane
(Boeing 727) to be opened during the flight.

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Memorandum

SAC, BUFPALO a . DATE: 5/23/80

(ATTN : sal b6
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SAC, SEATTLE -

NORJAK , ,
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00: Seattle

Bufile 164-2111

Re Buffalo telcall to Seattle, 5/23/80.

Enclosed are four (4) artists composites,
two black and white, and two color, depicting the
'(NORJAK unsub, aka DAN COOPER, D.B. COOPER, with and
without glasses.

THE CRIME

On November 24,.1971, a lone white male
boarded Northwest Orient Flight #305 at Portland,
Oregon. At approximately 3:22 P.M., while the flight
was en route to Seattle, Washington, he indicated to
the stewardess that his brief case 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 oS
parachutes and the money, the hijacker allowed ail
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 altitude and slow
speed which would enable the rear door of the plane
(Boeing 727) to be opened during the flight.

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Memorandum

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

SAC, NEW ORLEANS . DATE: 5/21/80
(ATTN: SAI | .

SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)

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CAA-HIJACK (A)
00: Seattle

Bufile 164-2111

Enclosed are four (4) artists composites,
two black and white, and two color, depicting the
NORJAK unsub, aka DAN COOPER, D.B. COOPER, with and
without glasses.

¢

THE CRIME

On November 24, 1971, a lone white male
boarded Northwest Orient Flight #305 at Portland,
Oregon. At approximately 3:22 P.M., while the flight
was en route to Seattle, Washington, he indicated to
the stewardess that his brief case 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 the 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 altitude and slow
speed which would enable the rear door of the plane
(Boeing 727) to be opened during the flight.

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Po" DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)(ATTN: LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION) |
FROM SAC, SEATTLE (164A~81) FT
SUBJECT: NORJAK Aus U }

00: SEATTLE

Enclosed for the Bureau are two copies of an agreement
prepared by

For the information of the Bureau, [___| who has a
business address in Mountain_View, California and telephone
numbers of | ] and _ has been
in contact with the Seattle and other Divisions of the FBI,
concerning captioned matter. He states he has done considerable
research in connection with an individual whom he feels is a
suspect in captioned nijacking and has a book which he has pre-
pared concerning this. He has obtained fingerprints of this
individual and desires to furnish them to the FBI for comparison, c
with latent fingerprints which were located in the aircraft if
following captioned hijacking. It should be noted that f

there ./ ,
were some latent fingerprints as well as palm prints located in.
the aircraft.

It has been explained to[L___|that he can make available
to the FBI, the fingerprints which he has and that a comparison
will be made and he will be advised of the results. He states,
however, that on advice of his attorney, he does not desire to
make these fingerprints available until the FBI has signed an
agreement with him that they will not prevent him from publishing
his book. It has been explained that the FBI will in no way inter
fer with the publication of his book and that obviously an
identification of the subject would be a great benefit for him in
marketing his book. He has stated, however, that because of his
attorney's advice, he desires to have an agreement signed prior

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SUBJECT:

UNITED STATES co Msnwenr UNITED STATES a OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Memorandum !

SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 5/13/80

NORJAK ——

00: Seattle

Re telephone call to ASAC | on 4/22/80, °
from Representative McCluskey, California. - f ;

Referenced telephone call was made by an Aid to
Congressman McCluskey of California, who requested the name,
composer, and lyrics to a song referred to as "The Ballad

of D. B. Cooper". This inquiry was made pursuant to a
constituent"s inquiry and was referred to this office,
specifically ASAC| | by the Portland Division.

A xreview of Seattle files, indicate the following
references: In Seattle file 164-81-SubB, Vol. 1, newspaper
clipping dated 11/23/72, final-edition of the Seattle Post
Intelligencer, Seattle, Washington, page Al8, written by
Eldon Barrett, reports that a Portland nightclub singer,
Tom Bresh, wrote and recorded a short lived success record
entitled "D. B. Cooper, Where Are You?". Additionally, in
the same file, a Seattle Post Intelligencer article written
by Dick Clever, appearing on 11/23/72, in the final edition,
at page Al9, there appears an article penned by Clever and
copyrightel story, the copyright is held by the Seattle Post
Intelligencer, dated 1972, entitled "A Ballad to the Man
Called D. B.".

That story and the words in their entirety are:
"He was cool, he was calm, the man with the "bomb", who
boarded flight 36 with ease. And pilot Bill Scott, not
suspecting the plot, took off with the man called D. B.
They were just in the air, when the stew caught the stare,
of the man in the back of the plane. He passed her a paper,
which he thought she'd read iater, she thought him a flirt
and quite vain. "Read the note," his wave told, and she
thought him quite bold, to make such a pass in mid flight.
But she did as he asked, and she read and she gasped, as the

jet flew on into the night. The crew was quite shocked, to _
"Bed

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| | Apex, North Carolina, | lho eLephone BIC
number | | work telephone number| appeared

at the Raleigh, North Carolina, Resident Agency of the Tederal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) where she was advised of the
official identity of the interviewing agent and thereafter
furnished the following information:

[_|said a few evenings ago, she was watching be
a television program entitled "In Search of" and viewed a BIC
composite photograph of a man being sought for the hijacking
of an aigpiane about ten years ago in the Northwestern United

States. stated the program stated 'the man use name
"D. B. COOPER" and parachuted out of the airplane, | i
i tograph resembled her

[ | $ on| | b6
| | at Pueblo, Colorado, which is| BIC
| Jsaid_she first met lduring July, 1961,
while they both were in Pueblo,

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that _ advised

that In January or February, 1962, she and| Imoved to

Parker, Avi gona. where they beth which
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advised that the lived in Tucson, Arizona.

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she returned to Pueblo, Colorado, for_a short while before BIC
i j . said she worked for

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at yarious| in the Northwestern United
| | visited

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in 1963. [

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Arizona, where he was jniait probably on a bic
said she visited in jail and later saw him on
the street there where he told her he had been released.

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

» SAC, CHARLOTTE

ATIN: SA
GREENSBORO R.A.

SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)

NORJAK
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00: Seattle
Bufile 164-2111

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

DATE: 5/6/80 -
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Su. &

Enclosed are four (4) artists composites,
two black and white, and two color, depicting the
NORJAK unsub, aka DAN COOPER, D.B. COOPER, with and

without glasses.

THE CRIME

On November 24, 1971, a lone white male
boarded Northwest Orient Flight #305 at Portland,
Oregon. At approximately 3:22 P.M., while the flight
was en route to Seattle, Washington, he indicated to
the stewardess that his brief case 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 the 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 altitude and slow
speed which would enable the rear door of the plane
(Boeing 727) to be opened during the flight.

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| | rel lhaving information
pertaining to captioned matter. | | advised as follows:
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1979, he met [friend b7C

(name unrecalled) at the McGhee Tyson Airport.
stated that this meeting concerned| ipaying a lease
payment on an aircraft that he rented from | for

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of F automobile; this person according to
said very little and_wore sunglasses all of the time.

istated that| flew into Knoxville
via commercial airlines and left in the plane that

rented them. L___—s stated that I resides in an
apartment in the New Orleans - Baton Rouge area of Louisiana
as does his unidentified friend; location unknown for both
individuals.

| advised that one to two weeks later b6
he noticed in the newspaper some artist conceptions of b7C
D. B. Cooper when some money was located in a wooded section

of a western state and was believed to have been some of SUB

the money obtained in captioned hijacking. .
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO : SAC, RICHMOND
ATTN: SRA| |
DANVILLE R.A.
FROM : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)

* SUBJECT: NORJAK
CAA~HIJACK CA)
00: Seattle
Bufile 164-2311

Enclosed are

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

DATE: 5/2/80 ©
Sup &,

four (4) 'artists composites ,

two black and white, and two color, depicting the

without glasses.

NORJAK unsub, aka DAN COOPER, -D. B. COOPER, with and

THE CRIME

On November 24, 1971, a lone white male ~
boarded Northwest Orient Flight #305 at Portland,
Oregon. At approximately 3:22 P.M., while the flight'
was en route to Seattle, Washington, he indicated to
the stewardess that his brief case contained a bomb
which would blow up the plane unless his demands were

met.

The hijacker
parachutes in exchange

demanded $200,000 and four
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 the 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 altitude and slow
speed which would enable the rear door of the plane
(Boeing 727) to be opened during the flight.

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TO _SAC, DALLAS Aue iz
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FROM SAC, DENVER (164-704) (RUC)

SUBJECT: "UNSUB, aka, '
D. B. Cooper '
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4/13/80, an individual who identified himself
as {telephone [ }, Denver, Colorado,
telephonically contacted the Denver FBI Office and advised
he had observed a television program, "In Search Of" that
same date on a local Denver TV channel, wherein captioned
hijacking was_diseussed and a composite drawing of unsub
was shown. stated he was acquainted with one
| while working for a firm in Denver, and 1t the
iption of unsub very closely. further stated

d_been out of the Denver area for a few years and
believes[__] currently works for a company by the name of
Robin Tech located at Wichita Falls, Texas, in their

LEADS:
DALLAS DIVISTON '
At. Wichita Falls, Texas:

Will attempt to Locate and identify | and

thereafter conduct appropriate background investigation Sup ty BIC |

determine if he might be identical with unsub.
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TO: SAC, PORTLAND (164-41)
FROM: SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497) (RUC) (3)

SUBJECT: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY ,
6253 Hollywood Boulevard, Suite 519
Hollywood, California 90028

NORSAR
00: Seattle

Re Portland airtel to Los Angeles dated 4/1/80.

For information of Portland, hos Angeles indices

contain no reference to the California Institute of Criminology
or| It was determined through
observation that the California Institute of Criminology

is located at the above address, which is in a run down section

of the Los Angeles area. From observation of Suite 519,

it does not appear to be a bonafide law enforcement agency

and it appears to be a private school. Inquiry at the Los Angeles
Police Department (LAPD) failed to locate anyone who has ever
heard of the institute.

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By yy oe, Date of transcription
} pe 4/23/80

| ; Charlotteville, Virginia,
telephone number| urnrshed the following information

* welating to the D. B. Cooper Skyjacking case under investigation

by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). '

viewed a television program entitled "In Search Of"
which is broadcast weekly on Sunday nights. She noted one of the
recent broadcasts reviewed the D.B. Cooper Skyjacking case and in
the presentation a composite picture of Cooper, made from
information furnished by witnesses was displayed.

[ | stated the_composite picture was wi ut question
in her min picture of John
Scott Maze? who died in Scottsdale, Arizona, of a heart attack, in
November, 1974. °

| lrelated she was |
| | and whom
she believes is currently residing with] |
| Tempe, Arizona, | |
| JJonn Scott Maze.

[__Jreiatea John Scott Maze, at the time of his death,
resided in a trailer home at 1149 North 92nd Street, Scottsdale,
Arizona. She noted that John Scott Maze had been employed by
AiResearch, Phoenix, Arizona, as an engineer for twenty years
prior to being fired in the middle 1960's for being an alcoholic.

She continued after he was fired, he never held any
meaningful employment to her knowledge up to his death. She
added after he was fired, he used to disappear for two or three
months at a time and just go out into the wilderness of Oregon and
the state of Washington to be by himself.

She noted he was a "real loner" and had as little to do
with other people as he could.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Memorandum

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SAC, SEATTLE* DATE: 4/16/80
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D.B. Cooper,
Dan B. COOPER

HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST FLIGHT 305,

11/24/71
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newspaper article appearing in "Daily News-Chief Newspaper"
Winter Haven, Florida, 2/13/80, captioned "Hey, D.B. Cooper-

we found your money."

It should be noted by receiving offices, above

enclosed newspaper article which appeared 2/13/80 in

newspaper at Winter_Haven, Florida. s; basis which prompted
telephone call of o FBI, Tampa.

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PpLoy

Marina, 1006 South Lake Howard Drive, Winter Haven, Florida,
was contacted per his telephonic request directed to FBI,
Tampa, on 3/13/80. [| proviaea the following

information:

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For approximately 2 yea)

employed as a|

Jersey, Police Department.

During November, 1971, at

rs, in i971,L_ sd was

for the Westfield, New

Westfield, the |

|Westfield, New Jersey.

Subsequently, investigation resulted in|

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| and in view of

these circumstances, this mu
out the northeast. | alleged that he was good

friends with

| Westfield Police

rder became notorious through-

Department, who actually found the bodies of the various

and , as a result,

through his association with

ciated with the|

According to| | several weeks after above
xed and

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crime had been discove

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door sedan, was located abandoned at the Newark, New

November, 1971.

airport, and no pertinent information regarding
location/whereabouts has been determined since

According told at the time of the above
murders,[___] was approximately 47 yrs. of age, and was

Iz.
his employment with Westfi
ment, the notoriety of the

Cd

disappearance of|

him.

[J continued that on Feb. 13, 1980, a

newspaper article appeared in the "Winter Haven Daily News-.

reportedly an ex-paratrooper, U.S. Army, during World War
pt continued that even though he has terminated

eld, New Jersey, Police Depart-
and. the suspicious
| has continued to intrigue

Chief" regarding the location of money connected with the
unknown subject, aka, D.B. Cooper incident at Seattle,
Washington, during November, 1971. The newspaper also
featured an wend whenever Poe drawing of UNSUB, aka,

D.B. Cooper, and whenever

observed this compo

site, he immediately thought that Cooper was possibly

identical to|

| This identification was

possible in view| | considered
physical description to be similar
U.S. Army, during W.W. II, and

and Cooper's

disappeared from t

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PORTLAND, Oie. (AP) = Ana
year-old boy bas uncovered part of *
a ransom missing since the only |
unsolved hijacking in U.S. history"

— but officials say the whereabouts °
ofthe legendary. sky pirate D.B.:
Cooper are stilt - 3 : matter of *
conjecture. .

, are' thal,

uncovered singe- 'Thanksgiving eve, ee

1971, when Cooper bailed gut of ajet
over southwestern Washington with,
$280,000 tind tohis waist; "uit

it was the first case of hijacking -"
formoney. xh 73

The FBI on Tuesday.. identified
the cash through serial numbers,
'Bul Baker, special agent In'charge
of the Portland FRI office, said the

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now in trying to locate D. B. Cooper

"or any remains that might be in the
area,"' he said.

The money was, discovered
Sunday by. young Brian~Ingram
'beneath a layer of? sand'. as his

'family picnicked along the'
Columbia, five miles northwest of .

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told reporters > Tuesday he was
preparing a fire when his son ''ran
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News-Chief Staff

BARTOW — Three Polk County
Jail corrections officers have been
forced to resign and a fourth
corrections officer is expected to
quit as tie Polk County Sheriff's
Department' s Special
Investigations Division concludes
an investigation inte the smuggling
of drugs into the jail. -

Polk County Sheriff Louie Mims
said Tuesday that corrections
officers Bill Combec,~ 21, of
Lakeland, Gene Teske, 21, of Fort
Meade and 44-year-old James
_ Reynolds were given the option of
"submitting resignations or being
fired for falsifying informatir-: on
their employment applications, A
"fourth jallor" has' nat "Yet" been
identified. «.

"Tt came to the attention of the
department two weeks ago that
there might be drug dealing in the
jail involving some jail employees
'as well as some of 'the inmates."
said Sheriff's' Department
spokesman Steve Hulsey.

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SAC, DEEROIT (164-115) RUC

B.B. Cooper
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On 48/7/80 |
flint, Hichigan, telephone number contacted 'the

Flint "Resident Agency.

Jadvised he recently saw a composite _
drawing of subject in a newspaper Stonr and supers he knew
the individual depicted therein. stated he has
not seen this man since 1956, but from until 1996 iT
The i .
now in her early 30's,
and | |} now in her late 20's.

ladvised|__—iJspent time in a Federal,
Lson in Kilby, Ala ing released in approximately
| He added that always wore dark glasses, nad
been in and out of trouble and frequently spoke of getting
just_one big score". He was not awars of whether or not
ee ee use a parachute, but stated he did serve in the —
Armed Forces in Korea.

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program about /D.B. COOPER, he recalled an old friend,
MIKE MARTZNJY°MARTIN Looked very much like COOPER. He
was an expert parachuter and had extensive military
training in it. He also new Washington state very well.
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

SAC, RICHMOND DATE: 4/11/80

ATTN: SA | °
CHARLOTTESVILLE RA

SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)

00: Seattle a
Bufile 164-2111

Enclosed are four (4) artists composites,
two black and white, and two color, depicting the
NORJAK unsub, aka DAN COOPER, D.B. COOPER, with and
without glasses.

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THE CRIME

On November 24,.1971, a lone white male
boarded Northwest Orient Flight #305 at Portland,
Oregon. At approximately 3:22 P.M., while the flight
was en route to Seattle, Washington, he indicated to
the stewardess that his brief case containéd 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 the 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 altitude and slow
speed which would enable the rear door of the plane
(Boeing 727) to be opened during the flight.

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Memorandum

SAC, DALLAS DATE: 4/3/80
RTTIN: SA|
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)

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CAA-HIJACK (A) :
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Enclosed are four (4) artists composites ,-
two black and white, and two cdlor, depicting the
NORJAK unsub, aka DAN COOPER, D.B. COOPER, with and
without glasses. -

THE CRIME

On November 24, 1971, a lone white male
boarded Northwest Orient Flight #305 at Portland,
Oregon. At approximately 3:22 P.M., while the flight
was en poute to Seattle, Washington, he indicated to
the stewardess that his brief case 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 the 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 aireraft and
informed them he desired to fly to Mexico City. The
hijacker instructed that the plane proceed ina
southerly direction and fly at a low altitude and slow
speed which would enable the rear door of the plane
(Boeing 727) to be opened during the flight.

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On 2/25/80, |

Brigham City, Utah, telephone | advised he had
seen the composite drawing of D. B. Cooper in the Ogden
Standara Examiner newspaper on 2/13/80. | | said the

peep oe ked_enapt ny Lik lege roommate of his
named He and were roommates at

Brigham Young'University (BYU), Provo, Utah, bot!

raduated in which is_the last time he saw
advised that while is

when he last saw if | Jhad aged a little,
believes

D. B. Cooper.

43 to 45 years old and is approx:

said he

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imately 6'L" tall, had

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in indiana, | |Jparents were ]
Yllinois, while] |Jwas ac BYU.

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went to a high school in some small town

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TO: SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497)
FROM: SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) (P)

- 6253 TOLLYWOOD BLVD., SUITE 519

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY fy a 3 R
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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA 90028

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California Institute of Criminology, North Hollywood,
California, telephone[_ | by letter dated
3/25/80 to the Portland Office advised his agency was
proposing to do a scientific case study of the NORJAK case,
which he described as' one of the most renoun cases of the
twentieth century, and was requesting permission from the
Bureau, .

Before a reply is sent to | Los
An angeles is requested to expeditiously advise whether the
California Institute of Criminology is a bonafide Law
enforcement agency and any other information o£ interest
in possession of Los Angeles.

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'Enclosed are four (4) artists composites,
two black and white, and two color, depicting the
NORJAK unsub, aka DAN COOPER, D.B. COOPER, with and
without glasses.

THE CRIME

: -On November 24, 1971, a lone white male
boarded Northwest Orient Flight #305 at Portland,
Oregon. At approximately 3:22 P.M., while the flight
was en route to Seattle, Washington, he indicated to
the stewardess that his brief case contained a bomb
which would blow up the plane unless his demands were
met. an

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 the 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 altitude and slow
speed which would enable the rear door of the plane
(Boeing 727) to be opened during the flight.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

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without glasses.

THE CRIME

On November 24, 1971, a lone white male
boarded Northwest Orient Flight #305 at Portland,
Oregon. At approximately 3:22 P.M., while the flight
was en route to Seattle, Washington, he indicated to
the stewardess that his brief case 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 the 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 Tow altitude and slow
speed which would enable the rear door of the plane
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STATE OF WASHINGTON STATE PATROL
WASHINGTON General Administration Building, Olympia, Washington $8505
Dixy Lee Ray Colonel Robert W. Landon, Chief March 24 : 1980

Governor

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Mr. Paul L. Mack :
Special Agent in Charge
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States Department of

Justice

915 Second Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98174

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correspondence regarding the solution to the D. B. Cooper case.
We are forwarding it to your office for review.
Sincerely,
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COLONEL R. YW. LANDON, Chief
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STATE OF ~ WASHINGTON STATE PATROL
32) WASHINGTON General Administration Butding, Olympia, Washington 98508
oy Lee Ray Colonel Robert W. Landon, Chief ' March 24 , 1980
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Dear

Vie have been asked by Governor Dixy Lee Ray to respond
to your letter discussing a potential solution to the D. 8. Cooper
case.

We appreciate your interest; however, the investigation

of this case is in the hands of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

We are, therefore, sending a copy of your letter to the Federal

Bureau of Investigation, Special Agent in Charge, Mr. Paul L. Mack.

Please remain an active and vocal citizen.

Sincerely,

COLONEL R. W. LANDON, Chief

cc: Governor Dixy Lee Ray
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Harold Dwayne Ingram, 28, father of the Syearold
boy who found part of skyjacker D.B. Cooper's ransom
money lest month, bas been arrested in Vancouver,
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was released Tuesday night after a local bail bondsman
posted Ingram's $500 hail, sheriff's deputies said.
Kathy Kelly, a jegal assistant in the Clark County
Prosecuting Attorney's office, said Ingram is scheduled
to appear in county district court April 17 for an
; identification hearing to determine if he is, in fact, the

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Oklahoma for trial.

i __Ketly said court documents filed by authorities in
Pithorg County, Okla. Jast April charge that Ingram
mowed £318 then on a used car purchased a month earlier
In SvaAlester, Oka.

Papers to force Ingram's return to

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After Pittsburg County District Altorney Don Roberts
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natiunwide in the wake of bis family's discovery of a
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Ingram's son, Brian, unearthed several thousand dol- ¢

lars of the ransom money Feb. 10, as he dug a fire pit in
the sand along the banks of the Columbia River down-
stream from Vancouver. '-

The next day, Ingram turned the money over to the }

FBI, which announced the find with great fanfare at a
press conference featuring the Ingram family.

"Several of us read the paper and recognized him," °

Roberts toid The Ascociated Press. "We had a
sworn out to have bim brought back."
Ingram's arrest is the latest in a string of reversals .

warrant

i that have followed his family's brief glow in the linie-
j

ight. ; ;
§ Two weeks after the money was discovered, Ingram's:

return the money' and attend the FBI's press conference. h
"We live from paycheck to paycheck, and we could,
time. my .
* Mrs. Ingram told The P-I that recovery of the skyjack
loot also resulted in family strife that arose when a
relative tried to take credit for finding the mongy.
Late Saturday sight, about 35 hours before Ingram'
was arrested, 2 fire broke out in an upstairs bedcoom of

the Ingram home and caused $1,000 damage before *

Vancouver firefighters could put it out.

wife, Patricia, reported that her hushand was forced toé
; five up 142 days of pay — about $160 — in order to;

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was caused by & short in an cxtension cord.

+ And as of yesterday, Ingram had missed three days of
work this week at the U-Cart-Concrete Manufacturing
Co. in Vancouver. ,

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"We're trying to reach him, because we really want

to help kim," U-Cart owner Joe'Taaner said yesterday.
Tanner said his firm intends te advance Ingram the

Money "lo get this thing in Oklahoma squared away.
"We thiak he's getting 2 bum rap." Tanner said. .
"Tor from Texas, and }'ve got a little knowlege about

* these Southern redneck laws that Iet a DA. help busi

nessinen collect their debts," he suid. :
"Cve been 'told be (ingram) has been making pay4
sments on this car loan, aud he's only a' couple
payments behind," Tanner said. .

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By CYNTHIA TANK
47 Columbian Staff Writer .
3 "ET hate to think the thoughts people will be
thinking about me all over the United
States," said Harold Dwayne Ingram as he
sat in his boss's office Thursday afternoon,
The 28-year-old Vancouver resident said he
now regrets his 8-year-old son.Brian's finding
of D.B. Cooper's hijack ransom money last
" month. .
"{ regret it for myself, but not for Brian,"
who, he said, has enjoyed all the attention.
Brian and his family made national
headlines after a family outing on a
Columbia River beach near Vancouver Feb.
10 turned into a major media and FBI event.
Brian was preparing 'a campfire when he
scooped out about $5,000 of the $200,000
Cooper had dernanded and received before
jumping out of an airliner in 1971. —- .
Since last month Ingram has: .
© Lost 1% days pay — about $100 — in
; order to return the money and attend an FBI
press conference.
k @ Watched as a fire caused about $1, 000
damage to the upper floor of his home at
* 1509 Markle St. Saturday.
© Been arrested Monday on an Oklahoma

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. with mortgaged property = a car.
Officials in Oklahoma said they recognized

Ingram from newspaper photographs that
appeared after the famous find. Ingram had
been wanted for about six months before the
story first appeared in the paper, they said.°

The warrant was issued because Ingram
allegedly is behind in payments for his car.

"I have every receipt," Ingram said
Thursday. "I don't have a payment due on
that car until the 20th of next month.

"I feel confused, really confused, " Jngram
said Thursday. "And I feel pretty untucky.
I'm not angry; I'm kind of hurt. I really care
what people think about me."

Ingram said he bought his car from a new
car salesman, paid $200 or $300 down, and

arranged for financing. He said he notified .

the finance company when he and his family
moved here from Oklahoma last winter.

His arrest Monday was an_ unhappy
surprise, he said.

"| had no idea I had a warrant on mé," he
said. "That's cbvious, or I wouldn't. be
flashing my face ail over the world."

He might have been late with a payment or
two, he said, "but rich people do that, t00,
don't they?" ~~

But things were looking up for Ingram —

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. Was unavailable for comment this morning.

today. His boss and attorney, Joe Tanner
said this morning he has been told by th
Pittsburg County, Okia., district attorney thal.
that office now has verification of Ingram'g.
car payments. Ingram, in fact, is paid ahead

Janner said a few details need to be
worked out, but when they are the district
attorney has told him the charges wilt be
dropped. That will not occur until Monday,
Tanner said he was told. The district attorney

As for Ingram's other bad fortune, just
before midnight Saturday, two bedrooms,on
the upper floor burned, and his landlord —
who bailed him out of jail Tuesday — started
remodeling the next day. -

Tanner, Vice president of U-Cart Concrete
Systems Inc. of Vancouver, where Ingram is
employed, said the company is behind him.
Tanner, a lawyer, said he will represent
Ingram without charge.

Until the charges against him are dropped,
Ingram faces an April 17 identification}:
hearing in Clark County District Court. - ;

"These people are great here,' Ingram}!
said of his fellow employees. "They want tov.
back me 100 percent."

"He's been treated unfairly," Tanner. said. . 4

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from | Jand a copy of anarticle captionedTake the

money and jump-how he foiled FBI,' dated May 12- 18- -Berkeley
Barb.

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of his first letter of 2/20/80. | Istated that he
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A NON-PROFIT ACADEMIC SERVICE

20 February 1980

Federal Bureau of Investigation
450 Golden Gate Avenue

San Francisco California

The following purports to be a copy of one of

the twenty dollar bills taken by skyjacker "D.B. Cooper"

when he jumped from a 727 on 24% November 1971,

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FBI
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Here is a cppy of page 11 of the
May 12, 1972 alledged interview with

D.B. Cooper, °

Confirmation of the serial number on
the reproduced bill wijil form the basis
of a short item in a magazine article
I have submitted.

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condirmation or disputation of the
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_ with a parcel containing 10,000 twenty dollar bills which

was the ransommoney that had been delivered to him
while he held the planes crew hostage at the Seattle-
Tacoma International airporl + -

The F.B.L and other State and local law enforcement
agents assisted by companies of G.L's from Fort Lewis
have futilly wasted many hours aod thousands of tax-
payers dollars looking for cooper,

So far Cooper has successfully eluded his following
in the same fngenfous manner that he pulled offhis .

skyjack caper, cooly staying a safe distance away from
dange rr. ae

The F.B.L headquaters in Seattle has vowed to ser- «:
utinize every foot of land between the Sea-Tac airport °

and Reno to turn up clues in the case.
Despite rewards of 5,000 dollars-by the Medias ''
Fink on your Friends" programe the public has generally
nted Cooper adoration and somewhat a hero status,
e anoaymous interviewer from the twice weekly
Spaper the 'Seaitle Flag' has produced a story from
a taped interview with D.B. Cooper which is validated

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by the, presentation of one of the recorded twenty dollar 7

_ bills included in the ransom money,-

This story was run in the 'Flag' because the inter . 7

viewer was unable to send it to the 'Post-Intellingener'

because they had the 5,000 dollar reward out for Coopers

head also television stations would have requested a Jape

: from which voice priats could possible be produced."

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" by about fifteen pounds and a couple of inches. Also that,

the artist's impression were very poor. Whea asked why vo

. We Wis stll in Washington state he added that he felt »

it was a calculated risk that's why he jumped in bad
weather and at night, also he waited 2 little longer than
usual before pulling his ripcord, Adding that his free

' fall was about 5,000 of the total 7,000 feet, Which was very

risky doing at night.

He came down about a hundred miles away from S.W..
Washington contrary to the F.B.L report that he touched
down near Vancouver Washington,

The first thing he did oa landing was bury his chute, .
. he was within five mites of where he had intended in an
. evergreen wooded terrain, He credited this accuracy |

"fo his projected calculations and his japanese wstch,
He wouldn't say whether he had an accomplice on the.
ground. He said he had lived in Seattle and had once:

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back with the money in a canvas bag to where cajar
was holding another stewardess as hostage in the reat
of the passenger cabin,

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that they reeked of duplicating flud. Then the stewardess
made two more trips out on to the run way to bring in

. the chutes

hen one of the fuel trucks pulled up...then he ord-
ered the passengers off the plane, and everyone else into
the cockpit,..a middle-aged, executive looking man
started to push his way back through the Line Into the
tourist cabin. Cooper tensed up expecting the guy to try
something heroic - but he had just left his briefcase
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described jumping from a jet going 200 miles an.

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of the rear fuselage and the thirdatthe base of the T-tail
assembly, Also the down- flaps stalling speed. One hundred
and nine miles per hour which was risky but jumpable,
Then also he took into account the smail crew: Three
on the flight deck and the three stewardesses. Two
central galleys and the wardrobes with the two toilets
to the rear, figuring that they might come in handy
as 2 place ta hold a stewardess hostage. :
THE ACUTAL JUMP: mo, .
First the briefcase bomb was only real in the sense
that it worked, itwas constructed of gillette shaving cream

. cans, painted red and rigged up with prima-cord fuses.

When he flashed them to the stewardesses they carried

'out his instructions because they were well-indoctrinated

and thoroughly trained. Also they obeyed instructions
from Mr, Nyrop of the head of Northwest.

Nyrop figured that it was easier to paya mere 200,000
than to risk four Hves and a $5 millon dollar airplane.
Cooper could smell xeros fluid oa the money and knew
that the twentles had been duplicated.

He stayed close to his original plan, only having ade
nervous moment when he was stili negotiating on the

ground at Sea-Tac airport, The fueling was being stalled,
and he was getting edgy, figuring someone was planning
some kind of stragey in an effort to shoot him or some-
thing, One of the pilots brought out the money and the

ais

He figured if the F.B.L was going to make a move it
would be at Sea-Tac, Everybody but the stewardess he
was holding hostage and the three mas crew was

clear of the plane. Buzzing the cockpit he asked the
captain whatthe hold-up was, Trouble with the vapor lock
was the answer, And ancther truck was coming, Cooper'
told the Captain: "Not more than one fuel truck ata

"time" but eventually five fuel trucks came out, only

three of which were able to deliver, Cooper almost blew
his cool, he went forward to the cockpit and told the
captain it was take off. time, and to take the plane to

Mexico,

The plane was again alrborn at 7:40 pm four hours
and fourty two minutes after leaving Portland, "
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jump without @ reserve chyte,. he cut the extra chute.

up and used the strips to te the money to his waist

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captain to lock the door from the loside. Then he returned -

ait, closing the first class and tourist compartments
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hold the aircraft at 7,000 feet, and speed at 200 miles
per hour, .

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was to attemtp 'to make any further contact with him,
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was telephonically advised on 2/12/80 that an
individual who resembled a photograph shown on
television of BD. B. COOPER was residing at 2611
Central Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The caller
had no reason to believe that this individual was '
D. B. COOPER other than the individual" s physical
resemblance.

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of him in the past ten years. He advised that Iwas
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was a parachutist in the military, was very athletic, but
did not do well scholastically. He added that[______]was
rather anti-social and he had heard. him use first names

other than his true first name. He estimated that]
would now be approximately 36 years old, This| [was
from Lyon County, Iowa, and lived |

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Sheriff would know them.

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Enclosed for the Bureau is one packet of newspaper
articles collected at Portland, Oregon.

Yhe enclosed articles are typical of those ;
appearing in most major newspapers in the State of Oregon
Eollowing announcement of the location of a portion of.
the ransom received by the subject in this matter.

The media contacts on this matter by personnel
of the Portland Division during the period 2/12-25/80 included
one press conference, 26 television appearances, and a .
multitude of recorded radio appearances.

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OOK FOR a book or two on D.B. Cooper to show up i in
the next few weeks or months.

" Anews.souree claims a writer has secured documents
on the case from the FBI through the Freedom of In-
formation Act and hopes to weave a tale out of the sky-
jackiag that has kept people wondering for 8% years.

It wouldn't be surprising to see more than one author
fry to cash in on the recently rekindled publicity about
the incident. Cashing in like that seems to be more in
vogue these days than it was in 1971, when Cooper disap-°

"supposition as well as fact. Sometimes it's hard to tell the
difference between what the writers know and what they

'think or assume. an

- Some authors make no hones about mixing fact and
fantasy. Take .44, the semifiction book about the Son of
Sam murders in New York by Jimmy Breslin and Dick
Schaap. Breslin and Schaap admit in the foreword to the
book that they changed the names of the characters and
the Sequence of events, and embellished on the-story.

'Yhey graphically detailed what their deranged killer
was thinking about, for example, but it was obviously
what the authors thought the kiler was thinking. Of
course, it added greatly to the drama of the book.

-Breslin and Schaap said the embellishment y was
legitimate because they wanted to recreate the at-
mosphere of the murders, to portray in fiction the gut-

level realism of the crimes. net koe ne a Mae

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as a New York murder spree, that mixture of fact and
fantasy might be what you'll see in the D.B. Cooper boon,
assuniing there indeed is one in the making. The Cooper
author would have an easy time cooking up a tale of
where the hijacker came from and what happened to
him, and the story could be quite readable.

If he has any trouble making up a story about who
Cooper was or what happened to him, he could look piles
of newspaper clippings that report on different peopie's
theories on the subject. But with all the leads the FBI
Says it has tracked down, there can hardly be a lack of
ideas about Cooper's fate.

As far as distinguishing fact from fantasy, we hope the

hewspapers have done their duty in labeling theories as

what they are. It would be nice if any books on the matter
did the same.

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VANCOUVER, Wash. — Eight-

year-old Brian Ingram, who found bun- "

dies of $20 bills last week but had to

turn them over to, authorities, has been '

given one by the FBI. |
The boy jumped into the national
spotlight Feb. 10 when he discovered
several thousand dollars of the $200,000
ransom paid to skyjacker Dan Cooper in'
' 1971. The money, frayed around the
edges, was identified by FBI agents

who have deen looking for Cooper since °

he jumped from a Northwest Orient

Airlines plane over Southwest Wash-'

ington.

The $20 was given to the boy by

Mike Heywood, Hough Elementary

- School PTA president. Accompanying.
the bill was a certificate praising the:
boy for his find.

Since finding the money, Brian 'and
his parents, H. Dwayne and Patricia,.
have been the subject of network televi-
sion newscasts and newspaper articles.
Saturday night, the three were satirized
on the "Weekend Upidate" segment of
the weekly television, show "Saturday.
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Arthur G, Barger, Special Agent in Charge of the .
Podorad Bureau of Investigation {FBI} for Oregon, has announced .
a development in a crime which began on the night of November 24,
1371, at Portland International Rirpork, Portland, Oregon, and has
become widely known sinee that time as the: Pp. B. Cooper Hijacking
Case. |

On the night before Thanksgiving, 1971, aman who gave
the name ban Cooper bought a one-way ticket on Northwest "Airlines
Flight 365 from Portland, Oregon, to Seathle, Washington.
Upon Unparting Portland international Airport, Cooper notified a
stewardess that he was hijack cing the aircraft and diaplayed to
hor what he said was a bomb in his briefcase. The flight proceeded
to Seattio, where after maintaining a holding pattern for several
Hours, it was permittee te Land and vefuel. After $290,100
and four parachutes demandad 'by the hijacker wara brought on
board, he released 411 of the passengers and ali but FOUY nenbers
of the crew. The flight then took off and proceadsd sonth
through Washington toward Rano, Nevada. fhe hijacker instructed
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Seattle, Washington

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PAUL L. MACK, SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE OF THE FEDERAL

BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI) FOR WASHINGTON, HAS ANNOUNCED A
DEVELOPMENT IN A CRIME WHICH BEGAN ON THE NIGHT OF NOVEMBER 24, 1971,
AT PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, PORTLAND, OREGON, AND HAS BECOME
WIDELY KNOWN SINCE THAT TIME AS THE D. B: COOPER HIJACKING CASE.

ON THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING, 1971, A MAN WHO GAVE
THE NAME DAN COOPER BOUGHT A ONE-WAY TICKET ON NORTHWEST AIRLINES
FLIGHT. 305 FROM PORTLAND, OREGON, TO SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. UPON
DEPARTING PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, COOPER NOTIFIED A STEWARDESS
THAT HE WAS HIJACKING THE AIRCRAFT AND DISPLAYED TO HER WHAT HE SAID
WAS A BOMB IN HIS BRIEFCASE. THE FLIGHT PROCEEDED TO SEATTLE, WHERE
AFTER MAINTAINING A HOLDING PATTERN FOR SEVERAL HOURS, IT WAS PER-
MITTED TO LAND AND REFUEL. AFTER $200,000 AND FOUR PARACHUTES
DEMANDED BY THE HIJACKER WERE BROUGHT ON BOARD, HE RELEASED ALL OF
THE PASSENGERS AND ALL BUT FOUR MEMBERS OF THE CREW. THE FLIGHT
THEN TOOK OFF AND PROCEEDED SOUTH THROUGH WASHINGTON TOWARD RENO,
NEVADA. THE HIJACKER INSTRUCTED THAT THE FLAPS AND GEAR REMAIN
LOWERED AND THE REAR STAIR DOOR OPEN. AS THE AIRCRAFT PASSED OVER
LA CENTER, WASHINGTON, CABIN PRESSURE FLUCTUATION WAS OBSERVED,

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November 29, 1979 Yi

Ass't Special Agent
Seattle, Office, FBI
Seattle, Washington 98101

Dear Sir:

I have written a book length novel based upon the D,B. Cooper
episode of 1971, which will be released in early 1980.

It would be appropriate to have an authentic reproduction of the
composit drawing of the suspect, as has been publically released
by the FBI.

I am therefore, writing to inquire if I could prevail upon
you to send one to me that I could use, crediting its source
as the FEI,

' Very Sincerely,

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we 14/20/79 memorandum

REPLY TO
Artyor: SAC, SACRAMENTO (164-50) (RUC)

Wi/ffif92

SUBJECT: NORJAK ee "DUDE ett D6
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one Fresno, bé

.California, wads contacted at her request at her residence b7C
on November 5, 1979, at which time she advised as follows':

7 stated that on Wednesday, October 17, 1979, —
she was watching the television show "In Seartéh Of" which
featured a show about the 1972 skyjacking"of a North-
western Airlines Flight, in which D.B. COOPER was involved.
stated that she was born and reared in the -
Washington town of and knew an individual in
that town while attending high school there who she ia
dentified as - Upon seeing the com-
posite drewing of D.B. COOBER on the above mentioned
television show, it immediately pituckher_that_the—com-—
posite drawing closely resembled
[_] stated that| ldisappeared from —_

the Washington area| | sometime
in 1970-1971. According to| } no one knew his where-

abours until he reappeared sometime in 1975. at which
time
Snohomish, Washington, met him in a local bar, after

[_Jdeseribea[ Jas having previously had b6
skydiving as a hobby, and that he presently lives in BIC

Monroe, Washington. She described him as follows:

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Age Presently 47 years to 48 years
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As the Seattle office is aware AM ror IMmrormatron
of Baltimore, during December, 1976, Allen Landsberg Productions,
Los Angeles, California, produced a documentary film concerning
captioned case for possible use as a pilot film in a contemplated
series which was possibly to be captioned "Still At Lande."
This series would-deal with still uncaptured crimina and would
feature a reward offer of $10,000. If this series did not
materialize, it was planned to utilize the documentary film in
the current series captioned "In SeanchiQ.," also produced by
Allen Landsberg Productions and narrated by television star
Leonard Nimoy. Upon instructions from the Bureau, the Portland
office cooperated in the filming of this documentary, which
filming included some footage of and commentary by sl b6
| Portland case agent. . bIC

On Sunday night, 10/28/79, the "In Search O£" tele-
vision program broadcast the above mentioned documentary con~

cerning this case. On 10/29/79,| Hunt Valley
Maryland, telephone | | telephoned the_Portliand
office and 'spoke with SAC ARTHUR G. BARGER and SAI . b6
| |advised that he had observed the above b7C
television show and had_a_suspect in mind who may possibly be b7D
identical with UNSUB. Co stated he desired that his identity
be fe | furnished a that the suspect not be informed th Y
he, furnished any information concerning him.

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Airtel
$~8~79
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
(ATTN: DOCUMENT SECTION,
FBI LABORATORY)
FROM: SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73) (C)
SUBJECT: NORJAK

00: SEATTLE

Enclosed for Document Section, FBI Laboratory,
is one envelope and two letters. Enclosed for Seattle
are Xerox copies of the letters and envelope.

From 4-13-79 to 5-5-7939, a musical production
was presented at the Cricket Theater at 345 - 13th Avenue
Northeast, Minneapolis, Minnesota, entitled, "The DB. B.
Cooper Project." This production is based on titled air
hijacking.

The fact that two typewritten letters were
written to the Cricket Theater by an individual who signed

the letters | came to the attention of the b6
Minneapolis Office in a newspaper article dated 5-2-79 in the b7C
St. Paul Pioneer Press.

On 5-7-79,| | b6
Cricket Theater, gave these letters to a Special Agent of BIC
the Minneapolis Division for examination. Two letters and
one envelope were received and are beins forwarded to the
FBI Laboratory.

|Jrequested a receipt for the letters b6
and desired their return. She further advised that numerous bIC
individuals at the theater handled the envelope and letters.
One envelope received by the theater was lost. | a

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF IN®/ESTIGATION

-~ l.- 5/3/79

% Octe of tronscrlpiion

Le

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On this date, two letters and one envelope
were received from the Cricket Theatre located at
345 13th Avenue Northeast, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The letters were received from| | an

lat the theatre.

| |] advised that one envelope was
lost at the theatre and that it was postmarked Chicago
and received on the lOtK or llth of April, 1979. This
envelope contained a short typewritten letter addressed
to the Cricket Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and
signed "Sincerely yours, | This
letter was obtained, The second letter_and envelope,
which were obtained, were addressed to
and| ] The Cricket Theatre, Minneapolis,
Minnesota. The lettervwas addressed oo ths Sakcket
Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota, "Dear

and typewritten signed | |

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Interviewed on 0/04 19 Minneapolis, Minnesota... 164

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by SA Ska : Dots dilated 5/8/79

This documont contolns ncithor rocommondotions nor conciystons 'of the FBI, It is tho property of the FGI oad It loaned 10 your agency:

It ond Hts contents ete not jo bo disiribylad ovtsids your agency.

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4/23/78

TO: SAC, PORTLAND (164-41)

FROM: SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73) CRUC)

SUBJECT: NORJAK (A)
60: SEATTLE

ReMPtelcals to Portland 3/23/79, and 3/26/79.

Enclosed for Portland and Seattle is one copy

each of the following: GP

1. D. B. COOPER project program. lA

2. Minneapolis Tribune article dated 4/8/78, B :
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captioned "Legend Of A Hijacker C Comes To Cricket Theat

3. Minneapolis Tribune article dated &/8/79,
written by JOHN KERANS, captioned "Northwest 727 Hijacker
Cooper Made A Quantum Leap Into Hists Of Mythology."

%. Minneapolis Tribune article dated 4/16/79,
captioned, "The Crickets 'DV-B." Cooper!' Is Leap In Rare
Experience." :

On 4/13/79, "Sal lattended the
D. B. COOPER project play at the Cricket Theater, 13th and —
University Avenues Northeast, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Play presently: scheduled to run through 5/5/73. No
derogatory information relative to Bureau interests presented
in this play or subsequent reviews of this piay or newspaper
articles. Matter RUC at Minneapolis.

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Seattle (164-81) (Enes. ~ 4%)
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book, or you can't find the crook—_
then surely some Speculation's per- |
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; , Take the case of D. B. Cooper, who
veo . 7% years ago used a bomb threat to-
'take command of a 727 jet, then par-

_ achuted to freedom with $200,000 ex-

torted from Northwest Airlines. No

trace of Cooper was ever found. Aad

Since its the only such wasolved

crime in American history, you

could say Cooper wrote the book on

Voy ena. -Skyjacking. But-he. took the book:

"ke playwright? Deererer meee

. ° John Orlock began' to wonder abo

D, B. Cooper a few weeks after the

crime was committed. Orlock found
'a letter purportedly from Cooper re-
printed in the New York Times. and
he clipped if out. Orlock stil! has that }
cHpping, though it's yellowed - "with !

age. ye, Ge ares

'Ga the fetter, "Cooper said in part"

. that he had only 34 months to live
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"I read it and got the Tealing of a4

man who finally decided to do some-

thing with his life. There was a great
sadness and a great courage here,"

says Orlock, his singers touching ,
the elipping.. re

va this was indeed the case, that he
was dying—and [am sure that he ts
jjow dead—then there was a certain
justice here, It was a haunting piece'
af writing. Most importantly, [ could
Jbel a 'personality' emerging."

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Gn Thanksgiving' Eve" 971. 'a 'mil -

mannered man using the name D.B..

lines 727°and, somewhere south of
Seattle, parachuted. out clutching
$200,000 in $20 bilis. He hase't been
Seen since. not sesh
It was & great sniaiatty and "Cooper
became something~+ofia-folk hero.:
Songs were- written: 'about: his daz-'
zling escapade and D.B. Cooper took
his place atongside Robin Hood,
ean Lafitte and all three musk:

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: few fast grains of peace of mind. "

One who didn't overlook the letter
was playwright John Oriock. "I was
fascinated by that letter," explained
\jthe 33-year-old writer, "especially a
part where he wrote about Iiving a
life of agony, turmoil, hate and more}
ij hate. It was a beautiful piece of writ
i ing, straightforward and simple, the
. kind of letter. a D.B, Cooper would
have written, Let's face it, the hijack-
ing was one of the preat acts of
imagination of our time, the idea 4f
taking the money and leaving le
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tiles for a few years, I was thinking
about it during that time, however,
and it kept coming out In my mind as
a musical, a small cabaret musical,
Then five years ago. we performed a
rough draft of it in a workshop at
Penn State where J was teaching. [It
.fonly had flve songs and only two Dr
three of thase original scenes remajn

cd

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phoate oon,

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* Lou Saierni' s direction.

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* be the big, metaphorical statement
* he'll be alter but, as he put it, "just,

* Kappens wherr interesting characters
. hre placed in a situation that wil.

nce, And-lastyear:The-D.B, o0F

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"fis Project" Was done -in-acréadingt -
"during- te 'Cricket Theater's jate -

night works-in-progress seties. It
worked well enough thal the Cricket
is presenting it on its main stage be-
ginning Friday through May 5, under

The play; like most of Orlock's to

people in a situation, a look at what:

neck them around. E never start <
tay saying, 'I want to say this,' It's
eadly. What really makes me-
cringe ls when a playwright uses the'
title of the play as a metaphor in the
play, you know, here comes the-
Streetcar Named Desire. [I look for
character. and et metaphors find
themselves through them," *

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OEE hausvoened Anaeewor seas .

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Orlock's characters tend to be based *

on historical fact, then shot through!
with the writer's Imagination. His
"Indulgences in the Louisville Har-
sem," one of last year's hits at the:

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ence, If you can make them: laugh
they'll follow you anywhere, right
through logic into areas you could
"never get them to follow you normal-
_ ly. You simply can't bore an andi-
ence and move them too. I'm leara-
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"Ecrieket, fealured a mesmerist from
the International Institute of Science
and Populism. The mesmerist, it
turned out, was mute and had to be
accompanied by a friend who said
all his werds for him though the
ideas behind the words, we were as-
sured, were the mesmerist: .

He has also 'written plays about a
Man who played the organ in a Bos-

+ ton subway station and about the.

> Golden Girl, the first female baton

twirler to march with a college

. Marching band. His latest play, re-

- cently given in the Cricket's works-

_ in-progress series, "Revolution of the

eavenly Orbs," is about a 12th-cen-
' tury French cathedral builder.

wane

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and Costello lately," he said, "It's
just absolutely primal, basic materi-
al, beautifully built. The "Who's en
First?' sketchy fs to comedy what
Bach is to music, I also watch old
television series, like Set. Bilko. It
was well written formally and just
needs a content injection. And T tove.
Moliere. take rd ; ° -
"What I'm alter is "situational com- .
edy, the kind that builds from char-
acters to the point where the audi-
ence finally says 'Oh, no, he isn't
really going to do that!" It takes a bit
more time to build those situations
as opposed to just joke humor, but ,
it's so much richer."

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this, his first musical. In fact, in th, .

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said, "but I haven't composed much. '

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some commercial Work, but not
much, The 'one song last year in

'Louisville Harem' was my first the-

ater song. J don't think I can really
describe my style. I look for theater
music, songs that are scenes in them-
selves, I Hxe a Jot of early Kurt Weill

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Ofiock is a native of Philadelphia
and has taught at both Penn State
and Boston University. He set out to
become an actor and director but
about nine years ago took a playwrit-
ing course that showed him to be a
writer of some skith He soon won a
Shubert Playwriting award to siudy
at Penn State, where he wrote his
first fulldength play,

— perfect," ethereal flying }
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"} felt the great satisfaction of hear-

ing an audience respond," he said,
"and found out how nice that could
be. 1 wrote only off and on for a
while but I was getting more and
ore reinforcement and finally }
ante 1973, when I began 'D.B. Coo
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cause he was fired of-teaching anc

promising. He and his wite loaded uy
@ U-Haut and breezed into Minneap-
.olis on Labor Day. He spent the first
year selling calcutators at Dayton's,
by day, teaching theater at the Guild;
of Performing Arts at- night, He
wrote and directed a few shows'
there and finally, a year ago,:was
named a playwright-il-residence wat
the Playwrights' Lab. 1 OO

lt is a very, very useful program,"

ighl=Fd-Hke=to~ present this" work}

And then? work'on itandisée Howitt «yi: ,
plays. Out of thie Lab Work I can hear

the piece, rewrite it and work it out.
I sti Hke fo work this. way. Th:
Cricket's' works-jn-progress series |
has worked out the same way. It's;
very nice way to bring a play along')

Starting next tail, 'Orlock will "bee
come the Cricket's literary manager
in charge of reading new, scripts,
helping with play Selection and, of
1, COUTSE, writing... 0. wis we, gt
tee 'hm os Sa
"Above ail," he said, "it, will. be a.
Steady salary. EN phase out 'most of
my teaching and be able to concen-
trate on professional theater. In fact,
until they asked me to take that posi-:
tion I had seriously thought about go--
ing back to college teaching. just to
put bread on the table. 1 wasn't too.
happy with those prospects. Belleve
me, lt feels niuch better. to be in the
theater,'* i Ss >
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"The D.B. Cooper Project," in its} "was to gain 'a few fast grains of

jjremiere production at the Cricket
'Theatre, is a work of unique dra-
inatic imagination that boggles
most conventional assessments. ..!
. Even when John Orlock's "musi-
cal fantasy" goes amiss, it still con-
tinues to add up small points
toward an impressive theatrical
and emotional totality. .«. ~..
The very concept is enough to
make most of us shake our prosaic
heads. Many playwrights could
come up with some grabby story
ideas about D.B. Cooper, the pseud-
onym for the 1971 hijacker who
parachuted from an_ airliner over
Washington state and disappeared
into legerid with $200,000 in as yet
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characters? And interspersed. with ~

poignant or funny little songs?'

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faith that Orlock's off-beat idea
somehow works: It is grabby pre-
cisely because-it does not try<to

grad, Or pander to our dramatic ex-

pectations, Wisely-keeping it
small, almost the seed of an idea,
the author has created something
able to grow and spread in any di-
rection our own imaginations are
able to follow.

Orlock took his text from a let-
ter signed "D.B8. Cooper" that was
sent to several newspapers a
mouth after the crime. The writer.
(whoever he was) denled being a.
professional criminal ('I never
even got & parking ticket') but
said: "I am no modern day Robin
Hood," and added, "Unfortunately,
I do have only 14 months to live."

The letter speaks of.a life thnt

ad been filled with "agony, tuy-
no}l, hate and more hate" and ck-

peace of mind." Los

It is the person who would have
written such a letter: that fasci-
nates Orlock. Happily, he was not
influenced by the sensational my-

thologizing of the crime in con--

structing his imagined character.
_ His chief interest centers on what,

"in terms of ordinagy American life,.

some average man would regard as
"agony, turmoil and hate," what
he might consider "'peace of mind"
in facing an early death, even what
image ofa "Robin Hood" he felt
honor-bound to reject. -

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mundane figure of Agron Tarkus,
who runs a failing gas station in
Camden, N.J., is unhappily and

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Orlock's 'amusing .and-original,
"Indulgences in the Louisville Har-

m" was a hit last season at.th

Cricket, but this new play, by tri
umphing over its very imperfec
Stions,-reveals & growing depth
sensitivity and awareness that true
drama is created inside characters
'and to the degree that they are giv-
ei functional human reailty and di-
mensions. a ar
It is these qualities that confer
interest and a'strangely urgent sig-
nificance on the unpromising Aar-
on Tarkus and his dreary associ-
ations~-not 'as some fatent
superman but as a Joe ,Doakes
whose. hurts and hopes are as im-
portant to him as those of any
'towering dramatic characters.
In the amazing hands of Don
Amendolia, 'Aaron almost imper-
ceptibly emerges from a negligible

"stature, however misguided, in hjs

=American Dream) into "somethinet -. -
-tifke Epic pathos. He acquires ocd} "

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ate and even if it is wrong. In the
rocess, in extremity, we see the
unrecognized (or defeated) better:
_. feelings and possibilities that had ~~

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man troubles.

Fred Thompson is Aaron's busie.
ness partner and original "brains"
of the hijack scheme to break them
out of their circular hopelessness.
Clive Rosengren is the other loud-
mouthed boob, equally unlikely for
such high enterprise.

Mildly surreal staging devices
establish the fantasy tone: All the
props (ocer cans, eating utensils,
"things") are twice life-size; the
people wear ghastly bargain-base--
ment garments in clashing colors
and patterns; revolving backdrop
panels tnject them into changing

times and places. ,

I found the music only sporadi-
cally effective. "Betty's Waltz,"
sung by Jane Murray, broke my
heart as Aaron's wife mourned
dead love over a box of face pow-
der—the long-ago last gift he had
given her—"bought on saie." "This
Is My Sister" is delightful comic
patter, the roommate complaints of
sexy Camtlie Gifford and "'plain-
Jane" Dolores Noah—unwittingly
involved with the hijack plotters.

Too many of the numbers, how-

ever, seemed irrelevant padding,'
and not interesting enough as sepa--
rate songs. Perhaps intentionally
(to avoid slick ''musicat" lyria
cism?); most were played in the
wreng key for individual singers,
making the voices unmelodious
and words often uninteltigibie. :

But, a gritty truth and deeply j
moving humanity cut through both
the usefully distancing whimsy

-and the unneeded artifice to mak¢

"D.B. Cooper" a rare theater expe}.

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SAC, Seattle (164-81) (P) ' 6/13/78

Director, FBI (164~2111)

NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE

Reurairtel dated 5/23/78.

Enclosed as requested is one copy of the videotape
of Alan Lansbury's production, "Still At Large."

Since this is one film in a pilot series to be
aired in the future, it should not be shown to other than
FBI personnel. When finished with videotape, return to the
Bureau, Attention: Public Affairs Office.

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releases as well as all newspaper
in Portland's NORJAK file.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) DATE? 12/29/76

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On 12/28/76, ASAC | _ | Portland Division, 8
telephonically advised that the Bureau had authorized coopera. 7°
tion with the Allen Lansburg Productions in order that the
firm could produce a 30 minu film based on captioned matter.

stated that the authorization included an interview

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lat the Lake Merwin site and were proceeding to that
area for these photographs and| Iwas advising this °

office since the area is in the Seattle Division territory.

| advised that they would next be coming b6
to Seattle to obtain additional information and one of the bIC
jtems they desired to see was the transcript, made of the tapes
between the control tower and the pilot at the time of the
hijacking. stated that the AUSA in Portland had
refused to granG them permission to hear the actual tapes, but
felt that they could be shown the transcripts of these tapes.

On 12/29/76, 1 was contacted by| }Allen b6
Lansburg Productions regarding this matter at.which time he was »7¢
advised that I had not received anv approval from FBIHQ to furnish
him with any information and stated he would call back.

I then telephonically contacted | | External 6

to the extent that it would not interfere with the investigation
or jeopardize any prosecution.

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time he advised he desired to review the transcripts of the tape ®7¢
of the conversation between the control tower and the pilot
and that he intended to use portions.of these tapes in the wee

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contacted the Minneapolis FBI Office and advised that
on 12/12/76 she received _a call from an individual who
identified himself as of Warner Brothers +
Studios, Los Angeles, California, | | toid
"that Warner Brothers was doing a film on highjacking
and D, B, COOPER and wanted | lto_ come to California
to look me pictures of COOPER, | advised
to ipol at sone» her that Warner Brothers Studios knew
who \ a was, | ladvised that she did not cooperate

with and she does not intend to contact him in
California. | lthought that the above call-may be
a prank, but thought it should be reported,

[ is still a stewardess for_Northvest b6
Airlines an

she maintains a residence at_ DX b7C
| San Diego, California, in addition
in' Minneapolis,

This matter is being submitted to Seattle for
whatever action deened appropriate,

Copy being sent to Los Angeles in the event
contact is necessary at Warner Brothers Studios,

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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2121) 'DATE: 12/20/76

FROM ; SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) Le" 4
SUBJECT: NORJAK ¥

On 12/14/76, Mr.| | Chief of Investich® per FAA/FBI
tions, Air Transportation Security Division, Regional of£fi®'S,
FAA, Seattle, Washington, telephonically advised that earlier
that day he received a telephone call from
xepresenting Allen Landsburg Productions, Inc., Los Angeles,
California, their telephone number 213~273-7400, requesting
cooperation of the FAA in doing a production on D. B. COOPER.

| Jexplained they are going to do a featb® per FAA/FBI
of .some type, entitled "Still At Large" which would incluch'7¢
the saga of the D. B. COOPER hijacking of 11/24/71.

| Jexplained that they would like to inter-
view the FAA Air Traffic Controllers and do some "shooting"
in the FAA facilities at Seattle-Tacoma International Air-
port in connection with that story.

. * b6 FAA/ FBI
Mr. advised that he referred | tere "e /

their Public Affairs Office at_the FAA Regional Office,
Seattle, and in addition, Mr. also referred the matter
to Mr. | | Director of Civil Aviation Security
Services, FAA, Washington, D. C.

Mr.[__| advised that it is a standard procedur>S per FAA/FBI
of FAA that if any request is made to them along this Line®'°
that, where it is a commercial matter and obviously for
profit, that they require that before any interviews are

* conducted that the FAA be furnished with a complete list of
all questions and topics which would be asked.

Me. later advised that FAA has taken the b6 per FAA/FBI
stand that, since this matter is a pending investigation }7C¢
with the PBI and particularly in view of the recently handed
down indictment at Portland in the D. B. COOPER case, they
will not honor his request.

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operation with Clark and Cowlitz counties but his department would
He inquired re- FBI cooperation in the filming and
was advised that FRI (location unknown) had been contacted and
refused to cooperate on basis this was pending case.

matter,

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NOR JAK

This date

| Cowlitz County, SO, Kelso, Washington ~ °§

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| made separate tapes and had

separate interviews with the following newspapers, radio
and TV stations concerning the D.B.COOPER case on November

24, 1976. It should be noted that ABC, NBC,

New York, are listed separately since they interviewed
separately, and results of these interviews were picked up
by many of their affiliates 'whose identity is not known.

NEWSPAPERS:

"Daily Olympian"
"Seattle Times"

"Seattle P-I"

"Bellevue American"
"Oregon Journal"
"Chicago Tribune"
"New York Times"
"Bellingham Herald"
"Tacoma Tribune"
"Spokane Review"

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NITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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ALL AGENTS ' DATE: 10/27/76

C,

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PRESS MATTERS

For the past several years, the FBI, like many
other Governmental agencies, has had an "open door" policy
with all members of the news media, with the result that
each Division now has a Special Agent who operates as that
Division's news media relations man. It is his responsi-
bility for establishing and maintaining relations with all
news media personnel and to handle all routine inquiries.
The Bureau has instructed that whenever an inquiry is
received from a newsman, whether or not this particular
reporter has or has not written favorable or unfavorable
articles about the Bureau, he should be treated as courteously
as possible. Naturally, if the person is inquiring about
policy matters, the inquiry should be referred to the SAC,
or in his absence, the ASAC,.

With regard to matters pertaining to pending inves-
tigations, future arrests or major cases, there appears to be
some confusion, therefore, for the purpose of clarification,
I would like to point out the following:

1. Roytine inguiries in Headquarters City should
be directed to SA (News Media Representative™
for this Division}, and in his absence the SAC or ASAC.

2. Routine inguiries at Resident Agencies are to
be handled by the Senior Resident Agent unless it is a case
that has received some notoriety or is going to get an inor-
dinant number of inguiries, then it should be referred to
Headquarters City. The Senior Resident Agent is the only
person authorized to talk with the press, and he should make
certain that any statement is in accordance with current
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3. Whenever a case Agent has an investigation of
any consequence or a major incident occurs, i.e. shooting,
arrest of well-known figure, it is his_responsibility to
promptly notify the SAC, ASAC, and gato din order that
all inquiries can be properly handled. The case Agent should
not hesitate to notify the above, even though the incident
occurs over weekends, holidays, or after normal working hours.

4. Case Agents are not to offer opinions, state-
ments, or speculations about cases when they are approached
by members of the press during or after investigations.

Concerning the above items, it should be pointed
out that the D. B. COOPER case is receiving a great deal of
publicity because of the approaching anniversary date of the
hijacking. In order that the FBI can speak in "one" voice
about this case, it is important that .all press inquiries be
referred to headquarters. This is to avoid inconsistencies
such as individual Agents speculating about what might have
happened in the COOPER case and these inconsistencies being
pointed out by the members of the media.

I again want to point out that the FBI's policy with
the press has been established by the Director and has been
approved by the Attorney General. This policy is general in
nature and common sense should dictate in most instances how a
particular incident should be handled; however, the above
guidelines are being reiterated at this time. If there is any
doubt in your mind about how to handle a particular situation,
it should be resolved in favor of immediately notifying the
SAC, ASAC, or news media representative.

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It is becoming mparent that the news media interest
in this case is building because of the possibility of
the Statute of Limitations running out in November, 1976.
It is anticipated that numerous inquiries will be received
by the Seattie Division concerning captioned matter. This
includes inquiries at Resident Agencies. ,

In order for us to maintain a consistent posture it
is recommended that all inquiries be referred to the Case
Agent or the Press Relations Agent or the ASAC or SAC.

In this way, no confusion should arise because of conflict-
ing information being disseminated to the press.

If this policy is approved, the writer will set out

the above policy in memorandum form for all agents assigned
to the Seattle Division, including Résident Agencies,

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) DATE: 8/17/76
FROM : SA
SUBJECT: NORJAK

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was calling long distance to obtain information concerning

captioned crime. [___| was advised by the writer that he
could furnish no_information to him in that this was a pending
case. However, was advised that any official infor-

mation that could be released would have to be done by the

Special Agent in ner of the Seattle Division or the Press

Officer, |

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available to

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contacted regarding the possibility of acain pudlishing
the sorial numbers of the oxutertion money roceivad in this
racter.

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that due to the oroduction arotlems involved it vas sim>ly
not possible to assist with this ocroject. In cach instance
they stated they did not vis h £0 appear uncooperative and
that they trould bo nast hanwy to pualish any furthor

information ragarding the possibility of revards or other
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with Assistant United States Attorney | |} he
advised that a had written him stating that

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opinion concerning the statute of limitations in this crime.

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Tne above information is being included for complete-

ness of the file only and to have a record of[ _] in NORJAK
indices.

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To: SACS, Seattle (164~81)
Las Vegas (164-60)
Los Angeles (164-797)
Portland (164~41)
San Francisco - (164~220)

From: Director, FBI (164-2111)

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Representatives from receiving offices were in
attendance at the Norjak seminar held at San Francisco,
4/8-9/76, where a suggestion was made to institute a pub- .
licity campaign for release in early November, 1976, widely
publicizing' a reward for any twenty~dollar bill turned in
from the ransom list published in various media periodicals
and possible local newspapers. This suggestion was approved
at FBIHQ and efforts to initiate appropriate groundwork
steps are now being taken. .

Receiving offices should, at this time, contact
IMajor newspapers within their Divisions in an effort to
determine if first they would particpate in this publicity
venture by printing. on a one-time, daily, or weekly basis.
the list of ransom bill. serial numbers and second if they'
agree to printing these, is there a particular form in
which the numbers could be provided to facilitate easier
printing of same. Newspaper officials should be advised
that calls from individuals concerning the fact that they
possess a twenty~dollar bill of interest will be directed

to the nearest FBI Office.

Seattle should immediately set out leads for

Minneapolis to contact officials at Northwest Airlines
in an effort to determine their interest in possibly pro-~-

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HUNT STILL ON FOR D. B. COOPER

The fact that the hunt is still on for
the skyjacker known as D. B. Cooper
whose story was told in the August
Issue of MISSING, became apparent
recently when Jerry A. Cooper, 2
Virginia man, learned he was being
investigated by the FBI as possibly
being the mystery man.

It is not surprising that Jerry Cooper
was suspected of being the skyjacker.
Jerry, a 30-year-old heavy equipment
operator, was a sport skydiver for
about eight years until he gave it up
five years ago. And at one time he
worked as a fueler at Washington
National Airport where the hijacked
Northwest flight originated four years
ago.

"You come right down to it, the guy is
almost the same as me. The same
weight, same height, same coimn-

plexion." Jerry said when interviewed
by reporters, "You put glasses on that
mian and look at me four years ago and
you're pretty close.

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shorter then. The ears are the same.
It's scary."

The skyjacker who bailed out of the
Northwest 727 somewhere between
Seattle and Reno on the night of
November 24, 1971, was described by
witnesses as being about six feet tall,
186 pounds with dark hair and com-
plexion. He was thought to be bet-
ween forty and fifty years old, but
the resemblance is startling as shown
in the photographs below,

At last report, the FBI was still inves-
tigating Jerry Cooper's whereabouts
on that Wednesday, four, years ago,
but Michael A. Morrow, the assistant
special FBI agent in charge of the
Alexandria, Virginia office said, "We
feel very certain that he isn't D. B.

Cooper, but until we are one hundred _

per cent sure we'll keep checking."

Jerry's comment was, "D. B. Cooper,
come out of hiding and get me out of,
this!"

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Southern California Headquarters
231 West Haloid Road
RIDGECREST, CALIFORNIA
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Attached is the August issue of the magazine

"Missing" received unsolicited by the Seattle
Office. Seattle has no knowledge of this

magazine, which is published at Atlanta, Georgia.
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of the article on the D. B. Cooper case.

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'MISSING is published quarterly by tnter-
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30305. Subscription rate Is $10 for 12
issues. August Issue distributed July 11,
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pending at Atlanta, Georgia.
© COPYRIGHTED 1975 by

INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS. INC,
All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole
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THE NATIONWIDE MAGAZINE OF MISSING PERSONS

August ,1975

Volume 1, Number 2

4 MAIL

7 D.B, COOPER, WHERE ARE YOU?
The only skyjacker that parachuted and escaped discovery and prosecution

remains a mystery. 2
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11 IS YOUR TEEN-AGER A POTENTIAL RUNAWAY?
An insight prepared by a leading clinical psychologist could help avoid a
tragedy.

13. THE FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
An organization that specializes in giving strength to families under stress.

14 THE FBI TEN MOST WANTED FUGITIVES
A listing of those most wanted this month by the FBI.

16° THE MISSING "EAGLE EYE" PHOTO QUIZ

17 LISTINGS OF MISSING PERSONS
Photos and descriptions—where last seen—occupations and clues on
missing persons,

34 SOME MISSINGS ARE MISSING MILLIONS
: Lost and missing heirs to thousands of probated estates are beneficiaries
of millions of doflars.

*35 MESSAGE CENTER
Last minute up to date short stories about missing persons, lost and found.

41 MISSING MESSAGES .
Short line communications to and from missing persons.

46 INDEX OF MISSING PERSONS :
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Three and one-half years after
he parachuted from a North-
west Airlines Jet, the skyjacker
known as D. B. Cooper and the

$200,000 in ransom money are
still MISSING.

Who is he? Or who was he? And why
with all that is known about him, and
with all the resources at their com-
mand, has the FBI not been able at
least to identify, if not locate him?
According to Mr. Tom Harrington,
Information Officer for the FBI in
Washington, the investigation is on-
going, the files are still active, and the
FBI believes that someday they will
bring the case to a satisfactory con-
clusion. But if they have any new in-
formation, they are not revealing it.

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While there are a number of con-
tradictions in the story as it has been
told in the various news media at the
time and since, the facts according to
the FBI and other authorities are
these.

Boarded Flight at Portland

There were no hijacking precau-
tions being taken at any airports in
1971, when on November 24, the day
before Thanksgiving, an average
looking man wearing dark glasses
purchased a seat on Northwest Air-
lines Flight 305 from Portland,Oregon,
to Seattle, Washington. He gave his
name as Dan Cooper, but later the
media picked it up as D. B. Cooper
and that is the name that he has con-
tinued to be known by. It was a one
way ticket from the twenty-five min-
ute flight and he boarded the Boeing
727 along with thirty-six other pas-
sengers that afternoon. Flight 305 had
originated in Washington, D. C. and
made stops in Minneapolis, Great
Falls, Montana, Missoula, Montana,
and Spokane, Washington, before ar-

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riving in Portland. It was to terminate
at Seattle.

The crew consisted of three pilots,
Captain William Scott, Flight Officer
W. (Bob) Ratacazak and Flight Offi-
cer H. E. Anderson, and three
stewardesses, Tina Mucklow, Flor-
ence Schaffner and Alice Hancock.
Shortly after takeoff, the man known
as Cooper handed a note to Stew-
ardess Schaffner.

"T thought he was trying to hustle
me,' the stewardess said later at a
press conference. "I stuffed the note
in my purse and he motioned that I
should read it"

The note said he had a bomb and
wanted to go to Mexico. When she
looked up he showed her a briefcase
with red cylinders that looked like
dynamite connected by wires. Follow-
ing his instructions, she sat down
beside him and wrote down instruc-
tions to the pilot.

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dollar bills delivered to him at Seattle
in a laundry sack along with two sets
of parachutes. Otherwise he would
blow up the plane.

According to Bill Hawkes, assis=_
tant chief in the Seattle-Tacoma Air-
port Tower, the first indication they
had of the trouble was when the cap-
tain radioed he had "a little trouble
in the cockpit? While the plane
circled Seattle for two and one-half
hours, the $200,000 in twenty-dollar
bilis was collected from several
Seattle banks and the parachutes
were obtained from nearby McCord
Air Force Bage. The hijacker refused
to let the
plane land until
the money, the
parachutes and
a fuel truck were
ready and waiting.

Newspaper accounts say
that during this time
Captain Scott
negotiated
with the hi-
jacker. But
from later
Teports it seems evident/\ that there
was little negotiation on Cooper's
part. He wanted the money, the para-
chutes, and transportation to Mexico.
When these were ready and waiting
he would allow the airplane to land
and park in a remote section of the
airport to be refueled. Then, when
the money was on board, the passen-
gers and two of the stewardesses
could deplane; after which, they
would depart immediately.

Captain Scott apparently did not
alarm his passengers. Later Assistant
U. S. Attorney Larry Finegold, one
of the passengers, told newsmen that
they were informed by the crew that
there were some minor difficulties.

"Then we saw they were dumping
gas and I thought there was some
landing gear problem," Finegold said.
"After we landed, I saw this gas truck
drive up and | thought to myself,
'Why don't they get us off first?' I
then saw the money bag being handed
over and I realized that there had
been a hijack."

The plane was parked in a remote

section of the airport and the pas-
sengers were required to walk a dis-
tance to a bus since the hijacker
wouldn't allow the vehicle near the
aircraft. Landings and takeoffs were
delayed while the passengers walked
across the runway to the waiting bus.

Route of Flight Sclected by
the Captain

Reports are a little vague about
the sequence of events but the FBI
firmly states that Cooper's requested
destination was Mexico City. When
he was told by Captain Scott that the
piane could not fly there without
refueling, the hijacker suggested a
stop at Yuma, Arizona. The Captain's*
reply was thateven Yuma was beyond
the range of the 727, but that he could
safely make Reno, Nevada. Cooper
apparently agreed to this
destination

and according to the FBI, allowed the
Captain to select the route of flight.
However at some point in the dis-
«cussion, the hijacker specifically told
the Captain that he was to fly at an
altitude of 10,000 feet, at a speed of
200 miles per hour with 15 degrees of
flaps extended. These conditions
limited the range of the aircraft and
of course Jed everyone to believe
that he had no real interest in Mexico
City but planned to parachute out at
some point along the way. —

After takeoff, Cooper locked the
three pilots and stewardess Muchlow
in the cockpit and remained alone in
the cabin of the aircraft. The Boeing
727 is one of the few commercial air-
liners with a rear exit with retractable
stairs. In the lowered position these
steps are well below the plane and a
parachutist would have no difficulty
clearing the fuselage. The Captain
was instructed to unlock the rear
stairs and leave the cabin in darkness.

There are lights in the cockpit to

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indicate the position of the stairs.
@:: twenty minutes after departure
the Captain became aware that
Cooper was extending the stairs.

"Anything we can do for you?" the
Captain called back over the plane's
interphone.

There was no answer but a few
seconds Jater another light flashed in
the cockpit indicating the ramp was
fully extended. Then Cooper came
on the interphone and answered a
brief, "No" That was the last that
was heard from him.

Approximately
three hours later

when the plane

landed

in Reno,

Cooper, the

money, two para-

chutes, the briefcase

containing the bomb,

some food rations and part

of a third parachute were missing.

The skyjacker had carefully

reclaimed his note from

EE the stewardess

noone -and left no

fingerprints. The ramp was still
extended. :

The Search Begins

Police with dogs searched the
darkened runways of the Reno air-
port, a residential section, and desert
area nearby after the plane landed,
without result. FBI agent Harold
Campbell stated the next day that
there was no way the hijacker could
have escaped after the plane landed.
At that time he speculated that the
man may have parachuted out over
the broad flatlands of the Willamette,
Valley.

Newsmen were hindered by a com-
plete blackout of information from
Northwest Airlines employees. Walter
Hellman, public relations vice presi-
dent, blamed it on the FBI and FAA
saying that Northwest had been in-
structed to make no statements until
the crew had been debriefed.

While agent Campbeil may have
had some doubts about where Cooper

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ser the aircraft, other FBI

agentSupparently did not. According
to FBI Information Officer Harring-
ton, a search was started in the vicin-
ity of Lake Merwin in southern
Washington almost immediately after
the plane passed over. Information
supplied by the crew was reported to
be the reason for this. When ques-
tioned specifically about what it was
the crew reported that convinced the
FBI that Cooper had jumped in this
area, Harrington was vague. However
it was definitely established that at
8:10 that night the 727 passed over the
Lewis River oti federal airway V-23E
and that this was the time immediately
after the hijacker had fully extended
the stairs. Harrington states that the
plane was in solid cloud at the time.
Other reports indicate that the Air
Force had scrambled interceptors to
follow the airliner, but because of
darkness, or the clouds, or both, they
never saw a man leave the airliner.
At the Portland International Air-
port, approximately 30 miles south,
the weathermen were reporting a
ceiling of 2500 feet overcast with
rain. Winds at the aircraft's altitude
of 10,000 feet were reported to be
from the West-Southwest at 25 to
45 knots.

Believing that Cooper had jumped
somewhere near where the airway
crosses the Lewis River (at about the
Lake Merwin Dam), the FBI trans-
formed the nearby town of Woodland,
Washington, into a command post.
Agent Tom Manning was put in
charge of a small army of police,
FBI agents, Sheriff's Deputys and
soldiers from Ft. Lewis, Washington.
They spent all of that Thursday,
Thanksgiving Day 1971, combing a
section approximately ten miles wide
by fifteen miles long, both north and
south of Lake Merwin with planes,
helicopters, jeeps and tracking dogs.
The weather was bad with intermit-
tent rain and fog and this hindered
the search. At one point, the Army
called off its helicopters, but other
helicopters provided by Weyer-
haeuser, the lumber company, and
the Bonneyville Power Administra-
tion continued making intermittent

. passes over the area. Much of the
area is rugged terrain and the freshly
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fallen snow made it
impassable.

The search resumed on Friday, but
by now police doubted that Cooper
could have survived.

"We're either looking for a para-
chute or a hole in the ground,' Under-
Sheriff Tom McDowell of Clark
County was quoted as saying. After
a week the search was called off.

Then, late in March, 1972, 300
soldiers from Ft. Lewis searched the
thawing terrain for 18 days. They
found no traces of Cooper although
they did find a body and cleared up a
Jocal murder.

What happened to him? And what
happened to the bag of money which
was reported to be 6"x8"x27" and
weigh 2414 pounds?

virtually

Four Theories

While there has been much specu-
lation all theories fall into one of four
basic categorys: :

(1) He bailed out where the FBI

thinks he did and got away before the
search started.

(2) He bailed out where the FBI
thinks he did and is still therg, hung
in some remote tree or possibly at
the bottom of Lake Merwin.

(3) He bailed out elsewhere and
got away.

(4) He bailed out elsewhere and
did not survive.

Let's examine each of these in turn.

No one seems to give much
credence to the first theory. If FBI
agent Harrington's statement is cor-
rect and the search was started im-
mediately after the plane passed over
the area, Cooper could hardly have
landed, hidden his parachutes (or
taken them with him) and gotten out
of the area with his bag of money
without attracting attention. It was
raining and even if he was lucky
enough to come down on a paved
road, he could not have hitched a
ride without the incident being re-
ported. And what did he do with the
parachutes? Could he have had a car
or an accomplice with a car waiting
for him? This is a good possibility,

Search—A Helicopter takes off from search headquarters on Friday, November 26, 1971, as Clark
County deputy sheriff Rob Rayburn checks a map of the arca where the FBI thought Cooper

Jumped. (World Wide Photos}

Crew of Northwest Airlines Flight 305. Left to Right, Second Officer H. E. Anderson, First Officer
William (Bob) Ratacazak, Captain William Scott, Stewardesses Tina Mucklow, Florence Shaffner
and Alice Hancock. (World Wide Photos)

butif he did, how did he know exactly
when and where to jump to meet
this accomplice in time to get away
before the hunt started? While he did
not specify the route of the flight the
plane was to take, it is possible that
he knew that for the airliner to fly to
Mexico City, Yuma or Reno, at an
altitude of 10,000 feet, it would have
to take the airway it did, at least as
far as Portland. And it is possible that
he could estimate their position by
knowing the amount of time it would
take them to fly to that point from
Seattle at the speed of two hundred
miles an hour. But even at 200 miles
an hour, the plane was traveling at
better than three miles a minute. To
do all these things and then be lucky
enough to land close enough to his
planned point of landing in that
weather to get away, money, para-
chutes and all, before the search
started would indeed be incredible.

Another point against this theory
is the absense of the parachutes. If
he did indeed come down ina planned
spot and have transportation nearby,
it would seem he would leave the

'parachutes. He had no further need

for them and he certainly wouldn't
carry them if he had to walk any dis-
tance or had to hitch a ride out.
Theory number two is a little more
likely than number one, but never-
the-less seems to have been abon-
doned. From all reports, the searches
that were made, both at the time im-
mediately following the flight, and
the following spring were very

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Northwest Airlines Flight 305 as it sat on the
ground at Seattle Wednesday evening. At this
point the plane is being refucled and in the car
at left, an airline employee walts to deliver the
10,000 twenty-dollar bills and the four para-
chutes. The passengers are still on board but
shortly after this Cooper allowed them to get
off and walk to a waiting bus. (World Wide
Photos)

A letter delivercd on December 2, 1971 to the
Portland Newspaper, The Oregonian. The Iet-
ters were taken from magazines. (World Wide
Photos)

In the months following the hijacking Cooper became a legend in the Northwest—
pictured as a Jone Robin Hood who stole from a giant corporation, hurt no one and got
away. A song extolling his feat became a hit and T-shirts, like the one shown here, sold

by the thousands. (World Wide Photos)
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thorough. Still the possibility es
that the body, the money and all are
still there either in a tree or in the
lake. Clark County deputys who were
questioned about this theory won't
discount it completely. Even though
this area is crossed by state route 503
and is walked over by hunters and
timber men, they say that the under-
growth is dense in places and that a
body might be missed. The shores of
the lake were searched carefully for
any sign of the man, the money or
the chutes and no traces were found.
But the FBI has given up searching,
so they must feel this is no longer a
reasonable possibility.

Theory number three therefore
seems more plausible than one or
two. Perhaps he didn't jump when the
Captain thought he did, but stayed
out there on the extended stairs until
a later time. Perhaps he did wait for
the flatlands of the Williamette Valley
before he took his leave.

But if he did, and if he survived,
what happened to him after he landed.
He still had no way to know exactly
where he was. Therefore when he
came down he would have to leave
his parachutes and either walk or
hitchhike to a town where he could
obtain transportation. According to
the FBI, authorities all along the
route of flight were alerted that night
and it wasn't until the next day that
it became general knowledge that the
search was being concentrated in
the Lake Merwin area. And if he
left the parachutes, isn't it reasonable
to think that they or their remains
would have been discovered by now?

Another factor that supports the
theory that Cooper did not survive
is the fact that none of the money has
ever turned up. The numbers of the
10,000 twenty-dollar bills were circu-
lated to banks in a 34 page booklet
and have been widely publicized by
the Portland Newspapers, the Oregon
Journal and the Oregonian. They
have a reward offer which still stands
of $1,000 for the first twenty-dollar
bill on the list to turn up.

This brings us to theory number
four. Could he have bailed out some-

where other than the Lake Merwin:

area and not survived?

Some months ago when a weath-
ered human skull was found by
hiker in the Mt. Hood National Fores
east of the town of Estacada, it was
thought this might be the remains of
Cooper. But the FBI ruled this out.
First the spot where the skull was ©
found was too far from the flight path
of the aircraft that night and second,
experts think the skull belonged to a
man younger than Cooper is thought
to have been. Detective Worth of the
Clackamus County Sheriff's Office
said that the skull had been in the
woods for at least one year and possi-
bly as long as ten. He believed it was
closer to ten due to the amount of
moss that had overgrown it. While
the fact that a parachute was lodged
in a tree not too far from the skull
gave credence to the theory that this
might be Cooper; Worth stated that
there were several roads between the
two spots and while they have not
gotten the parachute out of the tree,
it looks like the type used for weather
instruments. The two parachutes
Cooper used were both white, while
the third one that he cut up, probably
to tie the money bag to him, was pink.

Still, this theory that he jumped

elsewhere and did not survive is the «

only theory that will fit all the known
facts unless one allows for a tremen-
dous amount of luck on Cooper's
part. No traces of him, the chutes, or
the money have surfaced. They could
still be there, somewhere along the
path of flight 305 that night, south of
the Lewis River, but north of Reno,
hanging ina tree or covered by under-
growth, waiting to be found by some
hunter or logger.

Cooper May Have Been Reported

bas a Missing Person

But if this is the case, why hasn't
Cooper turned up somewhere as a
Missing Person? He gave the appear-
ance of a very intelligent, educated
man. This type of person cannot
usually go missing indefinitely without
being missed, and reported Missing.

Cooper was described as being be-
tween forty and fifty years of age,
with an olive complexion and dark
black hair. He was very relaxed and
courteous according to the crew.
They think he was about six feet tall, -
with a slim build and weighing about
170 pounds. He was well dressed in a
dark suite, dark grey coat and dark
glasses. It is assumed that he was an
experienced parachutist and had
some knowledge of aircraft, possibly
being a pilot himself. Does this de-
scription fit anyone you know or used
to know?

So, we come full circle and wonder
if any of our theories can fit the facts.
Maybe the answer lies in a missing
persons? file in some small county
Sheriff's Office orin some overworked
big city Police Department.

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advised that he has been informed that the ransom list in the
D.B. COOPER case will be published over a period of time in
the pe Country News," Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas.

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section of the ransom list in each edition until they are all
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attention the many articles contained in recent
editions of youx paper regarding the hijacking of ae
a Northwest Orient Airlines flight on November 24,
' 1971. "I take this opportunity to express my deep
appreciation for your thoughtfulness in bringing i
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of your many xeaders. I am certainly gratified .
for the assistance you have rendered the FBI and,
on behalf of By associates, I convey. sincere thanks.
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daily nevspaper, for the weekdays of 11/22-12/14/73,
publicizing the NORJAK cass. In addition to the clippings,
thers are for.arded to Bureau and Seattle the complate front
pages of tna 13/22, 11/23, 11/26 and 11/27/73, editions of
this paper. These pages ars being forwarded in their entirety
to illustrate the prominent front page coverage the "Oregon
Journal" gave this story.

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DONALD W. NYROP, President, Northwest Orient Airlines,
Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota, has authorized a finders
fee of twentyfive thousand dollars total reward, or fifteen
percent =f any portion of the D. B, COOPER ransome money

that is returned,

A man identifying himself as COOPER extorted two
hundred@a@ thousand dollars from Northwest Orient Airlines
on November 24, 1971, while on a flight from Portland
to Seattle. He parachuted into an area east of Woodland,
Washington with the ransom® money and it is possible the
money, which is comprised of ten thousaad, twenty dollar

bills, is still in a> wooded area in southern Weshington,

The ransoma money is marked and ail the bills can
be identified. Mr. NYROP stated on October 5, 1972, in
Minneapolis, that he would not hesitate to authorize a
finders fee of twentyfive thousand dollars total reward
or fifteen nercent for any portion of the ransome money

that is returned.

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The Crime

A lone white male using the name
Dan Cooper boarded Northwest
Orient Airlines Flight No. 305 at
Portland, Oreg., on November 24,
1971. At approximately 3:22 p.m.,
while the flight was en route to Seat-
tle, Wash., he indicated to a stew-
ardess 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, Northwest Orient
Airlines complied with his instruc-
tions. After he received the parachutes
and money, the hijacker allowed all
passengers and two of the 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 hi-
jacker instructed that the plane pro-

¢ a OG 4

The hijacker apparently bailed out
somewhere between Seattle and Reno,
Nev., where, when the plane landed, it
was determined that "Cooper," two
parachutes, and the ransom money
had disappeared.

The Criminal

Artist conception drawings of the
aircraft hijacker were prepared by the
FBI Exhibits Section and are con-
sidered an excellent likeness. He is

described as follows: -
Race..-..------ ee. White.
Sexe aan-eaenn-e- Male.
Age.----.--.-----. Middle 40's.

Weight--.--.---...
Complexion_....--.

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5 feet 10 inches to 6
feet.
170 to 180 pounds.

"Olive, Latin appear-

ance, medium
smooth.

Dark brown or black,
parted on left,
combed hack.

Possibly brown. Dur-

* ing latter part of
fight he put on

ceed in a southerly direction.and fly at dark, wzp around
a low altitude and slow speed which en- ede wet
abled the rear door of the plane to be yoicen.-pae-ee- Low, spoke intelli-
opened during the flight. / Y_- fa er gently, no particu-

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lar accent, possibly
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section of the
United States.

Characteristicg._.... Heavy smoker of
Raleigh _filter-tip
cigarettes.

Wearing apparel_.... Black or brown suit;

narrow black tie;
black dress suit;
black rain-type
overcoat or datk
topcoat; dark brief-

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case; carried a
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by 14 inches;
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Remarks...-....--. Very polite at all

times,
Notification

Anyone having 'any information or
knowledge believed to refer to this in-
dividual, please notify the Acting Di-
rector of the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation, Washington, D.C. 20535,
or the Special Agent in Charge of the
nearest FBI field office, the telephone
number of which appears on the first
page of most local telephone direc-
tories.

"FINDER" BEGINS
OPERATION

A prdtotype automatic fingerprint
reader sygtem, known as FINDER,"
which utiles advancedgptical scan-
computer to
automatically \glassify, search, and
compare fingerpijuts, is now in opera-

tion in the Identification Division of
the FBI. The Soui ent will permit
the FBI to tést, evaludje, and perfect
on the iol its theories 'gf automatic
fingerp int identification ¥ ee when
fully ,Sperational, will insu greatly
incyéased operating efficiency \gnd re-
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(Payne once starred in a move with actor Ben Cooper,
and remember, you read it here first.)

Dan Cooper has more hair than D.B., the hairline
starting farther down the forehead. The hair is combed
differently, from the front swept back neally to the
right. D.B.'s hair was thin, curly, ant was seemingly
finger-combed straight across Jike a slightly balding

bank teller. ,
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Cu he C- down more prominently at the corners.

His cheek lines are deeper, the chin rounder, the
forehead broader and creased slightly and, unlike D.B..
Dan Cooper appears in new FBI sketches with AND
without the infamous wrap-around sun glasses, reveal-
ing "possibly brown'? eyes.

The FBI in Seattle won't talk about the new Coop-
er, or why one alias was replaced with another, if that
is in fact true, and why suddenly there is, in effect, a
new sttspect in the world's first successful skyjacking.

'Tf you want to write a news story about it," said
an FBI spokesman, "then I have no comment."

The FBI has been in the past going on the theory
Cooper is dead, having been killed during his dramatic
plunge from the low-flying.727 jet possibly in Southwest
Washington, where major search efforts have centered.

Previous theories about how the hijacker got the
name 'of D.B. Cooper were mainly that he may have
selected it at random from the telephone directory in
Portland, where he boarded his dream flight Thanks-
A

There was, and still is, a Dan Cooper listed in the
Portland book. There wasn't, and sill isn't, a D.B.
Cooper listed. (Seattle's 1971 directory had one Dan and
two D.B.'s.) - '

Cooper, who at 3:22 p.m. on Northwest Orient Air-
lines flight No. 305 en route to Seattle, pulled out a
supposedly bomb-rigged briefcase; demanded $200,000
ransom for the 36 passengers and went on to become a
folk hero in absentia — inspiring D.B. Cooper T-shirts
and a ballad even — is now described by the FBI as
speaking: ; .

"Low .. - intelligently (with) no particular accent,
possibly from- the Midwest section of the United
States." , .

The FBI also says he was "very polite at ail
times," as anyone with a bomb and a $200,000 gift
might be. .

Federal agents also now are looking for a new
Cooper that is at least an inch shorter than the pre-
viously reported height of 6-1; he's now 5-10 {0 6-0. _

Some similiarities between D.B. and Dan remain
— age in the middle 40's, white, male. complexion of,
"Olive, Latin appearance, medium smooth," and he is,

. .or was, a "heavy smoker of Raleigh filter-lip ciga-

rettes," the ones with the bonus coupons, ;

_ Last seen, Cooper was cuddling up to $200,000 in
marked $20-bills and four parachutes in the rear of the
727 heading slowly towards Reno, where, the FBI Bulle-
tin explains: ' .

".. , When the plane landed, it was determined
'that Cooper, two parachutes, and ihe ransom money,
had disappeared."

" Which is to say he jumped. an

Into history, maybe into hiding, possibly into his
grave. . .

Whatever, if was his big moment. And somebody
messed up on the name.

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$25,000 reward for recovery of the
$200,000 ransom paid to skyjacker D,B,
Cooper' last November.

The FBI release quoted Northivest
Orient president Donald W. Nyrop as
duthorizing the $25,000 "finder fee" for
recovery of the total ransom, or 15
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Hunters have been alerted to be on
the lookout for game that's bigger than

"deer or elk—like money.

Still pressing the search for skyjacker

- "P.B. Cooper," the FBI has announced

that; the president of Northwest Orient

Ines, Donald W. Nyrop, has author-
izedia reward of $25,000 to the finder of ;
evidence of the missing skyjacker, or;

aiding skyjacker capture

15 per cent of the $200,000 ransom
money the skyjacker is believed to have
patachuted with on Nov. 24, 1971,---

"D.B. Cooper" was the name used by
a man who hijacked a Northwest Air-
lines jet last Thanksgiving Eve, got
$200,000 and four parachutes from the
airline, and then apparently bailed out .
of the plane between Seattle and Reno,

The FBI has indicated the belief that
the man parachuted in the area north
of the North Fork Lewis River and south
of the Kalama River. .

J. E. Milnes, special agent in charge
of the FBI at Seattle, has specifically
advised travelers, hunters and others in
the forested area northeast of Woodland
to watch for the remains of a man, pos-
sibly dead for about a year. Other want-
ed evidence is remnants of a parachute,
harness or parachute shroud lines; a
deteroirated raincoat or overcoat; and
asmalt bricfcase or attache case.

The money consisted of 10,000 twenty-
dollar bills wrapped in a parachute
canopy. All serial numbers are known
and can be identified. "

Persons discovering evidence of fhe
skyjacker+ are requested to call
FHI in Seattle collect. The number
is yode 206, MA 2-0460. y

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Date: LO/L 9/72

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Author: Staff
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| RECORD OF INFORMATION FURNISHED OTHER AGENCIES

Orally By Telephone Written Communication
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Information concerning: C.
NORJAK = letter of SAC re facts and reward a

Suv, Cl
Information furnished from File, Serial, and Page Number:

From SAC letter of SAC dated 10/17/72 setting forth facts re hijacker
and reward

Information furnished was obtained:
*) during course of Bureau investigation
(7) from informants
[7 from complainants or other sources

Information furnished to:

Keos1,Washington PD; Cowlitz County SO; Longview, Washington PD; Clark
Co SO,; Vancouver, Washington, PD; Camas, Washington PD; SOs of Wahkiakum,

Lewis and Pacific counties; "entralia and Chehalis PD and Raymond PD
Number of items disseminated: 12 .

Remarks:

Several copies of the letter distributed to each department to be
disseminated within department for information, Various dates of
distribution.

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Special Agent
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and requested copy of flier being distributed in South-
western Washington offering $25,000 reward for evidence
found pertaining to captioned case, I advised them that
all available fliers had been disseminated but that one

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INFORMATION TO THE NEWS MEDIA IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AREA:

NORTHWEST ORIENT

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AUTHORIZED A FINDERS FEE OF TWENTYFIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS TOTAL
REWARD OR FIFTEEN PER CENT OF ANY PORTION OF THE D. B. COOPER
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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File No. ; . . : i

Dear Sir: "

On November 24, 1971, a man parachuted into the
below described area with $200,000 in $20 bills. If, while
camping or hunting , you should discover any evidence
Offices this skyjacking please contact the nearest FBI

ice.

AREA INVOLVED:

Bound on the West by US 5, bound on the South by
*the Columbia River, bound on the North by the Kalama River,
and bound on the East by the Skamania - Clark County line.

. WHAT TO LOOK FOR: . _

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parachute shroud lines.

(3.) 10,000 $20°bills wrapped in a parachute
canopy, all serial "numbers are known and can be identified.

(4. ) Deteriorated raincoat or 'overcoat.
C5. ) Small briefcase or attache case.

If any information concerning this matter is
discovered, it should be reported to the FBI Office at .
Seattle, Washington,. Area Code 206, telephone MA 2-0460 collect,
or to the nearest FBI Office, which can be found by checking
the front of your telephone directory.

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brush in Cowlitz and Clark counties
this fall may run across evidence of
D.B. Cooper (or whatever his name is)
who parachuted out of a jetliner nearly
a year ago with about 40 pounds of $20

ills :
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contact the FBI if any. of the following

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"hates or parachute shroud lines.- ,

. (3) Ten thousand $20 bills wrapped i in
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ngview, urged anyone having any"
information concersiing this matter to"
. report to the nearest FBI office or call
the Seattle office collect, MA2-0460. .. >
» 'The area where the search is being
éncentrated is bound on thé west by
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'the Columbia River, on' the north Dy:
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a Northwest Airlines jet with 40
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rugged Lewis River drainage country.
Because none of the $20 bills have
turned up anywhere in the country} the
~FBI thinks the money and perhaps
* Cooper's remains are somewher@ in
far eastern Cowlitz County or northern
. Clark County. - fo Sepdgtoep tT
._ The bureau fas "spent thousands of
dollars and employed the services of
hundreds of Army troops in massive
searches of the terrain around Merwin
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fe Shas never been caught or identified,

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. Hunt continues, tte oS% will keep after the case until either

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Bureau of Investigation .is" tena-">

Gious, read.the story elsewhere-in to- -
_ dayés edition asking hunters te be alert >
for either "D. B. Cooper' or the $200,
"000, he bailed out of a Jelliner_ with"

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On September 27, 1972,| |
a Vancouver, Washington, phone| | advised that his 6
epartment would disseminate literature about unsub to game bic
wardens for further dissemination to local hunters in the
Lake Merwin Dam area. He advised that he could probably dis~
seninate 1,500 copies of the literature.

On September 28, 1972, SA| was b6
advised of the above information at which time he stated that BIC
he would forward 1,500 copies of the literature regarding the
unsub to the meee Washington RA for further dissemination

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game wardens and subsequent dissemination to local hunters in
the Lake Merwin Dam area.

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ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

. Prior to the hunting season which begins October
14, 1972, and ends November 13, 1972, information and the
artist's composit of unsub, should be provided to Washington
State Game Wardens that handle the area into which the hi-
jacker parachuted,

In conjunction with this, Game Warden —_
was contacted August 22, 1972, and he advised the hunting
season for the sate of Washington will begin and end as
follows: °
Regular deer season: October 14-28, 1972
November 10-12, 1972
Elk season: October 30 -
November 13, 1972
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2, | Battleground, Wash. ,phone

3, [_____] Vancouver,Wash., phone[__]

[| statea that contact in the Washington State
Department of Fisheries for the for the purpose of dissemin-
ating information to persons who might be in the area into
which the hijacker parachuted would not prove very fruitful.

explained that the Department of Fisheries regulate
food fish primarily and, therefore, their wardens are 1peated
along the ocean and the Columbia River and not inland.

stated that all of the above_Washington State Game Wardens
nder the direction of |

Vancouver, Washington, phone| jstated
that information could best be disseminated to game wardens
through

LEADS
SEATTLE

At Vancouver, Washington

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a to determine the feasibility of disseminating
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) 8/24/72
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Enclosed is a copy of the May 1972 Pacific Power &
Light bulletin's story concerning the FBI search for
parachuting skyjacker. This story is being enclosed. for
information purposes only; however, the following quote from the
story is noteworthy:

"The man who boarded the plane in Portland as
'D. B. COOPER! literally vanished into the air that November
night and as this issue went to press nothing new had been
unearthed in the recent search.

"This fact, coupled with a popular theory that the
skyjacker ended up entangled in a tree in blow-freezing
weather and never made it any father, may make looking for

'D. B. COOPER? and the $200,000 ransom a recreational fad on
the Lewis River this summer."

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FBI's Search for Parachuting Skyjacker
No Picnic Around PP&L's Merwin Area

PP&L's Merwin Park could have passed
for a mini-military base last month when
the FBI and the U.S. Army moved in to
resume the search for the mysterious "D.B.
Cooper" who hijacked a Northwest Airlines

event, the FBI contacted Pacific wanting
to renew the search of the rugged, wooded
terrain and use Merwin Park as its head-
quarters. Two weeks later 200 men, nine
helicopters and the support facilities need-

ed to maintain the men and machines of

9127 last November, demanded $200,000 in
the squadron from Ft. Lewis moved into

ransom and parachuted with the money

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Mang? a based on the position of the plane when the what prompted it was not made public, was
Tope ey crew last spoke to the skyjacker over the coordinated with PP&L personnel. Tom
te S87 plane's phone approximately two miles east Selliken, assistant vice president in charge

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of Woodland. Winds between 25 and 40
miles per hour were taken into account in
determining that the hijacker could have
drifted toward Lake Merwin.

A portion of the Company's property and
surrounding area on the Lewis River in
southwestern Washington was searched fol-
lowing the skyjacking but the November
weather hindered the operation.

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of insurance and security, along with Larry
Ouzts, loss prevention engineer; G. Eldon
Drennan, vice president of engineering and
power operations; Stan Piper, division pow-
er superintendent; and Joe Nichols, man-
ager of public affairs, met'with the FBI

to help determine measures that would .

insure the security of PP&L's hydroelectric
dam and property.
Normally open to the public, the park

PICNIC TABLES ON
A HELICOPTER PAD?
Pacific's Merwin Park

StS oy TAP acu 3 a M oe ene Senta sc x :
ST PATE: spe ARN A FANS Gs, Se eed thai 1 Cease ae < with scenes of Army
a BBA Wr NS eS ea era peter cen TATA reo © life—mess tent, mili-
SEATS ET es ER SAR, 3 ATR Ta SF tary vehicles, first aid
psy Ne AN i 5 ¥ z } Res +f truck and helicopters
tes psktga aS YASbS pee — as tho FSI and
A ne bea = Bae 17% Army used the park
SURI AT) Rog tad SS RTS FBS as headquarters dur-
Bese eB me aeapeanes EY jae ing the recent search
SH oy. y, SSIES for "D. B. Cooper,''
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MEASURES TO INSURE security of PP&L's hydroelectric
dam and property was worked out prior to the resump-
fion of the search. Larry Cuzts, left, Joss prevention
engineer, stops at Merwin Park gote to eheck in with
FBI agent.

was closed during the search to guard
against crowds of curious people on the
grounds.

The command post for the operation
where FBI agents coordinated men and
helicopters was set up in one of the Com-
pany buildings at the site. The troops were
bivouacked in the adjoining park area
which also served as a helicopter pad.

The man who boarded the plane in Port-
Jand as "D.B- Cooper" literally vanished
into the air that November night and as
this issue went to press nothing new had
been unearthed in the recent search.

This fact, coupled with a popular theory
that the skyjacker ended up entangled
in a tree in below-freezing weather and
never made it any farther, may make look-
ing for "D.B. Cooper" and the $200,000
ransom a recreational fad on the Lewis

River this summer.
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Transmit the following in

Via

FBI
Dete: August 22, 1972

{Type in plaintext or code)

ALTRTEL ALRMATL
(Priority)
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TO ACTING DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2121) Sieh
FROM SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
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SUBJECT NORJAK .
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-Reference Seattle airtel to the Bureau dated
8/7/72.

the following leads are being set forth for Bureau
consideration and approval:

2 - Bureau
1 = Portland (Info)

In order that this case be given more publicity,

1. Mats should be made of the' artist's conception

, of Unsub so that small publications with limited
funds can feature articles concerning this matter
and include with 'the story a picture of Unsub
without incurring the additonal expense of having
new mats made (Note: - An editor of the Veterans'
of Foreign Wars publication for the State of
Oregon has requested such a mat to print a
picture of Unsub in his next issue),

2. If the artist's conception of Unsub is changed
as suggested in referenced airtel, mats of the
new picture should also be made.

-~ Seattle
N:31b
(5)
16 ¥-El~ SECC
Approved: Sent M Per
Special Agent in Charge U, 8 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1971 ~S1S135

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 0
MAY 32 COTTON

CSA FPMR (41 CFR) 104-118 a
UNITED STATES co@aaenr ; @
TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) . DATE: 5/2/72
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SUBJECT: NORJAK : ( .
At 12:00 noon I called the. Bureau and advised
Assistant Director CHARLES BATES that both subjects were
in custody. I also talked to[ Jand he read the b6
press release and dictated it to a stenographer of this b7C
office. At 12:55 PM| called back and said go
ahead and make the press release at_1:15 PM. He requested
I call Los Angeles and talk to SA| | to
whom they had previously spoken and advise them Los Angeles
could make the release at 1:15 PM also. I didthis.
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Dear Mr. Milnes: *

Many thanks for your kind letter pertaining to the
effectiveness of the Fort Lewis trooperi%o
assisted you in your recent effort. I shall trans~'
mit your remarks to those individuals who par-
ticipated and add my personal thanks for their
efforts. Sorry our search did not produce the
results we were both seeking' "So it goes,

Sincerely,

ALEXANDER R, BOLLING] JR.
Major General, USA ,

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Special Agent in Charge ,
Federal Bureau of Investigation , ;
Pe 1015 Second Avenue °
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Quick apprehension of: the suspects in two back-
to-back airplane hijackings over the weekend is.new .
confirmation of the continuing effectiveness of thie'

'? Federal Bureau of Investigation. Likewise, yester-
day's thwarting of: "a half-hearted amateurish at- '
> tempt at the Portland airport.

More than that, it is a gratifying demonstr ation
that pirating' a 'plane and jeopardizing the lives of
passengér's and crew in order to extort money does _

. not-pay, D. B. Cooper notwithstanding,

'Cooper 'remains the only fugitive who has frus-*
trated federal agents. And none of the money he
extorted has turned up. There is no evidence that
he survived to spend it, but the fact that neither he °

- _« nor his body has been found doubtless inspired imi-
. ,tators who used the same techniques. Hopefully, '
. _ their failure will discourage others who now should

realize that the odds are long against them,

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Air despercidos f face 2 long odds

"he might well have met his fate
in the Southwest Washington wil- -
-derness. At least, not any of the
' marked bills he received as ran; |
séin have turned up.
Thought is being given in'
Congress to. prohibiting airlines.
from making ransom payments -

- doesn't pay to imifate "D. B.
Cooper. " Tf the-truth be known,
"it probably doesn't pay .to be
."D. B. Cooper," either, 78%. :
. Excellent. work by Federal we
Bureau of Investigation and
other law-enforcement agents
resulted in the rapid arrest over) + to hijuckers. We doubt that any
ihe weekend of two suspects in" * sneh haie could be made tcarks
separate extorlion-parachute-hi- able.
jacking escapades modeled on
the exploits of "D. B. Cooper,"
who parachuted out of a hijacked _-
airliner with $200,000 Thanksgiv-
ing Eve after ordering the plane
, '0 fly from Seattle to Reno.
; Of the cight parachuie-hijack-
ing altempts, only the "Cooper" - *-
\I case is listed as unsolved, And

won ord

- In any event; good law-en-
forcement work such as that dis-
played in the recent Utah and
California hijacking escapades

ought to have a stronger deter-
rent effect than any additional
legislation — that and stern deil-
"ing by the courts with all' egn-
victed hijackers.

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Classification:
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 4/7/72
SA CHARLES E. FARRELL

NORJAK
RE: SEARCH & PUBLICITY

At 12:15 PM, on 4/6/72,| | bé
Ft. Lewis, Washington, telephone bIC
} advised that it was his intention
if FBI approval is given, to make a "low keyed response"
to the press to the effect that "we are resuming the
search in the south."

| Jadvised that, since the movement of b6
troops and helicopters from Ft. Lewis to the Vancouver area, bic
would generate press inquiries" he planned to contact the
press on his own iniative, possibly on 4/7/72, to advise them of
the above.

[_Jadvised that the Department of the Army had b6
given its approval and felt that the previous search had bIC
been an excellent training vehicle.

Jwas advised that any clearance would b6
have to come from SAC MILNES who was unavailable at the time b7C
and he requested that when Mr. MILNES was available that

| |be contacted at the above telephone numbers.

After discussing this with Mr. MILNES I called

| |back and said that this was satisfactory. —_

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FD-4 Yim, 12-22-69) 4/4/72
To: SRMECHANICAL SECTIO , @.
Att: PILE sified Lot. 2/11
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ACTION DESIRED

(7) Acknowledge {_] Open Case
Cl Assign Reassign sf} Prepare lead cards
(—] Bring file (=) Prepate tickler
(} Call me {77} Return assignment card
[7] Correct (_} Return file
(} Deadline (ji Seerch and return
()j Deadline passed [_} See me
£_} Delinquent (7 Serial #
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(—7j Expedite [_}Send to
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{77} For information ([] Submit report by
(jHandle ([) Tyee

{_}lnitial & return
(7) Leads need attention

{_} Return with explanation or notation as to action taken.
Bureau is requested to forward to the Seattle
Division, the following:

100 copies of the ransom list

150 sketches each, of

unsub—3 Eis matter,
showing him with and without 'a ASSES: Z_,
SAC OF fo 7] LoD

See reverse side

N4-d/

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SUBJECT:

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 @)
MAY 1682 EDITION a
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO ele Sana me md Re AS ET ee 8 ART UE fhe Si AM aT rete a

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 3/17/72

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Assistant Director BATES called from Divisbn6. He
said that they had a call from the Public Affairs Officer
of the Army.

ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

NORJAK

The Army is sending out to their Public Affairs
officers in the field certain questions and answers which they
anticipate using in connection with publicity in regard
to the search.

Question 1: Is the Army assisting the FBI in its
search for a sky jJacker? Answer: Yes. At the request of
the FBI approximately 200 U. S. Army troops from Ft.Lewis
are asSisting in the search for a sky jacker, believed to
have parachuted in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon, on
the 24th of November 1971. There is a possibility this
sky jacker could have died in his jump. (The Bureau suggested
to the Army ashat they change Portland to LaCenter, Washington)

Question No. 2 relates purely to the justification for
the U. S. Army, which is supposed to be defending this country,
being used in a situation like this and in answer to it the
Army saadithey feel it is justified since kH it came at
the request of a responsible government agency and is related

to their training program.

BATES Gid not give me this verbatim since we would not
be concerned with it.

Thex No. 3 is another Army question which raises
is such support legal and the Army answer is Yes.

BATES suggests that we make no comment other than to
say, Yes, the Army is assisting us in the search and we

have no further comment.
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DIRECTOR, FEI (164-2111) 2/25/72

LEGAT, CARACAS (164~4) (huC)

NORJAK

0: Seattle

Re Bureau airtelis dated 11/29/71 and 12/7/71.

The followin iaw enforcement agencies have been con-
tacted and furnished information regarding captioned matter,

and they have been requested ta be alert to the possible
presence of the unknown subject in their respective countries;

§ — Bureau IBN-S]-

i.- Foreign Liaison Desk

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380 Sp " MAR 4-3 1972

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CAR 164~4

This matter will be brought to the attention of the
above agencies on a regular basis, and any pertinent information
devéloped will be furnished proaptly to the Bureau,

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2/24/72
AIRTEL
TO: DIRECTOR, PBI (164-2111)
FROM: SAC, WFO (164-169) C py :
LKORTAK

Re Air Transport Association of America (ATA):

On 2/23/72,| |

ti, i000 Connecticut _Svenuc, W.U., WC, telephone mumber
Cid extension[ _| was contacted concerning possible -
suspects in captioned matter, Specifically, a discussion
was had with |concerning Unsub's apparent bitter-
hess tovard airlines with the view in mind that Unsub may
have complained to ATA concerning some grievance.

| |was most cooperative and stated he vould
discuss the natter with ATA's Director of the Office of
Enforcenent. He also stated he vas willing to devote an
ATA "Security Bulletin"! to the matter. This bulletin is fur-
nished to. the nation's/major airports and .olso to the
Security Gffices of the 26 largest airlines. Thereafter, its
contents arc discussed : by the various airline Security
Committee Chairmen vith their respective groups. In this
regard, | |was exhibited a copy of the January 1972

2 - Bureau

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DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) . 2/23/72

(464-2) (RUC) Sup-— MM

NORJAK a C

Re Bureau airtel, 12/7/71.

Ransom list has been furnished tol | b6
[_Jand tof | Artist's bic
conception of individual believed to be subject in this case likewise ®7D

furnished to[__]

On, 2/17/72, discussed with
who advised list of ransom bilis

had been widely distributed by| | He stated would promptly bé
furnish Legat any information developed regarding captioned case. b7c
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FILE (164-81) 2/29/72
SAC, SEATTLE

NORJAK

SA | }called from the Burau on 2/29/72 b6
and referred to the Bureau's authorization to distribute bic
a circular letter to law enforcement officers concerning
a missing person as the likely subject in this case.

He said the response has not been received and he
wished the reply to the Bureau be prepared at once.

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: a Re Bureau airtel, to Seattle datea 2/11/72. poo sf
Enclosed herewith are two copies of a proposed Cet

draft of a circular letter to be submitted to all Law enforce~ 7
ment agencies. onl ere

L£ the circular letter is approved, the Bureau is =. has |
requested to furnish sufficient number to each field office 3...

so that it can be disseminated to law enforcement agencies oo.
-within their territory. . ,

Copies of the artist's conception, with and without . 4
glasses, are not being enclosed; however, the Bureau is othe

requested to include these in the letters just prior to the ;
description as set forth. bee : . er

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Refer to Washington, D.C.
Fife No. - *

TO ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES:

On the afternoon of November 24, 1971, a Northwest
Airlines Boeing 727, bound from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle,
Washington, was hijacked on take-off at Portland.

The hijacker who boarded at Portland, and who
threatened to detonate a bomb allegedly carried in his
briefcase, was given $200,000. in used twenty-dollar bills
and four parachutes, when the plane landed at Seattle.

All passengers and part of the crew were then permitted to
leave the plane.

; " The aircraft took off from Seattle, and the hijacker
is believed to have left the aircraft, using the parachutes,
over the southwestern part of Washington State.

The hijacker has not been identified and no trace
has been found of him, the parachutes, or the money.

A composite description of the hijacker and
two photographs of an artist's conception, are set out:

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TO: SAC, Seattle (164-81) Date 2/17/72

ROM: Director, FBI (164-2111)

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Promptly submit your proposal for circular letter
in this case for distribution to all continental police agencies
for potential suspects who are being carried as missing persons
by police agencies, Submit your proposal in accordance
with Manual of Rules and Regulations, Part II, Section 6E,

NORJAK

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1015 Second Avenue

Seattle, Washington 98104
February 23, 1972

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WEST MAGAZINE | BIC
LOS ANGELES HES
Times Mirror Square

Los Angeles, California 90053

Dear |

Reference is made to your telephone cail
this date.

In the event our Los Angeles Office has
not been able to make descriptive data in this case
- available to you, I am enclosing an artist's concep-
tion of the hijacker, one with glasses, one without
and a description which has previously been released
in this matter. '

I hope this will be of some assistance

to you.
"Very truly yours,
_i ~ Addressee J.E. Milnes,
f I~ Seattle (164-81) SpecialMgent in Charge
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SAC, SEATTLE (620) 2/14/72

SPC|

WEST MAGAZINE
Los Angeles Times
MISCEL LANEOUS

| for WEST MAGAZINE,
Tos Angeles Time newspaper, telephonically contacted this
office in regards to a story that his magazine plans on
publishing. advised that he had contacted the
les Angeles office of the FBI and they referred him to
Seattle,

| andicated that his magazine, a supplement to
the Toa Angeles Times newspaper,xware planning a
feature article on the "UNSUB; Northwest Airlines
Skyjacking,"* and any information that could be furnished
the magazine would be apprediated,. re quested
that he be furnished with a photo of the composite
drawing, descriptive data and any other non*classified
information that would assist in writing the article,

Any information to be supplied can be sent ¢/6

WEST MAGAZINE

LOS ANGEIES TIMES

TIMES MIRROR SQUARE

-LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90053

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Director, FBI (164-2111)

February 17, 1972

| | (164-16) (P) bID
NORJAK
Re Bureau airtels November 29 and December 7,
1971.
| | b7D
| advised

on February 16, 1972, that its alerted police districts
have not developed any information to date relating to

the unknown Subject in this case, | |
| jany information

relating to DAN COOPER or D. B. COOPER as described in i
Bureau airtels.

The composite drawing of unknown individual
who used the name of DAN COOPER when he hijacked
Northwest Airlines flight 305, ay ee Bs 8 copy of the
ransom list, have been furnished with the b7D

request that logical inquiries be instituted to identity
the unknown subject.

hould any pertinent information be daveloped
| the Bureau will be advised promptly. b7D

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Seattle)

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Tos SAC, SEATTLE (164-81):
'From: SAC, PHOENIX (164-100) (P)
Subject: \sNORJAK

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\ UNSUB SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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|' ReBUairtel to Albany, 12/7/72, and "Seattle nitel to Butte,
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Enclosed for Seattle are two copies of investigative
insert reflecting investigation within the Phoenix Division,
. ene two copies of an administrative insert.

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PHOENIX DIVISION . . mo
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- Will contact appropriate information to secure photo-
graph of [ land/or any necessary information to bé
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The following investigation was conducted by sa[__] b6

| at Phoenix, Arizona: bIC
On December 6, 1971, a memo to all agents, including

an artist's conception of the unknown subject, was disseminated

in the Phoenix Division regarding the subject's hijacking.
The following investigation was conducted by SA Pe

| |, at Phoenix, Arizona:

On December 31, 1971, a memo was disseminated to each
resident agency within the Phoenix Division requesting that all
parachute clubs and associations be contacted for possible infor-
mation concerning the unknown subject.

The following investigation was conducted by SA[___| ee
|, at Flagstaff, A;izona: c

On December 18, 1971, | Coconino b6
County Sheriff's office, advised that there were no known parachute »7¢
clubs or associations within the area of the Flagstaff resident
agency area.

The following investigation was conducted by SAL___| b6
| at Kingman, Arizona: b7C

Contacts with local law enforcement agencies reveal
there are not any parachute clubs in Mohave County, Arizona.

The following investigation was conducted by SA
at Phoenix, Arizona:

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On December 20, 1971,| | U. S, Parachute b7¢

Service, 6876 East Baseline, Mesa, Arizona, was contacted

regarding captioned matter. He stated the only person he would

consider capable of performing subject hijacking would be a ,
parachutist named However, he advised| was dub. ®

approximately and did not match the description
of the Unsub. lo4-8)- 2ROGF
SEARCHED INDEXED:

SERIA} IZED. FILFD

FEOREEE! 1972

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PX 164~100
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the Federal Aviation Administratio TAA), Sky Harbor Airport, bic
Phoenix, would have a photograph o in the event it was

necessary to pursue this Line of investigation any further.

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knowledge was a in Coolidge, Arizona. bIC

He further advised, however, that | jdid not match the
description of the Unknown subject.

furnished the following list of names and b6
addresses of those persons having parachute jumping clubs bIC
or involved with the clubs in the Arizona area:
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Sky-Hi Pioneers
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(Club: 40th Street, north of Bell Road)
Southwest Aviation
1800 W. Deer Valley Drive
Deer Valley Airport
Phoenix, A;izona
Phone 942-3691
(Owns aireraft used Coolidge/Florence Airport)
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at Ryan Field, Tucson)

On December_21, 1971, and December 28, 1971, attempts
were made to contact} | Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) which met with negative results.

On January 4, 1972, attempts to contact
| met with negative results.

On January 5, 1972, |

4 [____—sid| stated he is the | | for the

U. S. parachute association for the Phoenix-Coolidge, Arizona
area. He advised that the artist's conception of the unknown
subject does rt at all resemble

[) further stated the artist's conception did

not resemble any of those persons known to him that are associated,

with parachute jumping in the state of Arizona. was
given a copy of the artist's conception and was requested to
contact the Phoenix FBI office in the event he encountered
someone that resembled the Unknown subject.

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(Winslow, Arizona, Airport)

biaastate Air-Soaring Club)

i investigation was conducted by
SA , at Phoenix, Arizona:
On January 19, 1972, a memorandum to all Agents

was dissminated throughout the Phoenix Division noting that
all local informants and sources be contacted for information

of lead value concerning NORJAK.

On Janvary 26, 1972,|

stated | |
J} that jumps | |
lin P ix. She advised she is familiar
with a jumper named | but that he in no way, resembles

the artist's conception of the Unknown Subject. She stated
the artist's conception did not resemble any one she is
acquainted with in the field of parachute jumping in the
State of Arizona,

was given a copy of the artist's conception
for future reference. .

(n January 26. 1972, artJanuary 31, 1972, attempts
to contact Southwest Aviation, 1800 West Deer Valley
Drive, Deer Valley Airport, met with negative results.

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2/10/72
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) Ce
FROM: SAC, WFO (164-169) (P) D
NORJAK .

Re WFO airtel to Bureau, dated 1/24/72.

Enclosed for the Bureau and Seattle is one copy
for each of the February, 1972, issue of "Air Line Pilot,"
tas aeenly magazine of the Air Line Pilot's Association

ALPA}. .

Re Air Line Pilot's Association!

On 2/10/72, enclosed Magazines were received by
WFO from ALPA, 1329 E

Street, N,W., Washington, D. C. (WDC). Page 29 of the magazine
contains information and composite photographs concerning
captioned matter.

As previously noted in re airtel, this ~
has a world wide circulation of over 40, 000.

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UNSUB CONSIDERED DANGEROUS.

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(2)- Seattle (164-81) (Ene. DA~*2 Lbd- gl _ pe
~ WFO SEARCHED, UNDEXED eemeenare
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CWH: jh Wy, 1972
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Se, a ey

OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10

MAY 1942 EDITION

GSA Friar (4t CFR) (01-11.6 @

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO =: SAC, SRATTLE (164-81) pate: _2/11/72
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FROM : SA | i
SUBJECT: NORJAK ' - - -
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gn 2/10/72| who is| lot
SA made the following remarks. flives at| bie
' Seattie. tele nhone | He is employed | |
The Regional Manager | | name not known to SA on

issued a memorandum recently to ail his store managers to the
effect that he was aware that D.B. COPPER T shirts and records were

being solid on the open market.

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He decreed that-an

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Wid-tos

ny s tore-.manager whe offered these items for sale
_ would be summarily fired. :

Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan

FEBI 274970
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: DIRECTOR, FBI (164~2111) | 1/26/72

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vi SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) Leb _
; NORJAK C

Enclosed for the Bureau and for Seattle is one copy
each of the January, 1972 issue of the *Parachutist," the monthly
publication of the U.S. Parachute Association.

On page 3 is the artist's conception of the UNSUB,
along with his description, and a notice to contact the nearest
FBI Office if any information is received which might lead to
his identity.

2 - Bureau (Encl. 1)
Seattle (164-81)
~-~ San Francisco
bhe/cad
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¢ ? 2. SER a FILED

81972"

FB} - SEATTLE.

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tof o : pircror, FBI (164-2111) 'Sul ee

'monthly publication of the Air Line PihGts Association (AIPA).

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1/24/72

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FROM: SAC, WFO (164-169) (P) LA Sesr Pe?
ceo ee of Busecrinv
Bvecsrio )

ReBureau teletype to WFO, dated 12/30/71.

Enclosed for the Bureau is one and for Seattle two
copies of the January, 1972, issue of the "Pilot Bulletin," the

Re Air Line Pilets Association:

On 1/7/72,| | ALPA,
1329 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. (WDC), advised that the
"Pilot Bulletin" has a circulation of 31,000 and that the
bulletin is currently being mailed to ALPA members.

It is noted that page 7 of the bulletin contains
composite photographs and descriptive data concerning unsub

involved in captioned matter along with a brief fs) h
was written by

- Bureau (Enc, 1)
'2)- Seattle (164-81) (Ene. 2)//, 7')
1 - WFO

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TO
FROM ;
SUBJECT:

. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT , .

Memorandum . ,

OPTIONAL FORM Hy ' .
MAY 1942 EOITION . « . i

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FILE (164-81) pate: 1/10/72 .

SA DONALD J. STEELE Hue Ed. '
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. NORJAK
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On 1/10/72| | MINNEAPOLIS STAR b6
newspaper, called desiring information on which to base BIC

a story on this hijacking. He desired to know the FBI
techniques involved and the status of investigation.

He was advised that no information along this line could
be furnished to him and he was referred to the Bureau
for such information.

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OPTIONAL FORM NO, 19
MAY 1042 EDITION. '
GSA Fema (4) CFR) 101-116 '

UNITED 'STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) pate; 11/29/71

SA JOHN L KETCHAMN (P)

UNSUB; NWA, Flight #304

Portland to Seattle, 14/24/71 Sov 8 ig

CAA - Hijacking; Extortion °

00: SE | | C.
CIRCULARIZATION .

Doctors )

Most, but not all, State Doctors belong to the Washington
State Medical Association, an organization with 3500 members.
They are located at 444 NE Ravenna Blvd., Seattle. They use a
mailing bureau and have addressogranh plates (small charge for
their service).

Hospitals

Washington State Wospital Assn., 601 Broadway, Seattle,
has addressongraph plates, most hospitals,, but not goverhment
institutions, about 225 hospitals in Assn,

Clinics

Seattle, has a current List of mane 8a La OO POT BIC

Travel Adaents

American Society of Travel Agents has some 200 travel agents

mailing list | ] bé
pond addressogra Printi i
414 Vance 31dq., Seattie,

has the plates at Advance 'Printing, | fut, 2,
PROBATION OFFICERS
State -

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Send anything for distribution to Washington 3) BTS: Probation
Office, West Side Center, P 0 Boxy 1398, Olympia, 98501, there
are about 120 such officers for the state, they will distribute

for you on request, No addressograph plates papemaiting List.
. MCHED INDEXED
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Federal J SPRAY Ay |
] U.S. Conet House, Seattle!

[__]U.S. Curt House, Spokane, 99210, .
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NR 925 WF PLAIN

5239 P M NITEL 1-4-72 ASw .

TO DIRECTOR ,
SEATTLE

FROM WASHINGTON FIELD (164-169)

NORJAKe

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NRE BUREAU TELETYPE TO WFO, DATED DECEMBER TWENTY LAST.
RE AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION CALPA):

ON JANUARY THREE Last, , bac

| ALPA, WASHINGTON, DC, WAS FURNISHED COMPOSITE

PHOTOGRAPHS OF UNSUB ALONG WITH DESCRIPTIVE DATA IN CONFORMANCE
WITH, INSTRUCTIONS CONTAINED IN RELELETYPE. ADVISED THAT

THIS INFORMATION WILL APPEAR IN NEXT ISSUE OF "PILOT BULLETIN"
WHICH WILL BE MAILED OUT WEEK OF JANUARY TEN THROUGH FOURTEEN
NEXT. INFORMATION WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY ALPA EDITORIAL TO

COMBAT QUOTE| | QUOTE TYPE PUSLICITY BEING GIVEN
HIJACKER BY VARIOUS NEWS MEDIA.

ON JANUARY FOUR INSTANT,| [ADVISED THAT HE HAS ve |
INITIATED ACTION TO INCLUDE DESCRIPTION OF UNSUB ALONG WITH
COMPOSITE IN ALPA MAGAZINE, DUE FOR RELEASE FIRST WEEK OF Qube

ENDDPAGE ONE (OLE ES...
SEARCHED eeenen INDEXED 4,
PED serusomns

an 4873

F&I - SEATTLE

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FEBRUARY. THIS MAGAZINE HAS WORLDWIDE SUBSCRIPTION OF
, APPROXIMATLEY FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND.

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UNSUB DANGEROUS. P.

END
VAB
FBI SEATTLE CLR

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OPTIONAL, FORM HO. 16 "4
MAY 1962 EOTTION L . Q
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OSA FeMR (at COR) 10t-11.6

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO SAC (164-81) DATE: 1-11-72

FROM :SA R. BERT CARTER

SUBJECT:UNSUB ;
NORTHWEST FLIGHT 305

Ll~2lm72. ;
CAA-HIJACKING; EXTORTION ;
00:SE: :

On 1-1-72, | |Associated Press Seattle Bureau, Bs

MU2=~1812, Seattle, telephonically advised he now understands .
the name D. 8, hat pe ee on the manifest of.

the plane but that of He would like confirmation
of this, if possible,

He was told that the spokesman for the office, the Sac,
was out of the city. He requested that the SAC call hit or ;
any AP representative on duty on 1-3-72 and advise concerning
the above,

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TELETYPE

TO $2:C WFO
FROM DIRECTOR FBI
NORJAK,

. 12/30/71
PLAINTEXT

URGENT

duet CH

RE WFO TELETYPE DECEMBER TWENTYEIGHT LAST

AND SEATTLE TELETYPE DECEMBER TWENTYNINE LAST AND

BUREAU TELEPHONE CALL TO WI'O DECEMBER THIRTY INSTANT.

BUREAU AUTHORITY IS GRANTED TO PUBLISH ARTICLE IN

PILOTS BULLETIN USING LANGUAGE SET FORTH IN REFERENCED

SEATTLE TELETYPE, GLOSSY PHOTOGRAPHS OF ARTIST'S

CONCEPTION WITH AND WITHOUT GLASSES ARE AVAILABLE AT

THE BUREAU AND SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY OBTAINED BY

WFO. COPY MAILED SEATTLE.

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FD-16 (Rev. $-22-64) : ; , a

Transmit the following in

FBI
Date: 12/22/71

(Type in plaintext or code}

che FBI, and currently "anager of Security for Vons Grocery
Company, 10350 Lover Azusa Road, El. Monte. California,

(Priority)

On 12/27/71, RUDY WEBER, former Special Agent of

advised | J of
the Southern California Grocers Association (SCGA) , would
consider printing the list of ransom money in the ""Grocer's
'Journal", a monthly publication of the SCGA, distributed
'tO most large grocers in Southern California,

On 12/28/71,| lwas contacted and advised
he was very willing 53 print such a list in the "Grocer's
Journal", and stated the next issue is to be publisned

1/10/72.

Mr, WEBER has advised that] |

| Bay Area Grocers Association, Inc. , 4270

PLedmont Street, Oakland, California, telephone
could also be contacted regarding the possibility of having
the list printed in the San Francisco Bay Area trade magazine.

In addition, he furnished the following names and
addresses of similar magazines distributed widely in the U.S,
which might also be considered for such dissemination:

-~ Seattle dub:

S

~ Los Angeles ' 4- the Ft

CHED Mate
exrs/lne sale
(4) JAN $1972")

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NROOS SE PLAIN

2:58PM NITEL 12/29/71 VAB

TO DIRECTOR (164-2111)
WFO (164-169)

FROM SEATTLE (164+8!)

NORJAK.

RE: WFO TEL DECEMBER TWENTYEIGHT, LAST.
RE: AIRLINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION, WASHINGTON, D.C. CALPA>.

REFERENCED TELETYPE SETS FORTH THAT|
ALPA, INDICATED WILLINGNESS TO PUBLISH INFORMATION CON-,

CERNING CAPTIONED MATTER IN MONTHLY PUBLISHED "PILOT BULLETIN".
BUREAU AUTHORITY IS REQUESTED TO HAVE THE FOLLOWING NOTICE PUB-
LISHED IN JANUARY ISSUE OF PILOT BULLETIN:
ENCLOSED IS AN ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF THE HIJACKER WHO EXTORTED
TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM NORTHWEST AIRLINES ON NOVEMBER
TWENTYFOUR LAST. THIS MAN IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
END PAGE ONE

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164-81

RACE WHITE, SEX MALE, AGE MID FORTIES, HEIGHT FIVE FEET TEN
INCHES TO SIX FEET, WEIGHT ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY TO ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY
POUNDS, BUILD AVERAGE TO WELL BUILT, COMPLEXION OLIVE, LATIN APPEAR-
ANCE, MEDIUM SMOOTH;- HAIR DARK BROWN OR BLACK, NORMAL STYLE, PARTED
ON LEFT, COMBED BACK, SIDEBURNS, LOW EAR LEVEL$ EYES POSSIBLY BROWN.
DURING LATTER PART OF FLIGHT PUT ON DARK, WRAP AROUND SUNGLASSES

+ WITH DARK RIMS. VOICE LOW, SPOKE INTELLIGENTLY, NO PARTICULAR AC-
CENT, POSSIBLY FROM MIDWEST SECTION OF THE UNITED STATES. CHARAC-
TERISTIC HEAVY SMOKER OF RALEIGH FILTER TIP CIGARETTES. WEARING AP-
PAREL BLACK SUIT; WHITE SHIRT; NARROW BLACK TIE$ BLACK DRESS SUIT;
BLACK RAIN DASH TYPE OVERCOAT OR DARK TOP COATS DARK BRIEFCASE OR
ATTACHE CASE; CARRIED PAPER BAG FOUR INCHES BY TWELVE INCHES BY FOUR-
TEEN INCHES; (BROWN SHOES. ,

IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION WHICH MIGHT LEAD TO THE IDENTITY
OF THIS INDIVIDUAL, PLEASE CONTACT THE NEAREST FBI OFFICE.

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IF APPROVED, A GLOSSY PICTURE OF UNSUB
SHOULD BE FORWARDED BY THE BUREAU TO WFO TO
FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE BUREAU, THE
SAME AS WAS APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION IN THE
ZINE" AND "SKYDIVER".

SEATILE INDICES CONTAIN NO DEROGATORY INFORMATION CONCERNING
ALPA. WFO ADVISE RESULTS OF INDICES CHECK REGARDING ALPA AND ANY

REASON FOR NOT ACCEPTING OFFER.
END

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WITH AND WITHOUT GLASSES
ACCOMPANY THE ARTICLE.
ABOVE WORDING IS THE
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FROM WASHINGTON FIELD (164-169)

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REFERENCE SEATTLE WITEL TO WFO, DATED DECEMBER TWENTY

SEVEN SEVENTYONE,
RE AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATIONCALPA), WASHINGTON,

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TODAY, ALPA, . on

ONE THREE TWO NINE E STREET, W.i., WDC, ADVISED THAT HIS
ORGANIZATION PUBLISHES MONTHLY "PILOT BULLETIN" FOR ALPA
NEMBERS ONLY AND THAT SAME HAS DISTRIBUTION OF THIRTY

THOUSAND.

| | WAS EXTREMELY COOPERATIVE AND STATED HE —_

WOULD GLADLY INCLUDE UNSUB® S COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPH ALONG WITH
DESCRIPTION OF UNSUB AND BACKGROUND OF GAPTIONED HIJACKE NG
TR JANUARY "PILOT BULLETIN", DUE FOR RELEASE LATTER PART OF
NEXT WEEK. IN ORDER TO BE INCLUDED, INFORMATION AND

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TO SEATTLE

FROM LAS VEGAS 164-66 IP

NORJAK

RE SEATTLE TEL DECEMBER TWENTY LAST.

ALL SOURCES IN LAS VEGAS DIVISION BEING CONTACTED CONCERNING
CAPTIONED MATTER. BANK ROBBERY SUSPECTS PROGRAM REVIEWED FOR

ANY INDIVIDUAL WHO COULD BE CONSIDERED AS SUSPECT IW CAPTIONED
MATTER, NO INDIVIDUALS IN THIS PROGRAM NET DESCRIPTION AND NONE
WHO COULD LOGICALLY BE CONSIDERED AS SUSPECT.

BANKING ASSOCIATIONS AND BANKS CONTACTED RE BAIT LIST AND
COPTES FURNISHED TO THEN, ALL BANKS ARE REQUESTED TO ALERT
EMPLOYEES FOR ANY LARGE DEPOSITS AND/OR EXCHANGES OF BILLS.

NEWSPAPERS IN LAS VEGAS AND RENO CONTACTED RE ARTICLE
CONCERNING LIST OF RANSOM BILLS AND ARE AGREEABLE TO PUBLISHING
SUCH AN ARTICLE. NEWSPAPERS IN NEVADA ARE AT INTERVALS RUNNING
NEWSPAPERS STORIES CONCERNING HIJACKING.

INVESTIGATION CONTINUING.

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TO 3 DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164~81) DAILY TELETYPE
NORJAK.

, TO BANKS AND SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS TO ALERTTHEIR

WEST COAST OFFICES WERE REQUESTED TODAY TO:

ONE, CONTACT ALL INFORMANTS; TWO, REVIEW BANK

ROBBERY SUSPECT PROGRAM WHERE NORJAK UNSUB COULD BE A SUSPECT;

THREE, CONTACT BANKERS ASSOCIATIONS AND REQUEST THEY CIRCULARI2&

EMPLOYEES TO ANY LARGE DEPOSITS OF TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS OR

UNUSUAL SAFE DEPOSIT ACTIVITY; FOUR, ARRANGE FOR PUBLICATION
. LIST OF
IN LOCAL NEWSPAPERS OF THE FACT THAT THE/RANSOM BILLS ARE

AVAILABLE TO THE LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT, BANKS, AND FBI

'OFFICES, TO CHECK SUSPECTED TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS. .

SEATTLE ALSO HAS REQUESTED FIELD OFFICES 'COVERING .

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HEADQUARTERS OF wasorts.8. AIRLINES TO CONTACT THE AIRLINES

TO DEVELOP ANY LIKELY SUSPECTS AMONG THEIR PERSONNEL OR

APPLICANTS, WHO MIGHT FIT THE DESCRIPTION OF THE UNSUB NOTING

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THAT HE TOLD STEWARDESS THE REASON FOR HIJACKING

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- OF AVATLABS ' PANSOM LIST."

PSEVSPAPERS 1y RENO AUD I LAS VEGAS, NEVADA , coltTacTeD,

CONFERNING PO SIBILITY OF PUBLISHING AN APTICLE, SUCH AN
ARTICLE WILL BE PUBLISHED AT THE EARLIEST POSSI2LE TIME. 3

NEUSPAPERS IN RENO AND LAS VEGAS ONLY CONTACTED SINCE |
THESE ARE THE ONLY LARGE METROPOLITAN ARFA IN THIS STATE AND.

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'NO, RECORD LOCATED FOP HIM AT POST LOCATER OR THROUGH ENQUIRY

AT COMPANY A THIRD BATTALION-THIRD BRIGADE FORT ORD, CALIFORNIA, gk Cc

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GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 100-11.6

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

FILE (164-81)

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 @

SAC, SEATTLE

UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper
NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 3)5
"PORTLAND TO SEATTLE

11/24/71

CAA ~ HIJACKING; EXTORTION

DATE: 12/20/71

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requested him to send a bulletin to all of their members,
requesting that they alert their employees to any large
deposits in the amount of $20 denominations, any strange
use of safe deposit boxes, large payments on notes or
mortgages where bills of $20 denomination in substantial
numbers are used, and at the same time asked that they
check these bills against the list of hijacked bills.

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758 PM NITEL 12/2%/71 FER
TO BHTTE (164-26) LAS VEGAS C(I&4-6")

LOS ANGELES (164-497) PHOENIX (164-19%)
PORTLAND (164-41) SACRAMENTO (164-54)
SALT LAKE CITY (164-24) SAN DIEGO (€164-91)

SAW FRANCISCO (164-224)
FROM SEATTLE (164-1) 2P

OPJAK.

PECEIVING OFFICES ARE REGHESTEN TO CONTACT ALL LOGICAL
INFORMANTS FOR ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING CAPTIONED MATTFR
CONCERNING WHICH BACKGROUND INFORMATION HAS PREVIOIUSLY REEN
FURNISHED, RECEIVING OFFICES ARE ALSO REQUESTED TO REVIEW BANK
ROBBERY SIISPECT PROGRAMS FOP THE IDENTITIES OF ANYONE INCLUDED IN
THESE PROGRAMS WHO COULD BY CONSIDERED SIISPECT IN CAPTIONED MATTE,
ADDITIONALLY, RECEIVING OFFICFS ARE REQUESTED TO CONTACT BANKERS
ASSOCIATION OR SIMILAR GROUPS WHICH CIPCULARIZE RANKS REQUESTING
THAT Banks BE CIRCHLAPIZED AND BANK AND SAVINES AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION EMPLOYEES BE REQUESTED TO 3H ALERT FOR ANY LARGE

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NEPOSITS OF TMENTY DOLLAP BILLS OR EXCHANGES OF THENTY DOLLAR
BILLS FOR OTHER BILLS OP ANY RECENT PENTAL OP UNUSUAL ACTIVITY 14
AN ALREADY RENTED SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX YHEPEIN THE HIJACKEP "IGHT
HAVE STASHED THE PANSOM MONEY IN THIS MATTER. TO ACHIEVE "IDE
CIRCULARIZATION OF THE RANSOM LIST, SEATTLE HAS APRANGED "ITH
A SEATTLE NEYPAPER TO PRINT A SHORT FEATURE ARTICLE INFORMING THE
PUBLIC THAT THE LIST OF RANSOM BILLS HAS BEEN DISTRIBUTED TO
LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, BANKS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS,
THE PUBLIC HAS BEEN INFORMED THAT IF THEY FEEL THEY HAVE ONE OF
THF PANSOM BILLS THE SUMBER MaY BE CHECKED THPOUeH THEIR LOCAL
POLICE DEPARTMENT OP THROUGH THE FBI OFFICE.

RFCRIVING OFFICES APE PEQUESTED TO CONTACT APPROPRIATS NEUS-
PAPERS IM AN EFFORT TO KEFP BEFOPE THE PUBLIC THE FACT THAT TH LIST
OF THE TMO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IN THENTY DOLLAR BILLS, PAID
TO THT HIJACKEP, IS AVAILABLE FOR CHECKING THROUGH THF LOCAL POLICE
DEPARTMENTS OP FBI OFFICE. -P-

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SAC, SEATTLE (164~81) 12/17/71
SA DONALD J, STEELE

NORJAK

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Division 6 at the Bureau phoned at 2:27 PH and pointed bmC
out that the Seattle Division should resolve whether the
subject in this case was wearing a black or brown dress
suit. He also stated that when the subject is found the
Seattle Division should make sure that extreme caution
be used in preserving any physical evidence. He advised
the Bureau at that time was authorizing the publication
of two articles in parachute magazine publications.

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TO POPTLAND LAS VEGAS
"SAN FRANCISCO SACRAMENTO

FROM SEATTLE (164-31) IP

KOR JAK

WITH REFERENCE TO SEATTLE'S COMMUNICATIONS WITH RESPECT TO
HAVING NEVSPAPERS PUBLISH THE LIST OF RANSOM RILLS, THE RECTIVING
OFFICES ARE REQUESTED TO ANVISE IF ANY SUCCESS HAS BEEN ACHIEVED.

SAN FRANCISCO IS REQUESTED TO CONTACT THE BANKS AND SAVINGS
AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS TO HAVE THEM ALERT FOR ANY LAPGE DEPOSITS OF
THENTY DOLLAP BILLS OR THE RECENT RENTAL OF A SAFE DEPOSIT BOX OR
ACTIVITY IN AN ALPEADY RENTED SAFE DEPOSIT BOX WHEPEIN THE HIJACKER
MIGHT HAV® STASHED THE T¥0 HUNDPED THOUSAND DOLLARS.

SLL RECEIVING OFFICES ARE REQUESTED TO CONTACT THE SEMSPAPERS
SND HAVE THEM PUBLISH AN ARTICLE ADVISI"G OF THE AVAILARILITY OF
THE RANSOM LIST. - P ~
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FILE (164-81) 12/17/71

SAC, SEATTLE

NORJAK

On 12/17/71 I talked to }

| | SEATTLE TIMES, and advised him that the Bureau

was unwilling to spend the approximate $1500 cost involved
in publishing the list of bills. He said they still have
the matter under consideration and would possibly run the
list anyway.

| SEATTLE P-I, advised
that they still have the matter under consideration and he
will let me know.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164~81) 12/14/71
SA CHARLES E. FARRELL
NORJAK

By routing slip dated 12/9/71, the Bureau furnished
20 copies each of glossy photos of an artist's conception of the
subject showing him with and without glasses. Copies of
these sketches are attached.

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RANSOM LIST IS AVAILABLE AND ENCOURAGE PUBLIC TO. CONTACT LOCAL _
FBI OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY CONCERNING SUSPECTED BILLS.

_ SEATTLE SHOULD INSURE THAT TERRAIN SEARCHES ARE VIGOROUSLY ae
"PURSUED BY ALL INTERESTED OFFICES' AND SOLICIT COOPERATION OF
LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, FORESTRY PERSONNEL, HUNTING GROUPS, AND

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/14/71
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

NORJAK

ASAC CHARLIE DULINSKY called from Las Vegas.
He said that with regard to SAC MILNES' phone call earlier
today, they had arranged with the banks to check any
large deposits of 20's and to advise the FBI of any suspicious
situation where anybody attempted to change 20's for other
denominations. They have also alerted the casinos in the
major cities to the same type of operation.

In regard to the newspaper, he advised that
the newspaper in Reno was not willing to publish the ransom
list.

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TO DIRECTOR (164-2111
SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM LOS ANGELES (164-497) 3P

NORJAKo

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RE SEATTLE TELETYPE TO BUREAU AND LOS ANGELES, DECEMBER
EIGHT LAST, AND LOS ANGELES TELCALL TO BUREAU, DECEMBER EIGHT
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1144 PM NITEL 12/13/71 FEE
TO DIRECTOR (164-2111)
FROM SEATTLE (164-81) 2P

NORJAK.

IN ORDER TO SECURE MAXIMUM DISTRIBUTION OF THE SERIAL NUMBERS

OF THE MONEY PAID IN THIS CASE,| |
SEATILE TIMES, SAC CONTACT, HAS BEEN APPROACHED BY ME TO DETERMINE

IF THE PAPER OULD BE WILLING TO PUBLISH THIS LIST.
|HAS ADVISED THAT A STUDY OF THE COST OF THIS

MATTER REVEALS THAT LABOR COSTS IN COMPOSING WOULD RUN APPROXIMATELY
SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS AND THE NEWS PRINT COST WOULD RUN APPROXIMATELY
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. SHOULD THEY PUBLISH THIS AT THE PUBLIC SERVICE
RATE, THE COST WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY THREE THOUSAND DOLLRAS AND AT
THE REGULAR COMMERCIAL RATE, IT WOULD RUN APPROXIMATELY FIVE
THOUSAND DOLLARS. HE HAS ADVISED THAT BY PROVIDING A REPRINTED MAT,
THE COMPOSITION COST WOULD NOT BE ELIMINATED SINCE THEIR UNION

CONTRACT WOULD REQUIRE THAT THE COST BE PAID NONETHELESS.

HAS INQUIRED IF THE BUREAU WOULD BE WILLING TO PAY THE

ACTUAL COST UP TO SIXTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR PUBLISHING THTS LIST.
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I PRESUME THE COST WOULD BE COMPARABLE IF OTHER DAILY
NEWSPAPERS WERE REQUESTED TO PUBLISH THE LIST SINCE ALL WOULD BE
FACED WIT THE SAME OR SIMILAR PROBLEMS,

OF THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, on

HAS ALSO BEEN APPROACHED BY ME CONCERNING THIS MATTER BUT HAS NOT
RESPONDED THUS FAR TO MY INQUIRY. .

I KNOW OF NO WAY WHERE THE LIST COULD BE MADE AVAILABLE TO AS
MANY PEOPLE AS PUBLICATION THROUGH A DAILY NEWSPAPER. THE SEATTLE

TIMES CIRCULATES THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, ITS

PRINCIPLE CIRCULATION AREA BEING THE SEATTLE METROPOLITAN AREA,

IN THE EVENT MAXIMUM ADVANTAGE OF THIS TECHNIQUE IS TO BE ONTAINED,

THEN I WOULD SUGGEST THE SAME STEPS BE TAKEN BY A DAILY NEWSPAPER

IN PORTLAND, SANRAMENTO, SAN FRANCISCO AND POSSIBLY RENO, NEVADA.
BUREAU IS REQUESTED TO ADVISE IF IT WOULD AUTHORIZE THE

EXPENDITURE OF UP TO SIXTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR PUBLICATION OF

THIS LIST IN THE SEATTLE TIMES.

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THIS DATE,|

RECORDS FOR ALL USPA CLUBS THROUGHOUT U.S LOCATED TUAT

"OFFICE ALONG WITH INFO RE PARACHUTE DROP ZONES AND MISCELLANEOUS DATA
- RE PARACHUTE CLUBS NOT AFFILIATED WITH USPA.

SAN FRANCISCO atl OBAIN ALL AVAILABLE INFO :
LJ RE USPA CLUBS IN SACRAMENTO DIV. ALSO OBTAIN COMPLETE HENBERS HE

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LIST OF USPA MENBERS AND DISSEMINATE TO OFFICE CONCERNED.
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AERTAL SEARCH BY BUAGENS OF NORTHWEST FLIGHT NO THREE ZERO

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FIVE FLIGHT ROUTE BEING CONDUCTED TODAY.

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I appreciate your thoughtfulness in ae
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concerning the distribution of the list of *
currency paid in the hijacking of Northwest oe
Rirlines Flight 305. a re

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While undoubtedly there is considerable cotta Sas oy
merit to your suggestion, we have not been in the " "2
practice of selling the material we distribute. as eae
We are trying to get this published through the eta TROL!
news media. Whether we succeed or not will be i 48 as '
determined in time. fet

' : Sincerely yours, te ee oP

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December 3, T77T

"MEMO TO EARL MILNES

Dear Earl:
After | called you this morning, | told i would call back in the
|

jand didn't get back as early as [ had figured.

afternoon but | was|

With current evenis as they are, | know that you have your hands full
and | don't intend to take but just a moment of your time.

[_]were discussing the extensive list which had to be printed
and sent out with regard to the currency which was turned over to the
hijacker and the cost (to the faxpayers) which was run up in getting the

booklet printed and mailed all over the country. This may or may not
[Jeame up with an idea

be a matter of particular interest fo you
which might help recover some of those printing costs and, with any

luck, might even turn up some of the items which are listed.

That is for the FBI to get a news release out to every daily newspaper
(thru AP or UP! wire) that copies of the list of bills, in booklet form,
are available to anyone interested at a cost of $1.00 apiece. Not that
she nor [ subscribe to the "hero-worship" concept we've been reading
about, but we believe there'd be hundreds who would like to get ahold
of a copy.. .either for curiosity's sake or as a souvenir item. In addition
to making the books available for a buck apiece, the news item could
also point out that if an actual bill was turned up, J. Edgar Hoover

would buy it back for $21.00, thereby returning their investment on

the book.
| know it may sound weird but, on the other hand, | can see how it

also might even turn up some real good leads.

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AIRTEL AIRMAIL
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM: SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (164-220)

SUBJECT: NORJAK

Re San Francisco airtel to Bureau, 12/8/71.

The San Francisco Office will need an additional
340 copies of the ransom bills paid in captioned case, for
distribution to the Police Departments, Sheriff's Offices,
District Attorney's Office, etc.

2 - Bureau (RM}
Seattle (164-81)

i - San Prancisco

BHC/cad

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AIRTEL AIRMAIL Marg —
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TOs: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111}
FROM: SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (164-220)

SUBJECT: NORJAK

Yhe San Francisco Office has received 100~-150
of the ransom bills paid in captioned case. We want to
distribute this list to all the banks, savings and loan,
Federal credit unions, and hotels within the San Francisco
Division. As a result, San Francisco will need an additional
1900 copies of this list.
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12/10/71
AIRTEL AIRMAIL
TO : DIRECTOR, FBI (164~2111)

FROM t SAC, *EATTLE (164-81) (~P-)
SUBJECT: NORJAK

ReBureau airtel 12/7/71.

Enclosed are three copies of a letter addressed
to the U.8. Secret Service Headquarters in Washington, D.C.,
explaining the photographing at Seattle, of the ransom
money in captioned cage.

Yor the Bureau's information, the Seattle-First
National Bank, who provided the film of the ransom money,
advises that the film may be maintained by the PBI, Seattle,
to be preserved as evidence in thia case.

- Bureaa (Encl 3)
3 Seattle
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1015 Second Avanue
Seattle, Washington 98104
Decenber 16, 1971

Mr. James J. Rowley,
Director,

U.S. Secret Service,
Room 921,

- 1800 G Street Northwest,
Washington, D.C., 20226

Re: UNKNOWN SUBTECT;
Northwest Airlines Plight #305,
Portiand to Seattle,
November 24, 1971
CAA ~ RIJACKING; EXTORTION

Dear Sir:

Northwest Airlines Plight #305 enroute from
Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, on November 24, 1971, was
hijacked and a ransom demand made of Northwest Airlines
for $206,000. .

The hijacker inatructed that the $200,000 as
well as four parachutes be ready by 5:00 PM, on November
24, 1971.

Northwest Airlines then arranged with Seattle-First
National Bank, Seattle, to make the $200,000 available and
the same was microfilmed for later evidentiary use. The
film is now in possession of the Seattle Office of the.
Pederal Bureau of Investigation.

Very truly yours,

J.E. Miines,
Special Agent in Charge

3 ~ Addressee

3 - Seattle (164-81)
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OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10 @ r

MAY 1982 EDITION
CSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101051.8

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO : FILE (164-81) DATE: 12/10/71

FROM : SAC, SEATTLE 'svuB- M

—-— C@

supject: NORJAK
On 12/10/71 I called SA HENRY SHUTZ at the Bureau.

I told him we were contacting a number of daily
newspapers, urging them as a public service to publish serial
numbers of the bills taken in this case. I suggested that
aS an economic matter it might be more desirable to have the
Bureau prepare a mat containing these numbers, which could
be distributed to newspapers and used by them ss a means
of printing and thereby, hopefully, be able to encourage
more to print the list. ,

I talked to SA BLAND about this matter and he
advised that it would have to be initiated by the investiga-
tive division.

-- SA SHUTZ called me back on 12/10/71 and advised
they were exploring the possible costs of this Matter and
'would let us know Monday.

In the meantime I had talked to|
of the SEATTLE P~I, and to
of the SEATTLE TIMES, inquiring of them if as a
public service would they be interested in publishing
the list. Both advised it would be considered and they
would let us know.

JEM:eon
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NORJAK

INVESTIGATION AT STRONG ENTERPRISES, INC., QUINCY,
MASS., PARACHUTE EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS, THIS DATE DETERMINE

FROM | | THAT MAJOR ORGANIZATION OF

SPORTING PARACHUTERS IS THE UNITED STATES PARACKUTERS

ASSOCIATION (USPA) POST OFFICE BOX ONE ZERO NINE, MONTEREY »

CALIFORNIA.

L—rervar~—— aaat

ADVISED THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY THIRTY THOUSDN.

SPORTING PARACHUTERS IN THE UNITED STATES, OF WHOM FIFTEEN
THOUSAND ARE MEMBERS OF USPA. THE USPA CIRCULATES A NATIONAL
NEWS LETTER AND ITS MEMBERSHIP CARDS, WHICH INDICATE

VARYING DEGREES OF PROFICIENCY, BEAR DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION

AND A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE BEARER. NOT BELIEVED THAT A PHOTO-
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1a73 ARE BEING MAINTAINED
IN SEPARATE EXHIBIT SECTION IN CLOSED FILES.

SEE

VOLUME 1 FOR (1ai-1a8), VOLUME 2 for (1a9-1a18),
VOLUME 3 FOR (1a19-4a30), VOLUME 4 FOR (1a31-1a35),
VOLUME 5; FOR (1a36-1a44), VOLUME 6 FOR (1a45-1a57),

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