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Reno Airport, Reno, Nevada, on the late evening of November 24,
197i, and early morning hours of November 25, 1871. She
identitied herself as a hostess on Northwest Airlines Flight
305. ,

Shortly aiter takeoff from Portland, Oregon, en route
to Seattie, Washington, in the afternoon hours of November 24,
1971, a male passenger on the flight, who was seated
gave a note to Hostess | | showed
the note to Hostess who was also in the rear passenger
compartment. The note indicated that the male individual was
hijacking the plane and wanted the hostess to sit beside hin.
Yhe note further indicated that he had a bomb and wanted
$200,000.00. | | stated she went back to the male
passenger seated | lwith the note, at which time he
indicated that he was hijacking the plane and was net -
kidding. He added that he wanted "no funny stuff". He had
a black attache~type case in his lap, which case was partially

"open and he had his hand inside same. At this ate
ee sat down alongside the individual in seat and

after lighting a cigarette for the passenger, she told him
that they would cooperate. Her best recollection ig that.

it was while he told her he wanted no kidding and no funny
stuff that he first partially opened the attache case and.
permitted her to see the contents. She recalls the contents
as approximately eight cylindrical objects about six to eight
inches Long with four of the items being placed on top of the
others and banded together with some. kind of tape. She aiso
recalled some covered and uncovered wiring running from the
cylindrical objects to a dry cell type battery which had -
terminals, on one end. She could not recall whether the wires
were connected to the ternsinals. The battery was described
&6 approximately eight inches long-and about two and one-hal
inches in diameter. She stated that she had the inpression | e
upon observing the contents-of the attache case that it was

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BAC HAROLD &, CAMPBELL, oR. (HEC: tlw) 11/26/71.

Date dictated

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vicwed at the Reno Airport, Reno, Nevada, on the late
evenings of Noveuber 24, 1971 an ine hours of

November 25, 1971. He advised
Northwest Airlines Flight 305.

Cray not peta ho was present during the

int ews of hostess ed Le
and concurred with the information as supplied

CM.

He recalled that the hijacker had indicated the
bomb had an electrical fuse and instructed the hostess that
radio transmissions be limited as much as possible so that
they would nof set it off,

He advised that the landing at Seattle was made
at 5:45 P.M., Pacific Standard Tima, and that the hijacker
had indicated that once the money and parachutes vere

cought on board and that re-fueling was simultancously
taking place, the passengers would be permitted to depart.

. also stated that there was a delay on the
ground in secuxing the chest-type parachutes and when they
did not arrive as quickly as had been hoped for, the crew,
through hostess requested poxmission to land anyway
without them an e hijacker refused permission for sane.

At. some point in nerzotiations with the hijacker, he indLeated
an ayareness that parachutes would be obtained from McChord
Aizr Force Base and indicated that it wus only 20 miles avay
from the Seattle Airport.

added that after take-off at 7:36 P.M,
they received a call from the hijacker around 7:42 P.0.;
at which time he indicated that he was unable to set the
stairs lowered in flight. They then slowed dow the aircraft
air specd and subsequently observed the cockpit signal
Light that the roaxy stairs wore down. At that tine the Captain
instructed the hijacker to soumd the bell on the intercon
in the event he wished to make any further contact with thom, __
Wate Ne UgEcad EG ds,

on_L1/24/71_ __ot__Reno, Nevada Fite 1 -Ey-16660 od eeb-f

SAC HAROLD B, CAMPBELL, JR. and I sare ;

by__SA H, -E, HINDERLITER, JR, (HEHectdh) —_ Date dictated free Done

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This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusfons of the FBI. It is the property of the FBt ond is IeeGpdto your ppane .
11 and 3ts contents are not to be disiributed outside your agency. j hoy
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WILLIAM A. SCOTT, residence 262 Peninsula Road,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, telephone Liberty 35-5524, was
interviewed at the Reno ort, Reno, Nevada, on the Late
evening of November 24, 1971, and carly morning hours of
November 25, 1971. He advised that he was the captain
on Northwest Airlines Flight 305, .

Captain SCOTT advised that he was present during
the interview of all of his crew members and that. events,
as supplied by them, were correct to the best of his
recollection and he had no pertinent additional information
to provide at this time. He added that he personally had
no direct contact or observation of the hijacker and was,
therefore, unable to provide a physical description.

J SEARCHED... INDEXED___
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SAG HAROLD E. CAMPBELL, IR. and
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by. SA THOMAS J. WILLIAMS/sf£ Date dictated 11/30/71

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Gazette, Reno, Nevada, advised that the head office

of that newspaper had opened an envelope on November

27, 1971, between 8:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. and had found

a note composed from words cut from a newspaper and pasted
to a plain white sheet of paper. The note said, "Attention!
Thanks for Hospitality was in a rut_ D. B. Cooper, ",

The envelope in which the note was mailed was a white

envelope postmarked, 'Oakdale,

1971, PM'. It was addressed to 'Reno Newspaper", "Reno,
Nevada." The address was printed in pencil.

[__Jadvised that at least eight employees
of the newspaper had handled the note.

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State Bureau nee Criminal Ider ification and Ty
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L | Stewardess, indicated to Special

Agents JOHN F, RICKS and ALF T. STOUSLAND the two seats which
she had observed: to! be occupied by the unlmown subject.
Thereafter, those areas were processed for fingerprints.

In addition the telephone, the area around the rear door, the
rear door and four plastic drinking glasses found in the trash
receptacle by the back door were also processed for fingerprints.

- Fingerprint impressions obtained were all initialed by SA

STOUSLAND. In addition, a cloth towel affixed to the rear of
one of the seats reportedly occupied by the unknown subject
was removed and initialed by SA STOUSLAND, On that towel was
noted what appeared to be a short human hair, .

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on11/25/71 1, ..Reno, Nevada cites IV 164-60
SA JOHN F, RICKS - _
by SA ALF T. STOUSLAND ATS: js pote diererea LES 26/72
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. ; FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION .
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. ] Division of Drivers License, en
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go advised that Nevada drivers license
fo, valid Nevada drivers License issued to
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FBI

Date: 12/8/71

(Type in plaintext or code)

: AIRTEL
Via
(Priority)
TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) Sob 2
FROM: SAC, PHILADELPHIA (164-133) (P) ~ '
SUBJECT: UNSUB; aka Dan Cooper - Cc.
Northwest Airlines, Flight 305, bl
Portland to Seattle, 11/24/71
CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION
(00: SEATTLE) Q
Enclosed for Seattle are seven copies of an FD 302
reflecting interview of stewardess | - Enclosed
for Minneapolis are two copies of same FD 302.
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

/ pore December 3, 1972
| residing at the home of
| provided the following
information:

On November 24, 1971, while employed as a stewardess
for Northwest Airlines, she flew on Flight 305 which originated
in Washington, D. C., arrived at Minneapolis, Minn., about
40 a.m., and she boarded shortly thereafter. She said the crew

, senior Stewardess

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polis, Minn., at 10:35 Central Standard Time, with a light load,

less than half, and flew to Great Falls, Hontana, then to
Missoula, Montana, then to Spokane, Washington, and' Portland,
Oregon. She said that the aircraft departed Portland, Oregon
at 2:53 Pacific Time, and arrived two hours and fifty-three
minutes later at Seattle which is normally a 36 minute flight.

Just before the] | gave the word for
take off from Portland, | took a beverage form to
the aft jump seat. There was a man in seat 18 E, middie right
aft passenger_seat, and as she,[_|, faced the barrier strip,
she observed _] dropping a note, stand up, and unfasten
the barrier strip and sit down next to the man in seat 18 E.

appeared emotional in that she was_trying to speak to
er, Was moving her lips, but other than ro no other words
came out.

[ _|picked up the note lying at her feet and read it
which, to the best of her recollection, is as follows:

"Miss, I am hijacking this plane. I have a bomb.
Sit next to me." .

The aireraft lifted off the runway at 2:58 and[ |
used the interphone to advise the pilot the ship was being

|, 5 Stewardess | |, and C Stewardess

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Date: 12/6/71 ;

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Vie AIRTEL AIR MAIL

(Priority)

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TO : SAC, SEATTLE
FROM : SAC, LAS VEGAS (164-60) (P)

SUBJECT: UNSUB;
HIJACKING: OF NORTHWEST AIRLINES
FLIGHT 305
11/24/71
CAA = HIJACKING
EXTORTION

September, 1957,

Under separate cover Las Vegas is forwarding
directly from the Reno Resident Agency one Pioneer
Parachute, 26 feet, Ripstop Conical, type 226 manufactured

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12/8/71
AIRTEL ATRMATL + REGISTERED
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) Cpeeret- _ FE.

FROM: SAC, SACRAMENTO (164~50) (P) -

UNSUB, aka Dan Coopers
Northwest Airlines Plight #805,
Portland to Seattle, 11/24/71
CAA = HIJACKING; EXTORTION

00: SE '

Enclosed for the Bureau are two aeronautical
charts on which the flight path of Northwest Airlines
Flight #305 has been drawn with a green marker pen.

it is noted that tracking of the aircraft was
handed over from FAA, Oakland, te Reno air control approach
at a point just north of Portola, California.

2 + Bureau (Enc, 2) (RM)
o- Seattle (164-81) (RM)
~ Sacramento
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FD.302 {REV. 3-17-69} @ @

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

[rh

Dete___ December 9, 1971

l

| furnished the following information:

[sjadvised that on the night of November
24, 1971 he observed an airplane flying near | }
Airfield. He advised that the time of the sighting was
between 7:30 and 8 p.m. because |
| _ [and they had just Finished
watching "Truth or Consequences" on t.v. which is on from
7:00 until 7:30 p.m.

He advised thatthe aircraft was flying at about
treetop level and was flying from the northeast direction
toward the southwest. He stated that the plane made a turn
behind[| ———s«dJAirfield and that upon completion of the
turn departed the area flying back toward the northeast.
He stated that upon making the turn the airplane turned
on its landing lights but that it did not land.
stated that planes often fly low over that particular
area due to the close proximity of the airfields located

| |but that he thought this was
peculiar since the plane put on its landing lights but
apparently did not land,

[__|stated that he was unable to describe
the airplane since it was dark but that] |

| He also stated that he did not| |
number on the airplane and that he was unable to obtain
any further descriptive data due to the fact that it was
too dark to clearly observe that much detail of the air-
plane.

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ROSS YA PLAIN

{19346 PM URGENT 12-9~71 EJF

TP LAS VEGAS (164-69)
SEATILE (164-81).

FROM DIRECTOR (164-2191) IP

NORJAK

RE LAS VEGAS AIRTEL DECEMBER THREE SEVENTYONE. [.

NO LATENT PRINTS CONTENTS OF ASH TRAY. :

LATENT PRINT PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MESSAGE, @ TWO, NOT IDENT~
ICAL ELIMINATION PRINTS.

CONFIRMING » tL

END» * , |
DCA a . ; ven,

FBI SEATTLE CLR

SEARCHED n-scaneoue INDEXED...)
SER FILED.

DECZ/3 1971

FB] - SEATTLE

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SAC, SEATTLE (164~81) 12/9/71.
SA CHARLES E. FARRELL

NORGAK

On 12/8/71, | jof the Bureau advised
that the Director had given his approval for the publication
of the artist's sketch in the publication "PARACHUTIST" as
requested in Seattle teletype.

He advised that a sketch prepared by the artist
of the UNSUB both with and without the glasses, would be
furnished to the San Francisco Office for publication as
above mentioned.

| Jaiso asked if the entire course of the
flight had been searched. He was advised that the pertinent
part of the State of Washington as well as all of Oregon,
and Nevada, had been checked but apparently the area in
California had not yet been searched due to the fact that the
reconnaissance plane had been unable to fly the course due
to bad weather.

jadvised that Sacramento should be
immediately contacted and requested to do a thorough search
Of the area, the same to be handled within the bounds of good
judgment.

Jalso had other questions, one of the ones
he asked was, =

pid the UNSUB use the lavatory he |
wondered whether he might have taken the money In there to
check it.

He vas advised he used the lavatory before the
passengers left the plane because one of the passengers saw
him. He was further advised that apparently he did not
check the money in the lavatory because the stewardess observe

him examining the money. ct
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also advised that the Bureau was
preparing for flield-wide distribution, a wanted flyer which
would contain both sketches of this UNSUB, the one with glasses
and one without. Exactly when this would belssento.out, mbeendid_

not say. SENDS Fite
CEF :kib FEL—-SEATILE

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4226 PM URGENT 12-9-71 LXL ne

TO DIRECTO? (164-2111) bre
SEATTLE = (164-1) -
LOS ANGELES
SAN DIEGO (164-91)

FROM ~ SACRAMENTO (164-58) | 2P

"HORJAK. 008 SEATTLE. ,

RE Sau DIEGO

FOR INFO. BUREAU. AND "SE EATILE, INGLE'

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SIGHT, LAST. -

CNT WEATHER, SACRAMEMTO DIV.,

THIS DATE CASED CANCELLATION OF USAF PHOTO

RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHT AND
PENTAL AIRCRAFT SEARCH OF PATH OF HIJACKED AIRCRAFT.
FOR INFO LOS ANGELES, RS SAN DIEGO TEL SET FORTH THE POPTLAN

DIV.

RECEIVED INFO FROM 'so, PORTLAND, THAT CERTAIN Pee
EOryReES z F UNSHR,
| PESEME LED ARTIST'S SKE TCH 03 UNE
DESCRIBED AS WMA, BORN FIVE FEET ELEVEN,
ONE HUNDRED FORTY POUNDS, BROWN HAIR, BROWN EYES. ||
CALIF. DEPT OF AGRI- «. bé
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LOS ANGRLES aT PESOLVE WEATHEP
IDENTICAL "ITH UNSUB THIS CASE.
UNSUB CONSIDERED DANGEROUS. . . .
END. ,
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SUBJECT: UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper;

PROM : ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER (rp p

OPTIONAL FORM NC. 10
MAY 1902 ROITION
GSA FEM (at CPR) 104-11.6

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) pate: 12/8/71
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NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #305,

LW
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, TT
11/24/71 Day O
CAA - HIJACKING; EX'TORTION

OO; SE

| |called from the Bureau. He had the
following to say:

Ll. The Director approved piblicity of the
axticle and artist's conception in the parachute magazine
in response to our teletype 12/7/71.

2. He referred to a teletype_of 12/ /71 from
Portland in regard to a person who was | |
|} He said it seemed to him
that Portland had set out a lot of unnecessary
investigation since the purpose of the thing was simply
to get a photo of the suspect and have it shown to
witnesses rather than getting all the background.

3. He wanted to know if we had considered
having a Northwest plane fly Agents over the exact course at
"night so that we could look down and see just what the
situation was when the "bump" occurred at 8:10 or 8:12 PM.
I told him we had considered this and also had considered
hiring someone to parachute from the plane but the problem
was that there was no way of duplicating the conditions

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of language in a teletype Hout ftnis. _

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 16
MAY 3962 EOITION
GSA PPMR (4) CFR} 501-41.6

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) pate: 12/8/71

FROM : ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER / f, . —
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SUBJECT: UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper; E
NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #305, '
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71! D
CAA ~ HIJACKING; EXTORTION
00: SE

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Sacramento, and told him that Bureau Supervisor[___] b6
had called Seattle today and that he pointed b7C
out all offices had conducted a search in this case
of some type with the exception of Sacramento.

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and tell us about their progress in this regard.

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Airtel

TO: SAC, Sacramento (164-50) 12/6/71.

' FROM: Director, FBI

NA. Seaeae &,
UNSUB; oe

NORTHWEST ATRLINES Ss,
FLIGHT 305 "

11/24/71 :

CAA ~ HIJACKING

00: SEATTLE

Reference is made to Buteleail to Sacramento 12/6/71
and Sacramento teletype 12/3/71 which states that Beale Air Force
Base has offered free of charge the use of an SR-71 aircraft' |
to photograph terrain over which captioned flight progressed
from Seattle to Reno,

Bureau authority is granted for the Sacramento Office .
to immediately complete arrangements to accept the offer of the
use of this aircraft as described in referenced teletype. ~_
Sacramento should afford this phase of this investigation
immediate and continuous attention and keep the Bureau and
Seattle Office fully advised.

Consider subject dangerous.
(1)- SAC, Seattle (164-81) (Information)

1 ~ SAC, Portland (164-41) (Information)
1'- SAC, Las Vegas (164-66) (Information)

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Memorandum we
"£0 : sac, SEATTLE (164-82) (P) - . - . DATE: 12/4/71. es
FROM : SA THOMAS J, MANNING a | ste Sba kR ele

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SUBJECT: TNSUB;
, Nortivest Airlines Fiseht 3 305, :
Portland to Seattle, u/24/7. peo ee
CAA = HIJACKING 5! | sind
00: Seattle oo 1b ete RS

Re San rranetegs-t6fCrms to Bureau and Seattle, 11/26/n re
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lot of air traffic| |by small planes, Further it is known by the ~s° bID

writer that both the state Patrol and the US Amy have helicopters flying
| |frequently due to its proximity to IS 5 Midoh isa ma
guiding line for such craft,

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FROMGMASAC, LAS VEGAS (164-60) : Cormcaer

UNSUB, aka
Dan Cooper S .

HIJACKING NORTHWEST FLIGHT #305,
11/24/71;

' CAA -. HIJACKING; EXTORTION gh y
00: Seattle ° ~7Sv eB. MAPS
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"Re Sacramento teletype, 12/2/71, requesting
routing of hijacked plane from California to Nevada,

Enclosed, herewith, for Sacramento and Seattle

are two copies of insert of investigation concerning

' same by SA Jand one copyfor each office
of a map of the radar tracking on Northwest Flight #305

from Frenchmen's Reservoit, California, to Municipal
Airport, Reno, Nevada.

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LV 164-60 Period November 25-26, 1971
MTB: jhp

On November 25, 1971, | J.
FAA, Tower Supervisor, Municipal Airport, Reno,
Nevada, furnished SA | Ja map of
the Radar Tracking of Northwest Fl ght Number 305,
November 24, 1971, from Frenchmen's Reservoir
California, to Municipal Airport, Reno, Nevada.
This plane entered the State of Nevada at
& point approximately twenty-five miles north
and fourteen miles west of Reno, Nevada, aiport.

On November 26, 1971, SAs THOMAS G. DEMPSEY
and | Jwith Washoe County | |
| Jconducted an air search over the
above flight pattern area of Nevada. Nothing pertient
in this case was found.

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FD-302 {REV. 13-27-70) @ .
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advised that on 11/24/71, at approximately 6

8:30 PM he heard a low flying jet plane traveling over his house. BIC
He stated he wouldrmt have noticed this plane, however, it must

have been flying extremely low because of the noise it made.

This plane ws flying directly over his house and in a direction
north to south.

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this document contains nether recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI I Is the proporty of ihe FSI and is Icaned to your agency;
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Dote of teanseription_12/6 / 7}

|Washington, provided the following information:

advised that in the evening of November 24,
1971, somewhere between the hours of 8:00 PM and 3:00 PM both
he and his wife heard a low flying jet plane go over his
house. This plane was_flying from north_to_ south and created
enough noise to shake| Jhouse. | advised
that both he and his wife walked | | however,
they could not see the plane as it was raining and the sky was
covered with clouds.

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Interviewed on ot File #
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SA rse 12/1/71
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF [INVESTIGATION

176/71

Date of teanscetption

| Washington, be
provided the following information: b7c
. advised that on the evening of 11/24/71 —
at approximately 8:00 PM he noticed the sound of a low
flying jet near his house. This plane was flying from north
to south an unusually low. | advised he could see the lights
of the plane and they appeared to be going on and off at a slow
rate. These lights did not appear to be blinking normally
but at unusually long intervals.
[| stated that at the time he saw this plane b6
the wind was blowing and there was rain. bic
Interviewed on 11/26/71 at Washington File # SE 164- eae Pee
SS
by _o A rse Dole dictoted 12/1/71
This document contains nelther recommendations nor conclusions of the FOL. [lis the property of the FBI and is fooned to your ogency:
Hi ond i¢ contents are not to be disiribyiad oviside your ogency.

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TO: We SEATTLE (164-81) £
FRO po LAS VEGAS (164-60) (~
UNSUB, aka
Dan Cooper }t
HIJACKING NORTHWEST FLIGHT #305 °
LL/24/71
CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION
00: Seattle
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Enclosed, herewith, for Seattle are two

copies each of FD-302s and inserts of all investigation
conducted to date by the Las Vegas Division, copies
of which have not previously been forwarded to Seattle:

INTERVIEW OF CREW:

11/24/71 SA H.E. HINDERLITER, JR.
SAG HAROLD E. CAMPBELL, JR.

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41/24/71 SAG HAROLD E. CAMPBELL, JR.
SA H, E. HINDERLITER, JR.

11/24/71 SAC, HAROLD E. CAMPBELL, JR.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)

SA THOMAS J, MANNING

UNSUB;

NORTHWEST ATRLINES FLIGHT 305
Portland to Seatie 1124/72
CAA = HIJACKING

OO: Seattle

12/4/71.

Re momo of SFC|

}32/27/7LSEARCH (SUB_E)

The inforration set forth in referenced memorandum to SAC re
@ sighting of activity on Burlington-Northern line near Ridgefield was checked

by SA|

Jon 12/3/71.

contacted |

at Ridgefield, Yashington and he pointed out that area immediately in vicinity
of suspected activity is min entrance point or in vicinity of the entrance
point to the US Wildlife Game Reguge, ,

Contact was made with

the Wildlife

Refuge |

jnoted nothing suspicious and while

no hun ting was taking place on the refuge on 11/26/71 he imows that a number
of people do hunt the area outside the refuge and in view of the hour he would
state thtt the individuals along the Burdington-Northern track were hunters

and he also poifited out that hunters do congregate at the main entrance if they

do not have permits hoping for a cancellation at the last moment,

found concerning captioned matter no further investigation re this miter at Longview R4/

(2) ToM/

In view of above information and with nothing of positive nature

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TO: DIRECTON, FBI (164-2112).
(ADT: PBI LABORATORY)

FROM: SAC, LAS VEGAS (164-60) (Pp) ; a ae
. UNSUB, aka : -
Dan Coopar .
HIJACKING NORTIMEST FLIGHT 2305 . .
13/24/71 ..
CAA ~ HITJACKING; EXTORTION .
00: Seattle -

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Transmitted, under separate cover, is one towel
contéining hair om £iber obtained froa seat L8Z where
che hijacker vas sitting, and contents of ashtray near
Scat occupied by hijacker ond elimination fingerprints
o£ enployees of the Reno Evening Gacette knawm to have
handled first letter received by that newspaper fran

BD. R, COOPER, which was Getermminod to contain neo latent — - NL
prints. i ,
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The FEL Laboratory is requested to sonduct
appropaate examination of the towel' and hai: fiber tet
end such evidence as available which could be utilized Ts
in possible future idontification or elimination of
potential suspect when and if same is toon into custody,
'The Laboratory is also requested to examine the ashtray
contents and specifically process 'any Raleigh filter tip. +
cigarette butts for possible fingerprint identificciion . °°

ox comparison, it heiag noted that hostess B6
recalled that subject smoked same almost incessantin » Bie

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The Laboratory is requested to make appropriate
disposition of the elimination fingerprints, éithar
filing same tn civilian section of Dureau for Giture '

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DESIHGG geo Nesueshouldeinnner ny Gate
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and Las Vegas Divisions,

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TO: DIRECTOR, FDI GF
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FROM: SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (164-229) @
SURI ECE NSUG, aka ~ ~ ae
Dan Cooper FRA Lo of l- > ations

Northwest Orient Airlines
11/24/71 a
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Re Seattle teletypa, 11/29/71; San Francisco tel,
11/29/71; and San Francisco tel, 12/1/71.

in accerdance with the request of the Seattle Office,
one copy of the affiliated clubs of the U.S. Parachutists
Association (USPA) is enclosed for the Bureau and Seattle Office.
In addition, there is also enclosed for the Seattle Office an
ingéex of the members of the affiliated clubs cf this association
for the states of California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada,
and Arizona. 'There is algo enclosed for the Bureau and Seattle
one copy of the transeription of communications Geualing with the
control of aircraft NW30S on 25 November, 1971. This transeription
was furnished by Pederal Aviation Administration, Fremont, Cali-
fornia. One copy of this transcription was delivered to Agents
in the Sacramento Office with a map of the route of this aircraft
on 12/1/71. A copy of this map is also enclosed for the informa~
tian of Seattle Office. .

ARMED AND DANGEROUS
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4218 PM URGENT 12/4/71 DCA
JO DIRECTOR, FBI (1642111)

FROM SEATTLE' (164-81) oP

UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE,

PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE; CAA -

HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SE.

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RE PHONE CALLS FROM BUREAU TO SEATTLE,.DECEMBER FOUR, SEVENTY- — .

ONE.

THE | —_] MENTIONED IN REFERENCED PHONE CALLS,[ |

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ALL BEEN INTERVIEWED BY AGENTS, .

HAS ALSO BEEN INTERVIEWED AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS IN THE VICINITY OF

THE AIRSTRIP. IT APPEARS THAT THE PLANE WHICH LANDED ON THE AIR

STRIP, ACCORDING TO

HAS ALSO BEEN INTERVIEWED BY BUAGENTS.

THE LANDING

BY[__s|was ON NOVEMBER TWENTYTHREE, SEVENTYONE, AFTER CIRCLING

AROUND AIR FIELD

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FURTHER ADVISED[__—JLANDED AT NEARBY AIRSTRIP
ON NOVEMBER TYENTYTHREE, SEVENTYONE » NO

MARKINGS OR REGISTRATION ON THESE PLANES WERE OBTAINED BY INDI~-

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NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE. AT THIS POLNT P

INVESTIGATION DOES NOT DISCLOSE THAT PLANE-FIGURES IN CAP~
TIONED MATTER.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/6/71
SA CHARLES I. PARRELL

UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper;

NW AIRLINES FLIGHT $305,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71

CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION

RE: SEARCH AREA

A facsimile copy of a memo prepared by| b6
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accompanied by a map, which is aiso a facsimlie, were re~-
ceived at 6:05 PM, 12/4/71, from Minneapolis.

The map shows the course of the aircraft from
slightly north of the Kelso-Longview area to just south
of Battie Ground and sets out_the most likely area for the
parachute drop according to| ] latest ° BG
calculations as an area described by paralel lines C, DE & P. b7C
Generally speaking this would be an area between Pidgeon Springs
and an area just north and east of Woodland.

The above information was furnished on 12/6/71
by ASAC BIBLER to SA MANNING at which time SA MANNING
advised that he is sure that the area now described has
already been searched by helicopter and fixed wing aircraft and
that much of it has been covered on the ground as well.

It is noted that on 12/2/71, |__ advised bE
that after re-examining the flight recorder, he would suggest BIC
that the search area could be extended to the north an
additional three miles, and to as south as the Columbia
River. That information was furnished to SA MANNING and
possibly included the area now described in the map prepared
byL

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SA MANNHIHG requested that to be sure that the
area had been searched, that a copy of the map be forwarded eU

to him £ ination.
o him for examination YQ) ~ be LEZ

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the' Port land (PDR}S NOB: Pa on

Bs 'the cabin pressure : * ipalap" occurred at 0410 GME, the tims boang Eee ane

! " 'sorded by the RUA Flight Operations Office (NWAFO)} in dnneapol es coe Saas!

. 'Xt is a virtusl certainty thet the presgeure "bump" marks the 'Chee a iE:

" that the high- jackex' (HJ) left the alrplene. The aitplanc was. ae ES
a "Point 4 at that, ths, » thus the u's body would Land st Pointsd. fi?
Lt sk is 'chutes did not 'Open funlikely}. ; te. he
TE it is assumd thee: the HJ was a highly expert ca vachuts at an

would thus free-fall as far as precticable to insure the best, a
Sgey: of his: teuchdown potnt, be would land slightly €o the NE rf
; Point & due to his drifting with the wind from the point OF Feng

34, ye the HJ opened his 'chute as soon as he left the atrplans, hers ae
A would drift glong the Line "A-B and would touch dam at B. ALRS B eee .
* Lines parallel to' A-B are i¥nes along which the HJ would. dri fe: Le

if he opened his 'chute velativaly early. aes . ae as

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5.' The pavallelogrem indt cated by C-D-F-E represents the boundarte qs
,O£ the probable touchdown area adjusted fox possible time errr gS
aml for the akove deseribed wind 'xh ke. It ja probably the moat TF
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any even are certain it oceurred before o415. If the hd, jumped mage Soe
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/6/71
5A CHARLES E. FARRELL

UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper;

Ni] AIRLINES FLIGHT $305,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71

CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION

RE: SEARCH AREA

On 12/2/71, when talking to] F b6
Northwest Airlines at Minneapolis, he advised that they would BIC
be willing to fly the same airplane involved in the hijacking
over the area flown during the course of the hijacking and with
all conditions as prevailed during the incident itself. He
advised that even two volunteers could be vsed who would
make the parachute jump over any area we might request.

| Jwas advised that his officer is b6
appreciated and the matter will be referred to Mr. MILNES. b7C

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Airtel

12/3/71 —
TO: SAC, WFO (164-169)

FROM: Director, FBI (164-2111) Ce -SuB E.

UNKNOWN SUBJECT;
NORTHWEST AIRLINES
FLIGHT 305
11/24/71

CAA ~ HIJACKING
00: SEATILE

Reference is made to WFO teletype to Bureau 12/2/71
setting forth data concerning possible use of NASA aircraft in
connection with captioned matter. It was requested that the
Bureau advise of any further action to be taken.

Confirming Bureau telephone call to WFO 12/3/71 you
are instructed that no further action at this time is necessary
concerning the information set forth in referenced teletype. ,

(2X Dsac, Seattle (Information)?

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/3/71
SA THOMAS J. MANNING

UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper;
MW AIRLINES FLIGHT $305,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,

11/24/71
CAA = HIJACKING; EXTORTION
OO: SE

Investigation in Clark and Cowlitz Counties on
12/3/71, consisted of the following:

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mentioned in his interview at Tilinois, were bic
contacted and alibi furnished was verified.
Investigation vicinity |
reflected one woman, | | recalls a

light plane landing with its landing lights on between

8:00 and 8:30 PM, on 11/24/71, remaining on the ground for b6
approximately one half hour. However, she pointed out BIC
that she finds nothing suspicious in this since a number

of planes land at both the Hauhn and McClellan small air

strips frequently, both day and night, and it is possible she
may be confused on the exact time of the landing of the light
plane which she has referred to as being 11/24/71.

Information developed by SA] Jat
Vancouver, Washington, wflects | _ _ |) possible
suspect in hijacking and memo to file wiil be furnished by
sa Pon 12/6/71, with details. bé

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Contact made with U.S. Weather Bureau, Portland,
Oregon, to determine exact weather from 7,000 feet to
ground level on 11/24/71, reflects generally conditions
previously furnished to case agent, except that some of
these winds both at 7,000 feet and on the surface could
have been coming from 225 to 235 degrees, a general southeast
wind. Further information concerning the wind and EL
weather conditions being furnished in insert form

concerning search in general. lo A-B/ -GFR.

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SE 164-81

Information developed by SA| b6
reflects that a market beacon receiver which could have bc
allowed the skyjacker to zero in on a particular ground
point from which a signal was eminating, is of cigarette
package size. An advertisement of one particular type of
marker beacon receiver is being submitted for information
to the file.

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FOS 2 (REV. 11-27-70) e@ @

1 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

12/9/71

Date of transcelption

| Washington, b6

advised that _ bIC
during the evening hours of November 23, 1971, at

approximately 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. She stated that he normally

She_ added that he stayed a_couple of hours [ be
» She stated that bIC

[as he normaliy does. She again stated that no
on November 24, 1971, She stated

that |]

and | where they worked
in a shop prior to| | leaving.

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by._SA| Lpfr Dote dictated__ 2/4/71,

this document contains nejlher recommendations noe conclusions of the FBI, [1 is the property of the FBt ond Is looned to your agency;

it and its ¢tontents are not to be distributed oulsida your agency.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

12/9/71

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Washington, advised that on the night of November 24, 1971, b7C
at about 8:00 PM he was in his barn doing chores and * pointed

out that the barn and his house are located | _ |
| |. He recalled that

the weather at this time was foggy with some rain and recalls
that the fog was blowing like low hanging clouds as he
recalled being able to see Lights at the | |} at times
and then other times the fog would obscure these lights.

He went on to relate that he heard a light plane
which was not too noisy come over his house about 8:00 PM

going in al b6
, 'this plane made | | bIC
and then on the
[had its landing lights on and did on the

it appeared that the pilot of the plane attempted to turn
the plane around and
He stated that his visual observation of the plane indicated
that it was one with a medium to light blue color fuselage
and possibly white wings. Further, it had a single engine
and the single wing on the plane was on top and it also had
a tricycle landing gear.

The plane lights were turned off just as a single
male was observed stepping out of the plane but after the
lights were turned off he did not see where this person went
or what he did further advised bé6é
that not too many planes Tand] | at night b7C
but some do come in during dayIight hours and then take off
after dark. He advised that possibly he has seen this plane
at some other time | | and
has seen the pilot go from the piane to] |

He also recalled that he went into his house and

from 30 minutes_to an hour jJater he heard the plane taking
off and that which seemed to him b6

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torervieheg L4/ 71 a___ Longview, Washi fe ¢__ SE_ 164-81 #7569

by SA THOMAS J. MANNING :bfr Date dictalad 12/4/72

This document contoins nelther cecommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, it is the property of the FBI and 1s loaned to your ogency;
it and ils conlenis are not to be distributed outside your agency.

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to be peculiar for it had landed the other way. He advised
he did not see the plane take off and could not be sure of
the exact amount of time it was on the ground. However, he
pointed out that the following night, November 25, 1971,

he thinks the same plane | |
although he did not see it come down.

| lalso stated that| }

have any information on this plane L
prior to the time it made the |

also pointed out that while he

cannot see the actual ground he can
observe individuals who walk | from his property.

then stated that while the weather was foggy and
rainy about the time the plane landed, he thinks the weather
cleared to a point about 9:00 PM where one was able to see
the stars from time to time.

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12/9/71

Date of transcription

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Washington, advised that on November 24, 1971, between 8:00 BIC
and 8:30 p.m. one small plane circled| )
|) She stated that the
weather was foggy with some rain at the time this plane came
into land and recalled further that it was on the ground about
30 minutes and took off again. She advised| |] told

her it was a single engine plane and that he had observed one
man getting out of the plane.

She pointed out that she had no reason to be
suspicious of this aircraft coming in to land and staying on
the ground, as small planes land | be.
frequently. b7C

She stated that she feels sure the plane landed on
November 24, 1971, as she was doing chores at the time and
could relate the plane landing to the next day being
Thanksgiving.

| continued that she did not see the b6
landing lights turned on at any particular time and recalis BIC
further that there were no planes flying in that_vicinity all

afternoon. She pointed out that the plane came

Jand she observed the | _ i {
| but she did not see the plane land. She also stated |
that at times other planes land there at night and she thought
nothing of this plane coming

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Athy.
Interviewed on 12/3/72 o_| f Washington File # SE 16 Hm8h =AS6H b6

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by SA | kbfr 5 Date dictoted 12/3/72

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the sroperty of the FBI and is loaned to your cgency; j
it ond its contents ore not to be distributed outside your agency.

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FD-36 (Rey. 5=22-64} @ @

FBI
Date: 42/3/71

Transmit the following in [Type in plaintext or code)

Vi TELETYPE URGENT
a ——s
; (Priority)
TO : SAC, LAS VEGAS (164-60)
FROM: SAC, CEATTLE (164-81)

UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #305,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, 11/24/71. CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION,
OO: SE. BUFILE 164-2111.

RE SEATTLE TELECALL DECEMBER TWO LAST, REQUESTING
LAS VEGAS TO ADVISE WHETHER INSPECTION PANELS LOCATED NEAR
THE REAR STAIRWAY IN INSTANT PLANE, WERE REMOVED AND THE
AREAS BEHIND TEEM INSPECTED ON THE NIGHT OF THE HIJACKING
WHILE THE PLANE WAS AT RENO.

INSTANT PLANE IS GOING TO BE IN SEATTLE OW
DECEMBER FOUR NEXT, AND WILL BE INSPECTED BY SEATTLE AGENTS
UNLESS THIS WAS DONE AT RENO.
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Q37PM URGENT 12-3«71 Maw

TO SEATTLE (164-81)
PORTLAND (164-41)
LAS VEGAS (16460)
PHILADELPHIA

FROM MINNEAPOLIS (164-73) 2P

UNKNOWN SUBJECT3 NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO
FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST.

CAA DASH HIJACKING$ EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.

RE SEATTLE TELEPHONE CALL TO MINNEAPOLIS
DECEMBER THO LAST.

NORTHVEST | IRLINES, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ADVISED THAT THE
HIJACKED AIRCRAFT IS NOW BEING UTILIZED COMMERCIALLY BY

THE AIRLINE AND ITS FIRST OVERNIGHT STOP WILL BE AT

SEATTLE ON DECEMBER FOUR NEXT. THE AIRCRAFT IS ARRIVING

AS FLIGHT [SEVEN THREE FIVE AT FIVE DASH TWENTYSIX PM

SEATTLE TIME AND WILL BE IN SEATTLE OVERNIGHT.

FURTHER ADVISED IT WOULD BE ALMOST

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IMPOSSIBLE, FOR ANYONE TO ENTER THE PANELS WHILE THE
AIRCRAFT IS IN FLIGHT INASMUCH AS THE STAIRS HAVE TO

BE FULLY DESCENDED BEFORE THE PANELS CAN BE ENTERED.

He STATED LT WOULD BE REMOTELY POSSIBLE TO ENTER EITHER OF
THE PANELS | BUT IS NOT VERY FEASIBLE, AS YOU FACE TOWARDS

THE COCKPIT THE PANEL ON THE RIGHT SIDE HAS AMPLE ROOM FOR
Te) AVERAGE SIZE INDIVIDUALS. THE PANEL ON THE LEFT SIDE
HAS LESS ROOM BUT COULD ACCOMMODATE ONE PERSON,

SEATTLE IS REQUESTED TO EXAMINE AIRCRAFT AFTER
ARRIVAL AS|,FLIGHT SEVEN THREE FIVE.

ARMED/AND DANGEROUS.
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11241 AM URGENT 12/3/71 VLS a
TO SEATTLE (164-81) 7 . A
FROM . SACRAMENTO (164-58) 1P _ ' |
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UNSUB 5 AKA DAN: COOPERS NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOV, TWENTYFOUR, LAST. CAA = HIJACKINGS
EXTORTION. 003 SEATTLE. |

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LIST OF SERIAL WUNBERS OF MONEY PAID TO HIJACKER DISSEMINATED
DEC. TWO, LAST, TO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND LAY ENFORCEMENT =
AGENCIES IN SACRAMENTO DIV. | a
SACRAMENTO MAKING ARRANGENENTS WITH BEALE AFB FOR ARETAL PHOTO=
GRAPHY OF ROUTE TAKEN BY NORTHWEST FLIGHT, AIRCRAFT TO BE UTILIZED
IS SR SEVEN ONE, HIGH ALTITUDE COMPUTERIZED RECONNAISSANCE PLANE
WHICH PHOTOGRAPHS TWENTY MILE WIDE PATH. MAP OF NORTHWEST FLIGHT
OVER WASHINGTON AND OREGON TERRITORY FORWARDED TO SACRAMENTO BY
'UNITED AIRLINES NIGHT DEC, TWO, LAST, HANDCARRIED TO BEALE AFB THIS"
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/3/71
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper;

iW AERLINES FLIGHT $305,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71

CAA ~ HIJACKING; EXTORTION

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ragard to the possibility of an individual hiding behind
one of the ingpection panels inside the fuselage of the
airplane. He has been told by NI people that this is
virtuously impossible and that access is possible only to a
contortionist unless the stairway is all the way down as it
would be in the flight position.

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have actually inspected these areas in the plane and said the b7c
plane would be coming into Seattle as Flight 735 at 5:26PH,
12/4/71. It will be in Seattle overnight and we can
arrange with NW to have it inspected at that time.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/3/71
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper;

NW AIRLINES FLIGHT #305
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71

CAA ~ HIGACKING; EXTORTION
OO: SE

On 12/2/71 RON STAMP of Sacramento said that they
had arranged to get an SR 71 from Beale AFB, California, to
fly and photograph the entire flight path and then to interpret
the photographs later in an attempt to locate any foreign
objects, particularly the parachutes. He wanted us to
send him a map showing the flight path and headings in
Washington and Oregon.

I had one of the maps which we obtained from SAGE
sent to him by courier on the night of 12/2/71. This was
handled by sno

On the morning of 12/3/71, after receiving a
WEO teletype indicating that they were still negotiating
for the NASA plane, I called STAMP to be sure to keep the
Bureau and WFO advised of his progress. Subsequently he
did send a teletype to the Bureau.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/3/71

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UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper;
NORTHWEST AIRLINES PLIGHT $305,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,

11/24/71

CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION

OO: SEATTLE

On 12/2/71, SA| | telephonically
talked with SA CLOW of the San Francisco Division and
advised that a package was being forwarded to San Francisco
via Western Airlines Flight 641, departing Seattle at
7:30 PM, and arriving in San Francisco at 9:12 PM on
12/2/71.

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of the flight path of captioned aircraft from Seattle to the
California border. He was also advised that this package
should be forwarded via United Airlines Flight 848 departing
San Francisco at 9:45 PM, and arriving in Sacramento,

California at 10:20 PM, the night of 12/2/71.

At 5:10 pM SAL__] telephonically contacted
SA RON STAMP of the Sacramento Division and advised that
a package would be forwarded via aforementioned routing,
Since there were no direct flights Seattle to Sacramento,
during the PM of 12/2/71.

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Airline Flight 848 at Sacramento.

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and turn it over to an Agent of the FBI at that point.

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Night Supervisor in San Francisco and furnished the name of &;
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/3/71
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper;
NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 2305,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,

11/24/71

CAA ~ HIJACKING: EXTORTION

00: SE

sa| Jcalled from Philadelphia
12/2/71. He is Agent who has been interviewing |

has a theory based on the fact that
}told him subject appeared to be quite intelligent
and did not appear to be dressed for jumping. Theory is
that subject did not leave the plane until after it landed
in Reno. | jgot someone to take him through a 727
and there are two inspection panels in the extreme rear

of the plane, which are not readily detectable. In fact,
the =ig

j}did not even know about these areas. The one on
ht of the stairway door in the rear of the plane,
is untenable for very long because it is full of heat
ducts and other materiais.

The one on the left has room for a man to stand
along with the gear which subject had with him the other
night. He would not freeze at below level, nor would he
need oxygen at that level.

is putting this in a teletype, however,
I telephoned ASAC DULINSKY in Las Vegas and asked him to
determine if FBI personnel or airline personnel in their
processing, inspected this compartment in Reno on 11/24/71,
X also called Minneapolis where I talked to the duty agent
| jand asked him to have Minneapolis determine

if airline personnel had been in this compartment in instant

plane since it had been returned to duty and whether it
showed any signs of occupancy. I told him that if they
could not see if that panel had been opened, to determine
where the plane is now so that it can be inspected.

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OPTIONAL, FORM NO. 1 "
MAY 3902 EDITION
GSA FeMR (41 CPR) 101-11.8

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

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SUBJECT:

Memorandum

SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) _ DATE: 12/3/71

SA CHARLES E. FARRELL

UNKNOWN SUBJECT, aka

Dan Cooper

NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #305
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE

11/24/71

CAA ~- HIJACKING; EXTORTION

00: Seattle

RE: © SEARCH OF THE AIRCRAFT

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advised that he had reinterviewed | learlier that b7C
day and in addition, | jand SA| | had gone to

the airport at Philadelphia and looked over the after section
of a Boeing 727 with the assistance of a mechanic.

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on the information given by| Jthat the hijacker bIC
might never have jumped from the aircraft. He said the
hijacker is apparently an intelligent individual and his
jumping under such unfavorable conditions was extremely
dangerous.

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they found that, as you look toward the rear of the plane, the 7°
control handle which raises and lowers the air-stairs is located
on the left side of the aircraft. Right next to it, farther
back, is a fairly large panel which hinges at the top with a
locking latch at the bottom. The latch can be opened eijther
from inside or outside. Attg. E,

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of the aircraft in the tail section. He said there is a
Similar inspection hatch on the right side of the aircraft.
However, on the right side the compartment is small and contains

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

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'oO: ; SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) pate: 22/4/72
FROM ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER CEH Cou RSE
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OBJECT NORTHWEST ALRLINES FLIGHT #305, WItNness ES
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, ca
11/24/71 '
CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION
00: SE
sa | Jcalled from Philadelphia today.
He is the one doing the interviews with| So
far, all the pictures shown to her, including y have

been non-idents.
us to know that and he also wanted us to know that

They are sending us a teletype but he wanted

wants

to be thoroughly re-interviewed since she feels she can now
recall things which she did not furnish previously. They are |
going to do this in the morning.

He said that she told him that the subject told her
he wanted to take off with the ladder down, the gear down

and "we'll be flying with 15 deqrees." She said the pilot
told her to and him that they could not take off with the

a own and he mutte es you can, but that's alright,
we ater."

[—S—sédit#o 1d' «uss he thought this was significant
since this would indicate the subject knew a lot about
airplanes, perhaps that he might have worked on the 727
at one time. He aliso thought it was significant that "we'll
be flying with 15 degrees" since this_is pilot talk, meaning
15 degrees of flaps. I asked him if mentioned whether
or not the subject gave instructions as to the course to fly.
He said that the subject did not, that he did not give
any N@aaings, ne aid not outiine any course, but simply said

to take him to Mexico.

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FOUR 'LAST, CAA - HIJACKING; 00: SEATTLE |

RE Pi TEL CALL TO SEATILE DEC. TWO LAST, AND SEATTLE TELETYPE
TO PH DATED DEC. ONE LAST.

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THOUSAND DOLLARS HIJACKER INDICATED HE WAS gOrNG. TO USE THE
LAVATORY AND STARTED TOWARD THE AFT LAVATORYM WHEN SHE RETURNED |
TO THE PLANE WITH THE MONEY, HE WAS -IN HIS SEAT. SHE DOES NOT
RECALL HIJACKER CHANGING CLOTHES OR HAVING ANY OTHER CLOTHES IN Aub. &

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x, RIGHT HAND IN THE CASE. |.

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FooD 'ONTO THe PLANE OR EAT ANY Foop EXOEPT FoR HAVING A. DRINK OF.'

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a "PRIOR 10° TAKE OFF FROM SEATILE ATRPORT, HIJACKER gave
as FOLLOWING, INSTRUCTIONS "tO PILOT: . a :
| "WE ARE GOING TO MEXICO Clty. FLAPS DOWN you can TRIM THEM"

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" "ALTITUDE UNDER 'TEN THOUSAND FEET «" THERE VAS. HO MENTION BY
'HIJACKER, OF A 'HEADING OR AIR SPEED FOR FLIGHT.

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HIS MIND AFTER AIRCRAFT TOOK OFFM SHE WAS IN THE COCKPIT WITHIN
FIVE MINUTES AFTER TAKE OFF AND RECALLS TEN MINUTES AFTER,
BEING IN COCKPIT THAT ONE OF THE COCKPIT CREW RECEIVED AW INTERPHONE
CALL FROM HIJACKER ADVISING HE COULD NOT LOWER THE LADDER SO THE

| PILOT LEVELED THE AIRCRAFT OFF AND REDUCED SPEED. SHE RECALLS oe
SEEING THE RED LIGHT GO ON THE SECOND OFFICER*S PANEL INDICATING

THE REAR LADDER HAD DROPPED AND WITHIN FIVE MINUTES OF THE FIRST

CALL, A SECOND CALL WAS RECEIVED BY ONE OF THE OFFICERS FROM

a a ee aes

- HIJACKER WHICH Was "THE LAST COMMUNICATION WITH THE HISAGKER

ae RRR aaa MET Be RS a A

~ ON DECEMBER TWO Last, INVESTIGATION AT PHILADELPHIA INTERNATION=
AL AIRPORT REVEALED wy mee IS AN ACCESS am IN THE REAR LADDER.
WELL ON EITHER' SIDE OF THE WELL ENABLING NECKANICS TO REACH a

—-BQUIPMENT BETVEEN WELL AND OUTER FUSELAGE OF THE SHIP IN THE TAIL ao

, THIS PANEL CAN BE OPENED FROM INSIDE THE, WELL AND THE _ 2
FUSELAGE WITHOUT TOOLS. FACING THE REAR OF THE AIRCRAFT IT Is ee

_ NOTED THAT THE AREA BEHIND THE PANEL ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE WELL oe

_ ONTAINS SUFFICIENT ROOM FOR TWO OR THREE NEW TO BE "INSIDE. THE

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SANE ROOM IS AVAILABLE BEHIND THE RIGHT PANEL» HOWEVER, A MECHANIC - 2
ADVISED THAT THE AIR DUCTS CONTAINED WITHIN THAT WALL MOULD CAUSE oom
THE MEAT INSIDE THE PANEL TO BE TOO HOT FOR MAN TO SURVIVE. ae
, SEATTLE CONSIDER CHECK OF LEFT REAR TAIL PANEL SECTION OF | "

| HEJACKED AIRCRAFT TO DETERMINE IF IT IS POSSIBLE THAT HIJACKER

"MAY: HAVE UTILIZED THIS SPACE TO CONCEAL HIMSELF DURING FLIGHT. :
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TO SEATTLE €164=81) '
FROM | LAS VEGAS (164-69)

UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER$ NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO
FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY~FOUR, SEVENTY-O NE.
CAA ~ HIJACKING$ EXTORTION. OCG: SEATTLE.

RE SEATTLE TEL INSTANT.

INSPECTION PANELS LOCATED NEAR REAR STAIRWAY IN INSTANT
FLIGHT WERE REMOVED AND AREAS BEHIND THEM INSPECTED WHILE PLANE
WAS AT RENO, NEVADA.

FOLLOWING THE SEARCH OF THE PLANE AND THE DUSTING OF IT FOR
FINGERPRINTS THERE WAS A GUARD PLACED AT THE PLANE FOR SECURITY
PURPOSE r AND THE PLANE WAS "BUTTONED UP" UNTIL JUST BEFORE IT
LEFT RENO AT ELEVEN TWO Aclley: NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIVE, SEVENTY<ONE.
IN ADDITION, THE RESTROOM FACILITIES WERE SEARCHED.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

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Date of transcription 12/8/ 71

| Vancouver,
Washington, was interviewed atShis place of employment,

, Vancouver, Washington, He was
advised of the identity of the interviewing Agents and was
asked for information on the skip name, [= |

He admitted that when_he is | | and
transmitting he does use the name | |for identification
though it is not a name approved by the Federal Commmications
Commission. He pointed out that a number of people use the
skip names for identification.

d that about one month ago he
contacted . Washington

and did ask her the location of |
in that area since it was not on his map. This_information
was given to him and he probably used the rame| Jat the
time of contact.

He pointed out that he owns a| |
airplane which bears registration number| Jand is
parked | _ _ , Washington. This
is a white plane with two colors of green strips running
the length of the aircraft.

was asked if he had been flying on
November 24, 1971, particularly in[____—sidi,.:~ Washington area
and stated that he had not been flying for the headline

of his plane is down and to fly in that condition would be
extremely dangerous. He pointed out that his plane does
have a large red light on the top of his tail assembly and
further that he normally monitors | Je

[sis volunteered information that he knew of
a person who transmitted as[_——sii'. and advised he would
attempt to secure this individual's name ard address.

| later that day telephonically advised that
he had identified

, Vancouver, Washington, who works a straight swin
shift | | and whose phone number is | |.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164~81) (P) 12/2/71
SA CHARLES E. FARRELL

UNKNOWN SUBJECT, aka

Dan Cooper

NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #305
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE

11/24/71

CAA ~ HIJACKING; EXTORTION

00: Seattle

RE: SEARCH AREA

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Airlines had some additional information concerning a possible
adjustment to the search area.

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airplane was being flown on automatic pilot during..most. of b7C
the time it was in flight over the- State. of Washington and
on down south.

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the crew might not be able to detect a change in the attitude b7C
of the flight caused by a 180~pound man parachuting | from the
back stairway. However, he advised that he is examining the
flight recorder with a microscope which he expects will
reveal "little bobs" or anomalies where the automatic pilot
has mechanically made an adjustment to maintain the level
flight of the aircraft.

He noted that there was a "little bob" at approximately
8:09 p.m. and based on that finding and the_fact that the
air stairs had gone down sometime earlier, [ suggested bé
that the search area probably should be extended to the north = b7c
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| THE "AFOREMENTIONED AIRCRAFT DOES Not POSSESS "ALL THE CAPABILITIES. '
. WETLIZED IN REFERENCED NITEL» MR. NOLAND AND MRe MYRON KRUEGER.

"eon, ooRDrNATOR OF DEPARTMENT oF DEFENSE, AND: INTER-AGENCY. °

> AFFAIRS, NASA, SUSGESTED THE FOLLOWING ALTERNATIVES APTER, a gt

* @ustoERATION OF PROBLEMS THVOLVED AND OBJECTIVES OF TUSTANT / ee :

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FOR ASSISTANCE IN SEARCH AND. DISSEMINATION 70 "LOCAL" Late ENFORCEMANT..

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Pa ATRORAFT AT PORTOLA, CALIF. FROM' FAA, OAKLAND» AT "APPROXIMATELY.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/2/71
SA THOMAS J. MANNING

UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper;
NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #305,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE

11/24/71

CAA ~- HIJACKING; EXTORTION

Ground search conducted in vicinity of County Road

42 and Peart Road, Clark County, Washington by walking the
area. This location is the mid-point of the circle based
upon information furnished by Northwest Airlines. Terrain
found to have extremely heavy brush in areas which were not
open fields. Amount of coverage was 1/3 of a mile by a
mile and a half long, with nine Agents utilized in search
procedure. Negative Results, Each of the heavily brushed
areas were impenatrable.

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ta: Woodland in a northerly direction to Silver Lake and east
sw" to west 20 miles, making a' total area of 800 square miles .
svi' - Govered with negative results. It was found that this was a
"e, extremely rough' terrain and no sightings were made of any -
""f suspicious objects. Further, the Confer Road in-the Kalama, _ re
ey Sgatashangton area was covered by air with negative results. cs
Mf 2 MANNING advisedtthat last night (12/1/7))_at 1:30 aM,
- Bed vthe_ Gheties's Office called and said a hitchhiker b6
ar * who gave his address in| | Washington, said he had . b7c
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MR BIG SCCODE. pete EXPENSES

'WO1OPM URGENT 12-1-71 LOH, SN

TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) 0 st .
SEATILE (164-81) |
FROM SACRAMENTO (164-58) (IP) ot Dy

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UNSUBs NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO .
SEATTLE, NOV. TYENTYFOUR, LAST. CAA - HIJACKING; .EXTORTION. .
O00: SEATTLE. )

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RE. SEATILE TEL, NOV. THIRTY, Last, TUSTRUCTI Ne SACRAMENTO

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INSTITUTE SEARCH OF ROUTE TAREQ BY LNSTANT AIRCRAFT In SACRAMENTO .

DIVISION. a ote ; _ San 7
IT IS NOTED ABOVE SEARCH INVOLVES DISTANCE OF APPROXIMATELY:

"THREE HUNDRED MILES OVER TERRAIN INACCESSIBLE OTHER THAN BY AERIAL

RECONNAISSANCE. ALL AVENUES THOROUGHLY EXHAUSTED IN ATTEMPT TO

OBTAIN MILITARY AIRCRAFT FOR SEARCH « "MILITARY ADVISES EITHER BECAUSE

OF REGULATIONS OR REIMBURSEMENT CONSIDERATIONS AIRCRAFT UNAVAILABLE. .

TO FBI. THEREFORE, NECESSARY FUNDS MUST BE "AUTHORIZED IN ORDER te
'UDILIZE MILITARY OR PRIVATE ATRORAFT FOR REQUESTED SEARCH. |
"AUTHORITY REQUESTED TO EXPEND' FUNDS FOR 'THIS SEARCH. ; _*

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/1/72
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

UNSUB;

NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT $305,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,

11/24/71,

CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION

00: SEATTLE

| |) case agent, Sacramento, called b6
on 12/1/71. b7C

He said they would have an Air Force plane in

the air tomorrow, to search the entire route through
California.

I requested that some time this afternoon they
send us a teletype to report a summary of what they did
today.

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TO | SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM SACRAMENTO (164-50) 1P

UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,

"NOV. TWENTYFOUR, LAST. CAA - HIJACKING; ; EXTORTION, 003. SEATTLE.

RE SEATTLE TEL, NOV. THIRTY, LAST.

STATE TEL ISSUED THIS DATE SETTING FORTH DETAILS OF CASE,
DESCRIPTION OF UNSUB, AND REQUEST THAT ANY PERTINENT INFO DEVELOPED
BE FURNISHED SACRAMENTO FBI, PERTINENT Law ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES
COVERING AREA DESCRIBED BY ROUTE OF NORTHWEST FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE
ALREADY COGNIZANT OF THIS MATTER. LIAISON WITH HOSPITALS AND 7
MEDICAL FACILITIES ALONG ROUTE OF FLIGHT BEING ESTABLISHED SHOULD | .
UNSUB SEEK ATTENTION FOR POSSIBLE INJURIES.

SACRAMENTO THIS DATE MAKING EFFORTS TO OBTAIN APPROPRIATE TYPE
MILITARY AIRCRAFT FOR AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE ALONG FLIGHT PATH AND
AERIAL SEARCH WILL BE CONDUCTED AS S00 AS POSSIBLE.

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1 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

| Date of transcription 12 /6 / 72

| | L bé
| . | Washington, advised that a white male who identified b7C
himself as|
Nevada, rented a house | Lon
September 27, 1971, which was Located on] b

| | This house
was unfurnished and| | advised heis sure this man
never lived in the house for at no time did he ever see
him bring anything to the house except a few personal
possessions in a late model white Datsun stationwagon.
The rent_of [__] a month in advance was paid by check
number dated September 27. 1971, drawn on the|___]
Nevada, with a
transit number of | |. this check had the name of

on its face but had no address. | | advised
another check in the amount of lwas paid for the second
month rent in advance on October 28, 1971.
| recalled that this man and a white b6
woman who was with him moved the few belongings they had BIC
in the house from the place on November 28, 1972. | |

also advised that this man told him that he had/ |
but at no time did/| in or about the

property and further the man told him several untruths for
some unexplained reason, one of which he recalled was that

the| | were returning to |
Nevada, and the next day he observed that the woman was still
there.
He further recalled that this man told him he was
unemployed and in reply_to questions by[___—s«dwhether he b6
could meet the rent of per month, he stated he could. b7C

He further advised that no mention was made of. any source
of income of this individual but the two checks were pro-

| cessed for collection with no problem.
advised that he observed this man moving b6
his possessions from the house on November 28, 1971, -and is BIC

sure that there was no furniture in the boxes. Further, he
stated that he is sure the man never lived in the house and
has no reason to offer for his having rented it for two months.

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Interviewed on 1i/ 30/71 at Longview, Washington Fite $ SE 1642-81 ARIS
by __-_SA THOMAS J, MA % Date dictated 11/30/72

Tbfs document ¢contoing nelther cecommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, It fs the property of the FBI and Is loaned to your agency;
it ond its contents ate not to be distributed outside your agency.

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advised that he had observed a composite
fF the individual involved in the hijacking of a

Northwest Airlines flight on November 24, 1971, and can
say that the man who rented the property has some resemblance
to the composite except that this man had more hair than

the hair shown on the composite picture.

He also stated

that he would say the man looked Latin to him and had what

he, _____d, thought could have been a midwest accent.

He

further pointed out that when this man:moved out on
November 28, 1971, he appeared to be in no great rush and
was not unduly anxious to get away from the area.

[__|deseribed the man as follows:

Sex:
Race:
Age:
Height:
Weight:

Complexion:
Hair:

[___—'| described

Sex:

Race:

Build:
Complexion:
Height:

Weight:
Characteristic:

Male

White

45

6!

176 pounds

Dark

Sandy dark hair

the woman as follows:

Female

White

Slight

Dark

5st 58

120 pounds

Could be looked upon
Latin extraction but
accent of any type.

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OPTIONAL. FORM NO, 16

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CSA FeMR (4) CHR} 101091.8 @. ' @

UNITED STATES GO MENT

Memorandum
TO SAC, SEATTLE (16481) (P) _ DATE: 41/30/71
FROM SA THOMAS J. MANNING SuB = E.
SUBJECT: UNKNOWN SUBJECT;

NORTHWEST AIRLINES 1

3 - Seattle
Gz, 822 Lae

FLIGHT #305,

PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71

CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION
00: SEATTLE

Investigation at Longview RA territory, 11/30/71,
corkisted of contacts with all hospitals, doctor's clinics, in
Clark, Cowlitz, Lewis, and Wahkiakum counties, all negative.
Doctors and other medical locations being circularized with
descriptive information and composite photograph by interested
medical authorities.

A four seater helicopter of the Bonneville Power Administration
conducting air search in an area 20 X 20 miles with negative
results. The three-day use of helicopters and fixed wing
aircraft in the prime search areain the opinion of the writer
has been completed. No information of value has been uncovered
in this aerial surveillance.

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| » has been previously furnished
in teletype sent to the Las Vegas ivision this date. Close
observation of terrain features in the search area composed of
500 square miles and has been flown for three days consists of
the following: -

Around Lake Merwin in the northern most part of the
search area there is a ridge line which averages 1700 'feet'
running in an east to westerly direction with dense timber, extremely
héavy undergreth and few clearings. Proceeding north and east
of this location into Cowlitz County the terrain becomes more
timbered with heavy growth of. underbrush along the Be

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which stands under dense timber in parts in which stands .
the undergrowth is heavy. There is a ridge line running north
Ve" sof the serch area.

TREGET. "PSD x 4
information 'secured concerning weather conditions
on the night "oF tts 'hijacking lfpom the Portland International
Airport Weathe?? Service reflect oth Sywinds at 7,000 feet
along the flight Satie OF tie HAN zi t were blowing from the
west and were' 'from 85-to 30 mots. Investigation on the
ground in the search area reflects, that weather conditi
were a wind biowing from the Wes? igia Re TEgHt. tasty velar ?
PAVING with wild veldcity U0 te 1s Khots £ Gta Ailedymar fon
iWon this? weather servvids heflears f CETIRE CE Sook eer s*
AOHLE00 Feet edu TS heavyy—-CISUE GSvE ACU ergo! fesse
obesity sehen SEMngy prouMers?te photograph by interested
medical authorities.

A four seater helicopter of the Bonneville Power Administnat..
eondueting air search in an area 20 X 20 miles with negative
vesults. The three-day use of helicopters and fixed wing
eiveraft in the prime search areain the opinion of the wr.ter
hes been completed. No information of value has been unoovared
én this aerial surveillance.

Information concerning | b6
| | has been previously furnisnes bc
"4 teletype sent to the Las Vegas Division this date. Close — :
cbservation of terrain features in the search area composed ox
43% gquare miles and has been flown for three days consists of

vie

#6e@ Fullowing:

Around Lake Merwin in the northern most part of _ Site
search arca there is a vidge line which averages 1700 feet .
running in an east to westerly direction with dense timber, axvreucs
heavy undergreth and few clearings. Proceeding north and eh
of this location into Cowlitz County the terrain becomes ire
timbered with heavy growth of underbrush along the flight osth

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SAC, SEATTLE (164~81) 11/30/71
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

UNKNOWN SUBJECT;

NORTHWEST AIRLINES

FLIGHT $305,

PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71

CAA ~ HIJACKING; EXTORTION
00: SEATTLE

BUfile 164-2111

On 11/30/71, the Bureau sent out a new artist's
conception without glasses and requested we show it to
witnesses. Subsequently I called [in Division 6,
and told him witnesses | j/aid not
see subject's eyes; they saw him only with the dark glasses.
I told him with regard to witness | |} that this witness
thought the eyes were "good." This witness still maintains
however, that the forehead should be slightly broader; the
nose around the nostrils should be broadened and the cheeks
were to flat and should be made rounder,

requested that we send him a teletype
on this and also forward the artist's conception in which our
witness had drawn in his suggested changes. This was done.

threw the following out for our guidance,
instruction and consideration:

1. He said in our initial teletype, page 5, we

have one witness saying that the subject carried a dark colored

attache case and a paper bag 4"x12"x18". He wonders if this
paper bag could have contained a jump suit and a pair of boots.

2. In the same teletype, there was mention that a
witness scuffled with the subject. I told him that I had
already discussed this with the Agents involved and this was
a wrong choice of words and that the word should have been
"hassel" and that there was actually no scuffle and the
witness had not had to separate the two, but merely stepped in
to end an argument. b é

3. [ | wanted to know if we had enlisted
hiking clubs and other outdoor groups to aie yd the sea | earch.

3 - file SEARCH see
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SE 164-81

I told him that we had used only law enforcement
personnel; that this was extremly rugged terrain and not the
kind of territory you could lay off in a grid and search
minutely at arm's length. He said to include in our next
teletype something about the terrain.

4. He also said to include in our next teletype
something about weather conditions in the drop area at the time
the drop occurred.

5. He also wanted to know if we had given
consideration to hiring a professional parachutist or make a
simulated drop with a dummy and following it to the ground.
He wondered if anything could be gained by such a maneuver.

I pointed out to him that anything we did by way of
simulating the conditions would be a very broad approximation
since we didn't know exactly where the plane was, assuming
that the hijacker did go out at 8:12 PM, when they felt the
"oscillation", Since this would vary with such factors as
wind direction; which side of the flyway the plane happened
to be on at the time, etc. He said he understands this but
he would like us to think about it.

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NR 213 PD PLAIN
6335 PM URGENT 11-38-71 AdW

TOs DIRECTOR (164=2111)
SEATILE €164@81) +e

FROMs PORTLAND (164-41) 2P

| UNSUB, NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER
TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE, CAA - HIJACKING$ EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.

FOLLOWING IS STATUS OF AIR SEARCH IN OREGON WHICH HAS

BEEN COMPLETED WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS. : ™
A SIX MILE CORRIDOR ALONG FLIGHT TRACK AS PLOTTED BY

RADAR GENERALLY ALONG VICTOR TWENTYTHREE AIRWAY FOLLOWED BY

NJAL FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE BETWEEN PORTLAND AND SALEM WAS

ACCOMPLISHED BY USE OF TWO. HELICOPTERS CONTAINING THREE ARMY

PERSONNEL AND TWO AGENTS EACH AND TWO FIXED WING AIRCRAFT

MANNED BY TWO AGENTS EACH. THE SALEMHTO EUGENE LEG WAS n

COVERED BY SAME TWO HELICOPTERS AND ONE FIXED WING PLANE MANNED

BY TWO AGENTS. IN ADDITION, PART OF THE ROUTE (SALEM TO

EUGENE AREA) WAS SEARCHED BY BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION

HELICOPTER PERSONNEL WHO WERE IN VICINITY ON POWER LINE PATROL

END OF PAGE ONE | E
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CHARCHED..—~— INDEXE!

OPRIALIZED: FILED anne

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PAGE TWO
PD 164-41
DUTIES, THE GRANTS PASS TO NEDFORD AREA WAS SEARCHED BY
ONE AGENT AND A FAA PILOT IN A FIXED WING AIRCRAFT. FROM
EUGENE SOUTH TO GRANTS PASS AREA WAS COVERED BY ONE AGENT AND
CIVILIAN PILOT IN FIXED WING AIRCRAFT. THE AREA BETWEEN
EUGENE AND MEDFORD IS FORESTED, MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS AND
LARGELY COVERED BY SNOW MAKING ANY FURTHER SEARCH BY AIR
IMPRACTICAL, AIR SERVICES IN THE EUGENE TO MEDFORD AREAS
WHO REGULARLY FLY THIS ROUTE HAVE BEEN ALERTED AND REQUESTED
TO REPORT ANY SIGHTINGS PERTINENT TO THIS CASE,

THE SEARCH NOW COMPLETED BY THIS OFFICE HAS BEEN SEVERELY
DELAYED BY STORMY AND LOW CEILING WEATHER.

UNSUB ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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626 PM URGENT {1/36/71 VAB

TO-PORTLAND (164-41)
FROM SEATTLE (164-81) (P)

UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SE-
ATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE, CAA-HIJACKING$ EXTORTION.

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FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF PORTLAND IN CONDUCTING SEARCH IN THIS

MATTER, NW, MINNEAPOLIS, IN A CO.N- —_

VERSATION WITH THIS OFFICE ON NOVEMBER TWENTYNINE LAST, ADVISED

THAT THEY HAVE BEEN PASSING INFORMATION ON TO US BASED ON THE QUOTE
PRESSURE 'BUMP ENQUOTE INDICATING THAT THE MAN HAD JUMPED NORTH OF
PORTLAND. HE SAID IT WAS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE THAT THE MAN DID NOT
JUMP WHEN THIS PRESSURE BUMP TOOK PLACE. IT WAS ENTIRELY POSSIBLE
THAT HE SAT ON THE END OF THE STAIRS TO CHECK OUT HIS REFERENCE
POINTS BEFORE HE JUMPED. IF HE DID THIS FOR EVEN & SHORT TIME, HE
COULD HAVE EASILY LANDED ACROSS THE RIVER IN OREGON. HE POINTED OUT

THIS CONNECTION THAT THERE IS AN AURORA FIELD NEAR DONALD, OREGON.
END

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TO: SEATTLE (164-81)

FROM: PORTLAND (164-41) IP

UNSUB; NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES, FLIGHT NO. THREE ZERO FIVE,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE. CAA -
HIJACKING; EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.

FOREST SERVICE MAKING AVAILABLE AIRCRAFT TODAY AND SEARCH
WILL BE MADE ALONG LINE OF FLIGHT IN MEDFORD, OREGON AREA.

SA THOMAS G. ACKERMAN WILL CONDUCT VISUAL INSPECTION FROM AIRCRAFT
ON LINE OF FLIGHT IN EUGENE, OREGON AREA TODAY. SEATTLE WILL BE
FURNISHED ANY POSITIVE INFORMATION. PENDING.

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PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, 11/24/71
CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION .

For record pumoses, SA MANNING advised that the military
helicopters used at Woodland on 11/26/71 left Gray Field
(Fort Lewis) at 6:40 AM, arrived at Woodland at 8:15 AM,
were airborne approximately 9:30 AM, came in and refueled
once and were relieved and discontinued the air search
about £1:30 AM. The airmen went to lunch and departed
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CAA ~- HIJACKING; EXTORTION

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I pointed out to him that I had examined the log of
this flight very carefully and it would appear that the area
in which we are currently searching is the most logical one to
search. However, I was curious to know if the pilot would be
able to detect a difference in the trim of the plane, caused
by_the added weight brought about through the hijacker's
descent on the stairway.

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detected by the pilot werké it not for the fact that the plane b7C
was on "automatic pilot"/during the flight, which he des-
cribed as being a normaf procedure. He continued, however, _?

and said he had examined minutely the flight recorder record
and was unable to detect any similar occurrence in the airplane

at the site we are presently searching. He advised that in view

of this very likely there would be no other logical place
to commence a search at this time. —_—_—_—_—

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I told him that the Minneapolis Office had been
asked on November 27 to accomplish this immediately and
had just finished talking to them and they were going to
get it done. .
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could say positively that one of the parachutes was
inoperable. I told him there was no doubt about it, but
if he wanted a piece of paper on it I would prepare one.

I told him we were contining ground search but
the weather made it impossible to fly down there today.

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Date of transcription L2/ 9/71
. __ | Washington, ®6
advised he heard a large aircraft fly over his home about bie
8:10 PM on November 24, 1971, during a driving rainstorm.
The plane was traveling toward Portland, Oregon.

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November 24, 1971, at about 8:15 p.m. he heard a large plane
fly over his| } He stated that the plane was

extremely low and sounded as though it was stalling out and
then started to operate correctly. He stated that the wind
was coming from the west at about 15 miles per hour and it
was raining hard. He added that the elevation where his

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on November 24, 187. She added

that she did not see any airplanes circling in the general
vicinity | |} on November 24, 1971. She added that

the only person, outside of | | |

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12/9/71

Date of transcription

during the afternoon hours of November 24, 1571, and that he
observed a small low wing airplane, white in color, with a
brownish blue strip running from_the front of the plane to the
rear bearing the prefix letters[]and some number on the
' bottom of one wing, circling low over the general area of
| Washington. He stated that the plane continued to fly
over the area all afternoon and into the evening and that he
last saw it wound 8:00 PM,

. He stated that after dark the plane turned on 4
greenish colored light in front and a red light on the tail.

He stated that he paid close attention to the plane as he was
} He stated that he saw the same plane in the

same general area about one month ago. He said it was a low
wing model plane. He did not see the plane land.

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stated| during the afternoon bic
hours of November 24, 1971, but that he does not recall seeing
an airplane and that he | |

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Washington, advised she saw a small airplane circlin bIC

extremely low _ _

November 24, 1971, between 8:00 PM and 8:30 PM. She advised
that the airplane had a large red light on the tail and that
she could provide no further information or description. She
also advised she did not see the plane land and that

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_| Washington, b6
advised that on November 24, 1971, shortly after 5:00 PM, he BIC

observed a small metallic colored airplane circling low over
the general area of his home. He described the plane as
powerful, noisy, tail dragger, two seater, and with a large
red light on the tail. He added that the plane was low enough
to the ground and close enough to him that he could see one
person in the plane who he stated was a male. He stated that
| '|, toid him the plane had been circling in this
area for a short period of time prior to 5:00 PM. He added
that he | Jjieft their house for a short period of
time and returned shortly after 8:06 PM and that the small
plane was again circling in the general area near his house.
He stated that he could tell it was the same plane by the
noise it made and the large red tail light.

He stated that the last time he saw the plane was a
Little after 8:00 PM when the pilot turned on the landing
light and appeared to be making a landing. He did not see the
plane land. stated that he knows the time was a little b6
after 8:00 PM because he had hurried home to see a television b7C
show which started at 8:00 PM and that the show had already
started. He stated he could not recall the name of the show Gat.
because-he_had_dinected his attention to. the. airplane_' which
had been circling his house. He stated that he was aggravated
by the plane circling low over his house and that is why he
can recall the details so clearly.

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Washington, stated that she heard a small plane circling bic
over her residence prior to 5:00 PM on November 24, 1971,

and that when [ Jarrived home shortly after 5:00 PM

she told him that the plane had been circling low over the

area for some time. She stated that| | then paid

close attention to the plane until they left their residence

for a short time returning shortly after 8:00 PM at which

time the plane was again observed circling in the general

area behind their home| _ _ She

stated she did not see the plane land. She added that on

November 24, 1971, from about 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM, a white

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1871, and parked in the same place from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM.

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Date of trenscrlpiion. 12 /3/71

_ _ \ Washington, B6
advised that sometime around the first of October, she was bic
contacted on | _ by a_person
who identified himself as | | She stated that

is a skip name and that she does not know his true

identity. She added that made inquiries regardin
the location of [ Jin the general area of i
Washington. She stated that she gave specific

_information concerning t tion of |
[ Washington. She added that

| Saw _a small airplane circling low over
the general area of | | Washington, on November 24, 1971,
and that he could provide a partial registration number
which was on the wing of the airplane.

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) / DATE: 41/27/71

SPc| |

UNSUB;

N.W. Airlines Flight #305,
11/24/71

CAA - HIJACKING;
EXTORTION

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At 6:10 PM, 11/27/71, | L_
Seattle, phone |
[} advised he was] [when he noticed

two cars,and two individuals transferring something from
one of the cars to the other car. This was about 6:00 AM,
11/26/71, in an area | Washington,
and occurring in a place where no vehicles usuail o be-
cause of the swampy terrain and woody area. rj believes
this may have something to do with the recent hijack and
provided the information to us for further reference.

[____]did not see what the two individuals looked like
or the makes of the vehicles because of the darkness. He
could not describe the matter being transferred for the same
reason.

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UNKNOWN SUBJECT; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #305, PORTLAND TO
SEATTLE, 11/24/71, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. 00: SE. ;
AIR SEARCH CONDUCTED IN AREA WHERE HIJACKER
BELIEVED TO HAVE LEFT PLANE, UTILIZING TWO ARMY HELICOPTERS
FROM GRAY FIELD; ONE WEYERHAUSER COMPANY HELICOPTER AND ONE
BONNEVILLE POWER ADM., HELICOPTER. FOR PURPOSE OF SEARCH,
AREA WAS DIVIDED INTO SIX SECTIONS AND DUE TO WEATHER
CONDITIONS, ONLY THREE WERE COVERED TODAY. SEARCH WAS
NEGATIVE. A LIMITED GROUND SEARCH ALSO CONDUCTED WHICH WAS
NEGATIVE, EXCEPT FOR -tHO-ENBEFESURESTINEEEG NORTHEAST
QUADRANT OF THE SEARCH AREA, WHERE TWO INDIVIDUALS MADE
COMMENTS CONCERNING A LOW FLYING AIRPLANE AT THE PERTINENT

TIME, BUT SAWN NOTHING DROPPING FROM PLANE.

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DISPLAYED WITH OTHERS, TO WITNESS. |

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IDENTICAL. HE STATED HIJACKER HAD A MUCH BROADER FACE AND

NOSE. PHOTO OF[_____] BEING DISPLAYED TO OTHER WITNESSES.

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Date of transcription 11/2 S/71

Washington, furnished the following information:

| Jwas home during the evening of
November 24, 1971 and heard a jet plane going over his house
sometime during the evening at approximately 9:00 p.m.,
although the exact time was not known. 'This aircraft was
extremely loud and sounded as if it were flying very low.
| ]did not bother to get up and make an attempt to
see the aircraft as he felt he would not be able to see any-
thing due to the darkness.

| Jthought that this was someone flying
in to land at Portland. Aircraft landing at Portland frequentl
are placed in a holding pattern in this neighborhood. | ]
stated that| |
| . This jet was
headed south and slightly east at an altitude that was unknown
although it was low enough and loud enough to shake the house.

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11/28/71 |

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3:47 PM URGENT 11-28-71 BLB

TOs SEATTLE (164-81) _ wel

FROMs MINNEAPOLIS (164-73) P

_ UNSUB: NORTHWEST AIRLINES: FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO

SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTY ONE. CAA = HIJACKING$
EXTORTION O00: SEATILE.
REMYTEL ELEVEN TWENTYSEVEN SEVENTYONE,.

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NORTHWEST AIRLINES, MINNEAPOLIS TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED THIS DATE

THAT INFLIGHT RECORDER READINGS FROM SUBJECT AIRCRAFT INDICATE THE
POSSIBILITY THAT UNSUB TOUCHED GROUND THREE (3) STATUTE ES
NORTHEAST OF LA CENTER, WASHINGTON ON A BEARING ZERO EIGHT ZERO

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DEGREES TRUE.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 11/28/71

ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

UNKNOWN SUBJECT;

NORTHWEST AIRLINES Ct fe
FLIGHT 305 ad oy
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE j~
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CAA - HIJACKING: EXTORTION
00: Seattle

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called twice on the afternoon of November 28, 1971. The b7C
first time he advised that he had checked on possibile
information and believed that a more accurate pin-pointing
of the possible place of descant of the hijacker would be
three statute miles east northeast of LaCenter, Washington,
on a bearing of 080 degrees, true. He said the center of
the circle would depend on the clock being a few seconds
off one way or the other or the Unsub failing free before
he opened the chute, However, he would estimate that a
circle with a three-mile radius from the point described
above should come close to the place of descent.

He called back subsequently and said that he had
talked to the man who was working the radar at Portland
which was very accurate since it was very close to the
plane at the time and determined that the plane was actually
one to two miles east of the center of this particular
Ely-way. He said for this reason, we might consider
moving the center of the circle described above one or
two miles due east.

This information was furnished to SA MANNING on
November 28, 1971. He was instructed to make certain that
this area was thoroughly searched and to consider air
Yb. &

coverage on November 29, 1971.
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314° PM URGENT 11-27-71 TJT
a TO SEATTLE (164-81).

FROM MINNEAPOLIS (164-73) P

UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND
TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE. CAA ~ HIJACKING;
EXTORTIGN., OO: SEATTLE.

RE URTEL NOVEMBER TWENTYSIX LAST.
\ | JON CAPTIONED FLIGHT ADVISED PS |
THAT ALL LIGHTS EXCEPT NAVIGATIONAL LIGHTS WERE OFF SHORTLY
AFTER TAKE OFF OUT OF SEATTLE. AT NO TIME DiD THEY FLASH THEIR
LIGHTS ON AND OFF DURING THE HIJACKING. [_| ADVISED THAT
THEIR FLIGHT PATH WOULD HAVE BEEN APPROXIMATELY SEVEN NAUTICAL
MILES FROM AMBOY, WASHINGTON AND THE PLANE WAS AT TEN THOUSAND
FEET INDICATED EIGHT THOUSAND ABOVE GROUND, FLYING IN CLOUDS.

—_

THE FLASHING RADIO BEACON AT KALAMA, WASHINGTON WAS NOT OBSERVED

SINCE THEY WERE IN THE SOUP, ON INSTRUMENTS.
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Cc
AIRCRAFT TO DETERMINE THEIR ALTITUDES AND LOCATION AT THIS TIME,

ADVISED THAT THE REASON THEY NEVER FLASHED THEIR

LIGHTS ON AND OFF WAS THEY NEVER WERE SURE HE WASN'T STILL ON
BOARD UNTIL TOUCHDOWN AT RENO.

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11348 pt WRGENT 11/26/71 DCA
TO MINNEAPOLIS

FROM SEATTLE (164-81) IP

HNSUBs; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 4O. THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND
TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TENTYFOUP, SEVENTYONE. CAA - HIJACKING
EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE.

DURING SEARCH TODAY "ITNESS NEAR AMBOY, WASHI™GTON, RECALLS
THAT AT APPROXIMATELY EIGHT PM, TWYENTYFOURTH INSTANT, HE RECALLS A
LOW FLYING JET PLANE FLYING SOUTH AT-.AN UNUSUALLY Low ALTITUDE
AND THAT ALL LIGHTS, INCLUNING NAVIGATION AND CABIN LIGHTS "ERE
GOING ON AND OFF,

INTERVIEW MEMBERS OF CREY TO DETERMINE IF THIS AIRCRAFT "AS
THE HIJACKED AIRCRAFT. INTERVIEW CREY FURTHER TO DETERMING WHETHER
THEY HAD ANY VISUAL SITINGS OR LANDMARKS ST THE TIME SUBJECT IS
BELIEVED TO HAVE EXITED AIRPLANE, MOTING THAT A FLASHINE PADIO
BEACON AT KALAMA, MASHINGTOM, COULD WELL HAVE BEEN VIEWED RY THEM
AT ARBONT THIS TIME,

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SAC, PORTLAND November 26, 1371
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)

UNSBB;

HORTHVEST AIRLINES

FLIGHT $305

PORTLAND TO SEATTLE
13/28/71

CAA - HIJACKING: EXTORTION

00: Seattle

There is attached a map which has been
prepared by the Aiv Force showing the route taken
by the airplane from Seattle to the California ~
Oregon line.

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2 - Seattle

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10
MAY 1942 EOITION
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

: FILE (164-81) DATE:. 21/26/71

: SAC, SEATTLE

UNSUB;
NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 305
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE

41/24/71

CAA ~ HIJACKING/ EXTORTION

On 11/26/04 at 8:30 AM I called ASAC RUEHL in Port-
land, told him about the matter of the military helicopters
an@d asked him to have someone contact the Bonneville Power
Administration at once, see if they would let us use 2 or 3
of their helicopters in this search.

In addition, I told him to arrange to have 500 gallons
of jet fuel (JP-4) delivered to the Pearson Air Park in Vancouver,
Washington, so it could be used as fuel for the helicopters.

I furnished to him SA MANNING's telephone number
at Woodland (225-2741 or 225-2731.

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FILE (164-81) November 26, 1971
SAC J. E. MILNES

UNSUB;

Northwest Airlines

Flight #305

Portland to Seattle
11/24/71

CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION

00: Seattle
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| J called and advised that the Sixth
Army Headquarters in San Francisco wanted to know why
the helicopters were being relieved. Itold him that the
Army in Washington had informed us the cost would be
approximately $250 per hour per unit, and that I thought
the charge was excessive and that we could get the same
service for either nothing or substantially less, and
we were relieving them for that purpose. He wanted to
know when they departed Woodland and when they expected
to arrive at Fort Lewis. I told him I would let him know.

A- Seattle
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At 12:05 p.m., I called| Jin
| Jof£ice. I advised him that the helicopters
had been relieved between 10:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. The
pilots were eating lunch, They were weathered in and
weather permitting they will return to Fort Lewis after lunch.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (2) 11/27/71
Sac J, EB, MXLNGS

UNSUB ;

NORTHWEST PLIGHT 305
11/24/71

CAA ~ HY JACKING;
EXTORTION

(GQ:SE)

On November 26, 1971, at 2:15 p.m., ¥ talked to
S&C MATSON regarding the air search of the area from Portland
te Dugene, Oregon, and pointed out to hin that we were through
vith the air search in the area in Washington, and I had
Suggested to SA MANNENG thot he have the Bonneville Ppover
Adninistration and the \jeyerhauser Helicopter Pilots contacted
to seo if they would be willing to assist in the air search in
Oregon, If se, than I told him to contact SAC MATSON, SAC
MATSON advised that the weather south of Portland now is
closing in very rapidly and it did not appear feasible to con
duct an air search now, but that they would do it at the first
opportunity,

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SAC, SSATTLE (164=-81) (P)
Sac J, BE, NILNES

UNSUB;

HORTHVEST ALRLINGS
FLIGHT 305
13/24/71

CAA ~ HESACKING
LERORTION

(66:83)

13/27/71

SA C, MASON advisod ne at 4:05 p.m. on Novonber
26, 1972, thot they had mado arranronents for tyo helicopters
fron the Army Reserve and two light planes te fly the search
pacterm tonorreyw fron Portland to Eugene, voathor pernitting,

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FILE (164-81) November 26, 1971
SAC J. E. MILNES

UNSUB;

Northwest Airlines

Flight #305

Portland to Seattle
21/24/71

CAA ~ HIJACKING; EXTORTION

00: Seattle

At 10:30 AM I advised SA MANNING that one
helicopter from the BPA, two from the Air National Guard
in Portland were on their way to Woodland now; that those
three, together with the one supplied by Weyerhaueser
seemed to me to be enough and in view of this he should
advise Army pilots that they were_being relieved. I
furnished this information to SAT | at the Bureau and told be
him that since we would very likely have to pay for them b7C
anyway pending the decision as to whether we would continue
their use, we utilize them but were in the process of
relieving them at once. I furnished him the details of
the replacement helicopters. .

|from Fort Lewis called and I b6
advised him that since we had found other helicopters bic
we were relieving his men and thanked them very much.

2 ~ Seattle
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FILE (164-812) (P) November 26, 1971
SAC J. E. MILNES

UNSUB ;

Northwest Airlines

Fiight 305

Portland to Seattle
11/24/71

CAA = HIJACKING; EXTORTION

On November 25, 1971, at 3:55 PM, I called SA
ROBERT PETERSON at the Bureau. I told him that since the
Army would not furnish any helicopters, the Navy at Whidbey
Island NAS, Oak Harbor, had agreed to furnish two which
could be used if permission was obtained from National Military
Command Center in Washington, D. C. I asked him to make this
request.

At_6:20 PM, SA PETERSON called and advised that
an | _ Jhad called and advised that the
Army at Fort Lewis would furnish two helicopters; however,
they would need "J,P. 4" fuel. I told him this could be
arranged,

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A| (from Fort Lewis then called at 8:15
and advised two helmeopters would be at the Woodland air
strip approximately one hour after dawn, weather permitting.

I told him that they should meed"SA MANNING
at that point who would brief them on the search to be
conducted.

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WROG2 MP PLAIN
1159 AM URGENT 11-26-71 JMJ
TO DIRECTOR.

PORTLAND SEATTLE
FROM MINNEAPOLIS (164-NEW) SP

UNSUB; NORTHWEST FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWO FIVE,
NINETEEN SEVEN ONE, CAA DASH HIJACKING$ EXTORTION.

RE MINNEAPOLIS TELETYPES TO DIRECTOR AND SACS NOVEMBER
TWO FIVE, LAST, AND MINNEAPOLIS TELEPHONE CALLS TO SEATILE
AND PORTLAND, NOVEMBER TWO FIVE, LAST.

|, NORTHWEST

AIRLINES, BASED ON REVIEW OF NOTES MAINTAINED WHILE IN
COMMUNICATION WITH HIJACKED AIRCRAFT FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE,
PLUS MATHEMATICAL COMPUTATION, ADVISES POSSIBLE AREA OF
LANDING OF HIJACKER COULD BE EITHER SIDE OF A LINE BETWEEN
TWO POINTS: THE FIRST POINT BEING APPROXIMATELY TWO MILES
SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF THE FACE OF THE DAM ON LAKE MERWIN,
WASHINGTON; WITH THE SECOND POINT BEING A POINT ONE MILE

END PAGE ONE

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MP 164-NEW
PAGE TWO

NORTH NORTHWEST OF HEISSON, WASHINGTON. THESE COMPUTATIONS
WERE ARRIVED AT BASED ON THE ALTITUDE, DIRECTION AND SPEED

OF THE AIRCRAFT WHICH WAS THEN FLYING VECTOR BETWEEN SEATTLE
AND PORTLAND WHEN A PRESSURE BUMP AND OSCELATION OF THE
AIRCRAFT WAS NOTED BY THE CREW. TO THOSE FAMILIAR WITH THE
AIRCRAFT, {IT WOULD INDICATE THE REAR DOOR WAS OPENED,

CAUSING THE PRESSURE TO DROP AND WOULD BE A VERY LIKELY TIME
FOR UNSUB'S DEPARTURE FROM THE AIRCRAFT.

HIS NOTES INDICATE THAT AT MINNEAPOLIS TIME TWENTY ONE
FORTY ONE A STEWARDESS WAS ORDERED TO THE COCKPIT BY THE
HIJACKER. AT TWENTY ONE FORTY TWO THE HIJACKER ADVISED BY
INTER-PHONE THAT HE WAS. HAVING DIFFICULTY GETTING STEPS DOWN.
AT TWENTY TWO ZERO FIVE THE COCKPIT WAS IN COMMUNICATION WITH
THE HIJACKER, AND AT TWENTY TwO TEN THE PRESSURE BUMP AND
OSCELATION OCCURRED, NO FURTHER COMMUNICATION WAS HAD WITH
THE UNSUB SUBSEQUENT TO THIS TIME. )

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|WAS INFORMED BY| l PORTLAND AIRPORT,
THAT TWO CHASE PLANES WHICH WERE FOLLOWING FIVE MILES BEHIND

HIJACKED AIRCRAFT SUDDENLY VEERED TO THE EAST AND THEREAFTER
MADE A RIGHT TURN. THE POINT OF THEIR CHANGE OF COURSE WOULD
HAVE BEEN IN CLOSE PROXIMITY IN TIME AND LOCATION TO THAT
BELIEVED WHERE UNSUB DEPARTED THE AIRCRAFT. '

| JALSO POINTED OUT THERE IS A SMALL AIR FIELD

SUITABLE FOR PARACHUTE JUMPING AND SO MARKED ON A SECTIONAL
MAP IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO AREA WHERE UNSUB IS BELIEVED TO
HAVE DEPARTED THE AIRCRAFT.

PENDING

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-new) 11/25/71
SA MAX L. WILSON

UNSUB; NORTHWEST FLIGHT 305, 11/24/71
CAA*HIT JACKING 3 EXTORTION

SRA THOMAS MANNING later advised that Wethouser would have
two "choppers" coming from Tacoma to the Woodland, Wn., airport
at dawn tomorrow. Also the US Forest Service would have a small
chopper there, He asked that the US Navy choppers meet them
at the same airport. To reach him through the Woodland PD ask
the operator for the Woodland City Hall number.

According to him a high wind was blowing at Merwin Dam last
night. At about 11:30Pm there was a burglary of a grocery store
Located roughly 10 miles South of the dam. Survival rations were
taken including beef jerky, cigarettes, gloves, etc. The person
who broke in was wearing military type boots with a corregated
sole.

Local Lawenforcement in the area has been alerted and neighbor-
hoods are being conducted starting the vicinity of this burglarized

CTOCeLrYe
MANNING will coordinate with Portland,

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

' SAC, SEATTLE 164 New DATE? = 41/25/71

OPTIONAL. FORM NO, I6 "
MAY $982 EDITION
GSA Femet (41 CPR) 104-516

TO

FROM - SA REESE H. CHIPMAN

SUBJECT: tnsubx: NORTHWEST FLIGHT 305, MEMORANDUM number 3
November 24, 1971,

CAA + HIJACKING 3; KXEN EXTORTION
Re: Memorandum No 2, this date of SA CHIPMAN setting forth

instructions received fron| | Div 6, Bureau, b6

SAC was advised of above instructions and instructed following pre
be done

RE No i Telephone | | NorthWest Airlines Flight be
Operations Office CH-2-2140, or at home Tel > b7C

A«- Ascsertain from him who can furnish the flight route of
Flight 305

B- Then contact SA | } Tacoma RA and have him arrange if »6
possible for helicopter to survey the above mentioned route b7C
with an Agent[ aboard '

RE No 2. Bureau request re preparation of FD 388 forms with respect
to each witness. Contact Hr, BIBLER who is to handle .

Re No 3. Re Submission of data concerning recorded Money.

Read Section 66, Volume 3, M of I, Iages Re Kidnapping -
"Ransom Noney, See pages 10,11 and 114,

Advise Mr. MILNES what instructions are.

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Memorandum ? q

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To : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) Date 12/5/88
From: SA |
Subject : NORJAK

00: SEATTLE

On December 1, 1988, the Vancouver office of the
FBI was telephonically contacted by lof Camas, Washington
who has a home phone of | J stated that on
the night of the hijacking he had been listening to his television
and had followed their account of the incident as it unfolded.
He stated that shortly after the takeoff from Seattle Airport
he went outside his residence and watched for low flying aircraft.
He stated that sometime after the takeoff he heard a aircraft
flying very low over his residence and then cross the Columbia
River and continue heading in a southerly direction. | |
went on to explain that the aircraft flying south from the
Seattle Airport routinely flew directly over his property in
the Camas/Washougal area of Washington. He feels that because
of the flight path of the airplane it may be possible that
Mr. D.B. COOPER had parachuted from the aircraft and Landed
in the Columbia River adjacent to his residence. He felt that
this would explain the money being discovered sometime later
down river. | Jconcern was that the search for
subject's body in the Columbia River has been taking place
too far west, he feels that it should be conducted in an area
which would be in direct line, if you were to draw a line on
the_map, from Renton, Washington through Ariel, Washington down

to | ja location in Camas, Washington.

described the area as | | which

is located | Jexplained that|
is approximately | |of the Columbia River,

near the area known as |

[Cd Stated that he has provided this information
to the FBI and other local Jaw enforcement agencies in the
past but has not seen any action being initiated in response
to his information.

(2: - Seattle (164-81)

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"CONTACTED THE. PORTLAND OFFICE TO ADVISE 'HE RAD FOURD: SoHE OLS ies
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SEVERAL CLUMPS OF $2 SILLS, INCLUDING THOSE WITH SERIAL wUl3eKs

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Lt 3T AD "IDENTIFIAaLe AS RANSOM. [Static THAY Has

SEEN .OF FaitTLy ourINe oF BEACH OF -epuueats KIVER BEAR LAKE VANCOWEN,

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UPOY GETTING OFF OF YORK THAT DAY.

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moldering money—part of the $200,-'and street shoes when he jumped into

a howling wind and freezing rain in
an unreliable parachute. It has been

han eight years ago, the FBI said'etimated that he hit the ground at a

speed of 50 to 70 mph.

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

The saga began when "Cooper"
flight to Seattle. Once air-

20 agents from the Portland and'eyening
Sealtie FBI offices have begun an €X-iborne, he demanded that the airline
tensive search of the area for more of pave $200,000 in $20 bills and three
the money—arid possibly for someiparachutes on hand when the plane
sign of Cooper or, more likely, his re- Janded in Seattle. He threatened to

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,
¥BI agent William M. Baker told a
news conference in Portiand.
Discovery of the money by Harold
Dwayne Ingram, 27, his wife, Patricia,
2, 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
gtacks 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

blow up the plane if his demands
were not met. ok
'The airline complied, providing the
parachutes and money. However, the
BI said Tuesday that the serial
purabers of the hills 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.

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ion the plane's intercom when they
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honor, D. B. Cooper T-shirts were "Here's some more wood for the
manufactured, bumper stickers were fire.Deddy.", the father recalled his
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composed, "I couldn't have spent it."
'In leafing through the rotting bills,
Baker said, the FBI made about "nine
or 10 immediate hits"—-matches with
the numbers of the missing money.
The bdills were flown to Washington
for further analysis and tests by the
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Cooper," have been found on a attempt.

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;fire. As his father was about to D.C., and Baker hopes the lab will
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THE NAME DAN COOPER BOUGHT A ONE-WAY TICKET ON NORTHWEST AIRLINES
FLIGHT 305 FROM PORTLAND, OREGON, TO SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. UPON
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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
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LOWERED AND THE REAR STAIR DOOR OPEN. AS THE AIRCRAFT PASSED OVER
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1971, at Portland International Airport, Portland, Oregan, and has
become widely known since that time as the Pp. B. Cooper Hijacking
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north river Kank of the Columbia River, approximately five miles
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On 2/14/80, | |, Washougal,

Washington, telephone | | advised on 3/22/77, he

found seven $20 bills in the Washougal River below the
bowling alley in Washougal, Washington. He stated these
bills were in the water and he gave them no thought until
the $20 bills were found recently in Vancouver which
apparently came from the D. B. Cooper skyjacking. He stated
he still had the bills and would provide the serial numbers
to the FBI when he returned home.

Later that same day, | |, supra,
provided the serial numbers and series/year of the seven
$20 bills mentioned above. The serial numbers and series/
years are as follows:

Serial Number Series/Year
L91936905B 1950B
G94889488C LO50D
AG3443468A 1950D
L90073045B 1L950B
L97893172B 1950B
L9744~~—-8B 1950B

L0446945* 1950B

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series/year of the D. B. Cooper $20 bills revealed the above
serial numbers and series/years did not match those in the
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moncy last month, has been arrested in Vancouver,

. Wash, on'a fugitive warrant from Oxiahoma.

The werrant charges Ingram with unlawfully remove
ing niorigaged property from the state of Oklahoma —a
felony charge that carries a maximum penalty' of three

| years in prison. '
@ Clark County sheriff's deputies arrested Ingrani at *
his rented bome in Vancouver Monday afternoon. He
was released Tuesday night after 2 local bai) bondsman
posted Ingram's $360 baii, sheriff's deputies said.

Kathy Kolly, a Jegal assistant in the Clack County
Prosecuting Attorney's office, said Ingram is scheduled
to appear in county district court April 17 for an

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Pitshure County, Okla, last April cbarge that Ingram
"owed $418 then cn a used car purchased a month earlier
in MeAlester, ObJs, i
. The warrant for Ingram's arrest was filed last month, °
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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 Vaneouver. .
The next day, Ingram turned the money over to the
FBI, which annotnced the find with great fanfare at a
press conference featuring the Ingram family. oe
"Several of us read the paper and recognized him," °
Roberts told The Associated Press. "We had a warrant
sworn out to have bim brought back." .
. Ingram's arrest is the latest in a string .of reversals ,
f that have followed his family's brief glow in the lime-{
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* 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 night, about 35 hours before Ingram
was arrested, a fire broke out in an upstairs bedroom of
the Ingram home and caused $100) damage before
Vancouver firefignters covld put it out.

Vancouver Fire Marshal Gordon Gage said the blaze
was caused by a short in an cxtension cord.

: Andas 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 Joo Tanaer said yesterday.
Tanner said his firm intends to advance Ingrani the
* money "to get this thing in Gkiaboma squared away. .
"We think he's getting a bum 1ap," Tanner said, . a
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'S ,"Thate 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.

"I 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 FBt 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 an airliner in 1971. '

Since last month Ingram has:

© Lost 1% days pay — about $100 —
¢ order to return the money and attend an FBI
press conference.
t @ Watcheu as a fire caused about $1} 080
: damage to the upper floor of his home at
* 1500 Markle St. Saturday. '

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warrant alleging he left that state unlawfully

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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 Decause Ingram
allegedly is behind in payments for his car.

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

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

Ingram said he bought his car from a new
car salesman, paid $260 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 me," he
said. "That's obvious, or I 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?"

But things were looking up for Ingram _

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. Was unavailable for comment this morning.

today. His hoss and attorney, Joe Tanner, -
said this morning he has been told by th
Pittsburg County, Okla., district attorney tha
that office now has verification of Ingram's-
car payments. Ingram, in fact, is paid ahead
Tanner 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:

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 tot!
back me 100 percent."

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

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WASHINGTON — Did D.B. Cooper
land in, or near, the Washougal River
rather than the Lewis River?

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FBI .geologist who worked on the
case, 1,B. Cooper may have landed in
the Washougal River, not near the
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with-federal geologists in the field.

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sind particles found among the bills
it similar to sediment aicng the
Columbia River and a number of its
thbutaries. .

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cisavowed firmly by his mineralogy
division section chief.

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wet and ereded money was found
along the banks of the Columbia
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the private view of geologist Chris
Fiedler, who hanaled the soil analysis
on the money, and not part of the
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On February 20, 1980, | . |
U, S, Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District bé
telephone | , was contacted regarding the possibility that pc
bait money found near the on February 10,
1980, could have been brought to that area by a river feeding
the Columbia River from the north.

The area believed to be the drop zone of the subject in

1971, is described as that area in the State of Washington
bounded on the mrth by the Lewis River, the east by the
Clark County-Skamania County line,- and the Columbia River. :

advised the only likely river feeding the Columbia b6
River within the above described drop zone that would be bic
capable of moving several bundles of money or a package
about 16x16x4 inches to the Columbia River would be 'the
Washougal River. <A logical time, if the money came down the
Washougal, would have been during the December 2, 1977
Washougal flood when parts of the river were approximately
ten feet over the normal winter flood stage.

There are several other streams that feed the
Columbia River upstream from the ; "bE
however, due to size, or the degree of slope of the bIC
streams, it is unlikely that a small package would have
made it to the Columbia. It is also unlikely that a
small package would have passed through Lacamas Lake downstream

to the Columbia,

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speed of the Columbia River, if a small package entered the Columbia bic
River at Washougal, Hashington. and floated in the main stream
of the river to the » a distance approximately
thirty miles, it would take 14.7 hours. This is assuming that

the package did not tumble along the bottom of the river or
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District, 319 S.W. Pine, telephone [____], was contacted
regarding dredging operations on the Columbia River since
November 24, 1971. The purpose of obtaining this information
was to determine if it was possible that the bait money
located on the beach property on the |
Vancouver, Washington, on February 10, 1980, could have been
placed there through dredging operations on the Columbia River.

| | after a review of his records, advised
that the only dredging operation between _November 24, 1971,
and the present in the vicinity of thel J
was during August 6 through September 18, 1974. .

Material dredged from the river channel in the
Columbia River was placed in several locations on or near
thel Jas well as one location across the
river on the Oregon side.

The dredge material deposited at the site where
the money was located came from the north half of the ship
channel, which is 300 feet wide, between river mile 96.
plus 38 feet and river mile 97 plus 17 feet. This material
was deposited on the beach area of the
between August 19 through the 25th, 1974, 'and consisted of
91,100 cubic yards of fill.

. The channel is maintained at 40 feet in depth
and all the material above 40 feet is dredged ont. The
dredge "Washington" of the General Construction Company
did the dredging on this project. It had a 24 inch pipe
with wiper bar inside the pipe. The wiper bar keeps large °
objects such as rocks from passing through the pipe. [[_] .
CT etated it would be possible for a 16x16x4 inch pack-
age to get through the pipe; however, it is likely that a |
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in Vancouver, Washington, where portions of $20 bills had been
found. These $20 bills were among the money furnished a person
identifying himself_as D. B. COOPER during a 1971 airplane nedhy

jacking attempt. | Jwas interviewed by SA . b6
of the Portland, Oregon, FBI Office. bIC

[ Jadvised that he found the beach area
in the vicinity where the money was found to be in approximately
four different layers. These layers consisted of an upper sand
- Layer, a post dredging sand layer, a clay lump (dredge) sand
layer, and below that an older sand layer. The upper layer con-
Sisted of six inches to eight inches of reworked beach sand
and is the sand which contained the fragments and bundles of
the recovered money. This sand also contained soda pop cans and
other debris, which were not severely damaged or rusted. The
post dredging sand contained. older soda pop cans, rusted nails
and spikes, and other rusted artifacts, which were in a much more '
detexiorated condition. The clay lump (dredge) sand was a mix-
ture of course sand and fragments of organic clay material,
ranging from one inch to five inches in size. Based on U.S. Corps
of Engineering records which reflect that they dredged the Columbia
River at this site in 1974,| Jstated this clay layer b6
in all probability, was deposited during that 1974 dredging. The b7c
older sands, which were light in color and uniform in texture
and which were found below the clay lump sand, were deposited
prior to the-1974 @redging. ,

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layer, he found cross bedded course and medium sand, which in- BIC
dicated the river and river waves had worked repeatedly on this
layer since 1974. The upper six inches to eight inches of re-
worked beach sand is the active layer which is currently being
worked by the water of the Columbia River.

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| | advised that the money was probably washed into b6
the location where it was found by natural river flow and was bic
probably placed at the location of Tena Bar during the last .
rise in the Columbia River in the past two or three months.

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Washington, on the weekend of February 9-10, 1980,
the following Special Agents from the Seattle Division
proceeded to the money site: | I

Also at the si were SA's] } and
(Vancouver RA).

Agents from the Portland Division provided
the origin manpower to search the beach area for any
other traces of NORJAK evidence.

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finished searching the crime scene area with the

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afternoon of 2/15/80. No further-funds were found or
other evidence,

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on soil samples on 2/14/80. The Portland Division is
breparing an FD-302 in this regard. The Portland
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the IGE DB. Cooper skyjacking, the Federal
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Ray Mathis, senior agent, said officials |

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of Investigation, followed a nar-{i
row trail of clies and tips in his .
quest of a legendary hijacker
calied D.B. Cooper. But the first
reat break in the case didn't come.
until Himmelsbaci's F.B.1. career
was <lrawing to a close.
After 29 years with the bureau,
Himmeisbach retired as of Fri- -
day, a few months before he
reaches the mandatory-retirement _
_age of 55.
S$ immelsbach was the agent re- °
'garded as the bureau's expert on
the puzzling case that started
twhen the stilkunknown sky pirate -
_Jeaped from a Northwest Airlines .
727 with 10,000 $20 bills and two }
parachutes on Thanksgiving Eve, :
1971 H
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per; amt nothing was seen of the
money until an S-year-old hoy
found about $5,860 of it mixed in
the sand along the Columbia River
near Yancouver, Wash., February
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have happened," Himmelsbach
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. the bones of D.B. Cooper, the airline hijacker, said F ederal Bureau of

Investigation officials yesterday.

Spec jal Agent John "Pringle said Dr. Arch Hamilton, Clark County.

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Gifford Pinchot National Forest belonged to a young girl,

Pringle said the girl's age or identity has not been derermined.

The Skull and other bones were found Sunday by Jack Bannister, of
Yacolt, Clark County. and his son, Jack, as they were panning for a

about five miles from Yacolt, according to the Clark County sheriff's
ofiice.

While the sheriff's office said it didn't think the bones belonged to
«he famed hijacker, speculation had run high that the skull was Coo-
per's because it was found in the general area where Cooper bailed out
'of a plane with $209,000,
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When the fellas gather at Tena Bar, |
fish stories abound. Hardly anyone ;
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Yena Bar isn't a lecal watering
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evidence of last - week's frantic ;
search of the beach by FBI agents
were mounds of sand turned up bys 3
thesearchers. .

"We haven't seen anybody," said
Bill Holcomb, 2 Vancouver resident +
and frequenter of Tena Bar. . $

Holcomb was fishing there with % ;
Virgil Nichols and Ken Troupe, both <
of Vancouver. The trio made up the' >
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use by river experts studying the
layers cf sand has been refiied, as
has the large hole around the spot
where year-old Brian Ingram
found the Ceoper money. Cooper hi-
jacked a Northwest Airlines piane in
197L,and jumped from the back of
the jet with $209,000.

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. said Richard Fazio, "Two people:

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and tren L went up to close the gate."
Meanwhile, local FBI agents |

"assigned to the case are awaiting the 3

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butreau's crime Tab in Washington, +
D.C., and checking all the Jeads that <
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VANCODVER, Wash. — Guernsey
cattle and puzzled fishermen watched
with curiosity Tuesday as 20 casually
attired FBI agents combed the Columbia
'River shoreline near here, looking for
'more of a hijacker's treasure.

The agents, working with garden

wrakes and shovels, carefully sifted

agents wield -
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" ment, probably backhoes, in there
Wednesday to dig deeper," said Bill |

through the sand on what is known -

locally as Tena's Bar, 2 sloping beach
about nine miles northwest of Vancou-
ver. The beach is owned by New Co-
lumoia, Gardens Co., which operates a
truck and dairy farm behind the beach.
What 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 legendary "Dan Cooper." A man
using that name hijacked a Northwest

Airlines jetliner in November 1971 andi.

parachuted out of the aircraft with 21}
pounds of cash totaling $200,000. .

The bundles on the .beach weres
found by &-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
Oklahoma, had never heard cf 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 we.

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,

f Agents roped off a section of beact
measuring roughly 150 yards long ane
'30 yards wide. All driftwood was re--
moved, and then began the laborious
task of raking through sand at feast eo
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inches. beneath the surface, Schreuder
said. FBI agents Tuesday afternoon}
found fragments of at least two othe
'$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-

Baker, assistant special agent in charge
of the Portland FRI office.

Schreuder and other agents at the
site said they still supported the long-
held 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 2
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 entployee.

And three fishermen who routinely
spend every day but Sundays fishing on
ithe beach initially were confused and
then angry. .
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was going on," said Ken Davenport of
Vancouver. "They asked us to move,
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of Vancouver, said they knew some:
thing was up "because everybody was)
getting out of cars with shovels instead}
of fishing poles."

The Guernsey*cows watched the '

| beach show from their pens on a small

bluff, scattering occasionally when heli-_,.
copters 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,
narrow two-lane road leading to the}.
farm. A Clark County sheriff's deputy}
guarded the entrance, preventing thel: 3
public from getting to the beach.

FBI agents were to remain on the
scene overnight to keep out would- be
treasure hunters.

The FBI said how much of the beach
would be searched would de determined
after the agency consulted with hy-
drologists and others who could provid
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 used the name Dan Cooper.

Jack Pringle, assistant special agent
in charge of the FBI's Seattle office,
said, the search was called off late

_ Thutsday night after several days of
sand-sifting produced no new evidence.

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search efforts in the Cooper caper, the
only unresoived hijacking on record
since it occurred in 1971. -

Pringle said search efforts might be: -
renewed next week, after the results of
laboratory tests are received on the sev-
eral thousand dollars in badly decayed
$20 bill fragments found by a picnick-
ing family Sunday about nine miles
downstream from Vancouver.

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 dank.

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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the first trace of the hijacker or money
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A thorough search of a Columbia River beach where partof D.B. ?
Cooper's ransom money was found Sunday has turned up no new
clues as to the fate of the legendary skyjacker.
The FBI said today that the search will continue today and Frid
. day, then probably be suspended temporarily. it: '
* 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 Portland State University,

Leonard Palmer, was retained to inspect the sand and to assist in-

vestigators in determining when the bundled money may have beer' .

deposited there. . . . .

Palmer, to the surprise of some authorities, concluded that the

money was deposited on the beach ih the past year or two becauseit .

was above clay deposits put on the beach in a 1974 channel dredging *

operation. ;
: According to the FBI, a coarse layer of sand sloped from a height ¢ "

» .f about six inches at the river's edge to two feet or more some °
'gistance up the river bank.

; Harlier, Ralph Himmelsbach, a Portland FBI agent who has had
charge of following new leads in the Cooper case for a number of -
tyears, said he believed the money must have been deposited within

a couple 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.

Agents say the money was tied to Cooper when he bailed out'of!
the plane, but was no longer with him when it was deposited on thet -
beach.

if it had still been attached to his body 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.

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hills were located Wednesday when agents continued digging in b6

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watched the ducks peck away at bia River beach nine miles doivn-
something floating in the Washou- stream from Vancouver. One theo-

gal River near the Riverside Bowl. ry contends the money could have.
It was 'March' 22. 1977. and washed out of the Washougal River

Devaney of 4221 F Circle, Washou. "Watershed during the nearly 8%
gal, wag fishing for steelhead. The Years Since Cooper parachuted
muddy runoff waters had cleared, from an airliner over Southwest .

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"I watched the duc of Investigation list, of serial num-
away," Devaney said. ra ei bers on the $200,000 given Cooper
to see. That's when I saw the didn't match those found by Deva-
money. At first, i thou ht it was Tey: Davaney still has his $140
play money." 6 tucked away in cellophane bags,

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,, But Devaney picked up a bill and brought significance to a grien :
| examined if. It was a real $20 bill, bank bag found by Jack Smith viho
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. The fit finding of some of the "Dana
Cooper" hijacking money Sunday came.

is a dramatic climax to the career of;

'ean Ralph Himmelsbach, the FBI's!
Cooper 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 fet from Portland on Thanksgiving
Eve, 1971. .

Himmelsbach, who has logged thous

1952 model single-engine Beechcraity
Bonanza, was aloft in an Oregon Air'

: National Guard helicopter ready to i to ins
tercept the hijacked plane within a few~

Seattle, where Cooper obtained.
- $200,060 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.

"I was over the target area nea
sake Merwin Sunday again," he said

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'Tuesday. "t saw they had logged a Tot!
pf 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.

"T'll admit to a certain sense of satis- |
faction," Himmelsbach said Tuesday, ?
flashing a broad smile. "The case isn't.
solved, but this is certainly a major
imilestone." "
{ Himmelsbach will retire March 1;
liter 27 years with the FBI — climaxed!
'by his work on the Cooper case, one;
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By LEVERETT RICHARDS

« of The Oregonien stalf

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 tite 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 bailed out of a Northwest
Orient Airlines Boeing 727: flying at
7,000 feet over La Center, Wash., on

e Nov. 24, 1971, FBI spokesmen said.

* Cooper's was the first hijacking of a
'commercial airliner for money, and

started a chain of similar attempts,
which was responsible in part for the
rigid security system now enforced at
all 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 called himself Cooper
pald 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 Fiorence
Schaffner a note saying he had a bomb
in the satche! he was carrying and de-
manding $200,000 in unmarked $20

ills.

* By the time the plane landed at

'Seattle-Tacoma International Airport at
5:45 p.m., airline officials were gather-

ting 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
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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 hijacks;
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 hayé*
landed somewhere west of Lake Mer'
win. -*

William Rataczak, first officer (cox
pilot) on the hijacked plane who flew
the later reconstructions of the hijack
flight, said the pitots received no an-
swer when they called on the inter
phone to their passenger and were not,
certain he was gone until they landed i
Reno, Nev., at 1] p.m, :

The "target area" was searched r rey.
peatedly by the FBI, other law enforce- *
ment officers and soldiers from Fort
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. "7

It was found 13 miles east of Castié™
Rock, Wash., in January 1979. The.
placard, if indeed it came from the hi-
jacked plane, "helped to confirm that
the plane was on course ail the way, but
didn't shed any light on what happened
to Cooper," said FBI agent Ralph Him- ,
melsbach, who headed the investiga-
tion. * i

After eight years of investigation if
Himmelsbach has said he still believed':

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"Several thousand dollars" of the
$200,000 obtained eight years aga by
the celebrated airline hijacker who used
the name Den Cooper was found Sun-
day along the Columbia River down-
stream from Vancouver, Wash., the FBI
reported Tuesday,
Three bundles containing 12 packets .
of weatherbenten $20 bills were found
in river sand by a picnicking Vancouver

family, about nine miles northwest of;

FBI agents searching the beach
Tuesday afternoon found several more
fragments of $20 bills, some of them

iunder three feet of sand,

4 Harold Dwayne Ingram, his wife,
Patricia, and their son, Brian, 8, were
ypreparing 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 tied with rubber
bands," Ingram said.

The bills were wet and badly worn,
'out the serial 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,
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fice, sald the Ingrams were relatively
new to the Vancouver area, moving'
there recently from Oklahoma. They
had never heard of Cooper, Baker sald.

"They took it (the money) home and
were talking to some friends about it,"
Baker sald, 'The friends pointed out
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dng, said jt was the first solid clue to the
Cooper mystery since the hijacker
' baited out near La Center, Wash., into a,
winter storm at 8:10 p.m. that Thanks-
giving Eve. The first hijacking for
money, the Cooper case became a na-
tional sensation.

Baker said it was possible the FBI .

laboratory in Washington, D.C., coul¢. ,

discern fingerprints on the money.

he said. 7

Baker said the money the Ingrams'
found had not been counted. At first the
amount recovered was estimated at
about $4,000, but "we have revised our

he said, - oF
Baker said 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 it
was done in a hurry." Because of that,
the actual amount could not be estimat-
ed, he sald. .
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 dal-
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some tributary of the Columbia.

George Holmes, a U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers hydrologist, sald he would

review information about where Coop:

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. YANCOUVER, Wash. — Eight FBI
agents digging on a Columbia River
beach in a snowstorm) found no more
of D.B. Cooper's hijack 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
geologist's report indicates that the

_ money which has been found drifted
up on this beach within the past two
years.

Furthermore, Moore said as be
warmed himscif by a campfire during
he women

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msney came downstream, and proda-
ply reached the Cofumbia from the
Washougal River, or one of several
smaller streams which enter the big
river above here.

It 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 toug been thought to have per-
ished.

Moore thought for a few moments,
"then said:

"Tourists who want to took for
"} more Cooper money probably stiow

- Jook on the Washougal River."
Al of which indicates that Cooper,
With $200,000 in a canvas suitcase
strapped to his beady, jumped from a
Northwest Airlines Boeing 727 a litle
southeast of the point originally est
mated by the FBI. 4
> He apparently landed southeast of
" Lake Merwin which is just off 15 neur
Woodland, in the drajuage of tke
Washougal River, or nearby streams,
in hifly, weeded country.
"There is nothing infallible about
our original estimate of where he

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and other variables, we could have
been a little off in our original cod
MEPS."

According to Pringle. only one
money bundle from the £209,€00 hi-

.

jack ransom was found on this beach |

nine miles downstream from the
bridge over the Columbia River at
Vancouver.

But since Cooper had all of bis
money in one canvas container, ac-
cording to Moore, if any of the moncy.
is scattered — ai] of it is likely to be
scattered.

Cooper, whose real identity bas
never been learned, literally dropped
out of sight the night he plunced
from the airliner. He had collected his
bijack e icot in Seattle — bundles of
money wrapped in a package six
inches kigh, one foot across, and
about 1S inches long — later stuffed
into 2 bag tied to his waist.

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

fings on the Columbia River yester-
day. The previous day, 10 FBI agents.
from the Portland bureau carried out
the digging. . :
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.. entrance fo the Fazio property to
Reep the pubtic out. :
Sand was piled around the original
money discovery area, because the-
FB! had been using a backhoe to ex-
cavate there. Agents were working -

yesterday with shovels and rakes.

Moore said a Portland State Un'
iversity Geologist is the one who de--
termined that the money had floated?
onto the beach within the last two?
years. _ i

This, Moore said, was hesed on az
determination that there is only about
six to eight inckes of sand on this
beach, and beneath it is a clay that
was placed bere by a channel dreds:
ing project carried out in 197-4.

The clay, he 'said. appears "undis-
tuthed," but the sand contaius-seft -
drink containers and other debdris

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from picnickers. it appears to be of
recent origin, and the money Was
found only about three to Six inckes
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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
been trying to do for more than eight
years.

Brian Ingram, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Haroid' 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
Eve, Nov. 24, 1971.

The FB said Tuesday the
discovery of more than $3,000 in bad-
ly deteriorated $20 biHs was made
Sunday while the lngram 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

area where the money was found.
Agents reported finding bits and
pieces of money Tuesday afternoon,
sonte of it as deep as three feet in

Sand.

j However, the pieces were so small
it was not possible to determine the
amount of nioney.

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

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could have come from the Lewis
River and washed upstream. h
The FBi has a'so contacted the Ar-
my Engineers, 5 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 possihivity. While they con-
Stantly 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 Ceoper.

"Phe packaging and numbered se-
quence indicate the bills have not
been separated and are in much the
same order as when given to the hi-
jacker," explained Bill Baker, assis-
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

"he indicated there is a good possibili-

ty that the airline or another source;
_ vould provide one.

The elder Ingram and his wife,
Patricia, told dozens of news media
people at a press conference in the
Portland FBI Office Tuesday how |

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"I was about to build a fire on the!
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arms full, but before I could set ith.
down, my son said, 'Wait a minute!
daddy.' He scooped off some sand,
and this inoney rolted t6 the top."

A UPI reporter who talked with
the family Tuesday said Brian and
his 5-year-old cousin, Denise In-
gram, Shouted, "Look! li's money
that we found!"

The Ingrams said they didn't con--
nect the money to the Cooper case at ,
the time, but realized it must be im-
portant to someone, so thev notified -
the Portland FBI Office of the find.

Asked by a reporter why he con-
tacted the FBI instead of local
authorities, Ingram responded,

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to police, 1 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."'

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was displayed for reporters on a
table at the press conference, was

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The body of ,skyjacker D.B.
Cooper lics on the bottom of Lake
iMerwin, 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 that 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 skyjacking of a
Northwest -Airlines jet: on
Thanksgiving Eve in 1971.

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

"Some still cali me D.B. Cooper,"

yhe said with a chuckle Tuesday
} night.

jacker survived the jump with
$200,000 in ransom money, and was
among the first to say so.

"T said several years ago that I
think he may be hung up on a 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 coutd have been moved
upstream by tides and currents.

George Holmes, a hydrologist for
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
says that would not have been im-
possible, but he considers it unlikely
that currents would have moved the

| Manning never beHeved the sky-

"cash that far upstream.

* "However," Holmes, emphasized,
I'm sot taking issue in any way
-With 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.

in lake, |
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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 FBI offices
were also involved. In addition,
about 20¢ 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 al:
fluctuation in the cabin rate off
pressure indicator about 8:10 p.m.

.. Minutes earlier dights came on in

the cockpit indicating the rear.

airstair of the aircraft had been,
towered. . i

"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 taken 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.

"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 2 ;
same as they were at the time he ! i
bailed oul," Manning recalled. i

The airstair was lowered, and the ;
sieds dropped. i

"The engincer said the plane.
reacted the same as it had before :
when the weight was released,"
Manning said Tuesday,

According to Manning, the FBI,
and the airline were convinced then} i
that the man calling himself D.B.jf
Cooper baiicd out of the jet in the}
Lewis River area, and nothing has'
happened to shake that belief,

Where he lended has never been :
determined, but Manning still thinks -

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The handful of residents who live along the beach
where part of D.B. Cooper's Icot was found Sunday
are kicking themselves for not buiiding 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
miles from where a Vancouver family found about
$3,000 beneath the sand Sunday while on a pienic.
Rabbits bounce on the side of the road at night, starti-

- ed by occasional passing cars.

Less than 10 houses are along the 12-mile streteh 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 to 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 pubtic
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
} Dis. They have lived in their mobile home just down
i the road from Fazio Bros. for the past 30 years,
Every day Clarence takes his outooard skif€ along
Tina Bar patrolling the river and the beach for
renegade logs that could damage other boats.

a wey.

. Ellis says that the Army Corps of Engineers con-
{inuously dredges sand directly off the shore from
where the money was found.

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most of it's been destroyed by the dredging," he said.

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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 bottom of the
river and spewed onto the beach could have contain-
ed some or all of the long-sought money. While the
dredging is continuous, the last time sand was
deposited in thal spot was in October 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 Fil go get me a
shovel," said Mrs. J.W. Freeman. ,

The FBI dug ali 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 $3,000 orginaliy dug up.

Tuesday night the Ellis family sat in their home -
decorated with fishing gear and large plants, amazed
that some the D.B. Cooper money was snowing up on °
the same beach their children grew up on. -

"Fo think I worked like a slave all my life and here
this money was right in my front yard," said Ellis.
"When I think of the times my kids took the four-
wheel drive right over that spot. | mean that's our,
beach. It belongs to the people we lease from and
that's the beach we use." .

His wife, Barbara, said she felt 'kinda sick" not
finding it. But she added that she would have turned it
in. "Somebody could have lost it,"" she said.

The beach property actually belongs io 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;

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motioned for her to read it.

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bomb, and wanted to go to
Mexico. eat

While the jet circled Seattle Columbia \ek
before landing, the skyjacker River ¥
also ordered that $200,000 cash '
and four parachutes be
brought to the plane. .

The airline agreed, 36
passengers and part of the
crew were allowed to leave,
and the plane took off with the

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airstair was lowered, and

minutes later the plane . .

'reacted 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 .
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FBI agents yesterday called off
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 1971.

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

One partly decomposed bundle of
marked $20 bilis from the Cooper loot
was found Sunday by 2 family pic-
nicking beside the river nine miles
below Vancouver.

it probably will be at least 2 week*

before the FBI laboratery in Washing-

i ton, D.C., will report on how much.

Amoney was found, said Bill Williams,
of the FBI office in Portland, Ore.,
whose agents dug and sifted the sand
_ cartier this week.

Cooper is believed to have para-
- chuted over Lake Merwin in Cowlitz
County. No trace of him or the money

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is known to have been found until the
discovery Sunday.

Williamns said yesterday that Leon-
ard Palmer; a geologist at Portiand
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 that 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 Seattle after be skyjacked it.

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lic relations officer in St. Paul, Minn.,
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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 lot of old-fashioned elbow grease yesterday in continued
digging at the beach. Agents continued to find scraps of
$26 bilfs in the area where a picnicking Vancouver family
found three bundles of money Sunday. toons
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.1, 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. Oo -
° F.B.1. agents said the money still was packaged in'
the same order as it was given to the hijacker: The geolo- _
* gist said the money probably had been there for less than
two years. .
Kenneth Moore, a Seattle F.B.J. agent assigned to
the case, said, "One reason for conducting an exhaustive
search of this area would be to find other indications of
' what happened — pieces of clothing, pieces of bag, pieces -
of parachute or human remains, which in this case woulc
be only bones."

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'on a stretch of shoreline used heavily by fishermen and °
lined with industrial plants and farms. -
Moore and other agents said it would be just specula-
tion to.suggest that Cooper might have come down near
_ thé 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 eash
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 perl: !
odically underwater during high river runoff, like last
week, . * .

Moore said the currency might have been pumped on
the beach during the dredging, but that was doubted by»
Dr. Leonard Palmer, Portland State geologist. ; i
i" Palmer said the scraps of money had been found in"

dredged there in 1974. an '
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the Washougal River watershed. The Lewis River enters

stream from Vancouver, -
But Moore said there were no plans to search upriver |
"untess evidence leads us to a more specific area." :
Small pieces of currency were found yesterday in -
scattered places as they combed through sand several
hundred feet downstream from Sunday's discovery site}*

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Other fragments showed up as agents shoveled sand]
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 family
is out of luck. Ingram's son, Brian, 8, uncovered the
money. ; oe oles

- "As far as I know, all reward offers have been can-7"

celed,".a Portland F.B.1. agent, Bil Williams, said.

Roy Erickson, a spokesman for Northwest Orient in
St. Louis, said the airline had settled with its insurance
company, Globe of New York, several years ago and re--.-
ceived $180,000. ,

"Our floss 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 ~
has 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 solved," Himmelsbach said, "but this
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 circujation." .

Himmelsbach said Cooper's skeleton probably never, :
wili be found if it is in the forested mountain area where},
he is supposed to have landed, os

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It's more likely than ever that
jthe 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 156 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

_ $26 bills.

Serial numbers cn the money —
12 stacks of twenties, still in their
bank wrappings — matched some
of those given to "Dan Cooper"
when he hijacked Northwest Alr-
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
plane's lowered rear stairwell
somewhere near Ariel, a tiny logg-

f ing.tewn in Southwest Washington.
* No trace of Cooper or the hijack-

'ing loot had shown up in the past

Vnine years. The mysterious air pi-

rate in that time has become a cult
figure, with sweatshirts, bumpei-
stickers and endless pulp-magazine
stories dedicafed to the exploit.

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FBI agents, who have been the:

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 Portiand 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 alive, 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 teld reporters

yesterday he was. preparing to —

build a fire when his son "ran up

and said, 'Wait a minute, Daddy.' .

He raked a place 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
lab 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 doing 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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the Columbia below the money site,"
and its origins are deep in the
weods over which Cooper is he-
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
very confused.

Pringle said Cooper jumped
with the money tied around his.
waist, and he said he believed "it
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 {-

of parachute," he said. "Nylon does :

not deteriorate rapidly." ,
Agents using spades and rakes

have discovered a few more pieces

of $20 bills, about the size of nick- |

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
some heavy equipment tomorrow
to speed things up," Williams said.
"The problem when you dig up a

spadeful of sand is, what do you do -
with the sand?"

In Arie], meanwhile, tavern
owner Dave Fisher said the little
town will go on with plans for its
annual "D. B. Cooper party" at his

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| VANCOUVER, Wash. — The
»4tFederal Bureau of Investigation
brought a backhoe and experts in
sei], archeology and river currents
to a sandy Columbia River beach
west of here today to seek more
clues into (he 8-year-old D,B, Coo-
_ per hijacking mystery. .
: An &year-old boy Sunday uncov-
ered on the beach a small part of
, the $200,060 the legendary hijacker
had strapped to his body when he
parachuted from a Northwest Ori-

'ent Airlines 727 over Southwestern _

Washington November 24, 1971.
F.B.1, agents yesterday found
more fragments of $20 bills while
'digging at the beach. Paul Hud-
son, the F.B.E.'s omsite coordina-
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. .

} Hudson said the bureau is trying
yto determine possible ways the
money reached the beach. The
yriver recently covered the beach,
he said. .

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

"It's possible that it washed up
here a period of time
ago . . not © yearg ago but

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gl. « for 10 years. The money wasn't -
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does answers," Hudson said. "In The money recovered Sunday,
my own mind I can rule out the jn three bundles of decomposing
possibility that (the money) WaS $20 bills, was discovered by Brian

buried here." Ingram, 8, of Vancouver. The boy
Hudson said whether searcherS 7) wnt ee ewe

might find Cooper's remains in the

area is "one of the questions we

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ARIEL, Cowlitz County — Not !{' Portland. A young boy digging in
much happens in Ariel, a small' {ithe sandy riverbanks with @ stick
logging community 12 miles east _ uncovered the loot.

- staff reporter

of Woodland, i

Until a hijacker vanished mys- |
. teriously over Southwest Washing:
ton more than eight years ago,
probably nothing happened in
Ariel. -

But D.B. Cooper put the town
on the map, and yesterday and
fast night the telephones at the
| Ariel Store & Tavem 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
Aciel dam. ar

Since 1976 the Ariel Tavern has
hosted an annual D.B. Cooper par-
ty on November 24, the auniversa-
ry of the hijacking in 1971. Every

Wo,
After that, Fisher said, "It was*

just like the D.B. Cooper party."

. ' Fisher said he had been on the
run answering telephone calls
from television-network reporters
in New York and newspapers and?
radio stations all over the West.
Coast, ; of

Only about' 26 or 20 patrons'
were in the Ariel Tavern last
night, and most were paying as:
much 'attention to playing poo! as
to the Cooper talk. A weekly Tues-
day-night pool match with the Riv-
erside Tavern in Woodland had:
been moved to Ariel fast 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-

year 200 to 3) people have shown
up to eat buffalo stew and see
whether Cooper would answer the ,
Standing invitation to join the
party. o

He never has, of course.

> Fisher bought the tavern and
jjthe tradition 15 months ago, and

until 3:30 yesterday afteracon, "]
wasn't expecting a thing tonight,
"it's pretty dead in winter."

But then the Federal Bureau: of
Investigation announced in Seattle
and Portiand that part of $200,000"
given to the hijacker had been

| found along the banks of the Co- _

Wo "I still think he's alive

ey arrived on the banks of the Co-
himbia River, but they still would:
have to be persuaded that the hi-¢

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~ bailed out of the Boeing 727, |
until «
'they find some bones," 'Fisher
Jsaid. . , .
He said the finding could lead to
other developments, pointing out,
that the discovery by the boy wast
a strange first trace of Cooper
after so many years. "fe
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'tmembered: the man as a quiet-, jumped over Southwest Washing-
spoken sort wearing a dark brown" ton. The plane's recorder showed

_ Suit. He took the last seat on the a "low pressure bump" at 8:11
right-hand side of the Northwest p.m. near Woodland, and when the
Orient Airtine''s flight out of Port- plane landed in Reno, the hijacker
land. heading for Seattle, " couldn't be found.

The only. thing unusual about - Hundréds of searchers. spread
the man was that he. wore sun out over the area around Wood-
glasses, unusual because it was a and, hoping either to find the
"rainy day on November 24, 1971, a body or the money or just a piece
day before Thanksgiving. of the parachute dangling from a

The man checked aboard the tree, Most parachute experts con-
Boeing 727 under the name of sulted at the time agreed it would |
"Dan Cooper" in Portland, the be almost impossible for Cooper" *
Jast lep of the Hight that had start- tq survive the plunge. '

ed in Washington, D.C, But within days of the 'hijacks ,

in. Reno several hours later, ** —-
a ran who: became known as ' Started to build. People started ta
"D.B. Cooper" was gone, along "talk about him as a modem-day
with $200,000 in $20 bills, two para- Robin Hood. They admired the
chutes and a briefcase which Coo- daring, the planning and the ex-

By the time the plane finally set 'Sng, the legend of D.B. Cooper ~

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nen said they had talked with
D.B. Cooper, who, they said, was
giving in Puyallup. The man told
them that the money was buried
under a pile of garbage at the
Puyallup dump. sO

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 ,
writtén about him.

The residents of Ariel, Cowlitz]!
County, near where Cooper sup-|-
posedly bailed out, started holding
an annual "D.B. Cooper Day" to*
commemorate thie event. The fes-
tival, called the "Cooper Caper,"
featured buffalo stew and sky

divers and attracted 'more than

80 people. But not, apparently, .

dess contained ecution of the jump.
{ Bomb, the stewar . Slowly but surely, the reports of

Somewhere in Southwest Wash- encounters with Cooper started to
'ington, D.B. Cooper had bailed out come out. A man in Woodland said
at 10,000 feet into dark storm someone knocked at his back door
clouds and into history. He would on November 24 about the time
remain to this day the only hi-
jacker in the United States ever to

D.B. Cooper.
~ As for the two Federal
of Investigation agents w

didn't answer. Other. people start-

Bureau
ho have

been on the case since it began,

they say they believe D.B, Cooper
Cooper would have landed, but he jprobahly died the night he went]

escape arrest. ed turning in friends who looked
Over the last seven years, the — like Cooper, in hopes of collecting
F.B.I, has questioned more than ¢ the $25,000 reward.
1,000 possible suspects, chased; * Then the stories started to ap-
down thousands of leads and. .pear. The now defunct Seattle
heard from hundreds of people: ,'Flag ran several pages of purport-
who claim either to be Cooper or, ed interview with Cooper, and two
« to know his whereabouts. " :
, But it took an 8year-old Van-
couver, Wash., boy to uncover the .
only piece of concrete evidence
that Cooper really did bail out into.
the dense forest of Southwest
Washington. nw oan

fut the plaiie.

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F.B.I, agent who is to reti
'uary 29, said he was "del

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said the find reduced the ¢
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the $200.06 ransom collected in 1971
by airline hijacker D.B. Cooper.

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

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

"His {the goologist's} feeling is thal;
the probabilities are that the material!
was washed ashore rather than (being:

sin} dredged sand," FBI - Agent Raiply
iHimmelsbach of Portland told The
Post - Intelligencer last night.

i} Children on a family outing on
Sunday found the first half - decom
posed packets of $20 bills with which -
Cooper had parachuted from a North-
west Orient jetliner on Thanksgiving
Eve, Noy. 29, 1971.

The total was hetween $1,000 and
$4,000, Himmelsbach said, and seriat
numbers checked matched numbers
on the marked bills given Cooper.

The money was found farther
downriver from Vancouver than FBI

they announced the discovery, and it

theory he has Lad since 1971 that
Cooper landed — dead or alive ~ in
the vicinity of Lake Merwin on the
Lewis River abeut 25 miles north of
Vancouver.
4 _ Himmeishach, the agent in charge
'Of the investigation since the hijack-
ing took place, said he believes the
dozen packets of greenbacks were
'graduaily washed down the Lewis
River and into the Columbia River.
Then, he said, ccean tides could bave
pushed them several miles up th
Columbia to where they were found.
There was speculation Tuesday

ts

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more $26 dilis buried fn the sand be- :

Agents speculated earlier in the -

dredge material. But they discounted .

agents had estimated Tuesday, when —

caused Himmel\sbach to return to the -

"that the site was too far up the Colum.
bia for the money to have come from
the Lewis River. .

However, Himmelsbach said. yes--
terday, "My understanding is that this
is tidal water, and if so, there are }
"imes 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-
mefsbach said. "There's also the possi-
bility that be just took the moncy, and |
neither he nor the money left there

' {Where he landed). .

i ."I feet this is an indication that

probably he didn't make it (alive), and

it has been my feeling that probably *

. he'didn't make it because of the cir- 3

; cumstances of the jump and the fact 4

that. he didn't have the proper equip- j

. ment for parachuting," Himmelsbach *
continued. #

"He didn't havea hardhat, goggles,
leather gloves, jump suit or jump
boots. He didn't have any of those ;

. things and be sure needed themall. &

. |" don't-think the falt killed him," }

"Himmelsbach theorized, "but there

~was that sudden stop. I think probably,

_ there was good likelihood he Was ini"

"jured during the fa and didn't havel
any help. . . and was unable to extrid
caté himself (from wherever ke fell). ~
And probably is still there." |

Agents continued digging yester-
day, and Himmelsbach said he didn't
know how tong they would continue, .

There was no trace at the site of .*
the legendary extortionist nor of bis.
;parachute, and Himrmetsbach 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
blow up the 727 trijet while on a flight

+ from Portland. At Sea - Tac, he al- ,
lowed all the passengers and ali but
four members of the crew to leave,
demanded and received the $200,000 -
and four parachutes, and had the
plane depart for Reno, Nev.

The skyjacker bailed out over

southwest Washington. -

r+} Sunday's find was particularly sat- '

, tisfying for Himmelsbach, who on Feb.

29 is scheduled to retire from the FBi
fafter a career-of nearly 29 years —
niore than cight of which were spent
trying to solve the Cooper caper. The
discovery of the money was the first, |

"

solid break tn the case. .
"It doesn't increase my

_ (retirement) annuity any, but Bt dos
4, make me happy," Himmelsbach said.

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- his $200,000 loot was found buried in 2 A ER
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"It can tell you a number of things
— cither he dropped the money or
he's dead," commented John D. Prin-
fle, assistant special agent in charge

'

Submitting Office: Seattle

é Himmeljsbach said the find re-
duced to "less than 50 - 50" the odds }-
'f. that Cooper is still alive. ql
| The money was found Sunday by [°
'lan 8-year-old Vancouver boy, Brian }:
.iIngram, and his 5-year-old cousin,
, Denise, as they were digging in the
_ sand with sticks along the river bank
+ during a family outing. -
"This clue is the first we've hag -
, $ginee 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 23 .
« miles southwest of the area whete the
FBI had thought it most likely Cooper
landed after he parachuted from the -

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" threatened to blow it up with what he-
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t - —tat|
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| Cooper allowed 36 passengers

aboard the flight to leave, then or- |

dered the crew of four to fiy it to -

"is. 31 Reno after $200,000 in marked bills

+. and four parachutes demanded by the
"hijacker were brought on board. .
As the southbound airliner passed
over Southwest Washington, the hi-
Jacker — wearing only a business suit
visfand street shoes — parachuted
: | through a rear stairwell door. - '
-|. As "Ban Codper" hecame a legend,
"the name "D.B. Cooper" — as an FBI .
¢! agent had initially identified him —
: * became the name that stuck.'
' he FBI said his chances of sur-
vival were slimy because he was

a

1 offree t u a é 4 ' tightly dressed for jumping into a
pron at the ese Seattle. "We can't . ~ we "3 howling wind and a freezing rain inal -
1 i * et 'a, 7 & Parachute not likely to work,
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covery reinforces his opinion that Bt.uitouddrmariawdarinatl St Eee ee one eee oO edt. 2. Se.
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well as the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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one of the frayed $20 bills as a
souvenir. 4

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boy a certificate praising him for -
his discovery. "

Brian was helping his father,
'Harold, build a fire on a Columbia.
River beach February i0 when he:
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| |, our investigation on your land at Tena
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such as yourselves who have so greatly aided the FBI in
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Tena Bar area in Vancouver greatly assisted us by allowing
our Agents to fully concentrate on the search of the beach
area. I have been informed that your deputies handled their
positions in a very professional manner and I hope you will
express my thanks to them.

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'Pound by Family on Outing
Part of 'D. B. Cooper' Loot

: 4 ccement authoritiestons
couver, Wash., family on an outing|nave believed that Cooper died in his
along the Columbia River last Sunday plunge from the Boeing 727 because
suddenly stumbled across 12 stacks offne 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
he B. Cooper" made off with more an unreliable parachute. It has been
than eight years ago, the FBI said'estimated that he hit the ground at a
day. ; ; 'speed of 0 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
agents from the Portland and evening flight to Seattle. Once air-
Seattle FBI offices have begun an €X-+horne, 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
sign of Cooper or, more likely, his re- Janded in Seattle. He threatened to

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was found in Washington about five

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-|miles northwest of the Interstate 5! 'The airline complied, providing the

parachutes and money. However, the
FBI said Tuesday that the serial

FBI agent William NM, Baker told a numbers of the bills had been record-

news conference in Portland.
__Discovery of the money by Harold

Divayne Ingram, 27, his wife, Patricia, |P*Ss

96, 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.

Cooper permitted the airliner's 36
engers 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 piane's rear stairway.
Crew members last heard his voice
fon the plane's intercom when they
-were over the Washington-Oregon
'border. They eaid they believe -he
jurnped, using the least reliable para-
The decomposed money wés found

- Shortly after the hijacking, a cult 17 to 20 miles from the jump site by
sprang up around D. B. Cooper, a {the Ingrams' older son, Brian, The

'name that never has been traced to

its origins,

bills were partly buried in sand that
the Ingrams were scooping out to

A private club was named in his build a fire. .
honor, D. B. Cooper T-shirts were' "Here's some more wood for the
manufactured, bumper stickers were fire,,.Dardy,', the father récalled his
rum off and anniversary parties were son assaying. | «:, a

held, + '
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- } bills, used eight years office, said discovery of the money
ago as part of the $200,- lends credence to the FBI theory
060 paid to airtine hijacker "D.B. that Cooper died in the hijacking
Cooper," have been found on a attempt.
Columbia River beach near here,' Cooper's extortion effort was the
.the FBI announced yesterday. first time a jet had been hijacked
Harold D. Ingram, 27, his wife, for ransom. A number of bijack-
'Patricia, 26, and their two sons, ings for cash have been carried out
iwere picnicking on what is known since the Cooper escapade.
'as 'Tena's Bar last Sunday when Baker satd the FBI could not be
their older son. discovered .'the certain how much money was in
'money. . " "' the packets, but said it amounted
~ Eight-year-old 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 laboratory in Washington,
'fire. As his father was about to D.C., and Baker hopes the lab will
"drop an armigad of wood, young be able to pick fingerprints off the
Ingram gid, fWait-a minute, bills, which could lead to the

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Edition: | Wednesda, Latest

Mystery remains in ine
saga of D.8. Cooper

J Cooper's skyjacking and
disappearance eight years
ggo has been rekindled by a
Vancouver, Wash., family's inad-
vertent discovery of worn packets
of $20 bills on the Columbia River
shoreline — part of Cooper's $200,
OO ransom. - +

The saga which changed the
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 bombina
satchel and wanted $200,000 in
unmarked $26 bits.

When the jetliner tanded 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.

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36 passengers and ail crew mem-
bers but two pilots and one stew-

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FLIGHT 395 BROW PORTLAND, "OREGON, TO SEATTLE, WASHINGTON .
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THE HIVACKER. | BECAUSE OF THE DECOMPOSED NATURE OF THE BILLS
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A LABORATORY EXAMINATION, HOUEVER, IT APPEARS TO BE. SEVERAL
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Dear | }

Reference is made to your letter concerning D. B.
Cooper addressed to| |} Agent, Federal Bureau
of Investigation, 915 Second Avenue, ,Seattie, Washington,
and dated January 12, 1979. '

Your letter concerning the possible whereabouts of

D. B. Cooper is appreciated. In the event you have any
specific information concerning the actual whereabouts of
Cooper and/or the money, you are requested to contact the
Vancouver. Resident Agency office of the FBI at telephone

number 695-5661. The information you have provided in the
above referenced letter, while interesting, does not indicate
why you believe Cooper to be in the area you indicate he is

- in or why you believe the money to be there also. As you are

well aware, the FBI cannot deal in supposition, but-must have
specific facts prior to conducting any investigation. As
such, it is necessary that you be specific in your information.
Thank you for your interest in this matter.
Very truly yours,

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Special Agent in Charge

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Seattle, washington, 98104

Please open the eyjclosed map of the state of Washington and start at
The Seal of the State of Washington.

Follow this pencil line to the place where it crosses another pencil
line (in the lower part of the circle I have drawn).

I believe this to be the approximate location of the remains of
Cooper, the man who jumped from the plane with $200,000.00 in his
possession.

The money is also in this area.

I also beleive I can be of help in actually finding both the remains of
Cooper,and the money,if I am on the site with you,

Please beleive I am not looking for personal glory for myself.
What I am interested in is being of help ,and the satisfaction of 1...
of knowing I helped in a good cause. ,

Should you decide my help would be worthwhile,as far as I am concerned,
no one else beside you and I need know about the matter. You can be the
Yudge of the matter.

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face.' (Before I knew off _ [that is.) ,

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him in his search and salvage operations in the Lake Merwin

area.

[was further advised that no portion of the lake
could be ruled out as far as a possible area into which UNSUB

may have landed after parachuting from the NORJAK aircraft.

It was reiterated to[____]that should he find
anything during his search, he should immediately contact
the Vancouver Office of the FBI and failing to contact them,
he should cail collect to the Seattle Office of the FBI and

ask for Special Agent]

| stated he is currently in the process of

purchasing a| | which would allow him to widen his

search of the Lake Merwin area, and he anticipated continuing

the search of the Lake Merwin area, on August 25, 1978.

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Globe Insurayice Company, which has the insurance policy
for Northwest Airlines in this matter. He said he has
been working on the possibility that UNSUB_may have landed
in Lake Merwin as he has, through use of | |
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body in 100-150 feet of water. He says he has been work-
ing on this theory and has searched a number of areas of
Lake Merwin, and wanted specific information as to the
possible landing area.

I informed him that insofar as I could recall,
the entire matter of exactly where he landed is conjecture
due to a number of variables, i.e., wind on the night in
question; size of chute; weight of the individual; period
of time before UNSUB released parachute, etc.

This matter was referred to SA|
in an attempt to resolve any of the guestions which| |
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On March 22, 1978, |

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ington, advised telephonically, that he was currently
on Lake Merwin using his equipment and that he would

call the Seattle Office of the FBI in a few days with
results. [__—|further advised that he was on Channel

16 and his _v el _ number was | His call
number wasl .
On 4/26/78, | | again telephonically

advised the Seattle Office that he had found in Lake ¢
Merwin what he thought was a body. [____]stated he

was | | to reach this unknown object
and had to call off his search temporarily. [I advised

that he would recontact the Seattle Office to bring them
up to date | |

On 5/8/78, | |again telephonically attempted
to contact the Seattle Office.

On 5/10/78,[___] appeared at the Seattle Office
and advised that he had found an object in Lake Merwin
that he thought might be a body and in attempting to reach
it had had] |

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advised that he intended to return to Lake Merwin and
continue his search and would immediately advise the
Longview RA or the Seattle Office of the FBI if any items
of evidentuary nature were found. [____]was provided the
following information at his request: The color of the
parachute canopy used by D. B. COOPER; the description of | -
his clothes_and the approximate heading of the Norjak /oy-4y-
aircraft. [__]stated he was being aided_in his underwiter

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FROM: SA | |
SUBJECT: NORJAK

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|dated 3/14/77.

On March 29, 1977, |

| Washington, home telephone ir

was contacted at his home and he provided the following

information:

stated he was flying on Continental Flight
306 which originated in Burbank, California, with a stop
over in San Jose, California, and another stop in Portland,

oregon. and then the final destination was Seattle, Washington.

stated he landed in Seattle at approximately 5:30 P.M.
on November 24, 1971. [_____] advised that it was his recollection
that Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 landed at Seattle-
Tacoma International Airport at approximately 5:32 P.M. on

that same night.

to fly back to Portland, Oregon.

advises estimated time of departure
was 6:10 P.M., but he actually left Seattle at about 7:09 P.M.

advised that when he landed at Portland the
wind was from 160 degrees at 35 knots and this was approxi-
mately 7:49 P.M. During the flight down to portland, bP]
noticed that his cruising altitude of about 13,000 feet that
he was flying into a headwind of about 60 knots.
explained that on the way to Seattle 'from Portland his
ground speea@ was 480 knots, but on the way back down to
a his ground speed was only 420 knots. According to

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that he was just beginning a 6 day flight schedule and would
return to Seattle on March 17,. 1977.
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progress of the hijacking by monitoring the discrete radio
Exrequencies in his own aircraft.

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Tacoma Airport enroute for Portland shortly after Northwest bIC
Flight 305, which was being hijacked, and that he followed
the same course flown by Northwest Flight 305 but was approximately
four minutes behind the Northwest flight when it arrived at
Portland.

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flying airliners, he recalls that night of 11/24/71, as being bI7C
the most rapid and severe weather change in his experience.

He said that when he was approaching Portland, along Victor 23
airways flying a course of approximately 166 degrees, he was
experiencing a wind directly from 166 degrees at 80 knots of sped

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) DATE? 12/29/76
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On 12/28/76, ASAC| L Portland Division,
telephonically advised that the Bureau had authorized coopera-
tion with the Allen Lansburg Productions im order that the
firm could produce a 30 minute film based on captioned matter.

stated that the authorization included an interview

of SA| who is the case agent in Portland, by the
research crew as well as photograph him during the interview.

stated that they desired to get photographs of

Jat the Lake Merwin site and were proceeding to that

area for these photographs and | was advising this
office since the area is in the Seattle Division territory.

| advised that they would next be coming

to Seattle to obtain additional information and one of the
items 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 grant them permission to hear the actual tapes, but
felt that they could be shown the transcripts of these tapes.

On 12/29/76, I was contacted by| 1 Allen —
Lansburg Productions regarding this matter at which time he was

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stated he would call back.

I then telephonically contacted| | External
Affairs Division who advjsed that cooperation had been authorized
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

of the conversation between the control] tower and the pilot
and that he intended to use portigns of

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this matter. If it is determined that [| does not have

any information of value concerning this matter, he should be
advised that the military has provided expert personnel who
have calculated the drop zone for unsub in this matter and
therefore | | services, although appreciated, are
not desired at this time.

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915 2nd Avenue
Seattle, Wash 98174
Dear Mr. Farrell:
RE: . Telephone conversation 9:20 a.m. this date

The following is information I need to solve the sky jacking
involving North West Air Lines in 1971, by Cooper:

l. Date of skyjacking.
2. Time 727 jet was airborn (air strip).
3. Compass heading after level flight.

"4h. Compass heading when skyjacker finished adjustment of
personal effects.

5. Time skyjacker disappeared from sight on plane.
6. Time skyjacker was definitely not'on plane.

7. When act occurred, elevation of plane starting at zero
level; ground level temperature; and barometric reading.

8. Wind knots, and direction.

9. Whether he had 1 or 2 parachutes; weight of chutds);
weight of money; approximate weight of clothing and boots.

10. Estimate of height and weight of skyjacker.

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September 9, 1976

TEL: (212) 732-8400

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8/23/76 in connection s letter of 8/11/76

addressed to| of the Northwest

Orient Airli copy attached. This is what

attorney |told me: He knows a waitress

presently employed in Naples, formerly living in
Miami, Florida. The woman alleges that she knew
Cooper under his real name, not disclosed_durin
our telephone conversation with attorney | b6
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money. The woman allegedly knows Cooper's friends
and could help to trace him.

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of Investigation was informed of those details b7c
about 24% years ago, but apparently the information

did not warrant the Bureau's attention. The attorney

suggested a meeting in his office between the woman

and a representative. of our company.

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of Oakland, California, dated 8/10/76, copy attached,

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me that he knows somebody who knows Gooper. Cooper

is allegedly in the sheet metal business operations.

eS vas told to get in touch with us if he

has anything concrete to report. He wanted to know

how much we were willing to pay for this information.

I indicated to him that we would consider sharing

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copy~of-his~8715/76 letter to Northwest Airlines,
Inc. Please confirm your statement_that the parts
of a parachute allegedly found Ed did not 4
match the material of the parachute usea by D. B. T

Cooper. We will obviously abandon this Lead based |
on the information supplied by you. ,

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of Miami, Florida. that believed she has information
concerning the whereabouts of a man using the alias
of D. B. Cooper, being the same man that hijacked a
Northwest Orient airplane on or about the latter part , + .~
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contact in reference to D.B. Cooper (Northwest Airlines
hijack) is as follows: | | Royal Globe
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extension | L,

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please feel free to Grop us a Line at your convenianca,

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OFTIONAL, FORM NO. 10
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in captioned matter. | | stated he would make the b7C
requests known to his superiors in New York and would be .
back in touch with the writer when the results of that inquiry

are known. | | further advised that he did not see

any problems with providing the requested information.

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

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TO > SAC, SEATTL® (164-819 (P) DATE: 6/29/76
FROM : SA THOMAS J. MANNING Sue &
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SUBJECT: NOR JAK

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on 6/28/76.

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ROYAL FNSURANCE COMPANY « LIVERPOOL & LOXDON & GLOBE LONDON ANO LANCASHIRE [NSURANCE COMPAKY NEWARK INSURANCE COMPANY + AMERICAN AND FORESGH
INSURANCE COMPANY © ROYAL INDEMNITY COMPANY « GLOBE SAFEGUARD INSURANCE COMPANY « STANDARD MARINE INSURARCE COMPANY » BRITISH & FOREIGN MARINE INSURANCE
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FRRoxy@l-Globe Ins@rance

COMPANIES

Claim & Loss Ppty W. Comp.

180 WILLIAM STREET NEW YORK,N.Y. 10036

TEL: (212) 732-8400

June 22, 1976

Mr, Thomas J. Manning

Federal Bureau of Investigation
P. 0. Box 42g

Longview, Washington 98632

Dear Sir:

Insured: Northwest Airlines
TEL jackhnes 11 /2H ATL

This furthers your June 15, 1976 telephone conversation
with our| Jeoncerning the potential recovery of
the funds, which we-paid to the captioned insured as a result
of the hijacking of one of its planes by an individual identi-
fied as D. B. Cooper.

The Northwestern Airlines were apparently approached by

|, of Kirkland, Washington, who offered his
services as| with the indication that, according
to his information, the hijacker landed with the money in a
lake, and that 'he, | |, would: be able to locate the

bag and possibly the body of the late D, B. Cooper and bring
it to the surface.

The Northwestern Airlines. contacted our attorney, who in
turn advised us of the situation.

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{in Kirkland. He has| |

|and since he believes, on the basis of

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that the Lake (Merwin) is in your operational territory and
that it may be.wise to contact you.
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you can throw some light on the background of the story and
assist us in our endeavors, would you please get in touch
with jin our

Seattle, Washington Claim Office, 490 Dexter Horton Buliding,
telephone number is : .
| ] WALL convey to us any information obtained

from you and we will then eventually decide upon our further
course.

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Very truly yours,

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TO : SAC, SEATELE (164-81) (PB). DATE: 6/15/76
From : SA THOMAS J. MANNING | Salk
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09: Seattle

This date | |, Royal Insurance ~
Company, 150 Williams Street, New York, New York 10038 'telephonically
contacted the writer at Longview RAS She advised name of writer was
fever to her by the company's |} Lin Seattle, Washington,

telephone [|__|

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would try to get it for the company. He gave no specific details of
positively knowing where the money was located except to say it was
in water near a dam where COOPER jumped from the plane, Undoubtedly
hewas referring to Lake Merwin and dam at that location.

She pointed out' that he originally approached Northwest
Airlines re this matter and was referred to an attorney who rerr esented
Northwest Airlines in Litigation concerning payment by Royal 'nsurance
to Northwest which was the insurance carrier for the airline, She
stated that the company fought payment of the sum of $210,000 in
court but after Litigation were told to pay the amount and this has'

, been paid. Under rights of subrogation Royal now has right, title

and interest to the money COOPER received.

Cp tot her_te would be willing to undertake a search of
the lake with in hopes of recovery ¢ same, Ste stated
she knew that the FBI had serial numbers of ell the bills and had in

fact pictures of each bill. He stated that if the money was found it
would be surrendered to Royal and his payment would bé one half of
all recovered monies. He did not want a down payment and had no
minimum charge but would do everything at his own risk with his final
objective being the 50-50 split. He stated he wanted_a contract to
svecifically set out this 50-59 split with Royal and

that based on this proposition she had their Seattle representative
conduct a background check to determine whether | | was Legitimate

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This check revealed very little except that his company was new and
was not known to places like Better 83usiness Bureau, was not Listed
in phone book etc, She stated she did not doubt the legitimacy of

however. She continued that she was soing to bring to Royal's b6
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advise Seattle Division by Letter if they are going under contract,

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matter Lis resolved, _N tatement was made by writer that we would bIC
or would not cont Further she was_not advised that
has contacted SA explaining his | Jo

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in a long Line of individuals who have searched, on their own, for BIC
the money in the general searbh area FBI and army personnel operated,
However it. is felt that an interview with[ | would be in order
in the event he has not been cénipletely candid with sAT_ and
does have some definite information as to location of, money. [It -
is requested that no information re contact withL_| be revealed
at time of contact.

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To) Ot SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) DATE: 5/20/76
FROM : sa| |
SUBJECT: NORJAK

00: SEATTLE

BUfile 164-2111

RE: SUB E - SEARCH AREA
SUB CC - SEARCH PERSONNEL
SUB DD - COMPLAINTS RESULTING
' FROM SEARCH :

On 4/29/76, iF
Kirkland, Washington, | | telephone | |) appeared at
Seattle Office and advised he is going to undertake a search
of Lake Merwin.

|advised he has developed a. closed circuit
TV system whereby he tows a TV camera in a waterproof
container from the back of his boat and it is possible,
according toL____] to control the depth of this towed
TV camera.

stated the average depth of Lake Merwin
is approximately 140 ft. and that at that depth, a man
can only dive for about one hour a day. [____] stated
the visibility should be about 100 ft. but for his com-
ee he will use 30 ft. as a minimum visibility.

estimates he will be able to search a_ 64 ft. wide
search area traveling at 5 miles per_hour. [_____| co-partner
and according to he has started a
company with | |

stated that to this point, he has invested
about $5,000 in the project and was interested in
learning about all rewards offered concerning cL

matter. The writer provided such information to

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 11/30/73
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As a matter of information for Seattle, a woman who
identified herself as | ,
Portland, telephone , contacted the Portiand
Division by telephone 11/23/73 and advised that she
recalled at the time of the hijacking incident
involved in this matter she had read in a newspaper that an
elderly man had been found in critical condition at the
edge of Lake Merwin in southern Washington. He apparently had
nearly drowned in the lake. He was taken to the hospital
and | | did not know the outcome, ,

| said she just thought that this man
might be D.B. COOPER or at least there might be some connection.
She did not know the man's identity and could provide no
further details.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-61) (P)

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HORAK
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SUB OG

Prierv te the bunting

10/4/73

season Which begins mid-Octebor

1973, and ends nid-Novenber 1975, infornstion Should he
mrovided to Veshington State Game Yardens that handie the —

area into whith the hijacker parachuted,

As was done last

yaar, a nonovandum bac been prapared oiplaining what hunters
and campers in tha area of interest should bo alert for.

On 3/27/72, |

Vancouver, Yashington, phone | |, advised that his
doparts3nt would digseninate literature nkout UNSUB ta sano
Wardans for further dissemination to lecal hunters
Lake Merwin Dam area. Es advised that he could
disseminate 1500 copies of the literaturzo.

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SEATILE DIVISION

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a W211 ascertain fron hin

gain this year, (if he is willing,

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SAC, ATLANTA (164-254) (RUC)

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ment of Agriculture Porest Service map of the Joseph
Ranger District, Wallowa thhitnan National Forest, dated in
1965,

Enclosed map, made available by | |
| , Zilbura, Georgia, has served
its purpose and is to be returned to hin pursuant to
request made in referenced communication,

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NORJAK
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dated in 1965,

Enclosed map was made available by |
residing | | Liiburn, Ga,

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of the Seattie Division, has requested that when the
map has served its purpose that it be returned to him.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164~8L) 3/39/73

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Upon cessation of the most recent terrain search in Clark
County, Washington it is felt that the follewwving comments are
pertinent since they come from one individual who has partic.
ipated in every search operation which have a total time
expenditure of approximately 9 weeks,

SA THOMAS J. MANNING

The search conducted by the United States Army was the best
effort which could be expended considering the number of personnel
involved, Logistic and support problems, weather and terrain
factors. This is pointed out by one speaking from actual
experience, intimately acquainted with details of the various
searches, since there appears to have arisen some question on
the adequacy of the military search.

The searches conducted by Agent personnel were also the best
effort which could be out forth considering the same problems
mentioned above,

The most recent search appears to have been based upon the
securing of new data which corrected the most logical spot at
which the hijacker exited from the aircraft, which resulted in
the moving of what has been referred to in past communications
as point A, However no concrete information has been developed
that the parachute of the hijacker did not open and the renewing
of the search of the terrain at new point A avpears to have
been based on mere conjecture that the chute did not in fact
deploy.

In view of the above it is respectfully and earnestly
recommended that absent concrete information concerning the
hijacker or evidence in this matter being in the searched or
unseacrhed terrain that no further terrain searches be
undertaken, It is felt that to do so would result in an
unwarranted expenliture of agent time and effort and an
expenditure of Bureau funds which is not economically feasiblec gf

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AIRTEL ATRMATL

TOs SAG, SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM: SAC, HONOLULU (164-85) (Ree)
SUBJECT: NORJAK

Re Seattle nitel, 3/7/73.
On 3/8/73, SA''s| b6

Honolulu, obtained signed FD-26 from| | b7C

| which is being enclosed,

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Date: 3/20/73

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Vie ___ TELETYPE . NITEL _|
{Priority} . | :
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TO: ~° ACTING DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) tC
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FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164~81)(P) a
NORJAK. 00: SEATTLE. eee

RE: SEATTLE AIRTEL T0 THE BUREAU 3/2/73.

A® ONE-MILE AREA SURROUNDING THE POINT WHERE IT Is
CALCULATED UNSUB WOULD HAVE LANDED IF SS PARACHUTE DID NOT
OPEN, WAS THOROUGHLY AND COMPLETELY SEARCHED DURING THE WEEK .
OF 3/12=16/73 WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS. ree ae

THE SEARCH WILL RESUME DURING THE WEEK OF MARCH 26, 1973,
AND WELL CONSTITUTE A ONE-MILE SQUARE TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH *

' OF THE FIRST MILE. ANY FURTHER SEARCH WILL BE CONTINGENT UPON
THE RESULTS OF CURRENT SEARCH. ,
'ARMED AND DANGEROUS,

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TO SEATTLE (164-81)

FROM SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) cRUC) IP

NORJAK «

RE YOUR TELETYPE DATED 3/7/73.

ON 3/16/73, |
[_J, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, ADVISED THEY ARE|
[din LA CENTER, WASHINGTON, DESCRIBED|
ADVISED THIS

PROPERTY PRESENTLY BEING RENTED IN ITS ENTIRETY BY| |
| |, LA CENTER. |

ADVISED ANY CONSENT TO SEARCH AFORE-MENTIONED PROPERTY MUST BE
given By[ si.
SEATTLE + WILL CONTACT| [AND CONDUCT
sygitvestie ation AS STIPULATED IN REFERENCED COMMUNICATION.

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TOs SEATTLE (16481)
FROM: PORTLAND (164-41) (P) 1P

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; OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10
. MAY 182 EDITION

GSA FeMn (41 Co) 10t-11.6
UNITED STATES G RNMENT @
Memorandum

TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) pate: 3/9/73

FROM : SPC| } SAE.

SUBJECT: NORJAK

At 9:52 PM, 3/9/73,|
| - Orchards, Wash. (N.E. of Vancouver, Wash.),
télephone , telephonically advised that he has
f
Wash., for a number of years. He said that he was out there
this afternoon and found that someone has built an elaborate
tree-house in a large wooded area located just off
Apparently this person has also posted "no tres-
passing" signs around the tree-house.

stated he did not see anybody-around the area .
when he was out there, but explained he did not stay around
very long to investigate. He sounded as if he was afraid
he may get shot. He has no idea when the tree-house was
built, since he has not been out there for about two to three
years.

believes that his property lies within the area
where D.B. COOPER reportedly parachuted. He said that he:
would like to have an agent contact him at the above tele-
phone number or address and he would show the agent where
the tree-house could be found. In addition, he said he
would like this matter settled as soon as possible for he
will be selling the land in the near future.

|was advised that his information would be given
to the case agent the first thing Monday next.

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Date: 2/28/73

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, AIRTEL
Via
(Priority)
we a a a ne eee Se ne ee ee eg —_
TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) = SLE
FROM: SAC, ALEXANDRIA (164-72) (P) Sube G-
NORJAK

(00: SEATTLE) Geek x

ReSEairtel to Alexandria, 2/15/73.

Transmitted under separate cover for Seattle are
the following fourteen items:

1) One copy of Seattle Sectional Aeronautical Chart
on scale 1:500,000.

" 2) One copy of U. S. Department of Interior Geological
Survey Index of Topographic Maps of Washington.

3) Two copies each of fifteen-minute quadrangle maps
(scale 1:62,500 or one inch equals approximately
one mile) of the Pigeon Springs, La Center, Yacolt,
and Cougar areas of Washington.

4) Two copies each of maps (scale of 1:250,000) of
the Vancouver and Hoquiam area of Washington.

The following investigation was conducted by SA
| Jon 2/27/73. b6
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Aeronautical Information Division CFDAS-AI), U. S. Amy GZ E.
Aeronautical Services Office, Building #2, Cameron Station,

[64 Ff SOR

Seattle (Enc. 14) SEARCHED INDEXED.
(1-Package Copy) SERIALIZED veel Sfx FHLED..heefcicee
2~Alexandria mani 1972
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Alexandria, Virginia, advised flight crews normally, carry sectional
aeronautical charts on the scale of 1:500,000 and that larger

charts on the scale of 1:250,000 are used only by txaining crews.

| stated his office only maintains the 1:500,000 scale b6
charts and furnished one of the Seattle area which includes bIC
the area in question which is encircled in black magic marker
pencil located by the coordinates of 122 degrees and _30 minutes
longitude and 46 degrees and zero minutes latitude. [ __

stated additional charts of Seattle area on the scale of 1:500,000
as well as charts on the scale of 1:250,000 can be obtained

at Post Headquarters, G~2, Fort Lewis Army Base, Tacoma,
Washington.

| | Map Distribution bé
District - Washington, Department of Interior, 1200 South Eads b7C
Street, Arlington, Virginia, furnished a copy of the U. S.
Department of Interior Geological Survey Index of Topographic
Maps of Washington. She advised the area in question is located
in their Vancouver and Hoquiam, Washington, maps in the scale
of 1:250,000. Im addition, a larger scale of the area is
contained in the fifteen-minute (scale 1:62,500 or one-inch
equals approximately one mile) quadrangle maps of the Pigeon
Springs, La Center, Yacolt, and Cougar, Washington, areas. These
latter maps are the largest scale available except that the
southern half of the La Center map can be obtained on a larger
scale (seven and a half-minute maps of the Ridgefield and Battle-
ground, Washington, areas on scale of 1:24,000 or one-inch equals
2,000 feet). | furnished copies of the maps for the b6
above-mentioned Pigeon Springs, La Genter, Yacolt, Cougar, b7C
Vancouver, and Hoquiam, Washington, areas.

| |was very cooperative and apologized
several times because some of the fifteen-minute quadrangle
maps were dirty and soiled around the borders. This condition
exists she stated because her office basically handles only the
maps for the Eastern States (east of the Mississippi) and thus
the few WestemState maps on her shelves linger on the shelf
and become-dirty. She stated copies of the maps of the Western
States are basically furnished by the Distribution Section,
U. S. Geological Survey, Federal Center, Denver, Colorado.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) 3/9/73
SA THOMAS J. MANNING Sub [—

NORJAK ,

Re search of new area at drop zone a conference was held
3/9/73 with agents to be involved in search.

Decision was made to commence search as early as practicable
on 3/12/73 with prime drop zone at new Point A to be first area
searched. Case agent has requested that shovels (Centrenchin
tools) and machetes be secured fo assist in_seach, Shs b6é
will take Sk 99 to Vancouver, Washington b7C
and will pick up below listed equipment at whatever Location
it can be secured:

8 entrenching tools

11 ponchos

LL pair of rain pants (suspender type)

10 machetesor some type of brush cutting device

Headaurcrters for search will be SE 99 (mobile) and Quay
Motel (fixed). Search in initial phase to commence 3/12/73
and end 3/16/73 at 4:00 PM, Agehts from Seattle Hq will return
to Seattle afternoon of 3/16/73.

Sa | lhas telephonically advised that he has secured b6
waiver of search forms from all individuals in prime 1 square bic
mile area and for distance of % mile north and south of prime
area.

SA| | will bring photographic equipment, evidence 6
kit and other material which will be necessary in event remains bic

or evidence are located. 4 portable radios will be secured from
L |with charger and will be transported by agents in
SE 99,

SA| | will drive SE 90 with SAs| 4} »6

SA ]will h vehicle (number unlmotwn) which he will n°
rive accompanied by SA —
: TE ee

Agents from Seattle Division will leave at 7:30 AN, 3/12/73
end will meet with writer at Quay Motel, Vancouver for briefing
and it is anticipated thatsearch will comaence afternoon of 3/12/73

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. 7315 PM NITEL 3-7-73 DcB , Sut E
A.

TO HONOLULU (164-85) . &
VIA WASHINGTON Se
PORTLAND (164-41)

SAN FRANCISCO (164-229)
FROM SEATTLE (164-81) @) IP

NORJAK »

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FOR INFORMATION OF RECEIVING OFFICES, SEATTLE DIVISION
WILL CONDUCT EXTENSIVE GROUND SEARCH IN WOODED AREA NEAR

LA CENTER, WASHINGTON, BEGINNING 3-12-73, TO LOOK FOR REMAINS
OF UNSUB, AKA D.B. COOPER.

ALL RECEIVING OFFICES CONTACT PERSONS LISTED BELOW
AND HAVE AN FD-26 EXECUTED.

PORTLAND, OREGON,

| KANEOHE, =—*

HAWALL ,| L.
| SAN JOSE,
CALIFORNIA ,| .

ARNED AND DANGEROUS.
END
"BT FBIHQ ACK FOR Two
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FD-36 (Rov. $+22-64)

FBI
Date: 2/15/73

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Vie AIRTEL AIRMAIL
{Priority}
eee ee eee we eee ee a a en a eee 5 ee
TO: SAC, ALEXANDRIA (164-72) ae
Bul
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) Cub &
«< be
SUBJECT: NORJAK a
00: SEATTLE Sle

An attempt is being made to obtain larger scale
maps of the area it is thought UNSUB parachuted into. This
area is in the southeast portion of the State of Washington
and is located approximately halfway between Woodland, Wash-
ington, and Lake Merwin.

On February 13, 1973, | | |»e |
| | bIC |
Me Chord Air Force Base, made available an address for the
U. S. Army Aeronautical Service. [L___]advised maps could
be obtained from this office of the area desired.

The full address is United States Army Aeronautical
Service Office, HQODA (FDAS-Al), Cameron Station, Alexandria,
Virginia, 22314, telephone Area Code 202/274-7773, Autovon
phone 284-7773.

LEADS

ALEXANDRIA DIVISION
At Alexandria, Virginia

Will contact appropriate personnel of the U. 5.
Army Aeronautical Service Office and attempt to obtain blown
up maps of the area located between Woodland, Washington,
and Lake Merwin. Note: This area is described in the United
States Departnent of Interior Geological Survey under the
following four names: Pidegon Springs, Cougar La Center, and

Yacolt.
2.- Alexandria
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FBI
Date: 2/8/73

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Via AIRTEL

| haalhenadann here lee ethene neem odio

{Priority}
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TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) . Sule F
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FROM: SAC, ALEXANDRIA (164-72) (P) Sat
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NORJAK Cube 2.

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Re WFO letter to Alexandria, 11/20/72; and Seattle
airtel to Alexandria, 2/5/73.

Continuous investigation has been conducted at the
Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, during the months of.
December, 1972, and January, 1973, in an attempt to .
determine who would have authority to re-route military
training missions in visual aerial phtography flown within
the continental United States. To date no one has been
located who could positively state that this could be done,
however, | bé
was contacted and he advised that he had made inquiry into BIC
this matter and stated that in the event Seattle wished to
have military assistance in this matter than Seattle should
request the Director to submit a letter of request to the
Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Office of
the Secretary of Defense, Pentagon, Washington, D. C. 20301.
In this letter the full particulars of the matter should
be set forth as well as whether or not the Bureau or
Department of Justice is willing to observe the additional
cost if any to the Air Force. of ladvised that h "bé

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2/5/73

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AIRTEL AIRMAIL Que jF

TO: SAC, ALEXANDRIA (164-72)
PROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
SUBJECT: NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
Re WFO letter to Alexandria dated 11/20/72.
Alexandria is requested to expedite investigation
requested in referenced communication and report results to
Seattle Division,

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

D- Alexandria
~ Seattle
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7:45 PM MITEL 2-1-73 Hwy Te .

NR@GO AX PLAIN

TO SEATTLE (164-81) a ~ 4 Oo
FROM ALEXANDRIA (164772) P* - . 7 Sua 1

; | ' } wart Ee
NORJAK, 00° SEATTLE a HO ———

. RE SEATTLE AIRTEL TO ALEXANDRIA , I+ 28- 15.
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NATIONAL MELITARY, COMMAND CENTER, PENTAGON

CONTACTED 1-29-73, BY sal | RES ARDING RELEASE TO BUREAU OF . BE

RADAR DATA AND CALCULATIONS IU POSSESSION oF [ |

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MC CHORD ALR FORCE BASE , WASHINGTON; MATTER REFERRED TO JOINT .
CHIEFS OF STAFF GICS) PERSONNEL. ) oy
ON 1-3¢- 73,[.___] orFice CONTACTED BY | — _ bé

BTC
——,. U.S. AIR FORCE, Jos STAFF, AND pererwiweo[_____] 2

AUTHORITY NOT TO RELEASE INSTANT DATA BASED ON AIR FORCE ALL

MAJOR COMMAND MESSAGE DATED JULY 1972. L h

US. ARMY , 'ICS ADVISED TELEPHONICALLY CONFERENCE HELD i- "~31- 13,"

BETWEEN HIMSELF , L : Is ATR' FORCE STAFF, JUDG E aDvocaTE " a
GENERALS OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D Ley AND OTHER PERTINENT AIR FORCE
OFFICERS THROUG HOUT THE COUNTRY REGARDING INSTANT MATTER « RESULTS |
ARE BUREAU WILL BE FURNISHED THE DESIRED INFORMATION. )

SEATILE contact | | FOR FURTHER DETAILS mamma bs
vf? ¢
RELEASE OF LWSTANT RADAR pam AND CALCULATIONS « Dome aff? OLE
END ne | Le Lakh FY
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum |
. ' EN r) trv Fried
To + SAC, ALEXANDRIA , DATE: = 11/20/72
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rrom : SAC, WFO Seb
aA .L- ©
SUBJECT; NORJAK :

REFERENCE: Seattle airtel to Bureau, 11/15/72.

WFO copies of referenced communication are forwarded as lead is
within investigative jurisdiction of addressee office.

BALTIMORE (Enc.)

ALEXANDRIA (Enc.) 2

ST. LOUIS (Enc.)

INDIANAPOLIS (Enc. )

SAN ANTONIO (Enc.)

DENVER (Enc.)

KANSAS CITY (Enc.)

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Via ____ AIRTEL AIR MATL
(Priority}
A an ene ee ee ee beet _
TO: ACTING DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) r
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)

SUBJECT: NORJAK
00: Seattle

Re Seattle airtel to Bureau, 11/1/72, Norfolk
airtel to Bureau, 11/9/72.

Enclosed for WFO is one-copy each of re communications}.

+ Maton . Me oe eee

WFO is -to contact the National Military
Command "Center, Washington, D.C., and request a training
mission in visual aerial photography be flown along the 87
miles of the NORJAK aircraft flight path that is under
consideration.

The exact coordinates of the area to be covered
will be provided by Seattle Division, if the training
mission is approved. '

This lead is being set out on a UACB basis.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

1g oO,
2.) Bureau
2.- WFO (Encl. 2) (164-169)

- Seattle
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11/9/72

Cus &
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TO: ACTING DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) Seb x

FROM: SAC, NORFOLK (164-41) CRUC)

NORJAK
(CO: Seattle)
Re Seattle airtel to Bureau 11/1/72.
On 11/7/72, interviews were conducted with the

following individuals assigned to the b6
| |, Langley Air Force Base, Virginia: b7C

It was the consensus of opinion among the three
individuals above, each of whom haé had considerable
experience with infrared imagery, that efforts to locate
the attache case by this means would probably prove futile.
The terrain, as described, would neutralize any effort,
particularly if tall trees and mountains are part of its
makeup. Further explained was the necessity. for the
presence of heat which would need to be generated by the
object (attache case) in contrast to the surrounding
terrain for successful infrared high resolution photography.
The size of the attache case provides a poor target for
any type of aerial photography, including visual photography.

2 ~- Bureau

2 j~ Seattle (164-81) GUL E

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) November 13, 1972
sa Qehe F
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NORJAK Sete
00: SEATTLE ———

RE SUB F COURSE AND SUB E SEARCH AREA

On October 30, 1972, | __|, Northwest
Orient Airlines, Seattle, Washington, telephone | R
advised that _ _ |,
Northwest Orient Airlines, would call SA| |

concerning his calculations of the flight path of Northwest

Orient Airlines Flight 305, Portland to Seattle, November

24, 1971 CF eurthes advised that |

Les pz ltteGhord Air Force Base, also calculated the area
nto which Unsub parachuted and would have in his possession

radar data concerning the above-mentioned flight.

LEADS

SEATTLE
AT McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, WASHINGTON

Will contact | Jand review
with him his calculations of the flight path and course of
the Norjak airplane in order to determine if there is a
possibility of an error in the computation of the search
area,

AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

Will arrange to obtain from| _ | a
copy of his calculations of the course, flight path, and
jump area for Unsub, aka Cooper.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS,

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SAC, ATLANTA (164-254) 11/10/72
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) Qe ¢
NORJAK .
00: SEATTLE Gate a
RE: SUB E

SUB R

Re: Atlanta let to SE, 10/31/72.

Atlanta is requested to recontact | : : L b6
Lilburn, Georgia, and obtain from him the map mentioned in b7C
referenced communication and forward same to Seattle.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

2.~ Atlanta
(22 Seattle
RNN/sib

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 10/31/72

SAC, ATLANTA (164-254) (RUC)

Sh =
NORJAK ele fer

00: SE
BUFILE: 164=2111

Re Atlanta letter to Seattle, 8/31/72.

On 10/16/72, | | Lilburn, Ga.,
who previously furnished information concerning material
found by him on 2 hunting trip in Northeast Oregon
11/71, advised that he has located a map of the area
referred to in referenced letter and has this map
available of the area referred to with its approximate loca=-
tion marked off. If needed, this map will be made available.

A review of the file of the Atlanta Office
discloses that 211 investigation has been completed and
furnished office of origin, Accordingly, this case is
being placed in an RUC status.

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SAG, SEARTLE (164-92) 10/27/72
SAG, DETROLT (31644125) (auc) Qak &

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Uukile 164-2111

Re Atlanta lottoxs to Seattic, 8/31/72. Ser. 8326S
pte foblouins invectipation was conducted by SA bé6
at Grayling, lichiean, on 10/16/72, b7C

La Groyling, Michigan, advised that their xccords chow
@ punrantee enxrd for bow number wae nover xeturcned

ond subsequently thore is no vecord of its ower on fils,

| lindicated that since the sericl number baran witl

the bow had beon shivped by theiy comany in 1969,

added that the only record of the serial number that their b6
company might have would ba om tha xeverse side of the bic
snipper's copy of shipments going out to any of their

4,500 dealers. stated as 2 shipment goes out, the

shipping clork usually writes cerial numbers deown_on the
reverse sida of the shipper's copy of all 'bows.

stated the shippox's copies are kept on file at the Gray~
ling office and i£ it was suspected that the bow was pure
chased in a particular repion of tha country, the files
for the dealers in that repzien could ba reviewed and
possibly the portlevlar dealer Wnich veceived thak bor
could bo identifieds jourp kid T!ndEROUS

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AIRTEL ATRNATL

TO: ACTING, DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2121) AND Sube

SAC, HORFOLK (164-41)

FROH: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
SUBJECT: NORJAK
(00:SE)

The following background information is being
provided to the Norfolk Division: Unsub had with him prior
to the time he jumped the following:

A. Parachute Back Pack .
B. Parachute Chest Pack .
Cc. Briefcase or attache case

D. Dark overcoat

E. A ¥xl2x14 paper bag

F. A pair of dark slip-on shoes.

G. Wrap around sunglasses with dark rims.

H. 10,0900 $20 bills.

Since none of the above was found when the plane
was searched at Reno, Unsub must have taken them with him,
or discarded some of them prior to jumping.

The above-deseribed attache case supposedly con-
tained a bomb. It is believed Unsub threw this attache case
from the plane prior to his jumping, because of the numerous
other items he had to carry. If he did throw it prior to
jumping, it would fall almost directly in the path of the
aircraft. The 727 air stairs were lowered sometime after
7:42 p.m. and Unsub jumped prior to 8:15 p.m. on November 24,
1971. The plane covered a distance of approximately 87 miles
during this time.

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Fort Lewis, Washington, advised on August 22, 1972, that BIC
» Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, tele-

phone | b would be able to provide expert information
concerning the feasibility of using high resolution infrared
or regular photographic equipment in a low fFiying aircraft

to locate the attache case or any other of the above-described
items Unsub may have discarded prior to jumping.

The items could possibly be lodged in thickly
wooded, mountainous terrain. The search area would cover
a strip of land approximately 87 miles long by one-half
mile wide. It has been suggested that infrared photography
might possibly indicate non-living material, such as an
attache case, in a darker shade than living material, thereby
enabling the case to be found using infrared high resolution
photography.

Since Unsub possibly discarded the attache case
prior to jumping, he could not have buried or hidden it.
The case would have dropped directly in the flight path of
the plane and could possibly be visible from the air. 'The
length of time Unsub would have to throw the case or any
other item is limited to 33 minutes, and therefore the area
covered is relatively small when compared to the entire
Flight path.

Since NORJAK is the only aircraft hijacking in
which the subject has not been identified and apprehended
nor the ransom money recovered, the following iead is being
set forth as a method of possibly obtaining new evidence
that might identify Unsub or indicate his whereabouts

LEAD

NORFOLK
AT LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, VIRGINIA. Will
expeditiously contact] and determine from him b6
the feasibility and cost of conducting the above-described b7C

photographic air search,

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) October 31, 1972

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Re memo of SA THOMAS J. MANNING, dated 10/24/72,

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information:

On the night of NORJAK, a jet airliner flew over
his home at about 5,000 feet from the ground, | | b6
home is considerably east of the search area, and if the b7C
jet airliner that flew over his home was the hijacked Boeing
727, this would indicate an error was made in the calculations
of the search area,

LEADS

SEATTLE
AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

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| contact! Jand with = b7C
recalculate the flight path and a drop point pertinent to

the NORJAK matter.

2. fiat reviewwhadar information concerning the flight
of North t Orient Airlines 727 in an attempt to determine
the accuracy of the previous flight path calculations,

3. Wil review fogs currently contained in Seattle
File 164-81 10 determine if UNSUB could have jumped after
the time previously calculated.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164481) (P) 10/24/72
SA THOMAS J. MANNING Sk E

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NORJAK
Re memo of SA THOMAS J. MANNING to SAC, 10/19/72

On _ 10/20/72 SA| contacted | L

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| Washington and he furnished the following

tiformat ion:

He lives directly under the fly way between Portland and Seattle,
He recalls that the night of the hijacking a plan was flying very low
and slowly over his house in the early evening and about 5 minutes after
the plane flew over he heard on television that the hijacking was in
progress. He stated the plane was a jet airliner but he did not see
the plane, It was about 4 to 5,000 feet from the ground and he recalled
that the weather was overcast, very Low clouds and it was raining.
The flight of the plane was about 20 miles from Mt. St. Helens

He pointted out that planes on the fly way always fly about
10 to $2,000 feet and in the four years he has Lived at his present
location he has never heard one so Low as on the night of the hijacking,
He advised that he knows the plane was over 3,000 feet for he Lives
near Mount Tum Tum and that is 3,000 feet and the plane was above that
mountain. He also pointed out that the east end of Lake Merwin is

approximateLy | L He pointed out that the
plane flew directly over| area and the area over which
it flew is extremely rug.ed terrain, "e pointed out that recently

there have been a number of hunters in that area, from Lake Merwin
to area.

|stated he feels that if it was the hijacked plane
then the area which has been searched would have been too far west.
He pointed out that the plane was heard before 10:00 PM and after
dark but he could not fix the exact time he heard the plane «Gi
at

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| | furnished a copy of a map on which he drew
he felt was theflight of the plane and this map is attached.

Sak

The area over which the plane flew has a number of private
owners but the majority of the area is owned by Gifford Pinchot National
Forest and the Weyerhaeuser company. /6.V— $¢/-
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GSA FPritn (at CFR) 101-114
UNITED STATES GOS@RNMENT

Memorandum

TO ; SAC, SEATTLE (164681) (P) DATELO/19/72
FROM : SA THOMAS J. MANNING Cuz > bé6
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sugject; NORJAK —_——
'On 10/19/72 | Washington, telephone *
telephonically contacted the Longview RA' and advised 'that nee
he Lives just north of the| ]
He advised that to get to his residence

lo

He pointed out 'that the night of the "hi Jacking he was 5 watching
television and heard an announcement concerning the hijacking, Almost

as soon as he heard the announcement a Large. plane flew low overhead
and flew slightly to the east of his house over | b6
area, He pointed out the area into which the plane flew was one. b7C

which is extremely heavily wooded andan area. into which one would
have difficulty going on foot.

"He advised that he has been thinking of calling the FBI on
this matter but has kept putting it off and feels that the flight
of the plane that night would indicate that the area searched to date
has not inéLuded | ]area and the route over which the b6
plane flew.. He pointed out that he Lives directly under the northe b7C
south flyway for the airlines and this is the 'only time that he and
[— Thave éver heard a plane flying over that low, He requested
an agent contacting him personally in order that the flight of the
plane could be accurately described.

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ts:D. B. Cooper cseppeoraice gS og SOE NYE: BERMATE ,
' ; 3 ; Foe Sis $e ae ee: ry Ses : Bee ke ; ee A,
FBI ho pes hun te rs may find clues \
tatty sie 28 BE See PRAT SY Brin
The FBIi is hopeful that one of sever- " took for. "AS othe LAS Be as
al thousand deer hunters beating the | J. E. Milnes, special agent in charge .
brush in Cowlitz and Clark counties at Seattle, asks hunters or campers to
this fall may run across evidence of °,contact the FBI if any. of the following (Indicate pags, namo of
D.B. Cooper (or whatever his name is) "is noticed: . SB ates Ee nowspaper, Cily and state.)
who parachuted out of a jetliner nearly (1) The remains of a sisi possibly." :
ya.yeat ago with about 40 pounds of $20 | _gead foroneyear, . - ea Opa :
bills. : . {2) The remnants of" 'a parachute, P.5 t
~ he State Game Department i is Coop- "hathess or parachute shroud lines.. '': —Th i
-erating with the FBl and will distribute —_. (3) Ten thousand $20 bills wrapped in e Daily News !
thousands of form letters asking hunt- a parachute canopy. num- Longview, Washington

bers are known and can! he identities'.

(4) Deteriorated raincoat. or "over
"¢ at. 4 ylaged ire) ry
« 4&5) Small briefcase or 'attache Sceld
+ #Tom Manning, special FBI agent fa,
ngview, urged anyone having any.
information concerting this matter
. report to the nearest FBI office or call'
" the Seattle office collect, MA2-0460, .- 7
'The area where the search is being!
"E centrated is bound on the west by|
In erstate Highway 5, on the south Sy-
Columbia River, on' the north )y,
th Kalama River, and on the east } ny
" the Skamania-Clark county ling. . = A

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Date: 10/ 3/72

Edition: Afternoon

Author: Dick Poliock
Editor: JOhn McClelland
Title:

NORJAK

Character:
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Classification: 164- 81
Submitting Office: Seattle

Egbpeing Investigated

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) October 4, 1972
SA| | Seh 4
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CO: SEATTLE '

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Re memo from SA| Jat Seattle, dated
8/24/72.

SUB E, SUB C, SUB X

On September 27, 1972,|

L—_+ Vancouver, Washington, phone | |, advised that his
epartment would disseminate literature about unsub to game
wardens for further dissemination to local hunters in the
Lake Merwin Dam area. He advised that he could probably dis~
seminate 1,500 copies of the literature.

On September 28, 1972, SA| | was
advised of the above information at which time he stated that
he would forward 1,500 copies of the literature regarding the
unsub to the Longview, Washington RA for further dissemination
to | ¢supra).

LEADS

SEATTLE
AT VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON

Will provide _ _ '
with literature regarding unsub for further dissemination to
game wardens and subsequent dissemination to local hunters in
the Lake Merwin Dam area.

ARMED AND DANGEXOUS.

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In Reply, Please Refer to . . October 2, 1972
File No. .

UNITED STATES DE PARTMENT OF JUS'TICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Seattle, Washington Qube C

Dear Sir:

On November 24, 1971, a man parachuted inito the
below 'described area with $200,000 in $20 bills. If, while
camping or hunting, you should " discover any evidence
concerning this skyjacking please contact the nearest FBI
Office.

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:

{1.} The remains of a man, possibly dead for one year.

(2.) The remnants of a parachute, harness or
parachute shroud lines.

. (3.) 10,060 $20 bills wrapped in a parachute
canopy, all serial numbers are known and can be identified.

(4.) Deteriorated raincoat or overcoat.
(5.) Small briefcase or attache case. "

If any information concerning this matter is
discovered, it should be reported to the FBI Office at .
Seattle, Washington, Area Code 206, telephone MA 2-060 collect,
or to the nearest FBI Office, which can be found by checking
the front of your telephone directory.

Very truly YOUrS ;

L&. Wi lata

J. E. MILNES,
Special Agent in Charge

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) September 18, 1972
sa [ CUAL b
Sat i
NORJAK
00: SEATTLE . Cube i

RE: PARACHUTE FOUND NEAR THE —
KALAMA RIVER ROAD

On September 7, 1972, SA| jadvised
telephonically that he had discovered a parachute hanging
from the top of a tall pine tree, approximately 15 miles from
the end of the Kalama River Road. Thirty yards from the tree
in which the parachute was found was a piece of white plastic
on which was inscribed the following: "United States Depart-—
ment of Commerce, NOAA — National Weather Service, Radio Sonde."

[|statea the parachute was a reddish color
with white shroud lines. The parachute appeared to be slightly
smaller than a normal—-sized parachute and appeared to have
something hanging from the end of it that looked like part
of a box.

On September 7, 1972,

[+i «United States Department of Commerce, National Weather
service, 909 First Street, Seattle, Washington, advised his
department uses parachutes to recover radio sonde equipment
attached to weather balloons. | Jexplained that a balloon
is released with the radio equipment attached to it. The
balloon rises to a preset height, at which time the balloon
explodes. The radio equipment then falls:a short distance

and a small parachute opens and carries the radio equipment
safely to the ground. This parachute is slightly smaller than
a regular~sized parachute and it is pink in color with white
shroud lines. [(_] further stated that housing the radio
sonde equipment is a white plastic box with the following
inscription: "United States Department of Commerce, NOAA -
National Weather Service, Radio Sonde,."

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SAC, SEATTIZ (16481) 8/31/72

SAC, ATIANTA (164-254) (P) ;
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00: SHATTIZ
BUTILE 164-2111

On 8/17/72, | | residing atL___] b6

| Georgia, furnished the following infor BITC

ration,

During the first week of November 1971, he was on
an el: hunting trip in the northeastern portion of the state
of Oregon, During this hunt he ran across a log shelter cabin
and a cache of survival gear located in a remote piace in this
area, He is unware of the signifcance of this cache but furn-
ished this information after hearing about capthoned case, He
advised that 2 short time after the hijacking he was transferred
by his company from Portiand, Oregon, to Atlanta, Georgia, and
only recently received his furniture and personal effects,
Since some of the data contained herein was with his personal
effects he was unable to furnish this information prior to this

TC.

He produced a United States Department of Agriculture
Forest Service rap of the Joseph Ranger District,Wallowa Whit-
can National Forest, dated in 1965, He stated that this mp
is availabie through the headquarters of the porest gervice in
Portland, Oregon. "He stated that the area that he is relating
to is located within sections 1, 12, or 13 of Range 49 east in
Township 1 north as set out on the above deseribed rp,

He states that he was off hunting by hirself on this
one particular occasion, when he sturbied into an area of heavy
brush, he discovered a log shelter constructed entirely of logs
five to six inches in diarcter, Tho buliding being approximately
four feot long by five feet wide and four feet high, the open-
ing to the shelter was covered by lors propped in place and
staked in position in the ground, At the tine he was there there
wascapproxinately 12 to 18 inches of snow on the ground and this
ghhount of snow had been in the area for four to six weeks prior

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to this tire. He notiecd no fecch trachns acay the choltor
ow cache at the tic.

He vas unable te lao's into tho shelter te sco what
was contained thorofn and he Gdidast rerevyo any of tho logo to

emanine £6, Ho dia notice 2 duxxol ba elay fron a trce
noay by, @his duvfel bar bad the marco
er the Zact nace could bal jweth Aly Perea numbor

iryrinted oa the duzzot bar, The bar appearcd to ko
oid and econataincd nunerous tears and wear holes. Ee oxanined
tho contents of the duffol bag and disecovercd that it contained
vific bulicts, Jong-handicd non's undorweaxy, shoo grease, candios,
4 jacket, vitamin pllis, akd sore hippie-type sroking pipes,
which nppeared to handmade, He noticed uo 2ood, no zocks, ov
Ghoes in the bag, We noted that several of these Lters stiil
had prfeo tags on thon xoRieeting that thoy yore purehused
edthoy at GI Joo's er Andy and Bos both of which ore Arry swe
pins steres located in Pertiand, Oregon, Ho did not rcenk2 any
Gates of purchase, .

Hoe giso noted that there was a loftehanted boy, as
used by archors, hanging froma tree nearby, He vormoved this
bow and took lt with hin, the bow bears the nazo Baor Archory
Coupany, Grayling, Michican, rogistration nurber

Ee stated that the area of the cache is Jecated in
what is known as Heli''s Canyon, near the boundary between east
orn Oregon and Idaho, It is located voncraliy in a gully bee
tweon Windy Ridge and the next ridge located to the southwest.
He statos that the nearest community is in Iunaha, Oregon,
iocatca on the Xrnaha River, To get to the arca you tate the
Hint Point Road out of Irnaha and foliow bt to the end of the
paverent, at this point you follor the wite trall that secs out
on Windy Ridso and finally comes te a dead end, The road ends
ata ceili draw and the area of the cacho is located about 200
or 50 yards fron tho end of the road.

Ho ptated that this goneral area has the appcarance

of being uscd during the cumier nonthe by packtrain tripa com
ine fren various dude ranches in the area and leeated ucarby
is a camping area which nicht to an overnicht stepping point
en these mektrain trips. He stated thyt from this camping
nven the site of the cache is porhaps 100 to 150 yards away
up the ofda af a hill in heavy brush, The cache could not bo
Seon £rea tho camping aren but the arca could probabiy ho pointe
ea oat by ona Of the rangors from tho nearby vancer ctation at

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|stated that with him on this trip was an b6
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| who is a bulider in Portland, Oregon, but

who rosides in Aurora, Oregon, having home telephone number

| thinks that probably | could

point out the area where the party camped during this elk

hunt and might possibiy bo able to assist in locating tho

area of the cache, Other merbers of the hunting party were

& young relative of | |dast name unrecalied, b6
who is possibly a student at one of the comminity colleges in b7C
the Portiand, Oregon, area, The_third member of the trip is

who is employed as | | in the Portland area,
states that no one was with him when he found the cache

and the others would know of his find based only on the infor-

ration he furnished then,

Due to the fact that the Hell's Canyon area is located
a considerable distance from the possible flight path of the
aircraft in captioned casc, fiying from Seattle to Reno, the
significance of this information is not known to the Atlanta
office, accordingly, no leads are being set out in the Portland
area at this time, Leads are being designated far the Detroit

office to determine Lf the bow found by is registered, b6
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DETROIT DIVISION
AT GRAYLING, MICHIGAN
Wil contact Baer Archery Company to determine if

left handed bow nunber([_—srdihas been vegistered by its owner b6
with that company, If information is found will furnish the b7C
sane to office of origin for appropriate additional investiga~
tion,

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S- OPTIONAL FORM NO. 19 *- ro-tsca a
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GSA GEN. REG. NO 27

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

She.

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TO SAG, SEATTLE (164-81) ¢P) ae DATE: 1/1253 E- *
, ' 2, .
FROM = sa 'THOMAS J. MANNING ia
SUBJECT: : NORJAK , , , :
On 9/1/72 | lof the Weyerhaeuser Compay at

Camp Kalama » Washington, telephone | Jadvised that Ye, in the course
of his timber land employment, ha found a 200' tree which has some weathered
pink looking material at the top hanging from what appears to.be a string.

'

He stated the materfal is pink or red colored." He stated that the tree is -
ai located on one of the forks of Elk Greek straight north of Cougar, Washington.

"He advised that he would be available on 9/5/72 to conduct an agent of

the FBI to the location of this tree for further investigation of the 2 eset

in the tres,

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OFTIONA, FORM NO. to
MAY (902 EDITION

"As + GsaBemr (4t cre} 01-118 ©
é, ths UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ,
To :SAC, SEATTLE (64-81)(P) pare: 8/24/72
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SUBJECT: NORJAK SOA x

00: SEATTLE ;
. 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 unstib, should be provided to Washington
State Game Wardens that handle the area into which the hi-
jacker parachuted,

In conjunction with this, | Game Warden b6
was contacted August 22, 1972, and he advised the hunting b7c
season for the state of Washington will begin and end as '
follows:

. * 3

Regular deer season: October 14-28, 1972

. November 10-12, 1972

Elk season: October 30 -

- November 13, 1372
further advised that those game wardens which
handle the areas around Lake Merwin Dam are as follows: 6

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Co 1. | | Castlerock, Washington, phone

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story is noteworthy:

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"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.

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skyjacker ended up entangled in a tree in tdLow~freezing
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FBI

'Date: August 22, 1972

{Type in plaintext or code)

ATRTEL, ALRMATI
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TO ACTING DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM } SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) ND we
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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:

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In order that this case be given more publicity,

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).

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If the artist's conception of Unsub is changed
as suggested in refere €ed airtel, mats of the
new picture should aléo be made.

Sent : M Per

Approved:.

Special Agent in Charge

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On 8/7/72 the asents attached to Longview RA donducted
a check of the area mentioned_in referenced memorandum which
also had a map attached, SA | conducted a be |
complete through search of the area starting at County Road b7C
20 and progressing through the area to county road 32, It is
felt a thorough walk through search was conducted of the
suspect area and it was noted that the area is extremely
heavy brush, fallen timber and almost impenetrable and is
an area in which there are no residences or farm buildings.

On the County Road 32 side of the suspect area the terrain
drops very sharply about 50 feet from the road to the creek
bed, Further on the county road 20 side of the suspect area
the terrain also drops very sharply to the creek.

It is felt that L£ a decision should be made to conduct
further searching of the suspect area it would be necessary ©
to Gave Lo agents for a period of two days. The property in
question is privately.owned with three parcels owned by three
individuals.

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inquiry from its inception furnished aerial photograph copies bIC
of the terrain in question which are attached.

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the instant aircraft somevhere in northern Clark County b7D

or southern Cowlitz County, Washington, and on July 30,

1972, took] to a location approxinately

tvo niles northvest of Point A of the original_search

axvea exhibited his technique, convincing that
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equcsis 400 feet. The point was located by triangulation
from County Road 16, producing a prine search area (double

hatch marks) and a secondary search area (single hatch marks)
on the photograph,

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'and in other data, and also approximately 1% miles from Point A,

of a triangulated * search area, in a northerly direction.

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communication. |

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and in other data, and also aporoximately 1% miles from Point A,

of a triangulated search area, in a northerly direction,

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and evhibited time honored techniques | b7D

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what they conciuded to be the qeection and approximate Location
of a Large sum of currendy., Three other reference points were
Located on County Road 20 and using the same method angles were
determined setting up a triangle in which this Large amount of

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established Location within the triangles b7D

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 7/25/72
SA CHARLES E. FARRELL

NORJAK

SEARCH NEAR MERWIN DAI

HANDLING OF PROPERTY DAMAGE
: BY MILITARY (SUB DD)

On July 20, 1972, | | b6
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contacted this office with respect to claims being processed
through his office for claims by certain individuals
including | for compensation growing out
! of damage to their property incurred during the search
| conducted by elements of the 3rd Armored Calvary Division.

[_] specifically asked if per chance the money b6
paid as the ransom in the Worthwest hijacking case was b7C
furnished by the Government. He was informed the money
was paid by Northwest Airlines. [__]was endeavoring to
find some basis on which a payment for the claim could be
authorized but since it was not Government money he advised
the claim probably will not be authorized over his cignature
but will be passed up to a higher authority with the
expectation that the claim will be paid.

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ana after making inquiry concerning the search learned it
was authorized by someone at the Pentagon and since he
cannot pass on the claim it will be approved at a higher

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Comaunication Systems Division
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2l June i972
General Telephone Company of the Northvest
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 6/8/72
SA CHARLES E. FARRELL
NORJAK

RE: SEARCH

During the search of the Merwin Dam area in
March and April, 1972, several memoranda were prepared
concerning incidents which occurred. Copies of these
items are being attached to this meniorandum and will be
filed in the main file with no copy to Sub E.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 6/8/72
SA CHARLES E, FARRELL
NORJAK

RE: SEARCH AREA

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as 5 prints made by The Boeing Company of an Air Force
map showing the radar tracing of the course of the air~
craft. The negative of this film is being placed in the
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 6/8/72
SA CHARLES E, FARRELL
NORJAK

RE: SEARCH

On 3/30/72, at the completion of the first
session of the search by the U.S. Army in the area of

Merwin Dam, SA CHARLES E. FARRELL paid in cash $331.60
to| | U.S. Army, to defray the b6

cost of meals served to Agents of the Bureau during that b7c
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 6/8/72
SA CHARLES E. FARRELL
NORJAK

RE: EXPERIMENTAL FLIGHT

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by NWA using the actual plane hijacked in this case and on
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After completion of the experiment |

prepared a handwritten map of his calculations concerning
the drop and the probable drift of the parachute if it
opened. These notes and the map are being placed in the
1-A section of this file.

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Office of the Regimental Commander
Fort Lewis, Washington 98433

Tam delightea to receive , your letter of

'April 27, 1972, concerning the performance of our Special
Agents in the search for the unknown hijacker of Northwest

Aixlines Flight 305 in the vicinity of La Center, Washing

ton. .

I had' 'written to General Bolling earlier and am
attaching a copy of my letter to him for your information.
In addition, however, I would like to tell you officially,

'as I have told you informally before, that we are deeply

appreciative of the assistance received from the Army and

are most favorably impressed by the performance of
| ana his splendid staff.

It is a source of pride and assurance to see the

"Army perform in the magnificent manner in which they did

on this extremely difficult task. It is a tribute to you
and to the officers under your direction, and I hope that
you will see fit to insure that appropriate records are
made of my observations concerning their' performance,

Sincerely yours,

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Fort Lewis, Washington
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98433
27 Aprif 1972

Mr. J. Earl Mifnes

Federal Bureau of Investigation, SAC
1015 2d Avenue

Seattle, Washington 98104

Dear Mr. Mitnes,

Now that the Army's participation in the search for D. EB. Cooper

has been completed, | would like to express to vou my appreciation

for the outstanding assistance and cooperation which you and your |
agents gave to| |}and his squadron. It would have been b6
understandable had the Bureau confined its participation only to bic
those aspects of the search which required the presence of its

agents. To the contrary, your agents participated to the fulfest

extent, and the manner in which they did so was most impressive.

Their willingness to share the hardships of field duty and their

cheerful cooperation in the search efforts reflects most favorahly

on their professionalism and on your leadership.

On behalf of all Army members of the search force, I express my
sincere appreciation to you and afl agents who took part in the
operation.

Sincerely,

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SUBJECT: NORJAK

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Avril 13, 1972.
At approximately 16:30 A.M. April 13, 1972
SA | , FBI advised CP by radio that

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ticipated and add my personal thanks for their
efforts. Sorry our search did not produce the
results we were both seeking. "So it goes. .

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re)

Sincerely,

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ALEXANDER R. BOLLING] Jit, Be
Major General, USA im
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Mr. J. E. Milnes pO coe

Special Agent in Charge .
Federal Bureau of Investigation ;
1015 Second Avenue

Seattle, Washington 98104 .

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At approximately 11:30 p.m oyem 24, 1971,
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| Reight Approximately 6°
: Build Medium
| Hair - Dark, fairly short
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__ ) Ariel, b6
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three and one half years; and, during this time has only
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April 21, 1972

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Dear.| |:

I just wanted to drop you a note and tell
you how much we appreciate your making your property
available to units of the United States Army which
were involved in the search of the terrain around
Ariel, Washington.

We are not only appreciative of your
generosity, but are particularly grateful for the
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April 21, 1972

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As you know, we completed the search of
the area around Ariel, and the Army units were re~
moved early this week.

_ how much we appreciate the use of your facilities
during this extensive search. Your providing the
park facilities, the houses, the power and the
congeniality of your company, specifically that of
| |; made the task infinitely easier.

It not only made it easier, but it enabled
° us to operate much more efficiently. We are most
grateful for your assistance.

Sincerely yours,

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J. E. MILNES
Special Agent in Charge

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Dear General Bolling :

With the completion of the search of the area

_ near Ariel, Washngton, by units of the 3rd Air Cavalry,
I wanted to write to you personally and tell you first how
much we appreciate the services rendered. However, in doing
this I would be most remiss Lf we did not also tell you
that the services of your officers and men were magnificent.
The organizational structure, the equipment provided, and
most important of ali the direction given to 'the operation

under | |
| |, was most impressive.

The assistance rendered by
and | | was in keeping with the highest
traditions of the U. S. Army. -

I could go on at greater length and identify
specifically the individual officers, as well as the non-
commissioned officers and men - but time and space do not
permit.

I do hope, however, that through your channels
you will see fit to insure that this letter of appreciation
and commendation is recorded in appropriate files .
to provide credit to the splendid men who have served so well.

Sincerely yours,
ys Chee
V te | J. E. MILNES
. R *Teheg Special Agent in.Charge
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SAC, SEATTLE (264-81) | 4/19/72
SA CHARLES BE. FARRELL

HORGAK

RE: TELEPHONE SERVICE AT
COMMAND POST, MERWIN DAM,
(TELEPHONE NO. 225-7151)

On April 17, 1972, the writer contacted[__
of the General Telephone Company, Gresham, Oregon,
which handles the telephone service at Merwin Dam to
discuss the billing of the telephone installed on 3/20/72
at the Command Post at Merwin Dam. It was explained to
| | that, in view of the heavy use of the phone
to make calls to Fort Lewis, this office was interested
in exploring the possibility of having the entire billing
made as a Watts installation, retroactive to the date of
installation, if such a billing would be cheaper than
having the calis treated as long distance calls. To make
such a determination, however, the telephone company
would have to determine what the bill is at this time.
said he would request a special run of the
billing for the above number which would take some three
days as these runs are made every three days and would
telephonically contact the writer or ASAC BIBLER.

[dd advised, however, even if the Watts line
would be cheaper he doubted if it would be made retroactive
at this date.

It also was explained tol that we might
consider furnishing his company with a list of calis made
from the Command Post to various numbers at Fort Lewis and
have separate billings made up.

On April 18, 1972, SA MANNING advised that the
Command Post at Merwin Dam would be totally deactivated
by early noon of April 18, 1972, and he was then calling
the local operator to have the telephone at the Command
Post discontinued as of close of business April,18, 1972.

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ATTN: ADM. DIVISION

TO : DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)/& SACS, LOS ANGELES (164~-497}

SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) & PORTLAND (164-41)
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
NORJAK.

THE TEN AGENTS ON SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT FROM
SF, LA AND PD, ASSISTING IN SEARCH IN THIS CASE, WILL HAVE
COMPLETED THEIR ASSIGNMENT AND WILL BE DEPARTING THIS
DIVISION ON APRIL EIGHTEEN NEXT.

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AND PORTLAND (164~41)
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (~P~) St- &
NORGAK.

SEARCH OF ENTIRE AREA IN THE VICINITY OF MERWIN

DAM WAS COMPLETED AS OF ONE PM, APRIL SEVENTEEN, SEVENTYTWO,
WITH NOTHING FOUND.

ARMY UNITS WILL BE DEPARTING FROM THE AREA FOR
RETURN TO FT. LEWIS, BY ELEVEN AM, APRIL EIGHTEEN NEXT.
THE CP AT THE SITE WILL BE VACATED BY LATE APTERNOON ON
APRIL EIGHTEEN NEXT, BOTH BY FBI AND ARMY PERSONNEL WITH

PHONE TO BE DISCONNECTED BY APRIL NINETEEN.

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7219 PM NITEL 4/16/72 DCA
TO DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)
PORTLAND (164-41)
FROM SEATTLE (164-81) IP

NORJAK

SEARCH COMMENCED APPROXIMATELY NINE AM, APRIL SIXTEEN,
SEVENTYTWO, SEARCH PERSONNEL INCLUDED TWO, HUNDRED FIFTYNINE
MILITARY PERSONNEL AND AGENTS. SEARCH TERMINATED APPROXIMATELY
FOUR FIFTEEN PM. ARMY ANTICIPATES COMPLETION OF SEARCH ON ; | '
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TO DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)
-PORTLAND (164-41)

FROM SEATTLE (164-81) IP

NORJAK

SEARCH INITIATED SEVEN THIRTY AM WITH TWO HUNDRED SIXTYSEVEN
ARMY PERSONNEL AND AGENTS, SEARCH TERMINATED FIVE PM, AND APPROXI~
MATELY NINETYFIVE PERCENT OF SEARCH NOW COMPLETED. ARMY ANTICIPATED
SEARCH OF REMAINING AREA WILL TAKE ONE TO ONE AND ONE HALF DAYS IF
WEATHER CONDITIONS FAVORABLE.

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TELETYPE NITEL

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164~2111)
SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164~73)
SAC,PORTLAND (164-41)
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (BP)
"NORJAK.
DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER SEARCH BY TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTYNINE
ARMY PERSONNEL COMMENCED ELEVEN FORTY A.M. AND STOPPED AT THREE

P.M. TODAY. NO DEVELOPMENTS.

, U. S. ARMY, ADVISES THAT NINETY

PERCENT OF AREA TO BE SEARCHED HAS BEEN COMPLETED. AT PRESENT
TIME THERE ARE SIX TO EIGHTEEN INCHES OF SNOW IN HIGHER ELEVATIONS
SURROUNDING SEARCH AREA. IN VIEW OF EXTREMELY LOW LEVEL CLOUDS,
IMPOSSIBLE TO DISPATCH TROOPS IN LANDING ZONES TO COMMENCE SEARCH
OF HIGHER ELEVATIONS. CONTINGENT ON CLEARING WEATHER, SEARCH

WILL CONTINUE SEVEN THIRTY A.M., APRIL FIFTEEN NEXT.

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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111),
SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73), and
SAC, PORTLAND (164-41)

FROM; SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)

NORJAK,.

SEARCH COMMENCED THIS DATE AFTER A HOLD BECAUSE OF BAD
WEATHER WHICH DELAYED SOME UNITS UNTIL NINE THIRTY A, M.
SEARCH PERSONNEL CONSISTING OF TWO HUNDRED SIXTYTHREE TROOPS
PLUS AGENT PERSONNEL SEARCHING IN THE SOUTHERN SECTION WHICH
IS PRIMARILY A RE~SEARCH IN THE VICINITY OF POINT A. SNOW
IN NORTH SECTION OF THE SEARCH AREA IS FROM SIX TO BIGHT
INCHES DEEP AND LANDING ZONES BEING FURTHER PREPARED FOR USE.
IF WEATHER PERMITS ON APRIL FOURTEEN NEXT, SEARCH IN THE
HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE NORTH SECTION WILL BE STARTED, SEARCH

DISCONTINUED THIS DATE APPROXIMATELY FOUR P, HM,

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stated that he owns| |

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

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TO * SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)

FROM : SA THOMAS J, MANNING

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debris since the departure of the army and are perturbed by the

failure to police the arwa upon departure,

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

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TO: SAC, SEATEIE (164-81) DATE: 3/26/72
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. permission to search her property, the agent stated that
if anything was damaged or she had any problems to contact
.the FBI in Longview or Seattle. | |] stated that
' her driveway is being used and that the four wheele drive
rigs that go in and out have torn up her driveway and MMBN
Hilf made it into a mud hole. would Like to
have.an agent come by and look at it so it will be fixed,

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vicinity of| le . , .

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is next to that of | | mentioned above, sent a letter to
the FBI Seattle alleging that debris wasleft at her location

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Edition: Final

Author:
Editor:
Title:

Henry NcLeod
NORJAK

Character:

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NITEL

DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) & SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)
SAC, PORTLAND (164-41)
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (-P-)

NORJAK.

SEARCH THIS DATE WITH TWO SEVEN ONE ARMY PERSONNEL,

PLUS AGENTS, COMMENCED AT SEVEN THIRTY AM IN ADVERSH WEATHER

CONDITIONS. SNOW, SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN HAMPERED SEARCH.

REMAINING AREAS TO BE SEARCHED CAN BE REACHED ONLY BY

HELICOPTER INSERTION OF SEARCH PERSONNEL AND LANDING ZONES

IN MOST CASES UNDER SIX TO TWELVE INCHES OF SNOW. SEARCH

THIS DATE DISCONTINUED AT FOUR FIFTEEN PM.

ACTIVITY ON APRIL THIRTEEN NEXT DEPENDS ON WEATHER

CONDITIONS WITH NO TIME OF START SET.

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TO DIRECTOR (164-2111)
| MINNEAPOLIS (164-75) ~ |
PORTLAND (164-41)
* FROM SEATTLE (164-81) IP

NORJAK.

THIS DATE TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-THREE ARMY PERSONNEL WITH AGENTS
SEARCHED FROM SEVEN A.tM< TO FIVE P.M. WITH NEGATIVE FINDINGS.
SEARCH COMMENCES SEVEN THIRTY AeM. APRIL TWELVE, NEXT.

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FILE (164-81) . 4/11/72

SAC, SEATTLE

NORJAK

On 4/11/72 I callea[__ Jat the BS
Hoxrthwest Hirlines in Minneapolis and told hin that[__] BIC
| who vas commanding the Army troops
searching the'area, requested thatl |Jeall hin

and discuss with him the basis for his conclusion that
there is a greater likelihood of the hijacker falling
south of the AB line, rather than north of that Line.

I furnished to him the phone number of the Woodland
site and requested him to call.

JEMsaon

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FILED (164-81) 4/5/72
SAC, SHATTLE

NORJAK

On 4/4/72 I called SA_HENRY SHUTZ at the Bureau. I
advised him T had talked to who told me that the
problem was when they got the authority originally it was
for only 7 days, but £ told him we imposed no such limitation
and the letter we wrote to the Army made no mention of a
time limit.

I advised Mr. SHUTZ that | Jsaid in view of the
7-day limit, the 6th Army at San Francisco had to go to
CONARC, which is the Continental Army at Port Monroe, Va.
to get this limitation removed.

I suggested to iir. SHUTZ that he have his people
contact tne Chief of Staff's office in the Pentagon and
advise them that they should contact the CONARC people
and tell them to get on the job.

JEMzeon
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FILE (164-81) 4/5/72

SAC, SCATTLE

NORJAK

On 4/5/72| called from Fort Lewis. He bé6
advised that all the channels had been cleared for them to b7C
return to this operation, awaiting a request from our head-
quarters in Washington to trigger the response.

He asked that we fornally xeguest someone in operations
in the Army Headquarters in Washington to assist us in com~
pleting the job, with an estimated completion date of 4/21/72.

I immediately called SA HENRY SCHUTZ at the Bureau,

advised him of this, and he advised that they were taking
these steps already.

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TO : DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) & SACS, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)
AND PORTLAND (164~41)

FROM : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (~P-)
SUBJECT: NORJAK

TODAY 267 ARMY PERSONNEL SEARCHED FROM SEVEN

THIRTY AM UNTIL FOUR TWENTY PM, WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS.
SEARCH COMMENCES SEVEN AM, APRIL ELEVEN NEXT.

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5:43 PM NITEL 4/9/72 DCA

TO DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
PORTLAND (164-41)
MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)

FROM .SEATTLE (164-81) 1P

NORJAK

SEARCH RESUMED NINE THIRTY A.M., APRIL NINE, SEVENTYTWO,
AND DISCONTINUED AT THREE THIRTY P.M. WITH TWO HUNDRED SIXTYNINE
ARMY PERSONNEL. NO POSITIVE FINDINGS.

SEARCH RESUMES AT NINE A.M., APRIL TEN NEXT. , .
END
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TO DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
PORTLAND (164-4})
MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)

FROM SEATTLE (164-81) 1P

NORJAK

SEARCH RESUNED SEVEN FIFTEEN a.l. INSTANT DATE AND DISCONTINUED
AT FOUR FIFTEEN P.®. WITH TYO HUNDRED SIXTYNINE ARMY PERSONNEL.
ffeAr coennent®, ,)
NO POSITIVE FINDINGS. SEARCH RESUMES AT NINE a.t%, 2%
NINE, NEXT.
END
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TO DIRECTOR (164-2111)
MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)
PORTLAND (164-41)

FRON SEATTLE (164-81) CP)

NORJAK

ARMY TROOPS ARRIVED IN BIVOUAC AREA, LAKE MERWIN, THIS DATE
AT APPROXIMATELY THO P.M. DUE TO CONTAMINATION OF JET FUEL
SEARCH NOT COMMENCED. CAMP BEING ESTABLISHED AND SEARCH WILL
COMMENCE SEVEN A.M. EIGHTH INSTANT.
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SA CHARLES E. FARRELL

NORJAK

RE: SEARCH & PUBLICITY

At 12:35 PM, on 4/6/72,| |

, Ft. Lewis, Washington, telephone

|, 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
troops and helicopters from Ft. Lewis to the Vancouver area,
would generate press inquiries" he planned to contact the
press on his own iniative, possibly on 4/7/72, to advise the
the above. :

[_Jadvisea that the Department of the Army had
given its approval and felt that the previous search had
been an excellent training vehicle.

|was advised that any clearance would
have to come from SAC MILNES who was unavailable at the time
and he requested that when Mr. MILNES was available that
Co he 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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SAC, SEATTLE (164~81) 4/6/72
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

NORJAK

At 9:30 AM, | Jcalled from Ft. Lewis.
He advised that they had received approval to go ahead
with the search and to "clean it up" by the 21st. He
advised that details should be worked out directly with

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using the same troops they had previously used and they
would move the advance group this afternoon with the
rest of the troops following tomorrow morning. He expected
that they would be in a position to start searching at
1:00 Pi tomorrow afternoon.

I specifically asked him if they had authority
to go north and south of the river and he said they were
going "to try to clean it up" but they had to have the
troops out of there by 4/21/72.

I calied ASAC| of Los Angeles, b6
ASAC | Jat San Francisco and SAC JULIUS LEE b7c
MATTSON at Portland, and told them to have their Agents
at the Inn of the Quay in time for your briefing at
8:00 PM tonight.

I called SA THOMAS J. MANNING and advised him.

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of this office to get Agents ready to go and to take two BIC
cars,

I called Supervisor HENRY SHUT2Z at the Bureau
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE DECEASED
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MARCH 29, 1972 : '

RE:

Letter March 30, 1972, and teletype March 29, 1972,

REFERENCE: ._ from FBI, Seattle Division

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soechaae REQUESTED BY: Addressee and FBI, Seattle Division
° Two hands, QL and Q2

'Classifiable fingerprints were obtained from
the specimens and were searched in our main fingerprint
files, but no identification was 'effected,

These fingerprints are being retained in our
:files and will be available for comparison with any
fingerprints you may submit for this purpose, '

This report supplements and confirms the

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REFERENCE: From FRI, Seattioa Division
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TO : DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) & SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (-P-)
NORJAK.
| | U.S. ARMY, FT. LEWIS, WN., b6

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ADVISED TODAY AUTHORITY HAD BEEN RECEIVED FOR THE ARMY TO

RESUME SBARCHING. HE SAID HIS INSTRUCTIONS WERE TO QUOTE
CLEAN IT UP ENQUOTE BUT TO HAVE ALL THE TROOPS OUT OF THE
AREA BY APRIL TWENTYONE NEXT. HE IS MOVING ADVANCE GUARD
OF TROOPS INTO AREA TODAY, AND WILL MOVE THE REST OF THEM
TOMORROW A.M. ARMY WILL USE SAME TROOPS AS UTILIZED PRE~
VIOUSLY.

SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES AND PORTLAND WERE
TELEPHONICALLY INSTRUCTED TO HAVE THEIR AGENTS MEET WITH
ME AND PERSONNEL FROM THIS OFFICE AT VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON,
AT EIGHT PM, THIS DATE, FOR BRIEFING.

IT IS@MNTEMPLATED THAT ALL PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS
WILL HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND SEARCH WILL BE UNDER WAY NOT
LATER THAN ONE PM, APRIL SEVEN NEXT.

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FILE (164-81) April 5, 1972
SAC J. E. MILNES

NORJAK

On April 4, 1972, SA HENRY SCHUTZ at the Bureau
requested that a facsimile copy of San Francisco letter,
3/10/72, to Lieutenant General A. D. Surles, Jr., Commanding
General, Sixth U. S. Army, San Francisco, be furnished to the
Bureau. This was done.

I also told Mr. SCHUTZ that I understood from
| | Port Lewis, that the Sixth Army had told the b6
people at Fort Lewis to hold in abeyance and return the aerial b7C
_until it had been cleared with the Continental Army at
Fort Monroe, Virginia. He wanted to know what day the
additional request was made and it was made of| |
| jon March 27, 1972 by me personally.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 4/4/72
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER
NORJAK

Re; SEARCH

At 12:10_PM, I called | in
San Francisco and in Los Angeles b6

and SAC MATTSON in Portland and told them not to dispatch b7C
Agents to Vancouver on the special until further notice.

At 12:30 PM, I had a call from HANK SHUTZ at the
Bureau. He said that they had been unable to determine
where the hold~up was in this matter; that their liaison
man in talking to people at the Pentagon, was told that
there was no request pending there. He wants to talk
to you to see what the best way would be to find out just
where the hold-up was and to get some action. He would
like you to call him as soon as possible.

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PILE (104-31) 4/3/72
SAC, SEATDLE

NORJAK

On 4/3/72 I told SACS MATTSOW AND GEBHART, and
asac[_____ Jin Los Angeles, to have the agents at the
Inn of the Quay in Vancouver at 6:00 P.li. on 4/4/72.

JLM:eon
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FILE (164-81) 4/3/72

SAC, SEATTLE

NORJAK

On 4/3/72 SRC GEBHART called from San
Francisco and advised that| } from the 6th Army, b6
had called and wanted to know what was taking place. b7C

I tola him that the Army at Fort Levis
Planned to move to commence tne search on 4/4/72, at
1:06 Pil, and they were now in the process of firming this up
through 6th Army Headquarters.

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PILE (164-81) 4/3/72

SAC, SEATTLE

NORJAK

On 4/3/72 | from Fort Lewis
called and advised that he had just received a call fron
6th Army Headquarters in San Prancisco. Tacy were told to
hold their movement of troops back to Merwin in abeyance
until clearance had been obtained from the Continental
Army in Fort Monroe, Virginia. They anticipate this
some time early tomorrow. He asked that we make our
contacts in Washington to insure the permission be
granted.

JEM:¢on
(3)

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 3/31/72

ASAC PAUL R. -BIBLER

KORJAK

Pursuant to your instructions, I called SA HENRY
SCHUTZ at tne Bureau at 7:30 A.M. on 3/31/72 and told him
the agents required for the search should arrive in
Vancouver, Washington, at 6:00 P.M., Monday, April 3, 1972,
not Sunday, as previously indicated, since the Army troops
would not arrive until Tuesday morning.

PRB:e0n
{3)

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NR G19 SF PLAINTEXT
1148PM NITEL 3/31/72 JAK
TO DIRECTOR

SEATTLE
FROM SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) 1P

NORJAK.

RE SE NITEL MARCH TWENTYNINE LAST.

FOLLOWING SAN FRANCISCO AGENTS HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED TO
PARTICIPATE IN SEARCHING PROJECT IN SEATTEL AREA AND WILL ARRIVE
AT VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, PROIR TO SIX Pete, APRIL THREE NEXT:

ENDeee
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CARCH ED tausne IND
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MAR zi 1972 ;

FBI. SEATTLE

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-31) 3/31/72
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

NORGAK

ASAC| Jo£ Los Angeles, and ASAC b6
| Jof San Francisco both called on this case. Each b7C
has been instructed by the Bureau to furnish 4 men.
I toid them to have the men young and enthusiastic,

volunteer-type, have them provide themselves with warn

clothing, stout, warm, dry shoes, and gloves, and to be

at the Quay Inn in Vancouver not later than Monday,evening,

4/3/72. I said if there was any change, we would let them

<now.

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INDEXED.
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MAR &4 7972
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(Unknown Female} -

| | Bureau Ident Division, advised at approxi- b6
mately 8:45PM, this date, that the Ident Dviision had completed b7C
the Unknown Female Subject's fingerprints through criminal °

_ xecrods with no results. They have partially completed civil
records and will advise when finished.

[_ Jadvised that as of yet, no identification has been bé
made. He stated that the Bureau wanted the Vancouver SO advised b7C
of this. we . Meee, * . :

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FILE (164~81) April 3, 1972
SAC J. E. MILNES
NORJAK

For record purposes, on March 30, 1972, I called

| Pacific Power and b6

Light Company, Portland, Oregon. I told him that we' b7C
anticipated the Search in the Lake Merwin area would take
approximately three weeks longer and advised him if

possible we would appreciate being able to continue

using the camp at Lake Merwin. He advised he saw no

objection to it and unless I heard from him in the contrary,

it would be satisfactory to continue its use.

2 - Seattle
JEM/ejw
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SAC, SEATTLE (164~81) 3/30/72
SA THOMAS J. MANNING

NORJAK

HENRY SCHUTZ called from the Bureau at 9:50 A.M.
today and advised that in reply to our UACB teletype, agents
from neighboring offices can be released at noon today to.
return. These agents will not be recalled when the search
is renewed. The agent personnel who will be reassigned to
this search will be from San Prancisco and Los Angeles, instead
of Butte, Portland, etc.

XY told him we had no information on when the search
is going to start again. In other words, the date has not been
set. There is a staff meeting at Fort Lewis this morning and
it is possible they will have an answer before the Army leaves °
at noon. However, | Jhad no answer at 10:00 this b6
morning. He indicated that if they return Monday, this b7C
will probably mean they will search the southern half only
but if they return on Tuesday, it will mean they will search
the entire area, with a possible commitment on the troops until
4/21/72. Yhis is conjecture on his part.

| | Of the Pacific Power and Light; Portland bé

should be called concerning extended stay at Lake Merwin Park. BIC
| |cannot make any statement on splitting

telephone costs and this will have to be cleared through the bé6

Communications Officer at Fort Lewis. If this clearance is bIC

obtained, we will have to go through the Portland Office to
contact the General Telephone Co. in Gresham, Oregon, about

the installation of the WATS line. Phel____] wil call

me this weekend if he doesn't know when we leave as to the date
the search will start again.

The girl wno was found yesterday died of a single
stab wound in the heart. She is in her mid-20's and by the
coroner's estimate was in the cistern between one month and six
weeks. The hands have been packed in formaldehyde and Portland
is handling pilot courier delivery to the Bureau.

' I told SCHUTZ we would advise the Bureau as soon af | 2
we got a new starting date for the search. I,4-2/ j AAs.

SEARCH D.____. INDEXED___

TIM:eon TALIZ cL.
(3) MAR Pr 1972

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BURLINGTON NORTHERN

650 Central Building

RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT Seattle, Washington 98104
DEPARTMENT Telephone (206} 623-5560
Federal Bureau of Investigation March 29, 1972

1015 Second Avenue ;

Seattle, Washington 98104 SvB- E.

Attn: Mr. J. EH. Milnes

Gentlemen:

This letter will be your authority to enter upon Burlington Northern
land in Sections 20, 21 and 29, Township 6 North, Range 2 East, Cowlitz
County, Washington, for the period from March 29, 1972, to May 1, 1972,
for the purpose of establishing temporary helispots and control centers
for conducting search operations in the area.

You will cut only such timber as is necessary to clear a suitable work-
ing area.

The Government shall, at its sole expense, repair and/or restore any
roads or other facilities on said described lands which are in any
manner damaged or disturbed by its exercise of the rights granted by
this letter.

Burlington Northern shall not be liable for damages to property or
injuries to persons arising from the operations of the Government
hereunder, and the Government shall indemnify and save harmless Burling~
ton Northern from all loss, costs and expense resulting from any such
damage to property or injuries to persons, including damages to property
of Burlington Northern, insofar as the Government may legally do so,

and subject to the availability of appropriated funds, but excluding
damage to property and injuries to persons caused by negligence in the
operations of Burlington Northern, its successors and assigns, or its
contractors, lessees, licensees or permittees.

Very truly yours,

BURLINGTON NORTHERN INC. | Aecepted: DB Cooper-27627
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MAR 80 1973

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NRZ15 SE PLAIN
11:45 PM NITEL 3/29/72 DCA
TO DIRECTOR, FBI
BUTTE
WINNEAPOLIS
'PORTLAND
SACRAMENTO
SAN FRANCISCO
FROM SEATTLE (164-81)

NOR JAK

a

SEARCH BY BUREAU AGENTS AND APPROXIMATELY TWO HUNDRED FOUR
ARMY TROOPS CONTINUED TODAY WITHOUT DEVELOPING INFORMATION RE

HIJACKER. , U.S. ARMY, ADVISED THAT DUE TO Pe

NEAR EXHAUSTION OF ARMY TROOPS, WHO HAVE ENDURED RAIN, SNOW, AND
OTHER INCLIMATE WEATHER WHILE TRAVERSING TREACHEROUS, STEEP, HILLY,
VINE, TREE, AND BRUSH COVERED AREAS, HE FEELS FOR.TROOPS WELFARE AND
SAFETY THEY SHOULD BE GIVEN REST, SO WILL TEMPORARILY DISCONTINUE
SEARCH TWELVE NOON, THIRTIETH INSTANT, RETURNING SEARCHING TROOPS

TO FORT LEWIS FOR REST AND EASTER HOLIDAY. ARMY EQUIPMENT WILL BE
RETAINED AT MERWIN PARK WITH STANDBY CREW FOR SCHEDULE RETURN A.M
END PAGE ONE

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SE 164-8!

APRIL THIRD OR FOURTH TO CONTINUE SEARCH. BUREAU AGENTS ASSIGNED
SAME TASKS HAVE SERVED ADMIRABLY BUT ARE LIKEWISE PHYSICALLY TIRED.
UACB, TEN AGENTS ON SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT FROM OTHER DIVISIONS WILL RE-
TURN TO OFFICES OF ASSIGNMENT PM OF THIRTIETH INSTANT AND SEATTLE
AGENTS WILL RETURN TO HEADQUARTER CITY EXCEPT FOR STANDBY CREW AT
MERWIN PARK. SEARCH WILL BE RESUMED APRIL THIRD AND AGENTS FROM
NEARBY OFFICES WILL RETURN TO ASSIST.

END

DWH.FBI WASH DC.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
SA J. ROBERT SUTTHOFF

NORJAK

3/29/72

At approximately 2:30 PM our time I talked to

SA HENRY SCHUTZ from the Bureau.

SCHUTZ requested that I be sure to get word to you

that he expects to hear from you tonight to talk over the

search situation.

He also advised it will be necessary to get a
"good" teletype off to the Bureau tonight relative to the

discontinuance of the search for the time being.

This tele-

type should generally point. out that the Army has withdrawn its
troops, that the search has been arduous and physically
exhausting and that the troops are being withdrawn primarily
to give them some rest; also in view of the approaching
holiday weekend. It should point out that agents have been
with the troops throughout the search and that the agents
involved also have undergone an arduous and tiring experience
and can use rest too. It should point out that UACB
agents from the nearby offices at least will be released to
return to their offices, and that either the same agents

or replacements for them will rejoin the search with the

Army troops at whatever time this resumption of the search

is established.

JRS:eon
(3)

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SERIALIZ: ILE

MAR 2% 1972

FBI-—SEATTLE

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NRG14 SE PLAIN
11342 PM NITEL 3/29/72 DCA
.TO ~* DIRECTOR, FBI

PORTLAND

MINNEAPOLIS a
FROM SEATTLE (164-81) 2P

NORJAK

PM THIS DATE, | | CLARK COUNTY

SHERIFF'S OFFICE, VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, ADVISED THAT|

WASHINGTON, AND

| WASHINGTON, HAD REPORTED THE FINDING OF WHAT AP-

PEARED TO BE & BODY AT THE BOTTOM OF A SILO IN AN ABANDONED GRIST
MILL ON CEDAR CREEK NEAR HIGHLAND, WASHINGTON, WHICH IS IN SEARCH
AREA. IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION BY BUREAU AGENTS, CLARK COUNTY
DEPUTIES, AND ARMY PERSONNEL DEVELOPED THE BODY WAS AN UNIDENTIFIED
WHITE FEMALE. BODY APPEARED TO BE WELL-PRESERVED, CLOTHED IN

GRAY SWEAT SHIRT, BLUE DENHEM TROUSERS, AND BLACK TENNIS SHOES.
BUREAU AND ARMY PARTICIPATION ON ANY FURTHER INQUIRIES IMMEDIATELY
DISCONTINUED. FACILITIES OF IDENTIFICATION DIVISION AND LAB

END PAGE ONE

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SE 164-81 .

IMMEDIATELY OFFERED TO SHERIFF EUGENE COTTON '(FBINA) WHO IS CON-
TINUING INVESTIGATION. FINGERPRINTS OF DECEASED BEING FORWARDED
IMMEDIATELY FOR IDENTIFICATION DIVISION AND BUREAU REQUESTED TO
TELEPHONICALLY ADVISE SEATTLE OF RESULTS OF IDENTIFICATION CHECK.
EN D

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7212 PM URGENT 3729/72 DCA | ae te
DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) Be
FROM SEATTLE (164-81) iP , i
NORJAK

; RESETEL CALL 10 BU INSTANT DATE. re ar
_ AT THREE FIFTYFOUR PM, MARCH TWENTYNINE INSTANT,

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'Lh CLARK COUNTY SHERIFF*S OFFICE, VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, CONTAC- .

. SVC FBI WASH DC

TED| |

WASHINGTON AND| F wastie,

arTeR[__] PHONE CALL TO THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTING 'THE FINDING

OF A BODY AT THE GRIST MILL LOCATED AT GRIST MILL ROAD' AND SPURRE,

ROAD, HIGHLAND, WASH. "CMILITARY COORDINATES ES THREE TWO "FOUR - ".
EIGHT SEVEN THREED WHILE THEY WERE COLLECT ING BOTTLES. INVESTIGATION.
DISCLOSED A HAND AND PART OF A TORSO OF A BODY UNDER DEBRIS AT THE Sy

BOTTOM OF A SILO WHICH WAS USED TO STORE WATER AT THE GRIST MILL.

THE BODY WAS NOT IN THE SILO ACCIDENTALLY, BUT APPEARED TO HAVE
"BEEN PUT THERE. ,

»

_ CLARK COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, U.S. ARMY AND BUREAU PRESENTLY
AT THE SCENE CONDUCTING ACTIVE INVESTIGATION TO EXHUME BODY AND —
IDENTIFY. as ) ,

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DIRECTOR, FBI (264-2113)
MECHANICAL SECTION

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rolis of Ektachrome 16 mn notion-picture filn,. . ce ae

The movies were taken with a Bolex model H16 camara
during the March 20-28,

Washin gt One

The Bureau is

137% search operation at Woodland,

fequested to process the film reels

individually and not 1 to Splice. the film onto one reel. ay.
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NRGI3 SE PLAIN
1147 PM NITEL 3/28/72 FEE
TO DIRECTOR (164-2111)
MINNEAPOLIS = |
PORTLAND (164-41) |
FROM SEATTLE (164-81) IP

NORJAK.

TERRAIN SEARCH BY TWO HUNDRED TWO ARMY TROOPS CONTINUED TODAY,

NO DEVELOPMENTS. | |HAS NOT RECEIVED WORD Pe

RE ARMY'S DECISION REFERRED TO IN SEATTLE TEL TWENTY-SEVENTH INST.
RE EXTENT OF SEARCH TO BE CONDUCTED AFTER THIRTIETH INST. THIS

MATTER BEING FOLLOWED CLOSELY BY ME WITH | L

BUREAU WILL BE ADVISED.
END
REC 3 FBI WA RDR

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Bureau.

SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

NORJAK

3/27/72

calied from the

Te requested that more detai

Ll be put in the

daily summary with regard to the search. He would
like to know how many troops are still participating;
how much area has been searched and just what progress
is being made in each teletype.

PRB:kiLb

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MAR 24% 1972
FBI—-SEATILE

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Ota Fran (6s crn} 101-11.4

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

ac \, OPTIHUL PORK NO, 16
MAY 1962 EDITION

Memorandum

TO = SAC, SEATTLE (164-88) (P) DATE: 3/27/72 ,
FROM ; SA THOMAS J. MANNING +) AD (VB Dd _ COM Pe bi kST
SV -GRBSUEEINE Stance

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| Washington | b7C

l, alleged that helicopters sometime Last week ~
deliberately flew ovér property which he isl | and
deliberately |

| | complaint was the deliberate, according to B6
him, buzzing of the area in which| He was BIC
advised there was no deliberate buzzing at which tim he stated he had

no objection to a search of his property but did rwsent deliberate
"funning" and buzzing [ °

SUBJECT: NORJAK Vf
On 3/27/72]

motte He furnished his phon number as [| __—__—sand advised tha ee
he would be home on night of March 37, 1972 between 7 and 9 PM, He'- ©
was advised when details were developed he would be advised by phone,

| |has a home piidress | L er

Vancouver, Washington.

— - ° , ,
I called| lon 3/27/72. I advised him that I was aware of the 6
incident he described and there was absolutly no deliberate buzzing of prc
[ Jby the helicopters and there was no "funning". I told him I was in
one of the helicopters myself, saw the whole thing take place and when it

became apparent that| |] were disturbed by ey g/
presence of the helicopters, the Army Commanders -8/- ROS?
moved the troops dogn the road a_ substantial Let INDEXED.._! O
distance, | lsAnGze0 FILED
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and then made the
a distant point.

He said that | | | b6

pickup of the troops by the helicopters at

_]. I told him I questioned whether they PIC

had run off that much or how he could even tell if they did.

ta

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3/27/72
TELETYPE NITEL

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)
SAC, PORTLAND (164-41)
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164=81)
NORJAK WEEKDCY SUMMARY
THE TERRAIN SEARCH COMMENCED SEVEN TWENTY A.M. WITH APPROXIMATELY
TWO HUNDRED EIGHTEEN GROUND TROOPS. NO DEVELOPMENTS.
AT COB TODAY APPROXIMATELY THIRTY PERCENT OF ENTIRE AREA,

CONSISTING PRINCIPALLY OF SECOND GROWTH TIMBER AND BRUSH COMPLETED.

| ADVISED HE bé
b7C

INTENDS TO TERMINATE SEARCH WITH GROUND TROOPS AT NOON THIRTIETH,
INST., RETURNING TROOPS TO FORT LEWIS, LEAVING TOKEN FORCE IN CAMP
TO PRESERVE OPERATION INTACT. HE WILL RETURN TO CAMP TO COMMENCE
SEARCH A.M. OF APRIL FOUR NEXT. HE EXPECTS THAT IN APPROXIMATELY
TWO DAYS AFTER APRIL FOUR ENTIRE AREA SOUTH OF LEWIS RIVER IN
SEARCH AREA WILL BE COMPLETED.

TO COMPLETE ENTIRE SEARCH AREA, INCLUDING THAT NORTH OF LEWIS
RIVER, WHICH IS EXTREMELY MOUNTAINOUS AND RUGGED WILL TAKE AN
ESTIMATE OF A MINIMUM OF TWO WEEKS WITH A MAXIMUM OF THREE WEEKS,
AFTER RETURN ON APRIL FOUR. AREA INVOLVED COMPRISES APPROIXMATELY
TWENTYFIVE PERCENT OF ENTIRE SEARCH AREA.

JEM:eon DB Cooper-27639

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I HAVE ADVISED] | THAT SEARCH AREA OUTLINED IN MAP b6
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ON PAGE TWN HUNDRED SEVENTYFOUR OF REPORT OF SA CHARIES E. FARRELL,
SEATTLE, DATED FEBRUARY SIXTEEN LAST, IS AREA THAT BUREAU FEELS
MUST BE SEARCHED AND IN MAKING REQUEST OF ARMY INTENDED THAT

ENTIRE AREA BE TRAVERSED IN SEARCH. oe

I REQUESTED | }TO PROVIDE ARMY ASSISTANCE UNTIL

SEARCH IS COMPLETE. | | REFERRING REQUEST TO HIS BS

SUPERIORS FOR DIRECTION.

MATTER WILL BE FOLLOWED AND BUREAU WILL BE ADVISED.

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FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64) é é

FBI
Date: 3/28/72
Transmit the following in PLAINTEXT
(Type in plaintext or code)
Via TELETYPE NITEL

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(Priority)

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
SAC, PORTLAND (164-41)
SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)

FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
NORJAK

TERRAIN SEARCH WITH U. S. ARMY TROOPS COMMENCED TWELVE
NOON INSTANT DATE. NEGATIVE RESULTS RE SUBJECT OR FINDINGS.

SEARCH COMMENCES SEVEN THIRTY A.M., MARCH TWENTYSEVEN NEXT.

TIM/dca
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Special Agent in Charge U, S- GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE; 1971 = 419-135

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ENR@S1 SE PLAIN
NITEL 3/25/72 LJW

TO DIRECTOR
MINNEAPOLIS
PORTLAND

FROM SEATTLE (164-81)

NORJACK

DUE TO SNOW FALL IN SEARCH AREA, SEARCH BEING
TEMPORAILY HELD UP. ARMY TROOPS REMAINING ON LOCATION.

WEATHER FORECAST PREDICTS RAIN, WHICH WILL
ELIMINATE SNOW. SEARCH WILL BE RESUMED, POSSIBLY SUNDAY
PM OR MONDAY AM

BUREAU WILL BE KEPT ADVISED.
'END

'TIME 18353 AM

DKE FBI MINNEAPOLIS

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3/24/72

TELETYPE NITEL

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)
SAC, PORTLAND (164-41)

FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)

NORJAK. WEEKLY SUMMARY

TERRAIN SEARCH WITH U. S. ARMY TROOPS AND AGENTS CONTINUED

TODAY. NO DEVELOPMENTS.

JEM:eon
(3)

DB Cooper-27643

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NRO@7 SE PLAIN

8:13 PM NITEL 3/23/72 'DCA
TO DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
"PORTLAND (164-41)
MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)
FROM SEATTLE (164-31) LP

NORJAK

TERRAIN SEARCH WITH ARMY TROOPS AND FBI AGENTS CONTINUED TODAY.

NO DEVELOPMENTS.
END

KAC FBI WASH DC ACK FOR TWO TELS
CLR

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 3/17/72

ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER S wb e

NORJAK

Assistant Director BATES called from Divisbn6é. He
said that they had a call from the Public Affairs Officer
of the Army.

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 l: Is the Army assisting the FBI in its
search for a sky jacker? 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 &hat 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 sa&dithey feel it is justified since kh it came at
the request of a responsible government agency and is related
to their training program.

BATES did not give me this verbatim since we would not
be concerned with it.

_ Thax 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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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 3/13/72
SA THOMAS J, MANNING

NOR JAK

A conference was heljA with the below Listed Pacific Power and
Light personnel at their corporat: headquarters, 920 SW 6th. Streetm
Portland, Oregon on 3/13/72:

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LEONDAR &. FRANK Cformer SA) Security Consultants Vice Fresident
After discussion| | advised that Lake Merwin Park b6é
at Ariel Dam could be used as a command post and bivouac area for bIC

Army personnel in the planned ground search, The company will power
all cooking units and will further supply power to the octagonal
shaped guard house which is to be used for briefing purposes,
Further rest rooms will be onened for use and hot showers will be

_ available.

While an extension phone is available at the guard house it was
requested that if a phone is necessary that a separate installation
be made to free the Ariel Dam switchboard of excess traffic.

Further it was requested that some tyne of pass be provided
for authorized PP & L personnel at the dam site and from other
Locations having bisiness at the site to allow free access through
gate to Merwin park.

Also it was requested that a liaison officer from thesearch
party handle any contacts with the public or press since PP & L
personnel do not desire to become involved in answering inquiries} g; 2

and providing information. —7e
lo4-81- ASB

The PP & L group also requested that a letter be directed to

| ] enclosed in an inner envelope marked Official and b6
Personal setting forth a statement insuring PP & L that no personal b7C
liability will attach to PP & L for injuries incurred by Army

personnel and Agent personnel. ] assurepbertenwritemmeat
complete cooperation by PP & L in the search matterjSatnl rel-4/

that any unusual requests be cleared through him perso '

SPAR BYE 972
All PP & L personnel were advised that SAC, Seattlq wou Seine 2
letter outlining items requested within the next tyo days s—

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TELEPHONE ~ company vroviding service at Ariel Dam is General
Telephone of the Northwest, Inc., 265 N, B. 2nd., Gresham, Oregon.
Installation of phone at command post at Lake Mervin Park will .
be $20 for iustallation and minimum charge of $11.90 per month, fer'
TO EXPEDITE HANDLING OF REQUEST FOR INSTALLATION -the request mie cos eo
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have to be handled through thePortland Division with the install
to be made in the guard house at the Park,
Person t ed i company is|

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ACCOMODATIONS . | | Holiday Inn, Kelso, Washington b6
advised for 8 rooms (double with two beds) for 10 to 14 days the Ne smc
rate will be $16.50 per room vlus tax. | | requested "

that as much advance notice as possible be given to the motel ff rhe

reserving rooms, Laundromat within three blocks open 24 hours. Number

of restaurants (one all night) nearby for quick breakfasts & supper= .

CORONER ~ Clark County -I b6
, Vancouver. y BIC

Cowlitz County =| |

Cowlitz County coroner and deputy have been advised of nossibility
for their services on short notice.
Clark County will be advised on 3/14/72

| ~ Longview PD

SUSGESTIONS FROM SEARCH AND RESCUE DOG FERSONNEL FOR EQUIPMENT AND
SEARGH TECHNIQUES

Every searcher to have Leather gloves and waternroof shoes

Use toilet paper for marking extremities of each grid and use skirmish
Line with no more than 5' foot intervals between searchers in heavily
wooded areas, Then at extremity of search grid entire Line can be swung
around using one grid extremity marked by paner as guide for next grid.
Paper will disintegrate after short time in elements.

Terrain is very difficult with windfall and alders in profusion in

area near noint A, Very slow movement of the line is advised with

all personnel instructed to Look up as they search as well as on g
ground . .
Recommend no more than six hours of search per day. 19 minute 'breaks +
every hour and no more than 30 minute break for Lunch with field
rations, /64-B/)- #&.
Recommend supplying each searcher with candy bars on daily basis to

give guick pickun and replen&sh calorie use which is anvoroximately

690 calories per hour in heavy wooded area. It is reconmended that

FRI supply these items which can be secured wholesale through contact

at Longview.

Recommend straight Line at all times with the enti ani Stor MESA
a suspect area needs intensive searche FILED
Recommend an agent at the extremity of the lines o eadlA ales

control. speed and line movement. One agent every $0 mer SPRSEATH Et rol
purposes with no more than 5 foot intervals in heayy wooded area

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Recominend one maz on the Line have a compass to shoot bearings to
keep grid intact,

Recommend several agents behind the skirmish line to insure that
Line maintains itself straight with no straggling.

It was pointed out that there is heavy concentration of coyotess
which gives distinct vossibility that if hijacker did hit the ground
his body coulit be comnletely strivved of flesh and clothing.

In event a man with a dog is required charge is $175 ner day if

to be used exclusively on the search,

Suggest if Army is anvroved that a basic training company in last
stages of training be .ampLoyed due to good physical condition,
Suggest skirmish line have smoke grenades in event one of searchers
is injured and evacuation is necessary by helicopter, Will guide
evacuation heliconter to scene with no delay, '
On steep places encountered these could he skirted and searched with
field glasses since in most steep places there is Little growth of
foliage and trees,

GENERAL INFORMATION RE PROPOSED COMMAND POST & BIVOUAC AREA

From Lake Merwin Park to Point A through Woodland is 20 miles
on good roads,

in event it is necessary to cross Lewis River above Lake Merwin
a county road crosses at Amboy,

In emergency the road acorss Yale Dam could be used according
to P? & L Company personnel but this is discouraged,

Lake Merwin Park has a double sized vehicle gate which is the
only means of entering the Park and Ariel Dam location, This gate
could be kept closed with sentry vosted to keen out curious and
newspaper and other news media.

A comfort station with hot showers is available and will be
made available by PP & L and is Located directly above the picnic
table area,

Two Large cooking shelters = eachwith 12 hot nlates and sink
with running water. Will be made availbble for use by °P & L.

A small store which can supply immediate needs for small items
of military personnel is Located immediately outside the entrance
gate to Ariel Dam site,

Large octagonal shaned guard house about 100 vards from gate
can he used as command vost. Hae Light, heat and phone can be
installed with all mans necessary for search use mounted over
windows .

Sufficient gravel roads and black tonned area for vehicles
to eLiminate parking on grass areas and disturbing recreational
facilities,

Garbage dump nearby for debrtks removal,

GENERAL ITEMS RECOMMENDED FOR USE
$0 WATT RADIO at Command Post for communication with Bureau
cars on roads in search area,
At Least /3 w walkie talkies on Bureau channel to be used in
conjunction with military radios,
One bull horn for briefing purposes.
Rain gear for all agent personnel involved in search

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It is suggested that in view of Army troops being used that
if occasion presents itself a suggestion should be made that a
military helicopter should be standing by at search area to assist
in fly over to determine that skirmish Line is kept straight and
within the specified grid area and to immediately check out suspicious
items which cannot be reached from ground,

Weyerhaeuser Company, Longview has advised a helicopter will
be available on short notice, Clark Gount y SO has one helciopter
pilot on devartment with almost immediate access to helicanter,

Vancouver PD officer also helciopter pilot with helicopter
avatLable on short notice,

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SAC at Army briefing at 10:00 AM

wi SuBo E£,

Explore charges for agents eating breakfast at Lake Merwin ~ @narges ae
and also any charge for © ration for noon meal for agents in field (/
with troovs,. Ci

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Information on JP-~4 supply Location }

Mosaic will not be ready until 9:00 AM, 3/20/72 and will not be

avallable for Army briefing but will be at command post on 3/21/72 vag of
set up for inspection and coordinating of search, We
Copies of blown up map to be given to unit commanders, Melis
Advise Army personnel of following

agent at gate will handle security of Lake Merwin park om ip-

DO WE NEED 24 hour gate guard? a per

White tape will be placed on electrical wires per request ve y/
helicopter pilot. Lira

Army personnel will have no contact with vivilians = ann inguires Vv
of army personnel will be referred to Squadron Commander,[__—| ie b6
Cc who will refer to agent without identifying the agent as y, PTE
FBI personnel. UY

Permission for fires in field being secured from Dent. of Natural |
Resources,

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We understand that the overation is an Army adventure training mission
to familiarize Army personnel with training in ground reconnaisance.

ALL buildings, inhabited or not, army will completely skirt and only
agent personnel will search buildings. No army personnel wil.1,search
any buildings. el .

Telephone beine installed today diy 164-8!-

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Making use of house as command post rather than guard shack ] Oy

Army starts from Ft. Lewis 0800 3/21/72 and expect [SARHEMe te NBRP——

in £ield with some searching completed in afternoon Pe rer
MAR BS 1972

EXPLORE POSSIBILITY OF SOME AGENTS REMAINING WITH TRpors RRS fae /

IN EVENT NECESSARY TO MAXE CONTACT WITH FBI AND POSSYPD LITY TROOPS qT
MAY FIND SOME EVIDENCE. '

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Search will be made with 3 priorities = Cone area #1 main body of troons
South of cone #2 and north of Lewis River #3

Air Rifle olatoon will be inserted in vicinity of point_A for specific

area searches and wherever else needed ~ insertion by helicopter.
5 to LO foot intervals between men absolute maximum. hee
keep skirmish search Line straight & aLl stop when one finds someth#ng

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In event body is found agents will immediately take over the area and |
cordon of Army troops will be set uo - mocedure will be to immed Latex 1,
air Lift coroner of the county to site to pronounce dead and id hody A
and then evitence will b2 gathered and body removed to county morgue,' yf
Point out that positive ID of hijacker will be made before Army 0,
is released.

In event after four or five days it is felt by FBI _that further time.
other than allotted seven days for Army troop use .
this request is to be immediately communicated to| b6
who will then secure permission from 6th. Army, b7C

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Memorandum ° e

ij To t SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) Date 12/5/88
From: SA| . " b6
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a wos /
Subject : NORJAK

O00: SEATTLE

On December 1, 1988, the Vancouver office of the
FBI was telephonically contacted by| Jo£ Camas, Washington 6
who has a home phone of | jstated that on - BIC
the night of the hijacking he had been listening to his television
and had followed their account of the incident as it unfolded.
He stated that shortly after the takeoff from Seattle Airport
he went outside his residence and watched for low flying aircraft.
He stated that sometime after the takeoff he heard a aircraft
flying very low over his residence and then cross the Columbia
River and continue heading in a southerly direction.-- | | b6
went on to explain that the aircraft flying south from the bIC
Seattle Airport routinely flew directly over his property in
the Camas/Washougal area of Washington. He feels that because
of the flight path of the airplane it may be possible that
Mr. D.B. COOPER had parachuted from the aircraft and landed
in the Columbia River adjacent to his residence. He felt that
this would explain the money being discovered sometime later
down river. jconcern was that the search for
subject's body in the Columbia River has been taking place
too far west, he feels that it should be conducted in an area
which would be in direct line, if you were to draw a line on
the map from Renton, Washington through Ariel, Washington dovn ||

to| la location in Camas, Washington. b6
described the area as | } which b7C
.is located| jexplained that | }

is approximately Jof the Columbia River,
near the area known re |.

[| stated that he has provided this information
to the FBI and other local law enforcement agencies in the
past but has not seen any action being initiated in response
to his information.

HIS: blg Intima? O87 ty By FAR OAS
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G3A FPMR (41 CFR} 101-11.6

'UNITED STATES GO MENT

Memorandum |

Se Mets

TO 3 SAC, SEATTLE (164~81) ° (P)
FROM : SA |
SUBJECT: ; NORJAK

00: SEATTLE
BUFILE 164-2111

DATE: 6/16/76

Re memo of SAl

| dated 5/14/76.

_ On June 9, 1976,|

, | Bellingham Harold, Box 1277, Bellingham,
Washington, 98225, telephone (206) 734-3900, after.

consulting with the newspaper's publisher, |

b6

advised this newspaper will participate in a publicity

venture as set forth in referenced memo.

He advised he

would print the-article and ransom bills serial numbers
on a one time basis in a Sunday edition, which has the

largest distribution. °

Lar en advised the paper along with many

: others utilized an electronic scanner system which can

"3 set the type automatically and in order to do this the
' text must be typed with a Selectric typewriter with a

Courier 12 ball. He advised the letter could be double
spaced, but this is not necessary for the scanner.

A newspaper, which is familiar to the writer,
and which is not a major newspaper, but is certainly one
which should be contacted regarding the publicity venture
i @ Western Flyer. It is published by | |

hington.

telephone |

| Tacoma, Washington,

Leads to contact this publication being left to the
discretion of case Agent as may have already been contacted.

Melb) - 699 9-

ARMED AND DANGEROUS

CF Seattle 7
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728 PM NITEL 3/20/73 FEE CO, L-E
TO ACTING DIRECTOR (164-2111) ab fe

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FROM SEATTLE (€164=81@) IP
NORJAK. OO: SEATTLE.

RE SEATTLE AIRTEL TO THE BUREAU 3/2/73.

A ONE MILE AREA SURROUNDING THE POINT WHERE IT IS CALCULATED
UNSUB WOULD HAVE LANDED IF HIS PARACHUTE DID NOT OPEN, WAS THOROYGHLY
AND COMPLETELY SEARCHED DURING THE WEEK OF 3/12-16/73 WITH
NEGATIVE RESULTS. 7 ,

THE SEARCH WILL RESUME DURING THE WEEK OF MARCH 26, 1973, AND
WILL CONSTITUTE A ONE-MILE SQUARE TO THE. NORTH AND SOUTH OF. THE
FIRST MILE. ANY FURTHER SEARCH WILL BE CONTINGENT UPON THE RESULTS
OF CURRENT SEARCH. , : .

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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ReSEairtel to Alexandria, 2/15/73.

Transmitted under separate cover for Seattle are
the following fourteen items:

1) One copy of Seattle Sectional Aeronautical Chart
on scale 1:500,000.

. 2) One copy of U. S. Department. of Interior Geological
Survey Index of Topographic Maps of Washington,

3) Two copies each of fifteen-minute quadrangle maps
(scale 1:62,500 or one inch equals approximately
one mile) of the Pigeon Springs, La Center, Yacolt,
and Cougar areas of Washington.

4) Two copies each of maps (scale of 1:250,000) of
the Vancouver and Hoquiam area of Washington.

The following investigation was conducted by SA 7
| lon 2/27/73.

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Aeronautical Information Division (FDAS-AI), 0. S. Army
Aeronautical Services Office, Building #2, Cameron Station, -

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| UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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TO : SAG, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) ~ parer3/9/73 _- °*

FROM : SA THOMAS J. MANNING Cb F

SUBJECT: NORJAK

toes

ne search of new area at drop zone a conference was he
3/9/73 with agents to be involved in search.

Decision was made to commence search as early as practicable
on 3/12/73 with prime drop zone at new Point A to be first area bs
searched. Case agent has requested that shovels (entrenchin 67
tools) and machetes be secured fo assist in seach. SAs — c
| will take SR 99 to Vancouver, Washington
| and will pick up below Listed equipment at whatever location
Lt can be secured:

| 8 entrenching tools
11 nonchos
Ll pair of rain pants (suspender type)
10 machetesor some type of brush cutting device

Headourrters for search will be SE 99 (mobile) and Quay
Motel (fixed). Search in initial phase to commence 3/12/73
and end 3/16/73 at 4:00 PH. Agents from Seattle Hq will return
to Seattle afternoon of 3/16/73.
SAL Jhas telephonically advised that he has secured on
waiver of search forms £rom all individuals in prime J]. square
mile area and for distence of 4 mile north and south of prime
area.

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SA| | will bring photographic equipment, evidence
kit and other material which will be necessary in event remains
or evidence are located. 4 portable radios will be secured from
>" charger and 'will be transported by agents in
SE 99,

sA| | will drive SE 90 with SAs| k

SA "|will have vehicle (number unknown)-which he will
drive accompanied by SA

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Agents from Seattle Division will leave at 7:30 AM, 3/12/73
ad will meet with writer at Quay Motel, Vancouver for briefing
and it is anticipated thatsearch will commence afternoon of 3/12/73

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| SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) _
| FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) SUA wD

NORJAK. : ee

| , _ FOR INFORMATION OF RECEIVING OFFICES, SEATTLE DIVISION
WILL CONDUCT EXTENSIVE GROUND SEARCH IN WOODED AREA NEAR
| LA CENTER, WASHINGTON, BEGINNING 3/12/73, TO LOOK FOR REMAINS
OF UNSUB, AKA D.B. COOPER.
ALL RECEIVING OFFICES CONTACT PERSONS LISTED BELOW

AND HAVE AN FD-26 EXECUTED.

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PORTLAND, OREGON, | le |
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TO: SAC, ALEXANDRIA (164-72) ee
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) Ee
SUBJECT: NORJAK aul ¥
OO: SEATTLE CS he

An attempt is being made to obtain larger scale
maps of the area it is thought UNSUB parachuted into. This
area is in the southeast portion of the State of Washington
and is located approximately halfway between Woodland, Wash-
ington, and Lake Merwin.

On February 13, 1973, | |] |»e
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Me Chord Air Force Base, made available an address for the
U. S. Army Aeronautical Service. [LJ] advised maps could
be obtained from this office of the area desired.

The full address is United States Army Aeronautical
Service Office, HQDA (¥FDAS-A1l), Cameron Station, Alexandria,
Virginia, 22314, telephone Area Code 202/274-7773, Autovon
phone 284-7773.

LEADS

ALEXANDRIA DIVISION
At Alexandria, Virginia

Will contact appropriate personnel of the U. §&.
Army Aeronautical Service Office and attempt to obtain blown f
up maps of the area located between Woodland, Washington,
and Lake Merwin. Note: This area is described in the United
States Department of Interior Geological Survey under the
following four names: Pidegon Springs, Cougar La Center, and

Yacolt.
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FROM: SAC, ALEXANDRIA.(164-72) (P) Subs
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NORJAK
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Re WFO letter to Alexandria, 11/20/72 and Seattle
airtel to Alexandria, 2/5/73.

Continuous investigation has been conducted at the
Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, during the months of.
December, 1972, and January, 1973, in an attempt to
detexmine whd would have authority to re-route military
training missions in visual aerial phtography flown within
the continental United States. To date no one has been

located who could itiv tate that this could be done
however, b6
was contacted and he advised that he had made inquiry into b7c

this matter and stated that in the event Seattle wished to

have military assistance in this matter than Seattle should

request the Director to submit a letter of request to the

Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Office of

the Secretary of Defense, Pentagon, Washington, D. C. ~ 20301.

In this letter the full particulars of the matter should
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Department' of Justice is willing to observe. the_additiona /
'cost if any to the Air Forees | | advised me b6
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AIRTEL AIRMAIL

TO: SAC, ALEXANDRIA (164-72)
PROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
SUBJECT: NORJAK

00: SEATTLE

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Re WHO letter to Alexandria dated 11/20/72.

Alexandria is requested to expedite investigation
requested in referenced communication and report results to

Seattle Division.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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TO SEATTLE (¢164+81)

FROM ALEXANDRIA (164-72) P a ,
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NORJAK, 00 ¢ SEATTLE

RE SEATTLE AIRTEL TO ALEXANDRIA, 1-28-73.
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NATIONAL MILITARY COMMAND CENTER, PENTAGON

CONTACTED 1-29-73, BY SA| |REGARDING RELEASE TO BUREAU OF B6

RADAR DATA AND CALCULATIONS IN POSSESSION OF | ly
MC CHORD AIR FORCE BASE, WASHINGTON. MATTER REFERRED To JOINT

CHIEFS OF STAFF (JCS) PERSONNEL.
ON 1-38-73,[____———sd] OF FICE CONTACTED BY| Bs |

[4h UeSe AIR FORCE,'JCS STAFF, AND DETERMINED| i

AUTHORITY NOT TO RELEASE INSTANT DATA BASED ON AIR FORCE ALL

MAJOR COMMAND MESSAGE DATED JULY 1972. | ls

UsSe ARMY, JCS, ADVISED TELEPHQNICALLY CONFERENCE HELD 1-31-73,

BETWEEN HIMSELF ,| |) AIR FORCE STAFF, JUDGE ADVOCATE

GENERALS OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D.Ce, AND OTHER PERTINENT AIR FORCE

OFFICERS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY REGARDING INSTANT MATTER. RESULTS
ARE BUREAU WILL BE FURNISHED THE DESIRED. INFORMATION. 7

SEATTLE CONTACT | |FOR FURTHER DETAILS REGARDING Pe
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MAY 1%62 EDNION + ' .
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TO: SAC, ALEXANDRIA — DATE: 11/20/72
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FROM : SACy. WFO 6. IF
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SUBJECT: NORJAK '
(00: SE) . ,

REFERENCE: Seattle airtel to Bureau, 11/15/72.

WFO copies of referenced communication are forwarded as lead is
within investigative jurisdiction of addressee office.

BALTIMORE (Enc.)

ALEXANDRIA (Enc.) 2

ST. LOUIS (Enc. )

INDIANAPOLIS (Enc.)

SAN ANTONIO (Enc.)

DENVER (Enc.)

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FROM: SAG, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) ae
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SUBJECT: NORJAK ~ fs
00: Seattle
Re Seattle airtel to Bureau, 11/1/72, Norfolk
airtel to Bureau, 11/9/72. as :
Enclosed for WFO is one-copy each of re communications}.
or ' ~ -sstimee
7 WFO is to contact the National uiqitany
" Command Center, Washington, D.C., and request a training
mission in visual aerial photography be flown along the 87
miles of the NORJAK aireraft flight path that is under
consideration.
The exact coordinates of the area to he covered
will be provided by Seattle Division, if the training
mission is approved.
. This lead is being set out on a UACB basis.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)

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NORJAK
00: SEATTLE

November 13, 1972

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RE SUB F COURSE AND SUB E SEARCH AREA

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Orient Airlines, Seattle, Washington, telephone] iF b7C
advised that | I '

Northwest Orient Airlines, would call SA

concerning his calculations of the flight path of Northwest

Orient Airlines Flight 305, Portland to

posttie. November

24, i further advised that
McChord Air Foree Base, also calculated the area

nto which Unsub parachuted and would have in his possession
radar data concerning the above-mentioned flight.

LEADS

SEATTLE

AT McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, WASHINGTON

Will contact |

| and review b6

with him his calculations of the flight

area,

AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

path and course of b7C
the Norjak airplane in order to determine if there is a :
possibility of an error in the computation of the search

Will arrange to obtain fron| ja bé .:
copy of his calculations of the course, flight path, and b7C
jump area for Unsub, aka Cooper,

ARMED AND DANGEROUS,

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AIRTEL AIRMAIL :
TO: ACTING, DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) AND
. SAC, NORFOLK (164-41)
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
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| SUBJECT: NORJAK 2 Uk EG. whl
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The following background information is being
provided to the Norfolk Division: Unsub had with him prior
to the time he jumped the following:

A. Parachute Back Pack

B. Parachute Chest Pack:

C. Briefcase of attache case

D. Dark overcoat.

E. A %x12x14 paper bag

F. A pair of dark slip-on shoes.

G, Wrap around sunglasses with dark rims.

H. 10,600 $20 bills.

. Since none of the above was found when the piane
was searched at Reno, Unsub must have taken them with him,
- or discarded some of them prior to Jumping.

The above-described attache case " supposedly con-
tained a bomb. It is believed Unsub threw this attache case
from the plane prior to his jumping, because of the numerous
other items he had to carry. If he did throw it prior to
jumping, it would fall almost directly in the path of the
aircraft. The 727 air stairs were lowered sometime after
7:42 p.m. and Unsub jumped prior to 8:15 p.m. on November 24,
i971. -The plane covered a distance of approximately 87 miles

during this time.
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Fort Lewis, Washington, advised on August 22, 1972, that b7C
| Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, tele-
phone | , would be able to provide expert information
concerning the feasibility of using high resolution infrared
or regular photographic equipment in a low flying aircraft
to locate the attache case or any other of the above-described
items Unsub may have discarded prior to jumping.

The items could possibly be lodged in thickly
wooded, mountainous terrain. The search area would cover
a strip of land approximately 87 miles long by one-half .
mile wide. It has been suggested that infrared photography
might possibly indicate non-living material, such as an
attache case, in a darker shade than living material, thereby
enabling the case to be found using infrared high resolution
photography.

Since Unsub possibly discarded the attache case
prior to jumping, he could not have buried or hidden it.
The case would have dropped directly in the flight path of
'the plane and could possibly be visible from the air. The
length of time Unsub would have to throw the case or any
other item is limited to 33 minutes, and therefore the area
covered is relatively small when compared to the entire
flight path.

Since NORJAK is the only aircraft hijacking in
which the subject has not been identified and apprehended
'nor the ransom money 'recovered, the following lead is being
set forth as a method of possibly obtaining new evidence

that might identify Unsub or indicate his whereabouts:

LEAD
NORFOLK

AT LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, VIRGINIA. Will
expeditiously contact | [and determine from him b6
the feasibility and cost of conducting the above~described b7C
photographic air search.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) October 31, 1972

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NORJAK a
00: SEATTLE

Re memo of SA THOMAS J. MANNING, dated 10/24/72,

Referenced communication advised that |

| Washington, had furnished the following

information:

On the night of NORJAK, a jet airliner flew over
his home at about 5,000 feet from the ground. _
home is considerably east of the search area, and if the
jet airliner that flew over his home was the hijacked Boeing
727, this would indicate an error was made in the calculations
of the search area.

LEADS

SEATTLE

AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

1, Will through Northwest Orient Airlines |

| contact | jand with |

recalculate the flight path and a drop point pertinent to
the NORJAK matter.

2. Will review radar information concerning the flight
of Northwest Orient Airlines 727 in an attempt to determine
the accuracy of the previous flight path calculations,

3, Will review logs currently contained in Seattle
File 164-81 to determine if UNSUB could have jumped after
the time previously calculated,

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

GSA FPMR (21 CHR) 101-106

UNITED STATES RNMENT

ee a MAY 132 EDITION :

Memorandum , ,

TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) Son ge PATE: 10/24/72

FROM : SA THOMAS J. MANNING Ss F {aie PJ

SUBJECT: NORJAK
Re memo of SA THOMAS J, MANNING to SAC, 10/19/72
On 10/20/72 SA| contacted | ,

Washington and he furnished the following
Information: ~

'

He Lives directly under the fly way between Portland and Seattle.
He recalls that the night of the hijacking a plan¢was flying very low
and slowly over his house in the early evening and about 5 minutes after
the plane flew over he heard on television that the hijacking was in
progress. He' atated the plane was a jet airliner but he did not see
the plane, It was about 4 to''5,000 feet from the ground and le recalled
that the weather was overcast, very low clouds and it was raining.
The flight of the plane was qbout 20 miles from Mt, St. Helens

'' "* He pointed out that planes "oti the fly way always fly about
10 to $2,000 feet and in the four years he has Lived at his present
location he has never heard one so low as 'on the night of the hijacking,
He advised that he knows the plane was over 3,000 feet for he lives
near Mount Tum Tum and that is 3,000 feet and the plane was above that
mountain, Hs also pointed out that the east end of Lake Merwin is
approximately | L, He pointed out that the
plane flew directly over the| area and the area over which
it flew is extremely rugged terrain. He pointed out that recently
there have been a number of hunters in that area, from Lake Merwin

to the| : Jarea. oo. . Ls —

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. | stated he feels that iff it was the hijacked plane
then the area which has been searched would have been too far west.
He pointed out that the plane was heard before 10:00 PM and after
dark but he could not fix the exact time he heard the plan overs

7 (0VR Fl [eu
| J£urnished a copy of a map on which he drew what
he felt was theflight of the plane and this map is attached.

The area over which the plane flew has a number of private
owners but the majority of the area'is owned by Gifford Pinchot National
Forest and the Weyerhaeuser company. . lb4-Aee e533.

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UNITED STATES G RNMENT

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SVB sz
FRoM : SA THOMAS J, MANNING is

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10/19/72
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television and heard an announcement concerning the hijacking. Almost

as soon as he heard the announcement a'Large plane flew low overhead

and' flew slightly to the east of his house over [ J - b6é
area, He pointed out the area into which the plane flew was one... b7C
which is extremely heavily wooded andan area.into which one would |.

have difficulty going on foote an ——

~ ""He advised that he has' been thinking of calling the FBI on

this matter but has kept putting it off' and feels that the flight

of the 'plane that_night would indicate that .the area searched to date

has not iréLuded | Jarea and the route over which the b6
plane flew. He pointed out that he Lives directly under the northe b7C
south flyway for the airlines and this'is the only time that he' and
rT have éver heard a plane flying over that low, He requested

an agent contacting him personally in order that the flight of the

plane could be accurately described, tee

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OCT 20 1972
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DEPARTMENT OF rraMPontaTion

FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION

SEATTLE AIR ROUTE TRAFFIC CONTROL CENTEX
3101 Auburn Way South
Auburn, Washington 98002

, 30 December 1971

Mr. Charles Farrell

Special Agent

Federal Bureau of Investigation
*115 Second Avenue

Seattle, Washington 98104

Dear Mr. Farrell:

As you requested, we have enclosed a transcription of our

recorded air-ground communications with Northwest Airlines

~.

Flight 305 of 24 November 1971.

" Chief, Seattle Center

Enclosure

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FROM: SAC, LAS VEGAS (164-60)(RUC) ] .

SUBJECT: NORJAK
Re Seattle to Las Vegas airtel 1/20/72.

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1/5/72

Date of fronscrtption,

| | Area Officer B, Federal Aviation 6 Per
Administration (FAA), Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Cente>?c
Auburn, Washington, provided a transcription prepared by his
office of tape recordings of transmissions between the Auburn
center and Northwest Airlines Flight #305, which was under
hijack on November 24, 1971.

| |} advised that the original tapes are b6 Per
maintained in his custody. b7C

[__] advised that the Seattle Center worked Blight

' $305 on the way in to Seattle from Portland, but had no

indication that a hijack had occurred and the aircraft did
not squawk any signal as to a hijack situation. They were

not aware of the hijack until they handed off the plane to the
Seattle-Tacoma Tower. .

[Cid advised that after the plane took off from b6 Per
Sea~Tac on its way south toward Sacramento, California, b7C
the Auburn Center worked the flight from shortiy after take-

- OF£ until they handed the flight off to the Oakland Center,
which occurred at the Oregon-California border.

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provided by jare in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), "b6 Per
an insertion has been made at least once in each page to b7C
convert the GMT to Pacific Standard Time. ,

Interviewed on

Seattle, Washington fie # SE 164-81 - OT

12/30/71

SA CHARLES E. FARRELL/k1b

12/30/71

Date dictated

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AIRTEL AIRMAID
TO $ SAC, PORTLAND (164-41)
FROM : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (-P~)

SUBJECT: NORJAK

Re Seattle facsimile 1/13/72 transmitting memo

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were prepared after an experimental flight conducted by
Northwest Airlines on 1/6/72 and the calculations are
based on a refined radar map provided by the Air Force.

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SaC, SEATTLE (164-81) 1/12/72

ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

NORJAK

On 1/12/72 I calied ASAC ROSACK at Sacramento.
I told him we were temporarily stimied in our search of
the area as to where the hijacker could have possibly jumped
pending decisions from them as to whether the photo
reconnaissance plane was going to photograph the area
and read the photos for us before we tried to do a foot
search,

After checking he saidthey were going to do it;
they had the map of the area and the first good day
when the light was right, they would do it. It would not
: take long after that that the photos could be studied and
, analysed, {he thought it would be only a few days that
we would have the results.) We will be advised.

I called the Bureau and talked to HENRY SHUTZ.

I told him that the SAC had wanted him to know the reason

we had not come in with a request in connection with a
terrain search of the suspect drop area, was that we felt it
would be well to have an aerial reconnaissance. I furnished
him the information set out above. He said that he understood
and that it was no problem insofar as he was concerned.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) . 1/11/72
SA CHARLES E. FARRELL
NORJAK

Re: SEARCH AREA

On 1/10/72 after having received the new plotting
of the search area, prepared by | the
writer telephonically contacted | ] at
Northwest Airlines, Minneapolis.

| Jadvised that his computations based

on the results of the experimental flight on 1/6/72, coupled

with updated information furnished by| |
of the U.S. Air Force at McChord AFB, he had prepared a
revised plotting of the course of the aircraft as well as a
probable jump area.

A memo prepared by [ jas well as a map
which he also had prepared, had been received and during
the telephone conversation | Jadvised that in his

judgment, the best possible spot to search for the subject
would be at Point A and proceeding from there to Point B
on the map. | |memo adequately explains the lines
drawn on the map and are therefore not further being
explained.

| |said he feeis that the hijacker is more
apt to be found south of line A & B than north of the line
and more apt to be in the western part of the possible
area than in the eastern part.

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the writer drew arc's emanating from Point A down to a
point on line G thru K. The arc's were extended along the
lines A~B and down to the same aforementioned line G~K,
It was his feeling that this would be the most fruitful

area. ~
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arc's to the north of Line A~B also to line G a K.

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