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W<2.. LABORATORY 1

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, D. ©. 20535

To: United States Department of the Interior October 21, 19758

National Park Service REGISTERED ATRMATL
Yosemite National Park, California 95389 a=

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PC-M1827 QQ
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YOURNO. 75-1965

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United states Park SAang§eI.as. No.
Re: _Anvestigator
UNIDENTIFLED,BODY.. FOUND LY
POSENT TE NATIONAL PARK,

CALIFORNIA

er . Clarence M. Kelley
Examination requested by: Addressee Director

Reference: Letters dated 9/1/75 |
Examination requested: Microscopic Analyses ~- hiscellaneous

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(PO-M1827 90)

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Specimen received $/17/75 under cover of letter dated 9/1/75
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Result of examination:

A few light to dark brown Caucasian head hairs,
wrich have been forcibly rowoved from the scalp, were found in
the Ql debris. However, due to the effects of veathnering on !
these hairs, they are unsuitable for significant comparisons -
with head hairs of knovm origin. iiwmerous Caucasian body hairs,

@)- SE (164-81) Enclosures (3) (Smithsonian Institute report and

Enclosure be' 2 incoming letters)
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lind hairs and hair fraznenmts, most of which have been forcibly
removes fron the sin, «score also Found jn speciixen QL. These
hairs and hair fragments are also unsuitable for significant
conparisons with Similar Lairs of kno.m origin. Kone of the
above-mentioned hairs or Lair fragments exnibit the effeots

of foree, other than that previously deseribed, the effocts
of fire or the effects of artificial treatuent.

the Q2 skelctal remains were exaitined by
Dr. J. Lawrence Anzel, Curator of Physical Anthropolosy,
Smithsonian Institution, Vashington, >. C. Dr. Angel's
report is being furnished to your asency as an enclosure
to this report.

Specimens C1 and 92 are being veturned under separate
cover by vegistered mail.

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epartment of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution

SUBJECT: partial human skeleton

The remains include: skull vault lacking almost all occiput, left vertex
to nose root, face; vertebrae C3, 13) and 32, L3, left ribs # 1 - 5, 9, 11,
right ribs #5, 8 - 11 with some ends broken post-mortem; pelvis; left humerus,
right clavicle + scapula, femora, right tibia and fibula, right talus. 'The
bone is generally tan color from soil staining (sandy dark soil with remains)
but the right lower extremity and. skull are sun-bleached white, indicating
decay in a partly sheltered wooded (7?) area and scattering. Remnants of dried
. ligaments at knees and a shred of scalp in the right vertex area contrast with
some weathering cracks and the beginning of spongy bone decay and suggest
sharp temperature change in a rather dry area; this fits the animal gnawing
{rodents?) on right knee and left shoulder. Time since death may be from
under two to five years (conceivably moré) if death in the cool season ex~
plains persistence of some soft tissue.

Sex criteria are male.

Age criteria are from 20 (skull) to 27 years. .

Race appears White based on limb proportions, pelvis, and 2 wavy brown
hairs sticking to the scalp remnants.

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Stature estimate is from 67 3/4 to 70%" and build is average to slender.
Unfortunately there are no teeth for identification.

Possible identifying traits include: inward bowing of humerus; healed
fractures of front part of right ilium and of front Lips of bearing surfaces
of right hip socket with consequent wear on the head~neck junctiion of the
femur by the labrum and/or the ring fibers of the capsule (the left side
shows a lesser degree of this same stress-wear, and a congenital obtuse
femur neck angle may contribute); the preserved two vertebrae from the
bottom end of the thoraicic series suggest a very slight lateral curve
with convexity to the left, and also show Schmorl herniations of the disks
jnto the vertebral bodies; the skull vault seems a bit small (but restoration
is uncertain).

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FBI Laboratory # PC-M 1890 (National Park Service #75-1005) Page 2

Possibly the skeletal damage to back and right hip occurred in a single
accident (motorcycle? parachute-jumping?, a fall?) several years ago.

The fresh breaks of the shattered skull vault might in part have occurred
at death (or soon after). A "dent" near the cartilage end of left rib #4
and a 5 ~ 10° inward bending fracture of right rib #9 in the mid~axillary
line (but not on ribs 8 or 10) may also have occurred at death. ,

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IN REPLY KEFER TO:

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United States Department of the Interior
NATIONAL PARYE-SERVICE ——
P.O. BOX $77
YOSEMITE NATIONAL, PARK, CALIFORNIA 95389
September 1, 1975 a
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Mr. Clarence Kelly, Director _
Federal Bureau of Investigation
U. S. Department of Justice ,
Washington, D. C. 20537 f
Attn: Laboratory &
Re: Yosemite National Park \
Case number 75-1005 \
Unattended death on
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Dear Mr. Kelly: i
This package contains evidence from the above-mentioned case and is
being sent to you for analysis.
We submit the enclosed haix specimen to detexmine the following: |
L. Race of person originated from. ;
2. Body area hair originated from.
3. How hair was removed from 'body.
4. Whether hair is damaged by having been cut, crushed or burned.
5. Whether hair is altered in any manner, i.e. bleached or dyed.
G. Natural or artificially waved.
Thank you in advance for the use of your analysis services. °
Sincerely yours, ;
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Enclosure
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United States Department of the Lntprior
cam NATIONAL PARK SEREQCE—=

$8 P.O. BOX 577
"" YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA 95389

ne September 1, 1975

IN REPLY REFER TO:

Mr. Clarence Kelly, Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
U. S. Department of Justice
Washington, D.C. 20537

Attn: Laboratory se

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Re: Yosemite National Park
_ Case number 75-1005
Subject: Unattended death -

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Gentlemen:
This package contains evidence from the above-mentioned case and _
is being sent to you for analysis for race, sex, approximate height

and stature, approximate age at death and approximate time lapse
since death.

Thank you in advance for the use of your laboratory services.

Sincerely yours,

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
n+TO 89 6 SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) DATE: 2/21/80
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the D.B. GOOPER skyvjacking, he was contacted by the FBI
at his residence. He stated he provided an Agent of the

/ PBI, name unknown, a photograph of 7 or 8 skydivers
belonging to the Century Sky-Divers. He said this photoe#
graph was Loaned to the FBI and was for the purvose of
attempting to aid the FBI. He said he was assured this
photograph would be returned but to date, it has not been.

[dj requested that his photograph be returned." : ¥s
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LEAD
° SFATTLE AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
. WiLL conduct a file review in this matter to determine '
if above mentioned vhotogranh is there. In the event the
photograph is there and no Longer serves an evidentiary
purpose, it_should be sent to the Vancouver RA for subsequent
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xxx AIRTEL
1/5/79
TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM: SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) (P)

SUBJECT: NORJAK {A)
(00:Seattle}

Re Butte airtel to Portland, 12/27/78.

Enclosed for Seattle is a business card of D. B.
COOPER, Director, Airline Jump Operations, Cooper's Sky
Diving School, Sky Harbor Field, Salem, Oregon.

As evidenced by the information contained in the
enclosed card furnished Seattle, it appears the card is a
novelty item of no investigative value. There is no Sky
Harbor Field located at Salem, Oregon.

On 1/4/79, inquiries with officials at the
Salem, Oregon, aixport and the Salem Flight Service determined
there are no sky diving schools located at Salen.

VAC Seattle, no additional inguiries will be made
regarding Cooper's Sky Diving School.

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2-Portland

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12/27/78
TO: SAC, PORTLAND (394-4 1}
FROM: SAC, BUTTE (164-26) (RUC)
SUBJECT: NORJAX (A) pee
ON: Seattle ns

Enclosed for Portland is one business card of
DN. B. COOPER, Director, COOPER's SKYDIVING SCHOOL,
Sky Harbor Field, Salen, Oregon.

On 11/27/78, ,
TREASURE ENTERPRISES, 3815 Rickenbacker frive, boise, Idaho,
advised a man came into her office sometime between
2:04 p.m. and 4:09 p.m. on 11/22/78. He wanted to rent
a 172 Cessna airplane to go to San Francisco and San Dieso
for three weeks,

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that the man would have to talk to one of the company
officials. ide then said he had an appointment and vould
return later. He gave | 1a business card in the nane
of D. B. COOPER, COOPER's SKYDIVING SERVICE, Salem, Oregon,
and left. He said he vould return Monday, 11/27/78.
described this man as follows:

Race White

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Memorandum

SAC, SPATTLE (164-81)

SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) (P)

NORTAK Sule &
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For the information of Seattle,| |,

| U. S. Parachute Association, Monterey, Californie, ©
aS in the past advised although he does not intend to be

uncooverative with the PBI in this investiration, his office
staff is rather small and his ovm work schedule usually
crowded and therefore, he would prefer checks of his
records be limited to those suspects on whom he might
provide worthvhile information.

If any suspect has not been eliminated through
other investigation, and should Seattle desire other
specific information not otherwise obtained. but which
mipht be available from the U. S. Parachute Association,
Do wild furnish same from his records.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) 9/5/72

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RE: PARACHUTE INFORMATION

Re fD~302 reflecting interview with EARL J. COSSEY,
May 31, 1972.

Referenced 302 states COSSEY did check his records
for the serial numbers of the four parachutes involved in
this matter. To date, COSSEY has not provided this information,
aithough he has been recontacted several times since the in-
terview.
LEAD

SEATTLE DIVISION
At Seattle, Washington

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Will discretely recontact COSSEY and determine 1f
the serial numbers for the parachutes are available.

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 8/23/72
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SUBJECT: NORJAK ao

00: SEATTLE
Re New York airtel dated 7/24/72.

On August 15, 1972,| |,- Para-Gear
Equipment Company, 5138 North adway, Chicago, Illinois,
advised his company is one of the largest mail order sport
parachuting equipment supply houses in the United States.
He and | | have little direct
contact with their customers, He has reviewed his files
and the name COOPER does not appear. °

[__j advised he is from the Seattle area and
came to Chicago one year ago. While in Seattle he sport
parachuted for six years. He stated he did not recall
having met anyone he felt could be identical to unknown
Subject.

| |stated in his opinton the person responsible
for the hijacking is not a sport parachutist. He bases

this opinion on the theory that sport parachutists have

an emotional attachment to their equipment, and probably
would not perform a jump with equipment not known to them.
From the accounts he read concerning the hijacking he
assumes the hijacker had military parachuting experience.

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- to ascertaty £¢ artist sketch ct. resenbles any': "
- dndividuals. known to as jumpers and *
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SAC, BOSTON (164-153) (RUC)

NORJAK

Re Boston nitel, 5/20/72, and New Haven
airtel, 3/3/72, a copy of which is enclosed.

No additional investigation has been requested
in this matter per renitel,

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was conducted at the Pepperell, Massachusetts Parachute

Center; Turners Falls, Massachusetts Airport; Orange,

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AIRTEL
TO; sac, BOSTON
FROM! SAC, NEW/HAVEN (164-77) (P)
' SUBJECT: NORJAK ,
On 1/31/72, | } Conn, Parachutists,

'Ines, Edlington Airport, Eliington, Conn., provided a List
of Skydiving Conference Sights in the Northeast, and their,
respective contact personnel,

LEADS;

BOSTON

At Turnerfalis, Massachusetts

, Attempt to contact _ Jat
Turnerfalis Airport and follow lead, which is set out below.
. for all recipient offices, : -

At Pepperrill, Massachusetts

~ Attempt to contact| | (PH), at Pepperrill
Airport and follow lead, which is set out helow for all
recipient offices, . ;

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L Northeastern Conferences, at North Quincy Alrport and
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At Orange, Massachusetts

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Center, at Orange, Mass,, and follow lead, which is set out below fox.
all recipient offices, ;

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a out below for all recipient offices,

All recipient offices are requested to exhibit
artist's conception of DAN COOPER, and interview regarding
knowledge of the subjectj.

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CAC, CAN ANPEITE (LG8-211) (FUC)
NON TACK

hebtLet to SE, 3/21/72.

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SA 164-111
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SA

AT FORT HOOD (KILLEEN), TEXAS

On April 6, 1972, | |
[), West Fort Hood, who is| [of the Fort
Hood Sports Parachute Club, located at West Fort Hood,
advised that there is no one presently a member of the club
who was a member of the club back in 1964. He stated there
was a club at Fort Hood in 1964, but that this club disbanded
in 1967 and was reformed in 1969, He stated that they had no
records of membership for the period prior to 1969,

He further advised that the military does not have
an equivalent plane similar to the Northeast Airline planes
utilized by subject of this case. He stated the military
(air-borne unites) do jump from jets, but they use a l4¥1,
which is a cargo jet and exit from the side door. He stated
he does not know of any sky diving clubs in the United States
that jump from any type of jet aircraft.

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ALEXANDRIA : .

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FROM: BOSTON (164-153) 2p

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RE WFO NITEL 'TO ACTING - DIRECTOR. DATED. MAY NINETEEN, |

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INQUIRY THROUGH. STATE ALRPORT, WARWICK, R.I. REVEALED
"NO INFORMATION RE SKYDIVERS CLUB CURRENTLY OPERATING
IN R. Ie i

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SCHOOL , ORANGE'; MASS. ONLY SKYDIVING REFERENCE. IN ReIt
TELEPHONE DIRECTORY) , REVEALED A CLUB. POSSIBLY KNOWN AS

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RI. SKYDIVERS OR Rel. PARACHUTISTS , APPROXIMATELY THRITY | + Be
FIVE TO FORTY HEMBERS , JUMP REGULARLY AT ORANGE AIRPORT, a
ORANGE, MASS. CLUB HEADQUARTERS LociareD aT MURPH'S LOUNGE, ~ oo ss |

THREE ONE. ZERO WATERMAN AVE., ESMOND, RI. |

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TELEPHONE DIRECTORY INDICATED

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Rel. SKYDIVING CLUB .

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'ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATION RE THE ABOVE BEING HELD .
IN OBEYANCE PENDING OUTCOME OF LUVESTIG ATION IN THE
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 5/10/72
SAC, COLUNBIA (164~48) (RUC)

NORJAK
(00: SEATTLE)

ReCOlet to SE, 4/13/72.
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on 5/3/72, | Jor the whe Parachute Club, Barnvell,

S.C. These individuals advised they had never seen anyone
resembling the subject.

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has both savings and checking accounfis with their branch b7C
located at Maple and Orchard Lake Roads and there have been
no unusual transactions with either account. The only activity
out of tlhe ordinary occurred on 1/14/72 when he withdrew
$745.00 from his savings account and deposited it in his
checking account giving him a balance of $1,308.16. On 1/28/72
wrote a check for $879.00 on this checking account.
The sketch of the wnsub in this case has been
furnished to Midest Parachute Sales and Service, 46901 Grand
River, Novi, Michigan, and Midwest Sport Parachuting Center,
~. 7621 Pardee, Taylor, Michigan. No positive information has
been received from either of these sources. .
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-181) 4/21/72
SAC, KANSAS CITY (164-80) P

NORJAK

00:SE

Re Phoenix letter to Kansas City, 3/15/72.

e following investigation was conducted by
SA| :

AT TOPEKA, KANSAS:

On Narch 31, 1972, | |
Forbes Air Force Base, advised he has a drop zone known as
Skyport, Inc., at Tucson, Arizona, and has been an active
participant in sports parachuting for several years. He
observed the artist's conception of the unknown subject in
this case and advised this person is unknown to him, nor does
he know anyone engaged in sport parachuting or parachuting
activity who is similar in appearance. He advised he had
previously seen this drawing in a sport parachuting magazine
and noted the person was reportedly about forty years of age.
He advised he has never known anyone participating in sport
parachuting who is that old.

ARMED & DANGEROUS.

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SAC, SHATTLE (164-81) 4/13/72
SAC, COLUMBIA (164-48) (P)

NORJAK
{90: SEATTLE)

RecOlet to Seattle dated 2/28/72,

Photo of unknown subject shown Cool Blue Sky
Diving Club, Frogmore, S. C., 1/18/72 with negative
results.

On 3/22/72 it was determined the Viking
Parachute Club, Barnwell, S.C. is operated by
residents of Denmark, S.C. Personnel Barnwell
Aivport, Barnwell, 5. C. unable to identify photo
of unknown subject.

Columbia wili report any pertinent information
developed in Denmark, 5. C. regarding parachute club
that uses Barnwell, S. C. Airport.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
SAC, BALTIMORE (164-103) R uc

NORJAK

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Referenced Seattle airtel eliminated suspect
the only suspect in Baltimore Division,
which had not been resolved.

Referenced Bureau airtel requested that
proper dissemination be made to all parachute clubs
in each division concerning information on hijacker.

Information was provided to the only tuo
active parachute clubs in Baitimore Division, Pelacan
Sports Aviation, Ridgely, Maryland and Southern Cross
Parachute Sport Club, Downsville, Maryland. Contact
with these clubs provided negative results.

In addition to contacting parachute clubs,
the list of ransom bills were distributed to all local
law enforcement agencies and major banks in the Baltimore
Division.

If any positive information is developed in
Baltimore, 16 will expeditiously be forwarded to Seattle.

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OPTIONAL, rors NO. 10 ° - ,
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AC, SEATTLE (164-479) DATE: 3/29/72
FROM C, TAMPA (164-110) (RUC) WM \
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Re Bureau airtel to all offices dated Eonar.

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For information of Seattle, the distribution of
ransom list, description and composite drawing have been
sent to all major police departments in the Tampa Division,
Contact with known parachute and skydiving clubs have
failed to develop any suspects."

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AIRTEL - ATRMAIL - REGISTERED

TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM: SAC, SACRAMENTO (164-50) (P)
NORJAK

ReSEairtel, 2/14/72,

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Contact tth sport parachute clubs, parachute
schools, and USPA Area Safety Officers in the Sacramento
Division, as listed in enclosure to reairtel, has produced
no pertinent. information relating to the possible identi-
fication of UNSUB in this case. All persons contacted
were keenly aware of the Bureau's investigative interest
in NORJAK and had seen the artist's conception of the
UNSUB in nationel parachute magazines or through the news
media in late November, 1971.

CONSIDER UNSUB ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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SAG, SEATTLE (LG4-81) 3/17/72
SAG, JACKSONVILLE (1641.09) (hue)

VORTATS
$90: SAREE

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Re Jacksonville airtel to Geattle, 1/20/72,
and Seattle Lotter to San Franciceso, 2/4/72.

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Fiyine Gerviec, Pensacola, Phas, adviced SAl
| the only pacachuting in the avca is handicd at
the oleport at Milton, Pla.

On 2/8/72, |
| | Milton Flying Service, tiiLton, »>6
Pla., advised Samat all sport parachuting has BIC
been terminated at Wilton and tharc is no club in the

area. Both advised they do not vecosnize the artist
conception drawing of the subject.

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Fla., was contacted by SA | but developed

no additional information regarding identity o£ the
subjert of this cace. He did advise that an article
has recently been publiched in "The Porachutist", the
montaly news magazine of the USDA, soLLeiting as sietance
fron its mcabors in attcapt to identify the unbnown
subject, waich article featured the artist conception
o£ the unlbmow cubject.

He tac advised that the only know reward money
offered to date in captioned case ic ao $5,000 reward
boing offered by the "Seattle Post-intclligencer", c

enttle, Wachinston.

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3/15/72

UNSUB SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

For information of receiving office:
,

List of names and addresses of those persons having
parachute jumping clubs or involved with clubs in the Arizona,

reveal |

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Tucson, Arizona. Attempts to contact]

jin Tucson,

Arizona, were negative.

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Person in position to_know advised on 3/10/72
peat had moved on

| Forbes AFB, Kansas.

LEADS
KANSAS CITY DIVISION

AT TOPEKA, KANSAS

Attempt to contact | ___|at Forbes AFB
for information of value -

and show photo of unsub
send such to office of origin.

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SUBJECT: MORZAE
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On 1/31/72, | | Conn, Parschutists,

Inc,, Ellington Airport, Eilingron, Conn., provided a list
of Skydiving Conferckce Sffess in the Northeast, and their
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fohics lead, which is set cut bolow for aii recipicnt offices,

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At Oransce, Hassechusetts .

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Atteapt to contact the Grange Sport Parachuting
Centor, at Orange, Waes., and icllee lead, which is set ont below. st
shi xvecipient offices.

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Sez. Gut below for 211 xeeipicat orzices.

All vecipient offices are requested to exhibit
artist's conception of BAN COOPER, and interview regarding
knopiecge of the subject:

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 3/10/72
P
SAC, ALEXANDRIA (164-72) GRES>

NORJAK
(00: SEATTLE) °

Re Alexandria letter to Seattle, 3/ 2/72; and
Richmond letter to Alexandria, 2/3/72.

Enclosed for Seattle are three copies of an
investigative insert reflecting investigation conducted
at Manassas, Va., to locate subject through interviews
of individuals set out as leads in referenced Richmond
communication,

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The following investigation was conducted by SA °

| at Manassas, Virginia, on March 1, 1972:

|
home phone | , Was contacted and he advised he is
employed as |
at Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virginia. 6

|has been employed | | for - bIe

approximately [ Jhas been a sky diver
since approximately 1966 and he is currently a member of
the St. Michael's Angels Sky Diving Club. |
advised he has seen the composite photo of tha subject,
D. COOPER, in the January, 1972, issue of Parachute, a
sky diving magazine. | |knows of no one who
resembles the composite of COOPER.

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BAC, SEATTLE (164-31) 3/2/72
SAC, ALEXANDRIA (264-72) (PD)

HORJAE
(00; SUATTLE)

He Richmond Jetter to Alexandria, 2/5/72.

Euciesed for Seattic and WFO are two copies each
of an investigative insert reflecting investigation conducted
in the Alexandria Division to iocate subject through inter-

wiew of individuals set out as leads in referenced comumuni-~
eation.

Any ieads to be developed from enclosed insert
heing icft to the discretion of the G0. .

LEAD:
ALEXANDRIA
| AT MANASSAS, VA.: Locate and interview | PS

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AX 164-72
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The following investigation was conducted by SA
| | at Culpeper, Virginia;

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Route 677, advised on February 15, 1972, the Tri-Par Sky
Diving Club_operates on weekends at Culpeper Municipal Air-
port. The] | who resides [ |
| Connecticut, telephone

stated after observing an FBI composite
drawing of D, B. COOPER that the drawing does not resembie
any member of the Tri-Par Club who is known to him,
suggested [_| be contacted for the names of each member of
the club and that they be shown the composite drawing inas-
much as the members frequently travel nationwide to various
sky diving meets and shows and may recall COOPER as a
participant,

L__—s«dyW further advised the Tri~Par Club does not

meet regularly in Culpeper and he could provide no date when

or other club members could be contacted.

The following investigatien was conducted by SA
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| Culpeper Municipal Airport,

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| Virginia, advised| has an
office at Richmond, Virginia, where he would be able to be

contacted, The address is | |
Richmond, Virginia, 23219, telephone | | or
L. | was contacted on Febru~

ary 23, 1972, at his residence |

| | Virginia, | | advised that

he is a sky diver and knows many of the people actively in-
volved in sky diving in the Virginia area. [
advised he has seen the composite photo of the subject, D.
COOPER, in the January, 1972, issue of Parachute, a sky

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SAC, SEATTLE (164031) 2/28/72
SAC, COLUNBYA (164-48) (P)

NORJAK
OO: SEATTLE

Re SE airtel to CO 2/2/72, and CO SAC meno,
dated 1/6/71. |

The following person were contacted on 2/8,11/72,
at Aviation Schools, Columbia, S. C., by SA TRENT D.
SIPLE and were shown composite drawings of unknown subject
with and without glasses. None were abie to identify
this person as anyone they knev: ;

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Columbia Metropolitan Airport

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Metropolitan Airport

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this aren is located at Barnveli, S. C. bIC

Columbia is in the process of making additional
copies of the unknown subject without glasses for the
Columbian Resident Agencies. Seattle will be advised of
these contacts.

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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) CC
FROM: SAC, WFO (164-169) (P) 7 D
NORJAK

Re WO airtel to Bureau, dated 1/24/72.

Enclosed for the Bureau and Seattle is one copy
for each of the February, 1972, issue of "Air Line Pilot,"
an monthly magazine of the Air Line Pilot's Association

ALPA). .

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, On 2/10/72, enclosed magazines were received by
WEO from | | ALPA, 1329 E
Street, N.W., Washington, D. C, (WDC). Page 29 of the magazine
contains information and composite photographs concerning
captioned matter.

As previously noted in re airtel, this magazine
has a world wide circulation of over 40,000.

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ReBUairtel to Albany, 12/7/71, and: 'Seattle nitel to Butte,
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Enclosed for Seattle are two copies of investigative
\eneert reflecting investigation within the Phoenix Division,

< 'and_two copies of an administrative insert.
\ LEAD

PHOENIX DIVISION

Ys AT TUCSON, ARIZONA .

Will contact appropriate information to secure photo-
graph of [ and/or any necessary information to
possibly eliminate as a suspect in this matter,

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The following investigation
| Jat Phoenix, Arizona:

On December 6, 1971, a memo
an artist's conception of the unknown
in the Phoenix Division regarding the

The following investigation

was conducted by SA [|

to all agents, including
subject, was disseminated
subject's hijacking.

was conducted by sat

| ], at Phoenix, Arizona:

On December 31, 1971, a memo was disseminated to each
resident agency within the Phoenix Division requesting that all
parachute clubs and associations be contacted for possible infor-
mation concerning the unknown subject.

The following investigation was conducted by SA [|
|, at Flagstaff, A,izona:

On December 18, 1971, |, Coconino
County Sheriff's office, advised that there were no known parachute
clubs or associations within the area of the Flagstaff resident
agency area.

The following investigation was conducted by SAT]
| at Kingman, Arizona:

Contacts with local law enforcement agencies reveal
there are not any parachute clubs in Mohave County, Arizona.

The following investigation was conducted by SA
| » at Phoenix, Arizona:

On December 20, 1971,| | U. S. Parachute
Service, 6876 East Baseline, Mesa, Arizona, was contacted

regarding captioned matter.

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the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Sky Harbor Airport,
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necessary to pursue this Line of investigation any further.

| | stated the only man named[ | to his '
knowledge was a in Coolidge, Arizona.

He further advised, however, that

did not match the

description of the Unknown subject. _.

[sds furnished the following List of names and

addresses of those persons having parachute jumping clubs
or involved with the clubs in the 4rizona area:

(Club: 40th Street, north of Bell Road)

Southwest Aviation

1800 W. Deer Valley Drive

Deer Valley Airport

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with parachute jumping in the state of Arizona. was

given a copy of the artist's conception and was requested to
contact the Phoenix FBI office in the event he encountered
someone that resembled the Unknown subject.

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AIRTEL . AZRMAIL

TO : SAC, SACRAMENTO (164-50):
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-61) (P)
SUBJECT: WORJAK oe |

Re Sacramento airtel to Seattle, 2-11-72.

Enclosed herewith are two xerox copies of listings
of the United States Parachute Association (USPA) Affiliated
Clubs, Drop Zones, Area Safety Officers, FAA Officers, and
Certified Parachute Lofte within the State of Caiifornia.

, USPA membership listz in the Sacramento area
are not being forwarded as requested since it is not deemed
necessary at this time to contact each individual member
regarding subject. ;

Sacramento division may limit contacts and exhibition
of subject's photograph to official representatives of USPA

Ciube, Drop Zones, Safety Officers, and Lofts within its
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AINTEL

TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)

2/11/72

ATRUAIL + REGISTERED

FROM: SAC, SACRAMENTO (164-50) CP)

WORJAK
00: SE

ReSCairtel, 12/21/71.

Seattle is requested to provide information

concerning USPA clubs and membership in Sacranento

Division.

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TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)

FROM: SAC, SACRAMENTO (164-50) (P)
SUBJECT: MORJACK ; )
00: SEATTLE

Re Sacramento tel 12/13/71 and San Francisco tel
12/14/71, concerning obtaining list of United States Parachute
Association Clubs and Members.

Referenced San Francisco tel set forth that a List
of all affiliated clubs of USPA for entire United States
already furnished Seattle along with an indéx of membership
that association for California.

Seattle requested provide above information to
Sacramento for handling of this case in their division.

Q-- Seattle

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

; Dote of transcription 12/3/71
| | bé
, phone | & passenger on Northwest flight b7C
305.0n November 24, 1971, provided the following information:

After the airplane landed in Seattle, she observed
the hijacker leave the seat in which he was seated and proceeded
Le. to the restroom at the rear of the plane, He remained there
_ for about a minute. When he returned from the restroom, she
"observed the hijacker carrying a dark colored attache case in both
of his arms. The case was on its side: On top of the case was
a bag,

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Approximately 4" deep, Width and height approximately
the same as the width and height of the attache case, The bag
was of cloth composition, possibly manila or burlap. The bag
was of a light color, possibly very light yellow and possibly
with a very light pink tinge. [I stated that she thinks the 6
bag was fairly smooth on the side which was up. [___ | stated b7C
she did not, at anytime, see what was in the bag, She has no
idea what was in the bag. -

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Interviewed on 12/2/71 at | Filo # SE 164-81 ~-SEEL —_
by_SA) sib Dole dictoted 12/3/71
| This document contoins nolther recommandolions nor conclusions of ihe FBI, ft Is the property of the FBI and Is loaned to your agoncy;

N ond its contents ore aot to be distributed outside your agency,

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) . 2/9/72
SAC, KNOXVILLE (164~35) (P)

NORJAK

Re Bureau airtel to all offices 12/7/71.

For information Seattle Office, the compssite
drawing of the unknown subject has been disseminated to
all parachute clubs and associated groups in the
Knoxville Division. Personal contacts have been made
with key members of such organizations. ;

Since no information of positive nature obtained,
complete details such requires not been forwarded to office
of origin,

Seattle will be advised of any pertinent information l
developed. |
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Date: 2/11/72

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Via AIRTEL

(Priority)

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TOs SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
FROv: SAG, OKLAHOMA CITY (164-56) (P)

NORJACK

Re Jacksonville airtel to Seattle, dated 1/20/72.

SA the Sellouins investigation wes conducted by
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AT MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA

On 2/2/72, U. S. Deputy Marshai | b6
advised he of the Tahlequah Sky b7C
Divers Club at Tahicquah, Oklahoma. advised
there are approximately 30 members in the Club and noae

o£ the them are at all similar to the artist's conception
o£ DAN GOCOFER nor is there anyone the club with a
name similar to DAN CCOPER. advised the Shy
Diver World Meet is scheduled to take place at Tahlequah,
OkLahoma, during August of 1972, and the National Meet
taking place betyeen June 19 and 27, 1972.

advised | |} o£ Tahlequah, Oklahoma. +
the committee for the World Mect and he
sould help on the committee for the National Meet at

Tahlequah. Ls advised he will be happy to circulate
the photo of the artist's conception among members of
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the Tahlequah Sky Divers during the coming mects to
attempt to locate DAN COOPER .

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SAC, SBATTLE (164-81) . 2/9/72
SAC, ALEXANDRIA (164-72) ()
NORTAK

Re Seattle letter to Alexandria, 1/26/72.

Enclosed for Seattle is one copy of Richmond
letter to Alexandria, 12/30/71.

On 2/3/72, |

|

Va., advised that the only other sky diving club
he was aware of in the northern Virginia area with the
exception of military clubs is the Tri-Par Club Located in
Culpeper, Va. | | stated he believed the —
club operates out of the Culpeper Municipal Airport.

LEAD

ALEXANDRIA

AT CULPEPER, VA. Will contact Tri-Par Club, in
order to determine from the membership of the Tri-Par Club
if any of their members or past nembers could possibly be
identical to unknotm subject.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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In an effort to locate and identify sky diving
clubs in the ° 'ichnond, Virginia territory, contact was

mace with Federal iviation "idministration (PAA), .GADO, Byxd
Field, Ssndston, Virsinic, and although FAA does not License
these clubs, they did maintain a List of clubs in their
terzvitory, which was compiled in 1967.

he list furnished by FAA does not cover the
Virginia counties of I rockinghain , Greene, Wadison, Culpeper
and Stafford and all countias of Virginia north of these
These counties are coveied by the Fad, FSD0, Washington
National "Aixpoxt, Yashington, D. C.

. Furthermore , the FAA list did not cover Virginia
counties Giles, PYuleski and Carroll or the Virginia courities
.wesk o£ chase. the counties in this area are covexed by,-
the PAA, CANO. Ranoving. County &icport, Administration Building,
chasleston, Vest Virginia, * . :

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the following sky diver clubs as furnished by FA
are located <in the Hor £olk territory:

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L. Moxvfolk Sky Divers ~ to be contacted throuzh

'| , Mewport Uews, Virginia,

2. Peninsula Sky divers - to be contacted through
Yorktotm, Virginia. te
3. Fideva ex Havy Sky Divers - to be contacted
through the U.S. "Have rat iambibious Base, Little Creek, dub

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Virginian, "his dub meets at ae Oceana, Virginia.

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 :
VAY 3642 EOrTCH .
SEA FPMR (41 CFI) $04-11.6

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum

SAC, ALEXANDRIA DATE: 2/3/72
. SAC, RICHMOND (164-74) - P -

NORJAK ,
(00: SEATTLE

Enclosed for Alexandria, Norfolk, and Seattle
are 2 copies each of an investigative insert reflecting
investigation conducted in Richmond Division to locate
subject through licensed sky divers in the State of Virginia.

The following leads are set forth based on inves-
tigation made at the Virginia Division of Aeronautics,
Richmond, Va.:

LEADS:

ALEXANDRIA:

AT ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA:

1. Locate and interview Pe
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2. Locate and interview |

3, Locate and interview] |
|Greenwood Fiying Service. Culpeper, Va]

'

&, Locate and interview | |
- Fauquier Air Park Drop Zone |
Alexandria, Va.

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4 - Richmond : SERIAL wolf.
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The following investigation. was conducted by
SA | at Fort Lee, Virginia: b6

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On December 16, 1971, | | .

| | Fort Lee, Virginia,

advised that the Fort Lee Sky Divers is no longer in existence

as a club. All persons at Fort Lee interested in' parachute

jumping go to the Lynchburg, Virginia area or the club in

Norfolk, Virginia, or the one at Roanoke Rapids, North

Carolina,

| stated he knew of no jumper named b6
COOPER or of any jumper who might fit the description as b7c
characterized by the artist conception shown to him.

further checked the personnel list b6
at Fort Lee, Virginia for anyone by the name of COOPER and bic
could Locate none.

| stated that he believes all b6é
parachute clubs are registered with the United States b7C
Parachute Association, P. 0, Box 109, Monterey, California,

93940.

The following investigation was. conducted by |
SA | | at Richmond, Virginia: b6

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Richmond, Virginia, advised that he] | )
|} He knows o£ no members by fhe name of COOPER,
nor does he recall any member fitting the description of the
artist conception of the Unknown Subject.
On January 18, 1972, | b6

Division of Aeronautics, Virginia State Corporation Commission, 7¢
furnished for review records of all licensed parachutists a 5

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the Unknown Subject in this case is described as in his 5 '
mid-forties, all parachutists vhose birthdate was recorded

with the Division of Aeronautics that would come close to

this age bracket were listed as well as those jumpers named :
COOPER, This listing is as follows:

NAME > BIRTHDATE ADDRESS ;
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. Buchanan, Virginia

McLean, Virginia
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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10
MAY 1982 EDITION

SSA FPMR (21 CHR) 101-184
UNITED STATES ERNMENT : @
Memorandum

TO* :SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 1/26/72

FROM :SAG, ALEXANDRIA (164-72) (P) |

SUBJECT:NOR JAK

Re Richmond Letter to Alexandria and Seattle
12/30/71.

On 12/14/72, information regarding the captioned
matter was disseminated to all agents in the Alexandria
Division.

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and Dulles International Airport police were negative.
Informant contacts provided no information regarding the
captioned matter. All logical sources have been contacted

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Administration, Washington National Airport, advised that
his office does not keep any records of skydiving clubs. [|
stated that Hartwood Aviation, Inc., Hartwood,
Virginia, would have knowledge of the skydiving clubs in the
Northern Virginia area.

LEAD: .
ALEXANDRIA:

AT HARTWOOD, VIRGINTA

Will contact Hartwood Aviation, Inc., telephone
703-752-4784, Hartwood, Virginia, in an effort to obtain a
list of skydiving clubs in the Virginia counties of .
Rockingham, Greene, Madison, Culpeper, and Stafford and all

counties north of -these,.
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each of the January, 1972 issue of the "Parachutist," the monthly
publication of the U.S. Parachute Association.

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along with his description, and.a notice to contact the nearest
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Enclosed for the Bureau is one and for Seattle two
copies of the January, 1972, issue of the "Pilot Bulletin," the
monthly publication of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA).

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"Pilot Bulletin" has a circulation of 31,000 and that the
bulletin is currently keing mailed to ALPA members.

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composite photographs and descriptive data concerning unsub
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. COOPER is nN@

'ROBIN HOOD'

Despite some attempts to prove
otherwise through opportunism and
commercialism, the person who labels
himself as."D. B, Cooper" is--if he is
still clive--no modern-day Robin Hood.
He is a thief and a criminal of the
highest order. He demonstrated more
than passing knowledge of the air en-
vironment, especially parachuting. It
is possible that "D, B, Cooper's" path
may have crossed that of airline per-
sonnel-~and airline-pilots--at some
time under another name. He is re-
ported to have a bitter hatred against
the airlines-~he may have worked for
one,

For these reasons PILOT BULLETIN
is printing the specifications of the
criminal that extorted $200,000 from
Northwest Airlines on Nov, 24, 1971.
Two artist drawings of "Cooper" are
included in the hopes they may prod
the memories of ALPA members who
may have seen or known him in the
past.

The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion describes the man as follows:

Race: White

Age: Mid-40s

Artists sketch of Cooper with and without glasses

Height: 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet

Weight: 170 to 180 pounds

Build; Average to well built

Complexion: Olive, Latin ap-
pearance, medium smooth

Hair; Dark brown or black, nor-
mal style, parted on left, combed
back, sideburns, low ear level

Eyes: Possibly brown; during lat-
ter part of flight put on dark wrap~
around sunglasses with dark rims

Voice: Low, spoke intelligently,
no particular accent

Characteristic: Heavy smoker of
Raleigh filter-tip cigarettes

Wearing apparel: Black suit,
white shirt, narrow black tie, black
dress suit, black rain-type overcoat or
dark topcoat, brown shoes; carried
paper bag 4 inches by 12 inches by 14
inches and dark briefcase or attache
case

If you have any information which
might lead to the identity of this in-
dividual, please contact the nearest
FBI office.

"ALPA PRESSES FOR ACTION ON
MID-AIR COLLISIONS

Pointing to a "needless slaughter"
resulting from 70 mid-air collisions of
U. 5. airliners in the past 25 years,
ALPA urged congressional action to"
moke collision-avoidence equipment a
mondatory requirement for all aircraft
operating in government-controlled
airspace,

In testimony before the Senate
Subcommittee on Aviation on Dec. I,
the Association emphasized the in-
creasing hazards of mid-air occidents.
A study made by the Department of
Transportation, ALPA said, projected
that by 1980 there would be opprox=
imately 10 mid-air collisions oceur=
ring each year. In 1971, there were
four such tragedies.

ALPA recommended two govem-
ment actions that should be taken im-
mediately to reduce or eliminate the
mid-air collision hazard:

"The first of these requires on im-
mediate decision on the port of the U,
§. government that the use of an cde-
quate collision avoidance system or
proximity warning indicator should be
made mandatory for every gircroft

operated within controlled airspace.

"The other action requires that
the Federal Aviation Administration
take a more realistic and sophisticated
approach to inflight segregation of
military and general avietion aircraft
from airline and other high performance
civil aircraft."

In addition to these recommenda-
tions, ALPA asked for a live evalua-
tion of the several collision avoidance
systems now available. Recognizing
that installation of these systems would
entail particular burdens for light
plane owner, ALPA called for devel-
opment of a plan fo help them finance
this hardware.

Although ALPA does not endorse
any particular equipment now being
offered as solutions to the collision
problem, it supported the Senate bill
under consideration ($, 2264), which
would facilitate the installation of
collision avoidance devices. "The
establishment of definite compliance
dates," ALPA said, "will also empha-
size the urgency of the problem and
take it out of the 'study' category."

FAA Continuing
Taxiway - Exit
identification Lighting
Test At JFK And
Newark

The September 197] PILOT BUL-
LETIN announced the beginning of
testing of taxiway exit lighting on
Newark runway 4L+22R. Now the
test is ready to be implemented at JFK
runway 31R~13L. The runway ends
show red threshold lights at the for
ends, Green flush centerline lights
at runway and taxiway intersections
are the main features of the test,
along with green curved |ead-out
lights at the center faxiway exit,

The airlines have probsbly al-
ready issued information and proce=
dures to pilots operating into these
airports, FAA will provide additional
information, ALPA requests that pi-
lots cooperate in this evaluation,
Please send a copy of your conclusions
to the ALPA Engineering and Air Safe~
ty Department for information purposes.

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For the second time in less than
a week a CAB hearing examiner sup-
ported a position long urged by ALPA
and recommended sweeping changes
in the labor protective conditions tra-
ditionally imposed in merger cases.
(PILOT BULLETIN, November, page
1). In his recommended decision
approving the Allegheny-Mohawk
merger, Examiner Merritt Ruhlen re-
jected the position of the carriers that
the so-called "standerd" provisions
first imposed in the United-Capital
merger case over a decade ago should
be imposed again without change.
Addressing himself directly to the
changes in the provisions recommended
by ALPA, Ruhlen wrote: "It is nec-
essary to consider the suggested
changes on their merits rather than to
rely on a decision of 10 years ago
made in a different economic climate
upon a different factual basis."

Ruhlen's recommended decision
endorsed the following changes in the
standard provisions urged by ALPA:

(1} A shifting of the burden of
proof under the United-Capital for~
mula so that a claiming employe would
be required to do nothing more then
show that a merger occurred and that
his condition of employment changed
adversely. Should the employer con-
tend that the change was the result of
some factor other than the merger, the
burden would be on the employer to
establish that contention through the
production of evidence. {Under the
United-Copital formula, an employe
must carry the virtually impossible
burden of showing that his change in
employment was caused "solely" by
the merger and no other cause.)

{2) A change in the compensation
for a displaced employe to include
average compensation during the base

period plus "subsequent wage increases"

for the duration of the protection per-
iod, (United-Capital excluded all
such increases.)

(3) A change in the base period
used for determining average compen-

ALLEQENY - MOHAWK LABOR @otectve" .
PROVISIONS RECOMMENDED

sation fo the one-year period "imme=
diately prior to (the employe's} dis-
placement" rather than one year prior
to the merger as under the United-
Capital provisions.

(4) An extension of the protec
tive provisions'coverage to all em-
ployes whose job status may be changed
by a carrier's rearranging of its work
force in anticipation of a merger
regardless of the date on which such
a rearrangement actually takes place.

Examiner Ruhlen's decision fs now
subject to review and amendment by
the full CAS as well as final approval
by President Nixon before it may take
effect. ALPA attorneys have filed
briefs in both the Delta-Northeast
and Allegheny-Mohawk merger cases
urging that the specific differences of
the alteration in lebor protective pro-
visions recommended by the two hear-
ing examiners be rationalized in such
a manner as to preserve the most sub-
stantial changes in the old and in-
adequate United-Capital formula.

BOSTON PILOTS BRIEFED
ON BENEFITS.

Pilot retirement and insurance
benefits was the subject of a presenta
tion by ALPA's Retirement and Insur-
ance Department in early December,
The purpose of the experimental pro-
grom was to present directly to pilots
an analysis of their benefits and op~
tions in both the retirement and insur-
ance arets,

Eastern pilots' benefits were cho-
sen for the analysis and the presenta-
tion was made at Boston's Logan Air-
port on Dec, 2-3 by ALPA Field Rep-
resentative Rhoads Denovan and Insur-
ence Analyst Stuart Hall,

The program was a formal presen-
tation by both representatives with the
help of visual aids that outlined the
Eastern Pilots' Fixed (A} ond Variable

AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION
1329 E STREET, N. W.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20004

PILOT BULLETIN

(B} Retirement Benefit Plans and the
Group Insurance Program, Pilots were
encouraged to ask questions and forms
were provided for more detailed prob-
lems that could be answered through
the Retirement and Insuronce Depart~
ment at ALPA's Home Office in Wash-
ington,

The experimental presentation was
basically successful, One problem
area, however, was the lack of suffi-
cient advance notice, which resulted
in a smal] attendance, Both represen-
tatives felt that although attendance
was minimal, the information program
proved worthwhile and was well re-
ceived by the pilots who were able to
attend.

PILOTS SHOULD
SPECIFY PAYMENTS

Inasmuch as the new dues ond in~
surance system has billed both 1972
dues and insuronce, when remitting
your payment please allocate your
remittance to dues ond/or insurance
in the space provided on the remit-
tonce stub. Should such on allocation
be omitted, your remittance will be
allocated. by the computer,

RUNWAY AT GREATER

WILMINGTON AIRPORT

REOPENED

ALPA has been notified as of Nov,
15, the East West (9-27) Runway at the
Greater Wilmington (Del.) Airport
was reopened after complete strength-
ening over its 7,000-foot length to
250,000 pounds maximum gross weight
tandem wheel leading.

Second Class Postage Paid

at Washington, D.C.

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PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION,
1329 E STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C, 20004, EXCLUSIVELY FOR MEMBERS

INFORMATION FOR
MEMBERS ONLY

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JANUARY 1972

ALPA EXECUTIVE

BOARD MEETS

The Executive Board of the Assoc-
iation resolved at its 14th meeting
(Dec, 7-10) in Washington to register
"total opposition" to FAA's proposal
to impose responsibility for medical
certification and surveillance of flight
crew members upon the individual air
carriers. The Board directed the Aero-
medical-Flight Time/Duty Time Com-
mittee "to take any ond all steps it
feels are necessary to prevent the
adoption" of the proposal end instruct-
ed the Association's President to "pro-
vide the necessary support ond resour-
ces," and including "if necessary" re~-
convening the Executive Board for
consideration "of other appropriate
courses of action,"

The Board, after lengthy discussion
concerning the impact of the Aloha
arbitration award on ALPA's crew com-
plement policy, reaffirmed its "full
and vigorous support of the crew com-
plement policy and of all existing

@ Revised ALPA merger policy has
been adopted by the Executive Board
(see page 2).

@ The Department of Transportation

is investigating the manner in which

a Delta 880 was contaminated by
radioactive leakage. DOT is attempt-
ing to determine whether the cause was
from faulty packaging or from handling
damage.

@ CAB examiner is against AAL-WAL
merger plan {see page 4),

@ PATCO says FAA has fired four
more controllers for their actions dur-
ing a "sickout" in March 1970, bring-

LATE NEWS

agreements and awards establishing the
same." The Board said that consistent
with the Nov. 23 arbitration award
{which if noted "applied and interpret-
ed the Association's policy as being
founded on safety as related to the
operating conditions and enviroment of
the carrier involved"} and consistent
with post practice, the Boeing 737
crew complement policy is interpreted
to require "with the concurrence of
the Executive Committee and the Pre-
sident™ that the MEC on each airline
involved assess that airline's conditions
and enviromental factors "and reach a
determination as to the basis of imple-
mentation" of the crew complement
policy, The Board ordered the Presi-
dent to "cause the Association to pro-
vide full support to such determina-
tions" and to conclude agreements

that give full effect to such determi-
nations.

Finally, the Board said the Pre-
sident and the Executive Committee
should study ond evaluate "crew co-
ordination and operating techniques
on all airline jet aircraft."

Other actions taken by the Exe-
cutive Board include the following:
> Supported the Airworthiness and
Performance Committee in its concern
over the use of reduced-thrust takeoff
procedures. ;

J Referred a proposal that ALPA
initiate an aggressive policy with
FAA fo establish positive control,
climb and descent corridors, "a high-

ROUND-UP

ing the number of dismissed controllers
to 80. Thirty-eight of the 80 have won
their jobs back through appeals proce-
dures and the courts.

@ ALPA opposes DOT action in AAL-
WAL merger case (see page 5),

@ "Cooper" is no Robin Hood {see page
7).

@ NTSB and FAA officials say that a
National Atrlines 747, which ran

afoul of turbulence, did so as the

crew picked its way through thunder-
storm cells using airborne radar,

@ Pilots should specify payments (see
page 8).

WARNING - NO IMMUNITY!

Pilots are warned that, effective
Dec, 31, 1971, they are no longer _
provided with immunity when Near -
Mid-atr Collision Reports (FAA Form
8020-1) are filed,

President John J. O'Donnell
attempted to persuade 'FAA to retain
the immunity provision, but so far,
without success. The ATC Committee
will again seek to convince FAA that
the near mid-air reporting program is
useless without some protection being
given to the pilof and controller, alike.
As additional information becomes ~
aveiloble, it will be reported in ALPA
publications,

'

ly complicated subject," to the Na-
tional ATC Committee, the national
committee involved with this problem,
> Noted thet "it is in the best in-
terest of ALPA "to presént a unified
position to the government and tndus-
try on those subject areas which af-
fect the entire membership" and re-
solved "that before any pilot group or
representing body of the Association
takes action on subjects under the per-
view of an ALPA national committee
and not covered by ALPA policy, the
proposed action be brought to the at-
tention of the responsible national
committees for their review and ana~
lysis to ensure a coordinated position.
Directed the President "to ac-
tively pursue" ALPA policy, adopted
in 1982, "to work to bring inter-
national flight duty time limits into
line with domestic FAR limits."
Directed the Association to insti-
tute a procedure of witholding dues
from flight pay loss checks,

> Noted that the use of "Air Line
Pilots" in the name of any organiza-
tion, other thon ALPA "is confusing
and misleading to the membership,

the public, the government and the
industry and might be harmful to the
public image of the Association," and
resolved "that alf members so involved
refrain from any activities which gen-
erate the impression that they or their
organization, association or firm acts
in behalf of or under the jurisdiction

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of the Board of Directors, Executive
Board, Executive Committee or under
the authority of any committee of the
Association," and requested the Presi-
dent "to inform all persons, members
or otherwise, that such action is not in
the best interests of the Association
and to-take appropriate steps to pre-
vent such use."

> Directed the Association's nation-
al officers to invite key members of
Congress to address regular meetings of
the Association's Executive Board and
Board of Directors,

p> Interpreted Article [X, Section
4A (1) of the By~Laws to provide that
a 10% dues discount will be applicable
only to prepaid annual dues amount if
the prepayment is less than the total
dues owed for the year, .

> Conferred a Commendation Award
of appreciation for exceptional perfor-
mance as a pilot member of the Associ~

ation upon Captain E, M. Long, Fly-
ing Tiger Council 98, who on Dec. 3,
1971, completed a solo 28-day around-
the-world flight covering 36,000 miles
in 215 flying hours in his twin-engine
Piper Navajo, setting eight world re-
cords ineluding first flight around the
world landing on all seven continents,
first solo flight around the world at the
poles, and first flight crossing the
Equator at both the prime and 180th
meridians,

> Noted that the finance charge on
loss of license semiannual premium pay~
ments has caused concern and misun-
derstanding and instructed the Retire-
ment & Insurance Committee to explain
to ALPA membership, through the
PILOT BULLETIN, the necessity for
the finance charge.

p> Adopted the 1972 budget, with
conditions, including Executive Com-
mittee review and restrictions on re-

tes

ducing individual MEC budgets.
Deferred action vatil the next !

regular Executive Boord meeting on

proposed guidelines for printing and

mailing charges for council minutes,

bulletins ond news publications,

pending a review of costs. :

b Resolved that the Association

"strongly opposes" the American Air-

lines-Western Air Lines merger and \

ordered action "to make known its. .

position on this pending merger before

the appropriate government bodies."

p> Directed the National Air Safety :

Coordinating Committee and the Air- '

worthiness and Performance Commit- 3

tee in coordination with the Engineer-

ing and Air Safety Department fo con~ 1

duct a comprehensive study of the .

most effective means for pilot moni-

toring of potential hazards to aircraft

inservice to be presented for consi-

deration of the 15th Executive Board

meeting, and delayed implementation

of a resolution of the 13th Executive

Board regarding monitoring of eirwor-

thiness directives, service bulletins,

etc,

> Changed administrative proce-

dures to extend the grace period for

payment of Association obligations to

6 days for purposes of determining

bad-standing status, and noted that

this change does not amend current'

practices covering finance charges for

delayed payments. .

Revised Merger
Policy Adopted By
Executive Board

One of the more important actions
at the Executive Board at its December
1971 meeting was the adoption of the
new Merger Policy.

The major change in the new po-
licy is the elimination of the "Method
1/Method 2" membership balloting .
processing and insertion of a step pro-
cedure for utilization of merger repre-
sentatives as a guide to the solution
of their seniority list integration pro-
blems,

The new merger policy is not ap~
plicable to any merger already pend-
2

ing or announced unless the respective
pilot groups mutually agree to use it,
The new policy also provides safe-
guards to delay action on merger of
seniority lists until there is "reasonable
assurance" that the merger will be

"approved and.the government award

is acceptable to the involved compa-
nies, .

Nominees Sought For
Air Safety Award

The ALPA Engineering and Air Safety
Department is calling for nominations for
the 1972 Annual Air Safety Award, which
will be presented at the ALPA Air Safety
Forum, May 22-25, at the Mayflower Hotel
in Washington,

Procedures established for the selection
of the recipient of the Award state that
each local council may submit fo the MEC
chairman a candidate or candidates for the
award-and each MEC chairman may submit
to the Association the name of its candidate
or candidates,

Final sélection is then made '

by the Executive Committee,

Each council should submit its nomina-
tions to the MEC chairman as early as posst-
bie becouse MEC chairmen are requested to
forward the nominations to ALPA Secretary
John Giberson no later than March 10,

New Loss Of License
Classification Established

The Executive Board, at its Dec-
ember meeting, established a Group
Member Class under the Loss of Lic-
ense contract issued by Equitable Life
Assurance Society. It is specifically
designed to a¢commodate any pilot
groups on whose behalf ALPA hos neg-
otiated Loss-of License contracts. This
classification allows the Group Mem-
ber to have an additional amount of
Loss of License benefit separate and
apart from his coverage under the
ALPA program, if ony, to a combined
maximum benefit of $2,000 regardless
of income and up to.$2,500 overall
maximum if justified by income.

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ALPA Blasts Admin @ration Proposals
To Increase Government Intervention

In Labor Disputes

Nixon administration proposals to
limit the right of airline employes to
take walkout actions in deadlocked
labor disputes "would constitute no-
thing less than a revolution in Ameri=
can labor relations," ALPA charged
at a hearing before the Senate Sub-
committee on Labor,

Under proposed revisions to the
Railway Labor Act, the President
would have authority to broaden the
scope of government intervention in
labor negotiations, thus averting pos-
sible walkouts that could tie up cir
service,

In @ statement by the Association,
it was pointed out that since 1933 there
have been over 500 collective bar-
gaining agreements reached with air~
line pilot groups represented by ALPA,
Throughout this 38-year period, there
have been only 14 pilot strikes ond
only five of these lasted over 30 days.

The public interest, ALPA added,
is more seriously jeopardized by the
airlines' Mutual Aid Pact--a "strike
insurance" program under which funds
from subscribing carriers are given to
a struck airline. ALPA charged that a
recent trend to strikes of longer dura-
tion is the direct result of the avail-
ability of Mutual Aid funds. "The
carriers have only themselves to blame,"
ALPA said,

A key provision in the proposal
would offer one of three new options
to the President os a "final solution"
to labor disputes, Each involves in-
creasing levels of government interven-
tion following an 80-day "cooling off

period now required when parties can-
not reach agreement on contracts.

The most severe measure would be
mandatory reopening of bargaining on
"final offers" submitted by both sides.
lf agreement still cannot be reached,
the President would name a three-man
board, called "selectors," who would
choose one of the offers, without mod-
ification, as the final settlement.

Disputing the proposal, ALPA
said: "Ina Free society, employes
and employers retain the power to settle
their own economic disputes... .rather
then transfer this power to third-party
'experts.' Jnstead, solutions to labor
disputes must be discovered by and
acceptable to the parties who must
live with them. Anything else is too
remote and illusory to fast."

ALPA stressed that federal labor
legislation has "traditionally been
aimed at establishing the mechanics
and procedures of collective bargain-
ing-~not at determining the substance
of the bargains themselves. Manage-
ment's responsibility to bargain should
nat be assumed by Congress."

The Association said it saw merit
in a feature of the administration pro-
posal that would establish a commission
to make @ two-year study of labor re-
lations in industries "particularly vul-
nerable to national emergency disputes."

It was suggested that the study in-
clude such topics as: The value of per-
manent "neutrals," causes of delay in
grievance handling, the effectiveness
of "tripartite" arbitration, statistics
on prearbitration settlements and need-
ed reforms in present grievance-arbitra-
tion procedures.

We're hiaking Progress

The federal sky marshal pregrom
was in the news on several fronts this
month as it became known that funds
for the effort will probobly be cut by
about one-third in the next federal
budget. A United Press International
story noted that since the program
started in September 1970, the govern-
ment has trained 1,500 marshals "but
they have yet to thwart an inflight
hijacking. "

CBS News asked the question,
"The sky marshal program; has it been
successful?" on the CBS Evening News
with Walter Cronkite on Jan. 4. Among

participants in the report, which pre~
sented viewpoints of various segments
of the airline industry, were ALPA
Executive Administrator Jack Bavis
and Captain Cliff Wolff (UAL). High-
lights of the TV report included the
lack of security at airport terminals
and the need for international agree-
ments to cover the return and prosecu-
tion of hijackers,

In beth the UPI story and the TV
report, ALPA stressed that the majority
of sky marshals could serve more effec-
tively at airport gates rather that aboard
aircraft,

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CAB EXAMINER AG@INST AAL-WAL MERGER@AN © 2i-c Se:

CAB Hearing Examiner William
Madden recommended on Dec. 20 that
the proposed merger between Western
and American be denied. If approved,
he said, the merged pattern of service
would "seriously disrupt" the nation's
air transportation system, particularly
on West Coast and Pacific routes, Fur-
ther, he predicted that the creation of
a supercarrier would totally "upset the
balence" between larger and smaller
trunkline service.

In his 86-page decision, Madden
stressed that the merger of a big four
airline and another trunk carrier is not
in the public interest.

He also noted the availability of

improved labor-protective provisions as"

recommended in the Delta-Northeast
and Alegheny-Mohawk cases, should
the Board decide to approve the Ameri~
can-Western merger.

Madden's inittal decision will be
reviewed along with other recommen-
dations before a final decision on the
case is reached by CAB. Final appro-
val must be given by President Nixon
since the proposed merger involves in-
ternational routes,

Madden's decision was hatled by
ALPA as "a clear recognition of the
need to preserve the nation's competi-
tive system of commercial air service,"

In a statement Dec. 21, ALPA

"stressed that the merger, if approyed,
would lead to the-creation of multi~
billion-dollar "supercarrier," diverting
revenues from other airlines and weak-
ening their market position.

"Inevitably," ALPA said, "this
would lead to a series of defensive
mergers, thus further deteriorating le-
vels of competition and service." s

The Association's Executive.Board,
recently took action "cohesively op-
posing" the American-Western merger.

The U. S, Justice Department'and
CAB's Bureau of Operating Rights have
also recommended thet the merger be
rejected.

NOMINATIONS OPEN

The following councils ore con-
ducting nominations (Election Group
One) for the term of office beginning
July 1:

ALi 114 EAL 18 PRN 125
ALI 143 EAL 142 SOU 20
ALA 68 MOH 90 TCA 63
ALA 118 MOH 139° TWA 2
AAA 32 NEA 116 TXI 85
AW1136 © NCA 126 VAL 11
BNF 42 ONA 23 UAL 33
CPT 141 OZA 106 UAL 34

CAL 15 PAA 10 UAL 150
CAL 153 PAA 70 UN! 66
CBA 81 PA] 40 UNI 144
DAL 48 PAI 120 WAL 21
DAL 131 WCA 35

Nominating ballots are to be re-
turned to the council chairman no
later than the time and date of coun-
cil meetings advertised for the pur-

.pose of nominating local council rep-

resentatives, Any member of the
above councils who does not receive

a ballot should contact David E, Hal-
pin, director, Council and Admini-
strative Services, in the Home Office,
or his council ,chairman.

HAZARDOUS MATERIAL

PROBLEM. INFORMATION
SOUGHT

Any pilot having experienced
hazardous matertal cargo fransporfa=
tion problems should get in touch with
ALPA Executive Administrator Jack
Bayis at the Home Office.

ELECTION BALLOTS TO BE.
COUNTED JAN. 21 AT
HOME OFFICE

' The Election and Ballot Certifica~
tion Board will meet at the Home Of-
fice on Jan, 21 to check, open and
tally the following elections. Any ac-
tive member in good standing is en-
titled to be present to observe the
ballot count. Chairman and vice chair-
man elections: AWI 111, AAA 32,
DAL T31, SEA 132, PAI. 121 and PAA
41, Captein representative election:
AAA 138, Copilot representative e!-
ections: TWA 25, UNI 11? (and Hight
officer representative). Secretary-
treasurer elections; TWA 24_and PAI

COUNCIL ELECTIONS TO FILL
VACANCIES SCHEDULED
THIS MONTH

Elections to fill vacancies are
being conducted by the following coun-
cils, Any active member who did not
receive a ballot, has lost his ballot or
wishes to change his vote should con-
tact David €, Halpin, director of Coun-
etl and Administrative Services at the
Home Office. Elections ond their
deadline dates are: Flying Tiger Coun-
cil 97: chairman and vice chairman,
Jan, 27, Piedmont Council 121: choir-
man and vice chairman, Jan, 28. TWA
Council 4: copilot representative, Jan.
3, Capitol [nférnational Couneil 141:
captain representative, Jan. al,

TENTATIVE AGENDA SET FOR
72 AIR SAFETY FORUM

"Whot Price Air Safety?" will
be the theme of the 1972 ALPA Air
Safety Forum fo be held May 23~25
at the Mayflower Hotel in Woshing-
ton. Captain Richard Heller, Region
Three safety chaimeon, has been
named general chairman of the 19th
annual Pilot Division meeting. The-
10th S&S Division Forum will con-
vene one day earlier for closed ses~
sions.

Tentative agenda for the Pilot
Forum calls for closed sessions on
Tuesday afterncon (May 23}, with
meetings of the five regional safety
committees scheduled for that.even-
Inge .
° Open sessions begin on Wednes-
day. moming (May 24) with a welcome
by the ALPA President. The Wednes-
day moming program will discuss to~'
day's-big safety problem--hijacking.
A Wednesday afternoon session will
consider disaster planning, and be
followed by a discussion of tWo~
segment approaches and noise~
abatement procedures.

Thursday moming (May 25) ses-
sions will be concerned with airport
safety; specifically the status of air-
port certification program, and a dis-
cussion of ALPA's program to accel-
erate the installation of needed air-
carrier airport facilities, The Forum
will break up into workshop action
groups on Thursday afternoon with the
following tentative subjects: (1) air
traffic control and collision avoidance
systems; (2) cirworthiness and perfor-
mance, and (3) accident prevention.

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ALPA: OPPOSES DOWACTION IN AAL-WAL N@RGER CASE .

Voicing strong opposition to ac=
tion taken by the Department of Trans-
portation in the American-Western
merger cose, ALPA President John J,
O'Donnell issued the following state-
ment this month: ,

"The Air Line Pilots Association
is very much alarmed about the inter-
jection of the Department of Transpor-
tation into the issue of the American
Atrlines-Western Air Lines proposed
merger. Mr. J, Thomas Tidd, speak-
ing for DOT, has sharply opposed the
opinion of CAB Examiner William
Madden that the merger should be dis-
approved. Mr. Madden's opinion that

the merger should not be consummated
has been concurred in by the Justice
Department.

"This development is an excetient
example of blatant interference in a
matter in which on appointed official-~
the secretary of transportation--has no
personal expertise and proves, beyond
ony doubt, that he is biased against
air transportation, The proposed mer-
ger is not within his domain. CAB was
deliberately esteblished by a wise Con-
gress to regulate the industry indepen-

"As president of the Air Line Pilots
Association, | wish fo state thet the
Association ts firmly opposed to this
merger becouse if would seriously dis-
rupt the delicate balance in the nafion-
al air transporfation system, have a
severe impact on the employes involved
and would not be in the best interests
of the traveling public,

"The CAB examiner should be up-
held in this matter. The secretary of
transportation should not throw the
weight of his oftice around and attempt

to intimidate the board members who
must now rule on the question."

dently of the Department of Transporta-
tion and enable it fo remain aloof from
political measures.

NATIONAL AIRLINES PILOT
GROUP SIGNS NEW CONTRACT

A new National Airlines pilot
contract was signed at the company
office in Miami. Taking part in the
ceremony were (seated from left}:
Captain R, W, Pech, master chairman;
J, M, Donlan, NAL vice president-
industrial relations; (standing) Jack
Horner, ALPA staff negotiator; John
B. Adams, NAL labor relations ana-
lyst: S, J, Kolski, NAL labor rela-
tions manager; R, G, Houck, assistant
to vice president-flight operations;
Captain £, B, Shope, chairman, Ne-
gotiating Committee; Captain Loyd E.
Kalt, member, Negotiating Committee;
Captain C, P, Caudle, MEC vice
chairman and Captain R, W. Gaines,
member, Negotiating Committee.

NEW AIRLIFT INTERNATIONAL
PILOT AGREEMENT REACHED

A new Airlift International pilot
agreement was recently reached at
the Home Office. Participating in
the negotiations (sitting from left)
Captain Ralph Chrismon, chairman,
Negotiating Committee; President
John J, O'Donnel]; Warren Lane,
National Mediation Board; Charles
Hughes, Airlift International vice
president-administration; (standing)
Flight Engineer Gasper Nisito, mem-
ber, Negotiating Committee; Ceptain
Harry Davis, member, Negotiating

Committee; Captain Tom Jacobs, mas- {7 : '

ter chatrmon; Captain John Shumate,
Airlift chief pilot and director of
flight operations, and ALPA First
Vice President Af Bonner.

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Of. HWd=segment, penta for several,
-thonths.: Such approaches, inyolving."
-isteep Upper glideslopes;: which involve
F. -rates, of descent-of-necily 2; 000° "feet
per' minute; have been proposed 'to pro=
-vide a certaiin measyre of noise' relief:
+ to éommunities: near 'airports: Sone"
* ALPA' members have flown siich.ap~
" proaches during. controlled' experiments ©
~ and'under flight. fest,- 'laboratory .¢ con="":5
ditions," "but despite a Strong 'effort' 'to.
» develop such. techniques « on the part "of
}. the government; 'the' consensus: of 'ALPA 7 x
- participants is that such' "procedures' will >
"hot prove feasible for thie day~in,: day=* :
+ Sut, airline | operating: environment. ly 2"
. 'a Sept..33 fetter to. FAA Administrator':
= John "Hs. Shaffer, "ALPA President John:
nr "'O'Doniiell: stated: Ne is especially"
Sisonie'since, early-in' ithe. jet:transport y* °
"history. many-of thesé.same proposals.
were rejected by: thejaviation commun~
ey on.the basis of the. very: safety: reas"
sons which are-now_being ignored:"
Captain, Cc: G.-Jackson, executive?
. secretary of International' Federation":
a of Air Line: Pilots. Associations, wrote." ,
"to Shaffer on Oct.13;: in the nome of
+ amember associations: - "We. feel bound'
* to 'declare the strongést. opposition: to:
this procedure. In 'doting so.in an.un=:
. embiguous manner: we hope-to, be: 'ab le:
to head' 'off an expensive but, almost:
"-sentainly iMlysory: program." 30

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. 'segment. ofS degrees: transitioning' to' oa
_@ lower, normal segment, of 400; feet " aoa
Sree above' the' 'tertrain}. The near-term:; Ty
i strategy mappéd out by this group, ine

ty gram | to."sell: small groups. of line p piz
Sie the method,. using a' current jet:

"\,ing'727.would be 'the' "proper! 'Girs
" craft to be'used in the demonstration,"

* mented | a two-segmeént' "VAST ona: 'fal
2 basis at Sdn Diegs. Several 'ALPA -
amembers participated in'the- initial: '
" evaluation of this device,"
'though- they Were flying a: DC-6+=not
"*@ fet transport=-one of: them 'comment
- ed-later:.."The- FAA's own policy. Kes.
> been opposed. to. stéep' 'epproaches;-*

"and we have'all seen what' inadequate;
"runway,length cén tean-fo accident":
"statistics, yet suddenly we, are' faced:

ph as.on'aid in terratn'ayotdence at:
.an difport with particular problems;
: s¥ch os San" 'Diego; 'Tesponsiblé groups -:
"in ALPA find it disturbing that' simmifar'.
""VASIs'may be installed:elsewhere-to ae
_ poe 'irplanes. on steep, hfobrsiak: 5

PE aa ty

tional fl ight' procedures fo. 'achie
noise 'éliaf, méeting on- 'Sept: 2337:
notéd-an 'objective' of 10: PNGB noise
reduction 1:5 milés. 'fromthe. 'Tunway'

segmént approach method' (an upper

'Gludes.a proposed demonstration pro-

lots ot each aitline" onthe: feasibility'.

~ transport. The group 'decided' a Boe=.

"'Inanother action, "FAA imple= a

Evén-?

with.a scheme tha aggravates both' of: '

- While such-a:device: may be user

ae

nS near

: threshold," to be achieved by thé wo-, vet ~

Da of the problem. and. éaordinate: "ALPANE. © = |
~:, position as, 'elated to. the' furiction. OF |
each 'committee J

"FAA's Shaffer; : is that" "the solution: 40.

"rand désign' of the engine-airfrome. com

. "evaluated this iworsegment: NAST with:

"sall of its pilots, "A VAMSI- (Visual ©
. 'Approach: 'Multi-Slope. indicatoi)- has.
a oo Been' installed: 'on rgaway 27, gt San."

" anition occurs too. near the' om
'and thé-toyehdown 'point: is extended **-"
° well beyond the 'displaced' threshold. 4

: meeting' of these commiitées is. planned: *
" for early. 1972:to consider' all, aspects *"

"ahs ee acths: 'ariatly" for ni nofse :
relief, 'The-ALPA: "positiony: 'stated by,
'President' roy Domiell:i in fis letter jo: .

_Ahe aircraft 'noise problem must, be-at~ a
"tained primarily. through engineering'. :

ee ee

wy

'bination and not, fhiough, margifially, -
"safe opercting. procédures," " aM
"More recently ,- ofieof the.atr ines: : |

airline sent: the' following message. t=

"Diego. to ba" 'épérated | at. pilot: request
: 'This syn thas: 'been 'evaluated by...

"2h The overall' problem 'of. fwo-segr,
ment dpproaches j is. being reviewed by! "
four ALPA committees: ° Airport Evalue' 4
ation, | Airworthiness & Performance, vant
All Weather Flying and: ATCe. A joint:

AIRPORT MANAGERS RECOGNIZE VALIDITY
OF AIR LINE PILOT COMMENTS

The following are exerpts from a
recent speech by. the President of the
American Assoctation of Aimport Ex-
ecutives, George Bean, in which he
gives some thought-provoking remarks
to airport managers:

"Lest | be misunderstood, let me
emphasize that if all airport managers
had always done a perfect job there
would not have been a need for 'out-
siders' to 'interfere'.

"lf we had exerted more effort
and had been adequately forceful and
convincing in our communities, there
could have been more effective con-
trol of lend use around airports and
noise and air pollution complaints
would not be os-numerous or trouble-
some as they are...

"If we had paid more attention to
pilot complaints-about lighting defi- _
6

ciencies, runway surface defects, bet-~
ter drainage, and off-aimort obstruc-
tions these pilots would not have felt
compelled to demand Airport Certifi-
cation.

"Many of these pilot-reported de-
ficiencies could have been taken caré
of quickly and inexpensively if we
had given them the attention they de-
served..,

"At this time [ would like to pro-
pose that each of you return fo your
airport and find just one hazard - or
potential hazard = and get if corrected
immediately. The results of such a
collective action would automatically
mean a significant improvement in air~
port safety..."

It looks like ALPA is getting its -
message across!

OLD UNIFORMS WANTED

The Smithsonian National! Air
and Space Museum is looking for old
«pilot and copilot uniforms and insignta
Ao expand ifs collection of civil avia-
tion uniforms, Especially needed are
uniforms from the '20s and '30s and
those of airlines that have gone out of
business such as Hanford Airlines,
Colonial Airlines, Southwest Airways,
Monarch Airlines, American Export
Airlines; Mid-Continent Airlines,
West Coast Airlines, Penn Central Air-
lines, Chicago and Southern Airlines.
Some current uniforms are clso needed.

Donors are asked to send appro-
ptiate shirts, ties, belts and footwear,
if available, with the untforms, An
early photo of the owner in the uni-
form would be helpful. Please query
before mailing. Address letters to
Aeronautics Department, National Air
and Space Museym, Smithsonian Insti-
tution, Washington, D, C. 20560.

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SAC, Seattle (164-81) 1/20/72
SAC, Memphis (164-78) (RUC)
NORJAK

All parachute clubs and associate groups have been
contacted in the Memphis Division and as 'to date no positive
information has been received. In addition, all appropriate
law enforcement agencies, CI''s and PCI's have been contacted in
reference to captioned matter and no positive information has
been received to date.

In view of the fact that there are no outstanding
leads in the Memphis Division, this matter is being considered
RUC.

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1+20-72
AIRTEL AIRMATL
TOs SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM: SAC, JACKSONVILLE (164-109) (P)

SUBJECT: NORJAK
. (00: SEATTLE)

Re Bureau airtel to Albany, 12-7-71 and
Seattle airtel to all field offices, 12~7-71.

AT JACKSONVILLE , FLORIDA:

On 1-18-72, | b6
| Jo£ Dolphin b7C
Sport Parachute Club, Jacksonville, Florida, advised
SA| | club is the only organized

parachute jumping club in Jacksonville, Florida, and all
participants are members of U.S. Parachute Association
(U.8.P.A.), Monterey, California. [7 ]unable to

furnish any suspects re captioned matter. He states that he is -
personally acquainted with all individuals in North

Florida who skydive.

On 1-19~72, | | b6
Florida Highway Patrol, home address, | | b7C
| | Florida, Identified himself
to SA| Jas the|

the United States Parachute Association and a member of the
Dolphin Sport Parachute Group, Jacksonville, Florida.
(advised all licensed parachute jumpers in the
U.S. are members of the U.S. Parachute Association (USPA),
P.O. Box number 109, Monterey, California. He pointed

out that the USPA is the only licensing body for

parachute jumpers and has membership of 15 to 20 ,000
members who renew their Licenses annually. In addition,
the USPA maintains Area Safety Officers throughout

the U.S. who monitor all jumping activities in pial ae LO

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2 = Oklahoma City SERIA

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JK 164~109

with the FAA. Identities of all members ani L___]

| Jare on record with USPA at Monterey,

California. In addition, USPA publishes "The Parachutist,"
a monthly news magazine for all members which would be an
excellent medium through which the sketch of unknown
subject could be disseminated nationwide. He further
pointed out that if a reward was being offered by any
ageney, this would be a real incentive for developing
leads in captioned matter.

is personally acquainted with
2,000°%parachute jumpers and claims that very few of them
are in their 40's, this being a rather adyanced
age for parachute jumping. He further pointed out

national and also the world parachute jumping contests are held cn

annually at Tahlequah, OHahoma, being scheduled
for June and July this year and that personnel engaged in
parachute jumping there should be contacted.

[Jeaid suggest no logical suspects
in Jacksonville area and will disseminate sketches
of UNSUB to the Dolphis Sport Jumping Club.

LEADS

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

AT MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA

L. if not already done, San Francisco will
contact _ USPA, P.O. Box 109, Monterey,
California, for the purpose of determining if
his agency would publish article re captioned matter in

"The Parachttist.'

2. WiLL review membership records of the USPA
for any individuals named DAN COOPER and thereafter set
out appropriate leads to determine if they were

involved in captioned case.

3. Will obtain from the USPA a complete listing
of ell USPA jJand thereafter set
out appropriate Leads to have these individuals contacted
in this matter.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)

SA CHARLES &,

NORJAK

FARRELL

1/18/72

In connection with preparations for the test
drop, efforts were made to contact EARL COSSEY at SUnset
3-0475. COSSEY was out, but]

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COSSEY, advised that he was presently working toward |

, He advised that one of the back patks was a
26 footer and the other a 28 footer, but both were rigged

so they would have the same rate of descent.

He advised that the 26 foot chute, although it is
smaller, also has a different design which would explaine
why the two chutes could have an almost identical rate of
descent. According to a chart referred to by[L si b6
the chutes would have the following rate of descent: b7C

A 28 foot with a person between 180 and 200 lbs.,
would drop about 17 to 18 feet per second.

He advised that the chutes would normally deploy
in 3 or 4 seconds. They both were like military chutes in

that they did not have sleeves.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (SUB L) 1/12/72

SA CHARLES R. ST. JOHN

NORJAK
00: SEATTLE

RE: AIRPORTS, FLYING CLUBS, FLIGHT SCHOOLS,
PARACHUTE AND SKYDIVING CLUBS

Enclosed is a summary insert re captioned matter.

Bureau authority has been requested to publish an
artist's conception and composite description of subject in
"Pilot Bulletin", monthly publication of the Airline Pilots
Association.

Although available, it is not believed feasible

at this point to obtain a complete list of all members of the

U. S. Parachute Association, variously estimated between
10,000 to 40,000 members depending on activity.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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AIRPORTS, FLYING CLUBS, FLIGHT SCHOOLS,
PARACUTE AND SKYDIVING CLUBS

On the possibility that subject might have rented
an airplane and flown over the area of Southwest Washington
or might have chartered a plane for the same purpose, the
following investigation was conducted in the State of Washington
but failed to identify the subject:

An artist's conception and composite description of
subject was exhibited to owners and operators of each flying
school, each airfield and airport, each company renting or
chartering aircraft, and each skydiving school and club.

Similar inquiry has been conducted at the Portland
International Airport and at airports at Aurora and Donald,
Oregon in Marion County, Oregon, andits-being conducted through-
out the remaining portion of the State of Oregons /J4s GER

All skydiving clubs, parachute clubs and affiliated
orerelated organizations have been and/or-are-being contacted
nationally and subject's composite description and artist's
conception is—being displayed among the various memberships
in an efforf' to identify subject.

Ave A list of all affiliated clubs of the U. S. Parachute.
Association for the entire United States as well as an index
of the members of the affiliated clubs for the states of
California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho and Arizona
have been obtained. This will insure control over this facet
of the investigation. ,

An international skydiving meet was held December 4,
1971 at Abbottsford, B.C., Canada.

~ Parachutists from the-Western United States and
Canada participated. Wide distribution of the artist's
conception and composite description of subject was made
among the participants without effecting any positive ident-
ification.

Ned :
"The artist's conception of subject and the following
article witli~be published in the January, 1972 issue of
"Parachutists", the monthly bulletin. of the U. S. Parachute

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Association, with headquarters at Monterey, California, and
the membership is estimated at between 10,000 and 40,000
members depending on activity.

"Enclosed is an artist's conception of the hijacker
who extorted two hundred thousand dollars from Northwest
Airlines on November 24, 1971. This man is described as
follows:

"Race-white; sex-male; age mid-forties; height-
five feet ten inches to six feet; weight-170 to 180 pounds;
build-average to well built; complexion olive, latin appear~
ance, medium smooth; hair-dark brown or black; normal style,
parted on left, combed back; sideburns, low ear level;
eyes-possibly brown. During latter part of flight put on
dark, wrap around sunglasses with dark rims. Voice low,
spoke intelligently, no particular accent, possibly from
Midwest section of the United States. Characteristic-heavy
smoker of Raleigh filter tip cigarettes. Wearing~.
apparel= black suit; white shirt, narrow black tie: black
dress suit; black rain-type overcoat or dark top coat; dark
briefcase or attache case; carried paper bag four inches by
twelve inches by fourteen inches; brown shoes.

"Tf you have any information which might lead to
the identity of this individual, please contact the nearest
FBI Office."

The same article wilt also appear' in the January,
1972 issue of "Skydivers", monthly publication subscribed
to by many parachute enthusiasts, AS WA AE 1A

Efforts—are—being" made—to—inelude-—the sane artitte
in "Pilot Bulletin", official monthly publication of the Airline
Pilots Association, Washington, D.C.

A major jump center on the West Coast has been
identified as the Elsinore Paricenter, Inc., Elsinore, Calif-
ornia. Each person making a first jump at this location,
regardless of prior experience, must £111 out a registra-
tion form bearing identifying information.

On December 3, 1971, Special Agents EDWARD A. ROMANOFF
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cards of parachutists who have jumped from the Elsinore
Paricenter, Inc. 433 registration cards were photographed
representing those jumpers who registered at the Elsinore
Paricenter, Inc., since 1969 and fit within the physical
description limits of 35-55 years of age, 150-190 pounds,
and five feet eight inches to Six feet one inch in height.

A systematic review of these cards rs being- conducted
to possibly identify subject,s:7? NRG RR Suir T

Registration cards prior to 1969 do not contain
height data. Such cards, numbering approximately 18,000,
date back to 1957.

On December 10, 1971, flight records for the month
of August, 1971 were photographed at the Elsinore Paricenter,
Inc. These records contained the last names of the jumpers,
the altitude from which they jumped, and the name of the pilot
and date.

A review of these flight records December 14-15, 1971
revealed the last names on these records match 31 individuals
whose descriptions match engse of subject and who jumped from
the Elsinore Paricenter during the month of August, 1971.
Sixteen of the individuals whose cards were photographed were
eliminated as possible, suspects by interviews. The remaining
15 possible suspects ing systematically reviewed in an
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On November 27, 1971 | , a man who is

familiar with parachute clubs and jumpers in the southwestern
part of Washington and northern part of Oregon, advised that
a person jumping from a plane at about 7000 feet who had
experience could free fall and while doing so could count

to 25 seconds which would then place him at 3000 feet and
for this reason no altimeter would be needed. He pointed.
out that if the subject could have seen the ground there would
be no problem in landing if he had experience as a jumper.
He further pointed out that his experience as a jumper

shows him that the subject would not have needed jump boots,
a helmet, jump suit, or any other special equipment for

he and other chutists jump in shorts, tennis shoes, and
other non-jumping equipment when weather conditions are
right. He also pointed out that the subject could land
within one mile of a pin point spot picked if he had
experience and knew when to jump. Further, he stated the
subject would have travelled 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile from the
@rop line from the plane in a 30 mile per hour wind if he
opened his chute at 3000 feet. | also advised that

he could also state that if the subject had experience

he would know that the easiest place to put a container with
the money would be Between his legs and this would_not

cause any problems on landing or during descent.

suggested one person whom he thought could be capable of

the hijacking and that would be | who is a

good and experienced parachutist and pilot.

[—ijadvised that the parachute clubs in the
area he is familiar with are the Pacific Parachute Club
which uses Donald airfield 30 miles south of Portland,
Oregon, and the Western Sport Parachute Center which uses
both the Frink field and the Hockinson field near Vancouver,
Washington; he pointed out that Puckett airfield is no
longer used as a jump center.

On November 28, 1971| } Vancouver
Piper Aviation, 203 East Reserve Street, Vancouver, Wash-
ington, was contacted and advised that he and a group of
experienced pilots had been discussing the hijacking and he
advanced the theory that in view of the cloud cover on the
night of November 24, 1971 only an experienced jumper knowing

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RE: FLYING SCHOOLS,
AIRPORTS AND SKYDIVING
CLUB.

As of January 7, 1972, all flying schools and
airfields which might have been used to rent an aircraft
have been identified and contacted. No skydiving schools
or clubs were identified in the Brenmrton Resident Agency.

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Re Seattle memo by SA CHARLES E. FARRELL, 11/26/71.

During the month of December, 1971, the following
flying schools, airports, and skydiving clubs wae contacted
regarding captioned matter but none could provide any positive
information:

| | Paseo, Washington;

| Pasco, Washington;

| Kennewick,

Washington;

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Washington;

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SUBJECT: NORIAK '

Re Flying Schools,Airvorts and Sky Diving Clubs
Re SE. memo of SA CHAKLIS EB. FARK ELL, 11-26-71,
On 12-28 and 17-29/ 71 the following Flying schoold were contacted

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sotting forth leads $9 losate and tnterview sertain individuals
whose identities vore obteined throush records of the Elsinore
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Parachuting Association with registration number
but he does not have a license issued by that assoc%ation.
He produced his parachute jumping log book which indicated
the Elsinore Parachute Jumping Center on
His log book further indicated that he
nas made @ total of 55 jumps, the last jump being made on
| | New York. [| said he has never
made a night jump. He further stated that he has never
entered into conversation with anyone while at Elsinore,
California or anywhere else, nepanding the procedure for

stated he is registered with et

unping out of a jet aircraft, adyised he is a

Z | He gave date of birth as

height as 5'94", weight as 200 lbs., and has blue eyes,
brown (light) hair, and long pork-chop style sideburns
that are graying slightly. He adyised that at the time
while in Elsinore, he may haye been ten lbs, or so lighter
than he is now.

|furnished three photographs, approximtely
8 X 10 -inches size depicting himself. He requested
these photographs be returned to him after they have served
their purpose,

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AT GARDINA, CALTFORNIA

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is in fact the man he See! to during the month
of August, 1971 at Elsinore Paricenter, Elsinore, California.

(2) Return photographs to Buffalo upon completion,

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| counties Giles, Pulaski and Carroll or the Virginia counties

SAC, ALEXANDRIA es AR B0/72
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in an affort to locate and identify sky divine
Clubs in the Richmond, Virginla territory, contact was
made with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), GADO, Byrd
Field, Sandston, Virginia, and although FAA does not license
these clubs, they did maintain a list of clubs in their
territory, which was compiled in 1967. .

. The list furnished by PAA does not cover the

Virginia countics of Rockingham, Greene, Madison, Culpeper

and Stafford and all counties of Virginia nerth of these.

Thesa counties are covered by the FAA, FSDO, Washington -
National Airport, Washington, D. C.

Furthermore, the FAA list did not cover Virginia
west of these. The counties in this area are covered by

the FAA, GADG, Kenawha County Aixport, Aduinistration Building
Charleston, Yast Virginia. , ,

The following sky diver clubs as furnished by FAA.
'ara lecated in the Norfolk territory:

2. Norfolk Sky Divers = to be contacted through!
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| Yoxktown, Virginia.

3, RMdewater Navy Sky Divers » to he contacted
through the U. &. Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek,

Virginia. This club meets at NAS, Oceana, Virginia. . .
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10 SEATTLE 164-8!

PORTLAND

SAN FRANCISCO ,
FROM MINNEAPOLIS 164-73 2P

NORJAKe O68 SEATTLE

RE BUREAY AIRTEL TO SAC, ALBANY DECEMBER SEVEN LAST,
! bo a
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ADVISED HE IS OF OPINION THERE ARE d
PROBABLY NO MORE THAN TYO HUNDRED PARACHUTISTS IN THE UNITED
STATES WHO WOULD HAVE THE SKILL TO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY JUMPED
FROM THE SEVEN TWO SEVEN, , !

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UeSe PARACHUTE ASSOCIATION, MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA. THIS m
ASSOCIATION COULD FURNISH IDENTITY AND PHOTOGRAPHS AND OTHER

DESCRIPTIVE DATA OF HOLDERS OF CLASS D LICENSES. HE FURTHER

POINTED OUT MOST PARACHUTISTS ARE ALSO PILOTS AND COULD HAVE
KNOWLEDGE OF FLIGHT PROCEDURES AS WAS EVIDENCED BY THIS PARTI-
CULAR HIGHJACKER.

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S$:85PM NITEL 12/29/71 VAB

TO DIRECTOR (164-2111)
WFO (164-169)

FROM SEATTLE (164-81)

NORJAK.

| RE: WFO TEL DECEMBER TWENTYEIGHT, LAST.
RE: AIRLINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION, WASHINGTON, D.C. (CALPA).

REFERENCED TELETYPE SETS-FORTH THAT| | -
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| JALPA, INDICATED WILLINGNESS TO PUBLISH INFORMATION CON-,
CERNING CAPTIONED MATTER IN MONTHLY PUBLISHED "PILOT BULLETIN".

BUREAU AUTHORITY IS REQUESTED TO HAVE THE FOLLOWING NOTICE PUB-
LISHED IN JANUARY ISSUE OF PILOT BULLETIN:

ENCLOSED IS AN ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF THE HIJACKER WHO EXTORTED
TVO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM NORTHWEST AIRLINES ON NOVEMBER
TWENTYFOUR LAST. THIS MAN IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
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IF APPROVED, A GLOSSY PICTURE OF UNSUB WITH AND WITHOUT GLASSES
SHOULD BE FORWARDED BY THE BUREAU TO WFO TO ACCOMPANY THE ARTICLE.

FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE BUREAU, THE ABOVE WORDING IS THE
SAME AS WAS APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION IN THE "PARACHUTIST'S MAGA-
ZINE" AND "SKYDIVER™.

SEATTLE INDICES CONTAIN NO DEROGATORY INFORMATION CONCERNI Ne
ALPA. WFO ADVISE RESULTS OF INDICES CHECK REGARDING ALPA AND ANY
REASON FOR NOT ACCEPTING OFFER.

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AIRTTL ARRUARL
£0: SAC, PORTLAND (164—41)
BRON: SAC, SEATPLE (164-81) (P)

SUBTECT s NORSAK

Review of theo Lile reflects Portland Division has
conducted appropriate inguiry concerning captioncd matter at
Portland international Airport and 2t airports at Aurora and
Ronald, Oregon, in Marion County.

On the possibility that subject night have rentod
a plane and flown over the aren of Southwest Vaghington or
night have chartered a plane for the sams purpose, the following
investigation should bo instituted throughout the remaining
portion of the State of Grogon:

(1) Identizy and contact each flying school zor
anyone 2ittine subject's deceription as haying rented a plane
during the pertinent porioed.

(2) Identizy and contact all air fields which
night have ronted such an aircraft to anyono necting subject's
description.

(3) identify and contact onck shydiving school or
club and deternine iz anyone meoting subject's description is
knova to then,

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ORGANIZATION PUBLISHES MONTHLY "PILOT BULLETIN" FOR "ALPA
MEMBERS ONLY AND THAT SAME HAS DISTRIBUTION OF THIRTY

THOUSAND. |

| }WAS EXTREMELY COOPERATIVE AND STATED HE
WOULD GLADLY INCLUDE UNSUB'S COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPH ALONG WITH © ° Pe.

DFSCRIPTION OF UNSUB At D BACKGROUND OF CAPTIONED HIJACKI KG
TN JANUARY "PILOT BULLETIN", DUE FOR RELEASE LATTER PART OF °
NEXT WEEK. IN ORDER TO BE INCLUDED, INFORMATION AND

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He stated that he has been since
1962 and that no one has ever jumped from a 727 jet
during the shows. He added that about three years ago
a 747 jet flew over Vancouver during the air show at

5000 feet as an exhibition of the new airplane's sige
and capabilities.

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SUBJECT: INSUB; (i L
NORTHUIRST ATRLINES

FLT. #305

PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71

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Rememo hy SA| |11/26/71, serial 138.

"The following individuals were contacted, inéicating that they were
the only outlets that furnish rental aircraft in the Chelan, Douglas,
Grant and Okanoran Counties they indicated that they have never rented
aircraft to ahyone resembling the unsub nor did he resemble anyone they
knew as doing any sky diving: . .

| | at Ephrata and Moses Lake

Airports;
Wenatchee ; |Pangborn Field,
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Date: 12/22/71

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Via AIRTEL AIRMAIL
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£0: SAC, Hi YORK L. .
PROM: SAC, LCS AKCELES (16-197) P
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advised that the artist's conception of the subject who
hijacked 'the Northeast Airlines aircraft on 11/2/71 closely
resembled an unknown individual who on three or four .
occasions parachuted frori the Jurip center at Elsinore,
California.
made himself available for interview on b6
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on an FD-302:
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California, was interviewed at the Skylark Airport b7C
at Elsinore, California, and furnished the following '
information;

Upon hearing the newscasts and reading the papers
concerning the skyjacking of a commercial aircraft in Seattle,
Washington, on November 24, 1971,°and upon seeing an artists
conception of the individual who perpetrated this crime,
oT advised he believes he talked to a man who closely b6
resembles the subject during July or August 1971. Based upon b7C
his conversation with this individual he strongly suspects
the man may be the person connected with this crime.

[_|recdlled that he talked to this man for bé6
approximately ten to fifteen minutes concerning different . ,b7C
aspects of parachute jumping and during this conversation
the man asked several unusual questions, such as how would
one go about jumping out of jets. [__] specifically
recalls telling the man it .could be done if the door of the
aircraft opened inward or if it had a rear stairwell that
could be raised and lowered. The man appeared interested
and they discussed this further, to the point where air :
speed and drag was talked about, Tne fact was brought up :
that full flaps and lowered landing gear would supply the
drag needed to exit from a jet. !

The man also asked| |where jump centers were b6
'located in the northwest, | |} told him about three bIC
locations in the State of Washington, one by the Boeing
Air Field in Seattle, one on the Washington side of the '
Columbia River, just north of Portland, Oregon, and the other
center inbetween, The man was apparently interested, but did
not_right down the names or locations of those centers mentione
vy [ , 7

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contemplating a skyjacking of a commercial aircraft would ask b7C
questions such as those purposed. He recalled at the time

' these questions were asked he thought it was strange as nobody
else has ever purposed such questions to him, _ .

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nished the following information:

July or August 1971, who

the subject that hijacked the Northwest
November 24, 1971, he recalled that the man he talked to must
have been a smoker of Raleigh Cigarettes because he observed
Raleigh coupons in the man's possession and remarked to him that
he smoked those cigarettes with the coupons and could save enough
to buy a "P. C.", meaning Para-Commander type parachute, the

| California, fur-

Concerning the individual he talked to sometime during

pelieves could be identical to

Airlines aircraft on

kind used by parachute enthusiasts and most sport jumpers.

[-——_] advised he recalled this while studying the

Government memorandum containing the description of the man who

hijacked the aircraft on November et, 1O7l.
that he doubted that the man he
chute or jumping clubs inasmuch as.the average age of jumpers
is between 25 to 28 years and they would not hang around with an
and too because most clubs in California

"old guy like that",
have disbanded in the last year and @ half.

He further advised
talked to belonged to any para-

Concerning clubs and their locations, [______] advised

that they could be identified through the U. S. Parachute Asso~

clation which prints a brochure with the clubs in alphabetical,

order by states.

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_los Angeles 164-197

interviewed on 22/3/72 or Elsinore, California Fite

SA's EDWARD A, ROMANOFF and . , :
by feaR/ijan Date dictoted 12/6/71
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to

your agency; it and its contents are not te be disizibuted outside your ugeney.

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| [ California, furnished the following
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Goncerning an individual who talked to him
at Skylark Field at Elsinor, California who resembles
the artist's conception of the hijacker of the Northwest
aircraft in Seattle on November 2h, 1971, ____]stated
he has reviewed his thoughts and is certain he can
narrow the time span to tne middle or late part of
August 1971 when this conversation occurred. He still
believes it was strange that a person would ask questions
about jumping out of jet aircraft and discuss air speed
then have something like the hijacking that occurred
happen a short tine later. He also stated that it may
be coincedental but he saw an advertisement on pages
k6 and 7 of Look magazine dated August 2lL; 1971 showing
a parachutist jumping ont of a jet.aircraft. He stated
this may have stimulated questions by someone seeing this
advertisement, however, he is still concerned since the
individual he spoke to resembles the artist's conception
of the hijacker. He does not know the name of the man
he talked to and has not seen him since. He did state
he believes he would recognize the man if he sees him
again,

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Por the information of Seattle, on 12/16/71

| pointed out that on the Flight. records from b6

Elsinore all the altitudes of junps made were.fromn 2,500 b7c
to 12,500 feet. "Ee explained thas sport juspers ¢ and
parachute enthusiasts all seep from altitudes in iauLbiples
of 1,000 ¢ starting froa 2,500, 3,500, 1,500 etc., with the
exception of 2,800 which is the competitive height for
target jumping. He stated that the 10,000 foot "Level is
reminiscent of Air Force training. He referred to Air Force
phamphliect muiber AFP 160-10-3 entitled "Your Rody in Flight"
which places 10,000 feet as the maximum altitude considered
safe withont oxypen. [. __|surmised that a man with

Air Force experience nay be the type of person that should

be considered a suspect, "-

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On the other hand, he nointed owt that parachutists
have dirferent classes or licenses, A, 5, © and D class
licenses, To hold a D License a jumper must make tuo night
Jvaaps as well as other qialifica tions. A person with a D
dicnese is an experienced jumper.

LEADS LOS:

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appears similar in appearance to the artist's cohception
in this case, deternine his whercabouts between 2:00 -
11:00 pn, 11/2:/71 and obtein a photorravh so it can be
isplayed to Jat Los Angeles te determine if
Lt could be the individual who talked to him curing August

1971.

BUF TALO AT TONAVANDA, NEU YORE
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LA 164-497 SUB A

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SAH FRANCISCO AT VOSS GATOS, CALTPOR TTA

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New York of

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AT SANTA ANA; CALIFORNIA

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FD-36 (Rev, $-22-64} ee i
FBI
Date: 12/21/71

Transmit the following in
(Type in plaintext or code)

AIRTEL

(Priosity}

TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) Lone D
mn y20Ms SAC, PHOENIX (164-100) (P) |
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ReBuairtel to AL, 12/7/71.

On 12/20/71, FLOYD WASHBURN, Manager, U.S,
Parachute Service, 6976 E. Baseline, Mesa, Arizona, was
contacted regarding captioned matter. WASHBURN stated he was
familiar with this matter and believed the subject would have
had to have been a sporting parachutist and parachute rigger.
in order to accomplish his feat.

'

WASHBURN indicated a listing of Licensed parachutists
is maintained by the U.S. Parachute Association in Monterey,
California. 'The U.S. Parachute Association has supposedly
instituted a policy approximately two years ago wherein they

have on file photographs of all Licensed paradutists. b6
Inquiries made to the U.S. Parachute Association should be bic
pidirected to|
iv, dt California. = a
PY Although it is noted approximately 40 percent of

the nation's parachutists are licensed, this could conceivably
be a worthwhile lead for office of origin in this matter. |

Phoenix will attempt to conduct appropriate investi-
gation to ascertain the Location of the list for licensed

\_parachute riggers.

UNSUB CONSIDERED DANGEROUS,

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The following investigation was conducted by SA

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AT SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, AND VICINITY:

On dates indicated the following persons repre-
senting flying agencies and flying schools were contacted,
and advised they had rented no light planes on November 24,

i971, and none had suspects in this matter,

ALL were ade

vised of the MO used, the description of the unknown sub-
ject, and all were left a copy of the composite axtist's

sketch of the unknown subject.

| | Spokanc, Wash,
12/6/7153

| |~ Price-piper, Inc,, East 5829
Rutter, Spokane, Wash,

12/6/71;

| |Spokanc, Wash.

12/6/71;

|~ Western Aircraft Corporation,

12/6/71;

South Field, Spokane, Wash,

| |- Executives Aircraft, Spokane

Wash, ~ 12/6/71;

12/8/71;

International Airport, Spokane,

- Intand Parachute Loft, East 11327
3let Avenue, Spokane, Wash,

|= Spokane Sky Roamers Fiying Club,

Phelps Field, Spokane, Wash. &

Deer Park, Wash., Airport

12/14/71;

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Vie TELETYPE NITEL |
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TO; MEMPHIS duh _ |
FROM: JACKSON (164-32) ee
FOR INFORMATION MEMPHIS, i eee
MISS,, ADVISED THAT |
WHICH FORMERLY OPERATED On|
'L] 1n DEsoro counry, MISS,, HAS NOW MOVED ITS LOCATION
[TO COVINGTON, TENNESSEE,
[_____]Abvisep THAT | | WHO RESIDES ON be
IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, WOULD HAVE A COMPLETE .
ROSTER AND BE FAMILIAR WITH ALL THE MEMBERS OF THIS CLUB.
[_____] STATED THAT | } :
IN MEMPHIS, -.
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FURTHER IDENTIFIED | | FROM COVINGTON, —_
TENN. , AS WHO WOULD ALSO
BE FAMILIAR WITH ALL ITS MEMBERS. ; Lab iM
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G>- SEATILE (AM) (164-81) SEMA ff seantoe
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'10: . DIRECTOR | (164-2111)

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PARACHUTE. ASSOCIATION, MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, ON DECEMBER -
SIXTEEN LAST ADVISED ARTICLE RE SUBJECT WITH AN ARTIST Ss
CONCEPTION WOULD MOST PROBABLY APPEAR IN UNITED STATES —
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'PARACHUTE ASSOCIATION'S PUBLICATION "PARACHUTIST" WHICH WILL BE ISSUED
MIDDLE oF' JANUARY, NEXT.
RE SUSPECT | te _, oo bs
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RE ST TIEL DECEMBER TWO SEVENTYONE. , |
NO RECORD For | JLOCATED FORT BAKER, SAUSALITO,. -
CALIFORNIA, OR AT SIXTH ARNY HEADQUARTERS, SAN FRANCISCO. ALSO - .
NO. RECORD LOCATED FOR HIM AT POST LOCATER OR THROUGH INQUIRY _
AT COMPANY A THIRD BATTALION-THIRD BRIGADE FORT ORD, CALIFORNIA. act ya
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

; SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 12/17/71

TO

rroM : SA DONALD J, STEELE Stu 1 bar 7 3B

sunject: NORJAK Py. To Stk vectie 74 ae
On December 8, 1971, | lL Le

Division 6 at the Bureau phoned at 2:27 PM and pointed ——— 7c

out that the Seattle Division should resolve whether the
subject in this case was wearing a_ black or brown dress

suit. He also stated that when the subject is found the
Seattle Division should make sure that extreme caution

be used in preserving any. physical evidence. He advised

the Bureau at that time was authorizing, the. Publication... san
of two articles in parachute magazine publications. sep perncernne eco

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MAY 1982 COITION

UNITED STATES GOV MENT ' ®
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SAC 164-81 DATE:

12/17/71

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CAA-Hijacking

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tine) said Boeing bas had no sky@diving clubs since that
ime

Print-out, Boeing Seattle Soaring Club.
Print-out, Seattle Boeing lying Club.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/15/71

SA |

NORJAK

Re memo of SA CHARLES E. FARRELL, 11/26/71.

Contact has been made with flying schools, air
fields and sky-diving clubs in the Everett RA territory
without developing any positive pertinent information.

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9o% pM NITEL 12/14/71 DAB ) D
TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) L.

SEATTLE (164-81)
FROM LOS ANGELES (164-497) SP

NOR JAK.
RE SEATTLE TELETYPE TO BUREAU AND LOS ANGELES, DECEMBER

EIGHT LAST, AND LOS ANGELES TELCALL TO BUREAU, DECEMBER EIGHT

LAST.

TO PRINT ARTIST'S CONCEPTION

AND NARRATIVE CONCERNING UNSUB. FOR INFORMATION OF BUREAU,

CASE CAPTIONED BUFILE

| LOS ANGELES

END PAGE ONE

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2:30 PM URGENT 12/14/71 Mec
10 SEATTLE (164-81) PO | Le
DALLAS (164=191) |
SACRAMENTO (164-56) IP
FROM SAN FRANCISCO (164-229) IP

NORJAK
RE SACRAMENTO TELETYPE DATED TWELVE THIRTEEN LAST AND DALLAS
/NETEL DATED _TWELVE THIRTEEN LAST.

by

FOR INFORMATION OF DALLAS AND SACRAMENTO, DATLY CONTACT HAS BEEN
MAINTAINED WITH THE U.S. PARACHUTE ASSOCIATION, CUSPA), AND APRANGEMEN

.
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" HAVE: BEEN MADE TO HAVE COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPH OF "UNSUB AS WELL AS A'
DESCRIPTIVE ARTICLE OF THE CRIME PUBLISHED IN THE PUBLICATION OTHE
PARACHUDTIST". THERE ARE SIXTEEN THOUSAND MEMBERS OF USPA. A LIST oF
ALL AFFILIATED CLUBS OF THE USPA FOR THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES HAS.

~

" BEEN FURNISHED THE BUREAU AND SEATTLE. . SEATTLE HAS ALSO BEEN | FURNSHE

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AN INDEX-OF THE MEMBERS OF THE AFFILIATED CLUBS FOR THE STATES OF eo?

"CALIFORNIA, WASHINGTON, OREGON, NEVADA, IDAHO AND ARIZONA. , (:
"DALLAS COVER LEAD MENTIONED IN REFERENCED DALLAS MITEL AS Ne
TO PARACHUTE SKY DIVER AND AFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS. WITH REFERENCE
JO SACRAMENTO"S REQUEST TO OBTAIN & COMPLETE MEMBERSHIP LIST OF

[sre NEMBERS, IT IS NOT BELIEVED THAT THIS I$ FEASIBLE AND SHOULD ad Z
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ASSOCIATION, ADVISED TODAY EIGHTY PER CENT OF THE PARACHUTISTS

AND. SKYDIVERS BELONG TO THE U. S. PARACHUTE ASSOCIATION <USPA)
"BOX ONE ZERO NINE, MONTERREY, CALIFORNIA AND RECEIVE A MONTHLY
| PUBLICATION CALLED THE "PARACHUTIST., ~~

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PUBL ISHES THE "SKYDIVER" MAGAZINE, ADDRESS P.O. BOX FORTY-FOUR, ae
BUENA PARK, CALIFORNIA. 2 ,
LOS ANGELES AND SAN FRANCISCO SHOULD CONTACT ABOVE TWO
ORGANIZATIONS IN THEIR RESPECTIVE TERRITORIES. DETERMINE IF
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December 13, 1971 Sub E

Bonneville Power Administration
Vancouver, Washington

Dear| k

"X wanted to drop you a note and tell
you how much we appreciate your assistance in

onneville Power Administration.in connection with

yvonne for the use of a helicopter owned by. the wum/\er
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he search for the individual who hijacked Northwest
Airlines Plight 305.

I recognize that the Bonneville. Power oa
Administration is being reimbursed by the FBI for ~ ay ot:
the expenses incurred, but nonetheless I want you
to know that we are most appreciative of your

* thoughtfulness in making the use of the machine

te oo FLL Od wore

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lo:03PM URGENT 12-13-71 LXL_
TO ° SEATTLE. (164-81
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FROM «SACRAMENTO (164-50) IP

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OFFICE ALONG WITH INFO RE PARACHUTE DROP ZONES AND MISCELLANEOUS DATA
. RE PARACHUTE CLUBS NOT AFFILIATED WITH USPA.

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LIST OF USPA MENBERS. AND DISSEMINATE TO OFFICE CONCERNED.
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AERIAL SEARCH BY BUAGENS OF NORTHWEST FLIGHT NO THREE ZERO

Sen
FIVE FLIGHT ROUTE BEING CONDUCTED TODAY.
END.
JuT "be

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WRO11 BS PLAIN , _ Su~ »
19:57 PM NITEL 12-18-71 WFY . e
TO SEATTLE (164-81)

SAN FRANCISCO

FROM BOSTON (164-153) os .
NORJAK

INVESTIGATION AT STRONG ENTERPRISES, INC., QUINCY,
MASS. PARACHUTE EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS, THIS DATE DETERMINE

* . "be
From | THAT MAJOR ORGANIZATION OF eee
SPORTING PARACHUTERS IS THE UNITED STATES PARAGHUTERS oe Se
ASSOCIATION CUSPA) POST OFFICE BOX ONE ZERO NINE, MONTEREY, " Perera
CALIFORNIA. eg

ADVISED THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY THIRTY THOUSDN.

' SPORTING PARACHUTERS IN THE UNITED STATES, OF WHOM FIFTEEN es
THOUSAND ARE MEMBERS OF USPA. THE USA CIRCULATES A NATIONAL yee
NEWS LETTER AND ITS MEMBERSHIP CARDS, WHICH INDICATE i
VARYING DEGREES OF PROFICIENCY, BEAR DESCRIPTIVE THFORMATION eae

AND A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE BEARER. NOT BELIEVED THAT A PHOTO- een
END PAGE ONE a

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meas, ETRE RG YDS RICE EEE LOT CPA Sar or eee

CSA FeMA (44 CPR) 108-11.6

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

OPTIONAL FORM NO, 15
MAY 1543 EQITION @

TO + SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) DATE: 2-9-7]
FROM = SA| } b6
b7C
SUBJECT: NORJAK
On December 6, 1971, | | bé
b7C
| was contacted by SA| |
Jat which time SAL______] exhibited to
| composite photographs and a description of the
UNSUB,
| j advised that the photographs and
description do not fit_anyone with whom he has had
contact in the past, | was unable to furnish
any information regarding the possible identity of the
UNSUB.
When queried regarding the availability of
b6
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[stated that it

would not have bee ossible for UNSUB to have |

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12/8/71

AIRTEL AIRMATL

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164~2111) P ,

FROM: bac, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)

SUBJECT: KNOWN SUBJECT; aka

Dan Cooper
Northwest Airlines
Flight 305

. Portland to Seattle
11/24/72
CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION
00: Seattle

Re Seattie teletype to Bureau and San Francisco,
12/7/71; Seattle teletype to Bureau and Los Angeles, 12/8/71,
and Bureau telephone call to Seattle, 12/8/71.

Enclosed for the Los Angeles and San Francisco
Divisions are two copies each of Bureaumproved write~up to |
accompany the artist's conception of' the unknown subject's
photograph with glasses and without glasses, to be published
in "The Parachute," and "Skydiver" magazines.

Glossy photographs being furnished by the Bureau.

San Franeiseo, note change in color of suit and
wearing apparel from that set forth in Seattle teletype to
Bureau and San Francisco, dated December 7, 1971.

2 - Bureau
2 - Los Angeles (Enc. 2)(164~-497}
- San Francisco (Ene, 2)(164-220)

2/~ Seattle
Cay eae y
Heplisronos —— ;
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Enclosed is an artist's conception of the hijacker

who extorted $200,000 from Northwest Airlines on November 24,

1971. This man is described as follows:

Race:

Sex:

Age:
Height:
Weight:
Build:
Complexion:

Hair:

Eyes:

Voice:

Characteristic:

Wearing Apparel:

White

Male

Mid 40s

§' 10" to 6!

170 to 180 pounds

Average to well built

Olive, Latin appearance,
medium smooth

Dark brown or black, normal
style, parted on left, combed
back; sideburns, low ear level
Possibly brown. During latter
part of flight put on dark,
wrap-around sunglasses with
dark rims

Low, spoke intelligentiy; no
particular accent, possibly
from Midwest section of U.S.
Heavy smoker of Raleigh filter
tip cigarettes

Black suit; white shirt; narrow
black tie; black dress suit;

"black rain-type overcoat or

dark top coat; dark briefcase
or attache case; carried paper
bag 4¥x12"x14"5 brown shoes.

If you have any informaticn which might lead to the
identity of this individual, please contact the nearest FBI
Office which would be found in the front of your telephone

directory.

JO4-81- 46

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NRAa*E SE PLAIN

11:44AM UPGFNT 12/8/71 VAR
TO DIRFCTOP (164-2111)

LOS ANGELES (164-497)
FROM SEATTLE (164-$1)

"

INSUB, AKO DAN COOPER; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT NUMBER THREE ZERO
FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBEP TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE, CAA -
HIJACKINGS FXTOPTION. 00: SEATTLE.

RE SEATTLE TELETYPE TO SIIREA!N AND SAN FRANCISCO, DECEMRER
SEVEN, SEVENTYONE,

|"SKYDIVER" MAGAZINE, ONE FIVE

TO ZERO SIX RAYMOND, GARDENA, CALIFORNI4, HAS OFFFRED TO PRINT
ARTIST'S CONCEPTION AND NARRATIVE CONCERNING UNSUR, JANURAY ISSUE

GOES TO PRESS DECEMBER TWELVE, SEVENTYONE, AND MUST BE IN POSSESSION
of[ sd BY THAT DATE.

BUREAU AUTHORITY REQUESTED TO PIBLISH ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF
UNSUB'S PHOTO AND DESCRIPTION AS SET FORTH IN REFERENCED TELFTYPE®
IN "SKYDIVER" MAGAZINE. | ;

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PAGE Two
164-31

IF AUTHORITY GPANTED, RUPEAU IS REQUESTED TO FURMISH GLOSSY
PHOTOGRAPH OF APTIST'S CONCEPTION OF UNSYB WITH GLASSES AND "ITH-
OUT GLASSES TO LOS ANGELES DIVISION TO MEET PRESS DEADLINE OF DEC-
EMBER TWELVE, SEVENTYONE. SEATTLE DIVISION WILL PROVIDE LOS AN-
GELES WRITE-(!P AS APPROVED.

SEATTLE INDICES CONTAIN NO DEROGATORY INFOPMaTION RE[ | bs
, c

LOS ANGELES DIVISION IMMEDIATELY ADVISE BUREAU "HETHFR ANY

}
DEROGATORY INFORMATION KNOWN PE | , WHICH WOULD Pe

EMBARRAS BUREAU IF OFFER ACCEPTED. -P-
APMED AND DANGEROUS.
END

LFS FBI LOS ANGFLES CLR

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/8/71
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

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

11/24/71
CAA -— HIJACKING; EXTORTION
00: SE
|called from the Bureau. He had the b6
following to say: b7c

1. The Director approved publicity of the
article 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 | | b6
| _ He said it seemed to him b7C
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 teld 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
which existed at the time. He requested we put some type
of language in a teletype Hout this.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164~81)
SA ELGIN E. OLROGG

UNKNOWN SUBJECT;

NORTHWEST AIRLINES

FLIGHT § 305

PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71

CAA ~ HIJACKING; EXTORTION

12/8/72

oO: Seattle

Re memo of SA CHARLES E. FARRELL, 11/26/71.

FLYING SCHOOLS, AIRPORTS AND
SKY DIVING CLUBS

On November 30, 1971, contact was made at the

following airports, flying fields and sky diving clubs
in the Pierce County area and no information was
developed to identify the unknown subject:

EEO:set
{3}

Gross Aviation, South Tacoma Air Park;

Oswald Flying Service, Fircrest;

Tahoma Flying Service, Inc., Spanaway Airport;
Thun Field, Puyallup;

Puyallup Industrial Airport - Thun Pield;
Tacoma Industrial Airport;

Puyallup Sky Divers Club - Thun Field.

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fo 1971

IROSS WA PLAIN
(8:50 PM URGENT 12-871 PLB
410 SEATTLE (164-81)
f SAN FRANCISCO (164-229)

xt

/ {| FROM DIRECTOR iP

NORJAK »
RE SEATTLE TELETYPE TO BUREAU AND SAN FRANCISCO
'DECEMBER SEVEN LAST,AND BUTEL CALL TODAY»
BUREAU AUTHORITY IS GRANTED TO HAVE ARTICLE AND ARTIST*S
' CONCEPTIONS AS DESCRIBED IN REFERENCED TELETYPE PUBLISHED IN THE
""GANUARY ISSUE OF THE PARACHUTIST MAGAZINE. GLOSSY PHOTOGRAPHS
'' QF ARTIST'S CONCEPTIONS WITH AND WITHOUT GLASSES BEING PREPARED
AT THE BUREAU AND WILL BE PROMPTLY FORWARDED,
' END;
DCA; FBI SE CLR

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FBI-SEATTLE

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SAG (164-81) 10/29/71
SA | | b6
b7C
UNSUB; NORTHWEST
AIRLINES FLIGHT #305,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71
CAA + HIJACKING; EXTORTION
00: SEATTLE
On November 29, 1971, the following persons were
contacted and shown an artist's conception of the UNKNOWN
SUBJECT responsible for captioned hijacking:
| Lake Union Air Service, 1100 b6
Westlake North, Seattle, Washington. b7C
| Kurtzer Marine and Airplane
Service Co., -950 Westlake North, Seattle, Washington.
| Kenmore Air Harbor, 6321 NE b6
175th, Kenmore, Washington. b7C

| |] Kenmore Air Harbor, 6321 NE
L75th, Kenmore, Washington.

None of the above named individuals could identify
the artists conception as anyone they knew or had come in
contact with during the course of their business.

Because air operations at Sand Point NAS have been
discontinued, no investigation was conducted there,

, Ae
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wor ame'y = OPTIONAL FORM NOW 16
MAY i962 EDIVION
GSA FPMR {at CeR} 10-118 r

_ UNITED STATES GOVEKNMENT

' Memorandum

TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE? §=11/30/71
FROM : gq | b6
b7C
SUBJECT: UNSUB; >
NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #305
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, R
11/24/71 . . Le
CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION :
00: SEATTLE
The following individuals connected with the
following agencies were contacted and shown composite .
photograph of suspected hijacker on November 29, 1971: '
| | b6
Aero-Dyne Flight Center, b7C
300 Airport Way, .
Renton, Washington
|
Fanchur Fiyway inc,
Renton Municipal Airport
Renton, Washington
| J b6
'Alpine Heliocopter Inc. . b7C
17325 Cedar Grove Road SE
Maple Valley, Washington Aub lk
wJoAN-B/- Se
Renton Aviation "7 [oN 8/3 a —
Renton Municipal Airport an teat See he
Renton, Washington _ : DEC
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; —— - | a7

Ed's Airmotive Inc. 2 4h
302 Airport Way South
Renton, Washington

On November 29, 1971, attempts to contact Manager
of Hitch School of Aviation, East Perimeter Road, Renton,
Washington, proved negative as a sign on the door advised
that the company had gone out of business.

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OPTIONAL, FORM NO, 19
MAY 1062 EDITION

CSA FPMR (41 Cre) 101-416 .

UNITED STATES GOV MENT @

Memorandum

.
TO : SAC, Seattle (164-81) , DATE: 11/29/71
FROM : SA Edwerd J. Anderson '
SUBJECT: NSUB? Northwest Airlines Flight # 305, )
Portland to Seattle, 11/24/71 ' St {6

CAA ~ Hijacking; Extortion
v0: SE

On 11/29/71, SAs Edwerd J. Anderson and [
interviewed the following individuals at |
| , While displaying the artist's conception of The unsub
zn This matter:

- Seattle Flight Service
"Boeitig Employees Flying Ass.

.- Bayair Avionics
} Boeing Field
Dlympic' Helicopters, Inc.
- Skycraft, Inc.

- Pleasure Fund Flying Club

~ Aerosport

Aero-Copters, inc.
|- Beli Air Service, Inc,

~ Northwest Air-Hotive
~ Northwest School of Aviation, Inc.
| - Washington Aircraft
[- Radair
| ~- Galvim Flying Service, Inc.

FPacific Aviation Inc.
ueen City Aviation, Inc.
~ Airline Ground School

No positive identification of the unsub could be provided by any of the.
above listed neople. The Academy of Elying and Seattle Air Charter, both
closed this day, must be contacted later. If negative information is
obtained, no further letter will he initiated.

|, stated that a
the following individnats bear a close resemblance fo The Moe pin bee

b6
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Transmit the following in

Via

4 :
FD-36 (Rov. 5:22:64) @

FBI
Date: 12/ 6/71

(Type in plaintext or code}

ATRTEL
{Priority}
TO; SAC, SEATTLE (164-81). Sus nm.
FROM: SAC, DETROIT (164-115) (P)
RE: UNIB, aka.,

Dan Cooper

Northvest Aivlines

Flight Number 305

Portland to Seattle

11/24/71 . .

CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION . ~
(00: SEATTLE) .

Re Seattle teletype to Bureau dated 11/29/71.

ee cer eae te ere me ee

eee te ee ee ee ee

i a

Enclosed for Seattle is membership list of "POPS" ,

: over-forty parachutist group, Also. enclosed are copies of .
'..membership cards and where appropriate, the information

appearing on the rear of these membership cards of the "POPS".
_ organization,

Review of these cards left to 'discretion of oo

and may be of value in developing suspect or individuals who

"may be able to furnish information on UNSUB,

Interview with | | "pops" ,

On 12/3/71, | |

| |Parachutists Over Phorty Society

(POPS}, furnished the following information to SA DONALD A,

THIEL:

"Aubske

©- Seattle (Enc. "Se yt 4-8]
Detroit

STARCNTD INDEYCO

SERIALICD FILED

OF bes ee

DEC & eth.

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Speci&l Agent in Charge

U, & GOVERNMENT PROITING OFFICE 3 1989 O = 34$-096 ay

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NRB13 SE PLAIN
2:27PM URGENT. 12/7/71 VAB
TO DIRECTOR (164-2111)— h

SAN FRANCISCO (164-229) ,
FROM SEATTLE (164-81)

UNSUB; AKA DAN COOPER$; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST, CAA-HIJACKING$
EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE. >

RE SAN FRANCISCO TELETYPE TO BUREAU, DECEMBER TWO. LAST.
| | UNITED STATES PARACHUTE

ASSOCIATION, HAS OFFERED TO PRINT ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF SUBJECT IN
THEIR MAGAZINE QUOTE PARACHUTIST UNQUOTE FOR JANUARY ISSUE. ARTICLE
WOULD HAVE TO BE IN POSSESSION OF UNITED STATES PARACHUTE ASSO-

CIATION BY DECEMBER TWELVE NEXT.

. BUREAU AUTHORITY IS REQUESTED TO HAVE FOLLOWING NOTICE PUB-
LISHED IN JANUARY ISSUE OF QUOTE PARACHUTIST UNQUOTE.
END PAGE ONE

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PAGE TWO
164-81

ENCLOSED IS AN ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF THE HIJACKER WHO EX-
TORTED TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM NORTHWEST AIRLINES ON
NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST. THIS MAN IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

RACE WHITE, SEX MALE, AGE MID FORTIES, HEIGHT, FIVE FEET TEN
INCHES TO SIX FEET, WEIGHT ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY TO ONE HUNDRED
EIGHTY POUNDS, BUILD AVERAGE TO WELL BUILT, COMPLEXION OLIVE, LATIN
APPEARANCE, MEDIUM SMOOTH; HAIR DARK BROWN OR BLACK, NORMAL STYLE,
PARTED ON LEFT, COMBED BACK, SIDEBURNS, LOW EAR LEVEL; EYES
POSSIBLY BROWN. DURING LATTER PART OF FLIGHT PUT ON DARK, WRAP
AROUND SUNGLASSES WITH DARK RIMS. VOICE LOW, SPOKE INTELLIGENTLY,
NO PARTICULAR ACCENT, POSSIBLY FROM MIDWEST SECTION OF THE UNITED
STATES. CHARACTERISTIC HEAVY SMOKER OF RALEIGH FILTER TIP CIGAR-
ETTES. WEARING APPAREL BLACK OR BROWN SUIT; WHITE SHIRT, NARROW
BLACK TIE; BLACK DRESS SUIT; BLACK RAIN DASH TYPE OVERCOAT OR DARK
TOP COAT; DARK BRIEFCASE OR ATTACHE CASE: CARRIED PAPER BAG FOUR

INCHES BY TWELVE INCHES BY FOURTEEN INCHES; BROWN SHOES.
END PAGE TO

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PAGE THREE
16 4-8}

IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION WHICH MIGHT LEAD TO THE IDENTITY
OF THIS INDIVIDUAL, PLEASE CONTACT THE NEAREST FBI OFFICE.

a

IF APPROVED, A GLOSSY PICTURE OF ARTIST*S CONCEPTION OF UNSUB

WITH GLASSES AND A GLOSSY PHOTO WITHOUT GLASSES SHOULD BE FOR-
WARDED BY THE BUREAU TO SAN FRANCISCO TO ACCOMPANY THE ARTICLE.

SEATTLE DIVISION INDICES CONTAIN NO DEROGATORY INFORMATION RE-

GARDING bre

SAN FRANCISCO ADVISE RESULTS OF INDICES CHECK REGARDING

END

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me
. GiC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) 12/7/71
5.4 BIC
UNSUB, aka
Dan Cooper
Northwest Airlines Plight 309
Portiond to Seattle
13/24/71
ChA ~ HIJACKIUG; EXTORTION
00:3 Seattlo
Ro memo of Si CHARLES R. SP. JOHN, doted 12/2/71.
On Decembor 3. 1971.1 }
| b7C
| was contacted by 8.4 | | b7D
at vmich time s.1| | tho most
recent artist's conception' of tho unimo: i
Pursuant to the foropoir, 64 | procecdod Pee
, to |
. b7D

lthe artist's concontion of the pugnb wero presinted

| for forwarding to tho FBL.

Crip
(3)

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NR @1 SC CODE
11289 AM URGENT 12/7/71 VLS
TO SEATLE (164-81)

SAN FRANCISCO (164-29

FROM SACRAMENTO (164-58) 2P
UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOV, TWENTYFOUR, LAST. CAA ~ HIJACKING;

EXORTION. O02 SEATLE.

RE SAN FRANCISCO TEL, DEC. THREE, LAST.

RE SUSPECT

| AND NAMES IN RETEL AS RESEMBLING UNSUBs

AND WAS INTERVIEWED DEC. SIX, LAST, BY BUAGENTS. HE STATED[ —_—ik

at

BASED ON ABOVE INTERVIEW AND OBSERVATION, NOT IDENTICAL

Fal - SEATTLE

| ee . - 7 CY 4 re

WITH UNSUB. al
END PAGE ONE _MKY- 8/- SR?
; SEARCHED "

INDEXED ud
atmuren. Ja.
DEC' 7 1974

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2 005 SF PLAINTEXT (bate & petty e
TH15PM NETEL 12/7/71 JAK
'TO DIRECTOR (164-2111) os |

SEATILE (164-81) . ee ee D
FROM "SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) IP oe

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UNSUB; AKA DAN COOPERS NORTHYEST AIRLINES: FLieit THREE ZERO
FLVE, PORTLAND TO 'SEATTLE, NOV. TWENTYFOUR LAST, GAA ae
S HIJACKING; EXTORTION, 00: SE- 1 Se TR

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RE SE TEL TO DIRECTOR AND SF, DEC. SEVEN, - INSTANT. ~

SF, INDICES NEGATIVE RE| JAND No mo rae bs
a s ee
. REASON KNOWN FOR OFFER TO PUBLISH ARTICLE 2" 2

AND ARTIST CONCEPTION OF UNSUB IN THEIR MAGAZINE QUOTE THE
PARACHUTIST END QUOTE. . my ; took
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WwSUB NORTHVEST AIRLINES FLIGHT, 2 3 oY Z ae
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\ SEVENTYONE, CAA ~ ~ HIJACKING 5 EXTORTION. 00 SE. -

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CAPTIONED. JANUARY ISSUE GOES TO PRESS DECEMBER THELVE AND — |
"MUST BE IN POSSESSION or ]y THAT DATE, aos 3 oe be
Ik SEATTLE SECURES BUREAU AUTHORITY FOR PHOTO AND St

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_ ARTICLE TO"APPEAR IN THIS MAGAZINE, AS WELL 'AS' UNITED STATES | a
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"PARACHUTE ASSOCIATION MAGAZINE Quote "PARACHUTIST END QUOTE, , -
"ARTICLE SHOULD BE. FORWARDED TO_LA -OFFICE AS SOON AS. POSSIBLE 4 a
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BAC, SUAERLE (1€4-82) (P) 12/7/71

UNSUBs alex
Dan Loony
Horthvest Aixvlinos Plight 309
Fortiand te Scattle
11/24/71
Cia - HITACKINGs USTORPIGN
O03 & ORtbLo

Ga Docesbor 1. 19741

!
| wad contacted by mai

JUas Ghorm photographa of the valnoim

Subect and ho advised that this individual is not feniliar
to bin and thet ko is cortain that this individusl kas novor

had any dcalines with advised
ho dg ee aac Sat

Sa Docowhor 2, 197i.| |

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UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER; NORTHWEST AIRLINES, FLIGHT
THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR
LAST$ CAA » HIGHJACKING$ EXTORTION, 002 SEATTLE

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PAGE TWO

STATES ARTISTS CONCEPTION OF HIJACKER NOT IDENTIFIABLE WITH

LATIN SKY DIVING GROUP COMPOSED

OF EXPERT JUMPERS

ARTISTS SKETCH WILL BE DISPLAYED

HE ADDS |

TO FURNISH INFORMATION REGARDING

SUSPECTS,
HE ALSO IDENTIFIED

HE STATED

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POSSIBLE SUSPECTS,
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OPTIONAL FORM NO. $0 @
MAY 1062 EDITION
GSA PPR (4t CPR) 955-11.6

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 12/6/71
FROM: SA ROBERT H. WICK
SUBJECT; UNSUB ;

NWA FLIGHT #305

11/24/72

CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION

RE: FLYING SCHOOLS, AIRPORTS
AND SKY DIVING CLUBS

The following Aviation companies were contacted and
advised thay had no suspects in this case. Photographs
of the artists conception %eeieft with these personnel:

j Vagabond Aviation Company, Olympia Airport

Capitol Flight Service, Olympia Airport, both on

November 30,°'1971. bé

| ] Executive Flight Service, Hoquiam, Wach on B7C
December 6, 1971 (Bowerman Field)

Note: Olympia airport and Bowerman Field ara the only
airports serviced by schools; that have rentals or would be
~, in position te assist in thic matter. There are no sky
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/1/71

SA|

UNKNOWN SUBJECT;

NORTHWEST ALRLINES

FLIGHT 305

PORTLAND TO SEATTLE
11/24/71

CAA + HIJACKING; EXTORTION
00: Seattle

RE: SKYDIVING CLUBS

Information from | |

International Skydiving meet will be held December 4, 1971,
at Abbottsford, B.C., Canada Airport. Expected to he on hand
at this meet will be a large number of parachutists from the
western United States and Canada.

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/\p also stated that he has a copy of an up-to-
date Jist of all skydiving clubs, their presidents, with
telephone numbers and addresses, in the United States. He
will provide a copy of this list to the FBI as quickly as it
can be reproduced.

stated that local skydiving clubs are
located at Issaquah, Snohomish, Bellingham College, Puyallup,
Washington, and at Eugene and Portland, Oregon.

This information is being supplied for information
of the case Agent, leads to be set out at his discretion.

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UNKNOWN SUBJECT;
NORTHVEST AIRLINES
FLIGHT #305,

PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71

CAA-RIGACKING; EXTORTION
00: SEATTLE

BUfile 164-2111

The following individuals and businesses were
contacted on 11/29/71 for the purpose of identifying the
unknown subject artist's rendering in this case. None of
these contacts provided positive information:

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Soaring Unlimited,

12422 68th N.E.,
Kirkland, Washington

Bellevue Airfield,
Bellevue, Washington

Bellevue Airfield,
Bellevue, Washington

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Lemen Aircraft Service,
Bellevue Airfield,
Bellevue, Washington

Beiilevue Aviation, Inc.,
Rellevue Airfield,
Bellevue, Washington.

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OPTIONAL FORM NO 10 .
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* UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE! 12/6/71
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: SKY DIVERS .
U.S. PARACHUTE ASSOCIATION

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TO 'DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM SEATTLE' (164-8!) oP

UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE$ CAA -
HIJACKING$ EXTORTION. OQ: SE.

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

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AROUND AIR FIELD

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'SEATILE (164-81)
LOS ANGELES (164-497)
FROM: SAN FRANCISCO - (164~228) '

UNSUB » NORTHVEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TYENTYFOUR, LAST. CAA - HIJACKING,
5! FOR INFORMATION UNITED STATES PARACHUTE ASSOCIATION, MONTEREY,
" CALIFORNIA,' DOES NOT HAVE PHOTOS OF MEMBERS ON FILE AT THERR | :
OFFICE. PRIOR TO TINE MEMBERSHIP CARD ISSUED PHOTO OF MEMBER IS
NECESSARY AND IS AFFIXED TO MEMBERSHIP CARD BUT NO COPIES KEPT
BY ASSOCIATION. oe
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ASSOCTATION, IS AGREEABLE TO PRINTING ARTIST'S CONCEPTION ETC. os
OF SUBJECT IN THEIR MAGAZINE "PARACHUTIST" FOR JANUARY ISSUE, THE ~ '

ARTICLE TO BE PRINTED WOULD HAVE TO BE IN POSSESSION.OF UNITED STATES

PARACHUTE ASSOCIATION BY DECEMBER TWELVE, NEXT. Ub.
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ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND To SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST, .
CAA PasH HIJACKING 3 EXTORTION, 00 SEATILE. Lo! '
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FROM SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) — a

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SEVENTYONE.

ONE EIGHTY.

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UNSUB; AKA DAN COOPER, NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT

RE SE TELCALL TO LA THIS DATE.
RE SKY DIVING CLUBS.

FOR THE INFORMATION OF LA IN REVIEWING RECORDS

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOV. TWENTYFOUR,
CAA DASH HIJACKING; EXTORTION. 00: SE

OF SKY DIVING CLUBS, WITNESSES HAVE FURNISHED DESCRIPTION
OF UNSUB WITH VARIATIONS IN AGE FROM THIRTYFIVE TO IN
FIFTIES, VARIATIONS OF HEIGHT FROM FIVE FEET NINE TO
SIX FEET ONE AND VARIATIONS IN WEIGHT FROM ONE FIFTY TO
THESE VARIATIONS SHOULD BE BORNE IN MIND BY
LA IN CONNECTION WITH REVIEW OF SKY DIVING CLUB RECORDS.

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TO: LAS VEGAS (164-68)

SEATTLE (164=81)
FROM: PORTLAND (164-41)

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UNSUB3 AKA DAN COOPER, HIJACKING, NORTHWEST FLIGHT THREE ZERO

FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE, CAA = HIJACKING$ EXTORTION,
002, SEATTLE, BUFILE ONE.SIX FOUR ~ TWO ONE ONE ONE.

FOR INFORMATION -OF LAS VEGAS, ON DECEMBER TWO, SEVENTYONE,

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NEVADA.

SKYDIVING CLUB ON OR CLOSE TO AIRPORT ROAD »|

SEVERAL MIDDLE AGED MEN AS MEMBERS.

LAS VEGAS HANDLE.
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ONE OF THESE MEN, IDENTITY NOT
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CONCEPTION THIS CASE. [ _—_—sd| FURTHER OBSERVED AREA SURROUNDING

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/2/71

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SA CHARLES R. ST. JOHN
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UNKNOWN SUBJECT; aka
Dan Cooper
Northwest Airlines Flight 305
Portiand to Seattle
11/24/71
CAA ~ HIJACKING; EXTORTION

00: Seattle

REY SKYDIVING CLUBS

Inquiry dete lat an International
Skydiving Meet will be held December 4, 1971, at
Abbottsford, B.C., Canada.- A large number of parachutists
from the western United States and Canada are expected to
compete,

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of artist's conception of Unsub at above mentioned skydiving
meet. 25 copies of most recent conception enclosed,

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TO: © SEATTLE (164-81) ,
FROM: PORTLAND (164-41) IP

UNSUB$ NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHTHTHREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER
TWO FOUR LAST, CAA = HIJACKING: EXTORTION. OO: SEATILEs

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ARTISTS CONCEPTION OF UNSUB DISPLAYED TO be :

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TOs SAC, SEATILE (164-81)

PROM: SAC, PORTLAND (164=41) (P) Ip >

UNSUB3 HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE,
NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE. CAA + HIJACKING; EXTORTION, OO: SE
BUFILE ONE SIX FOUR DASH TWO OWE ONE ONE,

REURTEL» NOVEMBER THIRTY SEVENTYONE.
PORTLAND COVERED ADJACENT AREA OF AURORA AIRPORT, AURORA, OREGON,
AND DONALD, OREGON, WHERE SKY=DIVING ACTIVITY CONDUCTED, DURING
AIR SEARCHES PREVIOUSLY REPORTED TO SEATTLE. PERSONAL CONTACT
'MADE AT BOTH PLACES WPTH PERSONNEL FAMILIAR WITH SKY-DIVING
OPERATIONS, WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS. THIS AREA LOCATED WITHIN
MARION COUNTY, AND MARION COUNTY SO PERSONNEL "ALERTED CONCERNING
THIS INVESTIGATION.
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SAC, SBATTLE (164-81) 11/26/71
SA CHARLES E. FARRELL

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NORTHWEST AIRLINES

FLIGHT $305,

PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,

13/24/71

CAA ~ HIJACKING; EXTORTION ° .

00: SEATTLE ' _?
Re: FLYING SCHOOLS, AIRPORTS

AND SKY DIVING CLUBS

On the possibility that subject might have ",
rented a plane and flown over the area of southwest Washington
or that he might have chartered a plane for the same purpose,
the following investigation should be instituted: rot,

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for anyone who might fit the subject's description as

having rented a plane, etc. OP seekers
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Which might have rented such an aircraft to anyone who Joon
could answer the subject's description in this case. Sop Re

3. Identify and contact each sky diving school
or club and attempt to determine if the UNSUB might be
known to them. ' _.

The above investigation should be done on an ae
RA basis with King County being handled by Seattle. (ots

{The SRA will coordinate the project for each
particular RA.

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT .
Memorandum
TO :SAC (164-81) DATE: 11/26/71
™, .

FROM :SA CHARLES R. ST. JOHN

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NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 305

PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, 11/24/71 *
CAA-HIJACKING; EXTORTION :
OO: SEATTLE

Enclosed herewith are 3 x 5 cards concerning the
following items:
. Airports - Seattle/Tacoma area 1}

Flight Schools - Seattle area (does not
includeTACOMA area) . #9

Flight Schools ~ Southwest Washington
from Longview/Vancouver, Wa. area 1l

Airports - Southwest Washington,
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'WASHINGTON—A young Van-! Law enforcement authoritits-heng or
couver, Wash., family on an outingjhave believed that Cooper died in his Classify—
#long the Columbia River last Sunday |piunge from the Boeing 727 because Submi |
suddenly stumbled across 12 stacks ofthe was wearing only a -busihess suit ubmitting Os nh - Las BG

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

_D. 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
aay. . ; 'speed of 50 to 70 m.p.

With the bills now having been!" The saga negate when "Cooper"
traced definitely to the Cooper loot,' boarded the jetliner in Portland for an
30 agents from the Portland and'eyening flight to Seattle. Once air-
Seattie 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—arid possibly for some.parachutes on hand when the plane

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sign of Cooper or, more likely, his re-
tains

The money—"several thousand
dollars," according to one official—
was found in Washington about five
miles northwest of the Ihterstate 5
bridge that spans the Columbia and
separates Washington from Oregon,
FBI agent Wiliam M. Baker told a

26, and their sons, 8 and 3, marked
the latest twist in the bizarre saga of
the now-legendary Cooper, who pa-
rachuted from a Northwest Airlines
jetliner on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971,
never to be seen or heard from again.
When found by the Ingrams, the
stacks of $20 bills were bound by de-
composing rubber bands, the FBI
said. But there was "no trace of D. B.
Cooper," according to the agency.
'Shortly after the hijacking, a cult
sprang up around D. B. Cooper, a

Janded in Seattle. He threatened to
blow up the plane if his demands
were not met, ws.

WISE 4

'The airline complied, providing the
parachutes and money. However, the

FBI said Tuesday that the serial
pumbers of the bills had been record-

news conference in Portiand. 5 aa 'on
Discovery of the money by Harold Cooper permitted the airliner's 36
De y se} "QT, his wife, Patricia, 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 slairway. -
Crew members last heard his voice
jon the plane's intercom when they
were over the Washington-Oregon
'border. They said they, believe -he
jurnped, using the least reliable para-
The decomposed money was found
'37 to 20 miles from the jump site by
{the Ingrams' older son, Brian. The

name that never haz been traced to 'bills were partly buried in sand that am Sy | SOT is
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Twelve packets of $20

!Columbia River beach near here,
'the FBI announced yesterday.

- Rarold D. Ingram, 27, his wife,
Patricia, 28, and their two sons,

ittiam M. Baker, assistant agent

in charge of the Portiami FBI
bills, used eight years office, said discovery of the money

Ki ago as part of the $200, lends credence to the FBI theory
000 paid to airline hijacker "D.B. that Cooper died in the hijacking
Cooper," have been found on a attempt.

Cooper's extortion effort was the
'first time a jet had been hijacked
for ransom. A number of hijack-
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 said the FBI could not be
their older son. discovered _the certain how much money was in

imoney.
< Eight-yearold Brian Ingram was

'helping his father gather firewood
'and had scooped out sand for a
;fira. As his father was about to
drop an armload of wood, young
balay bald, f Wait 'a minute,

Brian said, "I seen that money, I
thought, wow."
|, wut his parents remained calin,
the 'sdn 'recailed: "They, thought it
was counterfeit." -
A The 'tattered and wort bills
voung Ingram found were the first
$0 be recovered by law enforce
gent agencies since Nov. 24, 1971,
when a passenger hijacked a
Northwest Airlines Boeing 727.

The man, identified on the flight
bist as Dan Cooper, parachuted out
of the airliner soméwhere over
gouth western Washington.

The seria} numbers on the biils
aisevered -by young Ingram

ate' those on the money eiven
Cooper by the FBI in we

"Recalling his find yesterday, .

the packets, but said it amounted
to "several thousand dollars."
'The money has been sent to the
FBI laboratory in Washington,
D.C., and Baker hopes the lab will
be able to pick fingerprints off the
blils, which could lead to the

suspect. -
"That would" 'be 'a- neti of a
bréa fe said. 1°. ements

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Seattle 'Times
Seattle, Wa.

Date: 2/12/80

'Compiled from news services
« WASHINGTON — The Federal :
Bureau of Investigation has found
'about $4,600 of the money that ther
legendary hijacker, D.B. Cooper,
carried with him when he para-
chuted from a commercial . jet

ever Southwest Washington in
'1971, a bureau spokesman said
Tuesday.

The spokesman, who asked not
'to be named, said a family wan-
dering along the bunks of the Co-
lumbia River north of Portland,
;Ore., found a packet ef money thig
jweek, |

i Held together by a rubber band!
the packet of $20 bills was so bad-
ly deteriorated the F.B.E. could
not make an exacl count of the
amount, the spokesman said,

Despite the deterioration, the
spokesman said the F.B.]. was
able to identify the money as part
of the $200,000 ransom given to
Cooper in Seattle nine years ago.
» When the money was given to the.
ibijacker, the F.B.1. kept records'
of the serial numbers. H
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The packet was found 20 miles
'downstream from the point where*
Cooper is believed to have bailed

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'the spokesman said,
He added that with floods along
the river it was fikely that in nine
"years the packet had been carried

some distance.

' The Portland and Seattle offices
of the F.B.I. were conducting a
- search in the area, but the spokes-
man said it was unlikely that dis-
covery of the money packet would
aid in the search for Cooper, the
only parachute-ransom hijacker in
United States history who has not
been apprehended.
Cooper boarded a Northwest?

4 ;
*, flight in Portland on Thanksgiving,
Eve, 1971, using the name Dar
Cooper. Before the plane reached
Seattle, Cooper threatened to ex-
plode a "bomb" in his brief case if
. he were not. given $200,000 in $20
} bills and four parachutes and
| flown to Reno, Ney.
' hours while authorities gathered
the parachutes and money.

The passengers and two of the
'three slewardesses were allowed
to leave the plane. The money and

"parachutes were loaded and the
plane took off for Reno. The pilot

The plane circled Seattle for 24% __

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Submitting Office: ScattLle
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' 'possible.
'" Somewhere over Southwest,
: Washingten, the hijacker, the!

'money and one of the parachutes
. disappeared out of the plane's
rear exit, opened in flight. The ap-
proximate place of departure was
guessed at from cabin-pressure
readings on the flight recorder.
The flight recorder and crew
testimony indicated Cooper had
jumped near the little town of Ari-
el, Cowlitz County, about 30 miles
north of Portland, a densely wood,
(ed area in thé foothills of.the Cas- |

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cade Mountains, ' i
Despite intensive searches of
the area, the only item connected
with the hijacking ever found was
a rear door from the 727.
Nothing ever 'was seen of Coo-
per or the $200,000.
The F.B.I. has said since shortly
' after the hijacking it believed Coo-
per probably was killed when he
_ landed.
+ In 1977, just to make sure the hifi
; -jacker didn't escape prosecution
'via the statute of limitations, he
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currency in a deteriorating condition.

NEQUEST OF THE PBY LANGRATORNY, BOCUMENT SRCTION

Separate purveny in dotarmine exact amount contained

thorein,. -4yop - eee

; Rzamine soil residue co-mingied with currency, to
determine soll type, toe assist in determining possible other
location where currency way have been besides sandy. beach area.

REQUEST OF THR IDENTIFICATION DIVISION, LATENT FINGERPRINT SECTION

. Exanine currency for any latent fingerprints contained
thereon, . .

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SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) DATE: 7/11/80

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For the information of Portland on 7/9/80,
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Yreka, California, advised" that he had received
"Information from an individual who wished to have
her identity protected regarding captioned matter.
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, California, telephone number | I.
advised | |] that approximately two years
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| | Phoenix, Arizona, telephone
number | | told her that while working on a ranch
near Hilt, California, on ther Oregon border with an
individual named] that | jhad
gotten drunk and told | {that he was D. B. Cooper.
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the money after the sky-jacking and was waiting to dig
it up. He advised that he had moved to the Hilt,
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Many policeman aware of the situation in Washington
and Oregon.

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| |was telephonically contacted on 7/3/80,
and advised that again she wished to have her identity
remain anonymous but that she had received the above
information from | |] approximately two or
three years ago and that | |}had again mentioned
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sources, {_] paraphrase contents.

CI Enclosed are corrected pages from report of SA
ated °

Remark st Enclosed is a copy of the LFPS report
of 3-14-80 to Portland, which set out result
of latent print examination of U.S, currency

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION COPY
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REPORT
of the

LATENT FINGERPRINT SECTION

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION
your FiteNno, 164-41 ®) March 14, 1980

164-211
*BI FILE NO,
LATENT CASE no. A-45410

to: SAC, Portland

RE: NORJAK
REFERENCE: Airtel 2-13-80
EXAMINATION REQUESTED By: Portland
SPECIMENS: Approximately $5,800.00 in U.S. currency, Q58
The Q specimen is further described ina separate Laboratory
report.
No latent prints are present or were developed on the U.S.
currency. :
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO : SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF J USTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

DATE: 4/23/80

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SUBJECT: NORJAK
CO: Seattle 4
For information, on 2/20/806,|
I | Vancouver, Washingto

n, phone number
[| +; was contacted and she advised that DO] visited
the Tena Bar area in Vancouver, near the location, searched by

the FBI for ransom money.

happened to find a corner

of a $20.00 bill, and she would allow agents of the FBI to

examine same.

On 2/20/80, |

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on the Tena Bar.

out of the sand near the area searched by the FBI.

: |, were contacted at their residence, and|___]
fdisplayed a corner of a $20.00 bill which he found
He stated that he found this item sticking

He pro-

vided the corner of the $20.00 bill to the writer to determine
if in fact it is a portion of the ransom' money.

ADMINISTRATIVE

The corner of the $20.00 bill provided byl _]
in no way resembles the sections of money found

uring the search on Tena Bar.

It is the opinion of the

writer that this item was placed there as a practical joke.
The section of the $20.00 bill provided by |
has been placed in a 1A envelope for the file.

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SUBJECT:

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P) DATE: 4/7/80
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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 1950D
AG 3443468A 1950D
L90073045B 1950B
L97893172B 1950B
L9744~~-8B 19568
L0446945* i950B

A check with the list of known serial numbers and
series/year of the D. B. Cooper $20 bills revealed the above
serial numbers and series/years did not match those in the
list.

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Harold Dwayne. ingram, 28, father of the year-old
boy who found part of skyjacker D.B. Cooper's ransom
money Jast month, has been arrested in Vancouver,
Wash., on a fugitive warrant from Oxlahoma.

_ The warrant charges Ingram with unlawfully remove
ing mortgaged property from the state of Oklahoma — a
felony charge that carries a maximum penalty'of three
_ years in prison. :
o Clark County sheriff's deputies arrested Ingram at

bis rented home in Vancouver Monday afternoon. He

was reisased Tuesday night after 2 locai bail bondsman

posted Ingram's $300 bail, sheriff's deputies said.
Kathy Kelly, a legal assistant in the Clark County

Prosecuting Attorney's office, said Ingram is scheduled | : os ateapee te.

appear j > distric! ; Two weeks aller the neney was discovered, Ingram''s ;

| ia vHkeation county district court April i? for an | wife, Patricia reported that hee husband was forced ta?

eee reread peuing to determine if he is, in fact, the ive up 1% days of pay — about $ic0 — in order to,

{ Same Harold Ingram sought in Oklahoma. Sive up Lie days of p La

4 ° Kel ly seid, Oklahoma authorities will have 6a .| return the money and attend the FBI's press conference. |.

3 , nea nage ws | "We live from paycheck to paycheck, and we could'.
co Le «: —*S sure use that $100," she told The Post-Intelligencer at the -;

HAROLD INGRAM:
"This is no big thing.
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Gays to file extradilion papers to force logram's return to
Oklahoma for trial.
ps kelly said court documents filed by authorities in ;
Z tishorg County, Okla, last April charge that Ingram
owed $815 then on a used car purchased a month earlier
in MieAJester, Okla.

The warrant for Ingrame's arrest was filed last month.

-Aiter Pittsburg County District Attorney Don Roberts
recognized newspaper photos of Ingram that circulated
nationwide in the wake of his family's discovery of a
portion of D.B, Ccoper's lool. 2

a oe ed ose

'ound Part of Skyjacker's Money

'* 1 'Southwest ! '
¥ Seaitie-bound Northwest Airlines plane Nov. 2%, La7h. +

'* these Southern redneck laws that let a D.A. help busi-

+460

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the Family That

Cooper parachuted into a freezing rainstorm over, .
Washington with $200,600 after hijacking a',
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 benks of the Columbia River down-
stream from Vancouver. - 7s
The next day, Iagram turned the money over to the }
FBI, which asnounced the find with great fanfare at a ~
press conference featuring the Ingram family.
"Several of us read the paper and recognized him," -
Roberts told The Associated Press. "We bad a warrant
sworn out to have him brought back." -
_" Ingram's arrest is tbe latest in a string of reversals ,
i that have followed his family's brief giow in the lime-;
light. .

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* Mrs. Ingram told The P-I that recovery of the skyjack
loot also resulted in family strife that arose when a |

relative tried lo 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 $1,000 damage before ¢
Vancouver firefighters could put it out. F

Vancouver Fire Marsbal Gordon Gage said the blaze _
was caused by a short in an extension cord. :

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

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to help bim," U-Cart owner Joe Tanner said yesterday.
Tanner said his firm intends to advance Ingram the

money "to get this thing in Oklahoma squared away.
"We think he's getting a bum cap," Tanner said.
"I'm froxa Texas, and J've got a little knowlege about

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nessmen collect their debts," Le said. !

"Tye been told he (ingram) bas been making pay - 7" 7/7 3 f(r
sments on this car ican, and he's only a' couple.of: -7 Sf Net
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7 Columbian Staff Writer .

4, "Thate to think the thoughts people will be
thinking about me ail 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, ;

"T regret it for myself, but not for Brian,"
who, he said, has enjoyed all the attention.

Brian and his family made national
headlines after a family outing on a
Columbia River beach near Vancouver Feb.
10 turned into a major media and FBI event.
Brian was preparing 'a campfire when he
scooped out about $5,000 of the $200,000
Cooper had demanded and received before
jumping out of an airliner in 1971,

Since last month Ingram has:

@ Lost 1% days pay — about $100 -—~ in
order to return the money and attend an FBI
press conference.

@ Watched as a fire caused about $1) 000
damage to the upper floor of his home at
1500 Markle St. Saturday.

© Been arrested Monday on an Oklahoma

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with mortgaged property" a car.

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

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

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

"T feel confused, really confused," Ingram
said Thursday. "And 1 feel pretty unlucky.
I'm not angry; I'm kind of hurt. I realiy care
what people think about me."

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

His arrest Monday was an unhappy
surprise, he said.

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

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

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But things were looking up for Ingram

today. His boss and attorney, Joe Tauner
said this morning he has been told by th
Pittsburg County, Okija., district attorney tha
that office now has verification of Ingram'
ear payments, Ingram, in fact, is paid ahead

. to July on the car, Tanner said,

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

, was unavailable for comment this morning.

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

* remodeling the next day.

Tanner, vice president of U-Cart Concrete
Systems Inc. of Vancouver, where Ingram is
employed, said the company is behind him.
Tanner, a lawyer, said he will represent
Ingram 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 tc.
back me 100 percent."

"He' Ss been treated unfairly," Tanner said.

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Loberatéry *Tranamittal Form

7-72

From: Director, FBI

Re: NORJAK Vil

Examination requested by:
Reference?
Examination requested:

Remarks:

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FEDERAL BUREAU @F INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, D. C. 205385

To: SAC, Portland (164-41)

March 18, 1980

FBIFILENO. 164-2111

LAB, NO. 00304057 D LL VJ

Portland
Airtel. dated February 29, 1980.

Document ~ Minerglogy ~ Fingerprint

Enclosures (2) (2 Lab report) —
2 - Seattle G64-81) Enclosures (2) (2 Lab report)

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535

To: SAC, Portland (164-41)

Ret NORJAK ©

Specimens received

March 18, 1980

FBI FILE NO. 164-2111

LAB. NO. 00304057 D LL Vd

February 3, 1980

Four United States Twenty Dollar Bis described as follows:

SPECIMEN
Q60
Q61
Q62

Q63

Result of examination:

' SERIAL NUMBER.

GO3072381B

L1O$19321A

L55066857A

L32987392A

Specimens Q60 through Q63 contained mineralogical material
which was similar to the Q59 sand previously submitted.

Q60 through Q63 were photographed and will be returned
with the results of the fingerprint examination.

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xerox copy of a twenty dollar bill marked exhibit "A". a
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As mentioned in referenced telephone call the .
San Francisco Office contacted after the receipt b6 :
of his first letter of 2/20/80. | | stated that he BIC
had obtained the plate of the twenty dollar bill which was .
published in the Berkeley Barb sometime in November, 1972.
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% ACADEMIC PUBLISHING, INC.

, Box 27
Berkeley; California 94701

A NON-PROFIT ACADEMIC SERVICER

20 February 1980

Federal Bureau of Investigation
450 Golden Gate Avenue

San Francisco California

The following purports to be a copy of one of
the twenty doliar bills taken by skyjacker "D.B. Cooper"

when he jumped from a 727 on 24 November 1971,

-X wonder whether the. serial numbers correspond

to any of the stolen currency. no. os
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ACADEMIC PUBLISHING, INC, -
* Box 27
Berkeley, California 94701

A NON-PROFIT AGADEMIG SERVICE

6 March 1980

FBI
Seattle Operations Office
e/o| ] S¥/PBI

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

D.B, Cooper, :

Confirmation of the serial number on
the reproduced bill wi]l form the basis
of a short item in a magazine article
I have submitted,

I would like to know of any further
condirmation or disputation of the
details in the enclosed article,

I may be reached c/o the above address,

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Last November24th, 2 man identifying himself as
. Cooper! parachuted from a Northwest Orient
ines .727 jetliner between Seattle and Reno Nevada
with a parcel containing 10,000 twenty dollar bilis which
was the ransom money that had been delivered to him
while he held the planes crew hostage at thé Seattle~
Tacoma international airporh + -

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

So far Cooper has successfully eluded his following
in the same ingenious manner that he pulled offhis .
skyjack caper, cooly staying @ safe distance away from
danger, ~

: The F.B.L headquaters" in Seattle has vowed to ser-~ ,;
utinize every foot of land between the Sea-Tac airport °
and Reno to furn up clues in the case.

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

anonymous interviewer from the twice weekly

paper the 'Seattle Flag' has produced a story from

a taped interview with D.B, Cooper which is validated

by the presentation of one of the recorded twenty dollar ~
. bélis included in the ransom money.'

This story was run in the 'Flag' because the inter- > 7

viewer was unable to send it to the 'Post-Intellingener'
because they had the 5,000 dollar reward out for Coopers
head also television stations would have requested a fape
- from which voice prints could possible be produced."

ute Therefore, running the story in the Flag was the only -

solution, °

"> Cooper 'said that the wimesses description were' off.
by about fifteen pounds and a couple of inches. Also that
the artist's impression were very poor. When asked why.

' "we was sill in Washington state he added that he felt » ;

RY " Ametiva where. the authoritleswoul' | naturally expect hit»

- it\vas safer fo hide where no one would imagine him to *
"* be rather then to go to some place like Mexico or South ©

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He said he started ach. aw 'Work oa his skyfacking plan ais 3

last June . The ing t 4 came to him while he was

it was a calculated risk that's why he jumped in bad
weather and at night, also he waited a litule longer than
usual before pulling his ripcard. Adding that his free
fail was about 5,000 of the tola! 7,000 feet, Which was very
risky doing at night.

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

The first thing he did oa landing was bury his chute,-.
. he was within five miles of where he had intended in an
».,. evergreen wooded terrain, He credited this accuracy
fo his projected calculations and his japanese watch.

He wouldn't say whether he had an accomplice on the.

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

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

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

. the chutes

hen one of the fuel trucks pulled up...then he ord-
ered the passengers off the plane, and everyone else into
the cockpit,..a middle-aged, executive looking man
Started to push his way back through the line into the
tourist cabin, Cooper tensed up expecting the guy te iry
something heroic - but he had just left his briefcase
on his seat and was retrieving it...

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"assembly. Also the dowa- Aaps stalling speed. OCne hundred .

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

clear of the plane. Buzzing the cockpit he asked the - .—
of the three Pratt & Whitney engines two on the sides "jc, captain whatthe hold-up wes. Trouble with the vapor fock-.

"fold tha Captain: "Not more than one fuel truck sta ;

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By MYRON STRUCK

-: States News Service
WASHINGTON -- Did DB. Cooper
land in, or near, the Washougal River

rather than the Lewis River? .
in the personal opinion of the chief
FBI. geologist who worked on the
casé, D.B. Coaper may have landed in
the Washougal River, not near the
Lewis River where it had been
presumed thal he came to earth —

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among the bills and his discussions
with federal geologists in the field.

He has concluded that the range of
sind particles found among the bills
ig simijar to sediment aleng the
Columbia River and a number of its
tribularies.

Fiedler's Opinion has heen
disavowed firmly by his rnineralogy
division section chief.

"He could have landed in the

before about $5,800 in compressed,
wel and eroded money was found
aiong the banks of the Columbia
River in February upstream from the
Lewis.

The Wasnougal River scenario is
the private view of geologist Chris

Fiedier, who handled the soil analysis ©
, on the money, and not part of the

agency's official report to the Seattie

field office coordinating

Columbia River," Fiedter said. "Or he
could have come down in the
Washougal, fhe latter is where myi
training, and instincts, tell me is;
more likely, based on the data I have
available." .
The sand tests involve litlle in ihe

. way of complicated equipment —

only a simple microscope and some
geological reference material that
discuses the characteristics of sand

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D.C., research area known as "e
Laboratory.

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found on the wad of money. The basis
for the new information is Fielder's
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From: Director, FBI FBI FILE NO.

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Reference: ;

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SAC, Portland 64-42) March 18, 1986
FBI FILE NO,
164-2172
LAB, NO.
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February 3, 1886

Four United States Twenty Dollar Bills deseribed as follows:

SPECIMEN | 'SERIAL NUMBER
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Besnkt of examination:

Specimens G60 thraugh O85 contained mineralogical matyrial
whick was similar to the Q59 sand previously submitted.

Q66 throurh G63 were photogranghed end will be return
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incorrectly delivered to the Wilmington, Delaware Resident

Agency.

The letter, dated 2/14/80, concerns the subject
and money involved in your investigation, NORJAK. The
enclosed is forwarded for your information and action deemed
appropriate,

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on this matter which emanated from a totally unrelated_source.
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The following investigation was conducted by
SA|
AT PORTLAND, OREGON V4

On February 20, 1980, |
[), US. Army Corps of Engineers, Portland District,
celephone Poa was contacted regarding the possibility that
bait money found near the| Jon 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 morth by the Lewis River, the east by the
Clark County-Skamania County line, and the Columbia River.

Jadvised the only likely river feeding the Columbia

River within the above described drop zone that would be
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 [ 3
however, due to size, or the degree of slope of the
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,

stated that based on the three feet per second
speed of the Columbia River, if a small package entered the Columbia
River at Washougal, Washington, 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

get caught on any snags. .

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Maintenance Branch, Navigation Division, U.S. Army Engineer
District, 319 S.W. Pine, telephone L_____| 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
piaced 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 the| |
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
the | las 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
$1,100 cubic yards of fill.

, The channel is maintained at 40 feet in depth

and all the material above 40 feet is dredged out. 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. —_

stated it would be possible for a 16xl16x4 inch pack~
age to get through the pipe; however, it is likely that a

package that size or a human bedy or parts thereof would. ww.

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' Date of transcription 2/ 14/ 80

! |, Portland State
University, home address] home

telephone number one number
was interviewed Following} Tena Bar

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 neg

jacking attempt. | Jwas interviewed by SA
es the Portland, Oregon, FBI Office.

L | advised 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
deteriorated 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, [ | stated this clay layer
in all probability, was deposited during that 1974 dredging. The
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 dredging.

J advised that in the post dredging
layer, he found cross bedded course and medium sand, which in-
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.

Based on the condition of the money through observation,
| Jadvised that the money was probably washed into
the location where it was f£cund by natural river flow and was
probably placed at the location of Tena Bar during the last

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2/13/80

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DIRECTOR, FBI (164-211) - . 2/26/80

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(ATT: PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE)
PORTLAND (164-71) (P) :
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Enclosed for the Bureau is ane packet of newspaper
articles collected at Portland, Oregon.

00: Seattle

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

The media contacts on this matter by personnel
of the Portland Division during the period 2/12~25/280 included
one press conference, 26 television appearances, and a
multitude of recorded radio appearances.

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TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
ATTN; FBI LABORATORY,
DOCUMENT SECTION, SA
FBI EDENTIFICATION DIVISION,
LATENT FINGERPRINT SECTION,
FROM: SAC, PORTLAND (164-41 P
SUBJECT: NORJAS DUDE - < )
Re Portland airtel to Bureau, 2/13/80; and Portland
teletype to Bureau, 2/20/80.

Enclosed herewith for the Laboratory are four
additional bills from the ransom in this matter obtained on
2/14/80, from as was set forth in
referenced teletype.

_REQUEST OF THE FBI LABORATORY

LABORATORY. Is requested to conduct any examination
possible with the four above mentioned additional bills and to
include them with the rest of the recovered ransom.

Upon conclusion of the laboratory examination of the
ransom in this matter, the evidence should be returned to
Portland for preservation in connection with the prosection
presently before the U.S. District Court, Portland.

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Following the finding of a pprtion of the
Nor jak money along the Columbia River, approximately
5 miles downstream from the I-5 bridge, Vancouver,
Washington, on the weekend of February 9-10, 1980,
the following Special Agents from the Seattle Division
proceeded to the money site: | Ls

Also at the site were SA's| jand

| (Vancouver RA).

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

. On 2/14/80 and 2/15/80 the Seattle Division
finished searching the crime scene area with the
assistance of | |
| provided ;
a ___|which were used for hire
in | i |. The scene was secured on the
afternoon of 2/15/80. No further funds were found or
other evidence.

| Portland
State University was on the scene to advise the FBI
on soil samples on 2/14/80. The Portland Division is
breparing an FD-302 in this regard. The Portland
Division also forwarded the found money to the FBI
Laboratory. Ther& was approximately $5800 found
according th the lab. A separate lab report is AUB
prepared.

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Vancouver family more than two weeks ago -

S represents about $5,800 of the $200,600 taken in
the 1971 D.B. Cooper skyjacking, the Federal
'Bureau of Investigation says,

» Ray Mathis, senior agent, said oicals

VANCOUVER, Wash.

'counted the decayi ing preenbacks during F.B. Lg a
"Jaboratory tests in W fashington, D.C,

Otis Cox of the bureau's Washington, D.C.,
office said little else has been reveaied about :
the money. Lab technicians continue to study °
jthe loot, particularly for evidence of where it?
"anight have been before it washed up on ine}

banks of the Columbia River, Otis sa vid, y
The lumpy wads of money were found
buried in shatlow sand west of here, 2

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of Investigation, followed a nar!
row trail of clues and tips in his .
quest of a legendary hijacker
called D.B. Cooper. But the first
real break in the case didn't come.
until Himmelsbach's F.B.1. caree
was drawing to a close. .
After 29 years with the bureau,
Himmeisbach retired as of Fri-
day, a few months before he
reaches (he mandatory-retirement
_age of 55, :
* Himmelsbach was the agent re-
"garded as the bureau's expert on
the puzziing case that started.
'when the still-unknown sky pirate -
_jeaped from a Northwest Airlines ,
727 with 10,000 $20 bills and two |
parachutes on Thanksgiving Eve, !
1971. ii
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per; and nothing was seen of the
money until an &year-old boy
found about $5,800 of it mixed in
the sand along the Colurnbia River
near Vancouver, Wash., February
10, a
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From: Director, Fai . FBI FILE NO. 164-2111

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FBI FILE NO, 164~2111

LAB. NO. 00214031 D/S LL VI
NORJAK

Specimens received February 14, 19 80

O58 Unknown amount of U.S. currency in deteriorated
condition
959° Soil from submitted U. S. currency

Result of examination: .

The exact number of bills contained in the
Submitted currency could not be determined, because of
the deteriorated condition of this currency.

Approximately 290 twenty dollar, bilis ($5,800. 00)
are contained in the submitted currency.

The disposition of the submitted evidence and

the results of the mineralogy and fingerprint examinations
will be furnished separately. : ,

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By LESLIZ L. ZAITZ
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VANCOUVER, 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 agers, working with garden

.rakes and shovels, carefully sifted
through the sand on what is known
locally as Tena's Bar, a sloping beach
about nine miles northwest of Vancou-
ver, The beach is owned by New Co-
lumbia, Gardens Co., which operates a
truck and dairy farm behind the beach,

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 andj
parachuted out of the aircraft with 231
pounds of cash totaling $200,000. .

The bundles on the beach were:
found by 8-year-old Brian Ingram, who
was helping his parents, Harold
Dwayne and Patricia Ingram, build a
fire for a picnic. The family, which
moved to Vancouver recently from
Oklahoma, had never heard of the man
who was widely known at the time of
his crime as D.B. Cooper.

Dorwyn Schreuder, the FBI agent
'Supervising the beach search, said' the.
'Ingraras put the money aside after dis-' -
covering it and continued with their

"picnic, They reported their discovery to.,
the FBI on Monday.

The site, a popular fishing spot for
Vancouver residents, was guarded by'
agents Monday night and the search,
'Started about noon Tuesday.

{ Agents roped off a section of beact
imeasuring roughly 150 yards long anc

'30 yards wide. All driftwood was re-- -
'moved, and then begat the laborious , > ff 4
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found fragments of at least two other.
$20 bills. By late Tuesday, several more;

. fragments had been found as deep as 3!

feet below the surface.

"We'll be taking some heavy equip- ;

ment, probably backhoes, in there
Wednesday to dig deeper," said Bill
Baker, assistant special agent in charge
of the Portland FBI office.

Schreuder and other agents at the
site said they still supported the long-
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 a
road jeading through the farmyard to
the beach.

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

And three fishermen who routinely
spend every day but Sundays fishing on
ithe beach initially were confused and,
'then angry.

"These guys wouldn't tell us what
«was going on," said Ken Davenport of
Vancouver. "They asked us to move,

_but wouldn't tel! us who they were or

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'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, a;:
narrow two-lane road leading to the
farm. A Clark County sheriff's deputy},
guarded the entrance, preventing the;
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 be deterniined ,
after the agency consulted with hy-
drologists and others who could provide):

expert advice about from where mf
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The FBI has, at least temporarily,
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
Thursday night after several days of
sand-sifting produced no new evidence.
The, Seattle office has coordinated

te ae as

search efforts in the Cooper caper, the
only unresalyed 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 dill 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 bank,

A geologist serving as consultant to

» the FBI has said he believes the money

had spent most of the past eight years
underwater and was deposited on the
sandy beach only within the past year. .

The Northwest Airlines plane was
hijacked between Portland and Seattle

by a man who said he had a bomb. The ~
hijacker obtained $200,000 in $20 bills' -
.when the plane landed in Seattle and
-then parachuted with the money over

Southwest Washington.

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the first trace of the hijacker or money

-since the Thanksgiving Eve hijack oc-

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VANCOUVER, Wash. — Eight- ;
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dles of $20 bills last week but had to |
turn them over to authorities, has been
given one by the FBI. —_

The boy jumped into the national

. Spotlight Feb. 10 when he discovered
several thousand dollars of the $200,000
ransom paid to skyjacker Dan Cooper in' —
1971. The money, frayed around the
edges, was identified by FBI agents
who have been looking for Cooper since -
he jumped from a Northwest Orient | '
Airlines plane over Southwest Wash-
ington.

The $20 was given to the boy by
Mike Heywood, Hough Elementary
School PTA president. Accompanying
the bill was a certificate praising the

boy for his find.
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sion newscasts and newspaper articles.
Saturday night, the three were satirized
on the "Weekend Uridate" segment of
the weekly television show "Saturday.
Night Live." " .

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Geologist' s finding -
'contradic ts theory.

ByBudMay '
The Daily News

A thorough search of a Columbia River beach where part of D.B.
Cooper's ransom money was found Sunday has turned up no new,
clues as to the fate of the legendary skyjacker. f

The FRI said today that the search will continue today and Fri-!
day, then probably be suspended temporarily.

Brought to the beach to aid in Wednesday's search were as
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.

At 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 been
deposited there. '

Palmer, to the surprise of some authorities, concluded that tite
money was deposited on the beach in the past year or two because it

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

operation.

According to the FBI, a coarse layer of sand sloped from a height
of about six inches at the river's edge to two feet or more some
'distance up the river bank,

_ Earlier, Ralph Himmelisbach, a Portland FBI agent who has had
charge of follewing 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-
meisbach believes is dead,

Agents say the money was tied to Cooper when he bailed out'ef

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.

Jack Pringle, assistant agent in charge of the Seattle FBI Office,
fold The Daily News this morning that smail bits and pieces of $20
bills were located Wednesday when agents continued digging in
sand surrounding the spot where a Vancouver family discovered
money Sunday.

"west of Vancouver when their 8-year-old son, Brian, uncovered
iseveral thousand dollars in decomposed bills.
Ingram contacted the Portland FBI Office, and a check of serial
vnumbers conclusively established that the money was part of?
$200,000 in $26 bills Cooper had when he bailed out of a Northwest,
Orient Airlines jet over the Lewis River area on Nov. 24, 1971. .
Pringle said the area was still being searched today, but no news
evidence had been located as of this forenoon.
"Some of the area is inaccessible, and there's na way we can
search the whole area," Pringle said in Seattle this morning.

the plane, but was no longer with him when it was deposited on the/-

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WASHOUGAL — Bob Devaney
watched the ducks peck away at
something floating in the Washou-
gal River near the Riverside Bowl.

It was March 22, 1977, and
Devaney of 4221 F Circle, Washou-
gal, was fishing for steelhead. The
muddy runoff waters had cleared,
and the river was in shape for

. catching the ocean-going trout.

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

But Devaney picked up a bill and
examined it. It was a-real $20 bill,
and there were six others to be

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washed out of the Washougal River
watershed during the nearly 8%
years since Cooper parachuted

from an airliner over Southwest _

Washington.
A check with the Federal Bureau
of Investigation list. of serial num-

bers on the $200,000 given Cooper '

didn't match those found by Deva-
ney. Davaney still has his $140
tucked away in cellophane bags.

The D.B. Cooper money find also _
brought significance to a grben .

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lives up the Washougal River. in
Skamania County.

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The finding of some of the "Dana
"Sooper" hijacking money Sunday came:
is a dramatic climax te the career of
fan Ralph Himmelsbach, the FBI's}
Cooper expert.

Himmelsbach, himself a veteran pi-
lot, has fived, breathed and slept the
Dan Cooper case ever since 4 man using
that name hijacked a Northwest Air- .
lines jet from Portland on Thanksgiving
Eve, 1971. .

Himmelsbach, who has logged thou-
sands of hours of flying time in his own
1952 model single-engine Beechcraft,
iBonanza, was aloft in an Oregon Air!'

iNational Guard helicopter ready to in-

itercept the hijacked plane within a few~

minutes after the airliner took off from -

Seattle, where Cooper obtained.

- $200,000 and four parachutes. But the

air turbulence that night was so severe
that the helicopter was ordered back to
Portland Airbase. :
Next morning Himmelsbach started
the first of a series of flights which took
him the length of the hijack route many
times, between investigating other

_ clues, all of which proved to be false.

"Y was over the target area near!

; Lake Merwin Sunday again," he said

'Tuesday. "t saw they. had logped a loty
of prime search area, and thought some-
thing would turn up now."

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

"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
"milestone,"

Himmelsbach will retire March Lf
iiter 27 years with the FBI — climaxed
'py his work on the Cooper case, one "I

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By LEVERETT RICHARDS
. of The Oragonian staff

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

One of the more intensive searches
in the FBI's histery 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

¢ Nov. 24, 1971, FBI spokesmen said. .

Cooper's was the first hijacking of a
commercial airiiner for money, and
yStarted 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,
aithough the airline manifest showed he
had used the name "Dan."

The man who called himself Cooper
paid cash for a ticket and boarded
Northwest's Flight 305 at Portland in-
ternational Airport just before it depart-
ed. He sat in a rear seat in the cabin and
waited until the plane was airborne,
Then he handed stewardess Florence
Schaffner a note saying he had a bomb
in the satchel he was carrying and de-
manding $200,000 in unmarked $20
bills.

} By the time the plane landed at
"Seattle-Tacoma Internationa! Airport at
5:45 p.m., afrline officials were gather-
ing the money and the four parachutes
-he had demanded. The hijacker released
the 36 passengers on board, along with
al! crew members except one steward-
ess and two pilots. Fhe plane then took
off and -headed south at 7,000 feet in
stormy weather.

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

Computer calculations and a later
reconstruction of the flight persuaded
the FBI that Cooper had bailed out near
Woodland, Wash., and would haye+
Janded somewhere west of Lake Mer':
win.

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

The "target area" was searched réj'

peatedly by the FBI, other Jaw 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.

it was found 13 mites 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 all the way, but
didn't shed any light on what happened

to Cooper," said FBI agent Ralph Him- ,

melsbach, who headed the investiga:
tion.

After eight years of investigation}
Himmelsbach has said he still believeg'

Cooper could not have survived the pa* -

rachute jump at 7 degrees below zero,
dressed as he was in a light business
, suit and street shoes,

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"Several thousand dollars" of the
$200,920 obtained eight years agz by
the celebrated airline hijacker who used
the name Dan Cooper was found Sun-
day along the Columbia River down-
stream from Vancouver, Wash., the FBY
reported Tuesday.

Three bundles containing £2 packets
of weatherbeaten $20 bills were found
in river sand by a picnicking Vancouver
family, about nine miles northwest of,

_ the city, i

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

funder three feet of sand.

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

epreparing to build a fire on the beach
when Brian brusked the sand aside and
turned up some of the bills, Ingram
said.

"We dug around and found three

- bundles of bills tied with rubber |
bands," Ingram said.

The bills were wet and badly worn,
but 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

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

William M. Baker, assistant speciak

4 agent in charge of the Portland FBI of-;

{ fice, said the ingrams were relatively

inew to the Vancouver area, moving:
| there recently from Oklanoma, They
had never heard of Cooper, Baker said. ©

"They took it (the money) home and
were talking to some friends about it,"
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in charge of the case since the hijack-,
ing, said it was the first solid clue to the
Cooper mystery since the hijacker
dalled 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 ne-
tional sensation.

Baker said it was possible the FBI
laboratory in Washington, D.C., could:
discern fingerprints on the money.

he said. ;

Beker 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
estimate to several thousand dotlars,"
he sald.

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." Becatse of that,

the actual amount could not be estimat-
ed, he said.

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

Cooper was seen on the plane tying
a nyion cord around his waist, presum-
ably to tle the money into a parachute
'ag. The Ingrams said they did not see
any sign of a cloth bag, but Himmets- ,
bach said it would be hard to under-:
stand how the bundles of bills could!
have stayed together ail these years if |
they were not in some kind of contain-)
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Baker said the search for Cooper's ©
remains or other clues would be re
sumed In a new area. "

FBI spokesmen concluded that th
bills could haye been washed dow
some tributary of the Colunibia.

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

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ceterjorated bills, as was reported Tues-
day in some editions of The Oregonian.
The boy actually was given a $20
bill made to took like one of the tattered -
bills, in addition to a certificate praising
: him for his find. Both items came from -
the Hough Elementary School PTA.
_+. | Meanwhile in Washington, D.C., FBI
laboratory technicians have been unable
- "to determine how much money was in
the three bundles of Cooper's recovered
as a result of young Ingram's find.
. "The $20 dills were so badly deteri- -
"orated that we have been unable to
*-count it," said FBI spokesman Otis Cox.
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the bills.
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Re: D. B. Cooper

Dear Mr. Baker:

We have become aware that some of the money given to D. B.
Cooper has been recovered. This letter is to advise you

that our client, Globe Indemnity Company, reimbursed Northwest
Airlines for the money which was given to D. B. Cooper. It

is our opinion, based on the terms of the contract pursuant

to which such indemnification was made, that Globe Indemnity
is entitled to receive any recovery made until the full

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. VANCOUVER, Wash. — Eight FBI
agents digging on a Columbia River
beach in a snowstorm found no more:
of D.B. Cooper's bijack ransom yester-
day. but they revealed new clues to
the fate of the legendary parachutist.

Special agent Ken Moore of Seat-
tle, in charge of the digging, said a
geolosist'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
warned himself by a campfire during

'3 respite trom the érigid digging, the
mney came downstream, and proba-
bly reacked the Columbia 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 eur-
rents, fromm the Lewis River — which
drains Lake Merwin. where Cooper
has jong been thought to have per-
ished.

Moore thought for a few moments,
then said:

"Tourists whe want to ook for

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"Because of strong wind currents,
and other variables, we could have —
been a little off in our original esd
meres."

According to Pringle, enly one
money bund!e from the $200,600 hi-
jack ransoin was found on this beach
nine miles downstream from the
bridge over the Columbia River at
Vancouver.

But since Cooper had ali of his
money in one canvas container, ac-

cording to Moore, if any of the money.

is scattered -~ atl of it is tikely to be
scattered.

Cooper, whose real identity bas
never been learned, literally dropped
out of sight the night he plunged
{rom the airliner. He had collected his
bijack e loot in Seattle — buudies of
money wrapped in a package six
inches bigh, one foot across, and

about 1S inches fong — later stuffed |

into a bag tied to his waist.

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

more Cooper money probably siowd—o jt was "Seatile day" at the FBI dig-

{- jook on the Washougal River."
All of which indicates that Cooper,
With $200,000 in a canvas suitcase

strapped te his body, jumped froma .

Noruiwest Airlines Boeing 727 a little

southeast of the point originally esti .

niated by the FBL
Hie apparently landed southeast dt

Lake Merwin whick is just off +5 near .

Woodland, in the drainage of the

_ Washougal River, or nearby streams,
in hilly, wooded country.

"There is nothing infaltibte about

our original estimate of where he

landed," said Jobn Pringle, assistant -

special agent in charge of the Seattle

gings on the Columbia River yester-

day. The previous day, 10 FBI agents.
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entrance to the Fazio property to
eep the public out. '
Sand was piled around the original
money discovery area. because the
FB! had beer using a backhoe to ex-

. cavate there. Agents were working -

yesterday with shovels and rakes,
Moore said a Portland Stale Un-
iversily Geologist is the one who de
termined that the money hed ftoatedti
ento the beach within the last two}
years. i
This, Moore said, was based on ad
determination that there is only about
six to eight incbes of sand on this
beach, 3nd -bepeath it ts a clay thet
was placed bere by a-channet dredg-
ing project carried out in 1974. .
fhe cley, he said, appears "unidis-
turbed," but the sand coatains-soft -
drink containers aad other debris

from pienickers. 'It appears to be of
recent origin, end the money was
found only Pabout three to six inches

+ deep in it.

Moore said tbe Army Corps of En-

' gineers had scutticd the theory that

fhe money kad drifted upstream with

soa currents from the mouth of the

Lewis River, waick enters the Coluite -
bia downsireaim from here. '

"I talked to the engineers, and
"they said that if is most unlikely that
anything dérifled upstream against the
current," Moore sal.

if no more ine ney is found, the :
FBI's digging on the beach will end

today, Moore said.
uBR mM But he expressed the belief that -
'the departure of the FHI will not end'

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accomplished with a sweep of his
hand Sunday something the PBI has
been trying to do for more than cight
years.

Brian Ingram, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Dwayne Ingram of Van-
couver, provided the first major
breakthrough in the D.B. Cooper
skyjacxing case when he accidental-
ly uncovered part of Lhe $200,000 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 FBi said Tuesday the
discovery of more than $3,000 in bad-
ly deteriorated $20 bills was made
Sunday while the Ingram family was
on an outing on a Columbia River
beach ebout five miles northwest of
Vancouver on the Washington side,

Meantime, the FBI is conducting

area Where (he money was found.
Agents reported finding bits and
pieces of money Tuesday afternoon,
some of it as deep as three feet in
;5and.
i However, the pieces were so small
rit was not possible io determine the
| amount of money. ;
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
hydrologisl, George Holmes, said he
would review information about
where the hijacker jumped in rela-
tion to where the money was found.

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By Bud May ,

The Daily News

PORTLAND -— An 8-year-old boy ,

an intensive grid search of the beach .

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ithe only Columbia tributary that

»might have carried the cash, and:

even that is a remote possibility.
Not everyone shares that opinion.

{He said the Washougal River was"

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more clues «:

Some experts feel that because of -
the Columbia's currents, the money :

could have come from the Lewis
River and washed upstream.

The FRI has a'so contacted the Ar-
my Engineers, which eentinucusly
Gredges sand in that area, on the
chance that dredging brought the
Money up from the bottom of the
river. A spokesman for the Army
Engineers said today that it is a
definite possibility. While they con-
stantly dredge in that area, the last
time they deposited the dredged
sand on that beach was in October
1974,

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

"The packaging and numbered se-
uuence 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;

, Would 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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down, my son said, 'Wait a minute *
daddy.' He scooped off some sand,
and this inoney rolled to the top.''

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

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

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

He didn't etaborate 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 f could spend it.''

Ingram said the money, which
was displayed for reporters on a
table at the press conference, was

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

Retired FBI Agent Tom Manning
of Longview has held that theory for
several years, and still does.

The fact 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 ¢on-
viction 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 1972.

Because he worked so long on a

. ase that has never been solved, the
former resident agent has taken a
iot of ribbing from friends and ac-
quaintances.

"Some still call me D.B. Cooper,"
zhe said with a chuckle Tuesday
{ night.

Manning never believed the sky-

,jacker survived the jump with

* $200,000 in ransom money, and was
among the first to say so.

"y said several years ago that I
think he may be hung up on a snag at
the betfom of Lake. Merwin, and I
still think so,"' Manning said alter
learning Tuesday that some of the
ransom money had been found.

Manning said the fact that the
money was found upstream, rather
than downstream from the mouth of
the Lewis River, doesn't disprove
his theory.

He said it could have been moved
upstream by tides and currenis.

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
cash that far upstream.
"However," Holines, emphasized,
"Yy not taking issue in any: way
:With the theory of where the hijacker
may have come down after Jeaving
the plane, or where the rest of the
money might be.'
hianning recalls vividly Lhe inten-

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

He says Charles Parreli 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 206 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 8:10p.m.

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

"Using the same aircraft, we
made some testis 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 aver the Pacific
Ocean off the Hoquiam bombing -
range for the testis. Also present was
the same fiight engineer wha 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 ;
same as they were at the time he 4 3
bailed out," Manning recalled. i

The airstair was lowered, and the ;
sleds dropped.

"The engineer said the plane -
reacted the same as it had before '
when the weight was released,"
Manning said Tresday,

According to Manning, the PBIp
and the airline were convinced then}
{hat the man calling himself D.B.{-
Cooper bailed out of the jet in the}
Lewis River area, and nothing" has
happened to shake that belief.

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The Dally News - "Even the BI is going to be able to figure that one |,

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

They also wonder whether they should have paid
more attention to the sand dredging operations atong
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, startl-

- gd by occasional passing cars.

Less than 10 houses are along the 12-mile stretch of
beach road. Most of the land belongs to large dairy

farms. The Fazio Bros. Sand Co. also fronts the river.

A road leading through the Fazio gate is a popular:
path fo the heach. It is the same path used by the
family the day they found the money. On the east side

_ of Fazio Bros. is Leeward Isle Marina, with a public

fishing boat launch and one or two hotise boats.
During fishing season, the beach is packed from

send to end, say local residents Clarence and Barbara
; Ellis. 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 outboard skiff along

Tina Bar patrolling the river and the beach for

renegade logs that could damage other boats.

; Els says that the Army Corps of Engineers con-
linuously dredges sand directly off the shore from
where the money was found.

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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 fast time sand was
deposited in that spot was in October 1974, .
Another resident of the area said that the maney
was found too far from the water to have washed up.
"It had to be the dredging. Maybe V'll 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 Jess than the $3,000 orginally 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 showing.up on *

the same beach their children grew up on,

"To think J 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. i 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. Bul she added that she would have turned it
in. "Somebody could have lost it," she said.

The beach property actually belongs to the Hans
Egger family of Vancouver. A baby sitter at the home
Said the Eggers were on vacation in California. They
learned the money had been found on their property
when they listened to a television newscast Tuesday
night. _ '

"Phey were shocked," said the baby sitter. -

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Shortly after takeoff, he
handed a note to stewardess | _
Florence Schaffner.

Thinking the man was try- ph
ing to "hustle" her, she stuff 43
. ed the note in her purse, but he .
motioned for her to read it.

The note said he had a
bomb, and wanted to go to
Mexico.

While the jet circled Seattie
. before landing, the skyjacker
- also ordered that $200,000 cash
and four parachutes he
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
gman andhisransom. |
. AS it flew south, the rear
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.

Thus began the legend of} -
D.B. Cooper (the name Dan
Cooper somehow got lest in
news media accounts of the in-
cident.)

Cooper has never been )
found, but interest in the case |
is still strong, and flared Tues- +
Gay when the FBI announced,
a Vancouver family had found
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FSI 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 be parachuted from a skyjacked
' airliner in November 1971.

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

One partly decomptsed bundle of
marked $20 bills from the Cooper loot
was found Sunday by a family pic-
nicking beside the river nine miles

. below Vancouver.

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

_ earlier this week.

Cooper is believed to Rave 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.

Williams 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, Patmer told

the FBI. ,

Pringle said tbat 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 he skyjacked it.

Brent Baskfield, a Northwest pub-;,
lic relations officer in St. Paul, Minn.,|
said Northwest paid the money Ly |

has been reimbursed for most of it by
The Globe Insurance Co. in | New York

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' Federal Bureau of Investigation treasure hunters re-
turned to a cold and sandy Columbia River beach down-
'stream from Vancouver, Wash., today seeking more clues
| to the eight-year-old D.B. Cooper skyjacking mystery.
, The F.B.1. mixed a little science and technology with
a lot of old-fashioned elbow grease yesterday in continued
digging at the beach. Agents continued to find scraps of
$20 bilis in the area where a picnicking Vancouver family
found three bundles of money Sunday. Plas
Through serial numbers, those decomposed bundles
of bills have been identified as "'several thousand.dolJars"
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.I. 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'

been since the hijacking. : 3

F.B.1. agents said the money still was packaged in $

_ the same order as it was given to the hijacker. The geoto-
* gist said the money probably had been there for less than
two years.

Kenneth Moore, a Seattle F.B.1, agent assigned to,
the case, said, "One reason for conducting an exhaustive
search of this area would be to find other indications of

' what happened — pieces of clothing,
jof parachute or human remains, which in this case would
'be only bones." |

_ The beach area is 744, miles northwest of Vancouver
'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
the Columbia River beach, or that the search site might _
give any clue besides additional pieces of money. The f
round shape of the wads of money suggested that the cash
could have tumbled along the river bed, agents said.

The farmers whe own the shoreland, Al and Richard';
Fazio, said the place where the money was found is per
odicaily 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 bys
'Dr. Leonard Palmer, Portland State geologist.' 7
~ Palmer said the scraps of money had been found in.
looser sand, nol in dredging spoils. The river last was};
dredged there in 1974, . : .

° Moore said the méager evidence suggests the hi-
jacker "may have landed in the water, although not nec- ,
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'placed this week by speculation he could have landed in|
the Washougal River watershed. The Lewis River enters |
downstream from the search area, the Washougal up-+
stream from Vancouver.
But Moore said there were no plans to search upriver
"unless evidence leads us to a more specific area."
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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 locked as if the Harold Ingram family
is out of luck. Ingram's son, Brian, 8, uncovered the.
money, « - ¢ .-

"As far as I know, all reward offers have been can-*;"
celed," a Portland F.8.1. agent, Bill 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.

"Qur loss was covered by our insurance and so we .
aré out of the situation now," he said.

Ralph Himmelsbach, a Portland F.B.1. 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 ieast that he (Cooper) never spent -
this money, and we know that none of the money he was
given has ever turned up in circulation." (-

Himmelsbach said Cooper's skeleton probably neveri,
will be found if it is in the forested mountain area where}
he is supposed to have landed. -4

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By KERRY WEBSTER
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It's more likely than ever that
_ the legendary D. B. Cooper is just a
"grinning skeleton in a nylon shroud,
say FBI agents raking the sand for
the last of his mouldering stash.

"The discovery of the money
adds credence to the theory that he
probably did not survive the jump,"
said Bill Williams, a special agent
in Portland,

On the north bank of the Coluin- *

bia River today, more than 30 FBI
agents worked behind a cordon of
armed sheriff's deputies, spading
over every square foot of sand
along 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

_ $20 bills.

Serial numbers on the money —
12 stacks of twenties, still in their
bank wrappings — matched some
of those given to "Dan Cooper"
when he hijacked Northwest Air-
lines Flight 365 on Thanksgiving
Eve, i971.

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
$200,009 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-

i ing town in Southwest Washington.

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

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

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 Portland press confer-
ences yesterday.

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

"There is no way we can tell if he
is dead or alive," said John Pringle,

assistant agent in charge of the

Seattle office. "We only know that
if he is 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 told 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 fleod
records, aiso," added Portland
agent Williams today. "That'll tell

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the Columbia below the money site,
and its origins are deep in the
woods over which Cooper is be-
lieved to have jumped.

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

Pringle said Cooper jumped
with the money tied around his
waist, and he said he believed "Gat
was in a bag which would have de-
teriorated over this length of
time."

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

"We could find bones, or a piece f-

of parachute," he said. "Nylon does }°

not deteriorate rapidly."

Agents using spades and rakes

have discovered a few more pieces

- 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 origina! 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 Ariel, 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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soil, archeology and river currents
to a sandy Columbia River beach
west of here today to seek more
clues into the 8-year-old D.B. Coo-
_ per hijacking mystery.

An 8-year-cld boy Sunday uncov-
ered on the beach a smail part of

. the $200,000 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.I. agents yesterday found
more fragments of $20 bills while
'dipying at the beach. Paul Hud-
son, the F.B.1.'s on-site coordina-
tor, said the fragments — the size
of nickels and quarters — were
found as much as 5 feet away
from where the money was found
Sunday. Some fragments were 3
feet under the surface.

ito determine possible ways the
"money reached the beach, The
griver recently covered the beach,
he said,

Hudson also noted that the Co-
jumbia River channel is dredged
periodically and sand from the riv-
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for 10 years. The money wasn't
very deep. If it had been here (a
fong time) I think we'd have seen
it." .
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from a tributary to the Columbia.

An Army: Engineers hydrologist .

said that the Washougal River was

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carried the money. The Washou-

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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
last night the telephones at the
| Ariel Store & Tavern were "ring-
ing off the hook" said Dave Fish-
er, the owner,

Ariel happens to be near Lake
Merwin, and a number of theorists

gone into the reservoir behind the
Aciel dam. :

Since 1976 the Ariel Tavern has
hosted an annual D.B, Cooper par-
ty on November 24. the anniversa-
ry Of the hijacking in 1971. Every
year 209 to 300 people have shown
up to eat buffalo stew and see
whether Cooper would afswer the
- Standing invitation to. join the
party.

He never has, of course.

«Fisher bought the tavern and
the tradition 15 months ago, and
"until 3:30 yesterday afterndéon, "I
, wasn't expecting a thing tonight.
* it's pretty dead in winter."

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given to the tnjacker had been
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"uncovered the loot. {
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-
Tadio stations ail over the West,
Coast. : DoE
Only about' 20 or 30 patrons
were in the Ariel Tavern last-
night, and most were paying as-
much 'attention to playing pool as
to the Couper talk, A weekly Tues-
day-night pool match with the Riv- .
erside Tavern in Woodland had
been moved to Ariel iast night at'
| the request of a Portland televi-
sion station interested in filming
reaction to the discovery of the.
money, -
Fisher and others said they
were mystified as to how the mon-
ey arrived on the banks of the Co- ,
lumbia River, but they siill would -
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jacker didn't survive after he'
; bailed out of the Boeing 727. ,

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Passengers on Flight. 305 re-
-tmembered the man -as a quiet-

suit. He took the last seal on the
right-hand side of the Northwest
. Orient Abline's flight out of Port-
land-heading for Seattle. "

The only thing unusual about
the rhan was that he wore sun
_giasses, unusual because it was a
rainy day on November 24, 1971, a
day before Thanksgiving.

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

the man who became known as

with $200,000 in $20 bills, two para-
_ Chutes and a briefcase which Coo-
per told the stewardess contained
~a bomb. os
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'ington, D.B. Cooper had bailed out
at 10,000 feet into dark storm
clouds and inio history. He would
romain to this day the only hi-
jacker in the United States ever to
escape arrest,

Over the last seven years, the
F.B.1, has questioned more than
1,000 possibie suspects, chased.

who claim either to be Cooper or,
to know his whereabouts.

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packets of $20 bills while on a pic"
nic with his family along the Co-
lumbia River, law-enforcement of-,
ficers only assumed D.B. Cooper
jumped over Southwest Washing-

spoken sort wearing a dark brown" ton. The plane's recorder showed

a "low pressure bump" at 8:1}
p.m. near Woodland, and when the
plane landed in Reno, the hijacker
couldn't be found.

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

But within days of the 'hijacki

By the time the plane finally set "ing, the legend of D.B, Cooper
down in Reno several houvs later, '"

Started to build, People started th

"D.B. Cooper" was gone, along "talk about him as a modern-day

Robin Hood. They admired the
daring, the planning and the ex-
ecution of the jump.

Slowly but surely, the reports of
encounters with Cooper started to
come out. A man in Woodland said
someone knocked at his back door
on November 24 about the time
Cooper would have fanded, but he
didn't answer. Other people start-
ed turning in friends who looked

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'Kitsap County men were arrested,
for selling a fake interview with)
Cooper to a former contributing}

editor of Newsweek for $30,000,
a Five months ago, two Tacoma
nen said they had talked with
iD.B. Cooper, who, they said, was
diving in Puyallup. The man toid
them that the money was buried
under a pile of garbage at the
Puyallup dump.

Mostly, however, peopie 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-
, far, and there even was a song

_ written. 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 the event. The fes-

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tivai, cailed the "Cooper Caper,"

featured buffalo stew and sky
'divers and attracted 'more than
809 people. But not, apparently,
D.B, Cooper, .

- As for the two Federal Bureau
of Investigation agents who have
been on the case since it began,

poo Say they believe D.B. Cooper

probably died the night he went |

like Cooper, in hopes of collecting

«© (he $25,080 reward.

.. Then the stories started to ap-
down thousands of feads and. .pear. The now defunct Seattle
heard from hundreds of 'people: . Flag ran several pages of purport: |
ed interview with Cooper, and two;

But if 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
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"It is my personal opinion that
he is dead," said Joseph O'Con-
inell, who has retired. "He jumped
oul of a plane at 10,000 feet on a
coid, raw night and he jumped in
an area densely populated witl
Douglas fir and ponderosa pine."

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By Neil Modie

FBI agents yesterday found bits of
more $20 bills buried in the sand be
side the Columbia River near Van-
couver, Wash., and said it was mere of
the 3200,000 ransom collected in 1971 }
by airline hijacker D.B. Cooper.

Agents speculated earlier in the
flay that the muck and sand the
money was buried in may Rave bean
dredge material. But they discounted
that theory after a geologist examined
the site, about 10 miles northwest of
Vancouver. °

"His (the geologist's) feeling is tha!
the probabilities are that the material
was washed ashore rather than (being

rin) dredged sand," FBI - Agent Ralph
Himmelsbach of Portland teid The
Post - Intelligencer last night.

t Children on a family outing on
Sunday found the first half - decom-
posed packets of $20 hills with which
Cooper had parachuted from a North-
west Orient jetliner on Thanksgiving
Eve, Nov. 24, 1971.

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

The money was found farther
downriver from Vancouver than FRI
agents had estimated Tuesday, when °
they announced the discovery, and it '
caused Himmelshach to return io the
theory he has had since 1971 that
Cooper landed — dead or alive —~ in
the vicinity of Lake Merwin on the
Lewis River about 25 miles north of
Vancouver. .

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iing tock place, said he believes the
dozen packets of greenbacks were
'gradually washed down the Lewis
River and into the Columbia River]
Then, he said, ocean tides could have
pushed them several miles up' the
Colunibia to where they were found.
There was speculation Tuesday

. Iaebt for parachuting," Himmelsbach

-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 ke parachuted from the airtin-
er, drop the money on the way down?

"That's a good possibility," Him-
melsbach said. "There's also the possi-
bility that he just took the money, aad
neither he nor the money left there

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"T feel this is an indication that'
probably he didn't make it (alive), and
it has heen my feeling that probably ~
he didn't make it because of the cir- $
cumstances of the jump and the fact +
that.he didn't have the proper equip- ;

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continued.

"He-didn't havea hardhat, goggles,

leather gloves, jump suit or jump
boots. He didn't bave any of those |
things aud he sure needed them all.
"don't. think the fall killed him," :
"Himmelsbach theorized, "but there '
~was that sudden stop. I think probablys

_ there was good likelihood ke was in:
-"jured during the fa and didn't have

any help. . . and was unable to extri:t
cate himself from wherever he fell). '
And probably is still there."

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

There was no trace at the site of ©
the legendary extortionist nor of his
pbarachute, and Himmelsbach indi-
cated he didn't expect to find such
evidence there.

The ransom money was given to

»Cooper' at Seattie - Tacoma Interna-
tional Airport after he threatened to
biow up the 727 trijet while on a flight

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jowed all the passengers and all 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.
Sunday's find was particularly sat-

. "isfying for Himmelsbach, who on Feb.

29 is scheduled to retire from the FBI
tafter a career of nearly 29 years —
more than eight of which were spent
trying to solve the Cooper caper. The
discovery of the money was ie firsts
solid break in the case. iH
"Ti doesn't increase m ¥j

, cetirement) annuity any, but it does}
, make me happy," Himmelsbach said.

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More than cight years after D.B.
Cooper parachuted into rainy dark-
ness from a hijacked airliner, part of
- his $200,000 foot was found buried in a

river bank near Vancouver, Wasb., the
FBI announced yesterday. -

Badly weathered and apparently
washed ashore from the Columbia
River, the stacks of $20 bills say noth-
Ing encouraging about the fate of the
legendary hijacker.

"It can tell you a number of things
~~ either he dropped the money or
he's dead," commented Jobn D. Prin-
gle, assistant special agent in charge
of the FBI office in Seattle. "We can't
tell at this point." .

For Ralph Himmelsbach of Port.
land, the F8I agent in charge of the
mvestigation since it began, the dis-
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Denise, as they were digging in the
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"Phis clue is the first we've nad
since the night of the occurrence,"
said Bil! Baker, assistant special agent
in charge of the Portland office,
which the Ingram family contacted on
Monday. -

* The money was found about 25
- miles southwest of the area where the
_' FBI had thought it most likely Cooper
landed after be parachuted from the
jetliner into a freezing rainstorm on
Nov. 24, 1972.
The hijacker, who had used the
name "Dan Coover" to buy bis airline
_ ticket, boarded the jet in Portland,
" threatened to blow jt up with what he'
claimed was a bomb in his briefcase,
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Cooper allowed 36 passengers
board the flight to leave, then or-
dered the crew of four to fly it to
Reno after $200.080 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
and street shoes — parachuted
through a rear stairwell decor. - .
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VANCOUVER, Wash. — (AP)
-~ Brian Ingram, the 8-year-old
who uncovered some of D.B. Coo-
per's hijack loot, will get to keep
one of the frayed $20 bills as a

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The Federal Bureau of Investi-,.
gation also gave the Vancouver'
boy 4 Certificate praising him for -
his discovery.

_ Brian was helping his father,
'Harold, build a fire on a Columbia .
'River beach February 10 when he.
"uncovered three bundles of weath-
Jered $20 bills, The bills were the}
first evidence uncovered in the
case since Cooper hijacked the?
jetliner ir in 1971, |

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' VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — It started as 2 Sunday |
Ipicnie on a chilly river beach for a Vancouver, Wash.,!
family and became a new chapter in the legend of D.B.
coper.

With one sweep of his arm, 8-year-old Brian Ingram

find — a bundle of $2v bilis, now deteriorated, demanded
by the infamous, parachuting skyjacker in 1971. .
Tuesday night in an interview with the Vancouver Col-
umbian, Brian, his father, H. Dwayne, and his mother,
Patricia, recounted the events of a casual outing that

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~ The Ingrams, who moved here from Oklahoma iM
than a year ago, said they were aware of the D.B. Coope:
saga but did net connect it to their find.

Neither did the buried treasure put a damper on thel

'afternoon activities. 'We had a picnic," said Ingram.
"We forgot about the money and had a great time."

Back home about 5:30 p.m. Sunday, the bills, erroded

~ into lozenge-shaped iles, were placed unceremoniousl
discovered Sunday whai thousands of searchers failed to ! atopa kitchen cabinet to dry. , "

"t was thinking about decoupaging them and putting
them on a board," said Mrs. Ingram, 26.

"I thought it might have been mob meney or lost
money. f just didn't know what to think, but it was just

unearthed what one official called the '"'most important | money that looked useless to me."

Giscovery'' in the 8%-year-old case. At the same time,
the elder Ingram described finding several thousand
dollars of soggy cash as heartbreaking" without a pen-
ny of reward money in sight.

The family and two relatives were walking along the
Columbia River near a sand company about 3:30 p.m.

Monday, during his 10 a.m. coffee break, Ingram cail-
ed a tocal bank to see whether the battered bills could be-
exchanged for new ones, A bank employee told him it
could be done if the serial numbers were intact, but add-
ed a check would be made of the numbers.

Ingram Said he brooded on that the rest of the day and

Sunday. They decided to gather wood for a fire to take 7 is catled the Portland FBI office Monday evening, reading?

'the chil! off the 40-degree tem perature. . i

"y gather ed an armload: of firewood," said Ingram, 28, |
:4 painter for U-Cart Manufacturing, a Vancouver firm.
"He (Brian) was doing his part, happy and enthusiastic.
I was about ready to set the wood down and he said,
'Waita minute, Daddy."

Brian, a second-grader at Hough Elementary School,
knelt beneath his father to smooth a spot for the fire. He
swept the river sand only once, uncovering three worn
bundles of $20 bills.

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

Unknown to them, Brian had uncovered part of a
$200,800 ransom handed over to a man calling himself

| Dan Cooper on Nov. 24, 1971. Cooper demanded the cash

,aS ransom and hijacked a Northwest Airline Boeing 727

jet i in Seattle.

iout from the jet's rear-stairway with the pundled money:

wrapped in a parachute and tied to his body. :

Authorilics believe he jumped over southwest
Washington,

sever al serial numbers to an agent. i
i
, When Ingram called back 30 minutes later, "they said
they'd like to talk to me."'

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

Tuesday evening, the coupie watched themselves on
national television. By then, they had grown weary of
the day's hectic activities and exuded disappointment in
learning that apparently no reward awaits their hones-
ty.
vats just heartbreaking that nothing may come of
this," Ingram said.

"went from a rich man to a poor man without hardly
making a move.'

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

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Cooper's skyjacking and

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ago has been rekindied 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, -
qO0O ransom. - +

The saga which ichanged 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 be was carrying a bomb ina
satchel and wanted $200,000 in
unmarked $20 bills.

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Seattle-Tacoma International Air-
port that evening, authorities had
arranged the cash and had also

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26 passengers and all crew mem:
bers but two pilots and one stew-

ardess_to disembark. He_then
ordered the aircraft to take off for

} Reno, Nev,

'At.one point in that fight, the
crew felt a fluctuation in cabin
pressure. which suggested the jet-
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, PORTLAND (UPI) — Ralph
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headed the D.B. Cooper case sincé
ihe 1971 hijacking, outlines this
"possible scenario" to explain how
some of the Cooper money
washed up on the beach west of
Vancouver: .
"Probably the money (in the
bag) came down close to the bank
of a stream. When the water got
high enough
stream, bumping along the bot-
tom. The bag finally degraded.
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think finally, turnbling down the .
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DECEMBER 14, 1977

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MR. A. M. ROBINSON, POST OFFICE BOX 58, PECK, rpaHo

83545, CORRESPONDED WITH "THE OREGONIAN", MAJOR PORTLAND,
OREGON, NEWSPAPER, TO ADVISE THAT HE HAS A SUSPICIOUS $20 BILL
AND WANTED IT CHECKED AGAINST THE RANSOM MONEY IN THIS CASE.
ROBINSON, WHO APPEARED TO BE AN ELDERLY MAN, DID NOT FURNISH
THE SERIAL NUMBER OF THIS BILL.

IT IS REQUESTED THAT BUTTE PROMPTLY CONTACT MR. ROBINSON
TO CHECK OUT THIS MATTER AND ADVISE PORTLAND AND SEATTLE OF
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PICIOUS AND POSSIBLY CONNECTED WITH COOPER HIJACKING IN 1971.
ROBINSON ADVISED OBTAINED $29.99 BILL FROM FIRST SECURITY
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male had been in his station on 4/4/74 and spent a
$20 bill, Serial L89409765C. After consulting the

list of ransom bills,

was advised that this

$20 bill was not identical to any $20 bill in the
ransom money.

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On 1/3/74| |
Rockville, Maryland, telephonically contacted WYO requesting
that a list of twenty dollar bills still outstanding in
comicetion with captioned matter be sent to| l,
| |The Ralles, Oregon. She stated
that this rcquest was prompted by reeent publicity appearing
in the Oreron Journal stating that such a list was avail-
able through local FBI Offices and a visit to] |
| ]who related captioned matter to her. She stated
that neither | |} are in possession of any
suspect twenty dollar bills nor do cither have any infor~
mation concerning caption matter and the list was merely
being requested as matter of curiosity.

The above information is being furnished the
Portland and Seattle Divisions since the office of origin
may decm it advisable for[____]to be interviewed to deternine
the basis for his interest in captioned matter.

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Enclosed for receiving offices is one copy
each of a letter raceived 11/15/73, registered mail,
registry number 17427, from| }
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Orient Airlines (NWAL), Minneapolis, Minnesota, was
contacted 11/15/73, and he advised that judgment was
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November 13, 1973

Special Agent | |
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392 Federal Building

110 S. 4th

'Minneapolis, Minn. 55401

Bear | k '

This tetter is in regards to the parachuting skyjacking on
November 24, 1971 of a Northwest Airlines plane between Seattle,
Washington and Reno, Nevada. This case has, so far, not been
solved and the skyjacker who collected $200,000 is known only as
0.B. €eoper. .

tn a telephone 'conversation on November 8, 1973 withL__|
[_sjat Northwest Airlines, St. Paul, Minnesota, we discussed on
rewards offered in this case.' He told me of rewards having been ° ©
offered of 10% of recovered amounts, or possibly $25,000 if all

is recovered. | |also totd me of a Seattle newspaper

offering $5000. :

By telephone conversation on November 6, 1973 and personal meeting
on Newember 8, 1973, | ] gave.
information to special agent Bob Stranger of the Wilshire Office
of the F.B.I. in Los Angeles. This information concerened
possibilities of a| Jas a
suspect in the November 24, 1971 skyjacking. Since November 8,
1973 we have had other contacts with Special Agent Bob Stranger.

This itmformation re-opened the investigation of | | as
@ suspect. Until the November 8, 1971 meeting between Special
Agent Bob Stranger and | Jhad been presumed

lon November 21, 1973 (three days before the sky-

jacking}. We gave evidence that he is alive and also clues that
there might be a link between him and the skyjacking. bie

This letter is to serve as claim to any. such available rewards
should| Jbé brought to justice in connectiosi with the
parachuting skyjack of November 24, 1971 of the Northwest Airline.
Any reward is to be kept absolutely confidential and is to be
| | Glendale,
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On June 1, 1973, BILL CLAUSNER, Sheriff of
Stevenson, Washington, advised that $480 worth of $20
hills, 1950 series, were found in a home in North Bonney-
ville, Washington. CLAUSNER advised an elderly lady was
living in the home and moved to Goldendale, Washington,
to be nearer her family. The elderly lady is named Mrs.
MIDLAND, according to CLAUSNER.

. Subsequent to her move, an envelope was dis-
covered in the vacant home containing the $20 bills.
CLAUSNER advised all of the $20 bill serial numbers were
run through NCIC, as well as compared with serial numbers
on the D. B. COOPER ransom list. There was no match
either in NCIC or with the D. B. COOPER ransom list.

Tt is noted all the D. B. COOPER ransom serial
numbers have been entered into NCIC,

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May i121, 1973

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On April 30, 1973,-|

Federal

Reserve Bank Official, was contacted, and he advised that
the average life expectancy of a $20 bill assuming normal
circulation patterns, would be approximately one and one-

haif years.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81 Sub M) 1/2/73
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During the trial of| | and
|; it was

necessary to testify that a microfilm had been prepared
of the ransom money paid to the hijacker of Northwest
Airlines Flight 305. In tracing back the preparation of
the microfilm, the following information was revealed:

Through |

| Seattle-First National Bank, it was

learned that the actual microfilming of the money was
done by their employee, | |

| who can be located at telephone
number | le

On December 14, 1972, | | advised that
the money was microfilmed on a Recordak Model RW600, by

| He advised that the machine normally takes

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both the front and back sides of the document but in
the case of the filming of the money, they blocked out
the back of the bill as well as one half of the front
side.

At issue in the testimonies of |
was whether or not there could be some distortion in the
numbers of the bills due to the fact they were taken at
an angle. | | who is familiar with these machines,
stated that although a series of mirrors is used to record
the images of the checks or money, the surface of the
document must be square to the film plane. Therefore, he
advised there is no angle and no known distortion.

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COOPER ransom money. He was advised of the amount as weil
as the fact that the reward would vary with the portion of
ransom money recovered. The individual then said "that
don't sound like enough,"and hung up.

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the NORJAK ransom money. K4 was originally submitted to the
Laboratory by Seattle with an airtel dated April 26, 1972.
K4 was returned to Seattle as an enclosure to Laboratory t
report dated May 1, 1972. Seattle resubmitted K4 with an
airtel dated May 3, 1972, and it has been maintained in the
Laboratory since that date. K4 is enclosed herewith.

Two documents designated Q46 and Q47 were received -
from Atlanta on May 1, 1972. Q46 and Q47 are the receipts
involved in 'this matter and were returned to Atlanta as

enGlosures to Laboratory report addressed to Seattle dated
May 3, 1972. Atlanta will furnish these receipts to Seattle
as requested in retel.

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NORJAK. 00: SEATTLE.

RE MINNEAPOLIS NITEL TO BUREAU AND SEATTLE, )
OCTOBER FIVE,. SEVENTYTHO.

MINNEAPOLIS IS REQUESTED TO RECONTACT MR- NYROP
AND OBTAIN HIS APPROVAL' FOR THE RELEASE OF THE FOLLOWING
INFORMATION TO THE NEWS MEDIA IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AREA:

"DONALD W. NYROP, PRESIDENT; NORTHWEST ORTENT
AIRLINES, MINNEAPOLIS DASH ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, HAS
'AUTHORIZED A FINDERS FEE OF TWENTYFIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS TOTAL
REWARD OR FIFTEEN PER.CENT OF ANY PORTION OF THE D. B. COOPER |
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The FBLi is hopefut that one of sever- '
al thousand deer hunters beating the
brush in Cowlitz and Clark counties
this fall may run across evidence of
D.B. Cooper (or whatever his name is}

who parachuted out of a jetliner nearly
4a year ago with about 40 pounds of $20

Spits.
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. J. E. Milnes, special agent i in charge
at Seattle, asks hunters or campers to ~
.contact the FBI if any | of- the following
is noticed: Jp Hl
{1) The 'remains 'of. a 'man, "possibly
deadforoneyear. . - Leecher PS
: * {2) The remnants of a parachute,
' harness or parachute shroud lines... %
. (3) Ten thousand $20 bills wrapped i in
a parachute canopy. The_serial nun

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-erating with the FBI.and will distribute
'thousands anes letters asking hunt-
ers for their ee. and | outlining what to bers are known and can be identified, .
- (4) Deteriorated raincoat, or: "ove
Le at, ovo Bee yr cbt ee? ABE zz .
-"](5) Small briefcase or attache oak i
\ "Tom Manning, special FBI agent fa:
pngview, urged anyone having any
information concerning this matter
, report to the nearest FBI office or call,
the Seattle office collect, MA2-0460. .:7
"The area where the search is being . .
ee centrated is bound on thé west by.
Interstate Highway 5, on the south by.
-the Columbia River, on the north ay,
the Kalama River, and on the east | iy
the Skamania-Clark county line. . .. Ye

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"The Daily News

Date: 10/3/72

Edition: Afternoon

Author: Dick Pollock
Editor: JOhn McClelland

Title:

NORJAK

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/_ Referenced memorandum contained information regerdingl ov
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thatL_s— sd had changed his original Location of a currency
cache to a spot approxtmately 2% miles east of the original Location.
It should be noted that the new location is approximately on line be

of flight of the hijacked aircraft as set forth on original maps b7c

and in other data, and also approximately 1% miles from Point A, b7D

of a triangulated search are ay in a northerly direction,

On 8/3/72 the writer, | | and | Jwent to th

intersection of County Roads "16 and 32 in Clark County where

and | | evhibited time honored techniques 66
|. This resulted in producing —

what they concluded to be the direction and approximate Location 67D

of a large sum of currendy. Three other reference points were
Located on County Road 20 and us ing the same method angles were
determined setting up a triangle in which this large amount of
currency is believed to be Located by | lp

Oneother reference point, being Point A (Supra), was located,
after which both] jyusing their technique produced
an angle which when extended appearedto contact the previously
established Location within the triangle. .

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; Mans explaing the above information are attached to this nea
; communications
The writer to test the veracity of the tebhnique used hid
small_sums of currency in various locations and observed both
: Locate the hidden currency using the Dul- M
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81 SUB G) 7/26/72

SA CHARLES E. FARRELL

NORJAK

RE: FILM OF RANSOM MONEY

During the investigation of the story appearing
in the "Seattle Flag" the microfilm of the ransom money
was sent to the FBI Lab via pilot courier on Northwest
Airlines flight 78 leaving Seattle at 9:15 a.m. on May 4,
i972 and was to be picked up on arrival at Dulles Airport
at 5 p.m. by the Alexandria Office (See 164~81-3181 ~- daily
summary) .

The original communication to Alexandria is Seattle
teletype dated May 4, 1972, serial 164-81-3076.

In view of the fact that the case against[____]

Jwill be going to

trial, the Bureau is not being requested at this time to
return the film inasumch as certain exhibits might he
requested of the Laboratory concerning the $20. bills in
the | | case,

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SA CHARLES E. PARRELI
NORIJAK

After receipt from the New York Office of a
Xerox copy of the three $20 bills which had been involved
in the manuscript prepared by | | the original
microfilm made of the ransom money itself, was reviewed on
4/25 and 26/72 on a viewer at the Federal Reserve Bank by
SAs [| Jand the three bilis
bearing serial numbers L 54904730 A, L 33529797 A and
L 20168977 A, were located and marked on the film. As
each bill was located on the viewer, a print thereof was made.

Attached as part of this momo is a print of
each of the bills from the microfiln.

A review of the Xerox copies of the original
microfilm shows that the Xerox copies were bogus.

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DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111) ayeas72

—LEGAT, COPENHAGEN (164-3) (RUC)

NORJAK

ReBuairtels 11/29/71 and 12/7/71.
The ransom list and photographe furnished to

this office were disseminated to all Scandinavian police

departments with the request that practical and appro- -
priate dissemination be made and that the composite
drawing of the Unsub be disseminated to parachute clubs -

and associated groups in as effort to affect identifica~ 7

tion of the Unsub. —

Since no positive resulting information. haz been
received, this case is being closed. Bureau, however,
will be promptiy informed of any eubroquont information
which may be developed.

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4/26/72
AIRTEL AIRMAIL ~

TO: DIRECTOR, FSI (164-2111) .
ATTENTION: FBI LABORATORY

FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (€164~81)(P)

SUBJECT: NORJAK
OO; SEATTLE

Being sent to the Bureau hy pilet courier is one
roll of microfilm listing the ranson paid in the captioned
case,

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Making references to the xerox, copies of three $20
bills which allegedly were in the possession of person

identified as "D. &. COOPER" and given tol Is b6
located on the microfilm and warked with a small piece of b7C
tape. These $20 bilis are as follows:
LS8S908730A, series 1963
L33529797A, series 1969
L20168977A, series 1969
It was noted that only the right half of the
bill was micrefilmed. When these bills wre located on the
microfilm, a print was.msde and a copy tes included.
It is presumed the Bureau already has a xerox copy
of the three bills with the corner folded over as originally
made available te Seattle.
The above film is being sent via Northwest Airlines
Plight 78, departing Seattle at 9:15 a.m. April 27, 1972,
Pacific Standard Time, and arriving Dulles International
Airport, 4:55 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, April 27, 1972.
~~ Bureau (1 - package copy)
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) |) 8/27/72

ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

 NORJAK
sal called from the airport and said he put b6
the microfilm on Flight #78, arriving Dulles Airport at re hes
. I called WFO and talked to Relief ¢ Supervisor

| who said they would meet the plane. Bb

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OPTIONAL FORM HO 10 (Ss EP?
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

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FILE (164-81) DATE: 4/26/72
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On 4/26/72 I called SA| |} at the Bureau.
I told him we had some representatives of the Secret
Service look at the Xerox copies of the bills purported to be
inL_] possession. b6
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I advised him that according to the Secret Service -
representatives there is always a capitalized letter and a jee
small number on the upper left-hand corner of each bill. wy
The same capitalized letter with the same or a different
number appears in the lower right-hand corner of the bill.

On Bill No. l the number and letter in the upper left
corner, according to the Xerox, is C 4. The microfilm of
this same bill, however, shows the letter in the lower right
corner of that same bill' to be H, the letter being obscured.
According to the Secret Service, both of these letters
should be the same and clearly they are not.

With Bill No. 2, according to the Xerox the letter
in the upper left corner is E 2, whereas the microfilm
is rather unclear but there appears to be an F in the lower
right corner.

He 'advised that the Bureau of engraving has looked
at the bills and-think that one of the digits in the serial
number of bill No. 1 is off.

. I told him we were endeavoring to locate the third
bill and would let him know when done. In the meantime we
were trying to get a clear look at Bill No. 2.

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PILE (164-81) . 4/25/72

SAC, SEATTLE

NORJAK
Re memo of SA| |dated 4/24/72, b6
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I suggested to SAl Jat the Bureau on b6

4/24/72 that he have the photostat of these bills examined by b7C
the Bureau of Engraving since it appeared to me there
were some discrepancies in the 9's in the bills.

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SAC, FORTIAND (164-41) (P)

NORJAER

For consideration of the Bureau, it is noted that
the Nation of Liberia, in Africa, utilizes as its legal
tender currency of the United States. It would appear that _
Any person wishing to exchange a quantity of 0. &. currency
in such @ manner as to ayoid connection with a crime
through idestifiable funds could do so there with @
minintim of exposure. Accordingly, it is suggested the _
Bureau may wish to diasemimite the ransom money ligt in
thia matter to appropriate Liborian authorities: throngh
liaison channels. -

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TO: SAC:

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Albuquerque

(7) Alexandria

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£} Balfimore

{_} Birmingham

E2 Boston

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Cincinnati
Cleveland
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C1] The enclosed. is for your information. ne used in a2 future report, [—} conceal al!
Sources, {[—} paraphrase contents,

CJ Enclosed are corrected pages from report of SA

Remarks;

100 copies of ransom list enclosed

150 Sketches being handled Separate and

be forward ed, ; Wy
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FROM

SAC, BALTIMORE (164-103) RUC

SUBJECT: NORJAK
- Re Seattle airtel to Baltimore, 3/16/72,
and Bureau airtel to all field offices, 12/7/71.

Referenced Seattle airtel eliminated suspect 7
| | the only suspect in Baltimore Division, b6
which had not been resolved. -. B7C

Referenced Bureau airtel requested that
proper dissemination be made to all parachute clubs
in each division concerning informatron °

Information was provided to the only two
active parachute clubs in Baltimore Division, Pelacan
Sports Aviation, Ridgely, Maryland and Southern Cross
Parachute Sport Club, Downsville, Maryland. Contact
with these clubs provided negative results.

in addition to contacting parachute clubs,
the list of ransom bills were distributed to all local
law enforcement agencies and major banks in the Baltimore
Division.

tf any positive information is developed in
Baltimore, it will expeditiously be forwarded to Seattle.

; . ) , SEARCHED.

- Baltimore . . APR . a
DFR/lrw oo 1972
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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 .
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT an

emorandum -

AC, SEATTLE (164-479) DATE: 3/29/72

From ;/ S&C, TAMPA (164-110) (RUC) SuB— | NM
—- Lb

Re Bureau airtel to all offices dated Koon.

TO

sGgject: NORJACK

For information of Seattle, the distribution of
ransom list, description and composite drawing have been
sent to all major police departments in the Tampa Division.
Contact with known parachute and skydiving clubs have
failed to develop any suspects." ~

@) - Seattle

1 - Tampa
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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) A/T/72 |
SA CHARLES E. FARRELL
NORJAK

RE: RANSOM MONEY

On 3/15/72 the Seattle Police Department advised
that they had received an anonymous call that two $20 bills
had been passed, apparently that evening, |

On 3/15/72 | |

|, when

"awised of the above information stated that to his knowledge

ho such money had been passed and readily made available fron

his cash registers and his safe, the only $20 bills he had in

his establishment. There were four in number and a check of these
against the ransom list reflected none te be identical.

| Jalso stated that he knew of no one fron[__]

| Jwho might have made such a call and neither he nor the

eople working | , observed anyone wing the pay phone
to make such a call.

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Date _4/4/72

Title

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TO =: SAC (164-81)(P) sa 0/72 —
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SUBJECT: NORJAK _
00: SEATTLE ;
a This confirms our telephone conversation this
ate.

At approximately 12:05 p.m. this date the writer
received a telephone call in the Spokane RA from a young
man who refused to reveal his identity but who advised as
follows: ° ys

; He first wanted to know
for the hijack money. He said he

if there is a reward
can take us to it<.and
is maintained.. He

even to the room next to where it
said he is concerned about prosecution himself as an
accessory or having knowledge. He has a bad record. He
was in jail when the hijacking took place. He said about
95% of the money is available but he could not teil me
how much money in dollars is involved which might indicate
he does not know how much was paid in ransom. He wants
guarantee of non-prosecution and no publicity. He said
the money is not in Spokane and not in this State. He
said he is interested in "hard cash" and wants to know
how much .he can get. :

The caller sounded coherent and clear and intelli-
gent. He was advised that no figure of 'reward could be
told to him now but that if he assisted in this matter
he would be reasonably and profitably compensated.

Later this afternoon, the writer was informed
by | Jthe "Spokane Daily Chronice" b6
that at approximately 12:30 p.m. | | b7C
of the "Chronicle" received a phone call from a young
man who apparently is the same person. that called the Aly me

writer.
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This person told[__]that he knows where the b6
money from the hijacking (he specifically mentioned Portland b7C
Bt to Seattle plane) is; that he is not from Spokane; that
F he is willing to give the paper the story on how ,it.developed;
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NR@ZS SE PLAIN

£135 PM NITEL 3/27/72 FEE

TO DIRECTOR (164-2111)
PORTLAND (164*41)

FROM SEATTLE (164-81) IP

NORJAK.

RE SEATTLE TEL TO THE BUREAU MARCH TWENTY-FOUR,

SEVENTY-Two.

SEATTLE, ADVISED THAT DUE TO THE EXTREMELY SENSITIVE NATURE OF[ |

THEY ARE UNABLE TO CONFIRM AT THIS TIME THE hrc

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SAC, SAN ANTONTO (164 121) (P)

NORJAK

oe ReSAairtel to SE, 2/15/72: and Glet to PD. 3/6/72.

The Lists of ransom bills paid in this case have
een circulated to banking institutions in the San Antonio |
Division and have also been made available to the base
exchanres on the military installations at San Antonio,
Texas.

. Continued contact with sources and local agencies
have not develoned any positive information as to thea identity
of this subject.

Investication is continuing coneerning other
specific leads which San Antonio has.

LEADS
SAN ANTONIO

AT SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. 'Will report results of
investigation under way at Killeen, Texas.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) . 3/7/72
SAC, CINCINNATI (164-55) (RUC)
NORJAK |

Re Bureau airtel to all SACs dated 12/7/71.

The list of ranson bills paid to the unknown
subject in this case have been disseminated to logical
Police Departments, Sheriff's Offices, motels and
hotels in the Cincinnati Division. Additionally, the
composite drawing of the unknown subject has been
disseminated to ail parachute clubs and associated
groups in the Cincinnati Division. No positive
information has been developed to date.

Since no investigation remains in the
Cincinnati Division at this time, this matter is
considered RUC. Any information developed in the
futunecwill be immediately called to the attention
of the Bureau and Seattie.

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have not developed any information to date relating to
the unknown Subject in this case. |
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relating to DAN COOPER or D. B. COOPER as described in
Bureau airtels.

The composite drawing of unknown individual
who used the name of DAN COOPER when he hijacked
Northwest Airlines flight 305, as_ well as a copy of the
ransom list, have been furnished | |with the b7D
request that logical inquiries be instituted to identity
the unknown subject.

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RE: NORJAK

Re Seattle teletype to Butte dated 12/20/71.

Enclosed for Seattle are 15 copies of an investigative |

insert containing the names of individuals who were the

subjects of investigation and whose whereabouts were established
by the Los Angeles Division and/or results of investigation —
and interviews revealed the person whose name was furnished

to the Los Angeles Division as a possible suspect, did not
appear to warrant further consideration as a logical suspect

at that time. ,

Netails of investigation will be retained in the
Los Angeles case file for captioned matter.

Referenced Seattle teletype requested contact
with Logical informants, banks, news media and review of
_ bank robbery suspects to insure maximum coverage and
development of Logical suspects.

A memorandum setting forth details of the hijacking
has been disseminated to all Agents in the Los Angeles Division
requesting all logical informants be contacted and Special
Agents concerned with bank robbery suspects have been requested
to remain alert for individuals who could be considered
Logical suspects in this matter.

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OPTIONAL, FORM NO. 19
MAY 1962 EOITION
GSA FPMR (41 CFR} 101-51.6

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P} DATE; 2/4/72
SPC
NORJAK

On 2/4/72, SPc| | advised writer that he
had heard from| |{LZNU) that a bill
taken in this matter had been located at the Seattle-First
National Bank, Vancouver, Wabh., branch. had heard
this from

SA CHARLES FARRELL did not know anything about the
matter and talked directly with[_|himself.
stated théfhe had just talked to the lady and she stated
she had just heard the tail end of a conversation dealing
with what appeared to be a $20 bill in "evidence" wrapping

and assumed this was part of the NORJAK money. |
ave this woman's name as a
| | Vancouver, Wash., phone | |.

After being advised of the situation by SA FARRELL,
SA THOMAS MANNING called| Jat the number
given. She advised fhat the bill described above had
been brought in by a Secret Service Agent. The bill
was counterfeit and the agent was apparently doing routine
background investigation. He asked many of the teliers
questions pertaining to who might have passed the bill.
This took place on Thursday, 2/3/72. That afternoon
| Jwent to lunch with | |
and in the course of the conversation, | | toid
her about this bill. At this point, one of the two men-
tioned something about the possibility of it being one
of the bills taken in the hijacking. When [_ |
| in Vancouver, She told L__] (LNv)
who a] , about the bill and it seems
this is where the counterfeit bill turned into# one of the
hijacked bills.

ASAC's Portland and Seattle are cognizant of this
matter.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 1/24/72
Sa, BUTTE (164-26) (P)

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Rebuairtel, 12/7/713 and urnitel, 12/20/71.

as of this date, ali suspects in the Butte Division
have been successfully eliminated and the results of tho
investigation have been previously furnished to Seattle
via teletype or letter.

Copies of ransom Lists furnished by the Burcau
have been disseminated to all financial institutions within
the States of Idaho and Montana, all lay enforcement agencies
within both states and to Canadian authorities at Repina
Saskatchewan, and Edronton, Alberta, All finaneial insti tu-
tions within the Division have been requested to have thoir
employees to be alert regarding large transactions of 120.00
roderal reserve notes and unusual activities in safety deposit

OFES« :

Unless advised to the contrary by Seattle, no formal
report is being submitted at this time.

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Si CHARLIS £. FARRELL

NORTAR

Re: RAUSOM HONEY

The ransom money obtaincd by Northwest Airlines
was microfilmed by the | | The b6
original roll of film contained on one reel, was picked up b7C
by SA[ Jand sent to the Laboratory by

United Airlines courier. Since the above roll of fiin
contained the serial numbers of $230,000, it was necessary
to furnish the serial numbers of the $30,000 which was not
included in the ransom (the ransom being $200,000).

Poecause the Laboratory vas having difficulty with
@lininating the scrial numbers, they requested we obtain
the complete list of serial numbers which were deleted fron
the original Listing of the $230,000.

In the meantine, the | | b6
had prepared another anount of ransom money of $230,000 b7c
and included in that, the $30,000 which had been taken
ror the first ransom money as mentioned in paragraph one

ove.

The | then loaned to us, b6
two reecis of microfilm which containn their current ranson b7C
money and which included the bills which had bcen taken from
the first ransom money. These two rolis of microfilm were
sent to the Laboratory and were used to compile an accurate
list of the ransom money given to the hijacker.

All three reels of f£iim returned by the Bureau
with the following dispositions:

The reel containing the ransom money qiven to the
hijacker is being maintained in the niin as evidence

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

SUBJECT:

SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) DATE: 1/24/72
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) mo,
NORJAK

Re Bureau airtel to Seattle 1/6/72.

In an effort to generate the cooperation of the

public, the Bureau in referenced airtel instructed as
follows:

"The Seattle Office should consider soliciting

cooperative radio, television, and newspaper outlets in
pertinent areas to encourage listeners to examine $20 bills

and
and

check them against the ransom lists at police departments
FBI offices. Copies of the ransom list could be

furnished cooperative radio, television, and newspaper
sources,

Bach receiving office is requested to establish

liaison with radio and television stations, and news media
to make every effort to implement the Bureau's suggestion

for

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additional publicity about the ransom bills.

Portland (164-41)

Las. Vegas (164-60)
Sacramento (164-50)

San Francisco (164-220)
Seattle (164-81)

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MAY $082 YOTTION .
Memorandum
TO ' SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DATE? = 1/21/72
FROM

* SAC, LITTLE ROCK (164-22) (RUC)

SUBJECT: NOR JAK
(00: SE)

Re Seattle airtel dated 12/7/71 and Bureau airtel
to all SACs dated 12/7/71. :

List of serial numbers of the money given.to the
hijacker has been disseminated to selected banks and other
business institutions in the Little Rock Division. To date,
no pertinent information has been received in this office
concerning any of the serial numbers,

All agents in the Little Rock Division have been
advised of the details concerning this matter and it has
been determined that there are no parachute clubs located
in this state.

Any pertinent information received by this office
concerning this matter will receive immediate investigative
attention and Seattle will be advised.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 1/24/72
SAC, NEW ORLEANS (164~136) ¢RUC)

NORJAK

Re New Orleans nitel to Seattle, 12/23/71,
and Bureau airtel to ail offices and Legats, 12/7/71.

Lists of bait money in captioned matter
circulated to appropriate banking institutions throughout
the New Orleans field division,

Artist drawing of unsub made available to
agents of the New Orleans field division for exhibit
to appropriate sources. No information of value
developed to date.

Should any information of value he developed
relative to captioned matter, New Orleans will immediately
advise Seattic,

ARMED AND DANGEROUS.

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NORJAK (es

Re Bureau routing slip 11/29/71 attaching 2 rolls

of microfilm. bé

On 1/25/72 SA MAURICE F. ROW at the Bureau advisea 7°
that copies of the bills contained in this microfilm were
retained at the Bureau. In view of this, these films should
be returned to| Jat the [ }

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

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TO: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) = =———s pare: 1/20/72
FROM : | SA"CHARLES E. FARRELL Sut - &
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SUBJECT:
J _- NORJAK ; . M

In connection with the Bureau's desires that additional »
publicity be obtained which might help in solving NORJAK, the .
Bureau, by airtel dated 1/6/72, advised as follows: q

"The Seattle Office should consider soliciting ,
cooperative radio, television, and newspaper outlets in 3
pertinent areas to encourage listeners to examine $20 bills

and check them against the ransom lists at police departments

and FBI Offices. 'Copies of the ransom list could be _
furnished cooperative radio, television, and newspaper -

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Each SRA should contact friendly or established
sources mentioned in referenced Bureau airtel for the purpose

'Of publicizing the above information. '

Each SRA should then advise how many copies of ae
the list of ransom bills would be needed to further this Sa
publicizing of the ransom money. ee!

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SUBSECT: NORJAK

On 12/27/71, RUDY WEBER, former Special Agent of
. FHL, and currently Manager of Security for Vons Grocery
pany , 10150 Lower Azusa Road, El Monte, California,

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govrnal', and stated the next issue is to be published
V/LO/s 72.

Mr. WEBER has advised that | , b6
[ |, Bay Area Grocers Association, Inc., 4170 } b7C
Piedmont Street, Oakland, 'California, telephone | }
could also be contacted reg garding the possibility of having

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the List printed in the San Francisco Bay Area trade magazine.

In addition, he furnished the following names and
idresses of similar magazines distributed widely in the U.S,
mich might also be considered for such dissemination;

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FILE (164-81) | DATE:

SAC, SEATTLE

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12/29/71

SAC CONTACT b7C
For record purposes, I contacted | |
on 12/13/71 concerning the possibility of publishing the list
of serial numbers in the NORJAK case, SEfile 164-81.
| Jadvised this would be considered. b6
However, on reflection he advised that the cost was somewhat b7C

prohibitive and instead he would arrange to run a series of
articles calling the public's attention to the fact that

the serial numbers are available.

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SAC CONTACT

12/29/71

For record purposes, I contacted [

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12/13/71 concerning the possibility of publishing

the list

of serial numbers in the NORJAK case, SeFile 164-81.

| | advised this would"be considered.
However, on reflection he advised that the cost was somewhat

prohibitive and instead he would arrange to run a

series of

articles calling the public's attention to the fact that

the serial numbers are available.

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Lists of Hijack

Bills Distributed —

Lists of serial nuinbers of the bills given to hi-
jacker "D. B. Cooper" have been distributed to banks
and other financial institutions in this area, the Ied-
eral Gureau of Investigation has announced,

J. Earl Milnes, special agent in charge of the BI
office here, said anyone who thinks he or she might
have one of tha 16,699 20 bills that were givon to ;
"Cooper" the night of Nov. 24 when he hijacked a .

Northwest Orient Airlines plane, may contact the FBI
offices here,

The F'RI's telephone number is MA 2-0460.

"Cooper," who bailed out of the plane somewhere
between Seattle and Reno, is still at large.

Anyone who has information that might lead fo
his arrest and conviction should contact Secret Wit-
ness, P. O. Box 208, Seattle, Wash, 98111. A £5,000
reward has been posted.

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FROM LAS VEGAS 164-69 IP

NORJAK

RE SEATTLE TEL DECEMBER TWENTY LAST.

ALL SOURCES IN LAS VEGAS DIVISION BEING CONTACTED CONCERNING —
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CAPTIONED MATTER. BANK ROBBERY SUSPECTS PROGRAM REVIEWED FOR

——

ANY INDIVIDUAL WHO COULD BE CONSIDERED AS SUSPECT IN CAPTIONED

MATTER. NO INDIVIDUALS IN THIS PROGRAM MET DESCRIPTION AND NONE

WHO COULD LOGICALLY BE CONSIDERED AS SUSPECT.

' BANKING ASSOCIATIONS AND BANKS CONTACTED RE BAIT LIST AND
COPIES FURNISHED TO THEM, ALL BANKS ARE REQUESTED TO "ALERT

'EMPLOYEES FOR ANY LARGE DEPOSITS AND/OR EXCHANGES OF BILLS.

"NEWSPAPERS IN LAS VEGAS AND RENO CONTACTED RE ARTICLE

CONCERNING LIST OF RANSOM BILLS AND ARE AGREEABLE TO PUBLISHING
{ SUCH AN ARTICLE.' VEWSPAPERS IN NEVADA ARE AT INTERVALS RUNNING
NEWSPAPERS STORIES CONCERNING HIJACKING.

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RE PUBLICITY OF SERIAL NUUBERS OF FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES
IN NEVSPAPERS. |

BECAUSE OF LENGTH AND COMPOSITION OF LIST OF SERIAL

MIMBERS, NEUSPAPERS IN SAN FRANCISCO AREA ADVISED IMPOSSIBLE
TO PRINT ENTIRE LIST. THE OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, TRIBUNE HAS
PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE LISTING APPROXIMATELY THIRTY SERIAL
NUNSERS AND STATED COMPLETE LIST AVAILABLE AT FBI OFFICES.

SAN FRANCISCO ES SENDING A CIRCULAR LETTER TO ALL BANKIRG
INSTITUTIONS AND SAVIEGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS ADVISING THAT
THE SERIAL NUMBERS OF ALL BILLS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE NEARSEST
FBI OFFICE AND REQUESTING THEM TO BE ALERT TO ANY ACTIVITY
It SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES WHEREIN TUENTY DOLLAR BILLS INVOLVED.

ALSO LOCAL PRESS RELEASE BEING HADE TO ANNOUNCE SERTAL

NUMBERS OF BILLS AVAILABLE AND TO REQUEST ARTICLE BE PLACED
IN NEVSPAPERS PROCLAIMING THIS,
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AN ALL AGENTS MEMO HAS BEEN DISTRIBUTED BY SAN FRANCISCO Aub. P77?

OFFICE REQUESTING CONTACT WITH ALL LOGICAL CIS AND PCTs eee
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SOURCES » FILED.

END | Suede 1 1971
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NR@iL SE PLAIN

9:28 PM NITEL 12/22/71 DCA ,

TO DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)

FROM SEATTLE (164-81) IP DAILY TELETYPE

NORJAK

SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE ADVISED THAT SAN FRANCISCO NEWSPAPERS UN-
ABLE TO PRINT ENTIRE RANSOM LIST DUE TO LENGTH OF LIST. OAKLAND
TRIBUNE, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA HAS PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE LISTING AP-
PROXIMATELY THIRTY SERIAL NUMBERS AND STATING COMPLETE LIST AVAIL~
ABLE THROUGH OFFICES OF FBI. OTHER NEWSPAPERS BEING REQUESTED TO
PUBLISH INFORMATION CONCERNING AVAILABILITY OF SERIAL NUMBERS,

SAN FRANCISCO IS CIRCULARIZING BANKING INSTITUTIONS AND SAVINGS
AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS ADVISING THEM OF AVAILABILITY OF SERTAL
NUMBERS AND REQUESTING THEM TO BE ALERT TO ACTIVITIES INVOLVING
TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS.

| | DEVELOPED AS A SUSPECT THROUGH CHECK OF

RECORDS OF BRANIFF AIRLINES, ELIMINATED AS SUSPECT AS HE WAS PRESENT
| CALIFORNIA, EIGHT AM TO FIVE

PM, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST.
REVIEW OF RECORDS OF HUGHES AIR WEST DEVELOPED NO ADDITIONAL

SUSPECTS.

END

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325% PM URGENT 12-2271 Ldn
TO: SEATILE (164-81)

FROM: PORTLAND (164-41) (P)> IP

FORSAKs
RE SEATTLE TELETYPE TO BUTTE AND OTHER OFFICES, DECEMBER TWENTY

SEVENTYORNE »
ALL LOGICAL INFORMANTS IN OREGON ARE IN PROCESS OF BEIM? CONTACTS

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BANK ROBBERY SUSPECT PROGRAMS HAVE BEE REVIEVED ASD ARE RECEFIVIG

CONTINUOUS ATTENTION IN CONNECTION WITH THIS CASE.
OREGON BANKERS ASSOCIATION FORVARDED PERTINENT INFORMATION TO ALL 4

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BANKS IN GREGON ON DECEMBER SEVENTEEN SEVENTYONE APD SAVIEGS AKD LOAN
ASSOCIATION VILL SEND SAME INFORMATION TO ALL SAVINGS AND LOAN {
ASSOCIATIONS IN OREGON THIS WEEK. ALL BANKS AND SAVINGS AND - ,

LOAH ASSOCIATIONS IN OREGON HAVE BEEN FURNISHED WITH LIST.OF RANSOM

SERTAL NUMBERS.
SAG HAS CONTACTED OREGONIAN AND OREGON JOURNAL, BOTH PORTLAND ,
NSUSPAPERS, ENTIRE RANSOM LIST CONNOT BE PRINTED BECANSE OF COST MTU

loH- BF 150-4

BUT FEATURE STORIES OF HIJACKING VILL BE RUS IN EARLY EDT Eene,
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TO : DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) DAILY TELETYPE

* NORJAK.
WEST COAST OFFICES WERE REQUESTED TODAY TO:

ONE, CONTACT ALL INFORMANTS; TWO, REVIEW BANK

ROBBERY SUSPECT PROGRAM WHERE NORJAK UNSUB COULD BE A SUSPECT;
THREE, CONTACT BANKERS ASSOCIATIONS AND REQUEST THEY CIRCULARIZE

axive) BANKS AND SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS TO ALERT THEIR

EMPLOYEES TO ANY LARGE DEPOSITS OF TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS OR
UNUSUAL SAFE DEPOSIT ACTIVITY; FOUR, ARRANGE FOR PUBLICATION
IN LOCAL NEWSPAPERS OF THE FACT THAT THE/SANSON, BILLS ARE
AVAILABLE TO THE LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT, BANKS, AND FBI
OFFICES, TO CHECK SUSPECTED TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS. :

; SEATTLE ALSO HAS REQUESTED FIELD OFFICES COVERING

HEADQUARTERS OF wasor.s. AIRLINES TO CONTACT THE AIRLINES

TO DEVELOP ANY' LIKELY SUSPECTS AMONG THEIR PERSONNEL OR

APPLICANTS, WHO MIGHT FIT THE DESCRIPTION OF THE UNSUB NOTING

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955 PY NITEL {2=26~71 EB
TO SEATTLE 164=21

FROM LAS VEGAS 164-69

HORJAK

RE SEATTLE TEL CONCERNING PUBLISHING ARTICLE ADVISING
OF AVAILABILITY OF RANSOM LIST.

NEWSPAPERS IN RENO AND LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, CONTACTED
CONCERNING POSSIBILITY OF PUBLISHING AN ARTICLE, 'SUCH AN
ARTICLE WILL BE PUBLISHED AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE TIME.

NEVSPAPERS IN RENO AND LAS VEGAS ONLY CONTACTED SINCE
THESE ARE THE ONLY LARGE NETROPOLITAN AREA IN THIS STATE AND
VAVE STATEVIDE COVERAGE.

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MROAG SE PLAIN

824 PM NITEL 12/24/71 FEE

TO BUTTE (164-26) , LAS VEGAS (164-64)
LOS ANGELES (164-497) ° PHOENIX (€164+19@) |
PORTLAND (i64-4]) SACRAMENTO (164-58)

SALT LAKE CITY (164-24) "SAN DIEGO (164-91)
SAN FRANCISCO (164-228) |
FROM SEATTLE (164-81) 2P

NORJAK.

RECEIVING OFFICES ARE REQUESTED TO CONTACT ALL LOGICAL
INFORMANTS FOR ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING CAPTIONED MATTER -

; CONCERNING WHICK SACKGROUND INFORMATION HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN

FURNISHED. RECEIVING OFFICES ARE ALSO REQUESTED TO REVIEW BANK .
ROBBEPY SUSPECT PROGRAMS FOR THE IDENTITIES OF ANYONE INCLUDED IN
THESE PROGRAMS WHO COULD BE CONSIDERED SUSPECT IN CAPTIONED MATTER,
ADDITIONALLY, RECEIVING OFFICES ARE REQUESTED TO CONTACT BANKERS
ASSOCIATION OR SIMILAR GROUPS WHICH CIRCULARIZE BANKS REQUESTING
THAT BANKS BE CIRCULARIZED AND BANK AND SAVINGS AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION EMPLOYEES BE REQUESTED TO SE ALERT FOR ANY LARGE

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POLICE DEPARTMENT OR THROUGH THE FEI OFFICE.

PAGE Two

SE (164-21)

DEPOSITS OF TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS OR EXCHANGES OF THENTY DOLLAR
BILLS FOR OTHER BILLS OR ANY PSCENT RENTAL OR UNUSUAL ACTIVITY IM
AN ALPRADY RENTED SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX WHEREIN THE HIJACKER MIGHT
HVE STASHED THE RANSOM MONEY IN THIS MATTER. TO ACHIEVE WIDE
CIRCULAPIZATION OF THE RANSOM LIST, SEATTLE HAS ARRANGED "ITH

A SEATILE NEWPAPER TO PRINT A SHORT FEATURE ARTICLE INFORMING THE
PUBLIC THAT THE LIST OF RANSOM BILLS HAS BEEN DISTRIBUTED TO,

Law ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, BANKS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.
THE PUBLIC HAS BERN INFORMED. THAT IF THEY FEEL THEY HAVE ONE OF
THE RANSOM BILLS THE NUMBER MAY BE CHECKED THROUGH THEIR LOCAL

RECEIVING OFFICES ARE REQUESTED To contact. APPROPRIATE NEWS
PAPERS IN AN EFFORT TO KEEP BEFORE THE PUBLIC THE FAGT THAT THE LIST
OF THE TYO HUNDRED THOUSAND POLLARS IN TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS, PAID
TO THE HIJACKER, IS AVAILABLE FOR CHECKING THROUGH THE LOCAL POLICE
DEPARTMENTS OR FBI OFFICE. -P-

END ,
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
FILE (164-81) , DATE: 12/20/71

SAC, SEATTLE

UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper Svbo- Mm.

NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 335 ne a
-PORTLAND TO SEATTLE
11/24/71
CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION

; : : On 12/17/71 I talked tol | b6
| | Washington Bankers Association, and / bIC

requested him to send a builetin to all of their members,
requesting that they alert their employees to any large
deposits in the amount of $20 denominations, any strange
use of safe deposit boxes, large payments on notes or
mortgages where bills of $20 denomination in substantial
numbers are used, and at the same time asked that they
check these bills against the list of hijacked bills.

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TO PORTLAND LAS VEGAS
| SAN FRANCISCO SACRAMENTO
FROM SEATTLE (164-81) IP

MORIJAK

WITH REFERENCE TO SEATILE'S COMMUNICATIONS, WITH RESPECT To
HAVING NEWSPAPERS PUBLISH THE LIST OF RANSOM BILLS, THE RECEIVING
OFFICES ARE REQUESTED TO ADVISE IF ANY SUCCESS HAS REEN ACHIEVED.

SAN FRANCISCO IS REQUESTED TO CONTACT THE BANKS AND SAVINGS
AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS TO HAVE THEM ALERT FOR ANY 'LARGE DEPOSITS OF
TWENTY DOLLAR BILLS OR THE RECENT RENTAL OF A SAFE DEPOSIT BOX OR
ACTIVITY IN AN ALREADY RENTED SAFE DEPOSIT BOX WHEREIN THE HIJACKER
MIGHT HAVE STASHED THE TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.

ALL RECEIVING OFFICES ARE REQUESTED TO CONTACT THE NEMSPAPEPS
AND HAVE THEM PUBLISH AN ARTICLE ADVISING OF THE AVAILABILITY OF
THE RANSOM LIST. - P -

END |
RMC |

FRI SACRAMENTO

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FILE (164-81)

SAC, SEATTLE

NORJAK

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12/17/71

On 12/17/71 I talked to| iF

a | SEATTLE TIMES, and advised him that the Bureau
was unwilling to spend the approximate $1500 cost involved
in publishing the list of bills. He said they still have
the matter under consideration and would possibly run the

list anyway.

| SEATTLE P-1, advised

that they sti

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will let me know.

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FROM. DIRECTOR IP

NORIAK. - Poa

RE SEATTLE TELETYPE DECEMBER FOURTEEN LAST REQUESTI Ne
AUTHORITY TO EXPEND UP TO SIXTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR PUBLICATION
OF THE RANSOM LIST IN & LOCAL NEWSPAPER. ce
BUREAU AUTHORITY IS NOT GRANTED FOR THIS EXPENDITURE AT rits/
TIME, SUGGEST SEATTLE ENCOURAGE LOCAL PAPERS IN SEATTLE AND
NEIGHBORING DIVISIONS' TERRITORIES'-T0 REPUBLISH INFORMATION THAT
"RANSOM LIST IS AVAILABLE AND ENCOURAGE PUBLIC TO CONTACT LOCAL
FBI OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY CONCERNING SUSPECTED. BILLS.

_ SEATTLE SHOULD INSURE THAT TERRAIN SEARCHES ARE VIGOROUSLY.
PURSUED BY ALL INTERESTED OFFICES AND SOLICIT COOPERATION OF
LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, FORESTRY PERSONNEL, HUNTING GROUPS, AND
OTHER LOGICAL PERSONS WHO WOULD BE IN THE AREA OVER WHICH THE |
'HIJACKED AIRCRAFT TRAVELED. ~ | a '
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SAC, SEATTLE (164~81) 12/14/71
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

NORJAK

ASAC CHARLIE DULINSKY called from Las Vegas.
He said that with regard to SAC MILNES' phone call earlier
today, they had arranged with the banks to check any
large deposits of 20's and to advise the FBI of any suspicious
Situation where anybody attempted to change 20's for other
denominations. They have also alerted the casinos in the
major cities to the same type of operation.

In regard to the newspaper, he advised that
the newspaper in Reno was not willing te publish the ransom
List.

PRB:con
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SERIALIZED. 2 urn fae
DEC 1 4 1974

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TELETYPE NETEL .
{Priority} Sv B Cc.
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) S
NORJAK.

IN ORDER TO SECURE MAXIMUM DISTRIBUTION OF THE SERIAL NUMBERS

OF THE MONEY PAID IN THIS CASE,

SEATTLE TIMES, SAC CONTACT, HAS BEEN APPROACHED BY ME TO DETERMINE

IF THE PAPER WOULD BE WILLING TO PUBLISH THIS LIST.

JHAS ADVISED THAT A STUDY OF THE COST OF THIS

MATTER REVEALS THAT LABOR COSTS IN COMPOSING WOULD RUN APPROXIMATEL

SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS AND THE NEWS PRINT COST WOULD RUN APPROXIMATELY
ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. SHOULD THEY PUBLISH THIS AT THE PUBLIC
SERVICE RATE, THE COST WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY THREE THOUSAND
DOLLARS AND AT THE REGULAR COMMERCIAL RATE, IT WOULD RUN APPROXI-
MATELY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. HE HAS ADVISED THAT BY PROBIDING

A PREPRINTED MAT, THE COMPOSITION COST COULD NOT BE ELIMINATED

SINCE THEIR UNEON CONTRACT WOULD REQUIRE THAT THE COST BE PAID

NONETHELESS. | lHAS INQUIRED IF THE BUREAU WOULD BE

WILLING TO PAY THE ACTUAL COST UP TO SIXTEEN HUNDRED FOR PUBLISHING

THIS LIST. ae

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PAPERS WERE REQUESTED TO PUBLISH THE LIST SINCE ALL WOULD BE

FACED WITH THE SAME OR SIMILAR PROBLEMS.

| OF THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, HAS

ALSO BEEN APPROACHED BY ME CONCERSING THIS MATTER BUT HAS NOT
RESPONDED THUS FAR TO MY INQUIRY.
I KNOW OF NO WAY WHERE THE LIST COULD BE MADE AVAILABLE TO
AS MANY PEOPLE AS PUBLICATION THROUGH A DAILY NEWSPAPER. THE
SEATTLE TIMES CIRCULATES THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, I'S
PRINCIPAL CIRCULATION AREA BEING THE SEATTLE METROPOLITAN AREA.
IN THE EVENT MAXIMUM ADVANTAGE OF THIS TECHNIQUE IS TO BE OBTAINED,
THEN: I WOULD SUGGEST THE SAME STEPS BE TAKEN BY A DAILY NEWSPAPER
IN PORTLAND, SACRAMENTO, SAN FRANCISCO AND POSSIBLY RENO, NEVADA.
BUREAU IS REQUESTED TO ADVISE IF IT WOULD AUTHORIZE THES
EXPENDITURE OF UP TO SIXTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR PUBLICATION OF THI

LIST IN THE SEATTLE TIMES.

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1015 Second Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98104.

December 10, 1971 Duke.

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-Dear[ |:

I appreciate your thoughtfulness in
writing to me and forwarding your suggestion
concerning the distribution of the list of
currency paid in the hijacking of Northwest
Airlines Plight 305.

While undoubtedly there is considerable
merit to your suggestion, we have not been in the
practice of selling the material we distribute.
We are trying to get this published through the
news media. Whether we succeed or not will be ct
determined in time. , i"

Sincerely yours,

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Special Agent in Charge
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December 3, 1771

"MEMO TO EARL MILNES

Dear Earl:

After I called you this morning, | told| |i would call back in the |

afternoon but | was| |

land didn't get back as early as | had figured.

With current evenis as they are, | know that you have your hands full
and | don't intend to take but just a moment of your time.

were discussing the extensive list which had to be printed
and sent out with regard to the currency which was turned over to the
hijacker and the cost (to the taxpayers) which was run up in getting the
booklet printed and mailed all over the country. This may or may not
be a matter of particular interest to you | Jeame up with an idea
which might help recover some of those printing costs and, with any
luck, might even turn up some of the items which are listed.

That is for the FBI to get a news release out to every daily newspaper
(thru AP or UPI wire) that copies of the list of bills, in booklet form,
are available to anyone interested ata cost of $1.00 apiece. Not that
she nor | subscribe to the "hero-worship" concept we've been reading
about, but we believe there'd be hundreds who would like to get ahold
of a copy...either for curiosity's sake or as a souvenir item. In addition
to making the books available for a buck apiece, the news item could
also point out that if an actual bill was turned up, J. Edgar Hoover
would buy it back for $21.00, thereby returning their investment on
the book.

| know it may sound weird but, on the other hand, | can see how it
also might even turn up some real good leads.

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12/9/71 St c
AIRTEL AIRMAIL
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM: SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (164-220)

SUBJECT: NORJAK

Re San Francisco airtel to Bureau, 12/8/71.

The San Francisco Office will need an additional
340 copies of the ransom bills paid in captioned case, for
distribution to the Police Departments, Sheriff's offices,
District Attorney's Office, etc.

2 —- Bureau (RM)

Seattle (164-81)
i - San Francisco
BHC /cad
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MerR Serve ses 12/10/71

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AIRTEL | AIRMAIL . C.

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FROM "3 ASAC, CEAPELE (264~81) (-P-)
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Enclosed are 'three copies of | a letter addressed
. to the U.8, Secret Service Headquarters in Washington, D.C.;
explaining the photographing at = Seattle, of the ransom
money' in captioned cage.

Piette oth oe Spee. sects phot esd. ,
For the Bureau's: "{ngormation, the -Seattle-First
National Bank, who. provided the film of the. ransdm money,
advises. that the film may be maintained "by the PRI, Seattle,
to be preserved # as evidence in this case.

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1015 Second Avene':
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November 24, 1971 ,
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Portland, Oregon, to Seattle,. an.November 24, 1971, was
hijacked and a ransom.demand made of Northwest,,Airlinas, ,
for $200,000. tie os Ne Lot ete ohn +3 he ture ar ae hy Sea
* wat," in Ae ta? .
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'well as four parachutes be ready by 5:00 PM, on Rovember
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. » Northwest Airlines then arrangea with Senttle-Pirst
Hational: 'Bank, Seattle, to make the $200,600 available and
the same was microfilmed for later evidentiary use, The
£2i1m is now in possession of the Seattle Office of the
'Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Very truly yours,

3.8 zines .
; Special Agent in Charge
3 - Addressee
3 - Seattle (164- ~81)
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I told him we were contacting a number of daily
newspapers, urging them as a public service to publish serial
numbers of the bills taken in this case. I suggested that
as an economic matter it might be more desirable to have the

, Bureau prepare a mat containing these numbers, which could
be distributed to newspapers and used by them as a means
of printing and thereby, hopefully, be able to encourage
more to print the list.

TF

; I talked to SA BLAND about this matter and he
advised that it would have to be initiated by the investiga-
tive division.

Satie de ih gees

.. SA SHUTZ called me back on 12/10/71 and advised
they were exploring the possible costs of this matter and
would let us know Monday.

In the meantime I had talked tol | a
of the SEATTLE P-I, and tol | b7C
of the SEATTLE TIMES, inquiring of them if as a
public service would they be interested in publishing
the list. Both advised it would be considered and they
would let us know.

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12/8/71
AIRTEL AIRMAIL Wercyg — jt
pbbceLy | -f.
TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (164+2111)
FROM: SAC, SAN FRANCTSCO (164-220)

SUBJECT: NORJAK

The San Prancisco Office has received 100-150
of the ransom bills paid in captioned case. We want to
distribute this list to all the banks, savings and loan,
Federal credit unions, and hotels within the San Francisco
Division. As a result, San Francisco will need an additional

1900 copies of this list.

2 ~ Bureau
CP Seattle (164-81)

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Transmit the following in

Via

FBI

Date: December 7, 1971

{Type in plaintext of code),

ee ee

Airtel
— (Priority)
SAC; Seattle Su B— {YY
From: Director, FBI rs e
NORJAK C.
Reurairtel 11/25/71. ne H

Enclosed are the eatee forwarded the Bureau in
connection with captioned matter. Seattle should insure these
films are protected as evidence. If it is necessary to
return any of this material to the source, insure that they
are appropriately advised of the evidentiary nature of this
material and take appropriate precautions to insure its return
if needed. Consider contact with the U. S. Attorney's Office a.
prior to returning the Fiims for his guidance.

Ur Ss (seeret Service Headquarters in Washington, D. C.

— > /)

In accordance with Section 66, Volume ITI, Manual
of Instructions dealing with photographing ransom or loot,
immediately submit a letter' suitable for dissemination to

wen

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SAC, SEATTLE (164~81) 12/9/71
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

NORJAK

On 12/9/71 I called SAC MATTSON in Portland,
SAC CAMPBELL in Las Vegas and ASAC MORLEY in San Francisco,

I talked to all of them about publishing the
ransom list in a newspapr of wide circulation in their
areas. All of them said they believed they could have
this done, would do it and let us know.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/9/71
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

NORJACK

I called the Bureau on 12/9/71 and taliked to SA
HENRY SHUTZ. I told him it was our feeling here that we
should get cooperative newspapers to publish this bait
list and to generate as much enthusiasm as we could among
the public and perhaps somebody would come up with one of

these $20 bills. I wondered if the Bureau had given considera-

tion to instructing all SAC's to have this done.

He called back and said they were not going to do
this because first, they did not think most newspapers would
publish it; second, they did not want all SAC's to have the

feeling that they had to get it published, which might cause

a great deal of difficulty around the field. He said he

thought their instructions were sufficient, that if we could
arrange to get it published in our division, and if we wanted

to call other offices on a selecte3 basis, and see if the

SAC's could work out some arrangement to publish it, he would

leave that up to us. He definitely stated that we had
authority to get the list published if we so desired.

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/8/71
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper;

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

CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION

BOB PETERSON called from Division 6 today.
He said that the publicity concerning the ransom list
had been approved and we should be receiving official
confirmation from the Bureau very soon.

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Date _ 12/7/71 .
"TO: SAC, Albany ,
LEGATS Ottawa SvuR— C.

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if "rom: Director, FBI (164-2111)

(key (Rev, 3-16-71) . © . @

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"CHANGED"
NOR JAK

The title is marked "Changed" to reflect the code word
""NORJAK" to facilitate the handling of the numerous communica-
tions in connection with this investigation. This matter was
formerly captioned, "Unsub; Northwest Airlines Flight 305,
11/24/71, CAA - Hijacking. 00: Seattle."' All offices are
instructed to use the code word "NORJAK" in all communications
in this investigation.

In connection with the additional dissemination of
the ransom list already furnished the field, all offices are
instructed to further disseminate this list on any basis
considered practical and appropriately advise the Bureau and
office of origin of any positive information developed. The
loot in this matter consists entirely of $20 bills and it is
questionable that large banks and bank-type institutions would

'effectively screen their $20 bills due to the volume of this

type of bill that would be handled.

All offices should insure that the composite drawing
of the unknown subject is thoroughly disseminated to parachute
clubs and associated groups with particular attention being

2 - All Field Offices

(Do not type below this line.}

LEY Fl - Fez
Is SEAMOBE ena RDEALD omen
SHUANZED FPS Sate

DEC 9 4974
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WFAS WA PLATN
73S1PM MITEL 12-8-71 LFS

TO ALL sacs oe PaNsee —

FROM DIRECTOR 2P

MOR SAK

FOR YOUD INFORMATION, THE FOLLOWYING PRESS RELEASE Was
ISSUED NATIONALLY THIS DATE."4 —
"=559PNEY GENERAL JOHN N. MITCHELL ANNOUNCED TODAY THAT =)

4 "RANSOM LIST" OF THE KNOWN SERTAL~NIMBERED BILLS THAT WERE'
— , ; .

GIVEN TO THE HIGACKER-OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT THREES
ZERO FIVE OW NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONS, HAS
BEEN PREPARED AND 'IS BEING DISTRIBUTED RY THE "FBI THROURTOUT
"THE COUNTPY.:
FBI DIRECTOR J. EDGAR HOOVEP ADVISED THAT THE "RANSOM .
LIST," THIRTY For PASES IN LEPGTH, CONTAINS THE SERIAL NUMBERS —
"OF TWENTY DOLLAR FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES WHICH WERE PAID TO THE
HIJACKER FOR THE RELEASE OF THIRTY SIX PASSENGERS AND: T¥O CREW
MEMBERS, THE HIJACKER BOARDED THT FLIGHT AT PORTLAND, ORFGON,
LARD HIJACKED THE PLANE JUST PRIOR TO APRIVAL IN SEATTLE, DB Coober-30141
END PAGE ONE )

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SsH5Al NITEL 12=8+71 _JDD

TTLE (164=81)

FROM PHOENIX (164-199) , -

UNSUBS NORTHVEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
MOVEMBER TUENTYFOUR LAST. CAA ~ HIJACKING. 00 SEATTLE.

RE PHOENIX TELETYPE TO SEATTLE DECEMBER SIX LAST, AND SEATTLE
TEL CALL TO PHOENIX ON DECEMBER SEVEN INSTANT.

TVENTY DOLLAR BILLS MENTIONED IN REFERENCED COMMUNICATION AND
TELEPHONE CALL SEARCHED THROUGH NCIC WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS.

NO FURTHER INVESTIGATION BEIR&G CONDUCTED BY THE PHOENIX
DIVISION IN THIS REGARD.«

PENDING +
END
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were furnished to the following:

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/7/71
SA CHARLES E. FARRELL

UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper; hoy
IhY AIRLINES FLIGHT £305, /
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,

11/24/71
CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION
00: SE

RG: PUBLICITY

On 12/6/71, copies of the list of ransom money

All hotels, motels in the State of Washington;
All hotels, motels in the Vancouver, B.C. area
Liquor stores, State of Washington;

Law enforcement agencies, State of Vashington;
Feleral Savings & Loana Associations, and
Federal Credit Unions.

Above distribution totalled 2300.

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PILE (164-81) 12/7/71
SAC, SEATTLE

UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper oY /
NORTHWEST AIRLINES TLIGUT 305 i!
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, 11/24/71

CAA ~ HIJACKING; EXTORTION

On 12/7/71 SA] |}called from the b6
Bureau and advised that they had just sent up a memo to b7C
the Director recommending that the Bureau make a national press
release concerning the availability of the serial numbers
of the money paid_to the hijacker. I had discussed this with

and SA | Jon 12/6/71 and rocomacnded
that it be donc, and at the same time encourage the publica~
tion of the list by any newspaper inclined to do so,

I suggested that the public be advised that the
numbers were in the HCIC and that they could be checked
immediately. -

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FD-36 (Rev. $-22-64) @ @

FBI

Date: 12/7/71 "iy bi i

Transmit the following in '
(Type in plaintext or code}

TELETYPE URGEST
(Priority)
ve eee Low
TO 3; DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2211)
FROMM: SAC, SBATTLE (164-81)

UNSUB, AKA DAN COOPER; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #305,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, 11/24/71. CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION.
00; SE. |
TO COMPLETE CIRCULARIZATION IN THIS TERRITORY,
PLEASE FORWARD AN ADDITIONAL ELEVEN HUNDRED COPIES OF

RANSOM MONEY LIST.

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Approved: Sent M Per

Special Agent in Charge

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'1956 PM NITEL 12-6=71 WJG

TO SEATILE (164=81)

FROM PHOENIX (164-109) 2P

UNSUB$ NORTHYVEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND
TQ SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, LAST. CAA - HIJACKINGs
EXTORTION. OO: SEATTLE,

RE BUREAU ATRTEL TO ALL OFFICES, NOVEMBER TWENTYNINE LAST.

ON INSTANT DATE, ere

PHOENIX, ARIZONA ADVISED THAT ON DECEMBER FOUR LAST A
CAME INTO ONE

BRANCHES AND PURCHASED A CASHIERS CHECK IN THE AMOUNT

THE BANK EMPLOYEE ISSUING THE CASHIERS CHECK WAS SUSPICIOUS

b6é
BEHAVED BIC

IN A STRANGE MANNER,
END PAGE ONE

12/7/71. hey-¢y get- hf

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numbers through the were | SEARCHED... INDEXE < BIC
wnb SERIALIZER, » LED oh Semmens

JEM:eon : DE 6 1971
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NR 64 SC CODE
11241 AM URGENT 12/3/71 VLS |
TO SEATTLE (164-81) | , x
FROM SACRANENTO (iG4=59) IP. }

oo. \
UISUB$ AKA DAN COOPER$ NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE. ZERO FIVE,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOV. TWENTYFOUR, LAST. CAA = HIJACKTNGs
EXTORTION, OO: SEATTLE,

RE SACRAMENTO TEL, DEC, TWO, LAST. .
LIST OF SERIAL NUMBERS OF MONEY PAID TO HIJACKER DISSEMINATED

DEC. TWO, LAST, TO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
_ AGENCIES IN SACRAMENTO DIV,
enema —

SACRAMENTO MAKING ARRANGEMENTS WITH BEALE AFB FOR AREZAL 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. NAP OF NORTHWEST FLIGHT
OVER WASHINGTON AND OREGON TERRITORY FORWARDED TO SACRAMENTO BY

"UNITED AIRLINES NIGHT DEC. TWO, LAST, HANDCARRIED TO BEALE AFB THIS
AM, .

END ° _ .

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_ SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/2/71.

SA | } 7 ; b6
. . BITC

UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper;

NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHY #305,

PORTLAND TO SEATTLE; -

11/24/71

CAA - HIJACKING: EXTORTION

OO: : SEATTLE

__ On 12/2/71,| _, BS
| |Seattle-First National Bank, Seattle, Washington, _ bre
'advised that the ransom money paid in instant hijacking,

' was made up of all used 20 dollar bills, selected at random.

and without sequence.

He stated the bills were made up in packets of

$2,000 each and were banded with Seattle-First National

Bank or Federal Reserve Bank bands" or quite possibly banded
with bands 'from other banks.

'No identifying marks were placed on' these bands.

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

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

11/24/71
CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION
00: SE

Re: PUBLICITY

The list of the ranson_money should be distributed,
in addition to the regular mailing List, to the following:

1. AIL law enforcencnt agencies;

2. Liquor stores;

3. Hotels

4. Motels

5. Savings & Loan Associations, if not already
included in the mailing to the banks;

: CEF:kib The original circularization on 12/1/71, of some 960

(3) copies of the ransom bills which were sent to all
banks and branches were propared from the Un. Bankers p¢
va 'iist. b7¢

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SAC, SBDATPTLE (164-81) 12/1/71
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

UNSUB, aka Dan Cooper

JORTHVEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 7305,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE

11/24/71

CAA ~ HIJACKING; EXTORTION

00: SHLATTLE

BUfile 164-2111

SAC RUSS CALAME called from Salt Lake City today.

He furnished the serial numbers of seven bills

which he wanted checked through the ransom list. These
bills are:

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G52 908 479 A
ZOQl 068 248 A
HO1 525 937

E60 215 520 A
508 595 154 A
HOO 543.526 A
B20 940 278

They were checked and none of them were on the
CALAHE was advised by telcphone.

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FD-302 (REV, 11-27-70) ; ? a
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ~

Date of transcription

12/1/71

On November 25, 1971, | b6
| | Seattle-~First National Bank, oy, BT
the head office being in Seattle, Washington, provided the .
following information: .

, upon being advised of the iden- b6
tity of the writer, handed the writer ai film canister .contain- b7C

ing a microfilm, upon which the serial numbers_of-$250,000
worth of notes were recorded. He advised that of the $250,000
worth of notes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation should only
be concerned with the $20 bills, that is the serial numbers of
the $20 bills, because the hijacker received only $20 bilis.

| stated that there are 22304506 worth of $20 bills
recorded on the microfilm. advised that in order
for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine the
serial numbers of the $29 bills which the hijacker actually
received, we must subtract serial numbers which he provided
me from the total list of serial numbers on the microfilm.

an | provided a list of serial numbers ~- b6 |
of $20 totaling $30,000 worth of notes, which, although they . bIC
were on the microfilm itself, were not part of the_§200,000 H
worth of $20 bills which the hijacker received.
stated that the bank packs $20 bills in packages of ZH09
Each packet therefore contains $2,000 worth of $20 bills.
provided the first and last serial number in each
of these $20 bill packets and advised that we should subtract
both"of these numbers, as well as the 98 serials numbers 7
between each of these groups of numbers in order to determine
the actual serial numbers of the bills which the hijacker .
received. Thése groups of numbers-are as follows: ,

-"LELIS7IS9A thru E12561828B
L33633577A thru L20458572A
JO20S1511 thru TOOsu66866 - " - , 5
L33410247A thru L32378753A moe ;
CO5722105A thru GIi6813690A ' nes d
G98535159A thru L14348853A Ss
L34429987A thru LI9556442A

Fat
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Interviewed on LS 25/71 w_Seattle, Washington rite #__SE_ 164-813-2394
by___ SA] Vmle Date dictsted V2/L/TL b6 |

b7C

This document contoins nelthar recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, it Is lhe property of the F81 and is loaned to your ogency:
Ho and its contents cra not to be distributed outside your sgancy.

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FBI

Date: November 29, 1971

Transmit the following in

(Type in plaintext or code?)

a Airtel

(Priority)

re a a ee age

To: . All Offices Except
Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas

From: Director, FBI (164-2111)

UNSUB; NORTHEST AIRLINES
FLIGHT 305, 11/24/71
CAA - HIJACKING

CO: SEATTLE

Enclosed for each receiving office are two copies of an
artist's conception of captioned unsub.

Shortly after 3:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST)
11/24/71, a lone white male traveling from Portland, Oregon, to
Seattle, Washington, on captioned flight displayed the contents of
his brief case to a stewardess indicating to her it was a bomb
which would be exploded unless his demands were met. The hijacker
indicated his willingness to exchange the safety of the 36 passen-
gers and crew for $200,000 in cash and four parachutes. He
instructed that the plane circle the Seattle airport until his
demands were met at which time the plane landed. Once the money
and parachutes were Loaded and the plane was being refueled, the
hijacker allowed the passengers and two airline stewardesses to
deplane leaving a flight crew of three males and one female and
the hijacker aboard. The hijacker indicated a desire to fly to
Mexico City and instructed the plane to take off flying at a low
altitude and slow speed; maintaining a southerly direction. Upon
demand the hijacker was instructed on lowering the rear passenger
door while the ajreraft was in fi"ght. He was last seen in the
aircraft by crew members at 8;05 p.m. PST, when he instructed bib. y

Enclosures (2) , . Lo - 8) - get

Pst ARCHED. eeneed Ni EHED oarsmen

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
ASAC PAUL R. BIBLER

UNKNOWN SUBIECT;

NORTHWEST AIRLINES

FLIGHT #305,

PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71

CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION
00: SE

BUfile 164-2111

11/29/71

In conference this evening with the SAC, J.E. MILNES,
it was decided that we should decide as soon as possible what
circularization we are going to make and ask other offices to
make of any wanted flyer issued in this case. This should

of course, include flying clubs, parachute clubs, air fields,
airlines, Veterans' Administration, doctors, hospitals and
clinics and possibly others.

LEPE/ LEG] |

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.

NRGBS SE PLAIN

3:56PM URGENT 11/29/71 VAB

TO DIRECTOR /
FROM SEATTLE (164-81)

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

REBUTEL THIS DATE.

| |, SEATTLE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, SEATTLE, WASH=
INGTON, WHO PROVIDED THE MONEY PAID ON THIS CASE ADVISES THAT THE
MONEY IN THE BAG WEIGHTED NINETEEN POUNDS AND THE CONTENTS MEASURED
ELEVEN INCHES BY TWELVE INCHES BY SIX AND ONE HALF INCHES,
END
LRS FBI WASHDC CLR

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11-26671

AIRTEL =» - AIRMAIL

"DIRECTOR, FBI.
ATTENTION: LABORATORY DIVISION

SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)_

TO

FROM

SUBJECT: UNSUB;
Nor thvest Airlines Flight | #305,
Portiand to Seattle,
11i+24+71
CAA ~. HIJACKING; EXTORTION.
oo; Seattle be

Enclosed for the Laboratory are two rolls of
microfilm containing serial numbers of bills to be
- compared to microfilm already on hand in order to determine
exact serial numbers of bilis given to hijacker .

. Microfilm already submitted represents $230,000.00
of which $200,000.00 given to hijacker, New f41lm currently
being submitted contains serial numbers cof six lots of bills,
each containing $50,000.00 totaling $300,000.09, Fiim 1
contains lots 1. through 5S; film 2 contains only 16t &. The
$30,000.00 of. the original microfilm which was not given

- to the hijacker is contained either at the end oF lot 5 or
at the end of lot '6.

The $20 bills in question in lot 5 begin with
the serial number 1343463744 and end with serial number
ES0344506A, The $20 bills in question in lot 6 begin with
the serial number L180310998 and end with the serial 'number
L09729057B on the microfilm.

~2.= Bureau Gnclosures 2)
, 2B» Seattle

RCD/ksw
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gor

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11/25/71.

AIRTEL AIRMAIL

TO: DIRFCTOR, FBI

FROM: SAC, SEATTLE (164-NEW)

SUBJECT: UNSUB; .
Northwest flight 305.
11/24/71.
CAA ~ HIJACKING; EXTORTION

Re Seattle teletype, 1/2ssA.

- Enclosed herewith ma one box of Recordak Microfilm
(developed) for use in a Reco } ant 600K microfilm
viewer.

On November 25, 1971, | }

) Seattle-First National Bank, 4th and

Madison, Seattle, Washington, provided SA| }
with a microfilm canister containing photographs of the

serial numbers of $250,000 worth of notes, in various
denominations. [______] advised that the Bureau should

only be concerned with the serial numbers of the $20 bills.

The extortion package which was — to the hijacker contained

only bills of $20 denomination. said the microfilm
contained the serial numbers of 7800 of $20 bills. He
provided a list of serial numbers of the $20 bills which were
on the microfilm, itself, but were not included in the —
extortion money package which the Unsub received, These

$20 bills are packed in packets of 100 bills; and

provided the first and last serial numbers in each of these
packets of 100 bills. Ne advised that these serial numbers

3 ~- Bureau (Ene. 1)
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On November 27, 1971| , a man who is
familiar with parachute clubs and jumpers in the southwestern
part of Washington and northern part of Oregon, advised that
a person jumping from a plane at about 7000 feet who had
experience could free fall and while doing so could count
to 25 seconds which would then place him at 3000 feet and
for this reason no altimeter would be needed. He pointed
out that if the subject could have seen the ground there would
be no problem in landing if he had experience as a jumper,
Ne further pointed out that his experience as a jumper
shows him that the subject would not have needed jump boots,
a helmet, jump suit, or any other special equipment for
he and other chutists jump in shorts, tennis shoes, and
other non-jumping equipment when weather conditions are
right. He also pointed out that the subject could land
within one mile of a pin point spot picked if he had
experience and knew when to jump. Further, he stated the
subject would have travelled 1/2 to 3/8 of a mile from the
drop line from the plane in a 30 _mile per hour wind if he
opened his chute at 3000 feet. also advised that
he could also state that if the subject had experience
he would know that the easiest place to put a container with
the money would be between his legs and this would_not
cause any problems on landing or during descent,
suggested one person whom he thought could be capable of
the hijacking and that would be| l who is a
good and experienced parachutist and pilot.

[L__Jadvised that the parachute clubs in the
arga he is familiar with are the Pacific Parachute Club
which uses Donald airfield 30 miles south of Portland,
Orepon, and the Western Sport Parachute Center which uses
both the Frink field and the Hockinson fieid near Vancouver,
Washington; he pointed out that Puckett airfield is no
longer used as a jump center.

On November 28, 1971] | Vancouver
Piper Aviation, 209 East Reserve Street, Vancouver, Wash-=
ington, was contacted and advised that he and a group of
experienced pilots had been discussing the hijacking and he
advanced the theory that in view of the cloud cover on the
night of Novenber 24, 1971 only an experienced jumper knowing

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SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) 12/21/71

SA CHARLES E, FARRELL

NORJAK (04)

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SA MANNING made available an advertisement
clipped from a magazine concerning a "mini" marker,

This small marker beacon receiver apparently
could be used to "home in" on a given frequency.

. The literature will be maintained in the 1A
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SA THOMAS J, MANNING

UNSUBs
Korthwest Airlines Flight 305

Portland to Seattle 11/24/71
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The Portland Division has been asked to continue contacts with National Guard

based at Portland International Airport where | |
for further tranemissions of this device.

Investication at various airports throughout SY Washington have revealed
from technical people familiar with this homing emergency device that frequently

this device can be trisrered into emitting the emergency signal upon a plane
reaching a dive where 5 Gs is reached.

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from which this signal was tranomitted (note two locations whdely sepearated

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

> sac, 'SEATTLE (164-81) DATE: 12/4/71

SA JOHN L RETCHAM (P)

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UNKNOWN SUBGECT;
NORTHWEST AIRLINES

FLIGHT #305,

PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71

CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION
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radio receiver was in the hijacker's attache case. This coutkd be
used in conjunction with a low frequency transmitter on the
ground ~ to know when to drop. He said this would put one within
a3 mile radius from a 10,000 foot level jump on target.

However, he noted too, that any transisterized receiver in use
should be reflected in the plane instruments - so pilot should be
able to tell that such was the case (transceiver in use)

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FROM: POGTLAND (164-41) P 2P ¢

'BULKY TO BE CARRIED ABOARD THE FLIGHT UNSEEN, AND DUE TO THE

UNSUB; MORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER
TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE. CAA ~ HIGHJACKLNG; EXTORTION. 00: SEATTLE. .

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RE SEATTLE TELETYPE TOHPORTLAND, NOVEMBER TWENTY NI NE, SEVENTY- | .
ONE; AND PORTLAND TELEPHONE CALLHTO SEATILE; SAME DATE. a
WAS CONTACTED AND ADVISED A.VOR RECEIVING DEVICE WOULD BE TOO _

TECHNICAL EFFORT OF THE DEVICE, IT WOULD PROBABLY REQUIRE A GOOD ~~
DEAL OF TRAINING IN ORDER TO OPERATE IT. HE. ADVISED THE =: |

) SMALLEST MODEL OF THE VOR RECEIVING DEVICE IS TWO POINT SIX INCHES

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VOLT BATTERY TO OPERATE PROPERLY, AND HORIZONTAL > POLWRIZED

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THE MARKER BEACON RECEIVERS, WHICH accorDINe TO[__} COULD BE

MADE BY "ANY PERSON WPTH THE SLIGHTEST KNOWLEDGE OF COMMUNICATION |

' OR RADIO EQUIPMENT. SUCH A DEVICE COULD BE THE SIZE OF'A PACKAGE -

OF CIGARETTES OR FOR A MORE EXACTING DEVICE, COULD BE ANY SIZE."
ADVISED THATHTHE BEACON RECEIVER WOULD WORK ON A NINE SOLE,
TRANSISTOR BATTERY AND SERIES WITH A NORMWL [FLASHLIGHT BATTERY.

SUCH A DEVICE CAN BE PURCHASED FROM ANY OF THE AVIATION COMPANIES
FOR APPROXIMATELY: TWO HUNDRED SEVENTYFIVE poLLaRS, wHrcR[]. SPE

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