We still get several tips every w. sk. We pledged at the outset to investi te any information we re- ceived + .; the public." ..
"We have checked more than 1,000; maybe several thousand, reports alto- . gether. We have checked a long list of missing persons. And after five years we still don't know if there ever was a Dạn Cooper. We have no more' informa- tion on his identity today than we had five years ago."
: The FBI hase's its rejection of the: statute of limitations on three major assumptions: There is no statute of limi: tations in capital crimes and air piracy. or aerial hijacking was a crime punish- able:by death in November 1971 and still is.
There is no statute of limitations- protecting fugitives from justice, ac- cording to a recent ruling of the Ninth Circuit Court in: a similar case. Since Cooper has not turned himself in he is assumed to be a fugitive, if he is still alive. The same rule applies to his ac- complices, if any, Himmelsbach ex: plained.
Seizure of the aircraft with its 36 passengers/and crew.
The same rule applies to his ac- complices, if any, Himmelsbach ex: plained.
Seizure of the aircraft with its 36 passengers/and crew. of six could be" considered kidnaping, a crime also ex- empt from the statute of limitations where injury or death is involved.
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"Personally, after five years of in- tensive investigation I lean to the con- clusion that Cooper was killed when he - jumped from the plane or died soon af- ter landing. That makes it a capital crime. If he had any accomplices, which is not indicated by any evidence so far; they would be equally guilty."
To back up his conclusions, Him- melsbach for the first time, told the detailed story of the hijacking:
"Cooper was given four para- chutes," Himmelsbach said. "He cut the shroud lines on one of the best para- chutes and used them to tie the 10,000 $20 bills to Ls belt in a bag before he bailed out.
"He left nahind the two best para -! chutes - a <1, diver parachute with a. 32-foot canopy and a chest pack de -. signed primarily for use as a second parachute.
chutes - a <1, diver parachute with a. 32-foot canopy and a chest pack de -. signed primarily for use as a second parachute. .
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DB Cooper-22582 He wore a pilot's seat peck pares chute with a 28-foot canopy. He also took with him a chest pack parachute used for training. It was unusable. The panels were sewn together. If it had been usable. he could not have attached at to his parachute harness, which had no D rings for use with a chest pack. No one who knew anything about para- . chutes would have made this many mis- takes.
"He also either took with him or threw out the bag in which he claimed to be carrying a bomb."
Himmelsbach declined to describe the device in detail, for security rea- · sons. But it was earlier described as a crude, unsophisticated device apparent- ly consisting of highway
But it was earlier described as a crude, unsophisticated device apparent- ly consisting of highway flares and a battery.
-He left no fingerprints in the plane, but did leave a couple of items which the FBI is not revealing because they could help, identify the hijacker or con- found any of the expected phony fame -seekers who may claim to be Cooper , : when they, think the statute of limita- tions has expired.
"Cooper could not have known where he was when he jumped," Him- .melsbach said. "He did not know the exact route of flight or the altitude. The plane was on instruments in the higher of two layers of clouds all the way from Seattle to the vicinity of La Center. :
:"There was a radio marker beacon- in, the general area, but it was out of service. The hijacker could not have seen the ground and could not have de- termined his position by any kind of radio receiver, if he had one, which we don't know for sure. There was no way he could have known within miles of where he was.
'It was a stormy night, with freez- ing rain at his altitude and winds gust- ing from 25 to 45 knots at
'It was a stormy night, with freez- ing rain at his altitude and winds gust- ing from 25 to 45 knots at Portland International Airport, maybe stronger along the Lewis River where he bailed out. He was dressed in a business suit .
and Oxford type street shoes: He had no 4hat or goggles.
"Parachute experts tell us his shoes would have been snapped off his feet when he stepped out into a 196-mile-an- hour slipstream; his eyes would have been blacked. by the force of the wind and he probably would have tumbled. out of control. He would have landed in his stocking feet, blinded by the slip- stream, and the raging storms
"With that 28 foot canopy he would have descended 26 miles an hour verti- cally. Add a 30 to 55 mile- an-hour wind and he would have hit.at a speed of 50 to 70 miles an hour. The experts say it is Inconceivable that he could have es-j caped serious injury or instant death - even assuming his parachute opened. "
How does the FBI know Cooper. bailed out near La Center and landed somewhere along the Lewis River?
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How does the FBI know Cooper. bailed out near La Center and landed somewhere along the Lewis River? The two Air Defense Command F106 jét in- terceptors which followed the 727 through the overcast that dark, stormy night, saw nothing. There was no radio transmitter on the parachutes delivered to the hijacker, which would have per- mitted pursuers to follow his trajectory. as he bailed out.
But the FBI, with the aid of North- west Airlines reconstructed the whole hijacking six weeks after the crime.
"The first-week in January, 1972, we flew a Northwest 727 exactly like' flight 305 over the same route with the same load, the same power settings, the - same flap settings, same use of landing gear, from Seattle south. We had Will- iam Rataczak, first officer on the hi -. jacked plane, at the controls," Himmels- bach said.
."Over the Lewis River, 35 miles north of Portland, the rear stairway was lowered and a 235-pound sled dropped off ,while a chase plane photo: graphed its trajectory as it parachuted to the ground.
"Over the Lewis River, 35 miles north of Portland, the rear stairway was lowered and a 235-pound sled dropped off ,while a chase plane photo: graphed its trajectory as it parachuted to the ground.
: "As the load left the stairway it're- tracted to within eight .inches of clos- ing, then dropped back down. The re- sult was a marked fluctuation in the cabin air pressure which caused the crews' ears to pop and registered a rap- id change in the rate of pressurization on instruments in the cockpit.
"Rataczak said: "That's just the way it was at 8:10 p.m. Nov. 24:' Only the crew didn't know what it meant then.' They'didn't know he had balled out Until they landed at Reno and found the plane empty."
The same rapid fluctuations in air pressure were noted in three bailouts from 727 airliners in the next few months, before the FAA ordered all rear doors rigged so they could not be opened in flight.
"There has-not been a successful hijacking in the U.S since," Himmels. bach ry si sized. "And none of the hi- jackers **** ) succeeded in bailing out got sva: with the money. All were ght and the money recur-
The re-enactment of the hijacking was conducted In fair weather.
All were ght and the money recur-
The re-enactment of the hijacking was conducted In fair weather. But en- gineers fed into their computers es- timated delays in. opening the para- chute, known speed of descent, wind velocity and direction and came up with
an area 6 1/2 miles long and 4 miles wide. The FBI assumes Cooper landed somewhere within this "target area," which barely includes Lake Merwin in its northeast corner.
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ton, one with bases at -,- other from 5,300 feet up to 19,000 feet and more over Portland. Winds were gusting from 25 to 45 knots at Portland International Airport.
Lelooska, Indian artist who lives at Ariel, Wash., was driving home along the Lewis River about 8 p.m. and re- ported the wind and rain was buffeting the car so hard that he pulled off the ' road to wait for a break in the storm.
Himmelsbach, an experienced pilot, took off from Portland International Airport in a National Guard helicopter às the hijacked plane passed overhead.
Himmelsbach, an experienced pilot, took off from Portland International Airport in a National Guard helicopter às the hijacked plane passed overhead.
"We were going to try and follow the 727," Himmelsbach said. "But the air was so rough and the clouds so low that we were called back before we got past downtown Portland."
The next day, Himmelsbach, who holds a commercial pilot rating, flew almost the entire route of the hijacked plane in his own airplane, accompanied by, an experienced Civil Air Patrol ob- server.
We 'flew directly over the area where we later estimated he had land- 'ed, but there is hardly a chance of. see- , ing even a parachute canopy in the dense woods and brush that cover much of the area."
About 200 officers and men of the 3d Armored Cavalry trom Ft. Lewis, equipped with five helicopters, · searched the toro . For two weeks in mid-March, vugh brush and black? searching
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a sadimpossible to conduct a 100 per cent effective search in some of this area," Himmelsbach said. "There are acres and acres of blackberries so dense as to be; impenetrable and some of the terrain is too steep to be searched on foot. A man could fall into one of those backberry patches and just disappear. We would have to burn out the under- brush or cut it out by hand to con fact a thorough search."
"I have never thought Cooper went' into the lake. From all I've seen I ican to the hypothesis that he landed in the dense woods either dead or mortally hurt. It could be years before he is. found. Planes have disappeared in that kind of terrain and been missing for 10 year's of more.
It could be years before he is. found. Planes have disappeared in that kind of terrain and been missing for 10 year's of more." "}
When Capt. William Scott, Flight Engineer H. E. Anderson, and First Offi- cer, Rataczak landed the 727 at Reno with the rear stair, door still dragging; they and Tina Mucklow, stewardess, found the cabin empty except for one chest pack, the good one, and the sky divers' parachute, "the one he should have used." (Flight attendant Florence Schaffner and a third stewardess had been left behind in Seattle.)
The money was missing. So was the attache case in which he carried the crude dummy "bomb." The FBI found two personal items which they are not revealing. That was all. No fingerprints, no clues. The hijacker even reclaimed the hijack note he had written when he first boarded the plane.
Not one of the 10,000 $20 bills Cooper obtained has turned up. The FBI circulated a list of the numbers to. po- lice, sheriffs and banks throughout the country. FBI and other agencies have been swamped with calls from people who think they have found one of the bills.
FBI and other agencies have been swamped with calls from people who think they have found one of the bills.
"We are still getting a score or more calls a week," Himmelsbach said. "Ac- tually if everyone who gets a $20 bill gave us a call we would be swamped. We want to check every suspicious bill, but we could eliminate 70 per cent of these calls if people would first take a look at the face of the bill.
"At the lower right hand of the pic- ture of Andrew Jackson you will find a date and a letter - like. 1973, with a C ; under it. That is the date the bill was issued.
"Obviously if it was issued after 1971 it could not be one of the missing bills," Himmelsbach pointed out.
The list of 10,000 numbers has been entered in the National Crime Informa- tion Computer system." 4 Almost every police station and sheriff's office has access to this com- puter, which can tell in two seconds whether the bill Is on the wanted list, Himmelsbach safd.
The FBI has not given up. The search goes on. While Cooper has cost the airlines and law enforcement agen- cies millions of dollars, his hijacking -- the
While Cooper has cost the airlines and law enforcement agen- cies millions of dollars, his hijacking -- the first one motivated strictly by greed - led to an airport security program which has resulted in the confiscation of thousands of weapons and the arrest and successful prosecution of hundreds of other criminals, Himmelsbach points out.
They Federal Aviation Administra- tion reports five possible hijackings of. other crimes against civil aviation were prevented by the security system in the. first six months of 1976 and 2,840 fire- arms and seven explosive or Incendiary, devices were seized and 422 persons arrested,
P.S. If by some miracle Cooper should escape the FBI, he would still be wanted by the IRS. The Portland office of the Internal Revenue Service esti- mates Cooper would owe $217,523 on his $200,000 loot in taxes arid, penalties for failure to file and failure to pay. A. possible civil penalty could raise that figure another $60,000 .-- all of which goes to show that crime doesn't pay; the IRS says.
possible civil penalty could raise that figure another $60,000 .-- all of which goes to show that crime doesn't pay; the IRS says.
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D.B.'s pants? 'Unlikely'
By DAVID KERN Columbian Staff Writer
ARIEL - It is "highly unlikely" that the tattered slacks found by hunter William Lynch on Green Mountain near here could have been worn by famed skyjacker Dan Cooper, according to a highly in- formed law enforcement source.
"It is generally felt from looking at the crime laboratory report that the pants are not five years old," said the official, who asked that his name not be used,
"We're not any closer to catching Cooper than we've ever been," he added.
Seven FB agents spent 31/2 hours on Nov. 24 searching around the area where Lynch spotted the pants. The blue-gray continental-style slacks were about 25 feet above the ground in a tree when Lynch spied them while hunting.
.^-The source said it was generally felt that the pants would have been too large for Cooper.
slacks were about 25 feet above the ground in a tree when Lynch spied them while hunting.
.^-The source said it was generally felt that the pants would have been too large for Cooper. The slacks had about a 36-inch waist and 33-inch inseam. Cooper was described as about 5-foot-10 and weighig about 170 pounds.
About 200 persons celebrated the fifth anniversary
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John Reed, agent in charge of the FBI's Seattle office, declined Saturday to discuss the laboratory tests. He said it is against Justice Department rules to discuss evidence in criminal cases.
"I figured they had been there some time - three years, maybe five years," Lynch, a logger, said Saturday. "I still think they came out of an airplane because of the way they were hanging.'
Lynch said he is convinced the pants could have been in the tree for a long time because "of nature's signs" - fir needles and green moss stains, And he said the pants looked like the kind a businessman would wear, and "most woodsmen wear overalls and
in the tree for a long time because "of nature's signs" - fir needles and green moss stains, And he said the pants looked like the kind a businessman would wear, and "most woodsmen wear overalls and suspenders."
Many think Cooper might have landed near Lynch's home. Does Lynch think Cooper survived?
"It does seem something concrete would have come up," Lynch said. "But it's a big country to 'cover inch by inch."
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A party for D.B. Cooper
By BOB BURNETT Columbian Staff Writer,
: ARIEL, Wash. - They held a big party here Saturday, but the guest of honor never showed up.
Or at least if he did, he was incognito. Not that anybody really expected the famous skyjacker to attend. Most authorities think he's dead, that. he died in his hijacking attempt:
Dead or alive, the people of this tiny community on the shore of the North Fork of the Lewis River about 10 miles east of Woodland Saturday enlivened the legend of history's first parachute
he died in his hijacking attempt:
Dead or alive, the people of this tiny community on the shore of the North Fork of the Lewis River about 10 miles east of Woodland Saturday enlivened the legend of history's first parachute skyjacker, D.B. Cooper.
About 200 persons gathered here from as far away as Southern California to help the town Cooper put on the map commemorate the fifth anniversary of the day Cooper hijacked an air- plane and disappeared into thin air with $200,000. cash.
Germaine Tricola, who, with her husband, Vince, owns the Ariel General Store, and Dave Butterfield, who has a summer home nearby, schemed up the "Cooper Caper," mainly as.an excuse to hold a party.
"Why not?" asked Mrs. Tricola. "After five years of everybody looking around and everything, why not have a party for Cooper?
"Sure he's alive," she said. "I just have a gut feeling. He might be walking around in here right now. How would you know?"
"He's still alive without a doubt, That's what I think," added Vince Tricola.
He said people started arriving about 11 a.m. Carloads of curious, questioning people. The locais were eager to talk as long as the visitors were willing to listen.
Carloads of curious, questioning people. The locais were eager to talk as long as the visitors were willing to listen. Somehow the tales got taller in the retelling.
Butterfield served up hefty portions of thick buffalo stew while Mrs. Tricola poured the brew.
'An effigy of Cooper hung loosely from a parachute draped over the roof of the store. A Portland air-charter service provided seaplane rides at $8 a head "to search for Cooper." "D.B.
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DB Cooper-22587Cooper Fan Club" T-shirts were sold at the. counter, along with "The Skyjacker's Guide" and "D.B. (King of the Midnight Blue)," two paperback offshoots of the Cooper legend.
Television stations and newspapers from Seattle to Portland were represented. A crew from Hollywood filmed a segment for a new series about missing persons, entitled "In Search Of.
A crew from Hollywood filmed a segment for a new series about missing persons, entitled "In Search Of. .. . "
Posters decorated the walls: "Cooper, Where Are You?". "Will the Real D.B. Cooper Please Step Forward." "Free Cooper Kittens."
Posted on a tree to which the Tricola's goat, Fred, was tied: "Cooper's Reincarnation?".
Guitarist Richard Purdy of Woodland sang "Where Are You, D.B. Cooper" and an original song, "Ode to D.B. Cooper." A big hit was. a Longview, Wash., man, D.B. (Donald Bob) Cooper, who helped to maintain the festive mood.
. Cooper is. the name used by a man who hi- jacked a Northwest Airlines 727 jetliner in Portland on Nov. 24, 1971 .. The plane flew to Seattle, where Cooper was given four parachutes and $200,000 cash. He let the pas- sengers off, then ordered the plane to fly to Reno. Ney.
"Authorities put tiny Ariel - population about. 400 - on the map by theorizing that Cooper . jumped out around there or nearby Lake. Merwin. The area was searched thoroughly by :
· federal, state and local police, and by scores of hunters and others looking for the $200,000.
The area was searched thoroughly by :
· federal, state and local police, and by scores of hunters and others looking for the $200,000. But nothing was ever found.
Last week, the FBI searched the area again after a pair of pants was discovered hanging in a tree. Nothing else was found.
- Cooper was indicted for air piracy by a federal grand jury in Portland last Wednesday, just hours before the five-year statute of limitations would have run out.
Cooper used the name "Dan" when he bought his ticket. The initials "D.B." evolved during. news coverage of the skyjacking.
. Harold Babitzke's daughter, Jane, was driving to Babitzke's Ariel cabin about the time Cooper
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ing a "strange-looking" man or wewis River Road with a package under his ns. "He was walking in an awful hurry and la looked like he didn't want a ride from anyhody," Babitzke said.
The FBI apparently discounted the possibility that the man was Cooper, he said.
"But I think it was Cooper. I really think he made it out.
The FBI apparently discounted the possibility that the man was Cooper, he said.
"But I think it was Cooper. I really think he made it out."
Others 'agree: "I wouldn't rule it out," said Elise Henderson of Portland. "There's always a' chance," added Hope Hazen of Amboy.
"I don't think he was even on the plane, Midge Frasier of Amboy. "I think he got off with the money before it ever took off."
Ray Wallace of Toledo, Wash., said he thinks "Bigfoot took D.B. Cooper and the money to his : cave. There ain't no foolin'.about it."
And it got deeper as the afternoon wore into evening.
One area resident told how he heard the door of the jetliner slamming shut after Cooper jumped. Another displayed a wad of $20 bills he said he couldn't spend because they were marked.
To cap the celebration, Tricola, having just answered the phone, looked stone-faced toward the crowded store and said he had just been called by President-elect Jimmy Carter.
There appeared to be almost as many believers as skeptics.
. "There isn't enough of this kind of fun," said Joe Laherty of Lynnwood.
There appeared to be almost as many believers as skeptics.
. "There isn't enough of this kind of fun," said Joe Laherty of Lynnwood." "You gotta break the monotony somehow and this is the way to do it.'
"It's something that probably will never hap- pen again," said Mrs. Frasier. "If the guy never shows up, he'll still have made history here today."
Asked if the "Cooper Caper" party would become an annual event, Mrs. Tricola said :.
"I don't know. Maybe. We'll see what the weather is like.
"If it's nice. well, we'll find some excuse to have another party.'
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They had a big party in Ariel for folk hero D.B. Cooper Saturday, but the elusive parachutist did not show up. At least , one knew it it, he did. If the full story turn to page 6.
Staff photo by Jerry Conceder Bill MacDonald of Woodland, left, and Haze Brown of Ariel, ham it up at "Cooper Caper" party.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Dan Cooper, who got a $200,000 air piracy ansom five years ago but. may not. `Dave successfully parachuted from the plane with the cash, has been.
(AP) - Dan Cooper, who got a $200,000 air piracy ansom five years ago but. may not. `Dave successfully parachuted from the plane with the cash, has been.in- dicted just in case he's "out there" alive.
Authorities said they sought ' the indictment, handed down Wednesday "by a federal grand jury here, because of fear that Cooper might go free if a five-year - statute of limitations ex- 'pired.
: The indictment, which named a fic- titious "John Doe, also known as Dan Cooper," contained a second count accusing him of interstate commerce by extortion.
On Thanksgiving Eve in 1971, a hi- jacker calling himself Dan Cooper. jumped from a Northwest Airlines 727 jet that had traveled from here to Seattle. Neither he nor the money, which was strapped to his chest beneath his business suit; has been found.
Jack Collins, first assistant U.S. at- forney in Portland, said the indict- ment was sought "out of an abun- "dance of caution. We have no present knowledge of his (Cooper's) whereabouts."
Orders. to obtain the indictment came from Deputy Atty. Gen Richard Thornburg, head of the criminal divi- sion of the Justice Department, Collins said.
to obtain the indictment came from Deputy Atty. Gen Richard Thornburg, head of the criminal divi- sion of the Justice Department, Collins said.
The department has taken the posi- tion that there is no statute of limita- tions on capital crimes, and that what sapu
Cooper did was punishable by deatha the time.
But a spokesman in Washington said the department wanted to avoid repetition of what. occurred earlier this year when a judge threw out at- tempts to prosecute New Jersey Teamster leader Anthony Proven- zano in.a 1961 kidnap-slaying case.on grounds that the statute of limitations had expired:
First reports of the skyjacking referred to the man as D.B. Cooper, but the name on his ticket read Han Cooper.
Cooper boarded the flight Nov. 24, 1971, clutching a 'paper bag. Soon after takeoff, he told stewardessesthe had a .bomb and that he wanted $200,000 in cash and four parachutes.
After other passengers got offsin Seattle, the airline met Cooper's fle- mands and the plane departed, for Reno on his orders. Cooper bailed out somewhere over southwest Washington, officials said.
After other passengers got offsin Seattle, the airline met Cooper's fle- mands and the plane departed, for Reno on his orders. Cooper bailed out somewhere over southwest Washington, officials said.
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By DAVID KERN
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"To my knowledge, nobody has been in that area -- only by helicopters, The wind was really howling that night and the there was a driving.
ARIEL ~ FBI agents are waiting for a crime rain," Shinn remembered:
laboratory report before deciding whether a pair of pants found by a rancher in the Green going back and forth," Shinn added. Mountain area of northern Clark County will be a good clue in the five-year-old case of skyjacker Dan Cooper.
John Reed, agent in charge of the FBI's Seattle office, said when he told agents in the crime laboratory in Washington, D.C., that he would be sending them back a pair of dress trousers which might be five years old they
C., that he would be sending them back a pair of dress trousers which might be five years old they responded: "Geez, that's really far out but we'll kick it around."
Seven agents searched for 3 12 hours Wednesday for any clues in the area where rancher William Lynch found the trousers.
'Nothing," responded FBI agent John Pringle. when he came out of the wooded area. And Reed said no more searches in the surroundings are scheduled.
>"We should have a preliminary crime laboratory report by Friday or Monday," Reed said. He said that report might indicate where the laundry tag came from, whether the pants appeared to have weathered five years of the elements and other possible clues.
"There's a lot of leads that could come from one pair of pants," Reed said. But, he admitted Nothing looks good right now.'
It was Nov. 25, 1971, that a man who identified,
himself as Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest. Orient Airlines 727 jetliner, gained a $200,000 ransom, and ordered the jet be flown from Seattle to Mexico with a refueling stop in Reno, Nev.
Orient Airlines 727 jetliner, gained a $200,000 ransom, and ordered the jet be flown from Seattle to Mexico with a refueling stop in Reno, Nev. He parachuted from the airplane, clutching a briefcase full of the money in $20 bills, when the plane was 36 minutes out of Seattle.
Asked if the found slacks could have been planted by someone wanting to play a practical joke, Reed said: "The pants are possible evidence as far as I'm concerned. This just hap- pens to be the fifth anniversary and these pants < came in."
Rancher Lawrence Shinn hardly noticed the three FBI cars which were parked only a stone's. throw from his barn off an abandoned logging :road Wednesday.
Later, he poured a cup of coffee and said, yes, the case of Dan Cooper had created at least a . ripple of interest in this mountain ranching; community.
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"I've set here a million times and said old Cooper is up in that timber," Shinn said, pointing north from a table near a kitchen windown.
"The helicopters were three or four abreast.
Both Shinn and his wife, Maude, said Cooper
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"The helicopters were three or four abreast.
Both Shinn and his wife, Maude, said Cooper
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probably would have had a difficult time surviv- ing because of his fall and the weather that night. The wind wa's blowing at 30 to 55 miles per hour "I have my doubts that he survived because it was quite cold that night," Mrs. Shinn said.
" Cattle rancher William Lynch was reluctant to comment on the trousers he found. He said it was up to the authorities to determine if they belonged to Cooper.
Lynch spotted the slacks about 25 feet above. the ground in a tree, while hunting about one month ago. After reading some stories about I Cooper, he called the'. Clark County Sheriff's Office to report his find.
Those slacks were resting crotch up in the tree so that some parts had green moss stains and large tears were in the thighs and knees.
The material seemed to be a double knit type, and the blue-gray slacks are continental style. Whether Cooper could have worn them is uncertain.
The material seemed to be a double knit type, and the blue-gray slacks are continental style. Whether Cooper could have worn them is uncertain. The pants have. a 36 inch waist and about a 33 inch inseam, according to Dick Dyer, FBI agent in Vancouver. Cooper was described as being about 170 pounds and about 5 feet 10. If those " dimensions: were accurate, the_ pants might have been too large to fit the famed skyjacker.
While the FBI waits for a crime laboratory report, folks in these parts may be stopping in at a party in Cooper's honor at the-Ariel .Store Saturday.
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By DAVID KERN Columbian Staff Writer ARIEL - Seven FBI agents searched 31/2 hours without success today for clues in the D.B. Cooper sky- jacking case following the discovery of a pair of -tattered, moss-stained pants in a tree three miles : southeast of Merwin Dam.
"We searched and we didn't find anything else," said John Pringle, assistant agent in charge of the : Seattle FBI office. "There's no way anybody can say whether his body is in there. The undergrowth is ex- - tremely thick and it's been five years and you never know.'
Pringle said they were calling off the search at least ·for the time, being and would probably return to Seattle.
The agents, carrying shovels and axes and wearing coveralls, were seen by one resident as they got out of their cars about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday on Lynch road in the Green Mountain area of northern Clark County and begin searching the woods. The gray-blue gien plaid pants were said by the FBI to have been found late last month by William Lynch, a Woodland-area hunter, as they were hanging about 25 feet above the ground in a Douglas-fir.
The gray-blue gien plaid pants were said by the FBI to have been found late last month by William Lynch, a Woodland-area hunter, as they were hanging about 25 feet above the ground in a Douglas-fir.
Authorities were quick to warn that the pants found by Lynch might not be Cooper's and that the discovery
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Ray Mathis, an FBI spokesman in Seattle, told The Columbian late Wednesday morning that "about a half-dozen" agents were sent to the scene to search for additional clues. But, Mathis cautioned, "We consider this a routine lead. The only thing special about this is it comes five years after" the skyjacking.
It was Nov. 25, 1971 - Thanksgiving Eve -- that a man identified as Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 jetliner,
25, 1971 - Thanksgiving Eve -- that a man identified as Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 jetliner, demanded and received $200,000 and ordered the plane to fly from Seattle to Mexico with a refueling stop in Reno., Nev. Thirty-six .minutes out of Seattle, he parachuted to the ground clutching the money in a suitcase.
."All we want to do is pose the question, 'Are these his pants, ?' " FBI agent Dick Dyer of Vancouver said Tuesday afternoon.
But still, since this week is the fifth anniversary of Cooper's disappearance, chances may be good that the pants were planted as a hoax, authorities caution.
· "We've been getting pants, parachutes, parachute cords for five years," said John Reed, agent in charge, of the FBI's Seattle office."
Dyer said Lynch found the pants off Lynch Road, a former logging road now little more than a trail. He spotted the slacks from a nearby ridge. At first, Dyer said, Lynch thought they might be a deer.
Dyer said Lynch remembered. it was the second Saturday of deer hunting season when he found the pants -- Oct.
Dyer said Lynch remembered. it was the second Saturday of deer hunting season when he found the pants -- Oct. 23.
"He didn't realize the significance of the pants until he started seeing stories about Cooper in the news- papers again," Dyer said.
When reached by The Columbian, Lynch was reluc- tant to talk about his find, saying he wanted no . publicity.
Lynch called the Clark County Sheriff's Office last week and Dyer was notified. The agent traveled to the area Tuesday with Lynch to view the scene of the discovery.
There are questions whether the pants could have been worn by Cooper.
The waist size is 36 inches and the inseam is about 33 finches, Dyer said. Cooper was described as being about 170 pounds and about 5'-10". Thus, it would ap- pear the pants in the tree would normally be worn by a man larger than Cooper as he was described.
Probably an even more intriguing question is: how could the pants be in the tree with no sign of Cooper or his remains discovered nearby in the initial search by Dyer and Lynch?
Probably an even more intriguing question is: how could the pants be in the tree with no sign of Cooper or his remains discovered nearby in the initial search by Dyer and Lynch?
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By DIANE CARMAN Journal Staff Writer
ARIEL, Wash. - The fun-loving peo- ple of Ariel request the honor of the presence of Dan Cooper, alias D.B. Cooper, at a celebration in commemora- tion of the fifth anniversary of his birth as the town legend. .
If the people of Ariel could, they would send just such an invitation to Dan Cooper, the legendary hijacker who got away.
Cooper, as everyorie in this neck of the woods remembers, was the guy who hijacked a Northwest Airlines flight between Portland and Seattle on Nov. 25, 1971, parachuting to the forest near here with $200,000 in $20 bills.
Cooper, as everyorie in this neck of the woods remembers, was the guy who hijacked a Northwest Airlines flight between Portland and Seattle on Nov. 25, 1971, parachuting to the forest near here with $200,000 in $20 bills.
This year Germaina Tricola, owner of
the Ariel Store near Merwin Lake, is organizing "Cooper's Caper Party" on Nov: 27 to celebrate the event that' made 'Ariel what it is today -- a little town with a big mystery.
Mrs. Tricola said she expects most of the 200 to 300 families who live in the community to attend the gathering, which will continue throughout the day.
"It's pretty quiet around here this time of year and most of ue are just looking for an excuse to have a party," she said.
"Somebody suggested we celebrate 'Cooper's Caper,' and I'm just nutty .. enough to do it," she said,
Mrs. Tricola said about half the peo- ple in the area still believe Cooper is still alive, and "most of them try. to think he could have made it."
When asked if she expected guests at the party to impersonate Cooper, Mrs. Tricola said, "Of course, that's what makes a party a party."
She is cooking up gallons of buffalo : stew to serve the guests at the party.
Tricola said, "Of course, that's what makes a party a party."
She is cooking up gallons of buffalo : stew to serve the guests at the party. She explained that there is no particular significance to buffalo stew in connec- tion with Cooper. But, "It gets pretty cold up here and we could probably use something warm and good in this weather."
Chances are slim that Cooper will attend his anniversary party, but that doesn't mean he won't be welcome, said Mrs. Tricola.
"We'd love to have him drop in, even he comes incognito," she said. "Anyway, I think we'll have a good lime," she explained. "It doesn't take much to amuse us up here."
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Mysterious and missing skyjacker Dan (D.B.) Cooper got away with $200,000 in airline money five years ago and the caper may have cost him his pants.
) Cooper got away with $200,000 in airline money five years ago and the caper may have cost him his pants.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation in Seattle Wednesday confirmed that a farmer and logger in the Green Moun- tain area of Washington State's Clark County had found a pair of pants in a tree near where Cooper bailed out of the hijacked airliner.
Up until dark Wednesday, FBI
agents searched the area where the pants were found, tattered and moss- stained, by William Lynch about a month ago.
Agent Dick Dyer in Vancouver said "All we want to do is pose the question, 'are these his pants?' '
In Seattle, Agent John Reed said he wasn't too excited.
"We've been getting pants, para- chutes and parachute cords for five years," he said. "I'm not that excited about it, but we've.got to give it the full
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Some news stories subsequently re-
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Wednesday the FBI sent the torn, gray plaid pants to FBI laboratories in Washington, D.C., for analysis.
Agents said neither laundry nor cleaning marks were found on.the trousers, nor were there any blood- stains.
Back in Portland, the U.S. Attor- ney's office, in what was described as "an abundance of caution," secured an indictment based on grand jury findings against Dan Cooper for hijacking the plane.
Jack G. Collins, first assistant U.S. Attorney, said the indictment was sought because there had been some legal decisions that would contend a five-year statute of limitations applies to the case.
· "It was out of an abundance of cau- lion," Collins said, "that the indictment was sought. We have no present knowl- edge of his (Cooper's) whereabouts."
He said the indictment was request- : ed by Deputy Atty .. Gen Richard. Thorn- burg, head of the criminal division of the U.S. Justice Department.
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He said the indictment was request- : ed by Deputy Atty .. Gen Richard. Thorn- burg, head of the criminal division of the U.S. Justice Department.
· Collins said the penalty for air pira- cy (Count 1 of the indictment) was a prison term of not less than 20 years. If anyone had been killed in the hijacking, he said, the punishment would have been a death sentence.
On Count 2 of the indictment, Col- lins said, the maximum penalty is a $10,000 fine or 20 years in prison or both.
The government asked for a bench warrant for Cooper's arrest and bail of. $500,000.
Cooper's official description is that of a man in his mid-40s, height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 170 to 180 pounds, aver- age to well-built, olive complexion, me- dium smooth; hair dark brown or black and parted on the left and combed back.
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Tattered Pair Of Pants Renews Skyjacker Probe
By DIANE CARMAN Journal Staff Writer
VANCOUVER, Wash. - Half a doz- en Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, armed with search equipment, entered .a remote area of Clark County Wednesday where skyjacker Dan Coop- er may have bailed out five years ago.
The possible break in the mystery hijacking came on the fifth anniversary of the Thanksgiving Eve incident which began at Portland International Airport when Cooper 'boarded a commercial flight.
A tattered pair of pants found hang- ing in a tree in the Green Mountain area of Northern Clark County in Washing- ton sparked the new search.
: Ray Mathis of the Seattle office of the FBI, said Wednesday the bureau is investigating the new evidence, found by a deer hunter.
The discovery of the pants was not revealed by the FBI until Wednesday. , "Sure, they could be Cooper's pants," said Mathis of the find several weeks iago.
The discovery of the pants was not revealed by the FBI until Wednesday. , "Sure, they could be Cooper's pants," said Mathis of the find several weeks iago. "But we've found plenty of pieces of clothing and other evidence that :
1 could have been Cooper's. Until we find other evidence we can't say for sure."
Mathis called the investigation "rous tine," saying, "The only thing unusual about it is that it happened this time of year when the interest in the Cooper case is high."
Dan Cooper, who became popularly known as D. B. Cooper, parachuted into
the woods near Woodland, Wash., Nov. 24, 1971, after hijacking a Boeing 727 in Seattle. The craft landed in Reno after Cooper exited.
The tattered dark gleen plaid men's trousers were said found late last month by William Lynch- a Woodland area hunter, hanging in a tree 25 feet above the ground.
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ARIEL, Wash. - 'Skydivers are, ex- pected to drop into a party here Satur- day to honor one of the nation's most celebrated parachutists, Dan (D.B.) Cooper.
The Saturday skydivers, however, should find the jump easier than their famous counterpart did. They'll jump into a clearing near the Ariel Store, whereas Cooper is believed to have landed in trees not far from the south- western Washington community.
Cooper is the name given by a mid- die-aged man who hijacked a North- west Airlines 727 jetliner Nov. 25, 1971. Ne ordered four parachutes and
$200,000 in cash, and while the plane flew low through stormy weather be- tween Seattle and Reno, the hijacker lowered the rear door and bailed out.
He has never been found -. and nei-f ther has the ransom money.
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$200,000 in cash, and while the plane flew low through stormy weather be- tween Seattle and Reno, the hijacker lowered the rear door and bailed out.
He has never been found -. and nei-f ther has the ransom money. Authorities believe Cooper bailed out somewhere in · the Ariel or Warren Dam, areas, and probably was killed in the attempt.
For .. the people in Ariel, Cooper's ca- per has become legend. "They . talk about him all the time," said Germaine Tricola, who is throwing the party to commemorate the skyjacking.
"Cooper's Caper Party" will begin at 1 p.m. at the Ariel Store, 10 miles east of Woodland, Wash., and 30 miles north of Portland. Mrs. Tricola will serve buffalo stew and a Portland pilot will take out "search parties" in his. single-engine plane.
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But if he doesn't come, everybody will know the reason - Cooper was indicted this week for air piracy by a federal grand jury in Portland.
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By EARLY DEANE . of The Oregonian staff
ARIEL, Wash. - Af- fluent parachutist Dan (D.B.) Cooper may have shown up Saturday at the beer and buffalo stew party held here in his honor.
Then, again, he may not have.
But about 100 other ersons checked in at the Ariel. Store and Tavern, Including two honest pa- rachutists from the Sheri- dan Parachute Academy who made bull's eye landings in a grassy field behind the store.
The party, dreamed up by Vince and Germaine Tricola, owners of the store located at the en- trance to Merwin Dam Park, was in honor of a man who called himself Dan Cooper when he bought an airplane ticket 'from Portland to Seattle five years ago.
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SEATTLE (AP) - It was a dark received $200,000 and four ya stormy night, nearly. five years
when D. B. Cooper took the 200,000 he received in a hijacking and parachuted out of a jetliner, probably mewhere. over: southwest. Washington.
After thousands of hours of hunting; enforcement authorities still we failed to turn up a trace of the amed hijacker or the money.
If Cooper isn't found by authorities efore Nov. 24, the statute of limita- Sons. on federal antihijacking laws will have run out
But that doesn't mean Cooper can ome .out of hiding, says an FBI Jokesman.
The Internal Revenue Service gures Cooper still owes the govern- pent more than $218,000 in back taxes the original $200,000:
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It isn't clear where exactly. Cooper jumped, but the best guess is somewhere over, Washington state. The plane flew on to' Reno, Nev.
Authorities have never determined whether Cooper ever. survived the jump.
The FBI, extremely aware that he statute of limitations is about-to-lix pire, continues the hunt.
A spokesman says the FBI has a plan to try to recover ransom money. if it is in circulation. The scheme in- volves a $5,000 reward to the first per- son who turns in one of the 10,000 $20 bills given to Cooper
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FINAL COUNTDOWN One Year Left For D.B. Cooper
By CLYDE JABIN United Press International
Thanksgiving begins the final year countdown for .D.B. Cooper - the nation's first and only successful parachuting skyjacker -- who used highway flares as a bomb threat to extort $200,000 from Northwest Airlines.
Five years is the statute of limitation on the hijack- ing charge against Cooper, who vanished after para- chuting from a Northwest Airlines 727 with his loot on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971.
"It's a very much active investigation," said a se- nior FBI agent who has spent many hours on the case.
"It's a very much active investigation," said a se- nior FBI agent who has spent many hours on the case. "We have run down literally thousands of leads,. and eliminated hundreds of people as suspects.
"My personal guess is that there is just a 50 per cent chance that he is still alive,"
Cooper spent 50 minutes in the Portland Interna- tional Airport waiting area before boarding the Seat- tle-bound plane, and none of his fellow passengers recalled him. Shortly after takeoff he handed a stew- ardess a note that said, "I have a bomb in my brief case."
"The FBI agent said that the stewardess described "the bomb" as wires attached to eight red sticks of dynamite in Cooper's attache case.
"Dynamite is not color-coded this way. She was describing highway flares," he said.
The agent doubted Cooper was an experienced par- achutist, because of the four chutes given to him at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport, he took the worst two -- an unusable chest chute sewn together and a small back chute.
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By JOE FRAZIER
1 ARIEL, Wash. (AP) - If he's alive, and that's. a big "if," skyjacker Dan Cooper started his final year of lying low Monday.
On Nov. 24, 1971, a man using that . named parachuted from a Northwest Orient 727 over Southwest Washington with $200,000 in ransom money.
He and the money were never seen again, and on Nov. 24, 1976, the statute of limitations expires.
The deed spawned several similar attempts, and two air pirates.later made 'similar jumps over Indiana and Utah .. Both-were captured.
But Cooper's apparent success made him a folk hero of sorts.
later made 'similar jumps over Indiana and Utah .. Both-were captured.
But Cooper's apparent success made him a folk hero of sorts. There were Cooper tee-shirts, bumper stickers and at least one song.
En" The case has been a festering thorn In the side of the FBI, which admits it knows little more about him than it did in the stormy Thanksgiving eve when Cooper grabbed the bag containing 2. 10,000 $20 bills, and leaped into history. The case remains active, however, and FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach, who has worked on it off and on for four years, · says leads still dribble in.
The man using the name of Cooper boarded Northwest's Flight 105 in Port- ¡ land. Once in the air, he threatened to blow up the plane unless $200,000 in $20 bills and four parachutes were giv- en him in Seattle.
He got what he wanted.
"My personal guess is that there is no better than a 50 per cent chance that he's still alive, and that's being very generous," Himmelsbach said. "In fact, the chances are-very slim indeed."
He said Cooper apparently knew lit- tle or nothing about skydiving.
"In fact, the chances are-very slim indeed."
He said Cooper apparently knew lit- tle or nothing about skydiving.
In' addition, Himmelsbach "said, Cooper was in clouds when he jumped and couldn't have known where he would land. "Up looked like down," he' said. "He could have had no visual reference."
The FBI has pinpointed a 24-square- mile 'area it feels is the drop zone, and some of it is pretty rough country.
There is the chance he came down in Lake Merwin, a large reservoir with- in the zone.
In the zone is the community of Ari- el. The only business is a combination store-tavern with a gas pump that does- n't work. Within, Cooper lives, or at least his memory does.
The records on the elderly juke box are old because the proprietress, Ger- maine Tricola, likes them that way.
"Yes, they still call it 'Cooper coun- try' up here," she said.
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‘Hunters and huckleberry pickers top in here and they still talk about inding something up there, but not like They used to."
Nobody. hurries at the Aeriel tavern in' November. Muddy. roads and snow have 'closed the woods to logging for the winter, and it's cold outside.
Loggers drift in and out for a beer or a game of cribbage.
-Through the smoke from an appar- ently communal pack of Camels talk drifts from the finer points of cribbage to Cooper and back to cribbage.
"Hey, Jimmy!" Germaine shouts down the bar. "Where's Cooper?"
"South America. Africa, maybe," says Jimmy, not looking up from his newspaper.
"You could go a long time on that kind of money in Mexico," she mused. In the spring of 1972 the Army sent
200 men from Ff. Lewis, Wash., . to search for 18 days, but nothing turned up. But Ariel Tavern consensus , was that the cougars, coyotes and wild dogs in the hills would have made .
But Ariel Tavern consensus , was that the cougars, coyotes and wild dogs in the hills would have made . quick work of any body, and that searchers could be a few feet from what they sought and still miss it.
The FBI says most of its leads dur- ing four years came from missing per- son reports.
"There was one man who had left a. suicide note, and cut his boat out to drift," Himmelsbach recalled. "That was two days before the skyjacking, and he looked pretty good as a suspect. Then we found him running an adult bookstore.în Los Angeles."
Numerous other ideas and theories have been checked out, he said. They include: "Cooper landed safely and escaped
in a"light plane waiting for himcon a primitive airstrip.
This assumes he knew where he was jumping, a possibility the FBI has ruled out.
If. Cooper makes it another year to outlive the skyjacking charges, the U.S: attorney's office in Portland says, there may be other charges filed.
These could include possession of stolen money or income tax violations.
S: attorney's office in Portland says, there may be other charges filed.
These could include possession of stolen money or income tax violations.
There is also the question of a civil suit from Globe Indemnity: Corp, of New York, which had to pay the airline $180,000.of the $200,000 in ransom, :
Himmelsbach said if it can be shown. that Cooper fled the area to avoid prose- : cution, the statute of limitations might be suspended.
"But if he can prove he stayed around this area and didn't try to run, I guess he's beat us," he said.
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Dan Cooper' remembered, 4 years later Stories link local
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By JEB BLADINE and BARBARA PROPOTNIK
Four years ago, on Thanksgiving eve, a man boarded a Boeing 727 in Portland bound for Seattle, hijacked the plane for a. $200,000 ransom and parachuted into oblivion. No trace of the man, or the money, has ever been found.
Could that most famous and most mysterious skyjacker have been living in McMinnville at the time he committedhis innovative and as yet unsolved crime?
Could that most famous and most mysterious skyjacker have been living in McMinnville at the time he committedhis innovative and as yet unsolved crime?
Not likely, says the Federal Bureau of Investigation upon preliminary analysis of information concerning . the "suspect." But possible, and worth investigating, the FBI; says, after having assigned a Salem agent to further explore any links between legendary skyjacker "Dan Cooper" and a, former McMinnville resident.
On this fourth anniversary of the crime it is easy to tin- derstand why the FBI is less than excited about prospects of ever identifying the famous criminal. For one thing; prevailing theory is that the skyjacker did not survive his parachute escape jump. But the file remains open enough so interesting leads; such as that involving the former Mc- Minnvillans, still are being followed through until a suspect is " cleared.
Some officials believe Dan Cooper perished in his spec- tacular escape attempt for the simple reason that four years later, alter spending countless man hours and dollars in- vestigating the crime, the FBI has found no substantive clue .
believe Dan Cooper perished in his spec- tacular escape attempt for the simple reason that four years later, alter spending countless man hours and dollars in- vestigating the crime, the FBI has found no substantive clue . to the criminal's identity.
! "I can sum it up in a sentence," said Portland FBI public relations agent Bill Williams, as he held a three-inch thick Rook of Dan Cooper Investigative data consisting of i
ferviews conducted within hours of the crime. "We don't really lanow any more about this guy than we knew the morning after the skyjacking."
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"THE NEWS REGISTER" McMinnville, Oregon
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DB Cooper-22612 THE EXPERT on Dan Cooper Is Portland FBI agen, Rarpo Himmelsbach, who has been with the case since. its begin- ning. He has led bureau efforts which included flights in the same plane under the same conditions of Cooper's historic ride.
He has led bureau efforts which included flights in the same plane under the same conditions of Cooper's historic ride. The FBI pinpointed a 24 square mile area in Southwest Washington it feels is the drop zone, and some of it is rough enough country that many officials think Cooper killed himself trying to escape. .
"My personal guess is that there is no better than a 50 percent chance he's still alive, and that's being very generous," Himmelsbach said. "In fact, the chances are very slim indeed."
There remains, however, the fact that all missing person reports in the country were checked in the days and weeks following. Cooper's crime-none of them led FBI in- vestigators a step closer to Dan Cooper, leaving the belief 'among some that he must have escaped.
. Leads in the case have dwindled, and just 12 months separates Dan Cooper, (if he still lives) from possibly avoiding prosecution even if apprehended. , Statute. of limitations on the crime expires Nov. 24, 1976, and unless Cooper were found to have fled the area to avoid prosecution, he would be safe if he remains free beyond that date.
24, 1976, and unless Cooper were found to have fled the area to avoid prosecution, he would be safe if he remains free beyond that date.
Charges such as possession of stolen money or income tax evasion could be leveled, however, and there would be. possibility of civil suit from Globe Indemnity Corp. of New "York, which had to pay $180,000 of the $200,000 ransom.
SEVERAL Mcminnville residents have told the News Register they once believed a man formerly living here was skyjacker . Dan Cooper. . One woman, described to N-R reporters as one who possibly had the strongest reasons for suspecting the man, refused to answer any questions 'of reporters.
Two local men went as far as to conduct a lengthy, private investigation, hoping a $25,000 reward might be in the offing. Their efforts, however, never came to the FBI's attention. They thought the FBI was following up their investigation, the News-Register was told, but apparently an IRS agent they talked with never passed the information along.
Now, some of those suspicions have been presented to the FBI Himmelsbach, though pointing out that he feels little confidence that
Now, some of those suspicions have been presented to the FBI Himmelsbach, though pointing out that he feels little confidence that the former McMinnvillan actually is Dan Gpoper, nevertheless admits the stories warrant further FBI Livestigation.
" One man who investigated McMinnville's "suspect" told the News-Register things which had led him to believe he might be on the right trail. Among them were comments that the man bore resemblance to Dan Cooper, that his reported
· whereabouts that Thanksgiving weekend apparently were entirely unsupported by any witnesses and that he returned to McMinnville with an injured ankle.
; . A few have maintained belief that Dan Cooper really was living here, and four years later it appears the FBI finally will compile official investigative reports on their suspicions.
That investigation most likely will end the way all Dan Cooper investigations have ended-another pessil:" suspect eliminated and continued frustration for the " atever ifje result, whether or not anyone ever Is ;4. as the famous skyjacker.
the way all Dan Cooper investigations have ended-another pessil:" suspect eliminated and continued frustration for the " atever ifje result, whether or not anyone ever Is ;4. as the famous skyjacker. therewas in the . et age 71.
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Officials fail to link skull, Dan Cooper
-A skull found Thursday in à heavily forested area 10 miles east of Estacada is not believed to be that of the air- plane hijacker and extortion -. . ist "Dan Cooper," a deputy state medical examiner said .;
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The skull, found by a man who turned it over to Clacka-f mas County sheriff's depu- ties, is believed to be that of a male, about 30 years old, who had been dead for some time, according to Dr. Larry. Lewman.
Speculation that the skull might have been that ,of Cooper started after the find- er, who was unidentified, re- portedly said he spotted re- mains of a parachute in a nearby tree.
"Whatever we know now is only an educated guess," Lewman said. "Everything we have is third hand, The man brought the skull to the sheriff's office, and' they turned it over to us: The po- lice haven't been to the site, which is covered with
"Everything we have is third hand, The man brought the skull to the sheriff's office, and' they turned it over to us: The po- lice haven't been to the site, which is covered with snow; but simply reported what the man told them."
Lewman, who's in charge of the case and seeking, den- tal records, said the FBI also do not believe that the · skull was Cooper's.
"I talked to them and they said from where Cooper went out of the plane, pre- vailing wind currents, speed of the aircraft and other data, they doubted it could, be the hijacker.".
The man called Cooper parachuted out of the back of a Northwest Airlines jet on the night of Nov. 24, 1971, with $200,000 in extortion money.
Cooper bailed out some- where over southwestern Washington. ,
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Statutes of limitation are meant to safeguard persons from prosecu- tion for
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Statutes of limitation are meant to safeguard persons from prosecu- tion for alleged crimes after so much time has elapsed that it would be unreasonably difficult for them to prove their innocence.
The purpose of such statutes is good. Time scatters witnesses. It tricks memories. It gives unfair ad- vantage to law enforcement agencies ;with ponderous record files and. : ;tends to dilute evidence that accused individuals would want to muster in their defense.
However, some statutes of limita- tion are in need of revision. For ex- 'ample, consider:
.Dan Cooper, if that's his real name, and if he's alive, needs only two years more before he'll be be- yond reach of the law covering the Nov. 24, 1971, caper that gained him notorięty, $200,000 in small-bill ran- som money, and two parachutes to use in his escape from the jet air- liner he "skyjacked" over the Pacif- ic Northwest. A federal statute of . limitations will preclude his prosecu- tion after the fifth anniversary of his threat to blow up the airliner and 'everyone aboard.
limitations will preclude his prosecu- tion after the fifth anniversary of his threat to blow up the airliner and 'everyone aboard.
It's scant comfort to know that Cooper is the only person ever to skyjack a domestic airliner without ending up indisputably dead or in the custody of the law. Despite all that has been done to discourage skyjacking since Cooper hit his chute somewhere south of Seattle, ransom bag in, hand, his apparent clean getaway could still inspire some warped-minded imitators.
If the statute of limitation per- taining to fraudulent attempts to cheat on income taxes can be open- ended, surely that dealing with bomb-packing skyjackers should run longer than five years.
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Where Is D.B. Cooper? And Where Is The Cash ?
PORTLAND (UPI) -- It's Thanksgiving time and thoughts around here not only turn to turkey, pumpkin pie and football, but also to D.B. Cooper, history's first and only successful parachuting sky bandit. Where is he and where did he stash the cash?
Three years ago on Thanksgiving eve Cooper went aboard a Northwest Orient Airlines flight in Portland for a short hop to Seattle.
The plane wasn't airborne much more than five minutes when one of the'more bizarre crimes in history was committed."
Cooper, threatening to set off an explosive device, demanded and got $200,000 in $20 bills de- livered, along with
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Cooper, threatening to set off an explosive device, demanded and got $200,000 in $20 bills de- livered, along with three parachutes, to the plane in Seattle. Then after allowing the passengers to debark, he ordered the crew to fly the 727 to Reno, Nev., following a course down the western sector of Washington and Oregon before cutting across the mountains on a direct flight to Reno. Somewhere in route he bailed out via the tail exit.
' No trace of Cooper or the money ever was found.
· It set off a chain of similar skyjackings that. changed the face of air travel throughout the world.
. But only. Cooper beat the law at taking the money and jumping. The law still is looking for him.
"The case is an active one, not only here but through the United States," said Julius Mattson, agent in charge of the FBI Portland office.
: "We're still getting leads," he said, "but not quite as heavy as we were. The case still is in the public mind and when the public thinks of it, it also thinks of us .-
"There really . has been no substantive development.
The case still is in the public mind and when the public thinks of it, it also thinks of us .-
"There really . has been no substantive development. The work now is mostly eliminating possibilities, proving or disproving tips offered.
"Not one of the $20 bills has turned up anywhere."
Cooper apparently strapped the money to his body for the jump. A theory that he may have fallen into Lake Merwin east of Woodland in Southwest Washington about 30 miles north of Portland could not be proved.
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Director, FBI (164-2111) Attn. Correspondence and Tours Section External Affairs Division SAC, Portland ; (164-41) (P)
NORJAK 00: Seattle
Enclosed herewith to the Burgau and Seattle'are news clippings from the "Oregon Journal," Portland, Oregon, daily newspaper, for the weekdays of 11/22-12/14/73, publicizing the NORJAK case.
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Enclosed herewith to the Burgau and Seattle'are news clippings from the "Oregon Journal," Portland, Oregon, daily newspaper, for the weekdays of 11/22-12/14/73, publicizing the NORJAK case. In addition to the clippings, there are forwarded to Bureau and Seattle the complete front pages of the 11/22, 11/23, 11/26 and 11/27/73, editions of this paper. These pages are being forwarded in their entirety to illustrate the prominent front page coverage the "Oregon Journal" gave this story.
ROLLA J. CRICK is the author of these articles, and he spent considerable time and effort preparing for publication. I believe this coverage again demonstrates his constructivo, enthusiastic cooperation with this office.
Numerous leads have been received from all over the country as a result of this publicity. Radio and television publicity in various parts of the country has been a spin-off of the CRICK series.
It is recommended the Bureau consider sending' ROLLA J. CRICK an appreciative letter over the Director's signature. Letter should be addressed as follows: Mr. ROLLA J. CRICK, Staff Writer, "Oregon Journal," 1320 SW Broadway, Portland, Oregon, 97201.
Letter should be addressed as follows: Mr. ROLLA J. CRICK, Staff Writer, "Oregon Journal," 1320 SW Broadway, Portland, Oregon, 97201. There is nothing in Portland files which would preclude sending this letter.
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$1,000 Offered For First $20 Bill
By ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writer
The Journal will pay $1,000 : for the first $20 bill turned in to the newspaper upon verifi- cation by the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation that the bill is a bona fide part of thef $200,000 extorted from North- west Orient Airlines in the "D.B. Cooper skyjack" of Nov. 24, 1971.
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The offer is made with the .concurrence of the FBI that obtaining any of the missing money would be a substan-i ! I
tial ald to the two-year long investigation of the nation's! most celebrated airline hi- jacking ..
It is also made in the be- lief that if any of the money is in circulation, that fact can be established by alert,
It is also made in the be- lief that if any of the money is in circulation, that fact can be established by alert, readers who check the serial' numbers on $20 bills in their possession.
The man known as Cooper demanded and obtained $200,000 in $20 bills, plus four parachutes, and disappeared into the rain-spattered night somewhere between Seattle and Reno from the 727 he had commandeered at Port- land International Airport. Neither he nor the money have appeared since, but there is a chance that almost anyone by now may have come into possession of one of the, bills.
To assist in the search for the money, The Journal is! publishing on page 31 . thej serial numbers of some of the missing twenties and will publish more of the list on succeeding days. Serial num- bers of the bills that were delivered to Cooper.were re- . corded before the delivery was made.
This is the first time that the list of numbers has been made public. Banks and oth- er financial institutions have had a 35-page booklet of the numbers since its prepara-
tion by the FBI shortly after ( the hijacking.
Banks and oth- er financial institutions have had a 35-page booklet of the numbers since its prepara-
tion by the FBI shortly after ( the hijacking.
Journal readers who keep. each of the partial lists pub- lished by the newspaper will be able to put together their own copies of the complete official list .:
The Journal invites other news media to aid in the dis- tribution of serial numbers.
Northwest Airlines initially offered a reward of 15 per cent of the extortion money recovered up to a maximum of $25,000, but the reward has been discontinued, the airline informed the newspa- per.
The Journal's $1,000 for $20 will be paid even if the first bill to be turned in is surren- dered directly to the FBI at any of its field offices, once it is established that the bill surfaced because of the newspaper's publication of the list of serial numbers.
"D. B. Cooper" or "Dan Cooper" is the name as- signed to the middle-aged, dark-haired man who board- ed NWA flight 305 at Port- land Thanksgiving Eve, 1971,
and presented a note to a stewardess.
Cooper" or "Dan Cooper" is the name as- signed to the middle-aged, dark-haired man who board- ed NWA flight 305 at Port- land Thanksgiving Eve, 1971,
and presented a note to a stewardess. The mote de- manded money and para- chutes and was backed up by display of what the man claimed was a bomb. After negotiations on the ground in Seattle the demand was met and the plane took off for Reno.
The plane reached Reno, but Cooper was not to be found.
A flight recorder indicated that the rear door of the 727 was opened shortly after takeoff and it was assumed that Cooper had parachuted about then.
There has been a wide- spread belief that the hijack- er perished in the nocturnal jump. Speculation has ranged from the possibility. that his body someday would be found hanging in the shrouds of parachutes caught in a tree to the. chance that he and the mon- ey are at the bottom of Lake Merwin near Cougar, Wash., location of an intensive search in 1972.
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7 THE OREGON JOURNAL PORTLAND, OREGON
Date: November 22, 1973 Edition: Author: Rolla J.
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7 THE OREGON JOURNAL PORTLAND, OREGON
Date: November 22, 1973 Edition: Author: Rolla J. Crick
Editor: Donald Sterling, Jr Title: NORJAK
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The Journal, in coopera- tion with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is publish- ing the complete list of serial numbers of 10,000 $20 bills paid to the man identified as "D.B. Cooper" Thanksgiving Eve, 1971, in return for the release .of passengers and some ' stewardesses of · a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 jet he hijacked out of Portland,
Because of the enormity of the task, the list of serial numbers will be published in installments. The first group- ing of numbers is at the left. There are 34 pages of num -. bers in the FBI's official list and each of these pages will
be reproduced by The Jour- nal.
There are 34 pages of num -. bers in the FBI's official list and each of these pages will
be reproduced by The Jour- nal. Readers can clip and mount the reproductions on. notebook paper and create their own copies of the offi- cial list.
The currency paid to Coop- er was collected in a few short hours in the Seattle area that night two years ago while the hijacked jet- liner waited on a runway at Seattle-Tacoma Internation- al Airport and airline and law enforcement officials ne- gotiated for release of pas- sengers and some crew members.
The money was all in $20 Federal Reserve notes.
It disappeared with Cooper when he, parachuted : from the rear stairs of the jetliner between Seattle and Reno.
Banks and other financial institutions have had copies of the list of serial numbers since it was first 'prepared by the FBI shortly after the air piracy occurred. This is the first time that the list
has been made available to the public.
The series year for the bills, if known, is shown af- ter the serial numbers.
This is the first time that the list
has been made available to the public.
The series year for the bills, if known, is shown af- ter the serial numbers.
Readers are requested .to examine all $20 bills now in their : possession or which heareafter come into' their possession to ascertain whether they have any of thef missing ransom money, The Journal will pay.$1,000) for the first $20 bill from that ransom money that is turned in either to the newspaper or to-the FBI.
Check the list of -serial numbers. published . in'this and subsequent editions of the newspaper. You may. have one of the missing bills.
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31 THE OREGON JOURN A PORTLAND, OREGON
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The Journal will pay $1,000 to the first person who brings in one of the 10,000 $20 bills given to Cooper that rainy November night in; ransom for the freedom of the passengers and some of the crew of the 727 jetliner
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he commandeered with a threat to explode a bomb.f The money may be brought; either to The Journal :or to! any FBI field office in thel nation or any law enforce- -ment agency and The Jour- hal will pay the $1,000 : when the FBI verifies that the bill is one of those Cooper had in his possession when he para- chuted from the jetliner somewhere between Seattle and Reno.
What Cooper did had re- percussions no one foresaw at the time. Because it was never really determined · what happened to him and the money, a round of sky- jackings was touched off in the U.S. and overseas, some resulting in loss of life, and now everyone boarding a 1 commercial airliner is sub- ject to some kind of screen- ing process in a search for weapons.
The so-called ."sterile con- (course" concept is in force at airports from Portland, Ore., to Portland, Me .; er J from Seattle. to Miami whereby no . one enters an aircraft boarding area with- out screening.
; er J from Seattle. to Miami whereby no . one enters an aircraft boarding area with- out screening.
It has worked, for there * have been no'hijackings in : the U.S. since August, 1972. Meanwhile, only Cooper -- if he did not die in his leap from the jet with the money -was successful among the' skyjackers and attempted hi- jackers of U.S. aircraft in the past-24 months.
The FBI has prepared a law enforcement bulletin on the "Futility of Aircraft Hi- jacking" which shows a long list- of persons who have been killed, have been prose- cuted, are awaiting prosecu- tion or are identified and being sought as fugitives ..
Five hijackers have been killed by FBI agents and six wounded. Passengers have killed one and wounded an- other. Crewmen have wound- ed one and three have com- mitted suicide.
Although members of the public have thought of Coop- er as "the one who got away with it," most authorities be- lieve that he died, perhaps plunging into some glacial lake in the Pacific North- L west.
Although members of the public have thought of Coop- er as "the one who got away with it," most authorities be- lieve that he died, perhaps plunging into some glacial lake in the Pacific North- L west.
Persons who believe they have one of the missing bilis may telephone The Journal, 22I-8370.
(See list of bills .and story. on page 4. There will be no! list in the weekend edition of. The Journal, but more of the serial numbers will be pub- lished Monday.)
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Date: November 23, 197 Edition: Author: Rolla J. Crick Editor: Donald Sterling, J Title: NORJAK
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Winner Of D.B. Cooper $20 Bill Hunt
Gets $1,000
Are you checking the seff- al numbers of the $20 bills in your possession against the list being published in The Journal of bills given to the aircraft hijacker identified as D.B. or Dan Cooper?
« It's : a rfascinating game which could pay you $1,000 for one of the Cooper 20s and could result in solution .
« It's : a rfascinating game which could pay you $1,000 for one of the Cooper 20s and could result in solution .of one of law enforcement's. most baffling cases.
Cliecking serial numbers: has resulted in solution of two Pacific Northwest! crimes in the past decade, according to files of the FBI.
The Bank of California in Tacoma, Wash., was robbed Feb. 14, 1966 of $9,850 and the amount inchided 10 $20 bilis that could be identified by serial number.
Numbers of the bills were circularized by Tacoma po- lice in shopping centers and a few days later a man was
arrested after he passed two bills identifiable as part of? the bank robbery money.
He said he stole the money from a parked car, but in subsequent investigation he t and two other men were im- plicated 'in the 'bank robbery and each was later sen- tenced to prison.
The second case had thrill- ing overtones and involved the leaving of $25,000 at a specified site in Anchorage, cro
Alaska, in answer to a de -. mand from a man who tele- phoned an airline that "a crooked egg" (bomb) was aboard a Seattle-bound jet- liner and , would explode when
mand from a man who tele- phoned an airline that "a crooked egg" (bomb) was aboard a Seattle-bound jet- liner and , would explode when the plane descended to 10,000 feet.
The jet had 118 'passen- gers, including 72 children, and 9 crew members aboard. Under those conditions, the airline arranged for the mon- ey to be delivered to the des- ignated site and then await- ed a call to describe the hid- ing place of the bomb and how to disarm it.
The call never came and eventually the jet had to land after five tension-filled hours and did so at Seattle with people praying and holding their breath, There, was no bomb.
But in the bundle of bills making up the $25,000 was a number of bills in which the serial numbers had been re- corded and these numbers: were distributed to airlines, banks, savings and loan as- sociations, car rental compa- nies, hotels, finance compa- nies, grocery stores and oth- er places.
The extortion ' occurred Aug. 11, 1970. In mid-Sep- tember one of the identifia- ble bills turned up in a bank. FBI agents traced the bill to an apartment house manag- er, then to a renter of an apartment and finally
FBI agents traced the bill to an apartment house manag- er, then to a renter of an apartment and finally to an- other bank. Eventually it was determined that a man
who had paid cash for rent- ing a car on Aug. 12 had lived in the area of the pay- off site, all because of the 'one bill that turned up.
Still later, the Klamath Falls Police Department in- quired about a man who had arrived in that city with a Large amount of money and had paid off his wife's debts. FBJ* agents based in Port- land determined that the man had been a big spender while in Oregon, giving his wife $1,400, his mother-in- law. $400, paying $100 to a bar owner-for loss of a bar-"; maid for one night, buying two cars and spending $500 to. $1,000 per evening buying drinks for customers in a bar,
Sept, 20, -1970, the FBI ar- rested a West Gerinan citi zen in Portland and he ad- mitted making the hoax call's to the airline. He later that" year was sentenced to five years in the custody of the attorney general of the Unit- ved States on a charge of im- parting or conveying false information.
He later that" year was sentenced to five years in the custody of the attorney general of the Unit- ved States on a charge of im- parting or conveying false information.
Checking the $20 bills in your possession against those in the so-called Cooper: caper might result in solu- tion of that case also. The Journal is publishing the serial numbers in install- : ments` (some are at left) and will publish more "of them over the next sever- al days until the complete list has been made available to readers.
(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state. ]
4 THE OREGON JOURN AI PORTLAND, OREGON
Date: November 23, 1971 Edition: Author:Rolla J. Crick Editor: Donald Sterling, Title: NORJAK :

Character: OF	Bufile
Classification!	164-2111
Submitting Office:	Portland

Being Investigated
DB Cooper-22626 

$20	FEDERAL	RESERVE.	NOTE	VICE
631 963
Page 110 ~ Referral/Consult;
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FD-340 (Rev. 4-2-85)
Field File No.
164A-497-1482.
Serial # of Originating Document
OO and File No.
Seattle
Date Received
5/19 4 5/23/88
From
Orange County Jail Records
(Name of Contributor)
(Address of Contributor)
Santa Ana, La.
(City and State)
By
SA
b6 b7C
(Name of Special Agent)
To Be Returned Yes No
Receipt Given Yes No
Grand Jury Material - Disseminate Only Pursuant to Rule 6(e), Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Yes No
Title:
Nor jack.
00 : Seattle
Reference:
(Communication Enclosing Material)
Description: 
Original notes re interview of
CIT rap sheet + photographs of
Merlin Gene Cooper
8/5/88 EF
DB Cooper-22120164A-497-1482
ORANGE COUNTY JAIL
27919
DEM #118-357
115-541 D Records Copy
ALS, COOPER, HEM.IN GERE
13918 ADDRESS 13318 GRAYSTONE, NORMALE, 6 8%. 000 7-8-54 . LA CROSS, MN.
WARRANT # IZ
VIOL PC SEG STDA
CHARGE
DEPT DER
COOKED BY
COOKED FOR
11-23-60 - Released to Contra Costa Sheriff's Office,
WARRANT # IZ
VIOL PC SEG STDA
CHARGE
DEPT DER
COOKED BY
COOKED FOR
11-23-60 - Released to Contra Costa Sheriff's Office, Thompson,
Wz
BAN
ACE
HAIR
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COMPLEX
BUILD
Tat RFAO two hands olaspad
MARKS & SCARS
U.S
MARITAL STATUS Divoroed
ÇİTIZENŞKIP

withordin and Inito
"MOC "

Unemployed
Salesman
EMPLOYED BY
OCCUPATION
Orpha 0 Cooper (Nthr)
ADDRESS
11-22-60
KEYSORT
ZIN
WW CLD
ANNEGED
HE
Thanh
Dumb
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Left Hand
La Cross, Wisconson
NEAREST KIN
11-22-604*
11-22-60
FRINKP
Impressions M Han
DIWINPLACE
Med
BIRTHDATE 8 July 1934
La Gross, NiecoRss
RIMNOUS FO
SENTENCE
AGE $ HT 6-2 WT
180STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE BUREAU OF CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION AND INVESTIGATION 7. O. Box 1859, Sacramenta
The following CHI record, NUMBER
IS FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Filo 77910 allianz
11 $ 1 A :0 8 S 1 4 00
CTI
1 776 957
3
BRN HAZ 6-2 180
MERLIN GENE COOPER
WISC. 1934:
FOIP 115 541 D
SS# 397-28-6121
13
៛

ARRESTED OK RECEIVED	DÉPARTKENT AND NUNDER	CORRECTED
HAHE	COPY
1934:
FOIP 115 541 D
SS# 397-28-6121
13
៛

ARRESTED OK RECEIVED	DÉPARTKENT AND NUNDER	CORRECTED
HAHE	COPY
CHAMEI	CICLITION
IF. ALIAS:	JOHN COOP TITAN;
+13-59	SO MADISON,WISC B-5511	MERLIN GENS COOPER	NON SUPP WARR	TOT LACROSSE CO, WISC. SHERIFF
12.
6:59	PD MADISON, WISC 17264	MERLIN GENE COCPER	PROB VIO & WORTHLESS CHECKS	REMANDED C/O SHERIFF
2-13-50	SO LA CROSSE, W3C 69-59	MERLIN GENE COOPER	NON SUPP & PAROLE,VIO BAD CHECKS	6 NOS CO JL LA CROSSE, WISC
9-18-59	PD JANESVILLE; VISC 5040	MERLIN GENE COOPER	WARR: OTHER SUR ! SD	REL BY POLICE
ST. DEPT. MOTOR VEN' CLE, SALESMAN S-ASUES	MERLIN GENE COOPER	APP. VEHICLE SALESMAN
11-22-60	 SO, SANTA ANA 7791	BERLIN GENE COOPER	476A
VEHICLE SALESMAN
11-22-60	 SO, SANTA ANA 7791	BERLIN GENE COOPER	476A PC
1-23-60	SO, MARTINEZ, 90:52	MERLIN GENE COOPER	E/R PD RICHMOND (INSUF FUACS)
VERL IN GENE COUPEZ

DB Cooper-22122130 .- 60℃
ED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JU FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION LAMINGTON &S. D. C.
779.10
Dpødir.
The following FBI record, NUBIBER 115 541 D
is furnished FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY,

CONTIUAUTOR OF TYMELMWTS	NAME AND NUMALA	ARRESTED OR i RICUIVEO	CHARGE	DISPOSITION
150 Madison Wis	Merlin Gene Cooper #B 5511	1-13-59	non support war	TOT Lacrosse Co Wis Sheriff
;
PD Madison Wis	Merlin Gene Cooper #17264	2-6-59	prob vio & worthless, chks	renanded .
The following FBI record, NUBIBER 115 541 D
is furnished FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY,

CONTIUAUTOR OF TYMELMWTS	NAME AND NUMALA	ARRESTED OR i RICUIVEO	CHARGE	DISPOSITION
150 Madison Wis	Merlin Gene Cooper #B 5511	1-13-59	non support war	TOT Lacrosse Co Wis Sheriff
;
PD Madison Wis	Merlin Gene Cooper #17264	2-6-59	prob vio & worthless, chks	renanded .c/o Sheriff see supplement
'So La Crosse Wis	Merlin Gene . Cooper #69-59	2-13-59 9-12-59	non support parole vio. bad checks warr.o.berjuried	b. mos. Co J1 La Crosse Wis rel by pol
so Sante Anasca)is !! SO Martinez Calif	Merlin. Gene Coopero#177910 27910 Kerlin Gene Cooper 3790552	11-22-60 11-23-50	CPC. Sec 976A enroute ,Richmond PD (insufficient funds)	Lettolin tex 13-6-60

Nosti my indirated by . ARF NOT BASED ON FINGERPRINTS IN FBI flex. The antations are based on data fortsette furnished the Harves concerning individuals of the same or
The antations are based on data fortsette furnished the Harves concerning individuals of the same or similar names or alaws and ARE LISTED ONIY + IMENTICATIVE LEADS.
QB Cooper
123SHERIFF COUNTY OF ORANGE 77910
11 2p > Er-22124

OC#
COOPER

77
910	MERLIN

GENE

THE FURNISHING UK .OSSESSION OF THESE DOC. UMENTS BY UN' ! MÁME ERSONS COULD EE A MISDEMEANOR .F.L. .. . 1143). AFTER THESE DOCUMENTS HAVE SERY: PRIMARY PURPOSES FOR WHICH THEY WERE L. . NED RETURN TO THE ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, RECOTD, CUREAM FOR DESTRUCTION.
DB Cooper-221250
DB Cooper-22126164-497-1079
DB Cooper-22127164-497-1079
DB Cooper-22129DB Cooper-22130164-497-1079
DB Cooper-22131DB Cooper-22132164-497-1979
DB Cooper-22133FD-340 REV. (6-14-77)
C
Field File No.
164-497-1781
00 and File No.
SEATTLE
Date Received
5/22/80
From
ADM ROOM
(NAME OF CONTRIBUTOR)
FBI .
164-497-1781
00 and File No.
SEATTLE
Date Received
5/22/80
From
ADM ROOM
(NAME OF CONTRIBUTOR)
FBI ...
(ADDRESS OF CONTRIBUTOR)
29.
By
To BE Returned Yos Receipt Givan Yos No No
Description:
XEROX COPIES OF # 3
CARDS OF SA'S
- FOR 2/11,12/80- Sec - L.A. AIRTEL TO BUREAU 5/22/80
6/2/80 OP
b6 b7C
b6 b7C
DB Cooper-22134164-497-1781

Time In	Time Out	Probable Return	FILE NUMBER	Turk Hours	DESTINATION
Class	Alpha	Number	Name, Address, and Telephone
プ	ON DUTY.
8240
20	50 Q 1	Home
AIRTEL TO BUREAU 5/22/80
6/2/80 OP
b6 b7C
b6 b7C
DB Cooper-22134164-497-1781

Time In	Time Out	Probable Return	FILE NUMBER	Turk Hours	DESTINATION
Class	Alpha	Number	Name, Address, and Telephone
プ	ON DUTY.
8240
20	50 Q 1	Home

130 AUO Minutes	10 FD-256 (Rev. 4-3-79) Total Turk Hours Supervisor's Initia

16 BiOker
10
2/11/80
b6 b7C
Squad/RA
Name
Car No.
Date
b6 b7C
16 Redes
10
7/2/20
b6 b7C
Squad/RA
Name
Car No.
Date
Time In
Time Out
Probable Return
FILE NUMBER
Turk Houts
DESTINATION
Class
Alpha
Number
Name, Address, and Telephone
705
ONDUTY
Date
Time In
Time Out
Probable Return
FILE NUMBER
Turk Houts
DESTINATION
Class
Alpha
Number
Name, Address, and Telephone
705
ONDUTY
1900
55010
Home
130
FD-256 (Rev. 4-3-79) Hours Supervisor's Initia
b6 b7C
AUO
Minutes
Total Turk 10
DB Cooper-221353 Squad/RA
b6 2 2/18/20070 Car No.
Gate
Time IF
Tim
FILE NUMBER
Turk Hours
DESTINATION
Oot
hoorn
Cross
Alpha
Runter
Name, Address, and Telephone
638
10 29
300 535
Idme
132
10
FD-255 (Rev. 4-3-79) Hours
a
AUO
Minutes
Total Turk
Supervisor's Initials
3
26 2/11/80
b6 b7c
Squad/RA
Car No.
Date
Time 1₥
Time Out
Probable Return
FILE NUMBER
Turk HOUTS
DESTINATION
C125S
Alpha
Number
Name, Address, and Telephone
637
In ofic
1,29300
+
4º 200
Mene
AUO 160
FD-256 (Rev, 4-3-79) Hours
Minutes
Total Turk
11
Supervisor's Initials 2
16.4-49.7-1781
DB Cooper-22136 FD:340 REV. (6-24-65) 

File No.	164-497 1780
Date Received	1/17/77
b6
From	b7C

TRUMME OF CONTRIBUTOR]
(ADDRESS OF CONTRIBUTOR} Sherman Oaks, Calif.
164-497 1780
Date Received	1/17/77
b6
From	b7C

TRUMME OF CONTRIBUTOR]
(ADDRESS OF CONTRIBUTOR} Sherman Oaks, Calif.
[CITY AND STATE)
To Be Returned No Yes Receipt Given Yes No
Description :
I photos of Jack
Bryant Coffelt.
·DB.Cooper-22137 3-17-77" BON164-497-1080
·
b6 b7C
Usmc Reserve Cente Richmond, Urquina b3 b6 4th. Marine Corps District b7c b7E
AFEES
5.428825 b6
3430 b7C DB Cooper-22138JACK COFELT
JACK COFELT
164.497 la80
164-4971080
DB Cooper-22140FD-340 REV. (6-24-65)
File No.
164-497-1019
Date Received
1-17-77
b6
From
b7C
{ADDRESS OF CONTRIBUTOR)
Sherman Oaks, Calif.
LCITY AND STATEL
To Be Returned Yes Receipt Given Yes No No
Description : Photos of Bryant Coffelt as taken in 1974.
DBLAMM 177 DB\Cpopel 2141DB Cooper-2214164-497-1979
DB Cooper-22143
164-497-107915
RB Cooper 22111164-497-1079
DB Cooper-22145
164-497-1979DB Coop: 72146164-497-1219
DB Cooper-22147
164-497-1079DR. Cooper:22
O:
164-479-1079FD:340 REV.
DB Cooper-22143
164-497-107915
RB Cooper 22111164-497-1079
DB Cooper-22145
164-497-1979DB Coop: 72146164-497-1219
DB Cooper-22147
164-497-1079DR. Cooper:22
O:
164-479-1079FD:340 REV. (6-24-65) 
1,A78
File No.
164-497-880
Date Received
1/18/77
From (NAME OF CONTRIBUTOR)
(ADDRESS OF CONTRIBUTOR)
{CITY AND STATE}
b6
(NAME OF SPECIAL AGENT)
b7C
To Be Returned Yes Receipt Given Yes No No
Description :
Case Notes .
DB Copper1 2214 2/19 ..Fucking AVOID VERBAL ORDERS
ASSHOLE !
BIND-GEN-5216/17 (8-60)

FROM	DATE
INSTRUCTIONS (Use reverse side for sketches)

DB Cooper-22155
b6 b7CAVOID VERBAL ORDERS
LIND-GEN-5216/17 (8-60)
FROT

63	DATE
INSTRUCTIONS {Use revarsa side for sketches)

b6
Cooper-22155
b6 b7CAVOID VERBAL ORDERS
LIND-GEN-5216/17 (8-60)
FROT

63	DATE
INSTRUCTIONS {Use revarsa side for sketches)

b6 b7C
-
AUTHORI
DB Cooper-22156- 12/22
MI UMSR 352 50
MUSS 37
Marini Genial Requerer Transport Fg 352
b6
b7C
DRJ
no Crini Ternel
in 63
b6
b7C
no pb
Complement - temel in deserter from
USMC BaraTro
DB Cooper-22157Record Request FD-125 (Rev. 1-30-75)
,
JESO
Date Birth . Credit Criminal Death INS Marriage * Motor Vehicle Other Driver's License

To	PB	Buded
Return to	SJF	File number 164-497-873

Name and aliases of subject applicant or emplovon and encuen
b6 b7C
Addresses

Residence Business
Former	ALL INFO DATED 1963
DEC 5 1976
PAT BARRY

* Date and place of marriage (if applicable)
Addresses

Residence Business
Former	ALL INFO DATED 1963
DEC 5 1976
PAT BARRY

* Date and place of marriage (if applicable)

Race	Sex	Age	Height	Weight	Hair	Eyes
W	

Male
Female	25	5.8-9	150-60	BRN/BUR.

Birth date
Birthplace WASHINGTON (POSIBLE)
Arrest Number
Fingerprint classification
Criminal specialty
Specific information desired
Social Security Number
OR ANY THING ELSE
b6 b7C
Results of check
+ Photo - ANY POSSIBLEs ALSO w/ PHOTO's.
(Use reverse side, if necessary)
DB Cooper-22153FD-340 REV. (6.24.65)
File No.
164-497-1477
Date Received
10/9/15
From
b6
[NAME OF CONTRIBUTOR) b7C
"
(ADDRESS OF CONTRIBUTOR)
Twenty Nine Palms, CA
b6
(NAME OF SPECIAL AGENT)
b7C
To Be Returned Yes Receipt Given Yes No No
Description : Log of Photos taken at alleged site where I. B. Cooper buried money.
(ADDRESS OF CONTRIBUTOR)
Twenty Nine Palms, CA
b6
(NAME OF SPECIAL AGENT)
b7C
To Be Returned Yes Receipt Given Yes No No
Description : Log of Photos taken at alleged site where I. B. Cooper buried money.
56.00%
DB Cooper-2 59C
3
164-491-1277
-
D
@
15
16
20
12 18
43
21
14- 19
109
8.
11,
2
5
7
Photo Site. #2
6
Plato Site #1
Rock Outcropping
Roadway Trees and bushes Cement Hocks
-Sequence of peritunes taken by SA on 10/9/75
W
b6 b7c
b6 b7C
LA 164-4938 DB Cooper-22160FD-340 REV. (6-24.65)
File No.
164-497-1076
Date Received
10-30-75
From
(NAME OF CONTRIBUTOR)
(ADDRESS OF CONTRIBUTOR)
ATE)
b6
b7C
TRAME OF SPECIAL AGENT)
To Be Returned Yes Receipt Given Yes No No
Description :
I double mug photo
b6
b7C
taken 1/19/74
0
DB Cooper-22161
10-31-75 Min CV
b6
b7c
b6 b7c
lappe DE Cooper-22163
LA 164-H97-176,FD-340 REV. (6-24.65)
File No.
164. 497- 1275
Date Received
10-16-75
From
(NAME OF CONTRIBUTOR)
.+
(ADDRESS OF CONTRIBUTOR)
b6
b7C
(NAME OF SPECIAL AGENT)
To Be Returned Yes Receipt Given Yes No No
Description :
1 photo of Calif.
+
(ADDRESS OF CONTRIBUTOR)
b6
b7C
(NAME OF SPECIAL AGENT)
To Be Returned Yes Receipt Given Yes No No
Description :
1 photo of Calif.
QL4
70 b6 b7C
au sw 823
DB Cooper-22164
10-16-25RECORD CROSS REFERENCE COPY OF DRIVER LICENSE OR IDENTIFICATION- CARD APPLICATION ON FILE WITH CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES FOR-DMV OR. LAW ENFORCEMENT USE ONLY
b6 b7C
DB-Cooper-22165state of California DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES Division of Drivers Licenses
L
I hereby certify that the document to which this is affixed £ a true photographic copy of the original in Department of .-
. Motor Vehicle File No.
b6
b7C
Date
9-1-75
Signed.
Officer, Teept, or Notor Y emcity In accordance with Section 1813 C.V.C., the above officer of the Division of Drivers Licenses has been authorized to prepare under seal and certify copie, of records of this Division.
DB Cooper 22166
LA 164.491-10.75FD-340 REV. (6-24-65)
File No.
164-497 -la7H
Date Received
From
SA.
10/9/25 b6
b7C
(NAME OF CONTRIBUTUR)
(ADDRESS OF CONTRIBUTOR)
(CITY AND STATE)
(NAME OF SPECIAL AGENT)
To Be Returned Yes Receipt Given Yes No :
10/9/25 b6
b7C
(NAME OF CONTRIBUTUR)
(ADDRESS OF CONTRIBUTOR)
(CITY AND STATE)
(NAME OF SPECIAL AGENT)
To Be Returned Yes Receipt Given Yes No No
Description : Guyane + 5 perof
copies of mp 8 aren in Joshua Tree national monument scan Barker Dam.
DB Cooper-22167
10-10- 758255 8
0
Pinion Pine Tree
122-18
Joshua Trees
dend BETTER
53
7
Prominent Cat Glau Firma Trek
No Fires Sign
3
3
B
&
134
$5
130
3
=
S
0
124
8
0
661
unusual Low Rock outcropping
2
Parking Lot
164-49 1 ila 74
€
25! Contours
( elevation, tapering to south)
unusual flat Rock 20 diameter
Y Barker DAM
Key to Symbols - bushes - Joshua trees ( unless otherwise marked) V - Rock outcroppings N - cement slabs
DB Cooper-22168
b6 b7CFinion
gri
Joshua Tees
dead Fa tree
12.
Promment cart Claw Fine Thee.
No Fires Sign
19/134'
130
124
1661
unusual Low Back outcropping
Parkenkg Lot
25% Contours! ( elevation tapering to south)
unusual flat Rack 20 chameter
Banker DAIM
Key to Symbols - bushes - Joshua trees (unless otherwise marked) V - Rock outcroppings [] - coment stats
DB Cooper-22169 b6 b7CBulky Exhibit - Inventory of Pro FD-192 (Rev.
tapering to south)
unusual flat Rack 20 chameter
Banker DAIM
Key to Symbols - bushes - Joshua trees (unless otherwise marked) V - Rock outcroppings [] - coment stats
DB Cooper-22169 b6 b7CBulky Exhibit - Inventory of Pro FD-192 (Rev. 10-6-67)
ui
d as Evidence
Date
O
2/4/72
1%
Title and Character of Case
NORJAK
HIJACKING: EXTORTION
00: SEATTLE
Date Property Acquired
12-3-71
12-10-71
Source From Which Property Acquired
Photographed from records at
California
Location of Property or Bulky Exhibit Bulky Exhibit Room
Reason for Retention of Property and Efforts Made to Dispose of Same Reference
b6 b7C
Description of Property of Exhibit and Identity of Agent Submitting Same Submitted by SA
b6 b7C
1. 433 photographs of registration cards bearing name, address, and description data of persons whoeregistered to parachute at Elsin- ore since 1969, fitting description of hijaker;
2. 55 photographs representing flight records for the month of Aug- ust 1971, bearing the last name of the papachutist, altitude, pilot's name and date.
164-497-131

SEARCHED ___ INDEXED
1 SERIALIZED FILED
FEB4 1972 FBI-LOS
164-497-131

SEARCHED ___ INDEXED
1 SERIALIZED FILED
FEB4 1972 FBI-LOS ANGELES
ER

SEMIANNUAL INVENTORY CERTIFICATION TO JUSTIFY RETENTION OF PROPERTY (Initial and Date) Retain (Pending) 12073
Retai 8/8/17 en R 5/24/29 Let 4/13/81 RKB
R 3/29/75
se 3/19/78R Kiye/80 chain 2-2-82 Web Hasan 14/26/20091
R 2/26/80 AND
DB Cooper 22174
Field File # 164-497-1B1FD-340a (Rev. 3-12-74)
DUE TO BULKINESS 1a1 THRU 1a72 ARE BEING MAINTAINED IN SEPARATE EXHIBIT SECTION IN CLOSED FILES: SEE VOLUMES 1 THRU 8.

(Title)	KORJAK
(Elle No.)	164-497

Item	Date Filed	Disposition
73	10/10/75	2 negatives and 1 photo of area near Barker
Dam in Joshua Tree National Monument. (mjd)
74	10/10/75	Original and 5 xerox copies of map of area
)	164-497

Item	Date Filed	Disposition
73	10/10/75	2 negatives and 1 photo of area near Barker
Dam in Joshua Tree National Monument. (mjd)
74	10/10/75	Original and 5 xerox copies of map of area in
Joshua Tree National Monument near Barker Dam	(mjd)
75	10/16/75	1 photo of California for
(see ser. 823) (mjd)
76	10/31/75	1 double mug photo of
taken 1/19/74. (mjd)
77	10/30/75	log of photos taken at alleged site where D. B.	COOPER
buried money.
78	2/18/7	Case notes
79	f1	Photo of BRYANT COFFELT as taken in 1974 (mm)
78	2/18/7	Case notes
79	f1	Photo of BRYANT COFFELT as taken in 1974 (mm)
80	5/17/77	2 photos of JACK BRYANT COFFELT (bev)
81	6-2-80	Xerox copies of #3 cards of SA anil SA
for 2/11012/10
82	8.5.88	CIT RAP SHEET & PHOTOGRAPHS OF HERLIN G. COOPER	USE

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SEARCHED, INDEXED SERIALIZED, FILED October 10, 1975 F81 -- LOS ANGELES
Imm DB Cooper-22175FD-340 REV. (6-24.65)
File No.
164-497-1273
Date Received
10/8/75
From
TWHME UT7 CONTRIBUTOR)
(ADDRESS OF CONTRIBUTOR}
MARY AND STATE)
b6
b7C
AGENT)
To Be Returned Yes Receipt Given Yes No NO
Description :
2 majatevea +
I yehat of anew mean Barhar Dan m Joshua Tree national monument,
50.
b6
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AGENT)
To Be Returned Yes Receipt Given Yes No NO
Description :
2 majatevea +
I yehat of anew mean Barhar Dan m Joshua Tree national monument,
50.75 DB Cooper-22176DB Cooper-22177E 5 0 8 2 2 3 J M
10/9/75
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116-497723
E 5 0 8 2 2 3 J F
0/4/75 mmet
DB Cooper-22178 b6
14164-697-7670DB Cooper-22179£5082 &OJK
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No. Name
Order
Remarks
Retouched
Order Finished
Rozder
DB Cooper 22183Bulky Exhibit - Inventory of P FD-192 (Rev. 10-6-65)
quiret
Date
1/21/76
Title and Character of Case
NORJAK
Date Property Acquired
11/75
Source From Which Property Acquired
Location of Property or Bulky Exhibit Bulky Exhibit Room
Reason for Retention of Property and Efforts Made to Dispose of Same Evidence
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Description of Property or Exhibit and Identity of Agent Submitting Same
Submitted by SA
One series of photographs taped together and two large photographs of the series.
DESTROYED 52 4/14/1604- 49 UP
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Tim
SEMIANNUAL INVENTORY CERTIFICATION TO JUSTIFY RETENTION OF PROPERTY (Initial and Date)
Field File #
164-497-1B2
DB Cooper-22184ÆRØ04 SE PLAIN .
1 1976 FBI - LOS ANGELES
Tim
SEMIANNUAL INVENTORY CERTIFICATION TO JUSTIFY RETENTION OF PROPERTY (Initial and Date)
Field File #
164-497-1B2
DB Cooper-22184ÆRØ04 SE PLAIN . 5:05 PM URGENT 11/23/71 DCA TO LOS ANGELES FROM SEATTLE (164-81). IP
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE; CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. 00: SEATTLE.
RE YOUR NITEL, NOVEMBER TWENTY-SIX, SEVENTYONE. RETEL SET FORTH NAMES OF SUSPECTS
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SEATTLE IS TRANSMITTING TO LOS ANGELES BY FACSIMILE COPIES OF THE LATES ARTIST'S -SKETCH OF UNSUB WHICH WAS PREPARED AFTER HE PERSONALLY INTERVIEWED THE THREE STEWARDESSES WHO TALKED TO UNSUB. LOS ANGELES IS REQUESTED TO SHOW THIS SKETCH TO THE SOURCES OF THE INFORMATION SET FORTH IN YOUR NITEL AND ADVISE WHETHER OP NOT SUSPECTS ARE STILL GOOD AS SUCH. - P -
END VLB FBI LOS ANG
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A 13 cpd NOV 2 8 1971 LES b6 b7C DB Cooper-22185
6NRØ04 SE PLAIN 5:05 PM URGENT 11/28/71 DCA TO LOS ANGELES FROM 'SEATTLE (164-81) IP UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
NOV 2 8 1971 LES b6 b7C DB Cooper-22185
6NRØ04 SE PLAIN 5:05 PM URGENT 11/28/71 DCA TO LOS ANGELES FROM 'SEATTLE (164-81) IP UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE; CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. 00: SEATTLE.
RE.YOUR NITEL, NOVEMBER TWENTY-SIX, SEVENTYONE.
RETEL SET FORTH NAMES OF SUSPECTS
SEATTLE IS TRANSMITTING TO LOS ANGELES BY FACSIMILE COPIES OF THE LATES ARTIST'S -SKETCH OF UNSUB WHICH WAS PREPARED AFTER HE PERSONALLY INTERVIEWED THE THREE STEWARDESSES WHO TALKED TO UNSUB. LOS. ANGELES IS REQUESTED TO SHOW THIS SKETCH TO THE SOURCES OF THE INFORMATION SET FORTH IN YOUR NITEL AND ADVISE WHETHER OR
NOT SUSPECTS ARE STILL GOOD AS SUCH.
EN'D VLB. FBI LOS ANG
TU CLR A
Discontinue -SEATTLE Avail Witnesses stab photo of not identical to UNSUB.
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NR 001	PX	PLAIN
1159PM	11/28/71	NITEL JDD

TO BUTTE
HONOLULU - VIA WASHINGTON
LOS ANGELES
OKLAHOMA CITY
SEATTLE
FROM PHOENIX (164-100)
UNSUB;
11/28/71	NITEL JDD

TO BUTTE
HONOLULU - VIA WASHINGTON
LOS ANGELES
OKLAHOMA CITY
SEATTLE
FROM PHOENIX (164-100)
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES SEVEN TWO SEVEN, PORTLAND, OREGON, ELEVEN TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE. CAA - HIJACKING. 00: SEATTLE.
'RE SACRAMENTO TEL ELEVEN TWENTYSIX LAST. INSTANT DATE, CALIFORNIA, ADVISED FBI COMPOSITE OF HIJACKER SHOWN ELEVEN
b6 TWENTYEIGHT SEVENTYONE, SAN DIEGO UNION NEWSPAPER, PAGE A - SIX, WAS STRONGLY SIMILAR TO FACIAL FEATURES OF JAW LINE, TOGETHER WITH HIGH FOREHEAD AND HAIRLINE, ARE STRONGLY SIMILAR AND ALMOST IDENTICAL TO COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPH OF SUBJECT. MOUTH IS SMALL, SIMILAR TO SUBJECT'S. WAS KNOWN TO ALWAYS
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END PAGE ONE
Hegnet lead Palmobile - Santa ana.
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GELES 16.0
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ADVISED LAST SAW
WAS b6 b7C b7D
ADVISED
NAME UNKNOWN, IN
AT THIS TIME,
ADVISED
HE HAS EVER MET.
HAS COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF ALL
HAS HAD
WHICH INCLUDED:
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ADVISED
WHILE WOULD HAVE EXCELLENT KNOW-
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HAS COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF ALL
HAS HAD
WHICH INCLUDED:
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ADVISED
WHILE WOULD HAVE EXCELLENT KNOW-
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LEDGE OF
ADVISED
AS
IN
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END PAGE TWO
DB Cooper-22188RAGE THREE
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THE UNITED STATES AND b7D
CALIFORNIA AS OF
WAS INTERESTED IN DESCRIBED AS WHITE, MALE, AMERICAN, MEDIUM COMPLEXION, 
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EYES UNKNOWN, ONE SIXTY POUNDS, FIVE FEET NINE OR TEN, THIRTYFIVE TO THIRTYSEVEN YEARS OLD, SLIM BUILD, VOICE.
BUTTE AT MISSOULA, MONTANA, CONTACT TO DETERMINE IF THEY CAN IDENTIFY DURING LATE
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HONOLULU AT HONOLULU, CONTACT TO
DETERMINE BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON
LOS ANGELES AT HEMET, CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION AT
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TO IDENTIFY AND LOCATE
IN AT PALMDALE, CONDUCT SAME INVESTIGATION. AT RESEDA, CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION TO LOCATE AND IDENTIFY
END PAGE THREE
DB Cooper-22189₩
PAGE FOUR
WHO LIVED THERE ON IN EFFORT TO
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AT RESEDA, CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION TO LOCATE AND IDENTIFY
END PAGE THREE
DB Cooper-22189₩
PAGE FOUR
WHO LIVED THERE ON IN EFFORT TO
b6 b7C LOCATE AND OBTAIN APPROPRIATE BACKGROUND INFORMATION. AT SANTA ANA, CONDUCT CRIMINAL CHECKS AT ORANGE COUNTY SO FOR 
ON WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO NOTING HE WAS OKLAHOMA CITY AT TULSA, CONTACT FEDERAL AVIATION AGENCY, DIVISION, RE OBTAIN ALL INFORMATION AND BACKGROUND ARMED AND DANGEROUS. b6 b7C
END VLB FBI LOS ANG TU CLR
DB Cooper-22190 FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date:
11/26/71
Transmit the following in PLAINTEXT
(Type in plaintext or code)
Via TELETYPE NITEL
(Priority)

TO :	SAC, SEATTLE
FROM:	SAC, LOS ANGELES	(164-NEW)

UNSUB; HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT NUMBER THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR LAST. CAA DASH HIJACKING. 00: SEATTLE.
ON INSTANT DATE THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS CONTACTED THE LA OFFICE WITH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION CONCERNING CAPTIONED CASE: 11 CALIF.
ON INSTANT DATE THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS CONTACTED THE LA OFFICE WITH THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION CONCERNING CAPTIONED CASE: 11 CALIF., HAS HUNCH UNSUB MAY
BE WHO HE DESCRIBED AS
IS REPORTEDLY ALL OVER U.S. AND IS BELIEVED TO
DESCRIBED AS MALE CAUCASIAN, FORTY TO FORTY FIVE YEARS OF AGE, BLACK HAIR, FIVE FEET ELEVEN INCHES TALL,
164-NEW RFP/clp (1) .
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Sent
9:41 pm
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DB Cooper-22191
Special Agent in Charge
+ V. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1969 O - 346-090 (11)
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MUSCULAR BUILD.
LASO, DETECTIVE BUREAU, FIRESTONE
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SUBSTATION, ADVISED UNSUB MAY BE ONE
LAST KNOWN
ADDRESS CALIF., DESCRIBED AS IN HIS MID SIXTIES, 
GENERALLY FITTING DESCRIPTION OF HIJACKER IN NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS AND WHO IS REPORTED
TO BE TYPE OF PERSON WHO WOULD COMMIT HIJACKING.
LA,
CALIF., ADVISED
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APPROXIMATELY
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FIVE YEARS AGO.
STATED ON OCCASION
ONLY DESCRIPTION OF
WAS BORN IN
LA, CALIF., ADVISED A FORMER
COULD BE INVOLVED IN CAPTIONED
CASE.
STATED ON OCCASION
ONLY DESCRIPTION OF
WAS BORN IN
LA, CALIF., ADVISED A FORMER
COULD BE INVOLVED IN CAPTIONED
CASE.
CLAIMED TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF
CLAIMS TO HAVE
DESCRIBED AS APPROXIMATELY FORTY THREE YEARS OF AGE, SIX FEET.
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DB Cooper-22192
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PAGE THREE
TALL, ABOUT ONE HUNDRED NINTY POUNDS.
CALIF., ADVISED UNSUB
MAY BE IDENTICAL WITH
A
SIXTY TWO YEARS OF AGE, WHO
NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE, AFTER
LA, ADVISED AN INDIVIDUAL NAMED
handled MAY BE
WHO RESIDES AT
INVOLVED IN CAPTIONED CASE.
DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE,
MIDDLE AGE, GOOD PHYSICAL CONDITION, WELL TANNED, MEDIUM
HEIGHT AND BUILD.
SAID
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ADDRESS DURING
ON NOVEMBER TWENTY THREE LAST,
RETURNED TO
HE WAS GOING TO OREGON TO
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THE ABOVE IS FURNISHED TO SEATTLE FOR WHATEVER INVESTIGATIVE VALUE IT MAY BE. PENDING.
- 3 -
DB Cooper-22193NRØ3 SD PLAIN
615PM URGENT 1 1-27-71 R RAK TO : SEATTLE (164-81) SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES
FROM: SAN DIEGO (164-91)
UNSUB ; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR LAST.
615PM URGENT 1 1-27-71 R RAK TO : SEATTLE (164-81) SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES
FROM: SAN DIEGO (164-91)
UNSUB ; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR LAST. CAA - HIJACKING AND EXTORTION.
ON NOVEMBER TWENTY SEVEN INSTANT, NORTH ISLAND NAVAL AIR STATION, SAN DIEGO, FURNISHED TVE
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FOLLOWING OBTAINED FROM AND PREFERS NOT BE IDENTIFIED DURING ANY INQUIRY: 1 GENERALLY KNOWN AS
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SEVERAL WEEKS AGO PRIOR TO THE HIJACKING OF CAPTIONED FLIGHT,
END PAGE ONE
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Given to SA
6:30PM
PBD
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03
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RESIDE IN SAN DIEGO, COMMENT TO THAT AN
INDIVIADUAL WHO SAID HE WAS A REPORTER FOR A MAGAZINE HAD QUESTIONED HIM ABOUT THE POSSIBILTY OF BAILING OUT (PARACHUTING) FROM A SEVEN TWENTY SEVEN JET AND DESCRIBED TO THIS INDIVIDUAL HOW IT COULD BE DONE, ACCORDING TO RECOLLECTION OF THE CONVERSATION.
THE NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE CROSS DIRECTORY LISTS
SAN DIEGO, CALIFONRIA, AND SHOWN AS HO ME TELEPHONE
ON NOVEMBER TWENTY SEVEN INSTANT, SEATTLE FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION OF THE UNKNOWN
THE NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE CROSS DIRECTORY LISTS
SAN DIEGO, CALIFONRIA, AND SHOWN AS HO ME TELEPHONE
ON NOVEMBER TWENTY SEVEN INSTANT, SEATTLE FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION OF THE UNKNOWN SUBJECT OF CAPTIONED CASE: RACE WHITE, SEX MALE, AGE MID FORTIES, HEIGHT FIVE FEET TEN INCHES TO SIX FEET, WEIGHT ONE SEVENTY TO ONE EIGHTY, END PAGE TWO
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DB Cooper-22193PAGE THREE
AVERAGE BUILD, COMPLEXTION OLIVE AND MEDIUM SMOOTH, AHIR DARK BROWN DASH BLACK, NORMAL CUT OF HAIR, LOW EAR LEVEL SIDEBURNS, EYES POSSIBLY BROWN, LOW VOICE DASH EDUCATED, POSSIBLY MID WESTERN ACCENT, WEARING WRAP DASH AROUND DARK CLASSES AND A BLACK OR BROWN SUIT, DARK TOPCOAT, BRIEFCASE, BROWN SHOES, HEAVY SMOKER OF RALEIGH CIGARETTES.
INTERVIEWED INSTANT DATE. STATED THAT ON FLIGHT TWO ZERO ONE, NOVEMBER EIGHT LAST DEPARTED SAN DIEGO FOR BURBANK, CALIFORNIA APPROXIMATELY EIGHT THIRTY A.M. SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF WHITE MALE ENTERED COCKPIT AREA STATING HE WAS SCRIPT WRITER FOR MOVIE INDUSTRY. PRODUCED BROCHURES REPRESENTING MOVIES HE REPORTEDLY WROTE. STATED WAS INTERESTED IN WRITING COMEDY PRESENT TIME. THEN INQUIRED AS TO WHAT HAD TO BE DONE TO THROW PACKAGE OR OBJECT FROM PLANE TO ACCOMPLICE ON
STATED WAS INTERESTED IN WRITING COMEDY PRESENT TIME. THEN INQUIRED AS TO WHAT HAD TO BE DONE TO THROW PACKAGE OR OBJECT FROM PLANE TO ACCOMPLICE ON GROUND AT PREDETERMINED LOCATION IN ISOLATED AREA. IN- OICATED THIS ACTIVITY WAS TO BE INCLUDED IN SCRIPT CURRENTLY WRITING. DID NOT INQUIRE SPECIGICALLY CONCERNING SEVEN TWENTY SEVEN NOR ANY OTHER TYPE AIRCRAFT IN PARTICULAR. END PAGE THREE
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DB Cooper-22195PAGE FOUR
WAS ADVISED
THAT BEST METHOD WOULD BE TO HAVE AIRCRAFT FLY LOW, SLOW, AND WITH CABIN DEPRESSURIZED. ALSO SUGGESTED THAT PACKAGE BE THROWN FROM PILOTS WINDOW FOR ACCURACY.
DOES NOT RECALL NAME OF FILM INDUSTRY THIS INDIVIDAUL REPORTEDLT WORKS FOR. COULD NOT RECALL NAMES OF MOVIES MENTIONED IN BROCHURES DISPLAYED. BOARDED FLIGHT IN SAN DIEGO AND DEPLANED IN BURBANK. DESCRIBED AS WMA, LATE FORTY'S, AT LEAST FIVE FOOT TEN, ONE EIGHT ZERO POUNDS, DARK BROWN HAIR GREYING, WELL DRESSED IN BUSINESS SUIT, CARRIED BROWN ATTACHE CASE AND MADE NOTES ON YELLOW LEGAL TYPE PAD.
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HILTON INN, SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT INSTANT DATE SUBSEQUENT TO SEVEN THIRTY P.M.
LEAD: SAN FRANCISCO INTERVIEW IN ATTEMPT TO
OBTAIN NAME MOVIE INDUSTRY ABOVE INDIVIDUAL WORKED FOR AND FURTHER BACKGROUND DESCRIPTIVE DATA. IMMEDIATELY FURNISH LOS ANGELES ALONG WITH APPROPRIATE LEADS.
SAN DIEGO ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN FLIGHT MANIFESTS FOR NOVEMBER EIGHT LAST. END DJW FBI LOS ANGELES CLR
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DB Cooper-22197 NO. SUCH THING NS PSA PASSENGER
NR 005 SF PLAIN 11 43 PM URGENT 11/27/71 BEH
TO : SEATTLE (164-81) SAN DIEGO (164-91) LOS ANGELES FROM: SAN FRANCISCO (164-220)
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR LAST. CAA - HIJACKING AND EXTORTION.
RE SAN DIEGO TELETYPE TO SEATTLE TODAY. b6 b7C , INTERVIEWED AT HILTON INN, SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT.
RECALLS CONVERSATION WITH UNIDENTIFIED MAN ON FLIGHT TWO ZERO ONE, FROM SAN DIEGO TO BURBANK, NOVEMBER EIGHT LAST. STATES HE AND , HAVE AGAIN DISCUSSED THIS, CONVERSATION AND NEITHER OF THEM CAN RECALL THE NAME OF THE INDUSTRY,
STATES HE AND , HAVE AGAIN DISCUSSED THIS, CONVERSATION AND NEITHER OF THEM CAN RECALL THE NAME OF THE INDUSTRY, MOVIE COMPANY, OR NAMES OF PARTICULAR MOVIES UNMAN CLAIMED TO HAVE WORKED FOR. ONLY RECALLS THAT MAN MENTIONED HE IS NOW WORKING ON COMEDIES . OR "LIGHT" MATERIAL WHICH ARE GOOD FOR A LAUGH. RECALLS MAN APPROACHED THEM AFTER HE SPOKE TO WHILE THEY WERE RIDING AS DEADHEAD PASSENGERS. UNMAN SAT IN SEAT BETWEEN THEM AT FRONT END OF PAGE ONE
164.497.5
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SF 164-220
OF PLANE. HE EXPLAINED.HE WAS WRITING A SCRIPT INVOLVING THE THROWING OF AN OBJECT FROM A PLANE TO A LOCATION ON THE GROUND AND WANTED ADVICE AS TO HOW THIS COULD BE ACCOMPLISHED. DID NOT MENTION ANY PARTICULAR TYPE OF AIRCRAFT. ASKED IF POSSIBLE TO DEPRESSURIZE CABIN AND THROW FROM WINDOW. MAINLY DISCUSSED POSSIBILITY OF USING WINDOW NOT DOOR.
DESCRIBED MAN AS WELL-DRESSED IN BROWN BUSINESS SUIT AND TIE, WORE ONE OR TWO LARGE DIAMOND RINGS, THIRTY SIX TO FORTY YEARS OLD, SIX FEET OR OVER, HEAVY, POSSIBLY TWO HUNDRED 1 POUNDS, LIGHT
DESCRIBED MAN AS WELL-DRESSED IN BROWN BUSINESS SUIT AND TIE, WORE ONE OR TWO LARGE DIAMOND RINGS, THIRTY SIX TO FORTY YEARS OLD, SIX FEET OR OVER, HEAVY, POSSIBLY TWO HUNDRED 1 POUNDS, LIGHT COMPLEXION, ROUND HEAVY FACE, NO DISTINCTIVE FEATURES, DARK WAVY HAIR WORN LONG OR FULL, EDUCATED, MODULATED VOICE, GOOD SPEAKER, CARRIED ATTACHE CASE, WROTE ON YELLOW PAD. TOGETHER ABOUT FIFTEEN MINUTES. UNMAN NEVER SMOKED DURING THIS TIME. MOVIES HE MENTIONED WORKING ON WERE LISTED ON SLIP OF PAPER.
ALSO INTERVIEWED AND STATES HAVE REVIEWED THEIR CONTACT WITH UNMAN AND STILL UNABLE TO RECALL ANY IDENTIFICATION OF MOVIE COMPANY, FILMS OR INDUSTRY CONNECTIONS END OF PAGE TWO
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DB Cooper-22199 PAGE THREE
SF 164-220
OF UNMAN. SAN DIEGO, CALIF., PHONE NUMBER STATED POSSIBLY IF LIST OF COMPANIES PRESENTED TO THEM FOR REVIEW, COULD RECALL NAME. HOME ADDRESS IS 
HE ADDRS
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CALIF., PHONE NUMBER
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SUGGEST POSSIBLILITY THAT LOS ANGELES ASSEMBLE LIST OF MOVIE COMPANIES FOR DISPLAY TO
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, PHONE NUMBER
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HOME ADDRESS IS
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FBI LOS ANGELES CLR
DB Cooper-22200In Reply, Piraxx Refer 10 File No. 154-81
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
1015 Second Avenue Seattle, Washington 98104 November 28, 1971
bear Six:
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:
White
Sex:
Mais
Age:
Height:
Weight:
Build: w
Complexion :
Hair:
Èyes:
GUT
Characteristic:'
EN
Wearing Apparel:
Average to well built olive, Latin appearance, medium smooth Dark brown or black, normal stylo, partedron left, combed back sideburns, low ear levoi Possibly brown. During latter part of flight put on dark, wrap-around sunglasses with dark rims. Low, spoke intelligently; no particular accent, possibly from Midwest section of the G.S, Heavy smoker of Raleigh filter tip cigarettes Black or brown suit; white shirt: narrow black fie, black dress sult; .
S, Heavy smoker of Raleigh filter tip cigarettes Black or brown suit; white shirt: narrow black fie, black dress sult; . black rain-typo overcoat er dark top coat; dark briefcase or attache case; carried paper bag 4"x12"x14": brown shoes
If you have any information which might lead to the identity of thea individual, please contact the Fai office at Seattle, Washington) telephone MA2-0460, or your nearest FEI Office which would be found in the front of your telephone directory.
Very truly yours, Of Mine J. E. MILNES Special Agent in Charge
164-497-6
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Julia
Mid 40s
S' 10" to 6'
1.70 to 180 poundsIn Reply, Picaxx Kefer le File No .. 164-82
& UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
1015 Second Avenue Seattle, Washington 98104 November 28, :1971
1. Dear Sir: 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:	White
Sex:	Nale
Age:
This man is described as follows:

Race:	White
Sex:	Nale
Age:	Nid 40s
Height:	5' 10" ŁO 6'
Weight:	170 20 180 pounds
Build:	Average to well built
Complexion:	Olive, Latin appearance, medium smooth
Badr:	Dark brown or black, normal style, parted on left, combad back
Sideburns, low ear levol
Eyes:	Possibly brown. During latter part of flight put on dark, wrap-around sunglasses with dark zims.
Voice:	Low, spoke intelligently; no particular accent, possibly from Midwest section of the u.S.
. Characteristic:	Heavy smoker of Raleigh filter tip cigarettes
Wearing Apparel:	Black or brown 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+ ;.
smoker of Raleigh filter tip cigarettes
Wearing Apparel:	Black or brown 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+ ;. brown shoes

If you have any information which might lead to the identity of this individual; please contact the FBI Office at Seattle, Washington, telephone MA2-0460, or your nearest FBI Office which would be found in the front of your totophone directory.
* Check Back 8 sheet dor noves! 120 nost ST up
Very truly yours,
bund
(A)
Special Agent in. Chars
164-491-6.
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DB Cooper-22203OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 19 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.$ UNITED STATES GO Memorandum
ERNMENT
TO
SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-NEW)
DATE:
11/29/71
FROM
SA
SUBJECT:
UNSUB;
HIGHJACKING OF. NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES
FLIGHT NUMBER 309,
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71
CAA - HIGHJACK
. 00: Seattle
This date airport duty agent, Special Agent placed envelope with latent fingerprints taken from captioned airline in possession
departing Los Angeles International Airport, Flight number 64, United Airlines at 9:20 a.m., scheduled to arrive Baltimore Friendship Airport 4:45 p.m.
At 10:00 a.m., Special Agent Bureau was advised of above in order to insure package to be received.
Special Agent
Complaint Agent, Las Vegas. Division, FBI was also advised.
WOH/mlr (2)
0010-108
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Saving
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164-497-7
SEARCHED 4 INDLXED
FILED 115
SERIALIZED NOV 2 J 1971 RAL-LOS ANGELES
CAS b6 : b7C B Cooper-22244 1
Fu-350 (Rev.
Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Saving
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164-497-7
SEARCHED 4 INDLXED
FILED 115
SERIALIZED NOV 2 J 1971 RAL-LOS ANGELES
CAS b6 : b7C B Cooper-22244 1
Fu-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
(Mount Clipping in Space Below)
Churist Hijacker With $200,000 Loot Hunted in 3 States
RENO (UPI) FBI agents searched rugged wilderness areas in three states Thursday in an attempt to track down a swarthy master cri- minal: who parachuted from a, hi- jacked jetliner with $200,000 in tran- som.
The carefully planned and incre: dibly bold hijacking was one of the most bizarre crimes in history. It was the first time a hijacker has pa- rachuted from a plane. And the ran- som was the biggest ever paid in a U.S. hijacking; the FBI-said.
The FBI began its search for the hijacker. around the Lake Merwin Reservoir on the Lewis River in southern. Washington. It was; there that the pilot last talked with the hi- jacker who was alone in the tail of the plane on a"low-level flight from. Seattle to Reno.
In Plane's Path
An alert was gut along the corridor the jetliner flew when the myster, ious: parachutist .
In Plane's Path
An alert was gut along the corridor the jetliner flew when the myster, ious: parachutist .; disappeared .; Ini- tially the search was around Amboy, Wash., about 30 miles north of Port- land; Ore
The hijacker, a middle-aged man identified by the FBI as.D. B. Coop er, disappeared . without a trace somewhere in the vast. wilderness between Seattle and Reno late Wed- nesday night.
The FBI said it had established he definitely jumped from a, Northwest Airlines 727 after hijacking ; it with what he said was a bomb on a flight out of Portland Wednesday, after noon!
The hijacker Iwas described 'as dark complexioned, with dark black hany wearing dark glasses, very- laxed and \very. courteous !!
Flashing a device with redutyffiders and wires,. he forced; the airliner: to. Jand - at. Seattle - Tacoma: airport, where Northwest delivered at . his - demand. $200,000 ;collected from several Seattle banks and four : parachutes from nearby McChord Air Force Base and an Issa- quah, Wash,, parachute club.
$200,000 ;collected from several Seattle banks and four : parachutes from nearby McChord Air Force Base and an Issa- quah, Wash,, parachute club.
. He then allowed 36 pas- sengers , and. stewardesses. Alice Hancockanas Florence Schaffner, to dis- embark, and ordered" the" plane. to fly "to.Mexico". with Capt. William Scott, flight officers., W. (Bob) Rataczak and H. E, Ander sony and stewardess: Tina Mucklow
When the plane arrived, at Reno for a "refueling" stop. 312 hours later, the hijacker, the money, one' parachute and the "bomb; were gone. The four crew. members were safe and? unharmed;
FBI agent Harold Cam; bell said it was believed the hijacker parachuted af, least an hour before the 11; pim, arrival at Reno, prob- ably in Oregon!
Reports, from FBI"and. police "indicated", the hi- lacking had been carefully and minutely planned by a man" who was not only. well-informed about air- liners but also probably an experienced parachutist. . :The officers said:
-- He : knew, enough about airliners to know, as a spokesman for the Boeing Co.
:The officers said:
-- He : knew, enough about airliners to know, as a spokesman for the Boeing Co. put it, that it? would be "a' very safe drop" to bail out of a 727, one of the few commercial- aircraft where this is pos- sible because of its rear exit and retractable stairs. He ordered the pilot to. fly: low, > with full, flaps down" af only 200 m.p.h. -- with the exit door open and the steps lowered .In the lowered position the stens were below the bot- Com of the plane and a pa- rachutist would have no
difficulty clearing the fuselage ..
::- He routed the plane over the Willamette. Val- ley, with its: broad, 'flat farmlands where a para- chutist could land even at night, rather than over Oregon's 'rugged . Cascade Mountains, where temper- atures were below free. zing and',snow warnings were. posted Thursday ..... Such a . carefully rea -: soned plan, it was further- speculated, also might in ;. clude an accomplice wait- ing on the ground to pick. up-the, hijacker. when he landed and made good his escape.
clude an accomplice wait- ing on the ground to pick. up-the, hijacker. when he landed and made good his escape.
Heightening , the mys- tery was a nearly com- plete blackout on informa- tion by Northwest lem -; ployes, from crew- mem- bers to president.
Walter Hellman, 'public relations vice - president, attributed it to the FBI and the Federal Aviation Administration.
The FAA, Hellman. said at' Northwest . headquar -; ters in St. Paul, had in- structed the crew "to: make no further state- ments until a debriefing session can be-heki."
The search' in . Washing- toh, Oregon; and Nevada was mainly by air.
" Police with dogs searched .they darkened runways, of the: Reno air- port, a residential section and desert area nearby af- ter the plane landed Wed- nesday night. But Camp- bell said Thursday there was "no way" the hijacker could have escaped after it janded.
; The plane, Northwest's Flight :305, originated Wednesday." at. Washing. ton, D.C., and stopped at Minneapolis, Great Falls and Missoula, Mont.
; The plane, Northwest's Flight :305, originated Wednesday." at. Washing. ton, D.C., and stopped at Minneapolis, Great Falls and Missoula, Mont., Spo. kane and Portland: 'Cooper got on at Port- land, Northwest officials; "said, and a few minutes la-) ter," while chatting .amia> blv with a stewardess, handed nera' note de" manding the $200.000 and!
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Northwest" quickly an- nounced it would accede to the d'emands," and rounded up the money, which was delivered to the hijacker in a leather bag. A few minutes later, Air Force officials dispatched the four parachutes.
At one point, an FAA of- ficial boarded the plane and tried to talk the hi- jacker into surrendering.
At one point, an FAA of- ficial boarded the plane and tried to talk the hi- jacker into surrendering. But he growled impatient- ly, "Let's get this show on the road."
The plane, flying at a low altitude and at what. tras virtually a crawl for a' jetimmer, took 312 hours to: reach- Reno.
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RE : UNSUB : NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE NAUGHT FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR SEVENTYONE; CAA-HIJACKING; EXTOR- TION; 00: SEATTLE
RE SFTEL TO BUREAU NOVEMBER TWENTYSIX LAST RE VS PARACHUTE AS ON (USPA)
4 SF ANSD TO SE THE LIST OF AFFILIATED CLUBS OF USPA. SE ANTICI- PATES HAVING ALL THESE CONTACTED IN PERSON BY AGENTS OF VARIOUS DIVI- SIONS WHERE LOCATED WITH FACTS THIS CASE AND COMPOSITE LIKENESS.
1 SF ALSO DETERMINE SOONEST ISSUE "THE PARACHUTIST" IN WHICH . ITEM RE UNSUB AND PHOTO COULD BE INCLUDED AND WHETHER THIS IS FEASIBLE AND ACCEPTABLE TO USPA.
ITEM RE UNSUB AND PHOTO COULD BE INCLUDED AND WHETHER THIS IS FEASIBLE AND ACCEPTABLE TO USPA. BUREAU AUTHORITY THIS REGARD WILL BE SOUGHT. END PAGE ONE
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LA.IDENTIFY REPORTED "LATIN SKY-DIVERS," AN ORGANIZATION IN LA 11 ALLEGEDLY COMPOSED EXCLUSIVELY OF PARACHUTISTS OF LATIN DESCENT OR BACKGROUND, AND DETERMINE IF THIS IS NATIONAL ORGANIZATION WITH PUB- LICATION IN WHICH ITEM RE UNSUB MIGHT BE PLACED. IF ONLY LOCAL, LA DISPLAY COMPOSITE PHOTO WHICH IS BEING FORWARDED AMSD BY R/S, TO RE- SPONSIBLE OFFICERS OF CLUB AND ANY OTHERS THEY SUGGEST.
COPIES COMPOSITE PHOTO ALSO BEING SENT PORTLAND AND IS, TO BE DISPLAYED TO PROPER SOURCES AT DESCHUTES NATIONAL FOREST OFFICE, RED- MOND AIR BASE, AND AT SISKIYOU NATIONAL FOREST OFFICE, GRANTS PASS, OREGON, FOR POSSIBLE IDENTIFICATION AND SUGGESTIONS AS TO WHERE AND TO WHOM LIKENESS MIGHT ALSO BE PROFITABLY DISPLAYED. LIKLIHOOD EXISTS SUBJECT HAD EXPERIENCE IN PARACHUTING AS FOREST FIRE FIGHTER, AND FOREGOING ARE BASES FOR THIS ACTIVITY.
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AND OVER, FOR INFO AS TO CHAPTERS AND THEIR LOCATIONS, AND WHETHER ORGANIZATIONS HAS PUBLICATION THROUGH WHICH PUBLICITY RE UNSUB MIGHT BE CIRCULATED. "POPS" HEADQUARTERS AT TWENTYTHREE FORTYFIVE PANDY (?), FLINT, MICHIGAN. PHOTOS FOLLOW.
FOR INFO OFFICES RECEIVING, UNSUB HI-JACKED NORTHWEST AIRLINES SEVEN TWENTYSEVEN NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST AND PARACHUTED FROM THIS FLIGHT WITH TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS EXTORTED FROM NORTHWEST ON THREAT TO BLOW UP THE SHIP, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN SEATTLE AND RENO, NE- VADA. CIRCUMSTANCES INDICATE UNSUB EXPERIENCED AND WELL VERSED IN ALL PHASES OF PARACHUTING, POSSIBLY AS SKY-DIVER OR FIRE FIGHTER. DESCRIBED AS WHITE, MALE, MID FORTIES, FIVE TEN TO SIX FEET, ONE SE- VENTY TO ONE EIGHTY, OLIVE COMPLEXION, LATIN APPEARANCE, DARK BROWN OR BLACK HAIR, NORMAL STYLE, PARTED ON LEFT AND COMBED STRAIGHT BACK,
DESCRIBED AS WHITE, MALE, MID FORTIES, FIVE TEN TO SIX FEET, ONE SE- VENTY TO ONE EIGHTY, OLIVE COMPLEXION, LATIN APPEARANCE, DARK BROWN OR BLACK HAIR, NORMAL STYLE, PARTED ON LEFT AND COMBED STRAIGHT BACK, SMOKED RALEIGH CIGARETTES.
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AFTER CONVERSATIONS WITH HOSTESS INSTRUCTED PLANE TO LAND AT RENO FOR A NECESSARY REFUELING STOP. INDICATED TO HOSTESS THAT HE WOULD GO TO MEXICO CITY.
FOLLOWING RECEIPT OF MONEY AND WHILE IN AIR UNSUB APPARENTLY OPENED REAR DOOR OF CATPIONED PLANE AND DEPRESSED STAIRS. HAD END PAGE ONE
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CALIFORNIA, ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO. INFORMATION AVAILABLE INDICATES HE WAS HEADING FOR LOS ANGELES AND THAT THE BARSTOW SHERIFF'S OFFICE WAS AWARE OF THIS. IT WAS THOUGHT POSSIBLY THE BARSTOW SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAD SOME SORT OF COVERAGE ON
LOS ANGELES AT BARSTOW CONTACT SHERIFF'S OFFICE FOR ANY DETAILS CONCERNING AND ATTEMPT TO LOCATE HIM IF LOCATED, ASCERTAIN WHEREABOUTS ON NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE. END CXF
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Computer Guesses Site of Skyjacker's Landing
WOODLAND, Wash. (UPI) - With plane's grounded : by rain and; snow, teams of FBI agents searched a. patch of wood- ed foothills. Sunday where a computer calculated 'a middle-aged hijacker para- chuted from" an, airliner with: $200,000.
Sunday where a computer calculated 'a middle-aged hijacker para- chuted from" an, airliner with: $200,000. in ransom money.
They also checked out a motorist's report that he spotted something that looked . like a parachute hanging from. a tree in. rugged mountain country. about 60 miles north of Here.
The motorist, John Mil -; fer of Seattle, told police he spotted something white. on a hillside be- tween Tenino and Bucoda but was too far away to de- termine if it was a chute with: his binoculars. FBI agents said it would take a: few hours to check the re- port.
Tom Manning, 'FBI agent "In' charge of - the. search; has insisted that the skyjacker parachuted: Wednesday night from a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 into a three-by-five- mile strip of timbered Cas- cade Mountain foothills about 35 miles. north "of Portland,, Ore, He said the jumper, who was, wearing. street shoes, could have suffered a broken leg.
Using a""bomb," the hi- facker forced the plane from Portland to Jand at Seattle, where he was gly- en the ransom in $20 bills in a white canvas bag and four sporting parachutes.
Using a""bomb," the hi- facker forced the plane from Portland to Jand at Seattle, where he was gly- en the ransom in $20 bills in a white canvas bag and four sporting parachutes. He . ordered the plane to. fly to Mexico but was not aboard when it landed at Reno for refueling.
Search Computerized
"We've taken radar re. ports, it's all been com- puterized and we feel he's in ' this area," Manning said from his Woodland headquarters, The esti- mate. was based on the plane's in-flight recorder, which. showed when the hijacker lowered the 727's rear steps and a: "slight change 'in attitude" three minutes later, indicating he had jumped.
The FBI issued a com -. posite drawing of the hi-, jacker Saturday, , describ -: ing him as a "soft speaker, polite, with a conventional .business-style,hairdo."
The skyjacker, who, boarded -the plane under. the name: D. B. Cooper,, was described as a "white with an olive complexion," 6-feet-1, 170-175 pounds.in his mid 40s, with black hair and brown eyes. He wore brown-tinted glasses in black, plastic. frames,"a dark suit or sport coat and slacks, - white shirt, with narrow .
He wore brown-tinted glasses in black, plastic. frames,"a dark suit or sport coat and slacks, - white shirt, with narrow . black tie, black trenchcoat and black ox- foru suites.
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Thank you for your interest and offer of assistance.
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House-to-House Hunt Seeks Hijacker Clues
WOODLAND, Wash. (UPI) - Deputies went from house to house in this western Washington area Friday trying to turn up a lead to the hijacker who commandeered an airlinerwand escaped by parachute: with 10,000 $20 bills stuffed in a white cloth bag.
(UPI) - Deputies went from house to house in this western Washington area Friday trying to turn up a lead to the hijacker who commandeered an airlinerwand escaped by parachute: with 10,000 $20 bills stuffed in a white cloth bag.
Other searchers slogged through fog and rain in the muddy foothills of the Cascade Mountains:
But there was no trace of the swarthy middle-aged man dressed in black who hijacked the Northwest Airlines 727 jet Wednes- day by brandishing a "bomb," .collected $200,000 ransom and parachuted into the night somewhere between Seattle and Reno.
Law enforcement offi- cers conducting the house- to-house investigation said they were not checking every, residence, but pick- ing them at random and asking residents; if they heard anything unusual.
"It is a terrible routine. and seems endless," said Dep. Len Holsman;
Bundle of Currency
Meanwhile, crew/ mem- bers of. the hijacked jetlin- er disclosed that the ran- som the hijacker secured at Seattle-Tacoma Airport Wednesday night was de-, livered: in a white cloth bag, like a, Jaundry bag, without adrawstring or fastener:
They said they did not iknow how he managed to -parachute .
that the ran- som the hijacker secured at Seattle-Tacoma Airport Wednesday night was de-, livered: in a white cloth bag, like a, Jaundry bag, without adrawstring or fastener:
They said they did not iknow how he managed to -parachute . without losing the bulky bundle.
In Seattle, the Air Force. said that as many as eigint military planes were tail: ing the hijacked jet at va- rious times.on its flight to Reno, but that none of the: pilots saw the hijacker pa- rachute in the darkness.
The ground-and-air search started near Wood- land Friday but FBI offi- cials said the site was se- lected ,on "pure conjec- turé"" because it was over that area' that four crew. members who remained'. on the jet had communi- cated for" the last time with the hijacker. ..
They spent the rest of the trip to Reno locked in the forward cabin.
At Northwest's Min- neapolis headquarters, the airline broke its two-day silence on the incident at a news conference in which pilot William Scott dis- closed that the crew was. as surprised: as anyone when the plane landed at Reno and the hijacker was gone.
"I stepped into the cabin and asked if there were any more instructions, but there was no answer," Scott said.
"I stepped into the cabin and asked if there were any more instructions, but there was no answer," Scott said. "I looked around the curtain and de- termined he was not there."
Stewardess Tina Muck- low, 22, of Richfield, Minn., said she sat with the hijacker for some time on his orders but was or- dered forward with the rest of the crew on the way to feno, after the ran -.
som was paid in Seattle.
The "bomb," "a device. with red cylinders and. wires, along with the 'hi- jacker was. missing when the plane landed at Reno. So were two parachutes of the four the hijacker de- manded -- and was given- at Seattle.
One parachute would not have worked, it was dis, closed. Friday, Linn Em- rick, a sport parachutist who supplied it, said he in- advertently picked a "ground " training" chute when airport officials asked him for one to sup- plement two chutes fur- nished by the Air Force.
The other supplementa- ry chute was supplied by Renton Aviation. Its man- ufacturer "said it' would "work fine."
Those were the two the hijacker apparently took, but officials said .
Its man- ufacturer "said it' would "work fine."
Those were the two the hijacker apparently took, but officials said . they doubted :he actually: used. the mnonfunctioning chute, because it was a chest- pack and an experienced jumper would rely on Renton's backpack chute first. There was even some question as to whether the Renton chute, harne'ss would accommodate a sos- ond chest-pack device.
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LOS ANGELES AT
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CONTACT
HOSPITAL AND:OBTAIN' ANY INFORMATION ON: 
AS TO HIS-WHEREABOUTS DURING THE. EVENING OF>NOVEMBER
TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE.
ATTEMPT: TO PHOTOGRAPHY ANDASEND. SAME TO b6 b7C
SEATTLE AND PORTLAND.
EVENING OF>NOVEMBER
TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE.
ATTEMPT: TO PHOTOGRAPHY ANDASEND. SAME TO b6 b7C
SEATTLE AND PORTLAND.
WILL DETERMINE IF(SUBJECT, WAS IN POSSESSION OF ABOVE-MENTIONED PICKUP .:. END FBI .A . LA: JCD
CLR
DB Cooper-22221
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SENT 11/33/71 1:33 AM PM4 NITEL 11/29/71 ACJ
TO
DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
SAC, PORTLAND SAC, LOS ANGELES SAC, LAS VEGAS (164-60)
FROM SAC, SALT LAKE CITY (164-24) L UNKNOWN SUBJECT; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTYONE; CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION. 00 :SEATTLE.
RE SEATTLE NITEL TO SU NOVEMBER TWENTYSEVEN, LAST AND LAS VEGAS TEL TO BUREAU, SEATTLE, PD, LA, AND SU, NOVEMBER TWENTYNINE, INSTANT.
RE : SUSPECT
DISCONTINUE REGARDING AS HIS PHOTOGRAPH SHOWN TO STEWARDESSES, AND NOT IDENTICAL WITH UNSUB.
b6 b7C END. BCD FBI LOS ANGELES CLR
INFO DISK Atoiset to LiscontIN C 1/2002
164-497-20

SEARCHED IST INDEXED SERIALIZED.S ...... FIELD: 
/3 NOV 30 1971 FBI - LOS
BCD FBI LOS ANGELES CLR
INFO DISK Atoiset to LiscontIN C 1/2002
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/3 NOV 30 1971 FBI - LOS ANGELES
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DB Cooper-222220-9 (Rev. 5-22-64)
FBI
Date:
November 29, 1971
Transmit the following in
(Type in plaintext or code)
Via
Airtel
(Priority) To: All Offices Except Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas
From: Director, FBI (164-2111) 0 UNSUB; NORTHEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 305, 11/24/71 CAA - HIJACKING 00: SEATTLE
Michwat Culin 164-447X
0
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
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 aircraft was in flight. He was last seen in the aircraft by crew members at 8;05 p.m. PST, when he instructed
Enclosures (2) A11 0
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164-1997
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DB Cooper-22223Airtel to All Offices Except Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas RE: UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 305
the hostage stewardess to go forward to
FILED QUE
NOV #0 1971
FBI -/LOS ANGELES
CRS b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-22223Airtel to All Offices Except Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas RE: UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 305
the hostage stewardess to go forward to the first class section and close the curtains behind her. Stewardess complied, going through first class section into pilot's cockpit and locking door behind her. Prior to departing from passenger cabin, hijacker told stewardess the money bag was not in accordance with instructions and to cut up one of the parachutes to rewrap the money, which was done. When the aircraft landed at Reno, Nevada, for refueling, the hijacker, two parachutes, the ransom money, and the vinyl brief case had disappeared.
Investigation determined that the hijacker had purchased his ticket at the Portland Airport shortly before the plane's departure. Upon arrival at Seattle, all passengers were accounted for except a white male using the name Dan Cooper. There were no sky marshals aboard this flight and at no time did subject show any firearms.
From information available, the subject is described as white male, mid 40's, 5'10" to.
There were no sky marshals aboard this flight and at no time did subject show any firearms.
From information available, the subject is described as white male, mid 40's, 5'10" to.6', 170 to 180 pounds, average to well built, olive or swarthy complexion, medium smooth, dark brown or black hair parted on left side, combed back, sideburns to low ear level, dark eyes, probably black or brown. Subject wore a dark suit, white shirt, with narrow black tie. He wore dark glasses with plastic rims (possibly prescription lenses) most of the time. He had dark overcoat and was described as cool and calculating. His voice was low. He spoke intelligently and was a heavy smoker of Raleigh filter tip cigarettes.
All leads should be handled immediately and set out tele- phonically and confirmed by teletype .. The Bureau must be kept advised of all pertinent developments as they occur. A list of the loot is being prepared and will be disseminated. Consider subject dangerous.
DB Cooper-22224
- 2 -* ED-350 (Rev, 7-16-63)
(Mount Clipping in Space Below)
Hijacker Search Wer, Frustrating
V
WOODLAND, WASH.
DB Cooper-22224
- 2 -* ED-350 (Rev, 7-16-63)
(Mount Clipping in Space Below)
Hijacker Search Wer, Frustrating
V
WOODLAND, WASH. (UPI) - If "D.B. Cooper," the sky- diving hijacker is alive and well in the woods near here, it's a safe bet to say he's holding 10,- 000 soggy $20 bills.
Rain came to this area Sun- day in buckets. During the day the storm clouds . broke for a moment and Woodland's police chief-pilot, Joe May, was able to make one flight up' the .Lewis River gorge to check out anoth- er in a series of false leads, a "parachute" in a tree turned out to be a tin roof on a hillside. The FBI agent in charge of field work here, Tom Manning, took his radio off the hook and spent Sunday dodging reposters andri doing old fashioned" >g
work-checking leads, stopping at airports and interviewing res- ident after resident in the area of the search, which enters its fifth day today.
A Northwest Airlines 727 jetli- ner was hijacked between Port- land, Ore. and Seattle Wednes- day night. Saying he had a bomb, a soft-spoken, middle- aged hijacker forced the plane to land in Seattle where he left off all the
Saying he had a bomb, a soft-spoken, middle- aged hijacker forced the plane to land in Seattle where he left off all the passengers, collected $200,000 ransom and four para- chutes and said he wanted to go to Mexico.
(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.)
C-8 Herald-Examiner Los Angeles, Calif.
Date:
11/29/71
Edition:
8 Star
Author:
Editor:
Title:
Character: OF
Classification:
Submitting Office:
Los Angeles 
Being Investigated
164-497-24
SEARCHED INDEXED O SERIALIZED FILED 218 NOV 3 0 1971 F81 - LOS ANGELES b6
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Só
Memorandum
TO SAC, LOS ANGELES (164- ) (₽)
DATE:
11/30/71
FROM
SA
SUBJECTINSUB, Hijacking of Northwest Airlines On 11/24/71 CAA 00: Seattle
On 11/29/71, at 5:25 p.m.
Huntington Park, California, telephone number telephonically called this office and provided the following information:
About three months ago,
a man named
purchased a boat from is identical to the
artist's conception of the parachute hijacker that appeared in the Los Angeles Times' this morning,
following information:
About three months ago,
a man named
purchased a boat from is identical to the
artist's conception of the parachute hijacker that appeared in the Los Angeles Times' this morning, including the dark glasses. When dealing with they discussed flying and parachute jumping and at no time did without the dark glasses. At the time he actually purchased the boat, was accompanied by a man namedl
rearned b6 b7C whom believed to be a partner with of the boat through a personal ad, placed in the newspaper. On the papers received when he made the final purchase
were the names Torrance, California, and'
same address.
described as follows :
Name
Business Address
Xerox Data Systems 701 South Aviation Boulevard El Segundo, California
Home phone
Sex
Race
Age Height
Weight
BRA
BRA/1dd (2)
SEARCHLO SERIALIZE.
ELLE LORS
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.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
DB Cooper-22238
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Male White Late 30's to early 40's 5'7" to 5'8" 168
164-497-25
14/01
1210
SOLO-X*
mmuliate segeneran of LA 164-
Hair Build Complexion Vehicle
Characteristics
Medium Brown Medium to light
14/01
1210
SOLO-X*
mmuliate segeneran of LA 164-
Hair Build Complexion Vehicle
Characteristics
Medium Brown Medium to light Light
Always wears glasses
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DB Cooper-22239
-2-Indices Search Slip . "FD-160 (Rev. 3-23-71)
TO: CHIFF CLERK Subjec
Aliases
Special
Date
Social Security Account #
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Address
Birth Date
Birthplace
Race
Sex Malo Female Exact Spelling Main Criminal Case Files Only Restrict to Locality of All References Criminal References Only Main Subversive (If no Main, list all Subversive References) Subversive References Only Main Subversive Case Files Only Main Criminal (If no Main, list all Criminal References)

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(date)

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File Review Symbols
I - Identical NI - Not identical
? - Not identifiable U - Unavailable reference ** GPO: 1971-0-423-290
DB Cooper-22240indices Search Slip, "FD-160 (Rev. 3-23-71)
TO: CHIEF CLERK
Date
Subje
Social Security Account #
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Aliases

Address	Birth Date	Birthplace Race	Sex


Male
Femclo

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File & Serial Number	Remarks	File & Serial Number	Remarks

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(date)
(date)
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I - Identical NI - Not identical
? - Not identifiable U - Unavallable reference * GPO: 1971-0-423-200
DB Cooper-22241
₹Indices Search Slip , "FD-160 (Rev. 3-23-71) 0
TO: CHIEF CLERK Subject 0
Date
Allases
Social Security Account #
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Address
Birth Date
Birthplace
Race
Sex Male Female

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(date)
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(date)

Flie Review Symbols
I - Identical
NI - Not identical
? - Not identifiable U - Unavailable reference * GPO : 1971-0-423-290
DB Cooper-22242Indices Search Slip + FD-160 (Rov. 3-23-71)
TO: CHIEF CLERK
Subject
Social Security Account #
Address
Birth Date
Birthplace
Race
Sex Male Female All References Criminal References Only Exact Spelling Main Criminal Case Files Only Restrict to Locality of
Female All References Criminal References Only Exact Spelling Main Criminal Case Files Only Restrict to Locality of Main Subversive Case Files Only Main Subversive (If no Main, list all Subversive References) Subversive References Only Main Criminal (If no Main, list all Criminal References)

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(date)
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(date)
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(date)

File Review Symbols
I - Identical
? - Not Identifiable
NI - Not identical
U - Unavailable reference ** GPO: 1971-0-423-290
DB Cooper-22243
Date
AliasesIndices Search Sitp . FD-160 (Rev. 3-23-71)
TO: CHIEF CLERK
Subject
Allases
Date
Social Security Account #

Address	Birth Date	Birthplace	Race	Sex
	Male
	Female

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unselected:	Female

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File & Serial Number	Remarks	File & Serial Number	Remarks

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Requested by

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(date)
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(date)
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(date)

File Review Symbols
I - Identical
NI - Not identical
? - Not identifiable U - Unavailable reference * GPO: 1971-0-423-290
DB Cooper-22244Indices Search Ship _ `TD-160 (Rev. 3-23-71)
TO: CHIEF CLERK
Subject
Social Security Account #

Address	Birth Date	Birthplace Race	Sex


Mule
Female

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(date)
uf
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(date)
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(date)

File Review Symbols
I - Identical
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DB Cooper-22245
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Date
AliasesSPECIAL
Date
Sul
A1
Ad Exact Spelling
Social Security Account #
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(date)
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(date)
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Extension
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DB Cooper-2224612/1/71
AIRTEL
AIR MAIL
TO:
SAC, SEATTLE
FROM:
SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497) (P)
RE:
UNSUB;
HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES
FLIGHT NUMBER 305
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE
11/24/71
CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION
00: Seattle
Re Cincinnati teletype to the Bureau, copies to Los Angeles and Seattle, dated 12/1/71.
RE:
Enclosed for Seattle is one photograph of obtained from the files of the Orange County Sheriff's Office, Santa Ana, California, on 11/30/71. described as a white male American, born 5'10", 165 pounds, hair 2 eyes, medium build, medium complexion. 
Results of investigation at Los Angeles regarding being submitted via nitel this
Results of investigation at Los Angeles regarding being submitted via nitel this date. b6 b7C
Facsimile copies of photograph provided to Seattle
12/1/71.
164.497 2. 
2 - Seattle (Encl. 1) (AM - SPECIAL DELIVERY) 2 - Los Angeles crs/kah (4) l
2.
CRA
b6 B Cooper-22:7c
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NRØ21 LS CODED
72 0PM URGENT 12/1/71WTB
DIRECTOR (164-2111) LOS ANGELES SEATTLE
FROM LOUISVILLE (164-71
1 UNSUB ; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, LAST; CAA-HIJACKING; EXTORTION. 00: SEATTLE
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ON DECEMBER ONE, INSTANT
(PROTECTPER REQUEST) b6 , ADVISED AFTER VIEWING AN ARTIST CONCEPTION OF HIJACK 0 b7D b7C SUBJECT, SHE BELIEVES SUBJECT BEARS A STRONG RESEMBLANCE TO WHO RESIDES IN SANTA MONICA,
CALIFORNIA.
STATED IS
SHE STATED HE WAS
SHE ADVISED HE IS WHITE MALE,
APPROXIMATELY
YEARS OF AGE, FIVE FEET ELEVE INCHES, ONE FIFTY
DASH ONE SIXTYFIVE LBS., SLENDER BUILD .
STATED IS
SHE STATED HE WAS
SHE ADVISED HE IS WHITE MALE,
APPROXIMATELY
YEARS OF AGE, FIVE FEET ELEVE INCHES, ONE FIFTY
DASH ONE SIXTYFIVE LBS., SLENDER BUILD ... HAIR, WORK IN
ADVISED SHE HAS NOT SEEN YEARS, b6
HAS NO CURRENT ADDRESS FOR HIM OTHER THAN SANTA MONICA, AND DOES
NOT KNOW WHETHER OR NOT
END' PAGE ONE
Indicio sucesso. 1/41 punti ASSIGNED TO
TO
SERIALIZED17 FIELD. 3.Det 1 1971 FBI - LOS ANGELES
1.
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DB Cooper-22248
b6 b7C b7D
b7C
b7D
864-497.21
SEARCHED 16 INDEXI 200PAGY TWO
LOS ANGELES-AT SANTA MONICA, CONDUCT BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION
RE
AND SEE IF HE MIGHT BE IDENTICAL WITH UNSUB. UNSUB ARMED AND DANGEROUS. END LLS FBI LOS ANGELES CLR
b6 b7C
DB Cooper-22249b6
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510
215
Blue
Br
Angle
b6
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Santa Monica
DB Cooper-22250FDI3% (Rev. 5-22-64)
FB İ
Date:
12/1/71
Transmit the following in
PLAINTEXT
(Type in plaintext or code)
Via
TELETYPE
NITEL
(Priority)
TO:
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
SAC, BUTTE (164-26)
SAC, PORTLAND (164-41)
¿S'AC, HONOLULU (164-85)
SAC NEW YORK
SAC, SAN FRANCISCO
SAC, CINCINNATI (164-55)
FROM :
SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497)
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER
164-41)
¿S'AC, HONOLULU (164-85)
SAC NEW YORK
SAC, SAN FRANCISCO
SAC, CINCINNATI (164-55)
FROM :
SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497)
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR LAST, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION.
RE CINCINNATI TELETYPE TO BUREAU NOVEMBER THIRTY LAST; BUTTE TELETYPE TO LOS ANGELES AND SEATTLE DATED NOVEMBER THIRTY LAST; PORTLAND TELETYPE TO LOS ANGELES AND SEATTLE DATED NOVEMBER THIRTY LAST, AND LOS ANGELES AIRTEL TO SEATTLE DATED DECEMBER ONE INSTANT.
RE: SUSPECT
5
ON NOVEMBER THIRTY LAST,
CALIFORNIA, POLICE DEPARTMENT, ADVISED
UNKNOWN 164-497
115 -SE
C1-11:14
11ºy = BT
CRS/gar (1) gar
10 45 -PD
164-497-29 Als
Approved: 18 80
Sent
11:41-NY
M Per Rechts/ Got
DB Cooper-2225,7
Special Agent in Charge
1158
# UAS GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1969 O - 346-090 (11)
30
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PAGE TWO
TO OFFICERS THAT AGENCY AND FILES CONTAIN NO RECORD IDENTIFIABLE
WITH 
/ ON SAME DATE
ADVISED IS ONLY OBERATION CURRENTLY LOCATED AT AIRPORT.
HAS BEEN AIRPORT YEARS AND KNOWS NO ONE
IDENTIFIABLE WITH
YEARS AND INTERVIEWED AND CAN NOT RECALL ANYONE IDENTIFIABLE WITH
ADVISES LAST OUTFIT
HAS BEEN AIRPORT YEARS AND KNOWS NO ONE
IDENTIFIABLE WITH
YEARS AND INTERVIEWED AND CAN NOT RECALL ANYONE IDENTIFIABLE WITH
ADVISES LAST OUTFIT ASSOCIATED WITH SPORT JUMPING AT AIRPORT CALLED PARACHUTES, INC. THIS GROUP DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS LOCALLY SIXTY TWO OR SIXTY THREE, AND
BELIEVES GROUP CURRENTLY OPERATING IN ORANGE, MASSACHUSETTS.
ON THE SAME DATE, RECORDS OF THE ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, SHERIFF'S OFFICE, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, REVEALED FILE NUMBER
DESCRIBED b6 b7C
AS FOLLOWS:
MALE, WHITE, AMERICAN, BORN
AT
CALIFORNIA, FIVE FEET INCHES TALL, ONE HUNDRED b6
b7C
SIXTY FIVE POUNDS, HAIR, EYES, MEDIUM BUILD, MEDIUM
- 2 -
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PAGE THREE
COMPLEXION, MARITAL STATUS
OCCUPATION
EMPLOYER
CALIFORNIA, RESIDENCE
CALIFORNIA
(AS OF
CALIFORNIA ( AS OF
APRIL
, MOTHER
CALIFORNIA, FBI NUMBER
CII NUMBER
SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER FINGERPRINT CLASSIFICATION
PREVIOUS ARRESTS
CALIFORNIA, POLICE DEPARTMENT NUMBER
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MILITARY SERVICE,
ON DECEMBER ONE INSTANT
SUPERIOR
FBI NUMBER
CII NUMBER
SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER FINGERPRINT CLASSIFICATION
PREVIOUS ARRESTS
CALIFORNIA, POLICE DEPARTMENT NUMBER
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MILITARY SERVICE,
ON DECEMBER ONE INSTANT
SUPERIOR COURT,
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, REVEALED THAT
IN SUPERIOR COURT, LONG BEACH,
CALIFORNIA.
ON SAME DATE,
CALIFORNIA.
PHOTOGRAPHS OF
OBTAINED, FACSIMILE b6 b7C
FURNISHED SEATTLE DIVISION AND PHOTOGRAPH SENT AIR MAIL SPECIAL DELIVERY INSTANT DATE.
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DB Cooper-22260LA 164-497
PAGE FIVE
RE: SUSPECT
7
ON DECEMBER ONE INSTANT,
BORN
IDAHO, LOCATED AND INTER-
VIEWED AT RESIDENCE IN
CALIFORNIA.
DISPLAYED PASSPORT AND SALES SLIPS TO VERIFY HIS PRESENCE
IN DURING PERTINENT PERIOD.
ABROAD FROM
NOVEMBER TWENTY ONE LAST UNTIL RETURN ONE INSTANT AND ACCOMPANIED BY TRIP.
DECEMBER
DURING ENTIRE
RE: SUSPECT
RECORDS
COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE,
CALIFORNIA,
REVEALED
BORN
WAS
ARRESTED BY ABOVE AGENCY ON NOVEMBER TWENTY FIVE LAST AT .
P.M., WHEN OBSERVED
CALIFORNIA.
ADVIS ED 
PICK UP TRUCK STUCK IN SAND AND HE WAS SEEKING HELP. RELEASED FROM CUSTODY SAME DATE AS INTENT COULD NOT BE ESTABLISHED.
ADVIS ED 
PICK UP TRUCK STUCK IN SAND AND HE WAS SEEKING HELP. RELEASED FROM CUSTODY SAME DATE AS INTENT COULD NOT BE ESTABLISHED.
ON NOVEMBER
LAST HE WAS AGAIN ARRESTED BY
SAME AGENCY WHEN OBSERVED PARKED IN GREEN CHEVROLET PICK UP BEARING OREGON LICENSE
REMOVED BY
OFFICERS TO
HOSPITAL
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PAGE SIX
RECORDS OF ABOVE AGENCY SHOWS LOCAL RESIDENCE OF
CALIFORNIA.
INTERVIEWED BY SPECIAL AGENT THIS DATE
AT ABOVE ADDRESS AND S TATES
ARRIVED
LAST,
DRIVING GREEN PICK UP TRUCK.
OREGON, AND STATES CLOSE ACQUAINTANCE OF
ADVISED
NOVEMBER TWENTY THREE LAST AND
DROVE DIRECTLY TO
ARRIVING ABOUT TWO A.M., ON
NOVEMBER TWENTY FIVE LAST.
RESIDENCE UNTIL MORNING OF NOVEMBER TWENTY FIVE LAST, WHEN
OBSERVED SIGHTS IN
AREA INCLUDING
ABOUT
LAST,
LEFT RESIDENCE
ALONE TO
AND WAS UNAWARE OF
ACTIVITIES
HE STATES CONVERSATION WITH 
REVEALED NO STATEMENTS OR ANYTHING UNUSUAL ABOUT
ADVISED HE WAS AWARE
INSTANT DATE
SECRET SERVICE AGENT, LOS
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OR ANYTHING UNUSUAL ABOUT
ADVISED HE WAS AWARE
INSTANT DATE
SECRET SERVICE AGENT, LOS
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PICK UP BEARING OREGON LICENSE
FOLLOWING
- 6 -
DB Cooper-22262 LA 164-497 PAGE SEVEN
ARREST OF BY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ON NOVEMBER
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TWENTY FIVE LAST. STATED ONLY ITEMS FOUND IN SEARCH WERE SEVERAL SMALL HAND TOOLS. SECRET SERVICE INTEREST IN DUE TO SECURITY OF PRESIDENT NIXON UPON ARRIVAL AT
ON NOVEMBER TWENTY FIVE LAST.
WHEREABOUTS ESTABLISHED IN WITHIN b6 b7C
FEW HOURS AFTER HIJACKING AND HE WAS DRIVING SAME VEHICLE WHICH DEPARTED ON NOVEMBER TWENTY THREE LAST. NO FURTHER INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED.
RE: PARACHUTE CLUBS, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 
ON NOVEMBER THRITY LAST,
Z
CALIFORNIA, FOR THE PURPOSE OF
SKY DIVER MAGAZINE, ADVISED
RESIDES
CALIFORNIA,
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RESIDENCE NEGATIVE THIS DATE.
INSTANT DATE,
TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED LOS ANGELES
OFFICE AND INTERVIEW ARRANGED FOR PURPOSE OF OBTAINING ALL INFORMATION AVAILABLE RE PARACHUTE CLUBS, OBTAINED
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INFORMATION
RE LOCATION AND MEMBERSHIP OF
AND FURNISH
DB Cooper-22263
- 7 - LA 164-497
OFFICE AND INTERVIEW ARRANGED FOR PURPOSE OF OBTAINING ALL INFORMATION AVAILABLE RE PARACHUTE CLUBS, OBTAINED
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INFORMATION
RE LOCATION AND MEMBERSHIP OF
AND FURNISH
DB Cooper-22263
- 7 - LA 164-497
PAGE EIGHT
ARTISTS SKETCH AND DESCRIPTIVE DATA ON UNKNOWN SUBJECT THIS MATTER IN EFFORT TO DEVELOP SUSPECTS.
IN UNITED STATES,
CONSIDERED AUTHORITY IN HIS FIELD AND HAS INDICATED WILLINGNESS TO COOPERATE IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE.
PORTLAND AND SEATTLE DISCONTINUE REGARDING
BUTTE AND SEATTLE DISCONTINUE REGARDING
LOS ANGELES, INTENSIVE INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED TO
LOCATE
AT LONG BEACH FOR INTERVIEW.
LOS ANGELES WILL FOLLOW, SET OUT APPROPRIATE LEADS AND CONDUCT INVESTIGATION BASED ON RESULTS OF EXTENSIVE INTERVIEW OF AND EXAMINATION OF AVAILABLE PHOTOGRAPHS AND MEMBERSHIP RECORDS IN HIS POSSESSION.
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DB Cooper-22264
- 8 -NR 030 LA PLAIN 1104 PM NITEL 12-1-71 RWM TO SEATTLE (164-81) BUTTE (164-26) PORTLAND (164-41) HONOLULU (164-85) VIA WASHINGTON
NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO CINCINNATI (164-55)
FROM LOS ANGELES (164-497) 3P.
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR LAST, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION.
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR LAST, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION.
RE CINCINNATI TELETYPE TO BUREAU NOVEMBER THIRTY LAST; BUTTE TELETYPE TO LOS ANGELES AND SEATTLE DATED NOVEMBER THIRTY LAST; PORTLAND TELETYPE TO LOS ANGELES AND SEATTLE DATED NOVEMBER THIRTY LAST, AND LOS ANGELES AIRTEL TO SEATTLE DATED DECEMBER ONE INSTANT. 1 b6 b7C
RE: SUSPECT
ON NOVEMBER THIRTY LAST,
CALIFORNIA, POLICE DEPARTMENT, ADVISED UNKNOWN
`END PAGE ONE
6 .5 aus Om
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Cooper22265LA 164-497
PAGE TUO
TO OFFICERS THAT AGENCY AND FILES CONTAIN NO RECORD IDENTIFIABLE
WITH
ON SAKE DATE
ADVISED
IS ONLY OPERATION CURRENTLY LOCATED AT AIRPORT. HAS BEEN
AIRPORT YEARS AND KNOWS NO ONE b6 b7C IDENTIFIABLE WITH YEARS AND
INTERVIEWED AND CAN NOT RECALL ANYONE IDENTIFIABLE WITH
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b6 b7C ADVISES LAST OUTFIT ASSOCIATED WITH SPORT JUMPING AT AIRPORT CALLED PARACHUTES, INC. THIS GROUP DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS LOCALLY SIXTY TUO OR SIXTY THREE, AND
BELIEVES GROUP CURRENTLY OPERATING IN ORANGE, MASSACHUSETTS.
THIS GROUP DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS LOCALLY SIXTY TUO OR SIXTY THREE, AND
BELIEVES GROUP CURRENTLY OPERATING IN ORANGE, MASSACHUSETTS.
ON THE SAME DATE, RECORDS OF THE ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, SHERIFF'S OFFICE, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, REVEALED FILE HUMBER
DESCRIBED
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AS FOLLOWS:
MALE, WHITE, AMERICAN, BORU
AT
, CALIFORNIA, FIVE FEET INCHES TALL, ONE HUNDRED b6
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SIXTY FIVE POUNDS, HAIR, EYES, MEDIUM BUILD, MEDIUM
END PAGE TWO
DB Cooper-22260 LA 164-497
PAGE THREE
COMPLEXION, MARITAL STATUS
OCCUPATION
EMPLOYER
CALIFORNIA, RESIDENCE
CALIFORNIA
(AS OF
CALIFORNIA (AS OF
APRIL
MOTHER
CALIFORNIA, FBI NUMBER
CII NUMBER
SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER FINGERPRINT CLASSIFICATION
PREVIOUS ARRESTS
CALIFORNIA, POLICE DEPARTMENT NUMBER
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END PAGE THREE
DB Cooper-22267 
LA 164-497
PAGE FOUR
MILITARY SERVICE
ON DECEMBER ONE INSTANT
SUPERIOR COURT,
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, REVEALED THAT
IN SUPERIOR COURT, LONG BEACH,
CALIFORNIA.
DB Cooper-22267 
LA 164-497
PAGE FOUR
MILITARY SERVICE
ON DECEMBER ONE INSTANT
SUPERIOR COURT,
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, REVEALED THAT
IN SUPERIOR COURT, LONG BEACH,
CALIFORNIA. ON SANE DATE,
CALIFORNIA.
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FURNISHED SEATTLE DIVISION AND PHOTOGRAPH SENT AIR MAIL SPECIAL DELIVERY INSTANT DATE.
END PAGE FOUR
DB Cooper-22268LA 164-497
PAGE FIVE
RE: SUSPECT
ON DECEMBER ONE INSTANT,
BORN b6 b7C
LOCATED, AND INTER-
VIEWED AT RESIDENCE IN
CALIFORNIA.
DISPLAYED PASSPORT AND SALES SLIPS TO VERIFY HIS PRESENCE IN DURING PERTINENT PERIOD. ABROAD FROM
NOVEMBER TWENTY ONE LAST UNTIL RETURN
DECEMBER
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ONE INSTANT AND ACCOMPANIED BY DURING ENTIRE TRIP.
RE: SUSPECT
RECORDS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE,
CALIFORNIA, REVEALED
WAS
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BORN
ARRESTED BY ABOVE AGENCY ON NOVEMBER TWENTY FIVE LAST AT
P.M, WHEN OBSERVED
CALIFORNIA.
ADVISED
PICK UP TRUCK STUCK IN SAND AND HE WAS SEEKING HELP.
RELEASED FROM CUSTODY SAME DATE AS INTENT COULD NOT BE ESTABLISHED.
ON NOVEMBER LAST HE WAS AGAIN ARRESTED BY b6
SAME AGENCY WHEN OBSERVED PARKED IN GREEN CHEVROLET PICK UP
b7C
BEARING OREGON LICENSE
REMOVED BY
OFFICERS TO
ON NOVEMBER LAST HE WAS AGAIN ARRESTED BY b6
SAME AGENCY WHEN OBSERVED PARKED IN GREEN CHEVROLET PICK UP
b7C
BEARING OREGON LICENSE
REMOVED BY
OFFICERS TO HOSPITAL
END PAGE FIVE
DB Cooper-22269 LA 164-497
PAGE SIX
RECORDS OF ABOVE AGENCY SHOWS LOCAL RESIDENCE OF
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CALIFORNIA. INTERVIEWED BY SPECIAL AGENT THIS DATE
AT ABOVE ADDRESS AND STATES ARRIVED
LAST,
DRIVING GREEN PICK UP TRUCK.
b6 OREGON, AND STATES CLOSE ACQUAINTANCE OF
b7C
ADVISED
NOVEMBER TWENTY THREE LAST AND
DROVE DIRECTLY TO
ARRIVING ABOUT TWO A.M., ON
NOVEMBER TWENTY FIVE LAST.
RESIDENCE UNTIL MORNING OF NOVEMBER TWENTY FIVE LAST, WHEN OBSERVED SIGHTS IN AREA INCLUDING
b6
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ABOUT
LAST, 9
LEFT RESIDENCE
ALONE TO
AND WAS UNAWARE OF
ACTIVITIES
HE STATES S COMVERSATION WITH
b6
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REVEALED NO STATEMENTS OR ANYTHING UNUSUAL ABOUT
ADVISED HE WAS AWARE
INSTANT DATE SECRET SERVICE AGENT, LOS
b6 Per USSS b7C
ANGELES, ADVISED HE SEARCHED VEHICLE DESCRIBED AS CHEVROLET PICK UP BEARING OREGON LICENSE
FOLLOWING
END PAGE SIX
DB Cooper-22270LA 164-497 PAGE SEVER
SHERIFF'S OFFICE ON NOVEMBER
ARREST OF BY TWENTY FIVE LAST.
Per USSS b7C
ANGELES, ADVISED HE SEARCHED VEHICLE DESCRIBED AS CHEVROLET PICK UP BEARING OREGON LICENSE
FOLLOWING
END PAGE SIX
DB Cooper-22270LA 164-497 PAGE SEVER
SHERIFF'S OFFICE ON NOVEMBER
ARREST OF BY TWENTY FIVE LAST. STATED ONLY ITEMS FOUND IN SEARCH VERE SEVERAL SMALL HAND TOOLS. SECRET SERVICE INTEREST IN DUE TO SECURITY OF PRESIDENT NIXON UPON ARRIVAL AT ON NOVEMBER TWENTY FIVE LAST.
WHEREABOUTS ESTABLISHED IN WITHIN FEW HOURS AFTER HIJACKING AND HE WAS DRIVING SAME VEHICLE WHICH DEPARTED ON NOVEMBER TWENTY THREE LAST. NO FURTHER INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED.
RE: PARACHUTE CLUBS, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
ON NOVEMBER THIRTY LAST,
CALIFORNIA, FOR THE PURPOSE OF
SKY DIVER MAGAZINE, ADVISED
RESIDES
CALIFORNIA,
RESIDENCE NEGATIVE THIS DATE.
INSTANT DATE, TELEPHOWICALLY CONTACTED LOS ANGELES OFFICE AND INTERVIEW ARRANGED FOR PURPOSE OF OBTAINING ALL INFORMATION AVAILABLE RE PARACHUTE CLUBS, OBTAINED
RC LOCATION AND MEMBERSHIP OF
EID PAGE SEVEN
INFORMATION AND FURNISH
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DB Cooper-22271 LA 164-497
PAGE EIGHT
ARTISTS SKETCH AND DESCRIPTIVE DATA ON UNKNOWN SUBJECT THIS FATTER IN EFFORT TO DEVELOP SUSPECTS.
USSS b7C
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DB Cooper-22271 LA 164-497
PAGE EIGHT
ARTISTS SKETCH AND DESCRIPTIVE DATA ON UNKNOWN SUBJECT THIS FATTER IN EFFORT TO DEVELOP SUSPECTS.
IN UNITED STATES,
CONSIDERED AUTHORITY IN HIS FIELD AND HAS INDICATED WILLINGNESS TO COOPERATE IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE.
PORTLAND AND SEATTLE DISCONTINUE REGARDING
BUTTE AND SEATTLE DISCONTINUE REGARDING
LOS ANGELES, INTENSIVE INVESTIGATION BEING CONDUCTED TO LOCATE
AT LONG BEACH FOR INTERVIE".
LOS ANGELES WILL FOLLOW, SET OUT APPROPRIATE LEADS AND CONDUCT INVESTIGATION BASED ON RESULTS OF EXTENSIVE INTERVIEW
OF AND EXAMINATION OF AVAILABLE PHOTOGRAPHS AND MEMBERSHIP RECORDS IN HIS POSSESSION .. END HOLD ALN F3I BUTTE
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DB Cooper-22272 '
SPECIAL
TRUTHER CLERK
Sub
Social Security Account *
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Address
Birth Date
Birthplace
Race
Sex Male Female Exact Spelling Main Criminal Case Filos Only Restrict to Locality of All References Criminal References Only Main Subversive Case Files Only Main Subversive (If no Main, list all Subversive
Spelling Main Criminal Case Filos Only Restrict to Locality of All References Criminal References Only Main Subversive Case Files Only Main Subversive (If no Main, list all Subversive Referencos) Subversive References Only Main Criminal (If no Main, list all Criminal References)
File & Serial Number
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Remarks	File & Serial Number	Remarks

2	Ident(1950'A)

Requested by
Squad
Extension
2384
File No.
>

Requested by
Squad
Extension
2384
File No. b6 b7C
Searched by
(date) ( 1
Consolidated by
U
(date)
Reviewed by
(date)
File Review Symbols
'I - Identical NI - Not Identical
7 - Not identifiable U - Unavailable reference * GPO: 1971-0-423-290
DB Cooper-22273
Date
AlloOPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 192 EDITION GSA FPMR (4 (FR) 101-114 UNITED STATES GO
1 RNMENT
Memorandum
TO
:
SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497)
DATE: 12/2/71
FROM :
SA
(13)
SUBJECT:
UNSUB;
HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES
FLIGHT NUMBER 305
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE
11/24/71
CAA - HIJACK
00: SEATTLE
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Re Seattle telephone call to Los Angeles, 12/2/71
With respect to reviewing and eliminating registration cards of individual not fitting the description of the perpetrator, SA Seattle office, advised b6
that the minimum and maximum guides should be used as follows: b7C
Age:
35 - 55 years (It should be noted that one witness placed suspect's age at the low limit of 35, and one witness placed the suspect in his low 50's)

Height:	519 - 6:
35 - 55 years (It should be noted that one witness placed suspect's age at the low limit of 35, and one witness placed the suspect in his low 50's)

Height:	519 - 6:1
Weight:	150 - 190

5010-XX
2)- Los Angeles ICAR (2)164-497 1- (Sub A) w
164-497-30
SERIAMIZ
i-/ 1
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
... . LGS . NGHES Der Gone DB Cooper-22274OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 182 EDITION GSAPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.8 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO
:
. SAC, LOS ANGELES (164-497)
DATE: 11/30/71
FROM :
SA
SUBJECT:
UNSUB;
HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES
FLIGHT NUMBER 305
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE
11/24/71
CAA - HIJACK
On 11/30/71, SA
Santa Ana Resident b6 b7C
Agency, telephonically advised the writer as follows:
who resides af California, telephone telephonically advised that artists' conception of hijacker in local newspaper possibly identical to an unknown white male who on three or four occasions jumped at the California. recalls this individual as having last been at about three and one half months ago and having engaged him in a discussion
He added that
questions asked by this
recalls this individual as having last been at about three and one half months ago and having engaged him in a discussion
He added that
questions asked by this man were, in his opinion, precisely those which a person contemplating a crime of this nature would ask.
stated that during the course of the questioning
he also asked what
During this con- versation on the last time he had seen this man, he had also asked questions about areas.
He noted that anyone jumping at must be a member of the U.S. Parachute Association and must be licensed to jump. All Jumpers at must register prior to jumping with well known at the jump center in
5
He added that all records of the approximately 10,000 members of the U.S. Parachute Association are maintained at Cannery Row, Monterey, California, and files of this association contain both photographs and fingerprints of licensees.
164-497-31
SEARCHED SERIALIZED
irDiALC
FILED
NOV 0 1971 FBI - LOS ANGELES
A
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savingethan
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C/A-
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I
b6
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crs/kah (2)
5010-108
located +internacional Bien detar concerning ya above; 12/1/21
2LA 164-497
Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savingethan
er-226 5 b7C -
C/A-
b6 b7c
I
b6
b7C
b7D
b6 b7C b7D
crs/kah (2)
5010-108
located +internacional Bien detar concerning ya above; 12/1/21
2LA 164-497
and
During previous
contacts with the Los Angeles Division he has appeared to be an intelligent and reliable source.
On the same date, SA Riverside Resident Agency, was telephonically furnished the above information and requested to recontact and locate and interview in an effort to develop information which would lead to the identification of the individual referred to by
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DB Cooper-22276
- 2 -SPECIAL
NRØ06 SE PLAIN 11:22AM URGENT 12/1/71 VAB TO LOS ANGELES FROM SEATTLE (164-81) 305 UNSUB ; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SE- ATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR, SEVENTYONE. CAA-HIJACKING; EXTORTION; 00: SEATTLE.
-
7 CONSIDERED POSSIBLE SUSPECT AND ONLY INFO AVAILABLE IS
RE
THAT SOME YEARS AGO HE RESIDED WITH
CALIFORNIA. HIS CURRENT LOCATION IS UNKNOWN.
LOS ANGELES AT - WILL ATTEMPT TO FURTHER IDENTIFY
AND HIS CURRENT LOCATION FROM ABOVE INFORMATION.
LOS ANGELES AT - WILL ATTEMPT TO FURTHER IDENTIFY
AND HIS CURRENT LOCATION FROM ABOVE INFORMATION. P.
END
LEAD COVERED
by CRP
AT SANTA BARBARA INFO FURNISHED SEATTLE LA FEL 13/1/71
1647497-32
SEARCHED NUL INDEXE 200 SERIALIZED AD_FIELD AZ DEG A 1971 F81 - 10% ANGELES b6 b7C
1 cas
Leadat SB to-
Cooper-22277
b6 b7C
b6 b7cNR 006 BT PLAIN 9:47 PM4 11-30-71 NITEL DD TO: SAC, LOS ANGELES SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: SAC, BUTTE (164-26) 2P
UNKNOWN SUBJECT; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT NUMBER THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE. CAA DASH HIJACKING; EXTORTION. 00: SEATTLE.
TODAY MADE AVAILABLE
COPY OF MAGAZINE.
SEVENTY ONE ISSUE OF SKY DIVER
, DEPICTED AMONG
OTHERS, IS INDIVIDUAL NAMED
WHO BEARS STRIKING RESEMBLANCE TO ARTISTS CONCEPTION OF UNSUB.
YEARS AGO; HOWEVER, DOES NOT KNOW CURRENT WHEREABOUTS. ADVISED PUBLISHER ABOVE MAGAZINE
IS
CALIFORNIA, WHO MAY BE ACQUAINTED WITH AND COULD FURNISH ORIGINAL NEGATIVE FOR ABOVE PICTURE.
END PAGE ONE
10
admold
164-498-33 BEARCHED.
ADVISED PUBLISHER ABOVE MAGAZINE
IS
CALIFORNIA, WHO MAY BE ACQUAINTED WITH AND COULD FURNISH ORIGINAL NEGATIVE FOR ABOVE PICTURE.
END PAGE ONE
10
admold
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FILED .... 71 LES R b6 b7C
1
DB Cooper-22238
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PAGE TWO
WILL ALSO POSSESS INFO WHERE HEADQUARTERED.
FOR INFO SEATTLE, ELIMINATED AS SUSPECT, FULL DAY NOVEMBER TWO FOUR, LAST, AT NEGATIVE ABOVE PHOTO AND LOCATION MONTANA, AND SPENT NOVEMBER TWO FIVE, LAST, WITH FAMILY AND SEEN BY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS. LOS ANGELES IMMEDIATELY CONTACT OBTAIN .
SUBMIT PHOTOGRAPHS TO SEATTLE AND MINNEAPOLIS. SET FORTH LEADS FOR LOCATION AND POSSIBLE ELIMINATION OF END. FBI LA JCD b6 b7C
CLR
DB Cooper-22279
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b6 b7C
b6 b7CSPECIAL
NR 004 SF PLAIN
4:37 PM URGENT 12/1/71 MCC
TO
SEATTLE (164-81)
MIAMI
HONOLULU (164-85) VIA WASH
LOS ANGELES
NEW YORK
CINCINNATI (164-55)
FROM SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) 2P
nowhere Cidas 164-497X 3
UNKNOWN SUBJECT: NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO
FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST, CRIME ABOARD AIRCRAFT -
FROM SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) 2P
nowhere Cidas 164-497X 3
UNKNOWN SUBJECT: NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO
FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST, CRIME ABOARD AIRCRAFT - HIJACKING.
RE OKLAHOMA CITY TELETYPE NOVEMBER THIRTY LAST, BUREAU AIRTEL TO ALL OFFICES EXCEPT SEATTLE, PORTLAND, AND LAS VEGAS, DATED NOVEMBER TWENTYNINE LAST, ENCLOSING ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF UNKNOWN SUBJECT.
L FOR INFORMATION MIAMI, HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS A LOOK-ALIKE TO ARTIST'S CONCEPTION OF UNKNOWN SUBJECT. AND TERRAIN COVERED BY FLIGHT. HE IS
A
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IS DESCRIBED AS FIVE FEET ELEVEN INCHES, ONE SIX TWO POUNDS, HAIR, EYES, DATE OF BIRTH
CALIFORNIA,
END PAGE ONE
8
164-41-35
SEARCHED CYKLINDEXED SERIALIZED 18/MED/VOUS 13 DEC /1 1971 OBI - LOS ANGELES
| ORA b6
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OAKLAND INTERNATIONAL
b6 b7C
AIRPORT, ADVISED THAT
OAKLAND UNTIL
TO RETURN TO HE IS SCHEDULED TO RETURN TO TONIGHT, EASTERN STANDARD TIME. b6
b7C
MIAMI INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT, WILL KNOW EXACT TIME F ARRIVAL OF ៛ FLIGHT. CAN BE CONTA ED AT AREA CODE
ALSO ADVISED b6
b7C
FLORIDA, TELEPHONE
AREA CODE
MIAMI INTERVIEW
ANT
TTEMPT TO OBTAIN PHOTOGRAPH TO
FURNISH SEATTLE.
CAN BE CONTA ED AT AREA CODE
ALSO ADVISED b6
b7C
FLORIDA, TELEPHONE
AREA CODE
MIAMI INTERVIEW
ANT
TTEMPT TO OBTAIN PHOTOGRAPH TO
FURNISH SEATTLE.
END
CXF
FBI LOS ANGELES CLR TU
DB Cooper-22285 FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
(Mount Clipping in Space Below)
Skyjacker: Is He 'a 1971 Robin Hood?
WOODLAND, Wash. (AP) -{ "There's nothing new and An airplane hijacker has van- we've taken our men off unless ished with two parachutes and something else turns up," a $200,000, and the search for him spokesman for the Clark Coun- has ended for all but the FBI.
ty, Wash,, sheriff's office said A University of Washington Monday of the search for the sociologist calls the sky piracy hijacker in the brushy, tim- an "awesome feat in the battle
bered Cascade Mountain foot- of man against the machine."
hills of southwest Washington.
Dr. Otto Larsen said the sky- The FBI continued question-
jacker apparently has won pub- ing dozens of persons who be- lic admiration as "one man lieved they recognized a com- overcoming, for the time being posite sketch of the hijacker, anyway, technology, the corpo- but the investigators reported
dozens of persons who be- lic admiration as "one man lieved they recognized a com- overcoming, for the time being posite sketch of the hijacker, anyway, technology, the corpo- but the investigators reported ration, the establishment, the no success in finding a definite system."
lead.
Thus, Larsen said, the hijack- er "comes off as a kind of cur-
centrated the search around the rich - or at least the big flight recorder had indicated small shifts in the plane's air whether he gives it to the poor or not."
Officials said they had con- ious Robin Hood, taking from Woodland because the jetliner's and complex. It doesn't matter
position as it passed over the area.
FBI officials in- Portland, Ore., and Seattle say they will Law enforcement officers continue their pursuit of the searching for the hijacker were. man who apparently bailed out faced with three major dis- of the hijacked Northwest Air- advantages - surprise, piece -! lines jetliner last week as it meal evidence and the meti- flew from Seattle to Reno, Nev. culous planning which appar- But local law enforcementlently went into the deed, the agencles have turned to other first involving the escape of a hijacker by parachute.
culous planning which appar- But local law enforcementlently went into the deed, the agencles have turned to other first involving the escape of a hijacker by parachute. 1.
(Indicate page, name of
newspaper, city and state.]
A-3 Herald-Examiner Los Angeles, Calif.
Date:
11/30/71
Edition: 8 Star
Author:
Editor:
Title:
Character:
or
Classification:
Submitting Office: Los Angeles Being Investigated
164-497-36
SEARCHED __ __ INDEXED __ 1 SERIALIZED //42 FILED 13 DEC 1 1971 FBI - LOS ANGELES
b6 QB Cooper-2b7cOPTIONAL FORM NO. to MAY 1942 EDITION GSA FPMR (4 CFA) 101-11.6 "UNITED STATES GO NMENT
Memorandum
TO
:
SAC, ALBANY
DATE: November 30, 1971
FROM :
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (-P-)
SUBJECT: UNKNOWN SUBJECT, aka Dan Cooper; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT #305, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, 11/24/71 CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION 00: SEATTLE BUfile 164-2111
Enclosed for each office is one artist's conception of the captioned subject. The Bureau is preparing a circular for field-wide circularization concerning captioned case and will include an artist's conception of the hijacker.
The Bureau is preparing a circular for field-wide circularization concerning captioned case and will include an artist's conception of the hijacker. The Bureau has been asked to prepare a sketch showing the unknown subject without glasses. Additional distribution will be made from time to time to parachute clubs, flight instruction schools and airports, etc., in an effort to identify the unknown subject which undoubtedly will result in various field divisions receiving calls on this case.
For the assistance of all offices in conducting investigation and to evaluate complaints from citizens, the following information is furnished:
The unknown subject boarded captioned flight at Portland, Oregon, using the name DAN COOPER. As the plane was taxiing toward the runway, Stewardess occupied the seat reserved for the stewardesses on the right side of the plane and behind the last row of passenger seats. The unknown subject, who occupied the center seat in the last row of three seats, turned and handed her an envelope which she did not open for a few minutes until he glanced at her several times.