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On this date, Northwest Airlines, phone advised that received a letter from . New Orleans, stating that
stated that since Northwest has done nothing to locate the money recently, he feels that also indicated
that he had been in contact with the Portland Office of the FBI re this matter.
said that he was instructed by SA to provide this office with any information concerning this case.
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a story concerning the hijacking of the Northwest Airlines plane by D. B. COOPER in November, 1971. In this regard, he has been in telephonic contact with SA of the Portland Office. The article
is scheduled to appear in the Minneapolis Tribune on April 15, 1979 .. advised that he would like to come to the Minneapolis Office of the FBI and talk to an Agent about this case, but he was advised that inasmuch as the Minneapolis Office was an auxiliary office, his best source of information would be the office of origin in this matter, which is Seattle, or the Portland Office which has also conducted considerable investigation in this case and he was further advised that the Public Affairs Office at the Bureau might be able to assist him
On 3/7/79, supra, again contacted the writer and inquired as to the availability of an artist's conception of D. B. COOPER. was advised that his request should be made to the Bureau regarding the artist's conception.
On 3/7/79, supra, contacted the writer and asked if he might come to the Minneapolis Office of the FBI and
On 3/7/79, supra, contacted the writer and asked if he might come to the Minneapolis Office of the FBI and utilize the WATTS line in order to talk to SA in the Portland Office. was advised that in no instance would a private individual be allowed to make a telephone call over Bureau telephone lines. At this time, further advised
that on 4/13/79, a play will be presented at the Cricket Theater, 345 13th Avenue Northeast, Minneapolis. This play is based on an anonymous letter received concerning the NORJAK skyjacking and the play concerns the story of how this particular skyjacking could have taken place and four main characters appear in this play.
There is a psychiatrist, the store lady at the scene of the bail out, a playwright and an FBI Agent. emphasized that would not be mentioned by name in any part of the play. was asked if he had contacted the SAC of the Portland Office or SA to advise them of the upcoming
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play and reply that he had not. It was suggested to that out of courtesy and from an administrative standpoint, the FBI needed to be advised of any such efforts on his part which might possibly involve FBI personnel.
On 3/8/79, SA Portland Division, contacted SA of the
Media Representative,
Minneapolis Office and advised him that this office was in receipt of a letter from
indicating that a Tribune article regarding the NORJACK skyjacking would appear in the Minneapolis Tribune on 4/15/79. was advised of the information set forth in this memo and he indicated that he would discuss this with the SAC of the Portland Office and SA and take appropriate action to ensure the Bureau's interest.
In the event that supra, should further contact the Minnepolis Office of the FBI concerning story material
In the event that supra, should further contact the Minnepolis Office of the FBI concerning story material for NORJACK newspaper articles or related material, he should be referred to the Public Affairs Office at the Bureau.
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The Cricket's 'D.B. Cooper' is leap into rare experience
Jane Murray and Don Amendolia in 'D.B. Cooper'
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b7C4 "The D.B. Cooper Project," in its premiere production at the Cricket Theatre, is a work of unique dra- matic imagination that boggles most conventional assessments.
Even when John Orlock's "musi- cal fantasy" goes amiss, it still con- tinues to add up small points toward an impressive theatrical and emotional totality.
The very concept is enough to make most of us shake our prosaic heads.
Even when John Orlock's "musi- cal fantasy" goes amiss, it still con- tinues to add up small points toward an impressive theatrical and emotional totality.
The very concept is enough to make most of us shake our prosaic heads. Many playwrights could come up with some grabby story ideas about D.B. Cooper, the pseud- onym for the 1971 hijacker who parachuted from an airliner over Washington state and disappeared into legend with $200,000 in as yet unrecovered ransom money.
But a drama that deals only with his pre-heist humdrum? A life so mud-fence, all-American unre- markable? Wholly without any large gestures or commanding characters? And interspersed with poignant or funny little songs?'
I can only ask you to accept on faith that Orlock's off-beat Idea somehow works: It is grabby pre- cisely because it does not try to grab, or pander to our dramatic ex- pectations. Wisely keeping it small, almost the seed of an idea, the author has created something able to grow and spread in any di- rection our own imaginations are able to follow.
Orlock took his text from a Iet- ter signed "D.B. Cooper" that was sent to several newspapers a month after the crime.
Orlock took his text from a Iet- ter signed "D.B. Cooper" that was sent to several newspapers a month after the crime. The writer, (whoever he was) denled being a professional criminal ("I never even got a parking ticket") but said: "I am no modern day Robin Hood," and added, "Unfortunately, I do have only 14 months to live." / The letter speaks of .a life that had been filled with "agony, tur- moil, hate and more hate" and ex- plains that the extorted money
"was to gain a few fast grains of peace of mind."
It is the person who would have written such a letter that fasci- nates Orlock. Happily, he was not influenced by the sensational my- thologizing of the crime in con- structing his imagined character. His chief interest centers on what, in terms of ordinary American life,. some average man would regard as "agony, turmoil and hate," what he might consider "peace of mind" in facing an early death, even what image of a "Robin Hood" he felt honor-bound to reject.
So, we start with the drably mundane figure of Aaron Tarkus, who runs a failing gas station in Camden, N.
So, we start with the drably mundane figure of Aaron Tarkus, who runs a failing gas station in Camden, N.J., is unhappily and childlessly married to someone from high school and has no emo- tional, social or intellectual life outside weekend TV football with 1 two nonentity buddies.
Orlock's amusing and original "Indulgences in the Louisville Har -; $
7 em" was a hit last season at the Cricket, but this new play, by tri- umphing over its very imperfec- I tions, reveals a growing depth, sensitivity and awareness that true drama is created Inside characters and to the degree that they are giv- en functional human reality and di- mensions.
It is these qualities that confer interest and a strangely urgent sig- nificance on the unpromising Aar- on Tarkus and his dreary associ- ations-not as some latent superman but as a Joe Doakes whose hurts and hopes are as im- portant to him as those of any towering dramatic characters.
In the amazing hands of Don Amendolia, Aaron almost imper- ceptibly emerges from a negligible jerk (a whining commentary on the frauds and baubles of the American Dream)
In the amazing hands of Don Amendolia, Aaron almost imper- ceptibly emerges from a negligible jerk (a whining commentary on the frauds and baubles of the American Dream) into something like epic pathos. He acquires odd stature, however misguided, in hisį determination finally to do at least,
DB Cooper-34243bne thing right-even if it is too late and even if it is wrong. In the process, in extremity, we see the unrecognized (or defeated) better‹ feelings and possibilities that had lain sadly fallow in him all along.
This sounds very heavy, but Or- lock and the Cricket crew drop it on us only after laying a deceptive groundwork, part frisky inconse- quence and part commonplace hu- man troubles.
Fred Thompson is Aaron's busi- ness partner and original "brains" of the hijack scheme to break them ; out of their circular hopelessness, Clive Rosengren is the other loud- mouthed boob, equally unlikely for such high enterprise.
Mildly surreal staging devices establish the fantasy tone: All the props (beer cans, eating utensils, 'things") are twice life-size; the ' people wear ghastly bargain-base- ment garments in clashing colors and patterns; revolving
Mildly surreal staging devices establish the fantasy tone: All the props (beer cans, eating utensils, 'things") are twice life-size; the ' people wear ghastly bargain-base- ment garments in clashing colors and patterns; revolving backdrop panels inject them into changing
times and places.
I found the music only sporadi- cally effective. "Betty's Waltz," sung by Jane Murray, broke my heart as Aaron's wife mourned dead love over a box of face pow- der-the long-ago last gift he had given her-"bought on sale." "This Is My Sister" is delightful comic patter, the roommate complaints of sexy Camille Gifford and "plain- Jane" Dolores Noah-unwittingly involved with the hijack plotters.
Too many of the numbers, how-
ever, seemed irrelevant padding, and not interesting enough as sepa- rate songs. Perhaps intentionally (to avoid slick "musical" lyri- cism?), most were played in the wrong key for individual singers, making the voices unmelodious i and words often unintelligible.
But, a gritty truth and deeply moving humanity cut through both the usefully distancing whimsy and the unneeded artifice to make "D.B. Cooper" a rare theater expe- rience.
But, a gritty truth and deeply moving humanity cut through both the usefully distancing whimsy and the unneeded artifice to make "D.B. Cooper" a rare theater expe- rience. F
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Northwest 727 hijacker
Cooper made a quantum leap into mists of mythology By John Kerans
You can't tell a book by its cover. Nor a crook by the crime he's com- mitted. But if you can't read the" book, or you can't find the crook- then surely some speculation's per- mitted.
Take the case of D. B. Cooper, who 71/2 years ago used a bomb threat to take command of a 727 jet, then par- achuted to freedom with $200,000 ex- torted from Northwest Airlines. No trace of Cooper was ever found. And since it's the only such unsolved crime in American history, you could say Cooper wrote the book on skyjacking. But he took the book; along the night he made his quantum Jeap. And that's where the specula- tion begins .. .
The playwright:
John Orlock began to wonder about D. B. Cooper a few weeks after the : crime was committed. Orlock found a letter purportedly from Cooper re- printed in the New York Times and he clipped it out.
Orlock found a letter purportedly from Cooper re- printed in the New York Times and he clipped it out. Orlock still has that clipping, though it's yellowed with age.
(In the letter, "Cooper" said in part that he had only 14 months to live and that "I knew from the start that I wouldn't be caught.")
"I read it and got the feeling of a man who finally decided to do some- thing with his life. There was a great sadness and a great courage here," says Orlock, his fingertips touching the clipping.
"If this was indeed the case, that he was dying-and I am sure that he is now dead -- then there was a certain justice here. It was a haunting piece of writing. Most importantly, I could feel a 'personality' emerging."
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DB Cooper-34245More than a personality emerged. So did a play, "The D. B. Cooper Pro- ject," which opens Friday night at Athe Cricket Theater. Orlock cautions that the play is not simply about sky-
jacking. "I just tried to write good characters. The skyjacking is just a hook. It's not about that. It's about people and how they respond under! certain circumstances."
The circumstances here are those of failure. "Cooper is a man for whom nothing has ever gone right. His mar- riage went down the drain. His gas station folded. He's been passed over by the American dream. He's not a folk hero. He's a negative personal- ity. But he has a transformation. He becomes D. B. Cooper."
But what if the letter was a fake? What if John Orlock was inspired by the contrivance of a prankster?
"No!" says Orlock firmly. "There is a feeling here that is right for me. The flow in the letter is thought-by- thought, It COULD have been a fake. But as a playwright, I would have : had a hard time writing a better let- ter than this.
The flow in the letter is thought-by- thought, It COULD have been a fake. But as a playwright, I would have : had a hard time writing a better let- ter than this."
The article about the letter was pub- lished six days before Christmas. And it ran a little short. So somebody I at the New York Times stuck in a holiday slogan to bring that column of the newspaper to its proper length.
It reads, "Remember the neediest." Right there on John Orlock's clip- ping.
The reporter:
Leverett Richards thinks the D. B. Cooper letter was a fake.
"It just didn't seem to jive with the: facts in the case," Richards explains.
Richards certainly has the facts. They fill one full drawer of his desk in the newsroom at the Portland Or- egonian. He's been following the case since the night it happened.
"Besides, Cooper couldn't have sur- vived. It quickly became evident to me that he landed in Lake Merwin. That's up in Washington state, about
35 miles north of Portland, where the FBI figured he made the jump. It's my bet that Cooper's body is still down there.
"I'm a pilot.
That's up in Washington state, about
35 miles north of Portland, where the FBI figured he made the jump. It's my bet that Cooper's body is still down there.
"I'm a pilot. And I've talked to pilots who were flying that night. There was terrific turbulence. Cooper couldn't have picked a worse night.
"If this fellow Cooper could organize a letter, he would have organized the skyjacking too and he didn't. Every- body I've talked to -- pilots and para- chutists-they all feel his chances for survival were pretty grim."
But Richards will concede one thing. It's a hell of a mystery. Last January, somebody found a plastic placard from the rear stairs of a 727 jet in the suspected drop area. But aside from that, there have been no other clues.
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And what about Cooper's character? "He was a born loser," Richards snaps. He had no upbringing. That's no way to do things. I don't have much patience with those who think they can get rich at the expense of others.
"But you asked me about his charac- ter. Well, he was from a broken home or he had no family. Because no one has ever been reported miss- ing that matches his description.
Well, he was from a broken home or he had no family. Because no one has ever been reported miss- ing that matches his description.
"Obviously, he has no military expe- rience as a parachutist or a pilot. Otherwise," Richards rasps in disbe- lief, "he would have known you couldn't bail out there. It's rough country. It was overcast. And I don't. see how he could have known the elevation."
Leverett Richards won't be coming to see "The D. B. Cooper Project." He can't get away from work. But his son -- a research scientist at the 3M Company in St. Paul-has promised his father he'll see the show and re-1 port back.
The son is named Durkee B. Rich-,
1 ards. Abbreviated, of course, that's "D. B. .. . "
'The storekeeper:
Just as firmly as Leverett Richards talks about D. B. Cooper in the past, then storekeeper Germaine Tricola describes him in the present.
"Of course, he's alive!" she says with a smile. "Cause nothing's ever been found. We've lost folks before, but we've always found the remains."
Until recently, Tricola ran the Ariel Store & Tavern.
We've lost folks before, but we've always found the remains."
Until recently, Tricola ran the Ariel Store & Tavern. It's tucked into the foothills of Washington's Cascade Mountains, at a point directly below which Cooper is calculated to have hit the silk. Up the road lies Lake Merwin.
"Fell into the lake? He couldn't have. With the drought we had two years ago, something would have shown up. Body, parachute, moneyf bag-something. You could even see the tree stumps then."
For several years, Tricola-who moved to Washington from Hugo, Minn., 30 years ago --- has staged a D. B. Cooper party on Thanksgiving. The party has drawn guests from as far away as Toronto and as near as the local FBI office in Portland, Tri- cola just sold the store, but the new owners plan to continue the tradi- tion.
The Ariel Store & Tavern caters to the logging crowd. Rough men doing rough work, clearing away tall pines, fir and cedars clustered together so thick that the sunlight has a hard time getting through.
(A man on a parachute might have a hard time getting through, too.
Rough men doing rough work, clearing away tall pines, fir and cedars clustered together so thick that the sunlight has a hard time getting through.
(A man on a parachute might have a hard time getting through, too. But there are plenty of "clear cuts" where the logging companies have toppled the timbers and taken them out on trucks.)
"We've had jumpers land right next
DB Cooper-34246to the store. Last year, a professional . parachutist from Portland and two of his students came right down. I think that's what Cooper did. 1
"He was a man who liked a chal- lenge., A loner. I don't think he need- ed the money, Maybe he didn't have anything to do on Thanksgiving."
If this is where D. B. Cooper landed with the $200,000 ransom, then he fell in with good company. A long time ago, before reforestation pro- grams, the loggers had a slogan.
Simply put, it read: "Get yours and get out."
The psychiatrist:
David Hubbard cursed the idea of a musical about D. B. Cooper when he learned of it.
"I'm of the opinion that this type of thing doesn't need to be perpetuated. Cooper represented no ideals and no values. He's not a folk hero.
"I'm of the opinion that this type of thing doesn't need to be perpetuated. Cooper represented no ideals and no values. He's not a folk hero. He was a man acting selfishly. The number of people who can be harmed by men who think they'll be immortal- ized is innumerable."
In 1971, Hubbard wrote a book called "The Skyjacker." It's the only psychiatric study of the "skyjacking personality," and it's based on doz- ens of interviews with men who com- mitted the crime.
Hubbard's premise is that we are bound together by twofold gravity. One part is physical-which holds us 'to earth. Another is emotional-( which hoids us to each other. Sky- jacking, he concludes, is a defiance of both realities.
Hubbard also believes in "muta- tions." One man commits the crime; another emulates it. Cooper -- he points out-was not the first to get to- - gether parachutes, bombs and dis- guises. A Canadian tried the same trick in Calgary three weeks before. Hubbard assumes Cooper read about it and tried to go the Canadian one better. He did-the Canadian was caught and Cooper was not.
Hubbard assumes Cooper read about it and tried to go the Canadian one better. He did-the Canadian was caught and Cooper was not.
"Cooper created nothing," says Hub- bard. "He was an imitative creature like all the rest who followed."
There certainly were plenty to fol- low-though none succeeded. Even- tually, the back stairs on 727 jets were modified to lock in flight. And that was the end of that. 1
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"I took the notorious and made it commonplace," says Hubbard. "You want to take the commonplace-and D. B. Cooper was commonplace -- and make it notorious. I don't buy that."
Psychiatrist David Hubbard does all his work at the Aberrant Behavior Center in Dallas. He lives nearby. Back in 1971, Hubbard-like Coo- per -- received $200,000.
But Hubbard's money came from a private benefactor. It was given to fi- nance a study on skyjacking.
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On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a mild- mannered man using the name D.B. Cooper hijacked a Northwest Air- lines 727 and, somewhere south of Seattle, parachuted out clutching $200,000 in $20 bills. He hasn't been seen since.
It was a great mystery and Cooper became something of a folk hero. Songs were written about his daz- zling escapade and D.B. Cooper took his place alongside Robin Hood, Jean Lafitte and all three muske- teers.
Almost overlooked during the epi- sode, however, was a letter received by several newspapers a month after the hijacking. It was written by a man who, claimed to be Cooper. The letter said, "I am no modern day Robin Hood. Unfortunately I do have only 14 months to live." He took the money, he wrote, "to gain a; few fast grains of peace of mind."
One who didn't overlook the letter was playwright John Orlock. "I was; fascinated by that letter," explained the 33-year-old writer, "especially a part where he wrote about living aj life of agony, turmoil, hate and more hate, It was a beautiful piece of writ- ing, straightforward and
"I was; fascinated by that letter," explained the 33-year-old writer, "especially a part where he wrote about living aj life of agony, turmoil, hate and more hate, It was a beautiful piece of writ- ing, straightforward and simple, the! kind of letter a D.B. Cooper would have written. Let's face it, the hijack- ing was one of the great acts ofj imagination of our time, the idea of taking the money and leaving the airplane up there.
1 "I-clipped that letter and put it in my files for a few years. I was thinking about it during that time, however, and it kept coming out in my mind as a musical, a small cabaret musical. Then five years ago we performed a rough draft of it in a workshop at; Penn State where I was teaching. 'It only had five songs and only two or three of those original scenes remain today."
f But he has worked and reworked it since, and last year "The D.B. Coo- per Project" was done in a reading! during the Cricket Theater's late -; night works-in-progress series. It worked well enough that the Cricket is presenting it on its main stage be- gìnning Friday through May 5, under Lou Salerni's direction.
It worked well enough that the Cricket is presenting it on its main stage be- gìnning Friday through May 5, under Lou Salerni's direction.
The play, like most of Orlock's to date, will be a comic drama. It won't be the big, metaphorical statement he'll be after but, as he put it, "just people in a situation, a look at what happens when interesting characters are placed in a situation that will knock them around. I never start a play saying, 'I want to say this.' It's deadly. What really makes me cringe is when a playwright uses the title of the play as a metaphor in the play, you know, here comes the Streetcar Named Desire. I look for character and let metaphors find themselves through them." 1
Orlock's characters tend to be based on historical fact, then shot through with the writer's imagination. His "Indulgences in the Louisville Har- em," one of last year's hits at the,
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The mesmerist, it turned out, was mute and had to be accompanied by a friend who said all his words for him though the ideas behind the words, we were as- sured, were the mesmerist's.
He has also written plays about a man who played the organ in a Bos- ton subway station and about the Golden Girl, the first female baton twirler to march with a college marching band. His latest play, re- cently given in the Cricket's works- in-progress series, "Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs," is about a 12th-cen- tury French cathedral builder.
If there's one thing that typifies Or-
lock's plays to date it is the way he begins with logical, historical situa- tions and lets those situations zoom. . through logic right off the wall, often into surprisingly tender emotions.
"The humor is so important," said Orlock, "in terms of holding an audi- ence. If you can make them laugh they'll follow you anywhere, right through logic into areas you could never get them to follow you normal- ly. You simply can't bore an audi- ence and move them too.
If you can make them laugh they'll follow you anywhere, right through logic into areas you could never get them to follow you normal- ly. You simply can't bore an audi- ence and move them too. I'm learn- ing that more and more, how to hold an audience and how I can turn that' back in on itself or into a different ' level."
$ . He pulls his comedy from many ( styles. "I've been watching Abbott and Costello lately," he said. "It's just absolutely primal, basic materi- al, beautifully built. The 'Who's on First?' sketch is to comedy what Bach is to music. I also watch old television series, like Sgt. Bilko. It was well written formally and just needs a content injection. And I love Moliere.
"What I'm after is situational com- edy, the kind that builds from char- acters to the point where the audi- ence finally says 'Oh, no, he isn't really going to do that!' It takes a bit more time to build those situations as opposed to just joke humor, but it's so much richer."
Orlock also wrote the Il songs in this, his first musical. In fact, in the
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"I have a background in piano," he said, "but I haven't composed much. I did do some small film scores and some commercial work, but not much. The one song last year in 'Louisville Harem' was my first the- ater song. I don't think I can really describe my style. I look for theater music, songs that are scenes in them- selves. I like a lot of early Kurt Weill music but I'm still exploring. This piece is scored for two pianos, harp and either percussion or strings. Not sure yet. I had a tuba in there first, but when the harp came in, I dropped it. The harp was an amazing instrument, perfect, ethereal flying music."
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Orlock is a native of Philadelphia and has taught at both Penn State and Boston University. He set out to become an actor and director but about nine years ago took a playwrit- ing course that showed him to be a writer of some skill.
He set out to become an actor and director but about nine years ago took a playwrit- ing course that showed him to be a writer of some skill. He soon won a Shubert Playwriting award to study at Penn State, where he wrote his first full-length play.
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"I felt the great satisfaction of hear- ing an audience respond," he said, "and found out how nice that could be. I wrote only off and on for a while but I was getting more and 'more reinforcement and finally in late 1973, when I began 'D.B. Coo- per,' I made the commitment to playwriting.
€ He came to Minneapolis in 1975 bet cause he was tired of teaching and had heard the theater scene was promising. He and his wife loaded up a U-Haul and breezed into Minneap- olis on Labor Day. He spent the first year selling calculators at Dayton's by day, teaching theater at the Guild of Performing Arts at night. He wrote and directed a few shows there and finally, a year ago, was named a playwright-in-residence at the Playwrights' Lab.
1 "It is a very, very useful program," he said. "I'm still involved with it.
He wrote and directed a few shows there and finally, a year ago, was named a playwright-in-residence at the Playwrights' Lab.
1 "It is a very, very useful program," he said. "I'm still involved with it. It's an opportunity to take good ac- tors and a director and say, 'All right, I'd like to present this work.' And then work on it and see how it. plays. Out of the Lab work I can hear the piece, rewrite it and work it out. I still like to work this way. The Cricket's works-in-progress series has worked out the same way. It's a very nice way to bring a play along."
Starting next fall, Orlock will be- come the Cricket's literary manager in charge of reading new scripts, helping with play selection and, of course, writing.
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"Above all," he said, "it will be a steady salary. I'll phase out most of my teaching and be able to concen- trate on professional theater. In fact, until they asked me to take that posi- tion I had seriously thought about go- ing back to college teaching, just to put bread on the table. I wasn't too, happy with those prospects. Believe me, it feels much better to be in the theater.
In fact, until they asked me to take that posi- tion I had seriously thought about go- ing back to college teaching, just to put bread on the table. I wasn't too, happy with those prospects. Believe me, it feels much better to be in the theater."
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REPORT of the
FBI LABORATORY.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535
To: SAC, Minneapolis (164-73)
June 7, 1979
Re: NORJAK

FBI FILE NO.	1.64-2111
LAB. NO.	90511012 D LL

Specimens received May 10, 1979
Q55 One-page typewritten letter beginning "The Cricket Theater Minneapolis, Minnesota Dear Sirs I was in Chicago. . . "
Q56 Envelope postmarked "LOS ANGELES, CA PM 
23 APR 1979" bearing the typewritten address The Cricket Theatre Minneapolis
Minnesota"
Q57 Accompanying one-page typewritten letter beginning "The Cricket Theatre Minneapolis, Minnesota Dear I cannot believe that. b6 b7C
Result of examination :
Q55 through Q57 were not identified in the Anonymous Letter File. Representative copies of these specimens have been added to this file for future reference.
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Result of examination :
Q55 through Q57 were not identified in the Anonymous Letter File. Representative copies of these specimens have been added to this file for future reference.
No watermarks, indented writing or other features were found on Q55 through Q57 which would be of value in determining the source of these specimens.
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REPORT of the
LABORATORY £
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535
To: SAC, Minneapolis (164-73)
June 7, 1979

FBI FILE NO.	164-2111
LAB. NO.	90511012 D LL

Re:
NORJAK
Specimens received May 10, 1979
Q55
One-page typewritten letter beginning "The Cricket Theater Minneapolis, Minnesota Dear Sirs I was in Chicago.
Q56 Envelope postmarked "LOS ANGELES, CA
PM
23 APR 1979" bearing the typewritten address The Cricket Theatre Minneapolis
Minnesota'
Q57 Accompanying one-page typewritten letter beginning "The Cricket Theatre Minneapolis, Minnesota Dear I cannot believe that. b6 b7C
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Theatre Minneapolis
Minnesota'
Q57 Accompanying one-page typewritten letter beginning "The Cricket Theatre Minneapolis, Minnesota Dear I cannot believe that. b6 b7C
Result of examination :
Q55 through 057 were not identified in the Anonymous Letter File. Representative copies of these specimens have been added to this file for future reference.
No watermarks, indented writing or other features were found on 055 through 057 which would be of value in determining the source of these specimens.
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The submitted evidence was photographed and will be returned with the fingerprint report.
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DB Cooper-34255Laboratory Transmittal Form 9-72
LABORATORY
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535
To: SAC, Minneapolis (164-73)
June 7, 1979
From: Director, FBI NORJAK Re: 00: Seattle

FBI FILE NO.
20535
To: SAC, Minneapolis (164-73)
June 7, 1979
From: Director, FBI NORJAK Re: 00: Seattle

FBI FILE NO.	164-2111
LAB. NO.	90511012 D LL

Examination requested by:	Minneapolis
Reference:	Airtel dated May 8, 1979
Examination requested:	Document - Fingerprint

Remarks:
Enclosures (2) (2 Lab report) 2 - Seattle (164-81) Enclosures (2) (2 Lab report)
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SEARCH SERIAİ
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LABORATORY
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535
To:
SAC, Minneapolis (164-73)
June 7, 1979
From: Director, FBI
NORJAK Re: 00: Seattle

FBI FILE NO.	164-2111
LAB. NO.	90511012 D LL

Examination requested by:	Minneapolis
Reference:	Airtel
90511012 D LL

Examination requested by:	Minneapolis
Reference:	Airtel dated May 8, 1979
Examination requested: Remarks:	Document - Fingerprint

Enclosures (2) (2 Lab report) 2 - Seattle (164-81) Enclosures (2) (2 Lab report)
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REPORT of the LATENT FINGERPRINT SECTION IDENTIFICATION DIVISION

YOUR FILE NO. FBI FILE NO.	164-73 (C) 164-2111
LATENT CASE NO.	A-45410

June 28, 1979
TO:
SAC, Minneapolis
RE: NORJAK
REFERENCE:
Airtel 5/8/79
SPECIMENS:
EXAMINATION REQUESTED BY:
Minneapolis
Two letters, Q5 and Q7
Envelope, Q6
The listed Q specimens are further described in a separate Laboratory report.
RE: NORJAK
REFERENCE:
Airtel 5/8/79
SPECIMENS:
EXAMINATION REQUESTED BY:
Minneapolis
Two letters, Q5 and Q7
Envelope, Q6
The listed Q specimens are further described in a separate Laboratory report.
The specimens were examined and six latent fingerprints of value for identification purposes were devel- oped on Q5 and Q7.
The specimens are enclosed.
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REPORT of the LATENT FINGERPRINT SECTION IDENTIFICATION DIVISION
June 28, 1979

YOUR FILE NO.	164-73 (C) 164-2111
FBI FILE NO.	A-45410
LATENT CASE NO.	\

TO:
SAC, Minneapolis
RE:
NORJAK
REFERENCE:
Airtel 5/8/79
EXAMINATION REQUESTED BY:
Minneapolis
SPECIMENS:
Two letters, Q5 and Q7
Envelope, Q6
The listed Q specimens are further described in a separate Laboratory report.
The specimens were examined and six latent fingerprints of value for identification purposes were devel- oped on Q5
The specimens were examined and six latent fingerprints of value for identification purposes were devel- oped on Q5 and Q7.
The specimens are enclosed.
Enc. (3). 2 - Seattle (164-81)
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San Diego, Calif.
Northwest Airlines, Inc. Minneapolis -St. Paul Airport St. Paul, Minnesota 55111
Dear Sir;
In regard to the highjacking of your aircraft some years when the person jumped from the plane with the $200,000.
I have plotted upon the map of Washington State the location of the currency cache, it is contained in a wooden box holding aluminum container and sealed with paraffin.
The location of the cache is within the bounds of the TOUTLE 15 minute series quadrangle.
To obtain better visual perception of the terrain, I suggest your Company apply for aerial photo enlargement to - Aerial Photography Field Office, ASCS-USDA, 2222 West 2300 South, P.O. Box 30010, Salt Lake City Utah 84125, specify STATE of WASHINGTON, COWLITZ COUNTY, TOUTLE quadrangle, 15 minute series (
Box 30010, Salt Lake City Utah 84125, specify STATE of WASHINGTON, COWLITZ COUNTY, TOUTLE quadrangle, 15 minute series (topographic), Range 1 E, Town- ship 9 N, Section 15, request 24"x24" photo enlargement at scale of 660'-1" - their price is $7.00.
Forward the aerial photo enlargement and I shal designate thereon the location of the currency cache.
Sincerely yours
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Parachute isn't skyjacker's, FBI says
Cooper
The FBI says it has ruled out any connection between a partly buried parachute found in a wooded area of southwest Washington and the 8-year-old disappearance of skyjacker D.B. Cooper. The parachute was found by a logger and turned over to officials Monday, after a friend told the logger the chute may be a clue to the nation's only unsolved skyjacking. But Bill Williams, an FBI spokesman in Portland, Ore., said, "We have determined after examining the chute that it is not related to the case at all .
But Bill Williams, an FBI spokesman in Portland, Ore., said, "We have determined after examining the chute that it is not related to the case at all . .. "
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For your information.
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Search Chusul CHA-Quart hijacking S.B. Cooper 189-179-2200: Seattle
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1 Case of D.B. Cooper continues: | Part of loot found near Portland
Associated Press
Portland, Ore. Part of the $200,000 given to legend- ary airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper has been found, the FBI said Tues- day.
Packets of badly deteriorated $20 bills were shown at a press confer- ence yesterday.
But agents said they found no trace of Cooper, who parachuted from a Northwest Airlines jet more than eight years ago.
The money was found Sunday by a family preparing to build a picnic fire along the. Columbia River, 5 miles northwest of the Interstate Hwy. 5 bridge linking Vancouver,, Wash., and Portland.
"This clue is the first we've had since the night of the occurrence;" 'said Bill Baker, assistant special. agent-in-charge of the Portland FBI office: He said wads of the money, bound by rubber bands, were found by Harold and Patricia Ingram and their 8-year-old son, Brian.
agent-in-charge of the Portland FBI office: He said wads of the money, bound by rubber bands, were found by Harold and Patricia Ingram and their 8-year-old son, Brian.
Ingram said the money was found about 20 yards from the river's edge under a thin layer of sand. "My son ran up and said, 'Wait a minute, Dad- ay,'" .. Ingram said. "He raked a place out in the sand and there it was. There were three bundles" of money.
Baker said officials estimated that there were several thousand dollars in the wads but that it was impossi- ble to make an accurate count be- cause of the deterioration of the
bilis.
Ralph Himmelsbach, agent-in-charge of the Cooper case, has speculated that Cooper died after he parachuted from the plane over a densely wood- ed area along the river.
"I think we can only presume at this time that because the money was found clumped together tightly, in what we believe was the manner in which it was originally packed, lends credence to the theory that at least the money did not make it out" of the area where Cooper was believed to have dropped, he said.
at this time that because the money was found clumped together tightly, in what we believe was the manner in which it was originally packed, lends credence to the theory that at least the money did not make it out" of the area where Cooper was believed to have dropped, he said.
"And from there, I would really leave it to conjecture," he added. '
(An FBI spokesman in Washington said the money was found 20 miles downstream from the point where Cooper is believed to have bailed out. He added that, because of floods along the river, it was likely that in nine years the money had been car- ried some distance.)
: Serial numbers of the money were recorded before being given to the hijacker on Nov. 24, 1971.
The man known as D.B. Cooper boarded the jet in Portland, then dis- played what a flight attendant said looked like dynamite. He demanded four parachutes and $200,000 in $20 bills. He ordered the pilot to fly to Seattle, where the plane circled for 2% hours while authorities gathered the parachutes and money.
At Seattle, the passengers and two of
(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 1A Minneapolis Tribune Minneapolis, Minn.
Date:
2/13/80
Edition: Morning
Title:
D.
At Seattle, the passengers and two of
(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 1A Minneapolis Tribune Minneapolis, Minn.
Date:
2/13/80
Edition: Morning
Title:
D.B.
Cooper
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the three stewardesses were allowed to leave the plane. The money and parachutes were loaded and the plane took off for Reno, Nev, The pi- lot was ordered to fly as slowly as possible.
Somewhere over southwest Washing- ton, the hijacker opened the rear door of the plane, and he, the money and one of the parachutes disap- peared into thin air.
Officials say it is the only unsolved hijacking in the country. In 1977, just to make sure Cooper didn't escape prosecution because of the statute of limitations, he was indicted in absen- tia on federal charges.
Cooper has become somewhat of a folk hero. T-shirts ask: "D.B. Cooper, Where Are You?," at least one song has been written about him, and resi-, dents of Ariel, Wash.
Cooper, Where Are You?," at least one song has been written about him, and resi-, dents of Ariel, Wash., near where Cooper was thought to have leaped from the plane, have commemorat- ed the hijacking with an annual; "D.B. Cooper Day." 
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These deteriorated $20 bills were among the money identified by the FBI as part of airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper's loot.
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St.Paul, Minn.
Date:
2/13/80
Edition:
Morning
itle: D. B. Cooper
Boy on picnic discovers D. B. Cooper hijack loot
V: PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Twelve weathered stacks of $20 bills - part of the $200,000 given to legendary airline hijacker "D. B. Cooper" be- fore he parachuted from an airliner more than eight years ago - were produced Tuesday by the FBI.
But agents said they still have no trace of Cooper.
"This clue is the first we've had since the night of the occurrence," said Bill Baker, assistant special agent in charge of the.
"This clue is the first we've had since the night of the occurrence," said Bill Baker, assistant special agent in charge of the. Portland FBI office.
He said wads of the money, bound by rubber bands, were found Sunday while Harold Ingram, his wife, Patricia, and their 8-year-old son, Bri-
an, were preparing to build a picnic fire along, the Columbia River, five miles northwest of the Interstate 5 bridge linking Portland and Van- couver, Wash., where the Ingrams live.
Ingram said at a press conference here that the money was found about 20 yards from the river's edge under a thin layer of sand.
"MY SON ran up and said, 'Wait a minute, Daddy,'" Ingram said. "He raked a place out in the sand and there it was. There were three bundles" of money.
Baker said officials estimated there were sev- eral thousand dollars in the wads, but it was im- possible to make an accurate estimate because
were weather-beaten and crumt bling along the edges.
Ralph Himmelsbach, agent in charge of the Cooper case since, it happened, has speculated that' Cooper died after he parachuted from_the Northwest Airlines plane over a densely
Ralph Himmelsbach, agent in charge of the Cooper case since, it happened, has speculated that' Cooper died after he parachuted from_the Northwest Airlines plane over a densely wooded area along the river.
"I think we can only presume at this time that because the money was found clumped to- gether tightly in what we believe was the manner in which it was originally packed lends credence to the theory that at least the.
money did not make it out" of the area where Cooper was be- lieved to have dropped.
"And from there, I would reale ly leave it to conjecture," he add- ed.
ANNOUNCEMENT of the dis- covery was made simultaneously in Portland, Seattle and Wash- ington, D.C.
Serial numbers of the money were recorded before being giv- en to the hijacker on the evening before Thanksgiving in 1971.
The commandeering of the Boeing 727 jetliner is the only known unsolved hijacking. 1
· The hijacker boarded the jet, in Portland, then displayed what a flight attendant said looked like dynamite. He demanded four parachutes and $200,000 in $20 bills.
He ordered the pilot to fly to Seattle where the plane circled for 21/2 hours while authorities gathered the parachutes and
He ordered the pilot to fly to Seattle where the plane circled for 21/2 hours while authorities gathered the parachutes and money.
AT SEATTLE, the passengers and two of the three Stewardesses were allowed to leave the plane. The money and parachutes were loaded and the plane took off for Reno, Nev.
The pilot was ordered to fly as ! slowly as possible.
Somewhere over southwest Washington, the hijacker, the . money and one of the parachutes disappeared out of the plane's rear exit. The door was opened in flight.
In 1977, just to make sure the hijacker didn't escape prosecu- tion via the statute of limita- tions, he was indicted on federal charges in absentia.
Cooper has become somewhat! of a folk hero. T-shirts have been printed bearing the question: "D.B. Cooper, Where Are You ?. "1
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Ransom search may halt
VANCOUVER, Wash .- FBI agents ar expected to halt their search for more c the ransom that has been missing since hi- jacker D.B. Cooper parachuted from a jet with $200,000 in November 1971. Agents sifting the sands on the northern bank of the Columbia River found nothing Thurs- day, and they believe most of the money was washed downstream.
Icate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 3A Minneapolis Star Minneapolis, Minn.
Date:
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - Anyone who wants to take a chance on finding some of the loot from the nation's only unsolved skyjacking should look somwhere other than the banks of the Columbia River, FBI agents say.
Agents expected to halt today the search for more of the ransom that had until this week been missing since D.B. Cooper parachuted from a jet with $200,000 strapped to his waist nine years ago. Ken Moore, the Seattle agent in charge of the digging, said the money probably was washed downstream into the Columbia, most like- ly from the Washougal River. No trace of Cooper, the first person to hijack an airliner for money, has been found.
(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.)
St. Paul Dispatch St. Paul, Minnesota page 3
Date:
2/15/80
Edition:
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Title:
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FBI finds more Cooper hijack money scraps
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VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) - As hordes of reporters and a. herd of cows looked on, scientists and FBI agents sifted through sand along the Columbia River, searching for more of the loot that had been missing since sky pirate D.B. Cooper parachuted from a plane nine years ago.
Agents trenching the river- bank Wednesday found a few more scraps of the $200,000 ran- som but no sign of the first man to hijack an airliner for money.
And the FBI agent who led the investigation since the 1971 hi- jack says the discovery tends to confirm his speculation that Coo- per, who has become something of a folk hero, died the night he parachuted into a storm some- where over southwestern Wash- ington.
SOGGY AND battered frag- ments of several thousand dol- lars in $20 bills were discovered Sunday by an 8-year-old boy dur- ing a family picnic.
SOGGY AND battered frag- ments of several thousand dol- lars in $20 bills were discovered Sunday by an 8-year-old boy dur- ing a family picnic. Serial num- bers confirmed they were part of the ransom.
FBI agent Paul Hudson said he ruled out the possibility that the money was buried along the riv- , er near Vancouver.
"However they got there, they must have been deposited within a couple of years after the hijacking," said agent Ralph Himmelsbach, due to retire in two weeks after heading the Coo- per investigation since the hijack. "Rubber bands deter- iorate rapidly and could not have
held the bundles together very long."
The Corps of Engineers identi- fied a layer of sand as having been deposited when the 40-foot ship channel was dredged in August 1974. Agents speculated Cooper's body would have clogged the dredge if it had been in the channel then, but a sachel could have gone through.
AGENTS ALSO speculated the bills could have washed into the Columbia from a tributary in the area near LaCenter, Wash., into which Cooper- apparently parar chuted.
AGENTS ALSO speculated the bills could have washed into the Columbia from a tributary in the area near LaCenter, Wash., into which Cooper- apparently parar chuted.
Officials roped off the river- bank to keep would-be treasure seekers from the area as they dug for more of the ransom, The only spectators allowed in Wednesday were reporters, three i fishermen and dairy cows.
"I'll admit to a certain sense of satisfaction," said Him- melsbach. "The case isn't solved, but this is certainly a major milestone.
"So we know at least that he never spent this money, and we know that none of the money he was given has ever turned up in circulation," he said. "So, if he got away with it, why hasn't he spent any of this money?"
He said Cooper's skelton prob- ably never will be found if it is in the forested, mountain area in which he is supposed to have landed.
"Unlike the money, Cooper is biodegradable," he said.
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Date:
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Edition:
Evening
Title:
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REPLY TO ATTN OF;

SUBJECT:
NORJACK
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT memorandum
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At 6:20 pm this date, writer was telephonically contacted by
Who furnished the following information.
phone :
ADVISED that
television of D. B. COOPER. of
looks like the photo shown on GAVE DESCRIPTION
as 5'8", brown hair, approx. age 
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Buy U.S, Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 (REV. 7-76) GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 5010-112
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On February 13, 1980, , Willmar, Minnesota, telephone , advised that he had just seen an artist sketch of unsub on a Minneapolis television station and he felt it looked very much like an individual he knew in the past by the name of - He explained that he attended Worthington, Minnesota, with * several years ago and has not seen or heard of him in the past ten years. He advised that this was a Vietnam and felt the world was a veteran owed him something for this. He believes parachutist in the military and was very atlethic but did not do well scholastically. He added that this was sort of anti-social and he had heard him use other first names than his true first name. He estimated that this would be
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about 36 years old now. This
was from Lyon County, Iowa, and lived , Iowa, but did not know if that would have been his mailing address, He cannot recall this
father's first name but feels the local Sheriff would know them.
stated he had tbt thought of as being identical with unsub until he saw the artist sketch but now feels he
stated he had tbt thought of as being identical with unsub until he saw the artist sketch but now feels he has the same description and he has the personality to commit this act and he would not be surprised if he is identical with unsub.
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SAC, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73)
On 2/14/80, Forest Lake, MN., phone (home )
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Cooper greenbacks The crumbling remains of $20 bills unearthed on the bank of the Columbia River in Washington State by a Vancouver family more than two weeks ago represent about $5,800 of the $200,000 taken by skyjacker D.B. Cooper in 1971, the FBI says.
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CHAIAgent Retires Not Knowing Fate Of Hijacker That Altered His Life
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The case altered his life, but as Ralph Him- melsbach retires from the FBI Friday, he's unperturbed that he never was able to track down the phantom hijacker known to the world as D.B. Cooper.
"It's been an interesting case and I have enjoyed the investigation be- cause of the things that have hap- pened," Himmelsbach said.
"It's been an interesting case and I have enjoyed the investigation be- cause of the things that have hap- pened," Himmelsbach said. "It has altered my life because of all the attention I have received."
But he adds, "I think I'll walk away from it and it will never bother me."
Himmelsbach, 54, is the agent re- garded as the FBI expert on the puzzling case that began when the still-unknown sky pirate leaped from a Northwest Airlines 727 with 10,000 $20 bills and two parachutes on Thanks- giving eve, 1971.
Nothing has ever been heard of Cooper. And for more than eight years, nothing was seen of the money either - until an 8-year-old boy found about $5,800 of it mixed in the sand along the Columbia River near Van- couver, Wash., Feb. 10.
Himmelsbach says he's not obsess- ed with tracking down Cooper, an impression he feels some reporters have created. He's tackled other cases, and he's the FBI's resident firearms expert, handling all shooting training for the Oregon Law Enforce- ment Academy and the State Police Academy.
He's tackled other cases, and he's the FBI's resident firearms expert, handling all shooting training for the Oregon Law Enforce- ment Academy and the State Police Academy.
But he's glad the bundle of weather- worn twenties showed up because he feels that supports his theory that the man who signed on the flight as Dan Cooper probably perished in the para- chuting attempt.
"It makes me feel that probably I'm right," Himmelsbach said "His idea was to get the money to spend."
Strictly speaking, Himmelsbach has not been the agent in charge of the case because the hijacking investiga- tion is technically under the aegis of the Seattle office.
But Himmelsbach, a tall, lean graduate in psychology from the University of Oregon, has been the man on the case in the Portland office.
The spot where the mystery skyjacker left the jetliner is less than 30 miles from Himmelsbach's office. An avid flyer since he was a 20-year- old fighter pilot in World War II, he's followed the route of the hijacked airliner in his own plane, a Beechcraft Bonanza.
Although the FBI shows its agents the door at age 55, Himmelsbach isn't ready to give up either flying or working.
Although the FBI shows its agents the door at age 55, Himmelsbach isn't ready to give up either flying or working.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Twelve weathered stacks of.$20 bills > part of the $200,000 given to legendary airline hijacker "D. B. Cooper" be- fore he parachuted from an airliner more than eight years ago - were produced Tuesday by . the FBI.
But agents said they still have no trace of Cooper.
"This clue is the first we've had since the night of the occurrence," said Bill Baker, assistant special agent, in charge of the Portland FBI office.
"This clue is the first we've had since the night of the occurrence," said Bill Baker, assistant special agent, in charge of the Portland FBI office.
He said wads of the money, bound by rubber bands, were found Sunday while Harold Ingram, ' his wife, Patricia, and their 8-year-old son, Bri-
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· Ingram said at a press conference here that , the money was found about 20 yards from the * river's edge under a thin layer of sand.
"MY SON ran up and said, 'Wait a minute, Daddy,'" Ingram said. "He raked a place out in . the sand and there it was. There were three bundles" of money.
Baker said officials estimated there were sev- eral thousand dollars in the wads, but it was im- possible to make an accurate estimate because
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Ralph Himmelsbach, agent in charge of the Cooper case since it happened, has speculated that Cooper died after he parachuted from the Northwest Airlines plane over a densely wooded area along the river.
"I think we can only presume at this time that because the money was found clumped to- gether tightly in what we believe r was the manner in which it was originally packed lends credence to the theory that at least the
money did not make it out" of the area where Cooper was be- lieved to have dropped.
"And from there, I would real- ly leave it to conjecture," he.add- ed.
ANNOUNCEMENT of the dis- covery was made simultaneously in Portland, Seattle and Wash- ington, D.C.
ANNOUNCEMENT of the dis- covery was made simultaneously in Portland, Seattle and Wash- ington, D.C.
Serial numbers of the money were recorded before being giv- en to the hijacker on the evening before Thanksgiving in 1971.
The commandeering of the Boeing 727 jetliner is the only known unsolved hijacking.
The hijacker boarded the jet in Portland, then displayed what a flight attendant, said looked like dynamite. He demanded four parachutes and $200,000 in $20 bills.
J He ordered the pilot to fly to Seattle where the plane circled for 21/2 hours while authorities ' Igathered the parachutes and money.
AT SEATTLE, the passengers and two of the . three stewardesses were allowed to leave the plane. The money and parachutes were loaded and the plane took off for Remo, Nev.
The pilot was ordered to fly as slowly as possible ..
Somewhere over southwest Washington, the hijacker, the money and one of the parachutes disappeared out of the plane's rear exit. The door was opened , in flight.
In 1977, just to make sure the hijacker didn't escape prosecu- tion via the statute of limita- tions, he
In 1977, just to make sure the hijacker didn't escape prosecu- tion via the statute of limita- tions, he was indicted on federal charges in absentia.
Cooper has become somewhat of a folk hero. T-shirts have been printed bearing the question: "D.B. Cooper, Where Are You ?. "
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - An 8-year-old boy has uncovered part of a ransom missing since the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history - but officials say the whereabouts of the legend- ary sky pirate D.B. Cooper are still a matter of conjecture.
The three bundles of weath- ered $20 bills found along the Columbia River are the first evi- dence uncovered since Thanksgiving eve, 1971, when Cooper bailed out of a jet over southwestern Washington with $200,000 tied to his waist.
It was the first case of a sky- jacking for money.
The FBI on Tuesday identified the cash through serial numbers. Bill Baker, special agent in charge of the Portland FBI office, said the money was so de-
composed it was impossible to determine how much was there, but he said it came to
Bill Baker, special agent in charge of the Portland FBI office, said the money was so de-
composed it was impossible to determine how much was there, but he said it came to "several thousand dollars."
"I THINK we can only presume at this time that be- cause the money was found clumped together tightly in what we believe was the manner in which it was originally packed, it lends credence to the theory that at least the money did not make it out." he said. "And from there, I would really leave it to conjec- ture."
Baker said agents would now renew their search. "Of course, we will generate increased inter- est now in trying to locate D.B. Cooper or any remains that might be in the area," he said.
Late Tuesday afternoon, agents sifted through sand at the spot where the money was found and discovered several more pieces of $20 bills. The area has been sealed off to the public and the search was to resume today.
The money was discovered Sunday by young Brian. Ingram beneath a layer of sand as his family picnicked along the Col- umbia, five miles northwest of Vancouver, Wash.
Ingram beneath a layer of sand as his family picnicked along the Col- umbia, five miles northwest of Vancouver, Wash.
HAROLD INGRAM, of Van- couver, told reporters Tuesday he was preparing a fire when his son "ran up and said 'Wait a min- ute, Daddy.' He raked a place out in the sand and there it was."
Ingram said he didn't give any thought to spending the money.
"It didn't look like I could spend it so I really didn't think about that," he said.
He also said he didn't think about the cash being part of the Cooper loot. But he called the FBI because "I figured if any- body knew what to do it would be them."
Baker said he presumed the money washed downstream, pos- sibly from a Columbia River tributary in the rugged southwestern Washington moun- tains, where Cooper is believed to have bailed out.
FBI AGENT Ralph Him- melsbach, due to retire in 17 days after being in charge of the Cooper investigation since the skyjacking, said he still believes there is less than a 50-50 chance Cooper survived.
One theory had Cooper falling to his death in Lake Merwin on the Lewis River near Ariel, Wash.
FBI AGENT Ralph Him- melsbach, due to retire in 17 days after being in charge of the Cooper investigation since the skyjacking, said he still believes there is less than a 50-50 chance Cooper survived.
One theory had Cooper falling to his death in Lake Merwin on the Lewis River near Ariel, Wash. But the Lewis River en- ters the Columbia downstream from where the money was found.
The nine-year-old mystery be- gan Nov. 24, 1971, when a man calling himself Dan Cooper pur- chased a one-way ticket and boarded the Northwest Orient Airlines jet at Portland Interna- tional Airport.
After takeoff, Cooper dis- played what an attendant said looked like dynamite. Ordering the pilot to head for Seattle, Coo- per demanded four parachutes and $200,000 from the airline.
In Seattle, passengers and two of three attendants were allowed to leave the plane. The money and parachutes were loaded, the plane took off for Reno and somewhere, Cooper jumped out.
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Vancouver, Wash. FBI agents used sifting screens and a backhoe Wednesday in 'a $200,000 treasure hunt along the Columbia River.
FBI agents used sifting screens and a backhoe Wednesday in 'a $200,000 treasure hunt along the Columbia River. They were seeking more of D.B. Cooper's loot and and perhaps the remains of the mysterious hi- jacker.
The agents tore up the beach where an 8-year-old boy found several thou- sand dollars in crumbling $20 bills over the weekend. The FBI identi- fjed the cash by serial numbers.
Would-be treasure seekers were barred from the area by a. sheriff's deputy and a locked gate. The only spectators were three local fisher- men and reporters.
The mystery of what happened to the man who hijacked a Northwest Airlines 727 jet on Thanksgiving eve 1971 appeared little closer to solu- tion.
"In my own mind, I can rule out the possibility that it (the money) was buried here," said agent Paul Hud- son, coordinator of the digging ef- forts.
FBI spokesman Bill Williams said that the beach where the money was found "is material that was dredged from the middle of the channel in August 1974. But the dredge will not accept anything as large as a body.
FBI spokesman Bill Williams said that the beach where the money was found "is material that was dredged from the middle of the channel in August 1974. But the dredge will not accept anything as large as a body. A small satchel could go through."
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He added that "we simply don't know the significance of that infor- mation."
The spot, about 5 miles northwest of Vancouver, Wash., is several miles downstream from the jet's path on its way to Reno, Nev. The flight originated in Portland, Ore. Once the jet was airborne, the hijacker, who signed on the flight as Dan Cooper, displayed what appeared to be a bomb and demanded the money and four parachutes. Somewhere over southwest Washington, the man who has come to be known as D.B. Cod- per disappeared out the back en- trance with the money and a para- chute. 4
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VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) - FBI agents armed with sifting ' screens and accompanied by a backhoe conducted a $200,000 treasure hunt along the Colum- : bia River on Wednesday, seeking more of a mysterious hijacker's loot and maybe the remains of D.B. Cooper himself.
The agents tore up the sandy beach where an 8-year-old boy found several thousand dollars in crumbling $20 bills over the weekend. The FBI identified the cash through serial numbers.
A GAPING PIT, about 20 yards from the water's edge, showed the spot where Brian In- gram found the three packages of bills on Sunday. On Tuesday, agents digging as deep as 3 feet came up with more bits and pieces of $20 bills from the spot that is sometimes under water as the river level fluctuates.
Any would-be treasure seekers were barred from the area by a sheriff's deputy and a locked gate. The only spectators were three local fishermen, a crowd of reporters and a herd of dairy cattle that munched away in a pen
The only spectators were three local fishermen, a crowd of reporters and a herd of dairy cattle that munched away in a pen about a hundred yards from the digging.
. The mystery of what happened to the man who hijacked a Northwest Airlines 727 jetliner on Thanksgiving Eve 1971 appeared little closer to solution.
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St. Paul Pioneer Press St. Paul, Minnesota page 2
Date!
2/14/80
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Title: Cooper caper
still baffles FBI
Character:
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FBI agents search near Portland, Ore., for money taken by D.B. Cooper in a 1971 hijacking.
"It does probably raise as many questions as answers - perhaps more," said agent Paul Hudson, coordinator of the dig- ging efforts. "In my own mind, I can rule out the possibility that it was buried here."
BUT HOW DID the money come to be unearthed on the san-
dy shore where hundreds of per- sons come to fish during the breeding runs of salmon and steelhead?
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BUT HOW DID the money come to be unearthed on the san-
dy shore where hundreds of per- sons come to fish during the breeding runs of salmon and steelhead?
"That beach is material that was dredged from the middle of the channel in August 1974," said FBI spokesman Bill Williams in Portland. "Rut the dredge will
not accept anything as large as a body. A small satchel could go through."
But he said the money could have been swept down river af- ter the dredging.
"We simply don't know the sig- nificance of that information,' he said.
DB Cooper-34288UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
TO
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SAC, MINNEAPOLIS
(164-73) (C)
DATE:
7/1/80
FROM
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SUBJECT: NORJAK (A) 00: Seattle
On June 23, 1980, Major telephonically advised that a
desired to speak to an Agent of the FBI concerning the hijacking by an individual known as D. B. COOPER.
On June 23. 1980.
,Sioux Falls, South
Dakota, was interviewed at
with Major present.
Immediately at the outset of the inter-
view, advised only that he knew what had happened when the individual known as D.
Immediately at the outset of the inter-
view, advised only that he knew what had happened when the individual known as D. B. COOPER bailed out of the airplane and that he knew what happened to the money, who hid COOPER out, and where. He said additionally he knew where COOPER had been moved to "after things had cooled down." He then would only say that he knew that D. B. COOPER
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then stated before he gave specific information concerning the above.
He stated that
In addition to the above
was then asked
was advised that Special Agent
, and unless
specific information was obtained, wherein someone of apparent authority could make a decision based upon the information, no further consideration could be given · It was then explained to
that the Federal Government could make no decision based upon the information that he had provided, as the information was of no value
wherein someone of apparent authority could make a decision based upon the information, no further consideration could be given · It was then explained to
that the Federal Government could make no decision based upon the information that he had provided, as the information was of no value and that he would not
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be afforded any consideration such time as total and specific information could be obtained from him, in order to allow such an evalua- tion which would have to be made . then stated Rapid City, South Dakota,
he had a conversation with a
. He stated
and based upon his recollection of composite drawings of D. B. COOPER, he was unable to identify any person. then stated that he had received information from an individual
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Additionally, according to
According to
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then speculated that the parachute that streamed down had possibly hit the river, therefore, accounting for the recent news accounts of money being found in or near the river relating to D.
that
then speculated that the parachute that streamed down had possibly hit the river, therefore, accounting for the recent news accounts of money being found in or near the river relating to D. B. COOPER. said that if knows the details of how D. B. COOPER got out of that area, those details
have not been communicated to him.
As additional information for file,
is well known to the writer, as well parents, wherein his father's name is
and as
· The various members of family. namely
No known information has ever been developed, indica- ting the was involved in the hijacking of instant matter. stated that prior to termination of the interview that he did not want the FBI to go around asking any questions of the or
he would be put in danger as being a "snitch" . He stated that he would, in fact, take a polygraph examination and testify .
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Based upon statements of that he
Major
advised is described as follows:
Sex
Male
Race
White
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
In view of the obvious discrepancy, reported and writer's knowledge of
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Major
advised is described as follows:
Sex
Male
Race
White
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
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by
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, it is recommended that this informa- tion be made a matter of record only and that no investigation is being conducted.
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