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This country has a way of cat ing : people "up " says tho young deputy .heriff !! motioning through the mist at's ridge of the Cascade Mountains, In: southwest Washington. "They tell us Cooper Ebailed out and landed back of that mountain. But who really knows?" These thickly curtained-woods have become the graveyard for scores of lost hunters and strayed children. Now, they also seem to have swallowed up the secret of 'D. B. Cooper.ti the first of the parachuting. hijackers , and, cur. rently, the only one not In cus- tody, No tangible trace; of him has been found sinco ha balled out the back door of a Northwest. Orient 727 Jast Thanksgiving Eva He was dressed in a business suit; top coat and brown ; oxfords, and he had $200,000 in ransom strapped to his chest. This exploit has become, leg: end In the Northwest. A macabre cult has formed,around him cand at least three subsequent hijacke have used .Cooper's technique, were Jater arrested.
A macabre cult has formed,around him cand at least three subsequent hijacke have used .Cooper's technique, were Jater arrested. Cooper self remaineroi total mysteryFriday, Whose house looks down on .long. frigid Lake Merwin. "Ev- eryone breathed a sigh when he wasn't found. They feel the glory -and the money-belong to us," In Mrs .: Friday's" book, which her brother-in-law, Bill, Illustrated with cartoons (right), the skyjacker meets "any ignominious end. In deed. the FBI Informed residents that Cooper may, have been de
voured by animals, and asked them to look for remains. But like: most of her : neighbors, Anna. Friday doesn't believe that Cooper died. "It was too carefully planned for him to flub up at the last minute, she says, fixing a thoughtful gaze out :through : the". low-lying; fog. "And remember-there were Just enough odd things that happened around here that night.'
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! Amen iln' for cokthrop- wook search, but they turned up nothing except a: little local hoatility/" The folks in Etna are still angry it the disturbance: that ; the soldier send their helicopters caused: Clarence Anry's horse disappeared for, three. days" and "two: frightened, cows ran themselves" to death. "A few days after the searchere left. Shir- Jey ' Free and Howard. Pearson's wife were out collecting old bot tles at the' grist millon Cadar Creek when they stumbled upon a woman's hand In the underbrush. Then yet another body was dis- covered over on Studebaker Road. It wasn't. Cooper., And. now, Cow- litz County has two unsolved mur- ders, on Its : hands, as well as"a phantom hijacker.
RICHARD WOODBURYWith a make-belleva bomb, a pas- senger using the name D .. B. Coo- per (in FBI sketch, far left) hijacked this Northwest jet, then balled out Into the donse wooda of south western Washington state (below)
A recently published book by Anna Friday (below, right) includes some
sketch, far left) hijacked this Northwest jet, then balled out Into the donse wooda of south western Washington state (below)
A recently published book by Anna Friday (below, right) includes some cartoon "speculation as to : what may have : happened to . Cooper after he"parachuted to earth.
Like down the road at Jesa Hat- field's: place."Old: Jess' heard' thumping on his :roof,; but by the time he got out there, rifle at the ready, there was nothing. In the nearby community of View, .it was black, and blustery-hardly a right for small planes-but at a saldom- used airstrip near; they cemetery, there were strange goings-on .. Emil Nelger's wife recalls seeing an alr. craft" circling for nearly an- hour She doesn't know if ( landed, but Mrs. Melvin Andersens who' lives across the way, says that it did Five miles to, tho -west at La Center, s there fo another trip
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SKYRKKERdressed in a business suit, top coat and brown oxfords, and he had $200,000 in ransom strapped to his chest. This exploit has become leg- end in the Northwest A macabre cult has formed around him, and at least three subsequent hijackers have used Cooper's technique. All were later arrested. Cooper him- self remains a total mystery. The name he used to buy his airline ticket turned out to be an alias.
After: Cooper Jumped, it. was two days before the heavy clouds cleared enough to permit a. hell- copter search of the: steep lava foothills and farmlands. The au- thorities figured that Cooper prob- ably, came down near the shores of Lake Merwin. But the search yielded nothing, and heavy snows soon sealed the woods off.
Did Cooper get away or not? That is one of the questions that gallused loggers spend long hours debating around the stove in the Ariel general store and across the river at Nick's Tavern'in Amboy, If Cooper did, then why haven't any of.the. ten thousand $20 bills-all carefully ; recorded by.
hours debating around the stove in the Ariel general store and across the river at Nick's Tavern'in Amboy, If Cooper did, then why haven't any of.the. ten thousand $20 bills-all carefully ; recorded by. the FBI -shown up?" Could the skyjacker have had an accomplice, on, the ground? Or if Coopet is hanging dead, tangled In a fir tree out there
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above : Merwin Dam, then why hasn't his body or the money been found ?. Have the searchers been looking In the wrong place?
N osanswers. The prospect of all' that money sent: fortune hunters racing Into the woods last fall. And even today campers keep an pager eye out for the skyjack- er"floot .. Meanwhile, the :: North-
west has oulogized D. B. Cooper In song and verse. Promoters have capitalized on CooperT-shirts and bumper stickers. Two men were ar rested and, charged with fleecing a writer of: $30,000 by: promising an interview with Cooper. An un derground newspaper in Seattle published another,"interview" with the skyjacker, but it was promptly debunked by authorities. With the
passage of time; Cooper -hostat sumed a certain Jesse James qual Ity: Ati the "Ariel Store, 'an, auto graphiparty was hold this month to colabrate
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The fugitive took over a Northwest Airlines 727 jet Fantedy {thd : apparently ased ftwd corsithe parte chutes to leave the Boeing 727 jet Airplane sometime Wednesday, collected
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Fantedy {thd : apparently ased ftwd corsithe parte chutes to leave the Boeing 727 jet Airplane sometime Wednesday, collected
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forday,morning at the. Minneapolis-St . Paul In- ternational Airport, the plane's six crew members gave "this account of the hijacking
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D.B. Cooper Was Here
by Ken Lizotte
I have been passed more evidence that D.B. Cooper, the 1971 bij.nket who capel with $200.000 wonen beve over the Southern California countryside, actually surfaced-at least briefly -in Cambridge. Carquy han ixen cluding the F.
000 wonen beve over the Southern California countryside, actually surfaced-at least briefly -in Cambridge. Carquy han ixen cluding the F.B.I. sallar successfully all through the seventies, but my steikt'scall him, The I.urk n laims that a D.B. Cooper lived in the Boston area brenn 1977 to at least late 1976 He also maintains that prominent L'.S. officials Lues this but did not request it was the Bureau. The Link also says that louser New Hampshire Govnot Mel Thomson R.we indformation to Cooper concerning the possibility of transmigration to South Africa. The question, then, is what this the D.B. (axax's, and, whenver it was, who did Cinema Thomson think it was
Also, who did Arthur F. Burns, Journey chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. think he was communicating with when be tercived a letter from a D.B. Comist dated December 30, 1977? This letter is Bestenonly, since Camper indicates that it Baus is interested. Cooper might actually send him sont Money. Why? Surely, Burtis has enough of hisown, and vet, hele sava D.B. Cooper (!
Cooper might actually send him sont Money. Why? Surely, Burtis has enough of hisown, and vet, hele sava D.B. Cooper (!) offering money to the engoing chairman of the F.R.B : One can only surmise how much and for what towns and in any case. why, like Thomasa did Burns say nothing down the matter to law enforcement officials
The Last has offered this portion of the kitos avevaom: "For been watching you work very closely all the tears you've byen head of the Fed. and I think you've done a great job Better than I could do. that's hoy sist. I mam, it ain't easy keeping money from getting out to thepeople the way you har ... sandlash s got to keep money Pace 4 THE EDGE - March 24. 1980
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will most rele van harting your job Ixaaus I will not be able to heart of you anymore Masle thes Thank a shots almost you in People: Ilage as. freets I would mies mo ting able to read strout what you se branding with vomsch. Whata set hoppas. be alive. Don't ks the customs get you down, it's not your wamy am motc.
freets I would mies mo ting able to read strout what you se branding with vomsch. Whata set hoppas. be alive. Don't ks the customs get you down, it's not your wamy am motc."
Huh? This is an contiene speaking? Is this in the lord on what The Lank who ut is. but offers noexplanation. Wis chen would D.B. Cooper. the cutthew. commnend.Aulas F. Bumms in his work with the FRB: Could this be cooler Don's Camper know what he's talking about when he wastes. "It ain's cass keeping money from falling into the wrong hands?" The F.B.1. bas certainly kyn winging it own hands as it's sound high and low for the two hundred thou bom Cooper's hijacking tamom.
The Licker here is that later in the letter. Camper offer Burns a loan! "1 could send you a few bucks." he says "Nothing's (xs good for a pal like you. AND FOR MAI.I. YOU'VE DONE." (Emphasis mine!) The letter ends: "I wouldn't charge as much interest as the banks do, so don't worry about that part! Please contact me if I can help. I'M ALWAYS AROUND." (Emphasis, once again, my own!)
Most important, however, there is a reply from Burns, dated January 6.
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Most important, however, there is a reply from Burns, dated January 6. 1978, ons FRB stationens and addressed to D.B. Compet, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Unless The Luik has sundnow stoken FR B letterheads. Authen Bunny must havea copy of this reply somewhere in his own files! Does the Bacau know this? Agan. why didn't Bains sepon these communiques in the last place?"
The reply is terse, even priplexing: "1 was granted you to write we sogra total. I deeply appreciate your brand thoughts." That's it! Maybe Butit is much simple. make it never closed his usted that this might be the same D.B. Cooper.
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Ronald Reagan is calling fon tas surs. in son the bound for all taxpayers. People a few on wages, purists, rents, interest tate- and ptofsts. He dora not memion a ferwe on TAXES, the one thing that is Billing all American wallets and pratetinasha Kennels is calling ka the parag.
He dora not memion a ferwe on TAXES, the one thing that is Billing all American wallets and pratetinasha Kennels is calling ka the parag. In Compress of the Humpluet- Hav Jms Full Implosnem Bill, and the Nacisand Health Insurance Bill, these two por . med legislation are highly tillati mary and mally unnecessary. This legislation will bunt the seas people that Kennedy is va contad about: the pron. elderly. do mưa want the big government that Kennedy Mands for. Kenneth is calling for minnaties and women. This proposed legislation would tax these people even mon, beans the hidden tax, inflation. hats these groups the hardest. Miss Riley. Ronald Reagan and his "Ixsfornaner" in New Hampshire may not In to your liking. bin i'll take him any day over out buffon bom Massachusetts.
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D.B. Cooper in Cambridge
by Ken Lizotte
The news media in this town ain't so special, nor are the F.B.I .. anywhere. They've been tracking down D.B. Couper for years, since 1971 in fact, and looking for thr $200 G's he obtained in ransom from an siline hijacking, a feat of no miniscule proportion considering he escaped - yes, ESCAPED!
Couper for years, since 1971 in fact, and looking for thr $200 G's he obtained in ransom from an siline hijacking, a feat of no miniscule proportion considering he escaped - yes, ESCAPED! - by parachuting into the Southern California countryside. The one that did it, AND GOT AWAY. that's Daniel B. Cooper.
Legend has it, however, that Cooper dropped the money, either in part or all, as he floated to cat.b, and .hat twenty-dollar bills were thus deposited tid .... 3: mit the towns and villages in his landing arra. fri. strangely. none of the mionev, nut one buck!, was ever found, and even more stange, every year, on the anniversary of his escape, the towns and villages in that arra throw a "D.B. Cooper Celebration" 10 honor him for, well. for something! They appreciate him, though one can only speculate as to why, and there seems to be a genuine hope that the feds never catch him, whatever he may bxe.
And couk! that "wherever" be, or have been, Cambridge? According to a must reliable source of mine, a D.B. Cooper lived near Central Square during the winter months of 1978. His name was clearly displayed on a mailbox and correspondence to and from him was regularly
Cooper lived near Central Square during the winter months of 1978. His name was clearly displayed on a mailbox and correspondence to and from him was regularly delivered. Was this the same nr.
contespunked with nium well-known public officials, including Anthm t. Burns, tommer chairman of the Federal Rewave Bond. Bob Brugland. Secretary of Agriculture. Benjamin F. Bailar. Postmaster General at the United States. our own Mel Thomson of New Hampshire, and a Dr. Red Metrowich, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Southern Abita Freedom Foundation. Apparently. Canget wrote to Metrowich asking about getting out of the country and ewaping to South Africa. His initial contact, however, had been with Thomson. who had directed him to Metrowich. Was Thomson collaborating with hijacker Couper to help him get out of the country? Or was Thomson unaware that a hijacker seven years earlier had been named D.B. Cooper? Whatever the answer. did Thomson, or any of the others report this correspondence to the FBI as any good law- abiding American should? A check with both the Bureau and offices of these gentlemen reveals they did not.
did Thomson, or any of the others report this correspondence to the FBI as any good law- abiding American should? A check with both the Bureau and offices of these gentlemen reveals they did not.
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D. B. COOPER ENTHUSIAST PLANS TO CONTINUE SEARCH
PORTLAND, Dar. (UPI) _ A FORMER FBI AGENT, FASCINATED BY THE 11-YEAR-OLD LEGEND OF SKYJACKER D. B. COOPER, PLANS TO SEARCH THE COLUMBIA RIVER WHERE HE BELIEVES THE STILL MISSING COOPER LEFT SOME OF HIS $200, 000 RANSOM.
RICHARD TOSAW ALSO HAS ENTERED INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH FOUR BROTHERS WHO OWN FARM LAND WEST OF PORTLAND TO SEARCH AN AREA IN WHICH PART OF THE $200, 000 RANSOM PAID BY NORTHWEST AIRLINES ON THANKSGIVING EVE 1971 WAS FOUND.
AN 8-YEAR-OLD BOY PICNICKING WITH HIS FAMILY ON A BEACH ON THE FAZIO BROS. PROPERTY FOUND ROTTING PACKETS CONTAINING $5,800 IN $20 BILLS, THE ONLY MONEY RECOVERED FROM THE SKYJACKING.
TOSAW, A CERES, CALIF. , PROBATE ATTORNEY WRITING A BOOK ON THE SKYJACKING, WANTS TO START SEARCHING Nov. 24 _ THE 11TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY A MAN USING THE NAME COOPER BAILED OUT OF A NORTHWEST BOEING 727 WITH THE
24 _ THE 11TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY A MAN USING THE NAME COOPER BAILED OUT OF A NORTHWEST BOEING 727 WITH THE MONEY APPARENTLY STRAPPED AROUND HIS BODY IN ONE OF THE SPARE PARACHUTES HE DEMANDED ..
COOPER HIJACKED THE PLANE AFTER IT LEFT PORTLAND, LET THE PASSENGERS OFF IN SEATTLE AND ORDERED THE CREW TO STAY IN THE COCKPIT AREA AND FLY HIM TO RENO, NEV., WITH THE RANSOM MONEY HE GOT FROM THE AIRLINE.
HE PARACHUTED FROM THE PLANE'S REAR DOOR. THE FBI COMPUTED HE LANDED IN THE LAKE MERWIN AREA NORTHEAST OF VANCOUVER, WASH.
TOSAW, WHO LEFT THE FBI BEFORE THE SKYJACKING! BECAME INTERESTED IN THE CASE AFTER THE MONEY WAS FOUND AND DECIDED COOPER LANDED NEARBY, SOME NINE MILES WEST OF VANCOUVER.
HE WANTS SOMEONE TO DRAG THE RIVER WITH GRAPPLING HOOKS TO TRY TO SNAG COOPER'S PARACHUTE, HIS BODY OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT DIVERS COULD THEN CHECK.
"MY THEORY IS THAT THE PARACHUTE WOULD BE EASIEST TO FIND BECAUSE IT'S 28 FEET ACROSS AND WITH NYLON CORDS AND A CANVAS. HARNESS!" TOSAH SAID.
HE FIGURES THE MONEY FOUND WAS CHURNED UP BY AN ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS' DREDGE WORKING THE AREA IN EARLY 1980.
HE FIGURES THE MONEY FOUND WAS CHURNED UP BY AN ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS' DREDGE WORKING THE AREA IN EARLY 1980.
TOSAW HAS WITHDRAWN A REWARD HE HAD OFFERED FOR FINDING ANY SIGN OF COOPER.
HE BELIEVES THE HIJACKER WAS AN EX-MILITARY MAN WITH PARACHUTE TRAINING, AND POSSIBLY A STRONG SWIMMER WHO COULD HAVE MADE IT TO SHORE AFTER DUMPING THE CHUTE AND THE HEAVY MONEY BAG IN THE WATER.
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·PORTLAND, ORE .. . (UPI) _ A TATTERED PIECE OF CLOTH-COVERED NYLON! A PIECE OF ROPE AND A BONE SCOOPED FROM THE COLUMBIA RIVER MAY PROVIDE CLUES TO THE WHEREABOUTS OF SKYJACKER D. B. COOPER.
BLAKE PAYNE OF FLORENCE, ORE., MAILED THE ITEMS TO EX-FBI AGENT RICHARD TOSAW, A CERES, CALIF. , LAWYER WRITING A BOOK ABOUT COOPER'S MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE AFTER HE PULLED OFF THE WORLD'S FIRST AERIAL HIJACK FOR RANSOM 11 YEARS AGO.
"AS LONG AS IT'S RELATED TO THAT JUMP, I'LL FEEL WE'VE HIT PAYDIRT," TOSAW SAID FRIDAY.
MOST AUTHORITIES DECIDED LONG AGO THE MAN NAMED ON PASSENGER LISTS AS DAN COOPER PROBABLY WAS KILLED WHEN HE
MOST AUTHORITIES DECIDED LONG AGO THE MAN NAMED ON PASSENGER LISTS AS DAN COOPER PROBABLY WAS KILLED WHEN HE PARACHUTED OUT OF A NORTHWEST AIRLINES BOEING 727 OVER SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON ON A RAINY THANKSGIVING EVE IN 1971 WITH $200,000 IN RANSOM STRAPPED TO HIS WAIST.
THE ONLY CONCRETE CLUES TO COOPER'S FATE SO FAR HAVE BEEN SOME TATTERED BILLS FROM THE RANSOM MONEY DUG UP ALONG THE SHORE OF THE COLUMBIA IN FEBRUARY 1980.
PAYNE! SKIPPER OF THE FISHING BOAT "MAGNUM," WAS HIRED BY TOSAW LAST MONTH TO DREDGE THE BOTTOM OF THE COLUMBIA BETWEEN PORTLAND AND VANCOUVER, WASH. , IN THE PLANE'S FLIGHT PATH.
"HE'S BEEN RAKING THE RIVER WITH A 12-FOOT RAKE - HE CALLS IT A COOPER SNOOPER' _ FROM THE STERN OF HIS BOAT," TOSAW SAID IN A PHONE INTERVIEW.
"HE GOES BACK AND FORTH RIGHT WHERE THE AIRPLANE FLEW OVER THAT NIGHT! AT THE TIP OF HAYDEN ISLAND IN THE COLUMBIA.
PAYNE 'FOUND THE NYLON, CORD AND BONE THURSDAY. HE SAID HE WILL LEAVE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS FIND TO THE EXPERTS.
"IT'S SOMETHING! ANYWAY, " HE SAID.
HE SAID HE WILL LEAVE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HIS FIND TO THE EXPERTS.
"IT'S SOMETHING! ANYWAY, " HE SAID. "IT'S DEFINITELY" CANVAS, AND THAT NYLON COPD IS THE TYPE COOPER HAD. IT'S BEEN 11 YEARS, AND THIS STUFF LOOKED LIKE IT HAD BEEN THERE THAT LONG."
"WE'RE INTERESTED IN EXAMINING IT TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY INDICATION IT'S PART OF COOPER'S GEAR," TOSAW SAID. HE SAID HE WILL ASK EARL COSSEY OF SEATTLE! WHO PACKED THE PARACHUTES USED BY COOPER, TO HELP DETERMINE ITS VALIDITY.
"THE BONE PROBABLY HAS NO CONNECTION AT ALL," TOSAW SAID. HE SAID IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO CONFIRM THE IDENTITY OF A BONE, AND HE WAS NOT EVEN SURE IF IT WAS HUMAN.
WHETHER OR NOT THE CLUES PROVE TO HAVE MERIT, TOSAW SAID HE WILL KEEP UP THE SEARCH, WHICH ALREADY HAS COST HIM $10,000. A MAJOR FIND COULDN'T HURT SALES OF TOSAW'S BOOK, WHICH HE PLANS TO PUBLISH IN TWO MONTHS, CALLED "D. B. COOPER: DEAD OR ALIVE?"
A NORTHWEST LEGEND HAS GROWN AROUND COOPER, WHO PULLED OFF THE NATION'S ONLY UNSOLVED HIJACKING, TRIGGERING HEIGHTENED SECURITY PROCEDURES AT AIRPORTS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
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A NORTHWEST LEGEND HAS GROWN AROUND COOPER, WHO PULLED OFF THE NATION'S ONLY UNSOLVED HIJACKING, TRIGGERING HEIGHTENED SECURITY PROCEDURES AT AIRPORTS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
SONGS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN AND T-SHIRTS PRINTED! WHILE RESIDENTS OF ARIEL, WASH., IN THE AREA WHERE COOPER JUMPED! HOLD AN ANNUAL PARTY AND INVITE COOPER TO ATTEND. HE HAS YET TO DO SO.0
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PORTLAND, ORE. (UPI) _ THE FBI HAS DISCOUNTED ANY LINK BETWEEN MISSING SKYJACKER D. B. COOPER AND PART OF A PARACHUTE AND OTHER ITEMS SCOOPED FROM THE COLUMBIA RIVER.
"THIS ITEM! IF IT'S THE OLIVE-DRAB COLOR YOU DESCRIBE, HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH COOPER! " FBI AGENT DORWIN SCHREUDER SAID MONDAY.
SCHREUDER AND OTHER AGENTS LOOKED AT BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOS OF THE DARK PIECE OF FABRIC.
THE PARACHUTE PART WAS FOUND SATURDAY BY CHARTER BOAT CAPTAIN BLAKE PAYNE! WHO RETURNED TO HIS FLORENCE, ORE., HOME TO AWAIT FURTHER
INSTRUCTIONS FROM FORMER FBI AGENT RICHARD TOSAW OF CERES, CALIF. , WHO IS PAYING FOR THE RIVER SEARCH.
SCHREUDER SAID ONE OF THE FOUR PARACHUTES PROVIDED TO COOPER ALONG WITH $200.
, WHO IS PAYING FOR THE RIVER SEARCH.
SCHREUDER SAID ONE OF THE FOUR PARACHUTES PROVIDED TO COOPER ALONG WITH $200. 000 BEFORE THE SKYJACKER LEAPED FROM A NORTHWEST AIRLINES BOEING 727 ON THANKSGIVING EVE OF 1971 WAS SIMILAR. BUT HE SAID IT WAS LEFT BEHIND ON THE PLANE AND "WAS NOT ONE THAT HE TOOK WITH HIM. "
SOME OF THE MONEY HAS BEEN FOUND ON A BANK OF THE WASHINGTON SIDE OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER.
LAST WEEK PAYNE MAILED TOSAW A PIECE OF NYLON CORD! A TATTERED PIECE OF FABRIC AND A BONE HE SCOOPED FROM THE COLUMBIA RIVER WITH A METAL DEVICE CALLED THE "COOPER SNOOPER. "
SCHREUDER: AFTER VIEWING PHOTOS OF THE MATERIALS FOUND BY PAYNE: SAID, "THEY DON'T APPEAR TO BE AMONG THE ITEMS" LEFT BY THE LEGENDARY SKYJACKEP.
TOSAW IS WRITING A BOOK ABOUT COOPER. HE SURMISED THE FABRIC MIGHT BE PART OF A BAG STUFFED WITH THE $200, 000 THE SKYJACKER STRAPPED TO HIS WAIST BEFORE BAILING OUT OF THE JETLINER SOMEWHERE OVER SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON.
TOSAW SAID THE CORD MIGHT HAVE COME FROM ONE OF THE PARACHUTES. HE SAID COOPER MIGHT HAVE BEEN AN EX-GREEN BERET WHO DECIDED TO USE A MILITARY CHUTE RATHER THAN THE CIVILIAN
HE SAID COOPER MIGHT HAVE BEEN AN EX-GREEN BERET WHO DECIDED TO USE A MILITARY CHUTE RATHER THAN THE CIVILIAN ONE GIVEN TO HIME BECAUSE HE WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE FAMILIAR WITH IT.
THE HIJACK MARKED THE WORLD'S FIRST AIR PIRACY FOR RANSOM AND REMAINS THE NATION'S ONLY UNSOLVED HIJACKING.
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PORTLAND, ORE. (UPI) _ A CHARTER BOAT CAPTAIN ENGAGED IN A SEARCH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER FOR LEGENDARY SKYJACKER D. B. COOPER, MONDAY REPORTED FINDING A PIECE OF OLIVE-DRAB FABRIC THAT COULD BE PART OF A PARACHUTE.
"I'VE SEEN A COUPLE OF CHUTES BEFORE _ THIS LOOKS LIKE ONE. IT'S GOT SILK IN IT, JUST LIKE A CHUTE HAS," SAID THE BOAT CAPTAIN, BLAKE PAYNE, WHO IS EMPLOYED BY RICHARD TOSAW' A CERES, CALIF., ATTORNEY WHO PLANS TO WRITE A BOOK ABOUT THE SKYJACKING MYSTERY.
LAST WEEK, PAYNE MAILED TO TOSAW A PIECE OF NYLON CORD, A TATTERED PIECE OF FABRIC AND A BONE HE DREDGED FROM THE RIVER BOTTOM WITH A HEAVY 'METAL RAKE.
LAST WEEK, PAYNE MAILED TO TOSAW A PIECE OF NYLON CORD, A TATTERED PIECE OF FABRIC AND A BONE HE DREDGED FROM THE RIVER BOTTOM WITH A HEAVY 'METAL RAKE.
THE TWO MEN SURMISED THE FABRIC FOUND LAST WEEK MIGHT BE PART OF A MONEY BAG STUFFED WITH $200, 000 THAT THE SKYJACKER STRAPPED TO HIS WAIST ON A RAINY THANKSGIVING EVE 1971 AS HE JUMPED FROM A NORTHWEST AIRLINES BOEING 727 OVER SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON.
THE CORD, PAYNE SAID, MIGHT HAVE COME FROM ONE OF FOUR PARACHUTES DEMANDED BY CODFER. THE CLOTH REPORTED MONDAY MAY ALSO BE FROM ONE OF THE PARACHUTES THE SKYJACKER HAD, HE SAID.
FBI AGENTS, HOWEVER! DISCOUNTED ANY LINK BETWEEN THE MATERIAL AND COOPER.
"THIS ITEM! IF IT'S THE OLIVE-DRAP COLOR YOU DESCRIBE, HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH COOPER," DORWIN SCHREUDER OF THE FBI'S PORTLAND OFFICE SAID AFTER HE AND OTHER AGENTS VIEWED BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOS OF THE DARK PIECE OF FABRIC.
PAYNE FOUND THE ITEM SATURDAY WHILE DREDGING THE RIVER BETWEEN OREGON AND WASHINGTON. HE WAS BACK IN HIS FLORENCE, ORE. , HOME AWAITING FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS FROM TOSAW, A FORMER FBI AGENT WHO IS FUNDING THE RIVER SEARCH.
, HOME AWAITING FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS FROM TOSAW, A FORMER FBI AGENT WHO IS FUNDING THE RIVER SEARCH.
SCHREUDER SAID ONE OF THE FOUR PARACHUTES PROVIDED TO COOPER ALONG WITH $200, 000 RANSOM BEFORE HE JUMPED FROM A NORTHWEST AIRLINES BOEING 727 ON A RAINY THANKSGIVING EVE IN 1971 WAS OF A SIMILAR NATURE BUT HAD BEEN LEFT BEHIND ON THE PLANE AND "WAS NOT ONE THAT HE TOOK WITH HIM. "
SCHREUDER SAID HE COULD NOT DISCUSS UNPELEASED DETAILS ABOUT THE CASE IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE 11-YEAR-OLD INVESTIGATION. HOWEVER, AFTER VIEWING PHOTOS OF THE MATERIALS FOUND BY PAYNE, HE SAID "THEY DON'T APPEAR TO BE AMONG THE ITEMS" PROVIDED TO COOPER.0-20 (Rev. 9-5-79)
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ORA DE COOPER VANCOUVER, WASH. (AP) -- AS HORDES OF REPORTERS AND A HERD OF COWS LOOKED ON; SCIENTISTS AND FBI AGENTS SIFTED THROUGH SAND ALONG.
(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 RIVERBANK WEDNESDAY FOUND A FEW MORE SCRAPS OF THE $200, 000 RANSOM BUT NO SIGN OF THE FIRST MAN TO HIJACK AN AIRLINER FOR MONEY.
AND THE FBI AGENT WHO LED THE INVESTIGATION SINCE THE 1971 HIJACK SAYS THE DISCOVERY TENDS TO CONFIRM HIS SPECULATION THAT COOPER, WHO HAS BECOME SOMETHING OF A FOLK HERO, DIED THE NIGHT HE PARACHUTED. INTO A STORM SOMEWHERE OVER SOUTHWESTERN WASHINGTON.
SOGGY AND BATTERED FRAGMENTS OF SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS IN $20 BILLS WERE DISCOVERED SUNDAY BY AN 8-YEAR-OLD BOY DURING A FAMILY PICNIC. SERIAL NUMBERS CONFIRMED THEY WERE PART OF THE RANSOM.
FBI AGENT PAUL HUDSON SAID HE RULED OUT THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE MONEY WAS BURIED ALONG THE RIVER NEAR VANCOUVER.
WHOWEVER THEY GOT THERE, THEY MUST HAVE BEEN DEPOSITED WITHIN A COUPLE OF YEARS AFTER THE HIJACKING," SAID AGENT RALPH HIMMELSBACH, DUE TO
WHOWEVER 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 COOPER INVESTIGATION SINCE THE HIJACK. "RUBBER BANDS DETERIORATE RAPIDLY AND COULD NOT HAVE HELD THE BUNDLES TOGETHER VERY LONG.""
THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS IDENTIFIED 'R LAYER OF SAND RS 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 PARACHUTED. 1645137-A.
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PORTLAND, ORE. (UPI>>- FBI AGENT. RALPH HIMMELSBACH RETIRES FRIDAY, GIVING:UP HIS EIGHT-YEAR HUNT FOR ONE OF AMERICA'S LEGENDARY CRIMINALS - SKYJACKER D.B. COOPER: WHO PARACHUTED FROM A JET WITH $200,000 IN RANSON.
THE FBI, OF COURSE, . WILL. CONTINUE TO PURSUE COOPER BUT: HIMMELSBACH, 54,IS,TURNING IN HIS CREDENTIALS SEVEN MONTHS EARLY; USING ACCUMULATED SICK. LEAVE TO GET FAVORABLE RETIREMENT BENEFITS. *IF I HAD MY CHOICE, I'D STAY . ON," HE SAID. "I'M IN TOP PHYSICAL SHAPE.
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NO89 DA COOPER MONEY VANCOUVER, WASH. (AP) -- THE CRUMBLING REMAINS OF $20 BILLS UNEARTHED 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.
RAY MATHIS, SENIOR AGENT FROM THE BUREAU'S SEATTLE OFFICE, SAID WEDNESDAY THAT OFFICIALS COUNTED THE DECAYING GREENBACKS DURING FBI LABORATORY TESTS IN WASHINGTON, D. C ..
OTIS COX OF THE BUREAU'S WASHINGTON, D.C., OFFICE CONFIRMED THAT THE COUNT WAS MADE, BUT SAID LITTLE ELSE HAS BEEN REVEALED ABOUT THE MONEY. LAB TECHNICIANS CONTINUE TO STUDY THE LOOT, PARTICULARLY FOR EVIDENCE OF WHERE IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN BEFORE IT WASHED UP ON THE BANKS OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER, OTIS SAID.
LAB TECHNICIANS CONTINUE TO STUDY THE LOOT, PARTICULARLY FOR EVIDENCE OF WHERE IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN BEFORE IT WASHED UP ON THE BANKS OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER, OTIS SAID.
THOUGH LUMPY WADS OF THE MONEY WERE FOUND BURIED BENEATH A SHALLOW COVER OF SAND, COOPER, AMERICA'S FIRST SKYJACKER-FOR-MONEY; HAS NEVER BEEN LOCATED. AUTHORITIES TEND TO BELIEVE HE IS DEAD, BUT ACKNOWLEDGE THEY DON'T KNOW FOR SURE.
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PORTLAND, ORE. (UPI) - THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION CALLED NEWS CONFERENCES IN PORTLAND AND SEATTLE TODRY TO ANNOUNCE 'A MAJOR DEVELOPMENT" IN THE D. B. COOPER AIRLINE HIJACKING.
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(UPI) - THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION CALLED NEWS CONFERENCES IN PORTLAND AND SEATTLE TODRY TO ANNOUNCE 'A MAJOR DEVELOPMENT" IN THE D. B. COOPER AIRLINE HIJACKING.
: THE NEWS CONFERENCES WERE CALLED FOR 6 P.M. EST.
NEITHER COOPER, WHO PARACHUTED FROM A NORTHWEST AIRLINES JET OVER THE NORTHWEST ON THANKSGIVING EVE 1971, NOR ANY OF THE $200,000 IN . $20 BILLS HE COLLECTED EVER HAS BEEN FOUND. .
FBI SPOKESMAN BILL WILLIAMS REFUSED TO DIVULGE WHAT THE ANNOUNCEMENT WOULD BE BUT INDICATED IT DEVELOPED THIS MORNING AND "WE FIRST THOUGHT IT WAS A HOAX."
THE FBI HAS SAID SINCE SHORTLY AFTER THE HIJACKING IT BELIEVED THAT COOPER - WHOSE REAL NAME WAS NEVER LEARNED - JUMPED FROM THE REAR OF A BOEING 727 OVER SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON AND PROBABLY WAS KILLED WHEN HE LANDED.
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COOPER BOARDED A NORTHWEST- FLIGHT IN. PORTLANDT BECGODERE NAME DAN COOPER. BEFORE THE PLANE REACHED SEATTLE, COOPERATHREATSONED TO EXPLODE A 'BOMB" IN HIS BRIEF CASE IF HE WERE NOT GIVEN THE MONEY AND FOUR PARACHUTES AND FLOWN TO RENO, NEV.
THE OTHER PASSENGERS WERE ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE PLANE AT SEATTLE AND COOPER WAS GIVEN THE MONEY AND THE PARACHUTES.
THE OTHER PASSENGERS WERE ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE PLANE AT SEATTLE AND COOPER WAS GIVEN THE MONEY AND THE PARACHUTES. AFTER THE PLANE LEFT SEATTLE HE ORDERED ALL THE CREW MEMBERS INTO THE FLIGHT DECK.
WHEN THE PLANE ARRIVED AT RENO COOPER AND THE MONEY WERE GONE. THE FLIGHT RECORDER AND CREW. TESTIMONY- INDICATED COOPER HAD JUMPED HEAR THE LITTLE TOWN OF ARIEL ABOUT 30 MILES NORTH OF : PORTLAND, A DENSELY WOODED AREA IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE CASCADE MOUNTAINS. `DESPITE INTENSIVE SEARCHES OF THE AREA, THE ONLY ITEM CONNECTED WITH THE HIJACKING EVER FOUND WAS A REAR DOOR FROM THE 727. KUPI 02-12 04:52 PES
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DB COOPER VANCOUVER, WASH. (AP) -- THE SEARCH ALONG A COLUMBIA RIVER BEACH FOR MORE MONEY FROM THE D. B. COOPER HIJACKING EIGHT .
(AP) -- THE SEARCH ALONG A COLUMBIA RIVER BEACH FOR MORE MONEY FROM THE D. B. COOPER HIJACKING EIGHT . YEARS AGO PROBABLY WILL BE SUSPENDED AFTER FRIDAY, FBI OFFICIALS SAID THURSDAY. MEANWHILE, A GEOLOGIST CONCLUDED THAT SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS FOUND SUNDAY BY AN 8-YEAR-OLD BOY ON A FAMILY PICNIC WAS DEPOSITED ON THE BEACH IN THE PAST YEAR OR TWO.
FBI AGENTS CONTINUED TO DIG FOR MORE OF THE $200,000 THAT. COOPER TOOK WITH HIM WHEN HE BAILED OUT OF A PLANE ON . THANKSGIVING EVE IN 1971.
THE SEARCH BEGAN TUESDAY ALONG THE RIVER'S NORTH SHORE, ABOUT THREE MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER. ADDITIONAL SCRAPS OF MONEY WERE FOUND ON WEDNESDAY.
A MAN WHOSE PASSENGER LIST WAS SIGNED "'DAN COOPER" LEFT A NORTHWEST AIRLINES PLANE THAT WAS BOUND FOR REND FROM SEATTLE AFTER HE DISPLAYED WHAT APPEARED TO BE A BOMB AND OBTAINED A PACKAGE OF $20 BILLS AND THREE PARACHUTES.
FBI AGENTS BELIEVED HE LEFT THE PLANE, DURING A STORM, ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHERST OF WHERE THE CRUMBLED AND WERTHERED BILLS WERE FOUND.
FBI AGENTS BELIEVED HE LEFT THE PLANE, DURING A STORM, ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHERST OF WHERE THE CRUMBLED AND WERTHERED BILLS WERE FOUND. IT IS THE NATION'S ONLY UNSOLVED HIJACKING.
"HE'LL WORK TODAY AND TOMORROW AND PROBABLY KNOCK- IT OFF AND BRING MY TROOPS BACK UP HERE AND REASSESS THE SITUATION, !! SRID. JACK PRINGLE, ASSISTANT AGENT IN CHARGE OF THE SEATTLE OFFICE WHICH TOOK OVER THE SEARCH OPERATIONS.
"SOME OF THE AREA IS INACCESSIBLE AND THERE'S NO WAY WE CAN SEARCH THE WHOLE RIVER, ** PRINGLE SAID.
HE SAID GEOLOGIST LEONARD PALMER OF PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY CONCLUDED THAT THE DREDGING OPERATION IN 1974 DID NOT PUT THE MONEY ONTO THE BEACH, BECAUSE THE BILLS WERE FOUND ABOVE CLAY DEPOSITS PUT ON THE BANKS BY THE DREDGE. 164-5137-A- AP-WX-0214 :1558EST 119 NOT RECORDED AUG 21 1980 ¿ 68 AUG 2 21980 6 file
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VANCOUVER, WASH. (AP) -- THE FBI TODAY CALLED OFF THE SEARCH ALONG A COLUMBIA RIVER BEACH FOR MORE OF THE $200,000 MISSING FROM THE 1971 D. B. (COOPER HIJACKING.
"NOT A THING'' WAS FOUND THURSDAY AS AGENTS FINISHED SIFTING THE SANDS ON THE NORTHERN BANK OF THE RIVER, SAID JACK PRINGLE, ASSISTANT AGENT IN CHARGE OF THE SEATTLE
"NOT A THING'' WAS FOUND THURSDAY AS AGENTS FINISHED SIFTING THE SANDS ON THE NORTHERN BANK OF THE RIVER, SAID JACK PRINGLE, ASSISTANT AGENT IN CHARGE OF THE SEATTLE OFFICE.
"'THEY REALLY HAVE NO FURTHER PLACES TO SEARCH'' THE BEACH; PRINGLE SAID. IN ADDITION, HE NOTED THE AREA WAS COVERED BY A FRESH SNOWFALL ...
HE SAID ANY DECISION ON EXTENDING OR MOVING THE SEARCH' TO OTHER AREAS WOULD NOT BE MADE UNTIL EARLY NEXT WEEK.
KEN MOORE, THE SEATTLE AGENT IN CHARGE OF THE DIGGING, SAID THE MONEY PROBABLY WAS WASHED DOWNSTREAM INTO THE COLUMBIA, MOST LIKELY FROM THE WASHOUGAL RIVER OR FROM ONE OF SEVERAL SMALLER STREAMS IN THE AREA IN WHICH COOPER PROBABLY LANDED.
"TOURISTS WHO WANT TO LOOK FOR MORE COOPER MONEY PROBABLY SHOULD LOOK ON THE WASHOUGAL RIVER,'' MOORE SAID.
THE FBI SAID A GEOLOGIST HAD CONCLUDED THAT SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS FOUND SUNDAY BY A YOUNG BOY HAD BEEN DEPOSITED ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER BEACH AFTER 1974.
THE SEARCH BEGAN TUESDAY THREE MILES SOUTHWEST OF VANCOUVER AFTER A COMPARISON OF SERIAL NUMBERS CONFIRMED THE BOY'S FIND WAS PART OF THE COOPER RANSOM.
THE SEARCH BEGAN TUESDAY THREE MILES SOUTHWEST OF VANCOUVER AFTER A COMPARISON OF SERIAL NUMBERS CONFIRMED THE BOY'S FIND WAS PART OF THE COOPER RANSOM. ADDITIONAL SCRAPS OF MONEY WERE FOUND ON WEDNESDAY.
NO TRACE.OF COOPER, THE FIRST PERSON TO HIJACK AN BIRLINER FOR MONEY, HAS BEEN FOUND.
FBI AGENTS HAD BELIEVED HE PARACHUTED FROM THE PLANE ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF WHERE THE CRUMBLED AND WEATHERED BILLS WERE FOUND.
HOWEVER, MOORE SAID IT WAS UNLIKELY THAT THE BILLS HAD WASHED DOWN THE LEWIS RIVER AND THEN BEEN PUSHED UP THE COLUMBIA BY TIDAL ACTION "THERE IS NOTHING INFALLIBLE ABOUT OUR ORIGINAL ESTIMATE OF WHERE HE LANDED, PRINGLE SAID. "BECAUSE OF STRONG WIND CURRENTS AND DO&JA URROABLES WE COULD HAVE BEEN A LITTLE OFF IN OUR. ORIGINAL ESTIMATES. ~ 1980
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Riph Himmelsbach is reluctantly retiring from the FBI without having closed the case on the skyjacker called D.B. Cooper Himmelsbach, based in Portland, Ore., pursued more than a thousand potential suspects and thousands of leads that took him nowhere in the eight"years since a man who identified himself as Dan Coo-
, pursued more than a thousand potential suspects and thousands of leads that took him nowhere in the eight"years since a man who identified himself as Dan Coo- per commandeered a Northwest Airlines jetliner and demanded and received $200,000 and four parachutes. Said Himmelsbach: "We don't know who he was, but we do know a lot of people who he wasn't."Himmelsbach dismisses the idea that "he's been bn a kind of obsessed manhunt like In- spector Javert in Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables," 'but he admits that the case has seldom strayed from his mind over the last eight years. The dis- covery of some of the ransom money last week -leads Himmelsbach "to assume more and more the possibility that (Cooper) didn't make ." "It's ironic, isn't it?" Himmelsbach asked, that ""the first and only concrete bit of information comes only 17 days before I retire."
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The Journal in this edition reproduces the last of the official FBI list of serial numbers of $20 bills that dis- appeared with the hijacker known as D.B. or Dan Coop- er when he parachuted from a Northwest Orient Airlines. jet' Thanksgiving Eve, 1971, between Seattle and Reno.
He extorted $200,000 from the airline that night as ran- som for the release of the passengers and some of the crew of the jet he originally hijacked just efter it left Portland for Seattle.
To date, neither. Cooper nor the money has shown up. The Journal Jast Nov. 22 offered to pay $1,000 for the first of the missing $20 bills to be turned in to the news- paper or to any FBI office in the nation. The offer trig= gered requests from all parts of the country, by telephone and letter, for copies of the list of serial numbers that the newspaper has been pub- lishing in installments.
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In checking bills in their possession, many people have come close to matching them with the serial num- bers of the missing
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In checking bills in their possession, many people have come close to matching them with the serial num- bers of the missing currency, but so far none of the money Cooper took has been re -. , covered.
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Many readers have pre- pared their own bocklets from the newspaper listings and with this edition those readers will have complete copies of the official docu- ment prepared by the FBI and heretofore distributed mainly to financial institu- tions.
Persons who are missing key editions of The Journal may order them from the Circulation Department by telephoning 221-8240 or writ -. ing to The Journal, 1320 SW Broadway, Portland, Ore. 97201. For people who are outside of the normal circu- lation area of the newspaper. check with the nearest FBI office for permission to in-, spect a copy of the list there.
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1 THE OREGON JOURNAL 4M
PORTLAND, OREGON
Date: December 14, 1973
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Author:
Rolla J. Crick
Editor: Donald Sterling, Jo
Title: NORJAK
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Classification: 164-2111
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Being Investigated
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Being Investigated
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Search For Skyjacked Bills Revives 'D.B. Cooper' Song
By ROLLA J. CRICK Journal Staff Writer
Remember the song, "D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?" Since The Journal made its offer to pay $1,000 for the first $20 bill turned in from the money the man popular- ly known as D.B. Cooper parachuted into the night with, the song has been played periodically on disc Jockey programs.
.It had almost faded away, but the new Cooper publicity gave it new life.
It was written by Judy Sword, 25, of Baker, a gui- tarist now singing in a Yaki-
JUDY SWORD writes 'D.B.' song
ma, Wash., supper club. Shol was in Astoria when the hi- jack occurred and the name D.B.Cooper was on every- one's lips/
Whether prophetically or not, she wrote lyrics and mu- sic within .two weeks of the incident and indicated that Cooper died. hanging gin a tree in the shrouds of a para- chute while his stolen money.
two weeks of the incident and indicated that Cooper died. hanging gin a tree in the shrouds of a para- chute while his stolen money. drifted to the ground. ;.
The song further empha- sized the D.B. Cooper name in the minds of the public in
those'"first weeks zas the search for -. the & hijacker ranged from Seattle to Reno. It enjoyed@ another @ brief round of popularity. a year ago when FBI agents and Army troops from Ft. Lewis, Wash., combed the woods of Cowlitz County And. now,it's" playing again.9
Ironically, though, ! "D.B. Cooper is the wrong name. Somehow in the first hours alter the hijack the name: D.B. Cooper cropped up and stuck. It may have been be- cause the FBI was checking on an individual whose name really' was .D.B. Cooper, .but he was in jail at the time of the hijack 2
When the hijacker bought his Portland to Seattle ticket in . Portland, " he gave: the name Dan Cooper. The FBI now officially" identifies "the man they want as Dan Coop- er. That name was obtained by a process of elimination? as the only passenger left, ont the 727 jetliner in Seattle 'af- ter the hijacker let the oth- er
as the only passenger left, ont the 727 jetliner in Seattle 'af- ter the hijacker let the oth- er passengers go.
Curiously, ` there " was" a bona fide Cooper who got off the still-to-be-hijacked plane at Portland. The FBI investigated him and deter- mined that he had not flown a. on to Scattle and thus could not be the hijacker. His first name was not. Dan; it was Michael .:
Dan Cooper was not the right name . for. the hijacker. in any case,"the' FBI * be- lieves. . But whether Dan or D.B. or Rumpelstiltskin Cooper, the FBI would like to talk to him, if he is the hijacker. "And "The Journal: still is wiliting to pay $1,000 for that first $20 of "Cooper cash" to be turmed in. Serial numbers of some of the bills are at right.'
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10 THE OREGON JOUR PORTLAND ,JOREG
Date: December 13
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To assist in the search for the money, The Journal is publishing on- page 31 . the 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.
Journal readers who keep. each of the partial lists pub- lished by the newspaper will be able to put together their own copies
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,
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and presented a note to a stewardess. The note 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.
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. ‘of
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 mona; ey are at the bottom of Lake Merwin near Cougar, Wash., location of an intensive; scarch in 1972.
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4 The Journal will pay $1,000 5 for the first $20 bill turned in to the newspaper upon verifi- cation by the Federal Bu-
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8 9 $200,000 extorted from North- 0 1 west Orient Airlines in the "D.B. Cooper skyjack" of 2 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-
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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 .-
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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.
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