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Approved:
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DB COOPER-44293
b6 b7C seb7DNR008 SE PLAIN 11:24AM URGENT 12/1/71 VAB TO SACRAMENTO LOS ANGELES FROM SEATTLE (614-81) (P) 2P
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SE- ATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR LAST. CAA-HIJACKING; EXTORTION. 00 : SEATTLE.
RE : SUSPECT J. R. CUCUZZA. CUCUZZA IS BEING CONSIDERED A SUSPECT BECAUSE HE MEETS THE GEN- ERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE HIJACKER AND HAS PARATROOP EXPERIENCE.
INVESTIGATION AT SEATTLE HAS REVEALED CUCUZZA CURRENTLY UN- EMPLOYED ALLEGEDLY b6 b7C
CALIF. SUSPECT ARRIVED IN THE SEATTLE AREA IN JULY SEVENTYONE HAVING BEEN LAID OFF IN THE AERO SPACE INDUSTRY IN OR AROUND PAMONA. SUSPECT IS NOT CURRENTLY HOLDING A WASHINGTON OR CALIFORNIA DRIVERS END PAGE ONE
sub 16
164-81-341
DB COOPER-44294 :unselected:PAGE TWO 164-81
LICENSE NOR IS HE CURRENTLY COLLECTING UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FROM THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. DOB UNKNOWN.
SACRAMENTO AT DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN PHOTO AND EXACT DOB OF J. R. (RICHARD) CUCUZZA.
LOS ANGELES AT PAMONA, ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE SUSPECTS PRIOR EM- PLOYMENT AND DETERMINE IF PHOTO IS AVAILABLE FROM FORMER EMPLOYER, | cooper_d_b_part098.pdf#page=229 | cooper_d_b_part098.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part098_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039382E706466-page-213 | about nunkown suspect DICK (LNU) concerning whom he had called earlier:
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found a business card of DICK's and is holding it for an agent if it is desired. The card gives the information:
J. R. (DICK) CUCUZZA Pro-Litho 403 Cedar Street Seattle, Washington
<figure><table><tr><th colSpan=2></th><th>b6</th></tr><tr><th colSpan=2>The back of the card has some notation about a</th><th>b7C</th></tr><tr><td colSpan=2>connection with the Seattle Sporting Goods Co. which</td><td>b7D</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>belives may be in the handwriting of DICK's.</td><td></td></tr></table></figure>
RBC (2)
DB COOPER-44301
+ -SAC, Seatt e(164-81)
SA John R. Kellison
NOR JAC
Re Sub
RememoSA
7/5/73.
On 7/9/73, a check of City Directories for Tacoma, Puyallup and suburban areas was negative re name of
On 7/25/73, records of the following listed agencies were checked with negative results by SC .
Tacoma, Wn. PD Pierce County SO Tacoma Credit Bureau.
8/3/73
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b6 b7C
b6 b7C
b6 b7C
164-81-4900 b6 b7C
SEARCHED. INDEXED SERIALIZED. FILED
AUG 7 1973
FOI - SEATTL. L :selected: :selected:
DB COOPER-44302SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
SA
NORJAK 00: Seattle
RE:
7/12/73
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b6 b7C
On June 29, 1973, | cooper_d_b_part098.pdf#page=237 | cooper_d_b_part098.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part098_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039382E706466-page-224 | 19 MAY IN EDITION GSA FPMA (4 CFM) 101-1KG UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO
:SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
DATE:
4/14/72
FROM
: SA LOUIS M. HARRIS, JR.
SUBJECT: UNKNOWN SUBJECT;
NORTHWEST AIRLINES
FLIGHT 305
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71
CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION
00 :
SEATTLE
BUfile 164-2111
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observed
On April 11, 1972, a photograph of cach individual listed below. This witness could not identify any of these suspects as being identical with instant hijacker based solely on the provided photo.
2 - 164-83 - :selected: 164-81
A
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34
(ROBERT HARRY BOLES)
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V :selected: LMII : cmf (19)
275
(ANTHONY LAMBERT COLE)
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164-81-3036
SEARCHED.
INDEXED. SERIALIZED FILED
MAY 4 1972 FBI-SEATTLE
THE
1019-XXX
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan DB COOPER-44318 :unselected:OPTIONAL FORM NO. 1 MAY THE EDITION GSA FPMA (( CFR) 11-116 UNITED STATES GO NMENT Memorandum
TO
:
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81) (P)
DATE:
5/4/72
FROM
:
SA
SUBJECT:
NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
On April 11, 1972, Witness observed a photograph of each of the individuals listed below. | cooper_d_b_part098.pdf#page=252 | cooper_d_b_part098.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part098_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039382E706466-page-232 |
END FBISLOO VXJ
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b6 b7C
DB COOPER-44328AR004 AT PLAIN 5:07 NITEL 12/29/71 ELS TO SEATTLE 164-81 FROM ATLANTA 164-254. - P-
NORJAK.
RE SEATTLE NITEL TO ATLANTA DEC. TWENTYEIGHT, SEVENTYONE. MILITARY RECORDS FOR OCS CANDIDATES IN SIXTYTHREE NOT AVAILABLE AT FT. BENNING, GA. RECORDS WOULD HAVE BEEN RETIRED TO ST. LOUIS. END VAB FBI SEATTLE CLR
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164-81-1575 b6 b7C
SEARCHED __________ INDEXED. SERIALIZED: ML FILED DEC 2 8 1971
7
DB COOPER-44329IRØ13 SE PLAIN 11330 PM NITEL 12/28/71 FEE TO ATLANTA FROM SEATTLE (164-81) 2P
NORJAX. 00: SEATTLE.
. RE SUSPECT
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ADVISED THE ARTISTS SKETCH HAS A STRIKING RESEMBLENCE OF DESCRIBED AS
WHITE MALE, , SIX FEET TAL, ONE HUNDRED NINETY POUNDS, BLUE-GRAY EYES, PREMATURE GRAY HAIR,
AND MAY NOT BE SCARRED. WENT TO ARMY RANGER SCHOOL AND JUMP SCHOOL AND DID GREAT DEAL OF PARACHUTING AND EXPERIENCED WITH EXPLOSIVES. DISCHARGED FROM ARMY
WITH RANK OF IN MARCH, NINETEEN SIXTY-SEVEN.
· MILITARY RECORDS CENTER AT ST. LOUIS ADVISED NO RECORD ON
FILE FOR ; HOWEVER, HISTORICAL TAPE DISCLOSED
ARMY SERVICE NUMBERS
AND
SOCIAL
SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBER
END PAGE ONE
164-81-1569
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DB | cooper_d_b_part098.pdf#page=262 | cooper_d_b_part098.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part098_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039382E706466-page-249 |
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COMPANY,
ADVISED
SSAN
IN STATE OF WASHINGTON
LAST
PAYROLL RECORDS
REFLECT
WORKED :selected:
, NOVEMBER TWENTY-TWO, TWENTY-THREE, TWENTY-FOUR, TWENTY-SIX, TWENTY-SEVEN, LAST." NO EMPLOYMENT NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIVE, LAST, BECAUSE OF THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY.
PRESENTLY EMPLOYED $66 b7C
END PAGE ONE
DB COOPER-44355
Per
164-81-8820 b6 SERIALIZES.V.M HLED 1 DEC 08 1971 FBI - SEATTLE
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ChiamentAR001 SE PLAIN 3:36 AM NITEL 12/8/7! SWD TO CHARLOTTE FROM SEATTLE (164-81 SUB20) (3P)
UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTY FOUR, NINETEEN SEVENTY ONE, CAA - HIJACKING; EXTORTION.
UNSUB BOARDED CAPTIONED FLIGHT AT PORTLAND, OREGON, HIJACKED PLANE ENROUTE SEATTLE, ALLOWED PASSENGERS TO DEPART SEATTLE AFTER PLANE REFUELED AND TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR PAYMENT MADE. AT SEVEN THIRTY FIVE PM PLANE TOOK OFF FOR FLIGHT TO RENO, WAVADA AND UNSUB MISSING FROM PLANE UPON ARRIVAL RENO. UNSUB DESCRIBED AS WHITE MALE, IN FORTY'S, FIVE FEET TEN-SIX FEET, ONE SEVEN ZERO-ONE EIGHT ZERO, OLIVE COMPLEXION, DARK BROWN - BLACK HAIR, WORE DARK GLASSES, HAD LOW VOICE AND SPOKE INTELLIGENTLY WITH NO ACCENT AND HEAVY SMOKER OF RALEIGH FILTER TIP | cooper_d_b_part098.pdf#page=285 | cooper_d_b_part098.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part098_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039382E706466-page-266 | "BUZZ" (LNU) (SE164-81-1A142)
ANTHONY (TONY ) FERNANDEZ
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JOHN NEAL MARLER ROBERT HAROLD SHORES
CNG (17)
lub 23
164-81-2252
<figure><table><tr><th>SEARCHED.</th><th>INDEXED.</th></tr><tr><th>SERIALIZED</th><th>FILED</th></tr><tr><td colSpan=2>FEB141972 FBI-SEATTLE</td></tr><tr><td colSpan=2>1900</td></tr></table></figure>
***-*
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
DB COOPER-44378OPTIONAL FORM NO. 14 MAY INI EDITION GSA FPMA (4) CFA) 101-11.4
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO
:
SAC, SEATTLE
(164-81) (P)
DATE: 1/7/72
FROM :
SA LOUIS M. HARRIS, JR.
SUBJECT:
UNKNOWN SUBJECT;
NORTHWEST AIRLINES
FLIGHT 305
PORTLAND TO SEATTLE,
11/24/71
CAA - HIJACKING ; EXTORTION
00 : SEATTLE
BUfile 164-2111
Sub 23
On 7/6/72
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Seattle, Washington was shown a group of photographs which are indicated below. This witness could not identify any of these suspects as being identical with instant hijacker based solely on the provided photo.
LMH
(37 )
2-164-81
1-164-81
WAYNE KING
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JAMES CONRAD CLIFFORD
100 JOHN EMIL LIST
GEORGE BRYAN SIEGRIST
b6 b7C
RODNEY HOLBROOK PACK
142 "BUZZ" (LNU)
Sub. | cooper_d_b_part098.pdf#page=307 | cooper_d_b_part098.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part098_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039382E706466-page-269 | When FERNANDEZ received his degree from PLU photos of him were taken and it is believed published in the Longview paper. Try them for a more recent photo.
Sub.23 164-81-896 SEARCHED ____ INDEXED SERIALIZE> 71 FILED DEC 03 1971 FBI - SEATTLE 19
DB COOPER-4438312/1/71
SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
SA THOMAS J. MANNING
UNSUB; Northwest Airlines Flight 305, Portland to Seattle, 11/24/71 CAA - HI JACKING 00: Seattle
Re telephone call from ASAC BIBLER, 11/29/71
Referenced phone call advised TONY FERNANDEZ suggested as possible subject in this matter. Check with COP RALPH BENEFIEL who knows FERNANDEZ verywell at Longview, Washington reflected that he does not resemble the composite photograph of the hijacker primarily because he is losing hair on the front of his head. A photograph of FERNANDEZ was obtained from Deputy :selected: Cowlitz Co. SO BENEFIEL also advised that FERNANDEZ is in and out of Longview Washington and from what he has heard is not here too frequently, He advised he saw him about two weeks ago in downtown Longview but has not seen him since then. | cooper_d_b_part098.pdf#page=311 | cooper_d_b_part098.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part089_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743038392E706466-page-11 | Calis</td><td>180</td><td></td><td>28/</td><td>7A</td></tr><tr><td>26</td><td>4-5-70</td><td>Structure Ungatto</td><td>Howero</td><td></td><td>28%</td><td>TZA</td></tr><tr><td>27</td><td>5/17/70</td><td>Skyback Wicke</td><td>Kiwar</td><td></td><td>28/</td><td>VIA</td></tr><tr><td>28</td><td>5/30/70</td><td>MANMORE,</td><td>Beech
CALI</td><td></td><td>281</td><td>VIA</td></tr><tr><td>29</td><td>/8/70</td><td>skulle aviation Elaboro Calip</td><td>Porou</td><td></td><td>28</td><td>114</td></tr><tr><td>30</td><td>8/ /13/70</td><td>CEYLANK AVIATION SLOINORE, CALIF. | cooper_d_b_part089.pdf#page=27 | cooper_d_b_part089.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part089_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743038392E706466-page-48 | 1)
A
DB Cooper-39427BUR 164-2111 11-30-71 DB Cooper-39428DN 164-640 TAG DN 16HA-SE-81-1
DB Cooper-39429DB Cooper-39430DN 164-640 (A(S) DE NYA-SE-81-AZ :selected:
DB Cooper-39431FD-340 (Rev. 4-2-85)
1640-SE- 81
IA 831 č
Field File No.
Hust
Serial # of Originating Document
9115
OO and File No.
164.81
Date Received
45-18-98
7-02-90
From
AUCTION DI VITTORIO newport news, Va.
By
(Name of Special Agent)
To Be Returned :unselected: Yes :selected: No
Receipt Given :unselected: Yes :selected: No
Grand Jury Material - Disseminate Only Pursuant to Rule 6(e), Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure :unselected: Yes :selected: No
Title: NORJACK
00: Seattle
Reference: NE autel to SE, 6/21/90, (Communication Enclosing Material)
Description: :unselected:
Original notas na interviste of
Reference 164A-81
DB Cooper-39432
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b6 b7C b7D :unselected:FD-340 (Rev: 8-18-89)
Universal File Case Number
164A-SE-81 (832)
Field Office Acquiring Evidence
PHOENIX
Serial # of Originating Document
9/19
Date Received
4/07/92
From
(Address of Contributor) ARIZONA
(City and State)
By SA
(Name of Special Agent)
To Be Returned :unselected: Yes :selected: No
Receipt Given :unselected: Yes :unselected: No
| cooper_d_b_part089.pdf#page=40 | cooper_d_b_part089.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part089_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743038392E706466-page-50 | e), Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure :unselected: Yes :selected: No
Title:
Reference:
(Communication Enclosing Material)
Description: :selected: Original notes re interview of Photos and canal Marital by
by mail to parlarel
3/22/40, Let. provided by te Portland via mail 8/9/90 -Source
SUBJ UNSUB: mise Persons
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DB Cooper-39438Picture taken January or February 1974. Mans name not remembered by me. Age and heighth unknown also, He was in the darbeched room until someone turned on the lights for a photograph of the man next to him. He left early. Elaborado
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county, California
Gires Pires, CA
DB Cooper-39440$
Union Hill PAPERWORKS
Hallmark
47019 0 704880 9
125UHP 701-9 HALLMARK CARDS, INC. MADEINU.S.A.
DB Cooper-39441b6 b7C
Portland, Oregon)
b6 b7C
DB Cooper-39442August 7, 1990
1 Dear
Shy-jacher Cooper is dead. it now remember being told this in 1984 and can remember being told that the pictures of a parachutist who jumped ous It was supposed to be a military picture. Four people were in the picture - the one who'd just jumped out,
the pilot, the one who took the picture, and who in the El Dorado County using the name Cedo not believe that this is his true name. | cooper_d_b_part089.pdf#page=48 | cooper_d_b_part089.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part089_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743038392E706466-page-64 |
AP/Wide World Photosb6 ৳7C b7D
DB Cooper-39480b6 b7C b7D
b6
b7C b7D
DB Cooper-39482b6 b7C b7D
DB Cooper-39484b6 b7C b7D
DB Cooper-39486FD-340 (Rev. 8-18-89)
Universal File Case Number
164A-SE-81-JA (84) :selected:
<figure><table><tr><td>Field Office Acquiring Evidence</td><td>SEATTLE</td></tr><tr><td>Serial # of Originating Document</td><td>164A-81-9011</td></tr></table></figure>
Date Received
From
(Address AuTantnis'y KIRKLAND, WA
(City and State)
By
(Name of Special Agent)
To Be Returned :unselected: Yes :selected: No
Receipt Given :unselected: Yes :selected: No Grand Jury Material - Disseminate Only Pursuant to Rule 6 (e) Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure :unselected: Yes :selected: No
Title: NORMAL
Reference:
(Communication Enclosing Material)
Description: :unselected: Original notes re interview of CLASH STATE DRIVES LICENSE OF
DB Cooper-39487
C
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<figure><table><tr><th></th><th>b6</th></tr><tr><td></td><td>b7C</td></tr></table></figure>
DB Cooper-39489FD-340 (Rev.8-18-89)
Universal File Case Number 164A-SE-81-1A842
Field Office Acquiring Evidence SF
Serial # of Originating Document 9189; Ref Sub 997
| cooper_d_b_part089.pdf#page=84 | cooper_d_b_part089.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part089_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743038392E706466-page-81 | 000 from Northwest Airlines.
The statute of limitations on the hi- jacking charge against Cooper is five years. Tce phantom figure vanished aft- er parachuting from a Northwest Ain- lines 727 with his loot on Thanksgiving e"e. 1971.
-Whether he survived the jump or his Body is down at the bottom of a deep Iske, hung in a tree, or his remains scattered by animals are some of the intriguing questions leit unanswered, so far. by an extensive investigation.
"IT'S A VERY MUCH active investi- gation," said a senior FBI agent who has spent many hours on the case. "We have run down literally thousands of leads and eliminated hundreds of. people as suspects."
"My personal guess is that there is just a 50 per cent chance that he is still alive."
The lack of distinguishing characteris- tics about the dark-complexjoned, mid- die-aged man dressed in conservative cibthing and his ability to move unootrut- sively ceicre the hijacking have thwar !- ed the FBI's intense efforts to determine how he arrived at Portland International Airport that wet, squally night. | cooper_d_b_part089.pdf#page=123 | cooper_d_b_part089.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part089_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743038392E706466-page-82 | - ed the FBI's intense efforts to determine how he arrived at Portland International Airport that wet, squally night.
He paid cash for his Portland-to-Seat- the flight and then spent 50 minutes in an airport waiting area before boarding without one fellow passenger remember- ing him.
SHORTLY AFTER takeoff, Cooper handed a note to 2 stewardess which said. "I have a bomb in my brief case."
The FBI agent said that the steward- ess described the wires attached in Cooper's attache case to what she thoughit were eight sticks of dynamite, the same color as her red uniform.
"Dynamite is not color coded this way. Sne was describing highway faires." the agent said.
The agent said there was doubt Coop- cr was an experienced parachutist be- conse he took the two worst possible
choices of the four parachutes given him at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport, where He obtained the $200,000 in $20 bills.
k.
: THE AGENT said the chest chute fac skyjacker took was one that was sewn together for use'In a parachute assemi- bling class and could not even be used for jumping, and the back chute was much smaller than the large | cooper_d_b_part089.pdf#page=123 | cooper_d_b_part089.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part089_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743038392E706466-page-95 | 04615315243-2W 0632 7718 COPIES & ENLARGEMENTS CALL 800-421-1031 SE-164-81-17 867)
DB Cooper-39584
ser 164-81-1055-3 04615315243-2W 0632 7716 COPIES & ENLARGEMENTS CALL SOU-421-1030 164-81-17867)8-14-82
DB Cooper-39585ser. 164-81-1055-3 04615315243-2W 0632 7703 COPIES & ENLARGEMENTS CALL 800-421 1030 164-81-14(867)
DB Cooper-39586
ser. 164-81 sub 1055-3 04515315243-2W 0632 7715 COPIES & ENLARGEMENTS CALL 800-421-1530- 164-81-1A(86)340 (Rev. 7-29-92)
tiversal Case File Number
164A-SE-64-81-/A-1868
eld Office Acquiring Evidence
Mo
trial # of Originating Document
ate Received
12/31/17
om
FRI
(Name of Contributor)
(Address of Contributor)
BREWTON. AL
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V
(Name of Special Agent)
Be Returned :unselected: Yes :selected: No eceipt Given :unselected: Yes :selected: No and Jury Material - Disseminate Only Pursuant to Rule 6 (e) deral Rules of Criminal Procedure :unselected: Yes :selected: No
tle: NORJACK
eference:
(Communication Enclosing Material)
escription: :selected: Original notes re interview of
INEZ TURK MillER
DB Cooper-39587luft Portland
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Lived
ORegal SAter
D.B.
UNSUB
NKA COOPER -
met though
in high school
AIR Force
he showed up At in house After BB
Cooper. | cooper_d_b_part089.pdf#page=154 | cooper_d_b_part089.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part089_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743038392E706466-page-98 | (willget # )
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DB Cooper-39593b6 b7C
1983: Drove to Huntington Beach to
1984: Lake Elsinore Resort + Casino
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admits le uns
+ explained lis
Hi began
fle lod even lead of D.B. Cooper. not familiar
I'm the guy sub jumped out of the plans over dugon.
DB Cooper-39594
Detit velly draws@lengthlettal timo H. more interested in
NOVA / 60 Mins. avrove TV Show ~4 days Sate AMW profiled D.B. Gope. H. called
wto room
Now last few seconds. b6 b7Cunderstanding that late were b6
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drained the matter "/ H. periodically over. the next / 1/2 years. b6
Details: landed on 8 by the string
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tool a day to get out of the b/c he couldn't move his leg Shoot deployed Hc but was sideling L/c of speed
Hood conversation of Flyet Green:
When H. longel stunden the rate, ale put it in be poulet bie she thought it use a flut + smiled @ lia b/c le lid previously balled a lidded w/l. Langhe "Maan you better read the moth" She muled again. . He then took off his glasses. Maan I have a feeling lower" thex opred a care + slowed be a lower. She the tool his seriously.
DB Cooper-39595 :unselected:b6 b7C
H. | cooper_d_b_part089.pdf#page=163 | cooper_d_b_part089.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part089_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743038392E706466-page-99 | Maan I have a feeling lower" thex opred a care + slowed be a lower. She the tool his seriously.
DB Cooper-39595 :unselected:b6 b7C
H. told that le lad a partet of goggles/ clage of clothes & other this be needed
After landing, he walked out to the Kolokamas Hwy where he was peled up by a Trend Drive who love him to to BOMBER MOTEL.
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Told les lok lock an argument
1/ + that ale had left lie out the % wheelchair.
Up + wallin around w/ix 2 months b6 b7C
helped las out by delivering produs & obtaining a wheel chain.
DB Cooper-39596He passed away in 1986
11/13/87:
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venned in Chicago until he returned to S.D.
1995: Called
attones who 1 b6 b7C
lad net
Alex if he would be in trouble if the brought who to FBI.
Inte pealed after every a TV show about D.B. Cooper. That's when he find told matter.
didn't do anything b/c le diit wont bic b6 to townist family note 4 cause enlargement 6%
DB Cooper-39597b6
b7C
4/98: Brought it up again to pursued it + contacter thông le wan
eventually wanted to be
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has been in contact of over the past several months. | cooper_d_b_part089.pdf#page=165 | cooper_d_b_part089.pdf |
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Date
8-22-01
Mailed to
FAJHO- LAB
Registry-No
4193 1877 7227
Method of Mailing :unselected: Registered :unselected:
INDEXED FILED :unselected: Special Delivery
Checked by
Packaged L
RECEIPT
Received by
SEARCHED SERIALIZED
AUG 2 8 2001
FBI SEATTLEUP
Date and Time Received
File Number of Mailing Office 1647-81-1673
FBI/DOS DB Cooper-39640
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IA 885
Universal Case File Number
SE 164-A-81 -4431
Field Office Acquiring Evidence
Las Verjas
Serial # of Originating Document
9349
Date Received
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From
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Title:
Reference:
(Communication Enclosing Material)
Description: :unselected: Original notes re interview of One color photograph of
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admitted that he had been on television. and was going on the National Inquirer program next month.
Outside the residence from KIRO radio, informed interviewing Agents that was currently
D. B. COOPER.
The FBI in Tacoma, anticipates that no further action in this matter will be taken.
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
TO :
SAC, SEATTLE
(164-81) (P)
DATE:
10/24/79
FROM :
SA
SUBJECT:
NORJACK
00: SE
On 10/19/79 an attempt was made to interview at his residence, was found not to be at home.
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On 10/23/79 , telephonically contacted the FBI at Tacoma from his work in Port Orchard. Washington. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=9 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
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On 11/14/79 SA
(NIS)
advised that
is currently attending a "Joint Intra-Operability of Tactical Command and Control Systems" School at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.
Leads in this matter are being left to the discretion of the Office of Origin.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
SUB a paid phatter-
2- Seattle (164-81) (ENCL - 1)/100 1 - San Francisco (164-220) DCC/dcc (3)
164-81-8167 :0V 07 1873 FBI-SEATILL
1
5010-103
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
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added that he does not€
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1952 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO
: SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)
DATE: 11/15/79
FROM : SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) (RUC) (Monterey RA) ៛
SUBJECT: NORJAK (A)
Enclosed for Seattle Division is one paper bearing photo- graphs of United States Navy personnel assigned to Class "YS 72", which includes a photograph of
On 11/13/79
(Protect Identity) Monterey, California, appeared at the Monterey Resident Agency, and provided SA with the enclosed
photographs. stated that on Sunday, 11/11/79 he watched a television program on Station KOED (Channel 9) , San | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=28 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-34 | After picking up the ransom and two parachutes in Seattle, and allowing the passen- gers and two of three stewardess- ies to disembark, Cooper ordered the plane to Reno. When the plane landed in Reno, the rear ramp Iwas down, and the money, one parachute and Cooper were gone. ..
SUB B-
(Indicate page, name of
newspaper, city and state.)
p.Al Seattle Times Seattle, Wa.
Date:
1/17/79
Edition:
Final
Title:
Character:
or
16.4. 8;
Classification:
816 8
Submitting Office:
16-1-81-
COPY SENT TO BUREAU
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(Mount Clipping in Space Below)
Possible D.B. Cooper clue! found
Į KELSO - (AP) - A heavy" iplastic placard from a Boeing 727, found by a hunter in a thickly . jwooded area, could be a link to ! the unsolved November 24, 1971, D.B. Cooper skyjacking, authori- ties said today.
Cooper is thought to have para- chuted from a Northwest Airlines 'jet near Woodland, about 10 miles south of here, with $200,000 in $20 bills.
1) The placard is described as an î, emergency-warning notice of the l; type posted next to the rear exit, of 727s. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=30 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
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Theft of Rembrandt Painting 3/3/71 Entitled "Le Rabbin" Leon Bonnat Museum Bayonne, France - VICTIM ITSP (00: BUFFALO)
Re Buffalo teletype to Seattle, 3/19/79, Seattle letter to Ruffalo. 5/15/79, and Buffalo telcal to Seattle, 6/5/79 (SA
Previous investigation at
reveals that one who was cooperating with California law enforcement authorities, had identified a as a French National who was in possession of the captioned painting when he met him in the fall of 1971 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
In April, 1973, advised the
FBI that was in possession of the captioned painting and had obtained it by a "rip off" of a cocaine dealer in Canada. Allegedly utilizing the alias of and at that time, was shot during this "rip off" and bas
Recent investigation conducted by Buffalo has
determined that
true name is
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TRANSMIT VIA: [_I Teletype
PRECEDENCE:
('1,AS SIFICATION: Immediate :unselected: :unselected: Priority TOP SECRET [] Facsimile AIRTEL
Routine
FBI : | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=35 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-53 | " The agent said this bump, which also registered on the flight recorder at 8:11 p.m., occurred when the door in the tail of the plane
swung back partially shut after Cooper jumped.
Two F-106 fighter pilots from McCordi Air Force base were following the airliner!' after it left Seattle en route to the Cooper-4. ordered destination of Reno, Nev., but the fighter pilots did not see Cooper jump.
On Thanksgiving Day, Himmelsbach spent. two hours flying with a Civil Air Patrol pilot in a small aircraft, criss- crossing the densely forested area where ~ it was computed that Cooper went down in the Lake Merwin region.
"We didn't see a thing," the agent said.
The next day, an Army unit from Fort Lewis was brought in to search the north- east Clark County area. The soldiers found nothing.
The only item that has ever turned up from the flight .was the 727's rear door plastic plaque, apparently torn off by wind, found last January 12 miles north of where Cooper was believed to have jumped.
"Cooper had to have a stewardess put the door down during the flight," said Himmelsbach, adding that she then re- turned to the pilot's cabin. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=43 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-63 | Butterfield, publicity chairman for this more or less prestigious event, plans to whomp up 30 gallons of loggers' stew outdoors. near the Ariel Store and Tavern.
Rumors that he will not be allowed to prepare the stew inside the store because the effluvium would dangerously weaken the rafters is described by Butterfield as arrant nonsense.
There have been some changes since the celebration was first thrust upon the helpless populace. Dave and Laurel Fisher, one-time Californians, now own the store. And instead of buffalo stew, Butterfield has to make do with loggers' stew because the buffalo have all gone to that happy hunting ground.
No one knows where Cooper has gone, but there is more than a slight suspicion that he too is roaming that happy hunting ground, where the $200,000 he extorted from Northwest Orient Airlines will do him no good.
Butterfield notes that the celebration this year will be spiced up a bit because earlier a sign from the rear door of a Boeing 727 was found in the area. More recently an orange and white parachute turned up in a wooded area of the county. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=49 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
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"We don't know whether the guest of honor will show up or not, but we have broadcast invitations far and wide to Dan Cooper, wherever he is," said Laurel Fisher, who with her husband, David, own the emporium in this tiny timber town made famous by Cooper,. the first of the high-flying, high-finance hijackers.
Cooper made history eight years ago, on Thanksgiving Eve, Wednesday, Nov. 24, when he hijacked Northwest Airlines' flight 305 in Portland, bailed out at 8:10 p.m. that stormy night near Ariel - and vanished.
Not a trace of the man who gave the name of Cooper or any of the 10,000 $20 bills he carried has been found, de- spite a series of intensive searches by : ground and air over the flight's route from Seattle to Reno, during which Coopet is believed to have bailed out in freezing weather in a howling storm,
The FBI continues to get "Cooper calls," said Bill Williams, FBI spokes- man in Portland. The latest was a para- chute found Nov. 7 near the Kalama River Road, which proved to have no connection with the Cooper case.
But that doesn't discourage the sponsors of "Cooper Capers Day," which has been held since 1975. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=53 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
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11-21-79
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For information of Seattle, on 11/21/79 :unselected:
Mather Air Force Base, California, was contacted at his request concerning captioned matter.
advised that after viewing the recent artist's conception of individual utilizing the name D. B. COOPER, (responsible for captioned matter) stated he believes same to be a very good look a like for one that he served with in D Company, 6th Engineer Combat Battalion at Fort Ord, California, approximately June through October, :unselected: advised that he recalled that was from Washington state, however he has not seen since 1954.
produced a "yearbook" type publication that was printed during his training at Fort Ord, California, which has photograph.
It does appear to interviewing agent that there are definite similarities in the photo of and the artist's conception of D. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=61 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-122 | pod il, walked</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>up to those: xRs Airlines</td><td>B</td></tr><tr><td>coulter. . . . .. . h4c . f about 6</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>feet toll . al . f .entes build and</td><td>SUB</td></tr><tr><td>carried a trace, gove hu neme</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>es tan Car and paid cash for a</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>ons wy tich .. ' cs 37 :ht 35 10</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Ser tle. The t cher croust purebed</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>the wrong karar the same came</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>out "D.B. Co .. """</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>A few mineit . Her ta' eof , 50</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>misnamed ;º cenper banded £</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>stewardess a .iote threatening to</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>blow up the me vif. a hidd ni</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>bomb if he df Ja't reoss: e £200.003</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>cash and fes parach ics. Tic</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>plane went in Battle, where an</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>FBI agent braught the. ransom to</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>the cabin doce and han ved ft to a</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>stewardess. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=96 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
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UN D STATES DEPARTMENT OF STICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 915 Second Avenue Seattle, Washington 98174 January 22, 1980
Vancouver, Washington
Dear
Reference is made to your letter concerning D. B. Cooper addressed to Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 915 Second Avenue, Seattle, Washington, and dated January 12, 1979.
SURE
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Your letter concerning the possible whereabouts of D. B. Cooper is appreciated. In the event you have any specific information concerning the actual whereabouts of Cooper and/or the money, you are requested to contact the Vancouver Resident Agency office of the FBI at telephone number 695-5661. The information you have provided in the above referenced letter, while interesting, does not indicate why you believe Cooper to be in the area you indicate he is in or why you believe the money to be there also. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=106 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
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Approved: 454
Transmitted
264-81 - Per DB Cooper-17326
(Number)
(Time)
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mately He stated
had been taken to court in approxi-
He further stated appeared to have a great deal of money and no one in the community knew where he obtained this money.
stated he, moved from Missouri in approximately 1978; however, he stated residing there.
is still
stated that
requested to be notified if the above information leads to a court action so he may apply for any reward offered in this matter.
Inasmuch as the value of the information above is unknown to the Savannah Division, leads are being left to the discretion of the Office of Origin.
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2* :unselected: :unselected: :unselected:x AIRTEL
2/6/80
<figure><table><tr><td>TO :</td><td>SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)</td></tr><tr><td>FROM :</td><td>SAC, SAVANNAH (164-88) (RUC)</td></tr></table></figure>
NORJAK CAA-AIR PIRACY (A) (00: SEATTLE)
Re Atlanta airtel to Savannah, 1/29/80. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=124 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
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Himmelsbach said the FBI believes Cooper was wearing only a business suit and street shoes when he jumped at night into sub-freezing temperatures and winds of up to, 200 miles an hour. Even if Cooper should somehow have survived and is watching recent devel- opments on television, he still isn't clear of the law. A federal grand jury in 1977 handed down an indictment against 'Cooper charging him 'with air piracy. "Just in case ... " said Baker ..
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Law enforcement authorities long have believed that Cooper died in his plunge from the Boeing 727 because he was wearing only a business suit
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DB Cooper-1736BWEATHERED CASH-Harold and Patricia Ingram Portland with money their.son found:
DB Cooper-17364UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
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WYDPORK
DATE:
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SUBJECT: NORJAK
CRIME ABOARD AN AIRCRAFT - AIRCRAFT HIJACKING
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On 12/12/79, Bloomington, Indiana, advised
white male, DOB had told her several months ago while he had been drinking that he was actually D. V. Cooper, the subject of a TV news story that they were watching.
On 12/14/79, viewed a composite sketch of TV Cooper and stated it resembled She stated he has always smoked non-filter Camel cigarettes and that he has black hair and hazel eyes. She stated he is a long time resident of Bloomington, Indiana, who at Michigan City, Indiana, where he
On 1/28/80, a review of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, Bloomington, Indiana, records show has FBI
Number Monroe County Sheriff's Photo Identification Number and
2-Seattle 2-Indianapolis
JSS-cms (4)
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run off, the Times pulled my story and replated -at considerable cost.
They said they loved the headline: "Coffee, Tea -or $200,000?" But they didn't want to glorify the skyjacker, who, after all, was a dangerous fugi- tivė.
Now how in the hell was I going to rationalize that to a cockroach? *** My hero-fixation surfaced next on a Seattle television show.
By that time I was really into my role. I had my own tacky attache case to go with my black suit and skimpy tie. I encouraged people to call me D. B. I wore my sunglasses -- even on rainy days.
When my television host asked me if I thought Cooper was a new Ameri- can hero, I was ready.
"Yes," Isaid. "He was a terrific hero. He screwed the System back - nonvi- olently, nonpolitically. He didn't hurt anybody, and he only took 200 grand.
"And best of all" -- I had rehearsed the line for a week - "he didn't leave any footprints in the clouds."
The switchboard at the station turned into a pinball machine;
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the line for a week - "he didn't leave any footprints in the clouds."
The switchboard at the station turned into a pinball machine.
The most irate of the callers was Ernest K. Gann, the author and formerf. airline pilot.
I still have a copy of the telegram he ¿sent to the station the next day.
"The true depiction of all hijackers for what they are, instead of as he- roes," it said in conclusion, "must be shown now or you and your loved ones may well, and very soon, be aboard the next of another Robin Hood's terrible adventures."
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I fired back at Gann through Em- mett Watson's column in The P-I. I re- peated my favorite argument: D. B., with his lopsided grin and gentle man- ner, had left no victims.
I was not only smug. I was wrong.
***
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Ir. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=172 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-255 | $20 bills reveals that they bear serial numbers identical to a por- tion of those given to the hijacker," Paul L. Mack, special agent in charge of the FBI's Seattle office, said in a statement.
"Because of the decomposed na- ture of the bills, an exact estimate of the recovered money is not possible pending a laboratory examination. However, it appears to be several thousand dollars.
"The packaging and the numbered sequence," Mack added, "indicate that the bills have not been separated and . are in much the same order as when given to the hijacker."
The money was still held together with a rubber band, FBI agents said.
The bills are being sent to the FBI laboratory in Washington, D.C., for further examination.
"It appears logical that the pack- age of bills could have been carried downstream on one of the Washing-
ton tributaries of the Columbia River to the site where they were found," Mack said.
The money was found on the Washington side of the Columbia about five miles downstream from the Interstate 5 bridge at Vancouver, where the river makes a sharp north- ward bend.
The discovery will probably steer agents away from the vicinity of Lake Merwin, which until now they | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=187 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
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The discovery will probably steer agents away from the vicinity of Lake Merwin, which until now they had considered the most likely area for Cooper to have landed in his jump.
Lake Merwin is behind a dam. on, the Lewis River, which empties into the Columbia about 15 miles down- stream from where the money was found. So it appears to mean the loot couldn't have washed down the Lewis River.
Agent Himmelsbach said the money could have washed down the Washougal River instead. If so, the agent said, Cooper's landing spot would have been about 25 miles far- ther south than the FBI had believed.
About.33 FBI agents from Portland and Seattle swarmed over the area where the money was found with shovels and rakes last night. An agent said they'd be back at work there to- day.
Treasure hunters and curiosity seekers were being kept away.
"We've got the area secured and it will be secured until we're through with it," Bill Williams, a spokesman for the Portland office of the FBI said.
The site is in a swampy dairy farm- ing area, frequently flooded by the Columbia River. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=187 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-280 | Over his buttocks, on the same strap, an attache case dangles. It is black and contains five sticks of phony dynamite.
The man is, poised on the final step. His laughter. rises in the wind. He spreads his arms wide and skydives toward the treetops. - and the folklore of the nation.
D.B. Cooper has arrived. The' world will never be the same place again.
I felt a pang of professional jeal- ousy. This guy was good with the
75€
typewriter. And all the space-age jargon was there. He called thep '/27-100's engines "Pratt & Whitney jewels." He knew the skyjacked plane's fuel capacity - in U.S. gal-[; lons. And he knew how much 10,000 twenties weighed.
It was smooth and authentic. Still, the writer could have gotten most of that stuff out of Jane's All the World's Aircraft.
But one section struck home. The part that told about the deliv- èry of the ransom aboard the 727 at Sea-Tac Airport:
"The bills were the real McCoy. But all of them had been xeroxed; to get their serial numbers. I know! I snarfed them personally. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=198 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-287 | Cooper probably died the night he went jut the plane.
"It is my personal opinion that he is dead," said Joseph O'Con- nell, who has retired. "He jumped out of a plane at 10,000 feet on a cold, raw night and he jumped in an area densely populated with Douglas fir and ponderosa pine." Ralph Himmelsbach, Portland F.B.I. agent who is to retire Feb- ruary 29, said he was "delighted about the money being found. He EB 115 1980 said the find reduced the chances of Cooper ever being found alive to "less than 50-50."
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The moldering money, about $4,000, was found by a family pic- nicking along the river north of Portland. A young boy digging in the sandy riverbanks with a stick uncovered the loot.
After that, Fisher said, "It was just like the D.B. Cooper party."
. Fisher said he had been on the run answering telephone calls from television-network reporters in New York and newspapers and- radio stations all over the West Coast.
Only about 20 or 30 patrons were in the Ariel Tavern last night, and most were paying as much attention to playing pool as to the Cooper talk. A weekly Tues- day-night pool match with the Riv- erside Tavern in Woodland had been moved to Ariel last night at the request of a Portland televi- sion station interested in filming reaction to the discovery of the money.
Fisher and others said they were mystified as to how the mon- ey arrived on the banks of the Co- limbia River, but they still would have to be persuaded that the hi- jacker didn't survive after he bailed out of the Boeing 727. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=201 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
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Fisher and others said they were mystified as to how the mon- ey arrived on the banks of the Co- limbia River, but they still would have to be persuaded that the hi- jacker didn't survive after he bailed out of the Boeing 727.
"I still think he's alive, until they find some bones," Fisher said.
He said the finding could lead to other developments, pointing out that the discovery by the boy was) a strange first trace of Cooper after so many years.
Then the telephone rang in the next room, Fisher raced to an- swer it, laughed and announced, "San Jose calling."
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VANCOUVER, Wash. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=201 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-309 | C., will report on how much money was found, said Bill Williams, of the FBI office in Portland, Ore., whose agents dug and sifted the sand earlier this week.
Cooper is believed to have para- chuted over Lake Merwin in Cowlitz County. No trace of him or the money
is known to have been found until the discovery Sunday.
Williams said yesterday that Leon- ard Palmer, a geologist at Portland State University, concluded that the money drifted onto the river bank sometime after August 1974. The money lay in sand on top of spoil from a dredging operation that was conducted that month, Palmer told the FBI.
Pringle said that sooner or later the recovered money will be returned to its owner.
"We don't know who that is and it's not up to us to determine," he said. "It might be that a court will have to decide."
The $200,000 was delivered to . Cooper aboard a Northwest Airline plane in Seattle after he skyjacked it.
Brent Baskfield, a Northwest pub-, lic relations officer in St. Paul, Minn., said Northwest paid the money but has been reimbursed for most of it by The Globe Insurance Co. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=210 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
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Baker could not say whether the Ingram family will get a reward, since the FBI can not offer one, but he indicated there is a good possibili- ty that the airline or another source; would provide one.
The elder Ingram and his wife, Patricia, told dozens of news media, people at a press conference in the Portland FBI Office Tuesday how
the money was found.
"I was about to build a fire on the" beach," said Ingram, "and had myi. arms full, but before I could set it; down, my son said, 'Wait a minute' daddy.' He scooped off some sand, and this money rolled to the top."
A UPI reporter who talked with the family Tuesday said Brian and his 5-year-old cousin, Denise In- gram, shouted, "Look! It's money that we found!"
The Ingrams said they didn't con- nect the money to the Cooper case at the time, but realized it must be im- portant to someone, so they notified the Portland FBI Office of the find.
Asked by a reporter why he con- tacted the FBI instead of local authorities, Ingram responded, "Because I figured if I turned it over to police, I would never see it again."
He didn't elaborate on that remark, but continued to answer questions from newspaper, televi- sion and radio reporters. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=218 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
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33 SOUTH FIFTH STREET MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55402 TELEPHONE [612] 339-4911
TELECOPIER [512] 339 4181 TWX 910-576-2737
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Re: D. B. Cooper
Dear Mr. Baker:
We have become aware that some of the money given to D. B. Cooper has been recovered. This letter is to advise you that our client, Globe Indemnity Company, reimbursed Northwest Airlines for the money which was given to D. B. Cooper. It is our opinion, based on the terms of the contract pursuant to which such indemnification was made, that Globe Indemnity is entitled to receive any recovery made until the full amount of indemnification has been repaid.
We would appreciate being kept advised of what recovery is or has been made.
Very truly yours,
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SAINT PAUL OFFICE 1210 MINNESOTA BUILDING SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA SSI01 TELEPHONE (612) 224-5904
SOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL OFFICE BUITE SSO 2690 CUMBERLAND. PARKWAY ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30339 TELEPHONE (404) 434-7100
WESTERN REGIONAL OFFICE BUITE 200 13GOO FAIRCHILD DRIVE IRVINE, | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=240 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
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By LEVERETT RICHARDS of Tho Orogonlan Bicit
"Several thousand dollars" of the! $200,000 obtained eight years ago by the celebrated airline hijacker who used the name Dan Cooper was found Sun- day along the Columbia River down- stream from Vancouver, Wash., the FBI reported Tuesday.
Three bundles containing 12 packets. of weatherbeaten $20 bills were found in river sand by a picnicking Vancouver family, about nine miles northwest of; the city.
FBI agents searching the beach Tuesday afternoon found several more, fragments of $20 bills, some of them i under three feet of sand. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=257 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
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One of the more intensive searches in the FBI's history had failed to turn up any clue to the fate of the mysterious hijacker or his loot during the eight years since he bailed out of a Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 727 flying at 7,000 feet over La Center, Wash., on Nov. 24, 1971, FBI spokesmen said.
Cooper's was the first hijacking of a commercial airliner for money, and ¿started a chain of similar attempts, which was responsible in part for the rigid security system now enforced at all United States airports and most ma- jor airports abroad.
Because of an erroneous report of the name used by the hijacker, he be- came known nationally as D.B. Cooper, although the airline manifest showed he had used the name "Dan."
The man who called himself Cooper paid cash for a ticket and boarded Northwest's Flight 305 at Portland In- ternational Airport just before it depart- ed. He sat in a rear seat in the cabin and waited until the plane was airborne. Then he handed stewardess Florence Schaffner a note saying he had a bomb in the satchel he was carrying and de- manding $200,000 in unmarked $20 bills. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=261 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
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1 Cooper a hero or crook?
By Bud May The Daily News
If they ever create a hall of fame for lawbreakers, D.B. Cooper will certainly have an. honored spot as the perpetrator of America's only unsolved skyjacking.
But does that make him a hero, or just a criminal pic- tured by some as a Robin Hood character who stymied the establishment?
The legendary man had few admirers among people whose opinions were solicited by The Daily News today.
An exception is Dave Fisher, who operates the ' Store and Tavern along his wife, Laurel.
"I'll admit he's a crook, like most of the people, here, I hope he got away an; on the loose. People here fl he put Ariel on the map, ad we're kind of rooting for him!' Fisher said.
Gordon Connell, a Kelso hardware store owner, disagrees.
"I think D.B. Cooper is a long way from being a hero. He is or was a common crook who stole someone else's. money; and if he's found alive, he should be punished fully. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=271 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-435 | Operators of the farm said they knew something was unusual when several cars streamed along a road leading through the farmyard to the beach.
"We didn't know what it was about until we heard it on the radio," said one farm employee.
And three fishermen who routinely spend every day but Sundays fishing on ¡the beach initially were confused and. then angry.
"These guys wouldn't tell us what swas going on," said Ken Davenport of Vancouver. "They asked us to move, but wouldn't tell us who they were or
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Another fisherman, Mike Haddican of Vancouver, said they knew some- thing was up "because everybody was getting out of cars with shovels insteadl of fishing poles."
The Guernsey . cows watched the beach show from their pens on a small bluff, scattering occasionally when hell- . copters chartered by news organiza- tions flew overhead.
Within an hour after the FBI an- nounced where the money had been .. found, private automobiles streamed down Northwest Lower River Road, ar narrow two-lane road leading to the farm. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=277 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
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Re:
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Specimens received February 14, 1980
Q58 Unknown amount of U. S. currency in deteriorated condition
Q59 Soil from submitted U. S. currency
Result of examination : The exact number of bills contained in the submitted currency could not be determined, because of the deteriorated condition of this currency.
Approximately 290 twenty dollar bills ($5,800.00) are contained in the submitted currency.
The disposition of the submitted evidence and the results of the mineralogy and fingerprint examinations will be furnished separately.
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No money, no fish Treasure hunters fail to find more Cooper loot 1
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP). When the fellas gather at T'ena Bar, fish stories abound. Hardly anyone wants to talk about the D.B. Cooper money that got away.
Tena Bar isn't a local watering hole. It's a local fishing hole -- and the sand bar on the Columbia River on which the D.B. Cooper loot was found recently.
For awhile, all sorts of people `gathered at the bar to search for some of the $200,000 ranson money taken by Cooper in the nation's first hijacking-for-profit nine years ago; after a boy found weathered packets of $20 bills in the sand.
On Wednesday, however, the only evidence of : last week's frantic search of the beach by EBI agents were mounds of sand turned up by the searchers,
We haven't seen anybody " said Bill Holcomb, a Vancouver resident and frequenter of Tena Bar.
Holcomb was fishing there with Virgil Nichols and Ken Troupe, both of Vancouver. The trio made up the entire fishing population of Tena-Bar on Wednesday,
"We drag junk out of this river every day. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=295 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-469 | The trio made up the entire fishing population of Tena-Bar on Wednesday,
"We drag junk out of this river every day. Plastic, old shoes, things like that," said Nichols. "But never any money.'
"There may be money here, but there's ito fish," Holcomb said.
A long trench on the beach dug for use by river experts studying the layers of sand has been refilled, as has the Jarge hole around the spot where 8-year-old Brian Ingram found the Cooper money.Cooper hi- jached a Northwest Airlines plane in 1971 and jumped from the back of the jet with $200,000.
The Fazio Brothers, who own the beach next to their farming opera-
tion, seem glad it's over
As soon as the FBI left Frida said Richard Fazio, " Two, people came, got stuck in the sand, aild wanted me to pull them out. I .d. and then Iwent up to close the gate.
Meanwhile, local FBI agents `assigned to the case are awaiting the results of tests of the money by the bureau's crime lab in Washington, D.C., and checking all the leads that Invariably crop up when anything to do with the Cooper case is publiciz. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=295 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-475 | Cooper Was the coolest man that I had ever met, he seemed so professional; He talked of pulling one more job, on the level of the great Brinks robbery, this Was to be done in Las Vegas, because he stated that few people had ever pulled off a big heist in Las Vegas, and lived to tell about it; I replied; D.D. That's Mafia money you're talking about, and he said yeah, I know, that's what keeps me motivated.
I'LL say one thing for D.D. he loves Tatoos, he has them all over his arms, and legs. He claims that he paid a fortune to have them did when he Was in the army.
I could go on talking about D.D. Cooper all day, but I must close now; For D.D. Along with Former President Richard M. Nixon are like so many other self-tortured souls who are vengeful of the F.B.I. for turning them down, when they so desperately wanted to be a member of the F.B.I.
"
C. C. OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR WASty, D.C.
164-81-8270 SEARCHED IS, INDEXED SERIALIZED DE FI En 11
14/
FEB 2 7 1980
FBI - SEATTLE
DB Cooper-17525
b6 b7c b6 b7C :unselected:b6 b7C
Walla Walla, WA
NALLA VESTHE FEB21'30
WASSER SOME IS -IS
Office of the F. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=298 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-537 |
2 - Bureau (Enclosure) :selected: 1 - Seattle 2 - Portland SI (1 - 164-41) (1 - 80-42)
DBW: Ime (5)
164-51-8288 ¿
MAR 5" 1980 本
DB Cooper-175742/23/80 SAG, MINNEAPOLIS (164-73) (P) NORJACK 00: SEATTLE SAC, OMAHA
On 2/13/SO,
Willnaf, minnesota, telephone number advised that artist's sketch of Unsub he had recently seen on Minneapolis television station looked very similar to an individual he had known in the past named ' He explained that he attended Worthington, Minnesota,
was
with years ago, but has not seen or heard of him in the past ten years. He advised that a Vietnam veteran,
and felt the world owed him something for this. He believes was a parachutist in the military, was very athletic, but did not do well scholastically. He added that was rather anti-social and he had heard him use first names other than his true first name. He estimated that would now be approximately 36 years old. This Was from Lyon County, Iowa, and lived Iowa. He did not know his mailing address. He cannot recall father's first name, but feels that the local Sheriff would know then.
stated that he had not thought of as being identical with Unsub, until he saw the artist's sketch. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=345 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-545 | AT RATON, NEW MEXICO: WILL ATTEMPT TO LOCATE AND INTERVIEW THROUGH b6
AT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO: WILL CONSIDER REVIEWING HIGH SCHOOL RECORDS OF GRADUATES IN :unselected: FOR ALBUQUERQUE HIGH SCHOOLS
IN EFFORT TO OBTAIN INFORMATION WHICH MIGHT LEAD TO LOCATION AND INTERVIEW OF :unselected:
BALTIMORE AT SOCIAL SECURITY HEADQUARTERS: WILL DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THEIR RECORDS SHOW SSAN HAVING RECENT OR CURRENT EMPLOYMENT FOR :unselected: AND, IF SO, WILL SET OUT LEADS TO HAVE HIM INTERVIEWED.
SACRAMENTO AT OROVILLE, CALIFORNIA: WILL ATTEMPT TO LOCATE
AND INTERVIEW :unselected: THROUGH b6 b7C
ST. LOUIS AT FEDERAL RECORDS CENTER: WILL ATTEMPT TO
b6 b7C
b7C
b6 b7c
b6 b7C
DB Cooper-17583b6 b7C
SU 1.64-259 PAGE FOUR UNCLAS LOCATE RECORDS OF MILITARY SERVICE AND REVIEW SAME TO OBTAIN POSSIBLE LEAD INFORMATION IN ORDER TO LOCATE AND INTERVIEW
SALT LAKE CITY AT PROVO, UTAH: INVESTIGATION CONTINUING. BT
DB Cooper-17584 :unselected:b6 b7C
CU0601 0683339Z PP AQ BA SC SL SE DE SU P @72350Z MAR 80 FM SALT LAKE CITY (164-259) (P)
TO ALBUQUERQUE PRIORITY BALTIMORE PRIORITY SACRAMENTO PRIORITY ST. LOUIS PRIORITY SEATTLE (164-61) PRIORITY BT
UNCLAS
NORJAK (A), 00: SEATTLE, BUFILE 164-2111. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=354 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-548 | Peachtree St, Atlanta, GA 30309
December 31, 1979
Dear
First, let me assure you: I am D, B. Cooper, the individual who completed the skyjacking in 1969. Of course, you -- and any of your colleagues -- may choose to disbelieve this: our society is comprised of individuals who, strangely enough, believe in that which is untrue, disbelieve in that which is fact.
Nevertheless, I have decided that it is time for a bit of communica- tion. Somewhat rather smugly observing the minor fanfare my ten- year anniversary caused in the media this November, I suddenly realized that I wanted people to know I was still alive -- and that I had, in fact, successfully eluded the police and lived very nicely, I might add -- on the proceeds of my adventure.
I moved to Atlanta more than five years ago and began watching your newscasts. You seemed to have a "no-nonsense" approach to . the news which I can appreciate -- and thus, when I finally decided to communicate w/ the outside world, you appeared the natural choice.
I'd like to clear up two items concerning my little'event. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=358 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-557 | I INDEXDE-24 2014 " 6
DB Cooper-17596
MAR & 1980
Approved:
Transmitted
026
b6 b7c
(Number) (*
b6 b7c
b6 b7C :unselected:12
Routing Slip FD-4 (Rev. 6-2
-
Date 3 /80
To: :unselected: Director
Att .:
FILE #
SE 164-81
Title
NÓRJAK
00: SÉ RE: :selected: SAC SEATTLE :unselected: ASAC :unselected: Supv. :unselected: Agent :unselected: OSM :unselected: Rotor # :unselected: M Room :unselected: Acknowledge :unselected: For Information :unselected: Return assignment card :unselected: Assign :unselected: Reassign :unselected: Handle :unselected: Bring file :unselected: Initial & return :unselected: Call me :unselected: Leads need attention :unselected: Return with action taken :unselected: Return file :unselected: serial :unselected: Correct :unselected: Open case :unselected: Return with explanation :unselected: Discontinue :unselected: Recharge file :unselected: seria :unselected: Type :unselected: Deadline :unselected: Prepare lead cards :unselected: Search and return :unselected: Delinquent :unselected: Prepare tickler :unselected: See me :unselected: Expedite :unselected: File :unselected: Send to
Enclosed are two copies of Albany airtel to Portland, dated 2/26/80 sent to Portland | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=364 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-559 |
The above submitted to the 00 for elimination purposes or further investigative leads at the discretion of the 00.
2-Portland 1-Albany ErC:njd (3) 81-829
DB Cooper-17598
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b6 b7c
GLOSIS-1-91 SUBS 3,0, 00
March 5, 1980
Springfield, Missouri
Dear
Your letter of February 16th was received and it was most thoughtful of you to furnish your views and observations. I can assure you the FBI is taking appropriate action concerning this skyjacking and your letter has been forwarded to the case agent in our Seattle, Washington, Office. In addition, the Bureau has no knowledge of any reward money still available in the Dan Cooper Case. Sincerely yours,
Roger S. Young Inspector-in-Charge Public Affairs Office
1 - Kansas City - Enclosure Seattle - Enclosure : 0 4 1 Re Bu Routing Slip 2/26/80. Attention SAC: Bufiles contain no identifiable information regarding correspondent. was a Special Agent from
b6 b7C
11-11-8295
4
MAR 10 1980
2 b6 b7c
E
DB Cooper-17599 :unselected:16-1-81-8272,
March 5, 1980
SUBS: J. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=366 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-576 | time, if the money came down the Washougal, would have been during the December 2, 1977 Washougal flood when parts of the river were approximately ten feet over the normal winter flood stage.
There are several other streams that feed the Columbia River upstream from the however, due to size, or the degree of slope of the streams, it is unlikely that a small package would have made it to the Columbia. It is also unlikely that a small package would have passed through Lacamas Lake downstream to the Columbia.
stated that based on the three feet per second speed of the Columbia River, if a small package entered the Columbia River at Washougal, Washington, and floated in the main stream of the river to the a distance approximately thirty miles, it would take 14.7 hours. This is assuming that the package did not tumble along the bottom of the river or get caught on any snags.
16-1-81-8298
SEARCHED UP INDEXED SERIALIZED :........ FILED 11 4 MAR 1 1 1980
b6 b7C
b6 b7c
b6 b7C
b6 b7C
b6 b7C
b6 b7c
DB Cooper-17613SE 164-81 PD 164-41 SLH: LBN 2
stated that numerous streams feed the Columbia downstream from the including the Lewis River which would move a small package to the Columbia; | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=377 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-593 | pilot ex</td></tr><tr><td></td><td>perience - none
64-81-8303</td></tr><tr><td>Financial Status:</td><td>Not apparently in possession of large sums of moneyichr 1974 INDEXED " 11</td></tr></table></figure>
SERIALIZED
MAR 1 3 1980
5010-110
2 -Seattle 2 - San Francisco (164-220) KQB/dma (4)
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Saving DB Cooper-17628
,
b6 b7COPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 JULY 1973 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO : SAC, SEATTLE
DATE: 3/7/80
FROM
:
SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) (?)
SUBJECT:
NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
SUB J
The following information is being made available to Seattle and it is being left to the discretion of the Seattle office whether or not to set out leads based upon the information set forth.
On 3/7/80,
Mountain View, California (PROTECT BY REQUEST), advised that the artist's conception of D.B. Cooper bears a striking resemblance to a man he knew about ten years ago. He described that man as follows:
Name :
Race :
White
Sex :
Male
Dob :
About
Ssan :
Height:
5'9
Weight : 150 - 160 pounds
Build:
Slight
Hair:
Strawberry blond
Complexion :
Reddish
Military: U.S. Army
Marital Status : Still unmarried as of 1974. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=390 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-619 | as she recalls, ten or 15 years, and she believes that there was one time some comment about him being familiar with para- chuting, either in the Navy or as a sport.
advised that she recently saw a drawing of "D. B. Cooper" on television and that looks exactly like that drawing.
b6
b7C b7D
at
b7C b7D :selected: 2 - Seattle 2 - Dallas 1 - Butte JAN/dep (5)
164-81-83110
SEARCHED 2 WIDEXEL SERIALIZED 1/1. FILED 11/
DB Cooper-17659
MĀR 1 8 1980
b6 b7C
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Sav
5010-110
advised that are now residing Grand Prairie, Texas. She
b6BT #164-26
advised that
b6 b7C b7D
believes that
Rhode Island, several years ago.
advised that she is quite a good friend and requested that her identity as a source of this information not be revealed.
b6 b7C b7D
with
furnished the following description :
Name
b6
Alias
Male White
b7c b7D
Sex
Race
Age Date of Birth Height
5' 10"
Weight
170 pounds
Hair
Graying (generally dyes dark brown)
Eyes
Green
Former residences
Missoula, Montana;
(address unknown) , Missoula, Montana;
(address unknown) ,
Missoula, Montana
b6
b7C
On 3/3/80, Office, could find no record for
Missoula County Sheriff's
b7D
in the Sheriff's Office files. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=413 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-627 | M
Specimens received
February 8, 1980
Four United States Twenty Dollar Bills described as follows:
<figure><table><tr><th>SPECIMEN</th><th>SERIAL NUMBER</th></tr><tr><td>Q60</td><td>G03072381B</td></tr><tr><td>Q61</td><td>L10019321A</td></tr><tr><td>Q62</td><td>L55086867A</td></tr><tr><td>Q63</td><td>L32987392A</td></tr></table></figure>
Result of examination: Specimens Q60 through Q63 contained mineralogical material which was similar to the Q59 sand previously submitted.
Q00 through Q63 were photographed and will be returned with the results of the fingerprint examination.
1621-81-8313 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZE ....... FILED 1
MAR/1 9 1980 FBI-SEATTLE
DB Cooper-17672 FBI/DOJLaboratory Transmittal Form 7-72
FBI LABORATORY_
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535
To:
SAC, Portland (164-41)
March 18, 1980
From: Director, FBI
<figure><table><tr><td>FBI FILE NO.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>164-2111</td></tr><tr><td>LAB. NO.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>00304057 D LL VJ</td></tr></table></figure>
Re:
NORJAK
GUESS: G; 1. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=423 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-636 | , 325 West Pierpont Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101. This firm handles food grains, cereals and other foodstuffs in bulk quantities.
letter is being made available to Office of Origin for appropriate investigative attention. UAC, no further investigation being conducted at Salt Lake City. :selected: 2 - Seattle (Enc. 1) 2 - Salt Lake City
WRR : jpv (4)
1164-21-8317
<figure><table><tr><th>SEARCHED LA.</th><th>INDEXED</th><th></th></tr><tr><td colSpan=3>SERIALIZED FILED -</td></tr><tr><td colSpan=3>MAR 2 0 1980 Por</td></tr></table></figure>
Approved:
Transmitted
(Number) (Time) DB Cooper-17679
E
b6 Fallo b7C
b6 b7C
b6 b7C :unselected:XX AIRTEL
3/18/80
SUB OR
<figure><table><tr><td>TO:</td><td>SAC, SEATTLE (164-81)</td></tr><tr><td>FROM:</td><td>SAC, SALT LAKE CITY (164-259) (P)</td></tr><tr><td>SUBJECT:</td><td>NORJAK (00: SE)</td></tr></table></figure>
Enclosed for Seattle is a letter dated 3/7/80, received by FBI, Salt Lake City, from :selected: b6 b7C
of Great Northern Distributing Company, Inc., 325 West Pierpont Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=430 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-638 | 's from Fort Lewis have futilly wasted many hours and thousands of tax- payers dollars looking for cooper.
So far Cooper has successfully eluded his following in the same ingenious manner that he pulled off his skyjack caper, cooly staying a safe distance away from danger.
'The F.B.I. headquaters" in Seattle has vowed to ser- ... utinize every foot of land between the Sea-Tac airport and Reno to turn up clues in the case.
Despite rewards of 5,000 dollars-by the Medias " Fink on your Friends" programe the public has generally granted Cooper adoration and somewhat a hero status.
anonymous interviewer from the twice weekly hspaper the 'Seattle Flag' has produced a story from a taped interview with D.B. Cooper which is validated by the, presentation of one of the recorded twenty dollar bills included in the ransom money. .
This story was run in the 'Flag' because the inter- viewer was unable to send it to the 'Post-Intellingener' because they had the 5,000 dollar reward out for Coopers head also television stations would have requested a tape from which voice prints could possible be produced. | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=432 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part043_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743034332E706466-page-649 | :unselected: Facsimile AIRTEL :unselected: SECRET :unselected: CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: UNCLAS E F TO :unselected: UNCLAS
Date
3/17/80
TO:
SAC, SEATTLE
FROM :
WASHERE
SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (164-220) (Sq.10) (P)
SUBJECT :
NORJAK
00 :
SEATTLE
Sup- B, C,GJ, IF
Re San Francisco telephone call to Seattle, dated
3/5/80.
Being forwarded to the Seattle Office is one copy each of the following:
A letter dated 2/20/80 from
showing a xerox copy of a twenty dollar bill marked exhibit "A".
A xerox copy of a letter dated 3/6/80 to the FBI
from and a copy of an article captioned"Take the money and jump-how he foiled FBI" dated May 12-18-Berkeley Barb.
As mentioned in referenced telephone call the San Francisco Office contacted after the receipt of his first letter of 2/20/80. stated that he had obtained the plate of the twenty dollar bill which was published in the Berkeley Barb sometime in November, 1972.
2 -Seattle (Enc. 2) 2 -San Francisco DJB/ jab
164-81-8331 SEARCHED PL NEEDED. SERIALIZED 2 FILET V MAR 2 0 1980
Approved:
Transmitted
(Number)
(Time)
DB Cooper-17685
b6 b7C
b6 b7C
b6 b7c
.b6 b7cSF 164-220
DJB/ jab
stated that he did not desire a written confirmation of his letters, however ,he | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf#page=436 | cooper_d_b_part043.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-2 | convinced in her own mind that his but she wished to notify the appropriate authori- ties of the information, so that they could evaluate it and she could feel as though her conscience was clear.
stated that she has lived in the Juneau, Alaska b6 area for a number of years, and first met when he came to b7C b7D him,
Juneau, Alaska around stated that had come to Juneau, Alaska from Vancouver, Washington area. After meeting
and
stated that wherein
provided the following physical description and b6
background data on
b7C b7D
Name
Aliases
Race
White
PD 164-41-1870
Investigation on
1/26/82
at Juneau, Alaska
File *
AN 164A-227
by SA
Date dictated
1/26/82
b6
b7C
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It Is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency: it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
DB Cooper-43400
b6 b7C b7D
b6 b7C b7DFD-36 (Rev. 5-22-78)
FBI
TRANSMIT VIA:
PRECEDENCE: CLASSIFICATION: :unselected: Immediate :selected: TOP SECRET :unselected: Teletype :selected: SDORET :unselected: Facsimile :unselected: Priority
X :unselected: CONFIDENTIAL :selected: AIRTEL :unselected: Routine :unselected: UNCLAS E F TO : | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=2 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-4 | THOMAS
Subject :
NORJAK
On this date, Dalls, Oregon, advised
home telephone
would not furnish any further details. He stated he wants an Agent to contact him ASAP and he wants to be paid for his information. He was advised that an Agent would contact him.
b6 b7C
b6 b7C
27F= jmt
MA
164-41-1872
SEARCHED SERIALIZE
FEB 17-4982
b6 b7C
DB Cooper-43409OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 JULY 1973 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11,6 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum
TO
: SAC PORTLAND (164-41)
FROM :
SA
SUBJECT: NORJAK
DATE: 2/17/82
b6 b7C
Re memo of SC JOAN M. THOMAS 2/12/82.
On 2/17/82 contac was made with the DALLAS, OREGON Police Department re OFFICER advised that b6 had contacted his department last Sunday 2/14/82 advising b7C them that
Officer advised that He
described as a white male, dob M
, with
ODL In light of the above information writter does not plan to contact unless advised to do so by Portland HQ.
b6 b7C
1-Portland
164-41-1873
SEARCHED SERIALIZED
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FEB 1 8 1982 EPLPARTI AND.
Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan
5010-110
DB Cooper-43410FD-36 (Rev. | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=4 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-41 | 5-22-78)
FBI
TRANSMIT VIA:
PRECEDENCE: :unselected: Immediate
CLASSIFICATION: :unselected: Teletype :unselected: :selected: ADARE :unselected: TOP SECRET :unselected: Facsimile :unselected: Priority :unselected: Routine :selected: CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: UNCLAS EF TU :unselected: UNCLAS
Date
PAGE FIVE PD 164-41 UNCLAS
SINCE NEITHER THE GREEN CLOTH OR MONEY SACK COULD BE PART OF THIS CASE IT IS RECOMMENDED NO FURTHER ACTION CONCERNING THEM BE TAKEN. IT IS FURTHER THE RECOMMENDATION UACB, THAT ANY LEADS, RESULTING FROM MR. TOSAW'S "SEARCH" BE CLOSELY EVALUATED BY THE RECEIVING OFFICE TO DETERMINE THEIR VALUE IN RELATION TO KNOWN FACTS. ANY RESULTANT ACTION SHOULD BE CAREFULLY CONDUCTED TO AVOID UNNECESSARY PUBLICITY WHICH WOULD INDICATE THE FBI IS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH MR. TOSAW, THAT HE IS ACTING IN ANY WAY AS A CONSULTANT FOR THE FBI, OR WHICH WOULD FURTHER SERVE AS AN AVENUE OF PUBLICITY TOWARD HIS PUBLICATION. NO PUBLIC COMMENTS SHOULD BE MADE WHICH WOULD JEOPARDIZE HIS ENDEAVOR; HOWEVER, UPON DEMAND LOCAL SOURCES WILL STILL BE APPRISED OF THE FACTS WHICH HAVE LONG BEEN PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE DURING THIS ELEVEN YEAR | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=34 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-62 |
Reed was the first western liberal arts college to receive an endowment from the William R. Kenan Jr. Chari- table Trust, established in 1966. The distinguished professorship is perpetu- al, one of 54 such grants awarded since the program began.
" Designed to enhance the quality and effectiveness of teaching and the teacher-student relationship at the un- dergraduate level, the grants are given directly to privately supported schools of high academic standing,
Hanson has been a major contribu- tor to the development of freshman and sophomore humanities at Reed, where he teaches poetry.
[]
Portland State University English Professor Sam Oakland has been awarded a National Endowment in the Humanities Fellowship in Internation- al Studies at the University of Con- necticut this summer. Oakland will work on a paper titled: "Containing the Chinese Dragon: A Study of the Non-recognition Policy of the United States of America,"
Antaland a me what af then DOTT for DB Cooper-43471Memorandum
To :
SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) :unselected:
From : SA
Date
3/7/84
Subject :
NORJACK
(00: Seattle)
1
Gladstone, Oregon,
telephone , advised the | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=57 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-63 | the United States of America,"
Antaland a me what af then DOTT for DB Cooper-43471Memorandum
To :
SAC, PORTLAND (164-41) :unselected:
From : SA
Date
3/7/84
Subject :
NORJACK
(00: Seattle)
1
Gladstone, Oregon,
telephone , advised the Portland FBI Office on 2/28/84, that after viewing a composite of D. B. COOPER during a television program "In Search of" on 2/26/84, he thought the composite shown closely resembled in Roseburg, Oregon, named :unselected: LNU) .
occasions driving
explained that he has seen :unselected: (LNU) on several between Roseburg and b6 b7C
Portland, on Interstate 5. On two occasions in the
(LNU) at Tom-Tom Restaurant, Interstate 5, Albany, Oregon.
talked with :unselected: could not recall whether or not :unselected: (LNU) told him his name or whether he just heard his name through a waitress at Tom-Tom. :unselected: (LNU) did not talk much but did express that he owned
b6 a Toyota Jeep for which he replaced the engine and a used Oldsmobile b7C car. recalled he wondered why (LNU) was so thrift :unselected: conscious since also recalled that :unselected: (LNU)
was quite observant of what went on around him during their brief conversations and was always alone. | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=57 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-77 | :selected: AIRTEL
FBI
PRECEDENCE: :unselected: Immediate :unselected: Priority :unselected: Routine
CLASSIFICATION: 8 TOP SECRET :unselected: :selected: SECRET :unselected: CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: UNCIAS EFTO :unselected: UNCLAS Date 4/16/85
TO:
SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81)
FROM:
SAC, BUTTE (164A-26)(P)
SUBJECT:
NORJAK
CAA - HIJACKING
00: Seattle
Re Sacramento airtel to Bureau, 3/15/85.
Enclosed for Seattle and Portland Divisions are two copies each of a driver's license of one which license was obtained from the Montana Highway Patrol, Records Section Helena, Montana.
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ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
2 - Seattle ( Enc. 2) (AM) 2 - Portland (164A-41) (Inc. 2) (AM) 2 - Butte
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tiU.S. Government Printing Office: 19 F.FCMUND
DB Cooper-43500FD-302 (Rev. 3-10-82)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date of transcription 4/22/85
1
voluntarily appeared in the Billings Resident Agency of the FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION and stated that
STILLWATER COUNTY SHERIFF and the Justice of the | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=74 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
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This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI.
It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
itSEABONED, i +G. INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED JUN 3 1985 FBI -- PORTLAND
DB Cooper-43501 :unselected:Memorandum
To
:
SAC, SEATTLE (164A-81)
Date
5/29/85
From
SAC, BUTTE (164A-26) (₽)
Subject :
NORJAK
CAA-HIJACKING
00: SEATTLE
Re Butte airtel to Seattle, dated 4/16/85.
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Butte holding in abeyance further investigation awaiting requested material from Seatte, request made by Butte teletype, , dated 4/12/85.
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
2 - Seattle (Enc. 2 - Sacramento (Enc.) (164A-50) (2) - Portland (Enc. 2)(164A-41)
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file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-81 | The agent is responsible for obtaining authorization to dispose of or return the evidence/property to the contributor. Agent should coordinate the return or disposal of the evidence/property with the bulky clerk.
This memo and file should be returned to by March 27, 1985.
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BULKY EXHIBITS TO BE REVIEWED 1B3,4,5
RETAIN EVIDENCE/PROPERTY
Agent's intials
5/27/85
Date
EVIDENCE/PROPERTY IS TO BE DISPOSED OF AS FOLLOWS:
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DB Cooper-43505File - Serial Charge Cut FD-5 (Rev. 10-13-89)
Date
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File
164-41
Class.
Office of Origin
Case No.
Last Serial :unselected: Pending :unselected: Closed
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Date
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Location
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DB Cooper-43506FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-78)
FBI
TRANSMIT VIA: :unselected: Teletype
PRECEDENCE: :unselected: Immediate
CLASSIFICATION: :unselected: TOP SECRET :unselected: Facsimile :unselected: Priority :selected: SECRET :unselected: CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: AIRTEL :unselected: Routine :selected: UNOLAS EF TO :unselected: UNCLAS
Date
9/5/85
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NORJAK (00: Seattle) Bufile 164-2111
Enclosed herewith | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=78 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
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486
Approved:
Transmitted
Per
164A-41-1925
(Number) (Time)
* U.S. Government Printing Offlet: 1984-431.613/6249
Searched Serialized Indexed
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FM SEATTLE (164-81) (P) TO BUTTE (164A-26) ROUTINE LAS VEGAS ROUTINE PORTLAND (164-41) ROUTINE SACRAMENTO (164A-50) ROUTINE BT UNCLAS :selected: NORJACK; CAA-HIJACKING (A); 00: SEATTLE.
REFERENCE PORTLAND AIRTEL TO LAS VEGAS, DATED. DECEMBER 3, 1985. FOR INFORMATION OF RECEIVING OFFICES, SEATTLE DIVISION IS. CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF REVIEWING CAPTIONED INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE IF ANY' OF THE CURRENT OUTSTANDING INVESTIGATIVE LEADS ARE CAPABLE OF IDENTIFYING A SUBJECT IN CAPTIONED INVESTIGATION. SEATTLE DIVISION INTENDS TO CONDUCT A FINAL REVIEW OF THIS INVESTIGATION, NOW 14 YEARS OLD, AND TO RECOMMEND TO THE BUREAU THAT THE INVESTIGATION BE CLOSED.
RECEIVING OFFICES ARE REQUESTED TO HOLD IN ABEYANCE ANY ADDITIONAL
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file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-98 | and West Linn resident Ralph Himmelsbach is getting accustomed to the phone calls and the tips that often are dead ends for investigators.
But this year it was different. The certified letter that arrived at his Marylhurst-area home three weeks ago and the phone call the next day from the letter writer all had the markings of something more interesting than a routine dead end.
After years of chasing the notorious sky- jacker known to law enforcement agencies only as "Dan Cooper," Himmelsbach might have a real suspect in the case.
Although some of the information about the' .- latest in what seemed like thousands of Dan Cooper suspects was a bit sketchy, Him- melsbach was obviously interested. A,former criminal investigator not given to false hopes or empty encouragement, Himmelsbach said last week that the most recent suspect had some "very compelling" features that seemed to match a profile of the skyjacking suspect.
"I don't know who D.B. Cooper was, but I have had several very attractive suspects in the past few years," Himmelsbach said. | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=94 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-99 | Cooper was, but I have had several very attractive suspects in the past few years," Himmelsbach said.
In mid-November, almost 14 years to the day of the skyjacking, a registered letter arrived at Himmelsbach's home outlining a suspect who, he said, seemed to fit many parts of the description of D.B. Cooper.
'I don't know who D.B. Cooper was, but I have had some suspects in the past few years'
The letter was followed by a telephone call from the same person, saying that he or she had a close relative who fit the D.B. Cooper description, Himmelsbach said. The suspect lives in the Portland area, but Himmelsbach declined to identify either the suspect or the person who brought the suspect to his attention.
Himmelsbach said he turned the information over to the local FBI office, which investigates . each new lead to the case.
"It does look pretty good," Himmelsbach said. "The person fits some very compelling parts of the person we think was D.B. Cooper." The tip was one of about 100 Himmelsbach and the local FBI office receive every November when the area media focus on the infamous event. | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=94 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-109 | two pieces of evidence have ever been found in the case -- a plastic sign explaining the operation of a rear door on the Boeing 727
jet from which Cooper parachuted, and $5,800 in $20 bills (294 of them) that was uncovered in Feb. 10, 1980, on the bank of the Columbia . River near Vancouver - and numerous sear- ches of mountainous and wooded areas between Portland and Ariel, Wash., about 30 miles north of Portland where Cooper was believed to have landed, have yielded few clues about the sky- jacking.
S peculation about the case led author Max Gunther to write the book "D.B. Cooper: What Really Happened," in which he said a woman who identified herself only as "Clara" told him that Cooper was actually a man nam- ed Dan Laclair who died recently of a heart at- tack.
Gunther's book, which was published this fall, told the story of how Clara found Cooper/Laclair injured in her tool shed.in a rural area of southwestern Washington and nursed him back to health. Clara and Laclair then took the money to Nevada where they "Jaundered" it by gambling in casinos, Gun- ther wrote.
In his book, Gunther also claimed that Laclair called him on the telephone from New York where he was living. | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=97 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
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MONEY IN PLASTIC FOLDER NUMBER 10
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Date of transcription
6/16/86
On this day reporting agents returned approximately $5, 800 in U. S. Currency, contained in plastic packets numbered two through twenty-two to RICHARD TOSAW.
Globe Indemity, a New York corporation. In addition, four (4) twenty dollars bills in one plastic packet were returned to these parties. The government retained one plastic folder containing several of these twenty dollar bills as evidence. The evidence returned to the above-named parties was contained in bulky number 1B3 and 1B4. Receipts were signed for the evidence by RICHARD TOSAW which are in the possession of the Portland Division of the FBI. The currency and portions of U. S. Currency were given to the parties to be divided as the parties determined to be proper .. .
The one plastic packet numbered number one, which was retained by the FBI as evidence, was returned back into evidence by reporting agents.
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Investigation on 6/10/86 Portland, Oregon
File #
PD 164A-41-1939
by SA SA
Date dictated
6/13/86
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=111 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-144 | COOPER, Route 1, Box 134, Hermiston; name of painting: Final Resting; place of painting, Mind; date of painting, 1970; price, $450.00.
advised that upon reading the name D. B. Cooperb6 she became quite suspicious, in that this individual was:avery ...: unusual person and may have had some of the characteristics of the hijacker, D. B. COOPER. She advised this individual recited poetry to the point of boring people, was an artist, was married to a lady in her seventies, and seemed to have a fascination for death as reflected in the painting, "Final Resting" that he gave her.
She also advised that this individual had been in a bad accident and had become quite crippled around the time of the hijacking, saying he had been in a car accident. She advised that she had always had a question in her mind, because he had disappeared for a period of time, and then came back later, crippled.
Upon being shown a composite photo of the alleged hijacker, "D. B. COOPER", she said, "It really looks like him. " She indicated she thought it looked like him seventeen years ago when she first saw the composite. | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=113 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
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commented that most of the information she has concerning "COOP" came from
stated that in her opinion, "COOP" was a drunkard, dishonest, immoral, unethical, lazy, a leach, was always broke, and was always looking for something for nothing. :
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TRANSMIT VIA: :unselected:
Teletype
CLASSIFICATION: :selected: TOP SECRET :unselected: Facsimile :selected: Airtel :selected: SECRET :selected: CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: UNCLAS-EF TO :unselected: UNCLAS Date 4/7/88
TO:
SAC, PORTLAND (164-41)
FROM :
ACTING SAC, BUTTE (164A-26) (RUC)
SUBJECT:
NORJAK
00: SEATTLE
Re Portland airtel to Oklahoma, dated 3/15/88.
Enclosed for receiving offices are two copies of an investi!
gative insert revealing an interview with
Boise, Idaho, which interview was on 4/6/88.
Leads in this matter being left to the discretion of Portland or Office of Origin. .
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(Time)
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file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-158 | of telephone number noted that may answer the phone, but they noted Tee hee will be able to get in touch with that and spend time "out on the beach and they may not be right at their or at their phone.
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is afraid
might even furnish false information in her efforts to forget this individual named EUGENE COOPER. stated that it is her
intent and she understands to be the intent of
to cooperate fully with the FBI concerning the inquiries being conducted about EUGENE COOPER.
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TRANSMIT VIA: :unselected: Teletype :selected: Airtel
PRECEDENCE: :unselected: Immediate :unselected: Priority :unselected: Routine :unselected: | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=123 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
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THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION IS TAKEN FROM FILE REGARDING WITNESSES" DESCRIPTIONS OF HIJACKER DAN COOPER: WHITE MALE AMERICAN, MID-FORTIES, 6, 170 TO 175 POUNDS, OLIVE COMPLEXION OR MEDIUM TO SWARTHY COMPLEXION, BLACK HAIR, BROWN EYES, AVERAGE TO WELL-BUILT, CIGARETTE STAINS ON RIGHT HAND.
LOS ANGELES AT SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA. WILL FURNISH ARREST REPORT FROM SANTA ANA SHERIFF'S OFFICE IN 1960 FOR "INSUFFICIENT FUNDS" CHECK AND A PHOTO IF AVAILABLE. MILWAUKEE AT MADISON, WISCONSIN. 1. WILL FURNISH ARREST REPORT FROM 1959 ARREST BY MADISON POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR "FAMILY
DB Cooper-436322 PAGE FOUR DE PD 0008 UNCI
OFFENSE - NON-SUPPORT". 2. WILL ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN INFORMATION ON MERLIN COOPER'S FAMILY THROUGH INQUIRY WITH HIS BIRTH RECORD AT DEPARTMENT OF VITAL STATISTICS IN AN ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY COOPER'S PARENTS AND/OR OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS, NOTING COOPER WAS ALLEGEDLY VERY CLOSE TO MOTHER AND MAY HAVE CONFIDED INFORMATION IN HER RELATIVE TO HIJACKING IF SHE CAN BE LOCATED. 3. CONDUCT ANY OTHER PERTINENT INVESTIGATION IN AN EFFORT TO LOCATE ANY OF COOPER'S RELATIVES, NOTING HE WAS BORN IN WISCONSIN AND POSSIBLY RAISED THERE. | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=129 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
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2 - Seattle (INFORMATION ONLY) (Enc. 3) 1 - Los Angeles
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Appar: 13910 Carepress, Pormur, C.A.
WARRANT # II
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CLASSIFICATION: :selected: TOP SECRET :unselected: SECRET :unselected: CONFIDENTIAL :unselected: UNCLAS EFTO :unselected: UNCLAS Date 6/9/88
TO :
DIRECTOR, FBI (164-2111)
FROM :
SAC, MILWAUKEE (164A-36) (MRA) (P)
NORJAK;
. CRIME ABOARD AIRCRAFT-HIJACKING;
OC: SEATTLE
Re Portland teletype, 4/26/88, captioned as above.
On 5/2/88, ៛ Madison Police Department (MPD) Records, Madison, Wisconsin, reviewed MPD records for MERLIN GENE COOPER and advised that COOPER was arrested on 2/6/59 for probation violation and issuing worthless checks; 6/24/60 for issuing worthless checks; and again on 2/4/61 for two counts of issuing worthless checks. At the time of his 2/4/61 arrest, COOPER listed a permanent residence address of 13718 Graystone, Norwalk, California.
advised that the arrest reports for the above offenses were microfilmed and the original reports destroyed. The microfilm printer for the format in which these records were copied was now broken and repair parts were no longer available. The film was therefore sent to the University of Wisconsin Media Laboratory for transfer to a more modern format. Copies of the actual reports were finally obtained on 5/19/88. | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=154 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-201 | She stated that she did not know what sort of work he did in that region, but she is quite sure that he was married two more times after his divorce from She , had no contact with MERLIN COOPER whatsoever after the divorce which was finalized in
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stated that she did recall that MERLIN COOPER committed suicide while living in the western part of the U.S. She recalled that the year was approximately 1972. She stated that COOPER apparently had no friends or family in that part of the U.S. and COOPER'S mother, ORPHA COOPER, ordered his body to be returned to La Crosse, Wisconsin for burial.
stated that has remarried, and she has serious health problems, in that she is recovering from major surgery following the discovery of an in ·
She pointed out that has had a number of problems and for the last several years, has been raising LINDA. She stated that has had
and
.
She reiterated that neither has had any contact whatsoever with MERLIN since the divorce in -
stated that SILAS COOPER, MERLIN'S father, died in 1952. | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=157 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-255 | 11-15-83)
PD 164A-41
Continuation of FD-302 of
On 3/11/88
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<figure><table><tr><th rowSpan=2>Name Race</th><th>EUGENE COOPER</th></tr><tr><th>White</th></tr><tr><td>Sex</td><td>Male</td></tr><tr><td>Nationality</td><td>American</td></tr><tr><td>Age</td><td>About forty-five years old</td></tr><tr><td>Weight</td><td>180 pounds</td></tr><tr><td>Height</td><td>Over 610"</td></tr><tr><td>Characteristics</td><td>Right handed</td></tr><tr><td>Complexion</td><td>Very light</td></tr><tr><td rowSpan=2>Hair</td><td>Balding, receding hairline; light brown; very thin;</td></tr><tr><td>had dyed his hair dark once, because a lady, he once knew liked dark haired men</td></tr><tr><td>Face</td><td>Long, nice looking</td></tr><tr><td>Build</td><td>Medium</td></tr><tr><td>Other</td><td>Heavy smoker with stains on his fingers from smoking</td></tr></table></figure>
The advised that COOPER painted a lot of paintings on the death theme.
The advised that anything that would get attention to COOPER, COOPER would do.
The further advised that COOPER died in 1976, approximately, and had been in the Veteran's Hospital in Muskogee, Oklahoma. | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=193 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-258 | brown</td></tr><tr><td>Complexion</td><td>Flush</td></tr><tr><td>Characteristics</td><td>Never had any money</td></tr><tr><td>Eyes</td><td>Looked extra sparkly or glazed</td></tr></table></figure>
advised that COOPER made a comment once that he used to play football for the Green Bay Packers.
Investigation on 3-11-88 at Pendleton, Oregon
File + PD 164A-41-1979
8
by SA SAMUEL A. MC PHETERS SAME
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This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It Is the property of the FBI and Is loaned to your agency: it and Its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
DB Cooper-43727FD-302 (REV. 3-10-62)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
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Date of transcription
10/7/88
residence
Newport, Oregon, telephone number advised , that she recalled EUGENE COOPER as having come from Eugene, Oregon, and eventually residing with JANE MILLER in Hermiston, Oregon. While in Hermiston, he was layed up in that he broke his leg and was on crutches. This was shortly after the D. B. COOPER highjacking. She advised that she thought of this at the time, and that he may have been the individual that highjacked the plane. | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=194 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-261 |
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advised that she heard COOPER was shot somewhere on the east coast. He was found in a car with a bullet in him. She heard this from in Oklahoma.
,
characterized COOPER as, "An asshole," a con man. He was always trying to find someone to take advantage of and always talking off the top of his head about how to make money.
Regarding COOPER's art, said that she knows art. She said that COOPER's art was, "Far out, Geodesic." It has to be looked at from two to three different ways. She advised that if you look at his art in different ways, it takes on different shapes. She advised she had seen the name COOPER on the back of one of his paintings.
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DB Cooper-437292014 04/26/88 0934 (25ZW )
REUR 0012 LEDS QWH. JTF. ØRFRIPDOO. SA MCPHETERS. NAM/COCPEP, MERLIN GENF. FAC/U. SEZ/M. DØR/370834. PUR /c
THE SUBJECT OF UR INQUIRY MAY BE --
BASED ON -- NAM, DOB
SID/OR2913333 FBI/115541D
NAM/COOPER, MEPLIN GENE DOP /073834 SEX/M RAC/W POP/WI
HGT/602 WGT/170 HAI/BRØ EYE/BLU HEN/C1A01A FPC/09AA12180826AA141604 * ADDITIONAL IDENTIFIERS * SMT/TAT RF ARM/SC R WPIST/SC RF AFM /SC R LEG | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=196 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-266 | CID AND THE SPECIAL PRODUCTIONS UNIT, OCPA SHOULD BE TELEPHONICALLY NOTIFIED FOLLOWED BY A CONFIRMING TELETYPE. INCLUDE ANY ASSOCIATION OF THE ARREST/SOLUTION WITH THE BROADCAST OF "UNSOLVED MYSTERIES". AFTER NORMAL WORKING HOURS THE NIGHT DUTY DESK, CID, EXTENSION 2805, SHOULD BE TELEPHONICALLY NOTIFIED.
PLEASE DIRECT ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE REGARDING "UNSOLVED MYSTERIES" TO 1 SPECIAL PRODUCTIONS UNIT, OCPA, FBIHQ, EXTENSION 5348. BT
#0082
NNNN
DB Cooper-43733
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0018 04/26/88 0935 (25ZW)
REUR 0013 NCIC ØRFBIPDØØ
NO IDENTIFIABLE RECORD IN THE NCIC INTERSTATE IDENTIFICATION INDEX ( III) FOR FBI/115541 D.
NOTICE -- THIS DOES NOT PRECLUDE THE POSSIBLE EXISTENCE OF MATCHING RECORDS IN LOCAL, STATE, OR FBI IDENTIFICATION DIVISION FILES THAT ARE NOT INDEXED IN THE NCIC III. IF YOU DESIRE A SEARCH OF THE FFI IDENTIFICATION DIVISION FILES, A FINGERPRINT CARD SHOULD BE SUBMITTED. END
EOT
0019 04/26/88 0935 (25 ZW )
REUR 0014 LEDS PR. JDF. PRFPIPDØC. SA MCPHETERS.SID/2913333 .PUR/C
OREGON CCE RECORD FOR SID/OR2913333 AS OF 04/26/88 AT 09:35 PECAUSE ADDITIONS OR DELETIONS MAY BE MADE AT ANY TIME, A NEW COPY SHOULD BE REQUESTED WHEN NEEDED FOR SUBSEQUENT USE IF FURTHER DETAIL IS | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=200 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-269 | SALEM
ARREST #04 05-03-67 ØRC150000-SØ MEDFØRT NAMF USED/COOPER, MERLIN GENE LAN/24261 Ø1 FRAUD - OF INNKEEPER
ARREST #03 11-22-60 CA0300000-SO SANTA ANA NAME USED/COOPER, MERLIN GENE LAN/77912 71 FRAUD-INSUFF FUNDS CHECK COURT
01 01-09-61 COURT CRI NOT RECEIVED FRAUD-INSUFF FUNDS CHECK 4M JAIL
CONVICTED
ARREST #02 02-06-59 WI0130100-PD MADISON NAME USED/COOPER , MERLIN GENE LAN/17264 Ø1 PROP VIOLATION
02 FRAUD-INSUFF FUNDS CHECK
ARREST #01 01-13-59 WIC130000-SØ MADISON NAME USED/COOPER, MERLIN GENE LAN/BF511 01 FAMILY OFFENSE - NON SUPPORT COURT
01 COURT ORI NØT RECEIVED CONVICTED FAMILY OFFENSE - NON SUPPORT 6M JAIL
ENTERED 08/27/79 LAST UPDATED 08/28/79
OREGON STATE POLICE BUREAU OF CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION SALEM, OREGON 97310 CRØSPØ000 (503) 378-3070
EOT
DB Cooper-43735V FD-302 (REV. 3-10-82)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
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Date of transcription, 10/7/88
residence Newport, Oregon, telephone number advised that she recalled EUGENE COOPER as having come from Eugene, Oregon, and eventually residing with JANE MILLER in Hermiston, Oregon. While in Hermiston, he was layed up in that he broke his leg and was on crutches. This was shortly after the D. B. COOPER highjacking. | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=202 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-287 | PORTLAND (164A-41) (RUC)
SUBJECT:
NORJACK;
CAA - HIJACKING
(00: Seattle)
On 7/3/89,
ł Beaumont, Texas, b6 b7C
telephone number
telephonically contacted
the Portland FBI office and advised that he had information
that an individual known to him as
was
D.B. COOPER.
stated he had documents he would like
to share with the FBI.
LEAD
HOUSTON DIVISION
AT BEAUMONT, TEXAS.
Will arrange interview of
through telephone number
ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
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2 - Houston 2 - Seattle :selected: 1 - Portland
(5)
164A-SE-81-12 HatHA-41-1990
-1 *-
21
Indexed Filed
BED AND DANGEROUS
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Approved:
Transmitted
Per
(Number)
℃
FBVDOJ
DB Cooper-43750
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 :unselected: :unselected:FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81)
(Mount Clipping In Space Below)
(Indicate page, name of
newspaper, city and state.)
The Oregonian
Portland, Oregon
Date:
7-1-89
Edition:
Does FBI have
D.B. Cooper?
Title:
NORJAK
<figure><table><tr><td>Character:</td><td>164-41</td></tr><tr><td>of</td><td>80-715</td></tr></table></figure>
Classification:
Submitting Office:
Indexing: :unselected: The FBI is tracing the path of a man who disappeared at the same time as the hijacking to see if he committed | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=214 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-289 |
List "is no more of a suspect than any of the other people who come up from time to time," John Eyer, assistant agent in charge of the FBI office in Seattle, said Thursday. "We are investigating to see if he is a viable suspect."
List waived extradition and was flown Thursday from Richmond, Va., to New Jer- sey, where he was held in the Union Coun- ty Jail at Elizabeth charged with five
1971
1989
COOPER LIST
counts of murder. Authorities there said Friday they do not know where List was at the time the Cooper hijacking occurred. Eyer acknowledged that List had been
considered a possible suspect shortly after the hijacking because of the New Jersey killings and the fact that he had disap- peared.
"Our interest in him as a potential suspect has been rekindled" as a result of his arrest, Eyer said.
However, Ralph Himmelsbach, the retired FBI agent from Portland who sought Cooper from the night of the hijack- ing until he retired in 1980, said Friday "I would say he's a major suspect or, at least, I would consider him a major suspect."
After first hearing about the new devel- opment Thursday, Himmelsbach said "He definitely looks good to me. | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=215 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-291 | " He added, "I'd dearly love to see the case reach a conclusion, especially one in which the guy is identified."
That conclusion could be a long way off. Eyer said the FBI has not made an effort to interview List and will not until it has further investi- gated List's movements as a fugi- tive.
The search for List, an account- ant and insurance salesman, began Dec. 7, 1971, when neighbors noticed that lights that had been burning for a month in the Lists' 19-room Victo-i rian mansion had started going out .: They called police, who found the bodies of List's mother, Alma, 85; his wife, Helen, 45; and their three chil- dren, Patricia, 16, John Jr., 15, and Frederick, 13.
Police also found a .32-caliber revolver and 9mm pistol used in the shootings and a five-page confession addressed to the Rev. Eugene A. Rehwinkel, pastor of the Lutheran church where List sometimes taught: Sunday school.
No one had seen any members of the family since Nov. 9, 1971, when List called Westfield High School to say he was taking the children on an extended vacation. | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=216 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
file-cooper_d_b_part097_pdf-636F6F7065725F645F625F706172743039372E706466-page-307 | :unselected: said she visited COOPER in jail and later saw him on the street there where he told her he had been released.
Investigation.on 5/1/80 at Raleigh, :N.C.
File #
CE 164-219-3
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by SA THOMAS M. MILLER: :unselected:
Da :unselected:
1980
5/1/80
Original + 5 to Spalle
.This document contains neither recommendations-nor conclusions of the FBI:, It is the property of the FBI. and.is loaned to your agency ;. .it'and its contents are not to be distributed outside. your agency. Miller 5/2/20. (2)
DB Cooper-43767
Date, of transcription May 2. 1980
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stated that shortly after COOPER showed her @
and told her that she
and threatened her with physical should
. harm if she were to do so. :unselected: said she did
when COOPER was not around and found contained therein a number of photographs showing COOPER in airplanes with parachutes on said she never knew COOPER to have parachuted his back. :unselected: :unselected: said .COOPER. and that he never talked about parachuting. said he had been in the Korean War and that he refused to talk much about his experience. | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf#page=231 | cooper_d_b_part097.pdf |
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