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“ANON: And the” money, the 200 grand, the largest ; ansom ever paid in’a U.S, skyjack?. What about that, will it ‘turn out to be your Achilles heel? “ 4 3y : ‘COOPER: Never happen! You must read the Papers, ‘too. It would take up to five full pages in almost any / ;Rewspaper to run the serial numbers of each of those “5 10 000 bills. But even with the odds in’ my ‘favor--I ;;mean, who's going to pick out one ‘number out ‘of "10,000?-1'm in no hurry to go on a spending spree. Oh, "yes, something else, too. I know those twenties were’ - ‘Xeroxed before they were delived to me on the ground | at Sea-Tac as ransom money. How do I know that? Easy.“ ‘I could smell the Xerox fluid on them. Quite a telltale ‘odor. I'd say they ‘were run through the copying y Machines at the banks where Northwest: -collected the ” . » ANON: ” May 1 ask why. you picked | on Northwest? i Did you have argrudge against that airline or something? wes - . hoe nS en thie RE 4 he ake 3 BY : phony’ pride or ego.’ Anybody who 1 skyjack i is an out-and-out idiot. Like cter at O'Hare in Chicago who "jacked a id that the entire crew had rabbited on. ANON: “Rab ited? COOPER: Ya, eee at you ‘know, slipped out when he was in back, It jefe bi with a great big airplarie but no pilot, Or the v veirdolp ho jumped out a Hughes Airwest DC-9 it Denver. He usted up a few bones and was caught ina‘: ttle over an | ur. The "D.B. Cooper” of Dallas, a real | psycho iif thele “ever. was one, * was ‘captured on the tround and on¢ fellow i in New York somewhere got his 1ead splattere¢ by ashotgun. An FBI marksman. did hat, it said i in the | papers. Some marksman. He let fly at bout sixteen inches with buckshot. J. Edgar should give hat gaunt a medal, if he hasn’ talready. wae, wh a TE ARS : Spe king an ine Fe FBI, aren’ et you Wortied that WS a over the picture ‘aiid’ we saw’ a photograph of a twenty. “This. bill,” he said, “used to’: ; Xt be i ina local bank, then it was “pulled out of 5 rd Bead “An |. ga” vault . on: : Wednesday, . the 24th. of -4 ‘November, put ins a" rcaseand * "taken! to. DB. ‘coasée od " of éxpéctations, we met, an, inten ordinal an Aoraanmont ena ts PAM De la ak at Pitted E Neds ae wg COOPER: "Simple: “They * ‘must. have’ fi igure way: Why risk four lives~not including mine~‘and ass: million airplane for ; a'mere $200,000? Ic was lousy odds © “any -way. you" look at. that _little “equation from , Northwest's | ‘point “of. view. * “ Now’: if; , “greedy, say, ‘and asked for ’ a million, telling what they would have done,” It would have’ raised hell wg sith the. Xerox’ operators, that’s: damn. "su s SANON: Did you, ‘anywhere along the’ line, i im] during the. . Skyjack itself, “or di ‘stick = -COOPER? I ‘ied’ ‘6 stay pretty darts ng “pret ya t cing. done