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D B Cooper — Part 6

25 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Nov 24, 1971 · Broad topic: General · Topic: D B Cooper · 25 pages OCR'd
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F+390 (Rev, 7-16-63) (Mount Clippi ng in Space Below) Rae? . mo 3 ‘ we. 4 e. e a “57 ROLLA J. CRICK” "The reward offer has~at—Milne "said the composite’: “si., Journal Staff Writer. . “tracted attention across the; picture of we hijacker pub: we ~~’. nation, Inquiries. about it! lished on Pagel of this edi- E" The search goes on. . !, have been received by the: tion of The Journal “ig ‘the’ (Indicate page, name of , -#* For two years, the FBI has --newspaper from as far away..| best likeness we haye, every newspaper, city and state, ' F combed the woods for a clue *’as" Virginia, New York, Los’. had of the man. Ses) 0 By * to the location of the airline Angeles and Hawaii. *+*2-)32)«. Tae hijacker bought a tick->; 2: hijacker who called himself“ Reproduction of the FBI' ee mae oon eet and i f the - official 34-page booklet of:; : > he Nort e extorted from” ¢he 10,000 “Cooper cash”’* before he boarded “NWA*, = Northwest Orient Airlines. - serial numbers ‘was started; flight 305 at Portland Inter: $°..:“We've never stopped in The Journal Thanksgiving .. national “Airport on Taanks-2 6 : ooking for the man or the Day and will be continued in :} giving Eve, 1971. He hand->, * money or both,” J. Earl ~ installments.*: Persons ~ whos) ed his demand‘ note to ‘a* ; Milne, agent in charge of the -- cannot. easily’ obtain copies 3}. stewardess, displayed “whats _gsseattle office of the FBI, in-” of the. newspaper could in-.| appeared to be~a dynamite ; 4 $formed The Journal Tuesday * quire at the FBI office near-’ ' ‘bomb in the briefcase he car-€ : | Sin thanking the newspaper. est their home cities as to ; ried, and warned, “No fun-. 8 ‘et to Seattle, giving the name‘. “Dan Cooper, about an hour,;” 2 THE OREGON ~ PORTLAND, ORE: oe, *for publishing the serial: whether they could obtain or ny stuff": °8 0 fe Cy __ pumbers of the missing $20 “inspect a copy of the FBI’s:. The crew cautioned’ US. a soe ty ft against intervention | from. The baffling Cooper case«,- Since making the rewa iplaw enforcement people for falls under the jurisdiction of. 4 fear the hijacker would car-{\. the Seattle FBI office be- {olfer, The Journal has ret] this threat. The jet cause the actual extortion of | ferred to the FBI inform spent several. hours on the } the money occurred in Seat- } tion coming to it on the find- , ,. : tle, although the crime had ting of part of a parachute at. ground -at Seattia while te _ its beginning in Portland. the 6,700-foot Ievel on. theg| sno passengers and all but a “2i!Leads continually are “northeast slope of Mt. Hood.3cveteton crew were released’ ; being received and we check ? The find was recent and;'and the 737 took off toward. “But I would like to “addr; the Cooper case, but Juliust+” the hijacker disappeared “ t my continued plea for people, “Mattson, agent in charge off trom the jetliner after the. | pate: November 27, Edition: i Author: Rolla Je C1 <:to'look for the missing bills.’ the Portland office of thes! rear stairway was lowered in é-Sf we could recover just one. BI, said a part of the finds’ niont. So did the money... 2 3° of those $20 bills, it would :is being sent to Seattle “forgerc oon spoke i low: -put us far ahead of where we. , comparison 4 with what iss) Teen aad i tellig tye: have been.” where Wi known about the four parat: VOICe” an erpen rag Ys _ have deem. eal is offering :, chutes delivered to the hi-gs There was Ho parict dr ac =. $1,000 for the first of the’ jacker. The ‘parachutes and?: cent, ath gt int Nhe: » Sletcing bills to be tumed in’ the Money were delivered to/; DESse® ough possioy ie either to.the newspaper or to . “Cooper” as ransom for the | spoke as someone from the . any office of the FBI. Au- passengers and’ some crew mid West section of the Unit-. any office of the EBT St . members of the jet he com-[ €4 States. 9 part of the Cooper ransom ‘ mandeered,out.of Portland. He smoked Raleigh fitter. money will be verified by the SSS tipped cigarets. He was .FBI and then, The Joumal ressed in a black or brown’. q suit, narrow black tie, white monn shuscin ert aNeD eS arate Character: or Classification: 164-21 Submitting Office: Port Goat Serie etree epee Aenea ee a RR : wil bard nae to the per. m3 : * shirt, black rain-type over-3 KE] Being investigated SS coat or topcoat and brown’ - shoes. He carried a: dark: _ briefcase and a paper bag, “! “« During’ part of the flight, he put on dark wrap-around « ” sunglasses‘ with dark frames.’| © . He was thought to be in his: _mid-40s, 5 feet 10 to 6 feet,: ‘s170 té 180 pounds and had an, “olive or: Latin appearance.{] “the eft and combed it back?
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