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D B Cooper — Part 7

25 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: General · Topic: D B Cooper · 24 pages OCR'd
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ye wtety | Lookout - D. B. Cooper |in Cambridge The news media in this town ain't 30 special, nor are the F.B.L. anywhere. ! Yhey've been tacking down DB. Couper U for years, saace 19710 infact. and looking for i ' 7 : . s j the $200 G's he obtaned in ransom from an t sindine hujacking. = feat of no miniscule J proportion considering he escaped — yes, ,, ESCAPED! — by parachuting into the ‘4 Southern California countryside. The one | that did it, AND GOT AWAY, that's | Danie! B. Cooper. . 1 Legend has it, however, that Cooper i Cropoed the mouey, either in part oz all, as he floated to cai. and “hat twenty-dollar | bills were thus deposited iiss. : i towns and villages in his landing area. ¥ci, | strangely, none of the monev, nut one | buck?, was ever found, and cen mete ! | SuANnge, Cvery year, on Che gunisensary of his escape, the towns and villages in that area throw a “D.B. Cooper Celebration” to Lonor him for, well. for something! They appreciate him, though one can only speculate as to why, and there scems to bea genuine hope thatthe feds never cath him, wherever he may be. And could that “wherever” be, or have been, Cambridge? Accords to a most _Teliable source of mine, a DB. Cooper lived near Contaal Sqaare ducing the winter ments ab POT. His mame was clealy displayed on a mailhox and torrespondente too aad fiom him was ceguhirty delivered, Was this be same DR, Sod we ZW WD ee ve em eee en tenn On se eR entre 0 ey maaan nme ee we tv we a va tf ue fie ts, tls ant ASy Wwe ad ony tte em ae ee eee ee ete tem sone os cos contespunded wath oniany well huown public officials, including daa BF. Thens. tornmer cheiman of the Feder Resaave Bond, Bod Beotand, Sccretay of Avriculinte, Benyaenate EF. Baclar, Postasater-Gonened) af dhe United States, our own Melo Thomson of New Hampshire, and a Dr. Red Metrowirh, Chairmin of the Board of Prustens of the Sethe Aflica Freedom Foundation. Apparently, Cooper wrote to Metrawich asking about getting outol the county ind escaping to South Africa, His initial contact, however, had bern with Thomson, who had directed him to Metrowich. Was Thomson collaborating with hijacker Couper to help hint get outol the country? Or was ‘Thomson unware that a hijacker seven years earlier had been named D.B. Cooper? Whatever the answer, did ‘Thomyon, or any of the others report this correspondence to the FR Dis any good law- abiding American should? A check with both the Bureau and offices of these gentlemen reveals they did not. “Where are you now, Tan Cupar The Globe Spotlight Team? Mark Zanger? Peter Lucay All the other great investigative minds of Bosion yournaliom? Was D.B. Cooper, the hijacker-that-got- away, right here in the Boston area for z year or nae? fs he new in South Altice? How can the FBE take sa much credit ten finding “bits of twenty dollar bills? as they did dis month, hon Cooper min noteven Sean the country ans longer? After all its een nine sears. aed those bits ches found in the Calilernia aad are the must they've Got to slew forthe vears and talent poured nite. this anending ranbiant, fe woatth! seer tar that at dbdar Uj-tonan wants Gear semistn an latuc. th. hing toa edee ava Pesta Sin Ub artic Tah feo gust that Abe Pee tver sipeet Dt restive would keep ts et sanett Mee entte aventand tre name Phare obveausty tras dasa the case wal OB. Cooper °. February 25, 1980—-. .. (6/~31)/- FRCLOSURE: _. Pages es a m5 FEENEY SORT i Sa Pie be, eT oe os JASG eon Ut eer re ee one sere are Or
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