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OPTIONAL, FORM NO, 10 MAY 196k EOHTION CSA FeMm (a CPR) 103-118 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum b6 SUBJECT: NORJACK Re my memo, 3/30/72, regarding call from unidentified man claiming to know// where hijack ransom money is hédden. It will be recalled the individyal also called city editor ofxx the Spokane Chronicle and gave same story. It appears the call was from a prankster or someone seeki use the issue, On 3/31/72, Spokane Chronicle, ~~ bé vi the writer that the individyal came in person to the b7¢C office that morning and gave substantially the same story and said he wanted 20% of the Loot. He declined to identif himself but said he Looked and acted Like an ex-con, pt guedded him to be about 30, fairly clean and polite but somewhat arrogant. Saad he insisted on dealing with newspaper so he could enforce any promise not to be prosecuted. Individual told[_Jand that there are b6 five other peoples who know where the money 1s. Amount involved is bic $491,000. He said there were three persons who stole a station wagon and the money was in it. They don't know where it came from. They found a paper folder that had held an wirplane ticket so they figured it might have come from a highjacking. The individual stated that three guys stole the vehicle that had the money in it. They are "heavy" théedes and have relatives here. He figures if they are picked up, they will think the relatived fingered them and not the man talking. After leaving the Chronicle office, the man calkd by phone and said he would send in 12 of the bills to be checked; that he had $2500 of the money himself. He promised to dend the money in right avy (erie that if they got anything in the mail it b6 would be ang April Fool letter. Neither of them, nor the Spokane R/A, bic have heard from the individual since. JDJ (1) SEAROHED,__INDEXO_ SERIAUXED, Lh APR 103 1972 DB Cooper-78 Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan |