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PD 91-5424 PAGE FOUR BEEN HAND PRINTED ON ONE OF THE SLIPS. IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT THIS BANK ROBBERY TOOK PLACE APPROXIMATELY SEVENTEEN DAYS AFTER THE HIJACKING WHEN THE NAME D. B. COOPER WAS IN PROMINENT ATTENTION. THE REPORTER WAS TOLD THAT THIS IS THE ONLY MANNER If WHICH THE NAME D. B. COOPER IS INVOLVED AS RELATES TO KIPERTS , EMPHASIZING IT IS NOT PROVEN THAT KIPERTS ROBBED THE BANK AND IT IS NOT CERTAIN THAT THE ROBBER WROTE THE NOTE, ON 11/3/73, PORTLAND OFFICE BEGAN RECEIVING A DELUGE OF PHOWE CALLS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY INQUIRING WHETHER IT WAS TRUE THAT D. Be. COOPER WAS IN JAIL IN SAN DIEGO ON CHARGES OF BANK ROBBERY. THE CALLS WERE SOQ PERSISTENT IT DID NOT SUFFICE TO STATE THAT KIPERTS WaS NOT BELIEVED TO BE D. B. COOPER. ACCORDINGLY, CALLING PARTIES WERE ADVISED THAT A STATEMENT WOHLD BE MADE BY THE END OF THE DAY RELATIVE TO THE QUESTION. IN THE MEANTIME, INTENSIVE EFFORT WAS MADE INSVESTIGATIVELY TO ATTEMPT TO ELIMINATE KIPERST AS A SUSPECT IN THE NORJAK CASE. ALSO IN THE MEANTINE, THE MEDIA, IN PARTICULAR TV AND RADIO, WERE BROADCASTING THAT KIPERTS, YHO IS If JAIL IN SAN DIEGO, MIGHT BE D. By COOPER » AND THAT THE FBI IS EXPECTED TO MAKE A STATEMENT REGARDING THIS POSSIBILITY BY THE END OF THE DAY. | i DB Cooper-1207 |