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D B Cooper — Part 34
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dvised on 5/20/74 that the parachutes
used by Unsub. had no hooks ich to fasten a chest pack,
i.e., auxiliary parachute. [oe peated that an experienced
parachutist would be able to fashion ties to the "back pack",
i.e., main parachute, which would allow the auxiliary parachute
to be fastened to the "back pack" and it could be used in an
emergency.
The main parachute used by Unsub. is described as
Follows:
Model NB6 (Navy Back Pack 6) in a sage green nylon
container with matching harness, without "D" rings to attach
an auxiliary parachute. The parachute has a 28-foot white
nylon flat circular canopy with a specially fitted foam padded
cushion. The pilot chute is also white. The “chest pack"
parachute used by Unsub. was a training pack dummied up to
look like a good parachute for training purposes. It has no
pilot chute and its canopy is white in color,
On 11/22/73, the Portland, Oregon Journal Newspaper
offered a reward of $1,000 for the first missing $20 bill
"racovered from the loot collected two years ago by D. B.
COOPER, the still missing parachuting airplane hijacker."
In a Portland, Oregon Journal article dated 11/26/73, the
following information was published:
“The Journal is making its ‘Secret Witness' plan
available for use in helping recover the ‘Cooper cash,' the
$200,000 that disappeared the night of Nov. 24, 1971, with
the parachuting hijacker popularly known as D. B. COOPER.
"The plan can be used with or separate from the
newspaper's offer to pay $1,600 for the first $20 bill to be
turned in that can be verified by the FBI to be part of the
money Cooper obtained from Northwest Orient Airlines prior
to jumping from a jetliner he had commandeered. It can be used
to return the money, enter into negotiations for its returnor
to provide information on the whereabouts of the elusive hijacker.
"The ‘Secret Witness! plan will enable someone with one
or more of the missing bills to surrender the money and still keep
‘his or her identity secret.
“Here is how to use the plan:
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