◆ SpookStack

Declassified Document Archive & Reader
Log In Register
Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

D B Cooper — Part 34

460 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Sep 19, 1973 · Broad topic: General · Topic: D B Cooper · 460 pages OCR'd
← Back to feed
* . SE 164-81 property of[___ address bé Kent, Washington, phone number _ bie 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: 2 DB Cooper-12886 LPP ETET HE NIES RSE ET PONTE OR. LORS SRS DOM ER ESTES TES TE D2 Te oR Ley DOTEEET LS TAT LEME ERIE. IED TE PPE Ty eae
OCR quality for this page
Community corrections
First editor: none yet Last editor: none yet
No user corrections yet.
Comments
Document-wide discussion. Follow the Community Standards.
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Continue Exploring

Use the strongest next step for this document: continue reading, jump to the topic hub, or move into the matching agency collection.
Continue Reading at Page 253
Jump straight to page 253 of 460.
Reader
D B Cooper — Part 40
Stay inside D B Cooper with another closely related document.
Topic
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the FBI agency landing page for stronger archive context.
FBI
D B Cooper Topic Hub
See the topic overview, related documents, and linked subtopics.
Hub

Agency Collection

This document also belongs in the FBI Documents & FOIA Archive landing page, which is the stronger starting point for agency-level browsing and for searches focused on FBI records.
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the agency landing page for introduction text, topic links, and more FBI documents.
FBI

Explore This Archive Cluster

This document belongs to the General archive hub and the more specific D B Cooper topic page. Use these hub pages when you want the broader collection context, linked subtopics, and more documents around the same archive thread.
letter bureau
Related subtopics
John Murtha
57 documents · 1471 known pages
Subtopic
Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy
42 documents · 2653 known pages
Subtopic
Kansas City Massacre
38 documents · 5300 known pages
Subtopic
Black Panther Party
36 documents · 3066 known pages
Subtopic
Malcolm X
36 documents · 3932 known pages
Subtopic
Supreme Court
36 documents · 3376 known pages
Subtopic