Letter

To The Portland Oregonian purportedly from D.B. Cooper, with mailing envelope

Document date 28 March 1972

Part 101pages 181–1822 pagesDB Cooper-45644–45645

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Document: Letter to The Portland Oregonian purportedly from D.B. Cooper, with mailing envelope
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Page 1 of 2Part 101 p. 181DB Cooper-45644

March 28, 1972

The Portland Oregonian Newspaper Portland, Oregon

Gentlemen:

This letter is too let you know I am not dead but really alive and just back from the Bahamas, so your silly troopers up there can stop looking for me. That is just how dumb this government is. I like your articles about me but you can stop them now. D. B. Cooper is not real.

I had to do something with the experience Uncle taught me, so here I am, a very rich man. Uncle gave too much of it to world idiots and no work for me. I had to do it to relieve myself of frustration. I want out of the system and saw a way through good ole Unk. Now you know. I am going around the world and they will never find me because I am smarter than the system's lackey cops and lame duck leaders. Now it is Uncle's turn to weep and pay one of it's own some cash for a change. (And please tell the lackey cops D. B. Cooper is not my real name).

Sincerely,

A Rich Man

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Sub. 130 164-81-[guess: 8930]

SEARCHED _______ INDEXED _______ SERIALIZED /M/ FILED /M/ APR 8 1972

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[Postmark, circular]: JACKSONVILLE / [guess: MAR] 3 / PM / [guess: 1972] / FLA.

[Stamp, upper right]: U.S. AIR MAIL 11¢

[Addressee, center-lower]: The Portland Oregonian Newspaper Portland, Oregon

[Bottom right corner stamp]: DB COOPER-45645

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Serials: SE 164-81-8930