Handwritten letter from Howard Hubbell re acquaintance using the alias 'D.B. Cooper'
Document date 8 August 1972
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-112:301-303 Document: Handwritten letter from Howard Hubbell re acquaintance using the alias 'D.B. Cooper' Id: Cooper-Part-112:301-303 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-112%3A301-303 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 112 pp. 301–303 (DB Cooper-5151, DB Cooper-51149, DB Cooper-51150), Handwritten note, dated 8 Aug 1972, serial SE 164-81-3846 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-112%3A301-303
Howard Hubbell aug 8th 72
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Dear Friend,
Five years is a long time but I hope you will remember I told you certain facts (regarding my [REDACTED] and myself) that I never told anyone else. one of our first trips together registered for us in a Motel. When he came back to me he said, "your mrs. D.B. Cooper; Im [REDACTED]" He also said, "I always register as D.B. Cooper." He talked about the name several minutes untill I was sure I would always remember it. I asked him why cooper, and also the fact that there was a Jackie Cooper (movie star). I told him too, that using one name over and over could be a [guess: clue] - Two years later he was still using the name when he didn't want his name to show. D.B. Cooper was the name the man used on Thanksgiving eve. last year.
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DB COOPER-51149
Sub 448 164-81-3846
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On one of the false starts he told me (sixty days before our arrest) that he knew how we could get one hundred thousand each. Then he said all I had to do was pick the money up on the ground. He said "he had made parachute jumps in the marines at 29 Palms Calif." He would grab a 727 in the air have them deliver
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DB COOPER-51150
the money to me and after I had the money + safe I'd tell him on our walkie talkie's, and he would jump and use the walkie Talkie to tell me where to pick him up. I vetoed the idea, and told him they would be following me close enough to make our capture certain. The idea was so far out I asked him whatever gave him the idea. He told me [REDACTED] had the idea first and wanted to go with him, but if he took [REDACTED] and anything went wrong it would kill [REDACTED] and everyone in [REDACTED] would hate him.
My crazy reasoning told me if we didn't get some big money soon that [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] would, and It never get any big money as he would be through. More about Clair later. your Friend, Howard
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DB COOPER-5151
Serials: SE 164-81-3846