'Clues to Qantas hoaxer' re Sydney airport gelignite bomb
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-16:089-089 Document: Newspaper clipping 'Clues to Qantas hoaxer' re Sydney airport gelignite bomb Id: Cooper-Part-16:089-089 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-16%3A089-089 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 16 p. 89 (DB Cooper-4), News clipping — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-16%3A089-089
The gelignite bomb whose discovery in a locker at Sydney International Airport triggered off the train of events in Wednesday's £235,000 hoax involving a Qantas Boeing 707 airliner.
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CLUES TO QANTAS HOAXER
By J. D. HOLDSWORTH In Sydney
AUSTRALIAN police are hopeful that they will soon be able to trace "Mr Brown" and his accomplice who hoaxed Qantas Airline into paying £235,000 ransom money after a bomb threat on Wednesday.
Close scrutiny of a bomb and bag found in a locker at Sydney Airport has yielded valuable in- formation, they say. Examination of tape recordings of "Mr Brown's" voice on the telephone has also given a lead to his nationality.
Information from [guess: seven] other sources has given useful leads and police hope the £23,300 reward offered will bring tips from the underworld.
The ransom money was paid out to the accomplice in new or nearly new 20-dollar notes after phone calls threatened that a
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An Identikit picture of "Mr Brown".
bomb would explode on an air- borne Boeing 707 with 116 passengers aboard.
The serial numbers of the notes are known and lists are being published.
All international police agen- cies have been given a full des- cription of the accomplice and an Identikit picture has been distributed.
The airline defended their handling of the expense [guess: of the] hoax —they were not insured against such a loss and the money must be written off. Their critics were told by an airline spokesman yesterday: "Go to hell."
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DB Cooper 4[illegible]