FD-350 clipping 'He may be bank robber, but he's not D.B. Cooper' eliminating Kiperts

Document date 10 November 1973

Part 32page 4481 pageDB Cooper-12087

Also filed at: Part 53 p. 206 · Part 117 p. 51

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 32 p. 448 (DB Cooper-12087), News clipping, dated 10 Nov 1973, serial SE 164-81-5037 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-32%3A448-448

FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)

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He may be bank robber, but he's not D.B. Cooper

PORTLAND -- (UPI) -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation says it has definitely eliminated any connection between a captured bank-robbery suspect and the elusive skyjacker "D. B. Cooper" who parachuted from an airliner in 1971 with $200,000 in ransom.

Julius Mattson, F. B. I. special agent, said yesterday the robbery suspect, Arvidis J. Kiperts, 41, of Vancouver, Wash., was not the man who called himself Cooper in the hijacking of the Northwest Airlines jetliner.

The agent said Cooper was described as thin but Kiperts is stocky. He added that witnesses to the hijacking looked at a picture of Kiperts and said he was not Cooper.

The F. B. I. said it had conclusive evidence that Kiperts was somewhere else at the time of the plane hijacking.

Kiperts was arrested in San Diego Monday night on an Oregon bank-robbery charge and is a suspect in a second bank robbery in Oregon in which the holdup man doodled the name D. B. Cooper on a bank-deposit slip.

A man who called himself D. B. Cooper hijacked the plane between Portland and Seattle on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971, and demanded the ransom and four parachutes. He bailed out of the plane between Seattle and Reno and disappeared.

Kiperts is being held in lieu of $150,000 bail and is scheduled to appear before a United States magistrate in San Diego November 19.

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p.A2 Seattle Times Seattle, Wash.

Date: 11/10/73 Edition: Final Author: [redacted b6] Editor: [redacted b7C] Title: NORJAK

Character: or Classification: 164-81-5037 Submitting Office: Seattle [X] Being investigated

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SEARCHED......INDEXED...... SERIALIZED.......FILED...... NOV 14 1973 FBI--SEATTLE

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DB Cooper-12087

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Serials: SE 164-81-5037