Handwritten letter to FBI agent suggesting Kenneth Christiansen as D.B. Cooper

Document date 25 November 1996

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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 51 p. 110 (DB Cooper-21215), Letter, dated 25 Nov 1996 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-51%3A110-110

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FBI AGENT [REDACTED] DEAR SIR;

ASSOCIATED PRESS HAD AN ARTICLE IN OUR MPLS STAR TRIBUNE ABOUT THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE NWA HIJACKING BY D.B. COOPER.

I'VE BEEN TRYING FOR OVER TWO MONTHS TO HAVE THE FBI TO DISPROVE THE SUSPECT I HAVE, THEY STILL HAVEN'T CHECKED IT OUT. SO I THOUGHT I WOULD GIVE YOU A CHANCE.

I SUSPECT [REDACTED] KENNETH CHRISTIANSEN WAS D.B. COOPER. HE DIED JULY 30, 1994. HE WAS BORN [REDACTED] I WAS [REDACTED]

AND SAID "THERE IS SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW" AND AS I WAS [REDACTED] SAID, "IS IT THE REASON YOU TREATED ME DIFFERENTLY [REDACTED] " (HE HAD SENT ME A COPY OF [REDACTED] PREVIOUSLY) AND HE LEANED FORWARD QUICKLY AND LOOKED INTENTLY RIGHT INTO MY EYES AND SAID VERY LOUD "NO, THERE IS SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW, BUT I CANNOT TELL YOU." I THOUGHT MAYBE HE DID SOMETHING DURING HIS LIFE HE WAS SORRY FOR, AND I WAS NOT ANXIOUS TO HEAR WHAT IT WAS. I TOLD HIM WE ALL LOVED HIM AND FORGAVE HIM FOR

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