FD-350 clipping: '2 Men Charged In Cooper Case' (Seattle P-I)
Document date 14 July 1972
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 53 p. 48 (DB Cooper-22386), News clipping, dated 14 Jul 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-53%3A048-048
FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
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2 Men Charged In 'Cooper' Case
U.S. Attorney Stan Pitkin yesterday - filed charges. against two Kitsap County men, contending they con- spired to swindle a former Newsweek employe out of $45,000 in return for an "exclusive interview" with "air hijacker "D. B. Cooper."
Pitkin filed his charges after William John Lewis, 32, of Seabeck and Donald Sylvester Murphy, 49, Bremerton, waived their rights to go before the fed- eral grand jury which could indict them.
The defendants had asked for and were granted a delay so they could pe- ruse government evidence against them, including tapes and films.
Pitkin charges that Lew- is on Feb. 1, telephoned Karl Fleming, a former contributing editor in Los Angeles, saying he could arrange an interview with the still-elusive skyjacker D. B. Cooper in Seattle.
Fleming flew to Seattle and paid Lewis and Mur- phy, the latter posing as Cooper, $30,000 of a $45,000 fee payable in three install- ments for the interview, ac- cording to the information.
Pitkin said Fleming, no longer employed by News- week at the time of the transaction, got the money from Platypus Publications, Inc., of Los Angeles.
"D. B. Cooper" was the name used by the man who extorted $200,000 from Northwest Airlines, then bailed out after the plane left Seattle for Reno last Thanksgiving eve.
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p.A18 Seattle Post- Intelligencer Seattle, Wash.
Date: 7/14/72 Edition: Final Author: Editor: Dick Lyall Title: NORJAK Character: or Classification: 164-81 Submitting Office: Seattle
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SEARCHED ......... INDEXED ........ SERIALIZED ......... FILED ........ JUL 1 7 1972 FBI—SEATTLE
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DB Cooper-22386
Serials: SE 164-81