FD-350 clipping: FBI declines comment on Lake Merwin search and alleged Cooper tape
Document date 2 May 1972
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 53 p. 57 (DB Cooper-22395), News clipping, dated 2 May 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-53%3A057-057
FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
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FBI man won't talk about search of Lake Merwin
J. Earl Milnes, special agent bottom would be "a staggering ey and "because it was fun." in charge of the Seattle FBI job." Merwin Lake is nine The newspaper, staffed pri- office, would not comment miles long. marily by persons in their 20s, Monday on the possibility of A man who registered in the said it agreed to buy the in- having divers search Lake Mer- name of D. B. Cooper hijack- terview after the anonymous win for the airplane hijacker ed a plane last November and reporter showed a photograph known as D. B. Cooper. parachuted from it with $200,- of a $20 bill which had a serial He also declined to make a 000 ransom. number identified as among statement about an alleged in- Search for Cooper was cen- those in the marked bundle of terview with Cooper which was tered in the Woodland area in $20 bills given to "Cooper." published in the Seattle Flag, the fall, and was resumed this Of the agreement to buy the a biweekly newspaper just five year by the FBI, with the help transcript, the Flag remarked: editions old. of Army troops, some in heli- "It stated that under no con- A ground search of several copters. ditions could we divulge our weeks ended last week in the In Seattle, the Flag news- sources, that we were not allow- area near Merwin, in the Lewis paper has published what it ed to print the interview before River country, where Cooper claims was a transcript of a the 1st of May, that after, was believed to have parachut- taped interview with Cooper. transcriptions the tape must ed. The newspaper said in Mon- be destroyed, in addition, we Maj. Warren Shiroma, opera- day's edition it paid $1,000 for agreed not to cooperate in any tions officer for the search, the interview conducted by an way with local police authori- said Cooper "got away alive anonymous, "ordinary-looking ties." or he's at the bottom of the man of 20 years plus" and sign- lake, or the FBI calculations of ed "an agreement of confi- where he jumped aren't cor- dentiality." rect." The Flag quoted Cooper as The major was quoted by telling the anonymous inter- United Press International as viewer that the hijacking-ex- saying that search of the lake tortion was committed for mon-
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The Columbian Vancouver, Wn.
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Date: 5/2/72 Edition: Author: Jack R. Campbell Editor: Title: NORJAK
Character: or 164-81 Classification: Submitting Office: Seattle
☐ Being Investigated
COPY SENT TO BUREAU SEARCHED ______ [illegible] SERIALIZED ______ FILED ______ MAY 8 1972 FBI--SEATTLE
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DB Cooper 22395
Serials: SE 164-81