Mount: AP 'FBI, Military Resume Search For Hijacker, $200,000' (Kelso, Wash.)
Document date 23 March 1972
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 53 p. 90 (DB Cooper-22428), News clipping, dated 23 Mar 1972 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-53%3A090-090
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FBI, Military Resume Search For Hijacker, $200,000
KELSO, Wash. (AP) — Army liner between Portland, and weeks in the area before mov- troops and FBI agents searched Seattle last Nov. 24. ing on. а wooded area about 20 miles He demanded $200,000 and "This is a continuation of the southeast of here Wednesday four parachutes as the plane search started previously," while Army helicopters landed at Seattle, then ordered said J. E. Milnes, agent in thrashed overhead as a search it flown to Nevada. charge of the Seattle office of for an airplane hijacker re- He and two of the chutes the FBI. "We are being assist- sumed. were missing when the plane ed by military people, and that The FBI said the search was landed again, and investigators is all I can tell you at this for D. B. Cooper, a name given theorized he may have jumped time." by a man of about 40 who took out over southwestern Washing- About 200 troops and nine over a Northwest Airlines jet- ton. Searchers spent several helicopters of the Third Ar-
mored Cavalry Regiment from searching for a dead man. evergreens, and other expanses Ft. Lewis, near Tacoma, were "It's been four months," he of logged-over land where alder based at Merwin Park on Lake said, "and not a single bill of and other deciduous trees are Merwin, a reservoir on the the money has shown up any- just beginning to regain new fo- Lewis River. where. Apparently there is no liage. A spokesman for the Army evidence of the man in circula- The Longview Daily News said "nothing specific" was be- tion, increasing the possibility said it learned that FBI agents hind resumption of the search. He is still in the area. were in the Cowlitz County as- "There is no new evidence," The troops and federal sessor's office in Kelso two he said. "Time just went by, agents, with their helicopter weeks ago, determining and it began to look more and help, are probing at rugged ownership of land surrounding more like they might be areas of stands of almost solid Lake Merwin.
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P.1 Lewiston Morning Tribune Lewiston, Idaho
Date: 3/23/72 Edition: Author: Editor: Title: NORJAK
Character: 164-81- [handwritten: sub B] or Classification: Seattle Submitting Office:
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DB Cooper-22428
Serials: SE 164-81