FD-350 clipping 'FINAL COUNTDOWN: One Year Left For D.B. Cooper' (UPI, Oregon Journal)
Document date 25 November 1975
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 53 p. 271 (DB Cooper-22609), News clipping, dated 25 Nov 1975 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-53%3A271-271
FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
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FINAL COUNTDOWN One Year Left For D.B. Cooper
By CLYDE JABIN United Press International
Thanksgiving begins the final year countdown for D.B. Cooper -- the nation's first and only successful parachuting skyjacker -- who used highway flares as a bomb threat to extort $200,000 from Northwest Airlines.
Five years is the statute of limitation on the hijack- ing charge against Cooper, who vanished after para- chuting from a Northwest Airlines 727 with his loot on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971.
"It's a very much active investigation," said a se- nior FBI agent who has spent many hours on the case. "We have run down literally thousands of leads, and eliminated hundreds of people as suspects.
"My personal guess is that there is just a 50 per cent chance that he is still alive."
Cooper spent 50 minutes in the Portland Interna- tional Airport waiting area before boarding the Seat- tle-bound plane, and none of his fellow passengers recalled him. Shortly after takeoff he handed a stew- ardess a note that said, "I have a bomb in my brief case."
The FBI agent said that the stewardess described "the bomb" as wires attached to eight red sticks of dynamite in Cooper's attache case.
"Dynamite is not color-coded this way. She was describing highway flares," he said.
The agent doubted Cooper was an experienced par- achutist, because of the four chutes given to him at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport, he took the worst two -- an unusable chest chute sewn together and a small back chute.
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THE OREGON JOURNAL PORTLAND, OREGON
Date: 11-25-76 Edition: Author: Editor: Title:
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[_] Being Investigated
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DB Cooper-22609
Serials: FD-350