FD-350 clipping UPI story doubting Cooper-King assassination link, Seattle Times
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(FD-350): 'Skyjacker link to King death doubted' (UPI), Seattle Times
Document date 18 April 1978
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 54 p. 94 (DB Cooper-23020), News clipping, dated 18 Apr 1978 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-54%3A094-094
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Skyjacker link to King death doubted
PORTLAND — (UPI) — Was D.B. Cooper involved in the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
The Oregon Journal reported yesterday that C.B.S. is looking into the possibility.
"A spokesperson for the network confirmed that a preliminary investigation into a possible story for the Mike Wallace segment of the 60 Minutes show is under way, but it has not proceeded far enough for scheduling," the newspaper said.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it doubted a link between the skyjacker who disappeared with $200,000 in ransom and the King assassination.
The Journal said New West magazine reported that a television crew filmed interviews in Seattle, Hawaii and Los Angeles and reportedly found people who knew Cooper.
The Journal said the story had been traced to Dirk Summers, a free-lance writer in Los Angeles, who says he received "a five-figure" advance for a "docu-drama."
The Journal said Summers was a former C.B.S. producer, but the network's personnel records did not list him as having been a staff employe.
Ralph Himmelsbach of the F.B.I. said, "We are not excited about all this," then added: "We know some things about Cooper that others would not or could not know except Cooper himself. We feel we are able to sift wheat from chaff."
Himmelsbach said the story may be an example of "literary license" and "I hope they don't publish it as the truth."
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Date: 4/18/78 Edition: Final
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Character: or /64 - 81 Classification: Submitting Office: Seattle 1/64-81-[illegible]
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DB Cooper-23020
Serials: SE 164-81