FD-350 clipping, Herald-Examiner: 'Peace of Mind The Reason for Jet Hijacking?'
Document date 15 December 1971
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 55 p. 24, News clipping, dated 15 Dec 1971 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-55%3A024-024
FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63)
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Peace of Mind The Reason for Jet Hijacking?
From Herald-Examiner Wire Services
A person claiming to be the man who bailed out of a 727 jet-liner with $200,000 he extorted from Northwest Orient Airlines says he is dying and pulled the swashbuckling crime "to gain a few last grains of peace of mind."
In a copy of a letter sent to the New York Times yesterday, a man signing the name "D.B. Cooper" said he knew he wouldn't be caught because of his disguise, lack of fingerprints and other unspecified means used to baffle authorities.
"I am no modern day Robin Hood," the note said. "Unfor-tunately, I do have only 14 months to live."
The letter was the latest of several received by various newspapers.
The hijacker, armed with a bomb, [guess: appeared] to be a bomb, took control of the jetliner on a flight from Portland, Ore., to Seattle the evening before Thanksgiving. After receiving $200,000 in $20 bills at Seattle, the man ordered the plane to Mexico and bailed out some-where between Seattle and Reno, Nev., where the plane was to land for fuel. The hijack-er is believed to be a man who boarded the plane under the name "D.B. Cooper."
"I've come and gone on sev-eral airline flights and am not holed up in some obscure back-woods town," the man said. In the note postmarked in Seattle last Saturday. "Neither am I a psychopathic killer. As a mat-ter of fact, I've never even re-ceived a speeding ticket."
Claiming a life of "hate, tur-moil, hunger and more hate," the writer said the hijacking and extortion "seemed to be the fastest and most profitable way to gain a few last grains of peace of mind."
Authorities said a list of serial numbers of the 10,000 $20 bills has been released to financial institutions but added that iden-tification will be difficult be-cause the numbers are not in sequence. The money weighed more than 20 pounds.
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A-4 Herald-Examiner Los Angeles, Calif.
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Date: 12/14/71 Edition: 8 Star Author: Editor: Title:
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Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: Los Angeles ☐ Being Investigated
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