From citizen to U.S. Attorney Stanley Pitkin re statute of limitations on the Cooper hijacking
Document date 16 April 1976
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Id: Cooper-Part-61:198-198
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-61:198-198 Document: Letter from citizen to U.S. Attorney Stanley Pitkin re statute of limitations on the Cooper hijacking Id: Cooper-Part-61:198-198 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-61%3A198-198 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 61 p. 198 (DB Cooper-25396), Letter, dated 16 Apr 1976, serial LA 164-497-8449 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-61%3A198-198
Figured you might like to have this for file ref. 4-16-76
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April 16, 1976
Stanley Pitkin U.S. Attorney U.S. Courthouse Seattle, WA 98104
Mr. Pitkin
[REDACTED] FBI agent, Los Angeles, has suggested that I write you for information he could not supply. There is a possibility that I will be asked by an [REDACTED] on the D.B. Cooper Nov. 24, 1971 Northwest Airlines hijack. Am I correct that this coming Nov. 24 Cooper, if still living, will be home free under which statute of limitations? If so, at what hour and date will it be effective? What will be the effect of it? Will he be free from arrest and prosecution? Also, will the $200,000 become his, to spend freely and without further attempts of recovery by Federal, airline, bank or insurance agencies? Am I correct that under a Minnesota Supreme Court 1975 ruling Northwest Airlines' insurance company reimbursed the airline for $180,000 of the $200,000? If so, why just $180,000? And, what was/is the status of the unreimbursed $20,000? At the effective moment of the Statute of Limitations will your office and the FBI both 'close' the case? Fully, or in what respects? I understand that in seeking leads on the $200,000 your office, or FBI, circulated 34 pages of ransom note bill numbers. Have any of the bills appeared, anywhere?
Cordially, [REDACTED]
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164-497-8449 APR [guess: 19] 1976 FBI -- LOS A[NGELES]
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NO ACTION NEEDED
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DB Cooper-25396
Serials: LA 164-497-8449