Anonymous letter and envelope to Los Angeles Times from claimed associate of D.B. Cooper
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-73:280-281 Document: Anonymous letter and envelope to Los Angeles Times from claimed associate of D.B. Cooper Id: Cooper-Part-73:280-281 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-73%3A280-281 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 73 pp. 280–281 (DB Cooper-31634), Letter — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-73%3A280-281
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DEAR SIRS, [REDACTED] IS DEAD. "D B. COOPER" PASSED AWAY [guess: QUIETLY] SEPT. 13TH. TOGETHER WE BOTH PLANNED THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SKIJACKINGS TO DATE.
WHILE HE WAS ALIVE, [REDACTED] REFUSED TO LET ME TELL THE PUBLIC THAT HE WASN'T REALLY BAD. HE DIED WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THINKING HE WAS JUST ANOTHER "SKYJACKING TERRORIST." BUT HE WASN'T.
TO ME, AND THOSE OF YOU WHO KNEW HIM, HE WAS NOT "A RUTHLESS CRIMINAL". HE WAS A KIND AND GENTLE HUMAN BEING. HE LOVED LIFE AND EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. WHEN HE FOUND OUT THAT HE HAD BUT MONTHS TO LIVE, HE FACED THE NEWS [guess: VERY] BRAVELY. TALKING DID NO GOOD. WHAT COULD I SAY? JUST TWO YEARS BEFORE, HE LOST HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER. I COULD SENSE A CHANGE COMING OVER HIM. HE WAS FACED WITH DEATH, BUT SOMETHING ELSE WAS ON HIS MIND. WHEN HE FIRST TOLD ME ABOUT THE JOB, I THOUGHT HE WAS JOKING. HE WASN'T. AFTER ALL, HE HAD NOTHING TO LOSE AND PLENTY TO GAIN.
HOWEVER, MONEY WASN'T THE OBJECT. [REDACTED] KNEW THAT HE COULD DEMAND ALMOST ANY AMOUNT AND HE'D PROBABLY GET IT. IN FACT, HE GAVE ALMOST $168,000 OF THE RANSOM MONEY AWAY TO CHARITIES AND FAMILIES IN NEED. HE PAID OFF ALL OF [REDACTED] HOSPITAL BILLS AND GAVE [REDACTED] THE [REDACTED] WE MADE IT BIG UP IN CANADA LAST YEAR, BUT I'M SURE [REDACTED] GUESSED THE TRUTH. [REDACTED] NEVER SAID NOTHING ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. "D.B. COOPER" DIED THINKING THAT [REDACTED] BELIEVED HIM.
[U.S. postage stamp with flag design, 08 cents]
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Los Angeles Times Times-Mirror Square Los Angeles, Calif.
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SEARCHED _____ SERIALIZED _____ SEP 28 1972 FBI—SEATTLE INDEXED _____
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[guess: 4] V- 8/- 9 [guess: 9d] P
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b6 b7C
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[illegible handwriting, possibly initials or routing notation]
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DB Cooper-31634