Anonymous tip letter to Globe Indemnity Co. naming Marion Mooney of Springfield, Oregon as D.B. Cooper
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Original title: Anonymous tip letter to Globe Indemnity Co. naming Marion Mooney of Springfield, Oregon as D.B. Cooper, with envelope and Register-Guard clipping
Document date 30 July 1976
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-85:252-254 Document: Anonymous tip letter to Globe Indemnity Co. naming Marion Mooney of Springfield, Oregon as D.B. Cooper Id: Cooper-Part-85:252-254 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-85%3A252-254 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 85 pp. 252–254 (DB Cooper-37648, DB Cooper-37649, DB Cooper-37651), Letter, dated 30 Jul 1976 — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-85%3A252-254
[Circular postmark: EUGENE, OR / 9 AUG / 1976]
Globe Indemnity Co. 150 Wm. St. New York, N.Y.
[Rectangular stamp: NEW YORK OFFICE / AUG 17 1976 / ADMINISTRATION]
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DB Cooper-37648
Globe Indemnity Co. [redacted] 7/30/76. [redacted]
If you, at this late date, are still interested to find "D.B. Cooper", he is Marion Mooney and lives at Rt. Box 140 on [redacted] Jasper Road, Springfield, Ore. He has [redacted] [redacted] b6 living in [redacted] b7C
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Mooney's father is supposed to live in Springfield, Ore. When he parachuted with the loot, he came down East of Eugene- Springfield area and had an arm and/or leg injured and was nursed back to health by a Physician and Surgeon by name of Dr. Joseph Keever of Eugene, Ore. Subsequently he bought his present home which was [redacted] by Dr. Keever together with 47 acres of land. Dr. Keever inherited the place from his allegedly deceased father Clyde A. Keever, who was not buried but merely plaid "possum". What was in the coffin was not a man but a wax effigy. I have heard his voice and have seen him with [redacted] as late as 4/7/73 and 12/25/73, respectively. And he alledgedly "died on 9/19/72. ( By the way, [redacted] another Man [redacted] "old"died" in the same manner with the same circumstances. His name is [redacted]
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[redacted] ore. who [redacted] [redacted] since he was knee-high to a grass- hopper but is now [redacted] Imagine my shock when I saw him on the on [redacted] only recently. [redacted] b6 [redacted] b7C [redacted] are members of the West Coast Syndicat[e] So is a another [redacted] . I believe. [redacted] who deals in [redacted] [redacted] who moved to [redacted] before the disappearance of [redacted] [redacted] Ore.
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[redacted] b6 [redacted] b7C Mooney himself came here from Elmira, not far from Eugene, where he had lived in a trailer house and , so the story goes , had been a Christ- tree farmer. Since living at his present address on Jasper Rd. he has [redacted] bought 150 or 250 acres of la[nd] on the coast near Florence, Ore. and is [redacted] buying or has bought [redacted] some property in or near Roseburg, Ore. b6 He and [redacted] do a lot of traveling to California and even to b7C Washington, D.C. is going to move to [redacted] where he will live in a home with Swimming pool.
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During the (not too long ago ) Canadian multi-million dollar robbery in Ontario ( I believe, There was an unusual amount of activity that was indeed suspicious, around the [redacted] , but I ca[n] not prove anything definite. b6 In my opinion, however, his ( Mooney's ) Fingerprints in his army b7C records will prove to be the same as D.B.Cooper's. [redacted] [redacted] intensely interested in parachuting and flying, so I think he was really in the Air Force, though [redacted] , tha[t] he was injured in the army in a truck-accident. But there is no record of such an accident in his Service Record. DB Cooper-37649.
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Hijack loss ruled insured
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled that an insurance company must reimburse Northwest Airlines for $180,000 of the $200,000 lost in the "D. B. Cooper" hijacking in 1971.
The company carried a "blanket crime policy" with Globe Indemnity Co., New York, with a $20,000 deductible.
A passenger identified as D. B. Cooper hijacked Northwest Flight 105 on Nov. 24, 1971, threatening to blow up the plane unless he was given $200,000 and a parachute.
The money was furnished at Seattle, Wash., and Cooper apparently parachuted from a rear door of the plane between Seattle and Portland. Neither Cooper nor the money has been located.
One portion of the insurance policy covered loss of money within the company premises or while being conveyed by a messenger.
The insurance company argued that its policy was intended to cover funds from ticket sales and other money normally in company coffers, not money borrowed to meet a threat. The airline borrowed the $200,000 from a Seattle bank.
The court held that extortion was covered by the broad language of the policy and that the plane was part of the airline "premises."
Writing for the court, Justice Lawrence Yetka said that even though hijacking was not envisioned, it is covered since it was not specifically excluded by the insurer.
Yetka said it is a "well settled" rule of law that ambiguous language in an insurance policy will be strictly construed in favor of the insured party.
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DB Cooper-37651