(FD-350) 'Cooper Only Successful Hijacker,' Oregon Journal
Document date 6 June 1973
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1/6 THE OREGON JOURNAL PORTLAND, OREGON
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Cooper Only Successful Hijacker
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — "D.B. Cooper," who came up with the idea, is still the only successful "take the money and jump" airplane hijacker in the United States, according to Assist. Secreta- ry of Transportation Benja- min Davis Jr.
All the others have been caught, Davis told a news conference Tuesday.
"There have been millions of dollars paid over to hi- jackers, but there's no hi- jacker who has money that he extorted in this country ... other than D.B. Coop- er," Davis said. He called the mysterious Cooper "our only failure . . . we'd like to find D.B. Cooper's body and the $200,000 somewhere south of Seattle," Davis said.
The hijacking took place in November, 1971, when a man identifying himself as "D.B. Cooper" boarded a plane and demanded $200,000 while in flight over the Pacific Northwest, threatening the crew with a gun and a bomb.
The plane landed, the money and parachutes were brought aboard, then the plane took off again and the man parachuted out with the ransom. Extensive searches of the Seattle area failed to turn up any trace of Cooper or the money.
Davis, who last year advo- cated that airline pilots car- ry guns and be prepared to "shoot it out" with hijack- ers, said the day of the hi- jack to Cuba may be over.
"It became apparent Cas- tro was getting a little tired of hardened criminal types landing in Cuba," Davis said.
But he said the threat of hijacking may go on "for- ever" and that better meth- ods are needed to screen passengers.
"We have to find a way to screen luggage without ac- tually opening it up and fin- gering through the dirty laundry and everything," Davis said.
He said antihijacking en- forcers resorted to personal searches and electronic screening after airlines failed to utilize the "profile" screening method properly.
"We don't use the profile any more even though it was 100 per cent successful," he said.
"Half a million persons a day fly in this country," Davis said. "And, unless an American Civil Liberties Un- ion objection to the airport searches wins backing in court, they will keep on opening up their hand lug- gage, purses and diaper bags for inspection.
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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED [guess: and] FILED [guess: by] JUN 8 1973 FBI—PORTLAND
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DB Cooper-42725
Serials: 42725