Citizen letter to FBI Portland re Cooper composite resembling yearbook photo, with enclosed Northwest Magazine clipping 'The D.B. Cooper tale with a ho-ho-ho'

Federal Bureau of Investigation 1500 SW 1st Portland, OR

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Gentlemen:

I was studying the July 3rd edition of Northwest Magazine's composite picture of the famous D.B. Cooper and saw a very close resemblance to a student from one of my old yearbooks. The coincidence that the name is almost the same is probably why it may not be the hi-jacker; but the drawing sure looks like an older version of the man in the yearbook. Sorry about the quality of the zerox picture, the yearbook original is of a much better quality.

Sincerly,

[REDACTED] Milwaukie, OR

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164-41-1904 SEARCH _____ INDEXED _____ SERIALIZED _____ FILED _____ NOV 28 1985 FBI — PORTLAND

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The D.B. Cooper tale with a 'ho-ho-ho'

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If anyone out there still cares about more than the carnival aspects of "The Legend of D.B. Cooper," Signum Books Ltd. of Portland has published a paperback titled "Ha-Ha-Ha" — by none other than "D.B. Cooper." Cooper, if anyone can forget, was the now-near-mythical skyjacker who bailed out of a jetliner over southwestern Washington on Nov. 24, 1971, taking with him $200,000 in ransom money and creating a mystery yet to be solved. The FBI, however, considers the perennial phantom dead. On Feb. 12, 1980, 8-year-old Brian Ingram, playing along the Columbia River nine miles northwest of Vancouver, Wash., found three bundles containing weather-beaten $20 bills in 12 packets. The bills were traced to Cooper's haul, presumably scattered when the man bellied into the ground. "Ha-Ha-Ha" publishers, however, refuse to let Cooper quietly mold, and have resurrected his nom de plume to create another mystery: Who wrote the book, allegedly a semi-fictional, first-person account of the incident? According to publicist Ivars Bezdechi, executive producer of BOSCOM Media Creations, "'D.B. Cooper' is the pen name of an Oregon writer whose identity will be revealed in due time." This, of course, creates another mystery — How many times can leftovers be reheated? The gimmick in this public relations ploy is that the book contains seven clues that can lead a reader to the location of Cooper's "Big Score." A certificate on the back of the book, Signum's first, promises $200,000 to the person uncovering the alleged trove.

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Northwest Pages

By Paul Pintarich Book review editor, The Oregonian

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'D.B. Cooper' as sketched by the FBI in 1971.

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Northwest poet. In 1967 Hanson received a fellowship in writing as part of a Rockefeller Foundation Grant to Reed in humanities. In 1972, he received a commission from the Asia Society (New York) for translations of the poems of T'ang Dynasty poet Han Yu; in 1973-'74 the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship; in 1976-'77 a National Endowment for the Arts grant for poetry; and another NEA award in 1981-'82. A native of Idaho, Hanson has had work published in 14 anthologies, and his poems appear regularly in national magazines. Reed was the first western liberal arts college to receive an endowment from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, established in 1966. The distinguished professorship is perpetual, one of 54 such grants awarded since the program began. Designed to enhance the quality and effectiveness of teaching and the teacher-student relationship at the undergraduate level, the grants are given directly to privately supported schools of high academic standing. Hanson has been a major contributor to the development of freshman and sophomore humanities at Reed, where he teaches poetry.

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Portland State University English Professor Sam Oakland has been awarded a National Endowment in the Humanities Fellowship in International Studies at the University of Connecticut this summer. Oakland will work on a paper titled: "Containing the Chinese Dragon: A Study of the Non-recognition Policy of the United States of America."

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